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“The Adventures of Jerry Lewis” Comic Book No. 112

August 16th, 2008 by Scott Marks

While hastening to find suitable reading material for the bowl, I happened across my copy of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis , No. 112. This panel hit me harder than a case of Swiss Kriss.

Fill in your own smarmy joke. And they think today’s youth is being raised on filth. Makes one want to seriously reconsider this entry.

BTW, gov, are those an overflowing pair of A-1 Slacks that Jerry is removing from his Aryan pally? OH, YEAH!

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Mr. T branded a homophobe after candy bar commercial equates speed-walking with homosexuality

July 30th, 2008 by Scott Marks

I pity the poor politically correct fools that think a candy bar commercial featuring Mr. T is anti-gay.

The commercial for Snickers bars, which features T scolding a speed walker for not “running like a man,” has been yanked off of UK airwaves after US human rights groups cried homophobia.

According to the Daily Mail, “Mr. T pulls up in a truck alongside a man exercising in tight yellow shorts and shouts: ‘Speed walking. I pity you fool. You are a disgrace to the man race. It’s time to run like a real man.’ He then forces the man to break into a sprint by taking pot shots at him with a Snickers machine gun. The commercial ends with Mr T uttering the slogan to the current Snickers campaign – ‘Get some nuts.’”

200 people, including US protesters, called to complain about the commercial. Oddly enough, the spot has yet to air on American television.

The U.S. lobby group Human Rights Campaign criticized Mars – which makes Snickers – for condoning “the notion that the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community is a group of second class citizens and that violence against GLBT people is not only acceptable but humorous.”

Since when is it the business of the United States to meddle in another country’s source of ad revenue? The Mars Company should grow some nuts and tell those offended to shove their Snickers. Instead, a backpedaling spokesperson for the candy giant said, “We understand that humor is highly subjective, and it is never our intention to cause offense. Accordingly, we have pulled the Mr. T speedwalker ad globally.”

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False Facebook profile sparks landmark libel suit

June 30th, 2008 by Scott Marks

The managing director of a British company that finds audiences for TV and radios shows appears to have attracted a one man following.

Grant Rapheal is accused of posted a false profile of his old schoolchum Applausestore.com’s Mathew Firsht on the social networking website Facebook. A fake entry was posted listing Firsht’s personal details and listing a bunch of gay groups that he was signed up to. Firsht is heterosexual.

For a kick, the ad also falsely claimed he was ‘Looking for whatever I can get’ in terms of a relationship.

Yesterday, Raphael’s prank initiated a landmark High Court claim for damages. According to thisislondon.co.uk, “Mr Firsht is suing old schoolfriend Grant Rapheal for libel and misuse of private information in what is believed to be the first defamation case involving Facebook in the UK.”

During Monday’s hearing Firsht’s lawyer Lorna Skinner listed the private information including his whereabouts, activities, birthday and relationship status. To underscore the latter, Firsht was signed up the Facebook groups ‘Gay in the Wood. . . Borehamwood’ and ‘Gay Jews in London.’ He was not, however, a member in good standing of ‘Gay Cocken Affan Yom.’

In addition, Ms. Skinner claims that her client was defamed by additional allegations that he owed large sums of money which he attempted to lie his way out of as well as smears that made Matthew’s Applausestore.com sound Firsh*t.

Miss Skinner continued: ‘Mr Firsht values his privacy highly. It was the gross invasion of his privacy, namely having his personal details, including false details concerning his sexuality, laid bare for all to see that caused him the most distress.’

The two friends had a severe falling out in 2000 that, according to Ms. Skinner, left Mr. Raphael harboring an enormous grudge. She also claimed that Raphael had access to Firsht that “only a very limited number of people would.”

Facebook took off in 2006 and is the seventh most popular site on the internet! Last month alone, it attracted 129.3million visitors. I’m on Facebook, but I’m not sure I get it. It just seems like a lot of silly games and quizzes, but, hey, it’s the closest I’ll ever get to really being friends with Roger Corman.

And it’s okay to goof on me for only having 46 friends. If you can count more friends than you’ve got fingers on one hand, you shouldn’t operate a punch press.

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Miss Edie: Q&A with Edith Massey, John Waters Egg Lady

April 28th, 2008 by Scott Marks

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While dining at a friend’s house last night I reclaimed a box of old audio cassettes left there during a move. It was loaded with everything from pre-recorded music tapes to the complete Sam Kinison audio collection to recordings of the Sig Sakowicz radio show, something that I am not equipped transfer to the internet or else today’s blog would contain an endless loop of “Thanks for taking da’ time” and”All Right!!!”

There at the bottom of the pile sat an ancient Certion 60 minute cassette containing a 1976 interview I conducted with Edith Massey. (Who knew that a Certion would last over 30 years? Come to think of it, what the hell is a Certion?) Edie was making a personal appearance at Northwestern University in conjunction with a screening of Female Trouble. After graduating from Mad Magazine and moving on to the National Lampoon, John Waters was the next (scata)logical rung in my ascension of the fecal pop culture food chain.

I was twenty at the time and writing for the Illinois Entertainer, a small monthly newspaper that specialized in rock music. When it comes to midnight movies, Pink Flamingos is my Rocky Horror Picture Show. (The only things audience members hurled at the screen was there dinner.) I was at the Devon Theatre for Chicago’s first screening of the film (at midnight, of course) and almost every weekend thereafter for the year or so it played.

It screened every Friday and Saturday night and the first month drew negligible crowds. Once word spread, hundreds packed the small, unadorned north side theatre to see if what they’d heard about the ending was true. It was and is, and not a week passed where at least one, sometimes several patrons puked up their beer during the film’s notorious curtain shot. After more than a hundred viewing of the film my gag reflex still kicks in when Divine flashes her quite literal s–t eating grin.

As much as I love Divine and Mink Stole, it was Miss Edie who kept me coming back for more. Did Waters actually have the audacity to convince an addled, overweight, snaggle-toothed senior to strip down to her underthings and play her role in a playpen or was Edith Massey deep into the Stanislavski method?

The interview was taped the afternoon of the show in Northwestern’s Norris Center and Joel Rothman, a high school cronie and Edie-aholic xame along for the ride. Edie was a delight and pretty much an accurate representation of the characters she played on screen, minus Queen Carlotta’s nasty streak. To paraphrase Martin Balsam in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, she was a kook, but a real one.

Edie talks about everything from being a madame to crying over Little House on the Prairie to the reason she didn’t name her cat Muffy.

Scott Marks: Tell me about the new film, Desperate Living.

Edith Massey: I play a queen, Queen Carlotta, and I have ten soldiers, five on each side of me. And I have a fire gun, you know, when anybody gets in the way. Would you like me to give you some of my part?

SM: Oh, sure.

EM: I’ll say one part. Alright…umm…umm…”Welcome to Mortsville (sic), ladies. I read in the big city newspaper that you are wanted for murder.” Uhh… “Murder of a certain mister Brasley Gravel.’ Then I say, “Your are interrupting my flow of power.” Only I say it a lot louder, you know. “Lieutenant Wilson give these two…give these peasants something to…” (She pauses.) You see, I’m just learning it now. “Give these peasants something to eat. They must be hungry after their long day of breaking the law.” Now I say this real loud, of course. And so they feed him cockroaches.

SM: How do you deal with the publics’ reaction if they walk out of Pink Flamingos outraged and very offended? Do you find the film offensive?

EM: No, but can I tell you one thing? I have never gone through that. No one has ever treated me like that. But the honest truth is everybody is nice and friendly with me. I don’t actually do anything really bad. Yet. (She laughs.)

SM: John’s just starting with you.

EM: Oh, I don’t know. In this (new) movie I have a sex scene, but I ain’t gonna’ say no more. I play more mean. Then they’re going to have like, uhh…the part Divine (normally) plays, well Susan Lowe is going to play that. There are two lesbians, you know, and they win a lottery and they kind of take over the town when they win the lottery and start buying stuff. Then we have a revolution and I get killed. I have a backwards day, see, everybody dresses backwards, walks backwards and those that don’t do it get shot.

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As Queen Carlotta in DESPERATE LIVING

SM: Is (John) going to try to offend the audience again like he did in Flamingos?

EM: I don’t think John actually goes to hurt anybody. I don’t think it’s anything personal with John. He just thinks of goofy thing to make because he knows the public likes it. I know him and I know he’s not that way.

SM: How did you feel when you first read the script for Pink Flamingos and saw that at the end (Divine) was going to eat dog s–t?

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Rabbi Mel Gibson advised Heath Ledger to pass on “Brokeback Mountain” role

January 27th, 2008 by Scott Marks

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Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger became friendly during the filming of The Patriot, but their relationship quickly soured when Mel found out that the young, straight leading man was considering the role of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain.

Rush & Molloy quote private investigator Paul Barresi as saying Gibson turned cold toward Ledger after the Aussie star ignored his advice not to play a gay cowboy.

“Ledger asked Gibson whether he should take the role of Ennis Del Mar in ‘Brokeback,’” Barresi says a “major Hollywood producer” told him. “Gibson strongly counseled against it. The role apparently ran counter to Gibson’s morality. And he felt that it would ruin Heath’s career.”

“When Gibson parted ways with Heath, it broke his heart,” contends Barresi.

This is not the first time loud-mouthed Gibson has shown his homophobic side. It all started with a questionable scene in Braveheart where a homosexual character is tossed from a window.

In 1991, Gibson aroused the ire of The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) when he told a Spanish publication, ” “[Gays] take it up the a–.” Gesturing toward his posterior, he added, “This is only for taking a s–t.”

GLAAD should have chewed him out for not fully exploiting the homoerotic possibilities implicit in the Lethal Weapon series.

Gibson had expressed fear that people would think he is gay because he’s an actor. When the Spanish interviewer called him on it Gibson shot back, “Do I sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them? I think not.”

Asked about GLAAD’s criticism, he told Playboy: “I’ll apologize when hell freezes over. They can f–ck off.”

Later, though, Gibson joined GLAAD in hosting lesbian and gay filmmakers for a seminar.

With the expection of the Mad Max films, where he’s perfectly cast as an animal, what use do any of us have for Mel Gibson? He’s a terrible actor and an even worse director. If the president of a major fast food chain were to come out and spout as much racist and homophobic rhetoric as Mel Gibson would you still eat his burgers?

Maybe it’s time we all told Mel Gibson to “f–k off.” I want you to take all of your Mel Gibson DVDs , even the Mad Max series, and treat them the same way betrayed Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker fans disposed of their CD’s. Use a bulldozer to bury them in your back yard.

And while you’re at it, throw Mel in the hole with them!

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Is it my imagination or did Jodie Foster finally come out of the closet?

December 7th, 2007 by Scott Marks

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While accepting her giveaway Sherri Lansing Leadership Award at the Women in Entertainment Breakfast on Tuesday, Jodie Foster publicly acknowledged her life partner for the first time.

According to the L.A. Daily News, “Toward the end of her remarks, Jodie thanked those nearest and dearest to her. Among them was “my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss…Since she has always been so intensely private, I was surprised at the public acknowledgment of who I presume is Cydney Bernard, the woman who is widely reported to be her life partner.”

Feminist Foster, who exploited rape in The Accused and most recently played the macho Charles Bronson role in her Death Wish-like The Brave One, has been highly protective (tight-lipped?) when it comes to her private life.

Just what John Hinckley needed for a few more strokes in the pen.

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