More so than any other form of media, video games have a particularly difficult position when it comes to controversy. While violent films or TV shows merely engage viewers passively, games differ in that they give direct control over the on-screen action.
What many fail to understand is that the majority of gamers have the ability to differentiate reality from fantasy. It’s for this reason that you don’t see the plumbing industry swamped with applications from gamers who were attracted to the profession by promises of gold coins and a hot princess named Peach.
Still, it’ll never stop video games from being a scapegoat for the many problems within modern society. It wasn’t long before the ugly sight of the U.K riots were blamed on video games – with an unnamed police officer quick to pinpoint the source of the entire problem as Grand Theft Auto.
What many fail to understand is that the majority of gamers have the ability to differentiate reality from fantasy. It’s for this reason that you don’t see the plumbing industry swamped with applications from gamers who were attracted to the profession by promises of gold coins and a hot princess named Peach.
Still, it’ll never stop video games from being a scapegoat for the many problems within modern society. It wasn’t long before the ugly sight of the U.K riots were blamed on video games – with an unnamed police officer quick to pinpoint the source of the entire problem as Grand Theft Auto.
- 9/2/2011
- by Stephen Leigh
- Obsessed with Film
Exclusive: In its first original project for the stage, Kennedy/Marshall has optioned Columbine, the 2009 book by journalist Dave Cullen. First published in 2009, the book won the Edgar Award and is a comprehensive look at the massacre that occurred in April 1999 in Littleton, Colo., where high school students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting rampage that took the lives of 13 before the students killed themselves. Scott Z. Burns is writing the stage play, with an eye toward a fall start. Burns' credits include The Bourne Ultimatum, which he did with producers Kathy Kennedy and Frank Marshall, and Contagion, the Steven Soderbergh-directed thriller that stars Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet and Jude Law. The play will deal specifically with the events surrounding the murders inside the school library. The UTA/Anonymous Content-repped Burns is also writing for Soderbergh and George Clooney The Man From U.N.C.L.E....
- 5/18/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Today: Is Glee's Blaine a total romantic fantasy that no gay guy can ever really find? Plus, is Victoria Jackson stupid or insane?
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!
Q: I just watched Kurt and Blaine on Glee. Their romance touched me deeply, but it also seemed surreal. From the get-go, Blaine admits to Kurt he's gay. Blaine sings Amazing songs. Number after number. Then he sings a serenade, then he doesn't sing and lets Kurt sing, showing his humbleness. Then he sings his rendition of P!nk's “Raise Your Glass,” rocking it.
I'm going to throw it out there: He's A Unicorn! Maybe I've been screwed over too many times in love to believe in good guys, but Blaine has qualities I don't see in gay guys. I'm a college student and...
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!
Q: I just watched Kurt and Blaine on Glee. Their romance touched me deeply, but it also seemed surreal. From the get-go, Blaine admits to Kurt he's gay. Blaine sings Amazing songs. Number after number. Then he sings a serenade, then he doesn't sing and lets Kurt sing, showing his humbleness. Then he sings his rendition of P!nk's “Raise Your Glass,” rocking it.
I'm going to throw it out there: He's A Unicorn! Maybe I've been screwed over too many times in love to believe in good guys, but Blaine has qualities I don't see in gay guys. I'm a college student and...
- 3/28/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Oprah Winfrey has decided to pull an episode off her talk show after deciding that the topic is inappropriate. The media mogul originally planned to air the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre story on Monday.
She wrote on her Twitter: "I pulled the Columbine show today - After reviewing, thought it could focused too much on killers - hold a thought for the families, hard day for them."
The episode, titled "10 Years Later: The Truth about Columbine," would have chronicled the then-high school seniors Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris' appalling massacre spree on their school in Colorado on April 20, 1999. The horrific crime left 12 of their classmates and 1 teacher dead, and almost two dozens injured. The two were believed to have committed suicide after the massacre.
The queen of talk instead aired an episode about a mother who goes back to her children after a stint from prison.
She wrote on her Twitter: "I pulled the Columbine show today - After reviewing, thought it could focused too much on killers - hold a thought for the families, hard day for them."
The episode, titled "10 Years Later: The Truth about Columbine," would have chronicled the then-high school seniors Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris' appalling massacre spree on their school in Colorado on April 20, 1999. The horrific crime left 12 of their classmates and 1 teacher dead, and almost two dozens injured. The two were believed to have committed suicide after the massacre.
The queen of talk instead aired an episode about a mother who goes back to her children after a stint from prison.
- 4/21/2009
- icelebz.com
Oprah Winfrey pulled a special segment marking the tenth anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings from the scheduled Monday edition of her show. The talkshow host decided to cancel the portion of the programme titled '10 Years Later: The Truth About Columbine' for being "too focused" on the two shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 13 people during the April 20, 1999 attack in Colorado, E! (more)...
- 4/20/2009
- by By Chris Homer
- Digital Spy
If "Columbine" were just a shot-by-shot account of the mass murder at a Colorado high school, this book wouldn't be worth a minute of your time. Anyone who was alive in America on April 20, 1999 knows how Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 students and a teacher, wounded 23 others, and then put their rifles to their heads and killed themselves. We've all heard the story of the girl who --- seconds before she was shot --- looked the killers in the eye and told them she believed in God. We've heard about the "Trench Coat Mafia" and the violent video games. And we've heard that Harris and Klebold were social outcasts who, angered by incessant bullying, decided to get even by staging the biggest massacre ever at an American high school. Why "Columbine" is worth the...
- 3/31/2009
- by Jesse Kornbluth
- Huffington Post
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