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Over the ensuing decades, the book became a phenomenon, selling more than 120 million copies in 37 languages. The McWhirters were stringent fact-checkers, often traveling long distances to adjudicate whether potential-record holders met the book's standards. (Ross McWhirter was assassinated in 1975 by the IRA; Norris McWhirter quit editing the book in the mid-1980s). Record holders receive certificates from Guinness, though not all records are selected for inclusion in the book, which receives some 65,000 record claims every year. Rights to the book, which has evolved from an almanac into a glossy, hard-cover item...
...don’t think so. So much of the coverage of the torture porn phenomenon ignores the fact that senseless violence has been franchising itself for decades—2003’s “Freddy v. Jason,” for instance, was simultaneously the eighth installment of “Nightmare on Elm Street” and the 11th of “Friday the 13th...
...story of the first “Saw” (the root of the phenomenon) proceeds thusly: Two guys are locked in a bathroom. First they have to figure out why, and then they have to figure out how to escape. Meanwhile, a group of detectives are out looking for a sadistic freak they call Jigsaw because of the puzzle pieces he leaves at all of his crime scenes. Rather than kill anyone, Jigsaw devises elaborate ways for people to kill themselves, and in the process we learn to value life. So it’s a positive message: Love...
...gradually bound to be a more common phenomenon,” he said, “but it is the last domino to fall...
...play, but I hope that people coming to see the show are reflecting on the role the media plays in our everyday life and how facts are distorted,” he says. “We need to be aware that this isn’t a phenomenon isolated to this show...