It's a 'Shame' About NC-17 Tag for Waters Film
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DEAUVILLE, France  - The producer of  the upcoming John Waters comedy "A Dirty Shame" has accused the  U.S. movie ratings system of bowing to political pressure and a  "family values" agenda by giving her project the commercially  unfriendly NC-17 tag.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 17--HICKORY -- Leaders in the upper Catawba River basin believe they got the state's attention with their vocal opposition to Concord and Kannapolis' request to draw water from the Catawba River.
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Tycho:  I watched this video myself on Friday, and then watched it again, and then watched it a third time when Khoo came in - providing commentary throughout, which I'm almost certain was unwelcome.  I urge you not to watch the embedded, nasty  version over at GameVideos, but to take advantage of their "Download" or "Watch Larger Version" options.  This way, you can obsess as I have - pausing on each screen of the character generator or battle interface, drinking deep of their  forbidden texts.  (CW)TB
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Lionsgate will release  its upcoming documentary about child molestation scandals in  the Catholic Church without a rating after the trailer garnered  a restrictive tag from the Motion Picture Assn. of America.
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Director John Waters' new film "A Dirty Shame" on Friday became the latest movie to open with the NC-17 adult rating, long considered financial death by Hollywood studios but applied to several films recently.
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"Bad Education" has been slapped with an NC-17 rating.
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Tycho:  I purchased twenty fluid ounces of Halo 3 "Limited Edition Mountain Dew Game Fuel" in the hopes that it would taste so horrible that we'd get a strip out of it. Â Before I read the ingredients in preparation for this post, I often found myself desirous of this strange liquid - a liquid the precise color of tubercular sputum.  I would trip over to Seven Eleven to obtain it, tipping a small portion onto the concrete for the Spartans we lost at Reach.  Once I discovered that the soda contained a compound called "Brominated Vegetable Oil," my ardor was diminished for some reason.  The flavor of the beverage is not unpleasant, especially if you like bromide.  The almost oppressive campaign that surrounds the product is, perhaps, more bitter.   It's one slice (or, perhaps, sip) of a ten hojillion dollar marketing campaign designed to project one of gaming's biggest brands to people who already know about it.  There is no way to escape the Goddamn thing.  Over ninety percent of the surveyed crustaceans were "aware of the launch" and held a "strong desire to purchase," even though their massive claws and aquatic habitat make using the product impossible.  Lemurs are less bullish, but then lemurs are a notoriously tough demo.    It took a third night of playing the Call of Duty 4 Beta for everything to sink in, but it's pretty much official: they know what the fuck they're doing.  A shooter can't merely be great to come out this holiday, and even amazing might be insufficient.  To go against the previously described fucking unstoppable media phalanx - to say nothing of Halo 3 itself, whose multiplayer offering is so broad on every axis that it must be called round - you need to drop something that be off the cheazy.       There are shooters that play with progression to varying degrees.  Battlefield 2142 does, but the infantry experience is one part of a whole.  Rainbow Six: Vegas does, but its reward scheme is largely cosmetic in nature, and takes place outside of the game proper - between rounds, in austere menus.  CoD4's leveling has the sharp inhalation of a WoW ding.  It takes place right there at the moment you earn the XP from a kill, with an onscreen celebration of the fact.  The reward structure earns you new playmodes, new weapons,  new slottable abilities, the right to build custom classes, the right to wear a clan tag.  You don't need to wait long to earn them, the schedule is not cruel, but you need to put in your dues.  It's not an onerous process:  in order to level up, you must simply play Call of Duty 4.  Trust me when I say this is something you will want to do.    I feel as though my knowledge of the game should be richer, so let me crack a few more levels and get back to you.  Hopefully a beta code will have dripped out to you by then, and you will know what I mean with visceral certainty.    Oh, and also: Â if you want to tumble down some fissure in the earth and wake up in the Japanese Madness Caverns, take a look at this video for Puzzle de Harvest Moon.  I watched it hours ago, and I am still haunted.
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If you want to be up the proverbial creek Without a Paddle, be my guest. Just be forewarned: These waters are putrid. In an inept movie that makes even Catwoman seem sane, Steven Brill turns Without a Paddle into twaddle about the strength of boyhood ...
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How to avoid bad movies in the name of a good cause.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 16--Charlotte has the third-dirtiest drinking water in the country, Men's Health magazine says.  "Pure hogwash," retorts Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities spokesman Vic Simpson.
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Probably came from Coalition source, not insurgents A film showing the naked body of a British airman was offered for sale on eBay, it emerged yesterday. The distasteful footage has since been removed from the online listings, and the police alerted.â¦
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A film about the prisoner abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq will become the first documentary to enter the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival when it is shown next month, Agence France-Presse reported. Made by the Oscar-winning director Errol Morris (âThe Fog of Warâ), above, the documentary, âStandard Operating Procedure,â uses film, re-enactments and photographs that were published around the world to shed light on the treatment of inmates. Twenty-one films will vie for awards during the 58th Berlin film festival, running Feb. 7-17.
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Blog: The video is safe, but the download mod it advertises is not.
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By Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Sep. 20--CHARLOTTE -- York County residents who oppose a plan from two North Carolina cities to draw water from the Catawba River pleaded their case to N.C. officials Tuesday during the last public hearing on the proposal.
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The 14-part series documenting the civil rights movement is in jeopardy because the rights to much of the archival footage in it have expired. Documentary filmmakers say securing clearance rights is a growing problem, and it will get worse. By Katie Dean.
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Ewww... someone is marketing toilet water!
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By Jason M. Rodriguez, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Mar. 6--CAROLINA SHORES, N.C. -- An eight-year battle to control stormwater flow is going to take even longer and now hinges on the state's proposed plan for widening U.S. 17.