Flags Keep Dropping on Super Bowl Stunt (Hollyweirdos bellyache about "censorship")

WASHINGTON POST ^ | By Thursday, February 5, 2004; Page C01 | Lisa de Moraes

[Liz]

Like something in a B-horror flick, Janet Jackson's radioactive right breast has morphed into the monster that's eating Hollywood.

In the past 24 hours:

• Jackson's name was stricken from the official list of presenters for Sunday's Grammy Awards telecast on CBS. That's the same network that beamed us the Super Bowl game during which Jackson's breast made its broadcast TV debut in a stunt that duet partner Justin Timberlake called a "wardrobe malfunction." According to one source close to the production, CBS and the Recording Academy are waiting for her to graciously bow out; if she does not soon, they will uninvite her.

• ABC announced it will initiate a five-second delay on its live telecast of the Academy Awards so it can censor any "wardrobe malfunctions" or Bono-esque "[expletive] brilliant" moments.

• The NFL canceled this weekend's Pro Bowl halftime show starring Timberlake's fellow 'N Sync-er JC Chasez because it was afraid of his choice of songs -- "Blowing Me Up (With Her Love)" -- and the accompanying choreography. Chasez has been replaced with "Hawaiian-themed entertainment."

• NBC cut from tonight's "ER" episode a shot of an exposed breast of an 80-year-old woman receiving emergency care, even though the network says it thinks the shot is appropriate.

Before Jackson's Super Bowl appearance, she had been lined up to introduce a Grammy tribute to Luther Vandross, who is recovering from a stroke and who the Grammy producers hoped would be well enough to attend the ceremony.

Vandross is no longer expected to appear. Jackson isn't either, according to the source close to the production. Her name is missing from a news release issued earlier in the day by Grammy organizers that lists the show's celebrity hosts, presenters and performers.

Though she apologized for her Super Bowl performance via videotape -- aired by various syndicated celebrity-driven TV shows last night -- as of late yesterday she had not withdrawn as a Grammy presenter. CBS declined to comment. A Recording Academy rep also declined to comment.

Timberlake is still on the official Grammy list of hosts, presenters and performers.

Also yesterday, ABC notified the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that it will, for the first time, use a five-second delay on its Oscar broadcast in order to be able to bleep out inappropriate language.

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[Stopislamnow]

A woman who can hula well is a billion times sexier than a washed up skank showing her pierced boob.

I wish there were hula girls included in every sports event.
That hip swing is the thing!

[bray]

Anyplace where talent and work is reviewed and decided on the casting couch should save their self imposed morality for people who share their lifestyles. Time to let the world know that hollywhacked speaks for hollywhacked and not America. A world where skindeep beauty and pornography is worshipped. They have not evolved politically since 1930!

Pray for W and The Truth

[Liz]

It was a breast. 51% of the people on this planet have two; who really cares if someone chose to expose one of theirs in public? The people who are most up-in-arms about this whole incident are the same ones who oppose breast feeding in public.

Oh please....wake up. Baring breasts as entertainment --breast feeding in public----apples and oranges.

It's not "just one breast." It's the theory of the camel with it's nose in the tent.......it's just the beginning.....part and parcel of the continuing Follywood crusade to thumb its nose at traditional values and to eradicate all semblance of values.

Once one breast is bared, the door is open to further depravities.

Think Roman circuses that engaged in more and more decadence in order to please the rampaging crowds.

Obsessed, success-driven entertainer-types are so depraved, they would do anything to boost their careers.

If Jackass and Dumberlake thought fornicating a dog at half time would sell records, they'd do it in a nanosecond.

[Liz]

Nice deconstruciton.

[Fintan]

Chasez has been replaced with "Hawaiian-themed entertainment."

 

The unfortunately named Don Ho???

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Once one breast is bared, the door is open to further depravities.

Like omy**d two breasts be bared! IMO that doesn't matter, I think there should be more topless beach's, that or all other beach's should require men to wear a top. If all women were allowed to go topless, men would eventually see that to be just as sexy as women find half naked men. Which is to say pleasing but no big deal. However coming close to performing a sex act on stage is a very big deal.

[Liz]

Anyone who does not recognize the various, small things that move together, creating decay and immorality is....contributing to the decay.

The breast flash is an example of Hollywarped’s sheer stupidity. These warped individuals exist in a total vacuum. Hollyweirdos ignorance about the difference between right and wrong continues to backfires on them. You'd think they'd "get it" after awhile, wouldn't you?

[YankeeGirl]

That her boob popped out was stupid and maybe not what she was trying to do. Sure a lot of people are upset that she exposed herself. But even more to the point, just what was she thinking when she decided to simulate a boy ripping a girl's clothes off? I would assume most of the real football fans use half-time to go to the bathroom, get snacks, a cold one, etc. An MTV "rap" themed half-time show could only be appealing to the kids.

What is the message to adolescents? Tease the boys? Tease them to the point where it is out of control? Set yourself up to be victimized? Is okay if she "asks" for it?

And the racial overtones! Where are the black religious leaders condemning this display of disrespect for black girls, particularly by a white boy.

I don't believe for one minute the bare boob was an accident. But that wasn't the worst part of the show.

[Paleo Conservative]

I think it was an intentional attempt to boost her sagging record sales and I'm willing to bet that it does.

[Ignatz]

If all women were allowed to go topless, men would eventually see that to be just as sexy as women find half naked men

I remember having this same thought......
when I was 16 years old!
Later in life, I realized it was just the maturbatory-fantasy rationaization of a hormone-driven teenager.
Much as it is for you currently, I'm sure. ;->

[Ignatz]

rationaization
rationalization

[js1138]

Wow! Lyrics worthy of Gershwin!

Of course Cole Porter wrote one of my favorite songs, "Let's Do It".

And there's always the bubblegum classic, "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates; you've got a brand new key".

Somehow I liked it better when you had to be creative.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

And there's always the bubblegum classic, "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates; you've got a brand new key".

Uh-oh! How did you know I'm a closet Melanie fan?

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Much as it is for you currently, I'm sure. ;->No, maybe now that I'm past 50 breasts don't excite me as they did back then.

[IYAS9YAS]

I was offended at the where/when/why of the incident, not the fact that she did it. Where, in front of a live audience; when, family hour with millions of people watching with their families; why, to get a reaction, nothing more.

Personally, I didn't watch the h/time show because of who was going to be on.

Breast feeding in public does not bother me. That is a natural, loving, motherly act. Flashing a bauble-covered nipple to get a reaction is not a natural, loving, motherly act. It is context. If it were a pay-per-view concert with a warning of "graphic content" then I wouldn't have given a rip. The where, when and why is what I'm ticked about.

[js1138]

I'm not even in the closet on that one. She was a bit of a three hit wonder, however.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

"I've got a brand new pair of roller skates; you've got a brand new key".And I thought it was just about roller skating. Actually I thought there was something funny about someone else having the key, but could not quite get the hidden meaning. A roller skate key is female and the skate is male, but the girl has the skates, don't know if its a boy with the key or not. Confusing? LOL

[Wil H]

Advice to Janrt Jackson...

Do NOT take that dildo on stage with you at the Grammys

[js1138]

Confusing? LOL

All the best stuff in art and music has layers of meaning hidden from those who are not ready to see it.

Melanie had another big hit, "Look What They Done to My Song, Ma," which she wrote in the studio while she was fuming about an arrangement the record company had forced on her. The record company was embarrassed by the grammar and released it as "What Have They Done To My Song Ma".

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Hmmmm...let's count:

"Beautiful People"
"Candles In The Rain"
"Brand New Key"

Yep, 3 hit wonder!