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Fox goes on the offensive with ‘Banzai’

http://www.dallasnews.com/entertain…bark.d535f.html

07/13/2003

By ED BARK / The Dallas Morning News

Fox calls it “wildly inventive.” Others see it as stupendously stereotypical.

Whatever your reaction, Banzai assuredly won’t go quietly into the night. A cult favorite in Britain, it arrives on these shores Sunday with all of its hot spots intact. They include loud, crude Asian dialect (“You brave little chicken! We never forget you!”); a competition between a one-legged soccer kicker and a one-armed goalie; two seniors playing “Old Lady Wheelchair Chicken Challenge” and a chicken named Larry that’s used as a guinea pig in a helium balloon stunt.

“I think we’re trying to create the type of comedy that attracts the young Fox demographic,” says Scott Grogin, Fox’s vice president of corporate communications. “We didn’t get as far as we are without taking risks.”
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If we were incarcerated for our safety, why were we inside the barbed wire fences, and why were the gun towers facing us?

- Rep. Mike Honda
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Please sign the petition to remove Howard Coble at removecoble.yellowworld.org.

Here’s an odd way of resurfacing:

Hardboiled.org: “When it comes to the bottom line, corporations want to lose as little money as possible, as best said in a post on yellowworld.org, ‘They’ll politely piss off anyone if they can get away with it.’ “

In Amnesty International’s 1999 Update on Police Brutality, a high rate of negligent shootings by Ventura police reported. Most interesting, it was found that Ventura County experiences a greater rate shootings of suicidal individuals by police officers than any other county in California. As a result, Ventura County told Amnesty International that it would implement the “Memphis Plan”, whereby regular officers are selected and trained by mental health professionals to form 24 hour crisis response teams.
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