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...kiss exchanged between two of pop’s biggest super stars during the MTV Music Awards—a program geared toward preadolescent fans. There was J. Lo’s green Versace dress barely held in place by double-sided tape. And now, of course, there is Janet Jackson’s notorious “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl halftime show a little more than a week ago. In recent years, celebrities have pushed the proverbial envelope, never failing to capture countless US Weekly covers and top story honors on Entertainment Tonight...
...Spike in TiVo replays when Janet Jackson's breast was exposed during Super Bowl halftime, the most replayed moment in TiVo history...
...American Right Wing is not comfortable with the female form. So we were reminded last week, when Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell voiced his horror at the half-second exposure of Janet Jackson’s famous right breast during the Super Bowl. While Americans everywhere combed the internet for a closer look and set a new record for “most-Tivo-ed moment ever,” Powell expressed his outrage at a press conference. In language at least as harsh as that used by his father to describe Saddam Hussein, Powell described the incident...
...same thing? Indeed, not only are the two often conflated, but many on the Right seem more scandalized by sex than by violence. I can’t find Powell on the record being nearly as harsh about violence on TV as he is about Janet Jackson’s curious article of jewelry, or Ashcroft denouncing the countless paintings of violent battle in our government buildings. In fact, one of the objections to the FCC’s unprecedented deregulation of the airwaves, championed by Powell, is that it contributes to the televisual monopoly of violent trash. Never mind...
...DIED. JANET FRAME, 79, whose intense explorations of mental illness made her one of New Zealand's most acclaimed authors; of leukemia; in Dunedin, New Zealand. After suffering a breakdown that was misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, she spent eight years in two mental hospitals; she was about to undergo a lobotomy when a hospital worker read that her work had won a literary prize. She went on to publish 12 novels, as well as poetry, story collections and a three-volume autobiography...