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In the News :: Beyoncé Ad Gets Banned in Britain

Beyoncé's new perfume ad, featuring the scantily clad songstress writhing around in a red silk dress, was deemed too hot in Britain. Parents expressed outrage that their children were being exposed to too much of Beyoncé's body during the middle of the day.

The "raunchy" ad promoting her new fragrance, appropriately named Heat, can't be aired until 7:30pm due to complaints.

Coty, the company behind the perfume, says the ad reflects the singer's personal "sexy chic" style and denies that it is overtly graphic.

The Advertising Standards Authority labeled the minute-long commercial "sexually provocative" and "unsuitable" for young children. It had already been stamped with a restriction that it not be shown during or immediately before or following kid's programming.

The ASA claims "Beyonce's body movements and the camera's prolonged focus on shots of her dress slipping away to partially expose her breasts created a sexually provocative ad that was unsuitable to be seen by young children."

You be the judge. Here's the ad:

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In the News :: PBS Edits Tina Fey's Joke About Sarah Palin

While accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Tina Fey made a few jokes about Sarah Palin and conservative female politicians. When the program aired on PBS, the jokes were edited out.

Peter Kaminsky (executive producer): "It was not a political decision. We had zero problems with anything she said."

So why was this bit excised?

Tina Fey: "I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn't thank Sarah Palin for helping get me here tonight. My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that have ever happened to me."

The show ran 19 minutes over the its 90-minute allotted time. So, producers had to cut things from the awards show. But, why didn't they cut the career clips that ran between each celebrity speaker? Or why not cut a speaker out entirely? Instead they cut two minutes from Fey's acceptance speech. Two "controversial" minutes.

Tina Fey: "Politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women—except, of course, those who will end up paying for their own rape kit and stuff. But for everybody else, it's a win-win. Unless you're a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years. Whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know—actually, I take it back. The whole thing's a disaster."

Fey's comments can be heard in the online version of the acceptance speech.

Here's the clip:

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: $#*! My Dad Says Co-creator Responds to PTC Campaign

The Parents Television Council sent out a stern warning letter to 300 advertisers that stated if they purchases ad time during the new CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, it would make them "complicit in the effort to serve up excrement in front of children and families."

Co-creator and executive producer Max Mutchnick confirms that there's no plan for a title change and issued a response to the PTC.

Max Mutchnick: "As a parent, it is my opinion that the Parents Television Council has much more important shit to focus on than the title of a sitcom called BLEEP My Dad Says."

Touché.

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: Australia Bans L.A. Zombie at Film Festival

The Melbourne International Film Festival won't be screening director Bruce LaBrue's L.A. Zombie. The gay hardcore horror flick was refused a classification exemption by the Australian Film Classification Board. The film's implied sex with dead bodies by an alien zombie breached local community standards.

Although, the same board will allow L.A. Zombie to be released as an adults-only DVD in Australia, if it were submitted for classification.

L.A. Zombie is headlined by popular gay porn star François Sagat. It also stars Rocco Giovanni, Wolf Hudson, Eddie Diaz, Matthew Rush, Erik Rhodes, Francesco D'Macho and Adam Killian. It was made for less than $100,000 in Los Angeles last year.

L.A. Zombie is about a blue alien zombie that roams the streets of Los Angeles looking for corpses to reanimate through sex. Of course, this could just be the schizophrenic delusions of a buff homeless man.

Bruce LaBruce: "My first thought was Eureka. I'll never understand how censors don't see that the more they try to suppress a film, the more people will want to see it. It gives me a profile I didn't have yesterday."

When L.A. Zombie arrives on DVD, softcore and hardcore releases are planned.

View the trailer:

~Papi Chulo~

Canada Deems Pamela Anderson's New PETA Ad "Sexist"

Pamela Anderson posed in a bikini with various parts of her body marked "rump," "ribs" and "breast" for a PETA ad. The ad's logo reads, "All Animals Have the Same Parts."

Montreal denied a permit for an event to debut PETA's new campaign. City officials deemed the ad "sexist."

Pamela Anderson: "I didn't think that Canada would be so puritanical... In some parts of the world, women are forced to cover their whole bodies with burqas — is that next?"

Sound off! Was Canada right? Do you feel the ad is sexist?

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In the News :: Parents Television Council Objects to CBS' $#*! My Dad Says

The Parents Television Council has a major problem with CBS' Twitter-inspired sitcom starring William Shatner titled $#*! My Dad Says.

Could the PTC have a problem with the dollar sign, number symbol, asterisk or exclamation point? Or could it be what the title alludes to?

Tim Winter (PTC President): "CBS intentionally chose to insert an expletive into the actual name of a show, and, despite its claim that the word will be bleeped, it is just CBS' latest demonstration of its contempt for families and the public."

The network has stated that when promos begin airing for $#*! My Dad Says in the fall, the announcer will use the word "bleep."

The program is inspired by the wildly popular Twitter phenomenon, which now has more than 1.5 million followers and also has spawned a best-selling book of the same name. It will in no way be indecent and will adhere to all CBS standards. Parents who choose to do so will find the show can easily be blocked using their V Chip.

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In the News :: Conservative Group Criticizes Marge Simpson Playboy Cover

The American Family Association has called for 7-Eleven stores to remove the Marge Simpson-covered Playboy magazine from shelves. It argues that if "little boys" see the magazine, it will lure them into a lifestyle dependent on an addiction to porn.

Randy Sharp (American Family Association): "Most American dads know the dangers that porn represents to young males. It's irresponsible of 7-Eleven to display porn in front of boys who pop into 7-Elevens for a hot dog or a Slurpee. The cover will create the kind of curiosity that can easily lead [children] into an addictive porn habit. This is not what American families want to see in their neighborhood convenience store."

~Papi Chulo~

D23 Expo Recap

The first annual D23 Expo was held over the weekend and so much wonderful news came out of that four-day event. Disney geeks are still talking about all the phenomenal new television, film and theme park projects Disney will be working on in the next couple of years. Let us recap all the major news coming from the Expo.

Disney kicked off the Expo with a special screening of 30 minutes from The Princess and the Frog. Anika Noni Rose also sang one of the film's songs. Also on Thursday, guests were allowed to see large-scale models of Disney's California Adventure's Carsland. A model for Hong Kong Disneyland's Mystic Manor was also out. The annual Disney Legend Awards were held as well.

On Friday it was announced that the Disney Cruise Lines will start taking trips to Alaska in 2011. Timothy Dalton was announced to voice a character in Toy Story 3. Guillermo del Toro's "Disney Double Dare You" was announced as a new line of family-friendly horror films. The Muppets arrived on stage to sing and announce the title of their latest film, The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made! And Johnny Depp arrived as Jack Sparrow to announce the title of the fourth Pirates film. Coming to theaters during the Summer of 2011 will be Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Disney also announced that they would be remaking The Beatles' animated classic Yellow Submarine. Tim Burton will create a feature-length version of his short film Frankenweenie.

On Saturday, Disney announced their first Disneynature 3-D film Ocean World. Disney also announced that the leaked Fantasyland blueprints were real. The Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland will double in size by 2013. In 2012, The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Adventure, a brand-new dark ride, will open. The Be Our Guest restaurant and Gaston's Tavern quick-service eatery, and Princess Aurora, Cinderella, Belle and Ariel meet-and-greets as well. In 2013, Dumbo's Circus and Pixie Hollow will open. Disney Parks also confirmed that Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios would receive a new version of Star Tours by 2011. The ride will be in 3-D.

On the final day of the Expo, Disney announced a new Winnie-the-Pooh film. Cars 2 was also confirmed. Ken (voiced by Michael Keaton) will join Barbie in Toy Story 3. Muppet Mobile Lab will return to EPCOT and Disney's Hollywood Studios. It was also announced Disney's Hollywood Studios' Muppet Vision 3D will be updated to Disney Digital 3-D.

~Papi Chulo~

Family Guy's Abortion Episode Table-Read

Here's the table-read for a Family Guy episode FOX will more than likely not air ... So instead of waiting for the eventual DVD release ... Close your eyes and listen to Peter and the gang tackle abortion ...

Enjoy!

~Papi Chulo~

Family Guy Tackles Abortion

Seth MacFarlane announced at a weekend Comic-Con panel that Family Guy will tackle abortion ... but he isn't sure if the episode will ever make it to air...

Seth MacFarlane: "Twentieth Century Fox, as always, allowed us to produce the episode and then said, 'You know what? We're scared to fucking death of this.'"

FOX hasn't commented on the episode ... MacFarlane suggested that if the network decided not to air the episode it would show up on DVD ... The 2000 episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" was sent directly to DVD without a broadcast airing ...

~Papi Chulo~