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...mood of the production—from the venue to the stage setup—are crucial to its overall success. The performances of the most important actors are respectable and amazing as they strive to capture the audience’s attention and engage them in the violent and painful story that they tell. Sympathy, laughter, tears: “Titus Andronicus” evokes all levels of emotion in the dungeon-like basement of the Garage...
We’ve gone from shielding children’s eyes from the awfulness of Jerry Springer during its prime in the late 1990s to a campaign against violent video games to the famed censorship crusade of former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell in the aftermath of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “incident” three years ago to decrying “Heroes,” “Lost,” and “Prison Break...
Contrary to popular belief, the entertainment industry isn’t actually getting any more violent, raunchy or sexy than it was a decade ago. We’ve always had violence on TV in different forms, from the sci-fi variety represented in “The X-Files” to the crime in hits like “NYPD Blue.” Crudeness, too, has always sold—“Married With Children” had far more so-called ills than anything we see today...
...pages of legislation that Lieberman has proposed in Congress have yielded few results, and the issue had little effect on elections in either 2000 or 2004. Additionally, violent TV shows are a comparative non-issue in the early goings of the 2008 campaign...
Consider: teens are less violent and more sober than they have been in years. Despite those rare school shootings reporters cover with such lip-licking zeal, the rate of school violence fell from 48 crimes per 1,000 students in 1992 to 22 per 1,000 in 2004, according to the Department of Education. In raw terms, the number of student crimes (including theft) shrank from 3.4 million to 1.4 million in that period, even as the U.S. teen population grew by 5.4 million kids. Post-Columbine security explains some of the decline, but the school crime rate started...