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...Banks). Wheeler, on the other hand, is a carefree and sex-crazed party animal. When a sudden crisis causes Danny to act out, landing both men in trouble with the law, the two are sentenced to community service. Danny is assigned to mentor Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), an awkward teen obsessed with live-action role-playing, while Wheeler’s charge is Ronnie (Bobb’e J. Thompson), a precocious but foul-mouthed youngster. Both young actors bring impressive energy to their roles. As the shy and socially inept Augie, Mintz-Plasse calls to mind his best-known...
...weekly print format with a heavy online emphasis, making it the most prominent newspaper to end print on such a large scale. Posting net losses, the newspaper just could not sustain the costs of daily print in the wavering economy any longer.Additionally, magazines such as Jane, CosmoGirl, Teen Vogue, Radar, and Condé Nast’s new endeavor, Men’s Vogue, are facing similar struggles with failed advertising objectives, resulting in heavier emphasis on the online versions, or even suspension of the magazine’s publication at all.Tom F. Allon, CEO of Manhattan Media, which currently...
...question that has been debated by parents, psychologists and media critics for years is whether such racy content has an adverse effect on young viewers. Now researchers at the Rand Corp. say they have documented for the first time how such exposure can influence teen pregnancy rates. They found that teens exposed to the most sexual content on TV are twice as likely as teens watching less of this material to become pregnant before they reach...
...this kind of content on TV and the risk of later pregnancy is fairly strong," says Anita Chandra, a behavioral scientist and the study's author. "Even if it were diminished by other contributing factors, the association still holds." Such consistent exposure may explain in part why the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is double that of other industrialized nations. Chandra and her team interviewed 1,461 teens ages 12 to 17 by phone, speaking to them three times between 2001 and '04. While previous studies exploring the effect of TV content on teen pregnancy relied on onetime snapshots of adolescents...
...Previous research has revealed two major ways that this glamorized perception of sex contributes to teen pregnancy: by encouraging teens to become sexually active early in their adolescence and by promoting inconsistent use of contraceptives. And, notes Dr. Donald Shifrin, former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on communications, add to this the fact that children are accessing television not just via the small screen at home but on the computer and increasingly on cell phones, and the opportunities for exposure to sexual content just explode. "It's not just 'appointment' television, now it's anytime television," says...