Monday's are always nice and busy news days. It's like the entire world takes a vacation for the weekend and pukes up stacks of news bits they've been saving up. Either that, or I just don't pay too much attention to news over the weekend.
Some people have gotten free Prozac in the mail as a product promotion. Somehow, the distributing company received pharmaceutical information about certain people in order to have the drug sent to their house, and now (as is what happens often in America) people are suing. Fun for all involved. Hope they're happy.
There's an interesting example of cold war paranoia being revealed here. Appears that Charlie Chaplin was denied knighthood for quite some time due to his communist sympathies. The fact that two of his wives were 16 may have had something to do with it also, but my money's on the communist theory. It's amazing how much of a stigma was associated with having an open mind politically back then. I guess there still is some evidence today, but how many great communist powers are left in the world besides China and Cuba?
A small girl thought she could be Harry Potter and injured herself. You know things like this have happened many times in the past. Before we were born even, but it takes a selfish society to blame movies for bad parenting. I'm not saying the woman is a bad mother... Oh wait, I am.
News in D.C. is that a bill is on the floor to make raves and rave paraphernalia illegal. I'm not sure how to take this. On one hand, people that dress in neon and suck on pacifiers are mindless twits. On the other hand, comparing a rave to a crack house is pretty severe. I don't remember the last time I saw a meth lab at a club, but apparently the government does.
Lastly, here's a good article on why graphic novels are so keen to be brought to film lately. Check it out for a brief explanation on why sequential storytelling is a unique and versatile art form.
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