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South Park' Makers: Sex, Puppets and Controversy Try to imagine, if you will, a movie that in its first few minutes offends just about everyone who's watching it. Then you have "Team America: World Police," the new outrageous and controversial new comedy from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "South Park." Even as we speak, several prominent Hollywood actors may be calling their lawyers to check on slander laws. GLAAD is certainly drafting a press release condemning the film, and North Korean madman Kim Jong II may have a case as well. I saw this film over the...

Mar 12, 6:59 PM EST Norman Lear to Co-Write'South Park' By ANTHONY BREZNICAN AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Archie Bunker, meet Cartman. Norman Lear, the Emmy-winning producer of "All in the Family," said Wednesday he will collaborate on several episodes of the Comedy Central satire "South Park." Among the subjects he hopes to mock on the show are the U.S. push for war in Iraq, reality TV shows and immigration. "This is a show that always has something on its mind - as funny as it is, as outrageous and ridiculous," said Lear, who began watching "South Park"...

The left-wing group that calls itself People for the American Way got the shock of its life when it honored peacenik Canadian rocker Neil Young - and he said President Bush's anti-terrorism measures were necessary. "We can't forget what brought us together and what we're living for, what makes us who we are, even though to protect freedom it seems that we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time," Young said Tuesday at the limousine-liberal group's annual dinner in (where else?) Beverly Hills. More than a few eyebrows were raised, Reuters ...

NEW YORK -- Magazines aren't just for reading any more. They are the centrepiece of brand identities, core products that can be extended into every avenue of life. Maxim recently loaned its name to a line of hair-colour products aimed at the randy twentysomething men comprising its primary demographic. Last June, Seventeen magazine opened a salon and spa in a Dallas mall, where overstressed teenaged gals could relax with a massage and pedicure on their daddy's credit card. The challenge for brand extension is perhaps a little more acute for the publisher of The New Yorker, an institution that remains...