 NOTE ANOTHER CULTURAL FIRST! THE PROPAGANDA
CARTOON ALWAYS LEADS THE WAY! ANY LAW FIRMS OUT THERE THAT REALLY SERVE
WE THE PEOPLE?????
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- Suborning, seducing "tweens" ("Bart"
is 10 years old) - PLAYBOY has now and has always suborned prostitution,
incest, rape and the inevitable sexual harassment. This "special"
issue, sold at 7-11 nationwide to reach young boys and girls, the future
for hardcore consumers and performers-future prostituted youth and their
predators.
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- "Finally, the fact that the program draws young
audiences especially attractive to advertisers also explains the [FOX]
network's willingness to air such an unconventional and risky program.
The "tween" demographic, those between 12 and 17, is an especially
key viewing group for The Simpsons as well as a primary consumer group
targeted by advertisers.
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- "Bartholomew J. Simpson is ten years old and is
the constant prankster. In becoming the countercultural icon that he is,
Bart..
- "Marge Simpson has done something that Homer might
not like but will make Bart the proudest kid in his school: She's posed
for Playboy magazine.
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- "Playboy even convinced 7-Eleven to carry the magazine
in its 1,200 corporate-owned stores, something the company has only done
once before in more than 20 years. "We love Marge," said 7-Eleven
spokesman Margaret Chabris."
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- NOTE THAT AFTER MY REPORT (SUMMARY ATTACHED) WAS RELEASED
7-11 DROPPED ALL PLAYBOY AND PENTHOUSE DUE TO ITS CARTOONS AS ASSOCIATED
WITH CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.
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- Playboy lands Marge Simpson
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- BY DON BABWIN - The Associated Press
- CHICAGO -- Aye Carumba!
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- Marge Simpson has done something that Homer might not
like but will make Bart the proudest kid in his school: She's posed for
Playboy magazine.
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- After more than a half-century featuring women like Marilyn
Monroe, Cindy Crawford and the Girls of Hooters on its cover, Playboy has
for the first time given the spot to a cartoon character.
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- And the magazine is giving the "Simpsons" character
the star treatment, complete with a data sheet, an interview and a two-page
centerfold.
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- The magazine's editorial director, James Jellinek, won't
say exactly how much of Marge will show in the November edition that hits
newsstands on Friday -- or whether she lets that big pile of blue hair
down. But, he said, "it's very, very racy."
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- But he stressed that the mother of three -- the youngest
a baby, by the way -- has a lot to be proud of.
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- "She is a stunning example of the cartoon form,"
he said on Friday at the magazine's headquarters in Chicago, appearing
both pleased and surprised at the words coming out of his mouth.
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- For Playboy, which has seen its circulation slip from
3.15 million to 2.6 million since 2006, putting Marge on the cover was
designed to attract younger readers to a magazine where the median age
of readers is 35, while not alienating older fans.
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- "We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something
crowd," said spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey.
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- The magazine also hopes to turn the November issue into
a collectors' item by featuring Marge, sitting on a chair in the shape
of the iconic Playboy bunny, on the cover of only the magazines sold in
newsstands. Subscribers get a more traditional model on the cover.
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- "It's so rare in today's digital age where you have
the opportunity to send people to the newsstand to pick something up,"
Jellinek said.
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- Playboy even convinced 7-Eleven to carry the magazine
in its 1,200 corporate-owned stores, something the company has only done
once before in more than 20 years.
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- "We love Marge," said 7-Eleven spokesman Margaret
Chabris.
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- FORD8N1 wrote on October, 10 4:29 AM:
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- Homer Marge is "cheating" on you! Better get
a good divorce lawyer. She exposes herself like that to millions to many
she is a unfit mother. Thought you had her all to yourself did you-now
she will have those teenagers with pimply faces lusting over that centerfold.
How dare Marge! She was our vision ofAmerica's Princess Diana! The sky
is falling on our countries morality! Chicken Little is aghast! Oh my says
I! The morality of America's women hood is now totally shattered! Hugh
Hefner you now have gone too far! Even "The Girls Next Door"
have left you! Shame.....shame.....shame.
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- http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/S/htmlS/simpsonsthe/simpsonsthe.htm
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- HE SIMPSONS
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- U.S. Cartoon Situation Comedy
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- The Simpsons, longest-running cartoon on American prime-time
network television, chronicles the animated adventures of Homer Simpson
and his family. Debuting on the FOX network in 1989, critically acclaimed,
culturally cynical and economically very successful, The Simpsons helped
to define the satirical edge of prime-time television in the early 1990s
and was the single most influential program in establishing FOX as a legitimate
broadcast television network.
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- The Simpsons' household consists of five family members.
The father, Homer, is a none-too-bright safety inspector for the local
nuclear power plant in the show's fictional location, Springfield. A huge
blue beehive hairdo characterizes his wife, Marge, often the moral center
of the program. Their oldest child, Bart, a sassy 10-year-old and borderline
juvenile delinquent, provided the early focus of the program. Lisa, the
middle child, is a gifted, perceptive-but-sensitive saxophone player. Maggie
is the voiceless toddler, observing all while constantly sucking on her
pacifier. Besides The Simpsons clan, other characters include Moe the bartender;
Mr. Burns, the nasty owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant; and
Ned Flanders, The Simpsons' incredibly pious neighbor. These characters
and others, and the world they inhabit, have taken on a dense, rich sense
of familiarity. Audiences now recognize relationships and specific character
traits that can predict developments and complications in any new plot.
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- The Simpsons is the creation of Matt Groening, a comic
strip writer/artist who until the debut of the program was mostly known
for his syndicated newspaper strip "Life in Hell." Attracting
the attention of influential writer-producer and Gracie Films executive
James L. Brooks, Groening developed the cartoon family as a series of short
vignettes featured on the FOX variety program The Tracey Ullman Show beginning
in 1987. A Christmas special followed in December 1989, and then The Simpsonsbecame
a regular series.
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- Despite its family sitcom format, The Simpsons draws
its animated inspiration more from Bullwinkle J. Moose than Fred Flintstone.
Like The Bullwinkle Show, two of the most striking characteristics of The
Simpsons are its social criticism and its references to other cultural
forms. John O'Connor, television critic for The New York Times, has labeled
the program "the most radical show on prime time" and indeed,
The Simpsons often parodies the hypocrisy and contradictions found in social
institutions such as the nuclear family (and nuclear power), the mass media,
religion and medicine. Homer tells his daughter Lisa that it is acceptable
to steal things "from people you don't like." Reverend Lovejoy
lies to Lisa about the contents of the Bible to win an argument. Krusty
the Clown, the kidvid program host, endorses dangerous products to make
a quick buck. Homer comforts Marge about upcoming surgery with the observation
that "America's health care system is second only to Japan's ... Canada's
... Sweden's ... Great Britain's...well, all of Europe."
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- The critical nature of the program has been at times
controversial. Many elementary schools banned Bart Simpson T-shirts, especially
those with the slogan, "Underachiever, and Proud of It." U.S.
President George Bush and former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett
publicly criticized the program for its subversive and anti-authority nature.
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- In addition to its ironic lampoons, it is also one of
the most culturally literate entertainment programs on prime time. Viewers
may note references to such cultural icons as The Bridges of Madison County,
Ayn Rand, Susan Sontag and the film, Barton Fink, in any given episode.
These allusions extend far beyond explicit verbal notations. Cartoon technique
allows free movement in The Simpsons, and manipulation of visual qualities,
often mimicking comic strip perspectives and cinematic manipulation of
space creates an extraordinary sense of time, place, and movement. On occasion
The Simpsons has reproduced the actual camera movements of the films it
models. At other times the cartoonist's freedom and ability to visualize
internal psychological states such as memory and dream have produced some
of the program's most hilarious moments.
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- The unique nature of The Simpsons reveals much about
the nature of the television industry. Specifically, the existence of the
show illustrates the relationship of television's industrial context to
its degree of content innovation. It was a program that came along at the
right place, the right time, and appealed to the right demographic groups.
Groening has said that no other network besides FOX would have aired The
Simpsons, and in fact conventional television producers had previously
turned down Groening's programming ideas. The degree of competition in
network television in the late 1980s helped to open the door, however.
Network television overall found itself in an increased competitive environment
in this period because of cable television and VCRs. The FOX network, specifically,
was in an even more precarious economic position than the Big Three. Because
FOX was the new, unestablished network, attempting to build audiences and
attract advertisers, the normally restrictive nature of network television
gatekeeping may have been loosened to allow the program on the air. In
addition, the championing of The Simpsons by Brooks, an established producer
with a strong track record, helped the program through the industrialized
television filters that might have watered down the program's social criticism.
Finally, the fact that the program draws young audiences especially attractive
to advertisers also explains the network's willingness to air such an unconventional
and risky program. The "tween" demographic, those between 12
and 17, is an especially key viewing group forThe Simpsons as well as a
primary consumer group targeted by advertisers.
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- The Simpsons was a watershed program in the establishment
of the FOX network. The cartoon has been the FOX program most consistently
praised by television critics. It was the first FOX program to reach the
Top 10 in ratings, despite the network's smaller number of affiliates compared
to the Big Three. When FOX movedThe Simpsons to Thursday night in 1990,
it directly challenged the number one program of the network establishment
at the time, The Cosby Show. Eventually, The Simpsons bested this powerful
competitor in key male demographic groups. The schedule change, and the
subsequent success, signaled FOX's staying power to the rest of the industry,
and for viewers it was a powerful illustration of the innovative nature
of FOX programming when compared to conventional television fare.
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- The Simpsons is also noteworthy for the enormous amount
of merchandising it sparked. Simpsons T-shirts, toys, buttons, golf balls
and other licensed materials were everywhere at the height of Simpsonsmania
in the early 1990s. At one point retailers were selling approximately one
million Simpsons T-shirts per week.
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- The Big Three networks attempted to copy the success
of the prime-time cartoon, but failed to duplicate its innovative nature
and general appeal. Programs likeCapital Critters, Fish Police and Family
Dog were all short-lived on the webs.
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