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| Fox pulls ‘Family Guy’ episode following Boston bombings Posted: 16 Apr 2013 11:40 PM PDT
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane slammed the mash-up as "abhorrent". It appeared a day after two bombs ripped through the crowd at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 176. A Fox spokeswoman said the network had pulled the "Turban Cowboy" episode of the satirical series "Family Guy" from Fox.com and Hulu.com and from being rebroadcast, and that network officials were working with YouTube to take down the edited clips. It was not known who posted them. The edited video showed two separate clips fused together from the "Turban Cowboy" episode, which aired in March, in which lead character Peter Griffin drunkenly drives over runners in order to win the Boston Marathon. Later in the episode, in an unconnected storyline, Peter unknowingly becomes friends with an extremist who gives him a cellphone, which Peter calls and explosions are heard. In the video that went viral, the two scenes were put together to make it appear that the explosions happened at the Boston race. "The edited 'Family Guy' clip currently circulating is abhorrent. The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims," MacFarlane, who voices characters on the show including Peter, wrote on Twitter. Television networks and movie studios frequently review material that might be considered sensitive or offensive after national tragedies such as the school shootings in Newton, Connecticut, in December, and Superstorm Sandy in October 2012. Fox is a unit of News Corp. — Reuters |
| Aerosmith’s Tyler and Perry honoured for songwriting Posted: 16 Apr 2013 06:06 PM PDT
The duo, dubbed the Toxic Twins in their drug-fuelled early years, co-wrote many of the bands' biggest hits, such as "Walk This Way" and "Back in the Saddle", which catapulted Aerosmith to fame in the mid-1970s. After winning multiple Grammys and other accolades, Tyler and Perry will be honoured today with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers founders award for songwriting. They will be also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 13. Tyler and Perry will miss the ASCAP ceremony because they will be on the Australian leg of the band's "Global Warming" world tour in support of their first album of new material since 2001. The duo told Reuters ahead of the ceremony today that they drew much of their inspiration from each other, although Perry admitted the process might be a bit tamer than in the 1970s and 1980s when he and Tyler turned out some big hits while under the influence of drugs. "Taking drugs can be a shortcut to that place of creativity, but it will kill you in the end because it stops working," Perry said. "We had to figure out how to change the way we did things," said Perry, 62, who is working on an autobiography and a solo record project. Tyler, the son of a classical pianist, formed Aerosmith in Boston in 1970 after meeting Perry and bass player Tom Hamilton a year earlier. They signed a record deal in 1971 and what followed were four often tumultuous decades filled with thousands of concerts, band break-ups, well-chronicled bouts of drug abuse, glorious comebacks and sales of more than 150 million albums worldwide. "We all just get together in a room and inspire each other," said Tyler, 65, who at 17 wrote the signature Aerosmith hit, "Dream On", before meeting his future band members. "The secret is to overwrite. I like to write 19 songs if I only need 12," said Tyler, who quit last year after two seasons as a judge on "American Idol" to refocus on Aerosmith. Asked how his writing methods had changed over the years, Perry said he now loved composing songs with the help of his smartphone recording device. "Bottom line, I always have a studio with me. It's called an iPhone," said Perry. He said he also liked to have a guitar in every room of his home in case inspiration struck, often pausing the TV while watching late at night to lay down a new musical phrase or riff that came into his head. "I just feel like that there are too many rhythms that haven't been explored in my head. Even in the narrow confines of rock 'n' roll, there's an infinite amount of places to go," Perry said. Tyler said he had a lot of new material to work on, including some songs he began but did not complete for the band's November release "Music from Another Dimension". "I have 30 thumbnail sketches I haven't finished, including four without any lyrics," Tyler said. — Reuters |
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