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...likely. "Advertising for distilled spirits is already going after younger people," says Jeffrey Hon of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, citing recent Dewar's Scotch and Southern Comfort campaigns in such youth-culture bibles as Details and Rolling Stone. Shapiro says Seagram has taken "great pains that our advertising doesn't appeal to or aim at children," an iffy claim during a campaign that uses "Valedictorian" as a punch line. Why violate the ad ban? Market share. Hard liquor is slipping, and TV is where tomorrow's customers...
...finding solutions to the problems. My first commitment is to my own children, then to the kids in my neighborhood and extended family, then to those in my children's schools, then to youngsters in the wider community. If we can all think of ourselves as casting a stone that makes ripples in a pond, we can make a difference in our Stand for Children. PAULETTE HANSEN Columbia, Missouri...
This angered Grisham, who took to the pages of the Oxford American, a magazine he publishes, to excoriate the filmmaker. "He's an artist and he can't be bothered with the effects of what he produces," Grisham wrote. But just let Stone lose a million-dollar product-liability lawsuit, "and the party will be over...
...representative for Stone calls the charges "ridiculously bizarre," and in a reply published in L.A. Weekly, Stone mused about the tenuous causal links between art and reality: "Has your lawyer-husband been unfaithful? Why, then, slap a summons on John Grisham, since, after all, he wrote The Firm." While acknowledging the film had an "impact" on viewers, the director suggests that Grisham might better focus his anger on "gun-toting crazies...
...Still, Stone may yet have to face a Louisiana jury. Attorney Joseph Simpson, who represents clerk Patsy Byers, has named Stone and Warner Bros. in a civil suit filed before Grisham's statements. But other experts feel confident that Stone's First Amendment rights will prevail. Besides, says Vincent Blasi, a professor at Columbia Law School, "this idea of legal liability could come back to haunt authors like John Grisham. Censorship, like revolution, often devours its own children...