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...inciting religious hatred after putting on an exhibition a year earlier at the Andrey Sakharov Museum in Moscow called "Forbidden Art 2006." The paintings depicted in the show were considered by authorities to be insulting to the Orthodox Church - one of the works showed a crucified Lenin, another portrayed Mickey Mouse as Jesus. Erofeyev was fired from his job at the Tretyakov in 2008, and his trial is ongoing. "Artists should not be prosecuted just because someone doesn't like what they do," says Friederike Behr, a researcher at Amnesty International in Russia. He adds that the antiextremism law itself...
...cigarette makers also sponsored television shows - when Winston's ad introduced the long-running CBS Western Gunsmoke, "cigarette" was replaced in their slogan by the sound of two gunshots. For tobacco companies, it was the Golden Age: cigarette ads featured endorsements from dentists, doctors, babies and even Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle. Growing evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer eventually led manufacturers to introduce cigarette filters - and while it was eventually revealed that filtered cigarettes were no safer than their regular counterparts, that didn't stop them from being advertised as lower in tar and nicotine. (Watch TIME...
...including mandatory warning labels on packages and a ban on advertising on radio or television. Tobacco companies in return simply changed strategy, advertising to younger markets with candy cigarettes and mascots like Joe Camel - whom a 1991 study found was more recognizable among 5 and 6 year olds than Mickey Mouse. By labeling cigarettes as an "addictive drug" in 1996, the FDA sought to gain control over the industry and limit the sales and advertising of tobacco products. While its actions were supported by then President Bill Clinton, the Supreme Court ruled against the FDA in 2000, claiming the federal...
...years, Wayne Allwine, 62, was the voice of Mickey Mouse. He wasn't the first to squeak Mickey's lines (Walt Disney was) or the second (that was sound-effects wizard Jimmy MacDonald). But Allwine made history in 1991 by marrying his counterpart, Russi Taylor, who still voices Minnie Mouse...
...could have been a Hall of Famer if the substance abuse and other problems hadn't derailed your career. Does that gnaw at you at all? No, it doesn't gnaw at me. Of course sometimes I think about it. But I use a line from Mickey Mantle all the time. "If I would have known I was this good, I would have taken better care of myself." It is what is. I lived it, and I am grateful for the greatness I did accomplish...