Word: vulgarizer
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YOUR SHOW IS NOT AS VULGAR AS STERN'S, BUT YOU PUSH THE ENVELOPE. HAVE YOU BEEN HASSLED BY THE FCC, PARTICULARLY AFTER THE JANET JACKSON FLAP? Well, first of all, f___ the FCC. Second of all, I like to think of my program as having a veneer of sophistication that probably inoculates us from the FCC. So I really don't think anybody at the FCC is bright enough to figure out what we're doing...
...blonds are fighting over who gets Screwed first. Now, don't be vulgar. This is a dispute between unavoidable hotel heiress PARIS HILTON, left (sister of less famous Nicky), and squeaky-clean singer-actress HAYLIE DUFF (sister of more famous Hilary). Each recorded a song called Screwed for her upcoming debut album. When a bootleg copy of Hilton's version hit the Net last week, the still hazy issue of who has first-release rights to the tune became urgent. While the record companies work things out, we'd like to suggest a compromise: recruit brunet rocker Ashlee Simpson (sister...
...States Armed Forces.”) In February, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. dropped Viacom’s Howard Stern Show from its programming as part of its new Responsible Broadcasting Initiative (RBI), purportedly because the show was offensive and indecent. But the truth is that the show had been vulgar for many years, and the RBI came days after Stern first voiced his discontent with President Bush...
Stern’s talk is many things—vulgar, offensive and sometimes disparaging of other cultures—but one thing it’s not, is out of touch. Since the destruction of the World Trade Center, the substance of his political comments has fluctuated in sync with the Bush administration’s approval ratings. In the fall of 2001 and the winter of 2002, he alternated fervent celebrations of the courageous rescue workers who gave their lives with crude, reproachful generalizations directed at the loathed “towel-heads...
...decade before World War I, the ante was raised once more, by Florenz Ziegfeld, whose sumptuous follies--fast-paced revues with comics, singers and chorines--became the gold standard of naughty, but not quite vulgar, spectacle: shows where young women might change clothes behind translucent screens while a winking crooner sang I'd Like to See More of You. By the '20s, the culture of Times Square hit its stride. The world of the stage spectaculars converged with the new nightclub society that Prohibition did little to discourage. The evolution of Broadway theater brought forward Eugene O'Neill, George...