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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Flotsam & Jetsam

Are You Sufficiently Exploiting Your Child’s Looks, For Money?

5:01AM Hamilton Nolan | Raising a child in our modern world can be expensive, what with their constant nagging for new “Gameboys” and “contraception”. Fortunately your child’s dewy, youthful innocence can be sold off to a modelling agency, for sweet, sweet money. More »
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Will Ferrell Admirably Unafraid To Use His Body To Sell Some Tickets

8:55AM Mark | Sure, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue spread showing Will Ferrell pawing at a bikini- clad Heidi Klum was a mildly titillating stab at selling the movie with skin, but we suppose the magazine’s decency standards prevented New Line’s marketing team from doing what they really needed to do to push Semi-Pro: strip Ferrell to his tube socks, blow out his thicket of chest hair, and hand him a genital-obscuring, ABA-regulation prop. Mercifully, basketball doesn’t employ the kind of phallus-shaped equipment that might have tempted the studio to take the photo in a more tumescent direction. More »
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