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Warner Bros. Eliminates Peace Image from 'What A Girl Wants' Film Ads
Sacremento Bee ^ | April 1, 2003 7:32AM | wire staff report

Posted on 04/01/2003 9:42:39 AM PST by ewing

'What a Girl Wants' is to avoid making a political statement.

Print advertisements for the teen comedy orginially featured a photograph of star Amanda Bynes wearing an American flag T-shirt and flashing the peace sign with her fingers as she stands between two Royal British Guards.

With the war in Iraq sparking anti war protests in the United States and abraod, however, Warner Brothers quickly changed the ad. The studio Monday said it feared the peace sign would be viewed as a political message.

New versions of the image feature Bynes with her right hand at her side, although many of the original posters had already been placed on billboards and buses before the change.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bottomline; film; peacesign; warnerbros
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To: ewing
And Hollywierd is scared out of it's mind with 75% of the public supporting the Presdient (even in the See-BS polls)

Good. I hope they are trembling in their Pradas. I hope their Gucci sacks are full of Zoloft and Prozac, which they stuff into their Botoxed faces with shaking hands and wash down with French wine. I hope they jump everytime the illegal alien who cleans their house makes an unexpected noise. I hope they tuck in their little starlets at night and tell them, "Be good and go to sleep, or the VOTERS in Mainstream America will come for you!"

21 posted on 04/01/2003 12:22:03 PM PST by Anamensis
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To: ewing
I don't have a problem with the poster as it is.putting up with the bags of dirt would be a lot easier if they all looked like she does. "smokin"
22 posted on 04/01/2003 12:26:41 PM PST by Cheapskate
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To: ewing
Isn't it a sign for victory as well?

It was in World War II when Winston Churchill was most prominently photographed flashing it.

Then it became the right-of-passage-great American-chicken-foot sign for the Peace movement during Viet Nam.

Now it stands for victory for anyone who opposes American forces when a Republican is President.

23 posted on 04/01/2003 12:30:59 PM PST by N. Theknow
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To: N. Theknow
I like the backwards sign of Churchill with the victory.
24 posted on 04/01/2003 1:16:03 PM PST by ewing
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To: ewing
Notice the flag on her t shirt has only 13 stars. Maybe she is saying to the two guards we beat you in the revolutionary war and I'm here for another round.
25 posted on 04/01/2003 1:25:22 PM PST by xp38
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To: Argus
see posts 13 and 19. Apparently Mr. Churchill employed both methods at different times -- but he could be a somewhat salty character, so who knows what he was saying (or gesturing)? :-D
26 posted on 04/01/2003 1:38:32 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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27 posted on 04/09/2003 4:36:57 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod (Deus Lo Volt!)
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