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To: Sully- who wrote (17609)	2/9/2006 5:33:43 AM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Speaking of Offensive... Posted by John Power Line This story in Ad Age is an interesting counterpoint to the Muslim riots over the Mohammed drawings: <<< Britney Spears is out of the kitchen. NBC will not include a scene featuring a cooking segment titled “Crucifixin's” on an upcoming episode of “Will & Grace” that will guest star singer Britney Spears as a Christian conservative sidekick to openly gay character Jack. The American Family Association had targeted the network after NBC sent out a press release that included the storyline for Ms. Spears’s guest appearance: “Out TV,” the fictional network that airs Jack’s “Jack Talk” program, is bought by a Christian TV network, and Ms. Spears’ character is brought on to be Jack’s new religious co-host. She introduces a cooking segment on the show called “Cruci-fixin’s.” Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the American Family Association, which is based in Tupelo, Miss., and headed by Donald Wildmon, called the program a "direct attack on people of faith” from a network that "has a history of anti-Christian bigotry. They would not be making fun of Mohammed or Buddha,” he said. “It’s almost sacrilegious." >>> The Media Post email that included a link to the Ad Age story sounded disapproving of NBC: <<< Either NBC has weak knees and has again caved to pressure from the religious right--or it's got serious internal problems in its public relations department. Yesterday the company said it never even intended to shoot a scene in an upcoming April episode of "Will & Grace" in which guest star Britney Spears hosts a cooking show called "Cruci-fixins." What's more, such a scene had never even been written, NBC claimed. Odd, since it was NBC that initially boasted of the comedic sendup--a boast that brought down the enmity and boycott power of the ultraconservative American Family Association. >>> "Caving to pressure from the religious right" is about the worst sin imaginable in the world of media, but who could possibly have been so out of touch as to think that "Crucifixin's" was a good idea? Hollywood--is that where they write TV shows?--must be a very weird place. powerlineblog.com adage.com

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