05-21-2006

Pop Culture Digest : Brokeback Banned and Dixie Chicks Upset Again

An investigation is launched in Kentucky after an teacher uses a 2 1/2 minute clip from ‘Brokeback Mountain‘ in a senior cinematography class.

I’m a bit lost here. It’s a cinematography class, and it’s a film that has been noted for it’s rich cinematography. It specifies in the article that the scene that was shown contained no sexual content. So what exactly is the problem? Well, apparently a few parents have problems with their kids..being expose to gayness..I guess?

“This is a really bad time for all this to have happened,” said Smith, whose 17-year-old son, Chris, was in the class. “If she wanted to show it in class she should have gotten parents permission and if some students wanted to see it, it should have been their choice.”

Right…honey, why would you need permission to just show a movie. It’s not inappropriate, the clip contained no explicit language or sexual content–why does your kid need a permission slip to simply watch a gay-themed movie–especially when the only purpose of the clip was to note the cinematography. Get over yourselves.

The Dixie Chicks are at it again.

After pissing off Country music fans a few years ago with an apparently “treasonous” comment about Bush at a London concert, the first single off their new album “Taking The Long Way“, “Not Ready To Make Nice“, is just as controversial.

Can the Dixie Chicks survive without their core conservative Country audience? We’ll have to see when their new album releases on May 23.

7th Heaven, the longest running family series in television history, looks like it’s going to continue making history come the 2006 fall season.

After having already announced the end of the series and with the airing of the series finale, it was assumed 7th Heaven was over.

But CW, the new network formed by the WB and UPN has picked up the show and put it onto its fall schedule meaning we will have the Camdens to help us figure out how to deal with our own family problems for who knows how many years to come.

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