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...games and movies with legislation if they don't make a better effort to protect our children from such insidious forces as "The Fifth Element." More than the other industries, movie studios have taken the criticism with heads bowed in shame, with either stony silence (Universal) or ready conciliation (Disney). Shame is certainly in order for some marketing practices, but entertainment companies could easily argue with the FTC's occasionally alarmist tone and scattered lapses in logic. They could also respond by asking why Gore and Lieberman are concentrating on guns in movies while falling silent on the issue...
...accused industries complain that the magazines and TV shows they advertise with, the ones that reach some kids, are often the same ones they have to use to reach adults. But on the day after the report was released, Disney announced a package of new policies, including a promise that it would provide in its advertising explanations of why any of its films received PG-13, R or NC-17 ratings--for instance, for violence, sex, profanity or drug use--and that its ABC-TV network would no longer accept ads for R-rated movies during prime time before...
...keep kids away from R-rated film marketing, Disney will...
...hugely popular Hitchhiker novels have sold 15 million copies since 1981, and Adams has turned them into a British TV series, a set of record albums and CDs, a computer game, a Disney movie due out in 2002 and an Internet company called h2g2, which is building an online collaborative guide to "life, the universe and everything" through the participation of volunteer researchers in 90 countries. Like the fictional guide, the site offers unconventional tourism advice and entries on a huge range of subjects, from Homer Simpson to Homer's Iliad. The mobile guide www.h2g2.com/onthemove) which gives people...
...commentators and more tragedy than Literature and Arts A-41...If you haven't seen Bring It On yet, you're not hip... Speaking of the uncool, I like the theory behind the new Lowell Dining Hall, but in practice, it's been a bit of a nightmare. The Disney-World sized lines don't make the General Wong's Chicken any more attractive... Speaking of attractive, I made it to the screen test for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" this past Sunday with a whole bunch of other Harvard students. They evaluate you solely on the basis...