[Peace-discuss] Warner pulls ads for movie

[John Fettig]

Apparently flashing a peace sign is a political statement...what a
wonderful world we live in!

John


Warner doesn't want to get political
Pulls original ads with star flashing peace sign
Tuesday, April 01, 2003


LOS ANGELES (AP) -- What a Girl Wants is to avoid making a political
statement.

Print advertisements for the teen comedy originally featured a
photograph of star Amanda Bynes wearing a tank top with an American flag
on it and flashing the peace sign with her fingers as she stands between
two British royal guards.

But with the war in Iraq sparking anti-war protests in the United States
and abroad, Warner Bros. quickly changed the ad. The studio said Monday
it feared the peace sign would be viewed as a political message.

New versions of the image feature Bynes with her right hand at her side,
although many of the original posters already had been placed on
billboards and buses before the change was made.

In the film, Bynes plays an American girl who travels to London to find
the father she never knew, who's a British politician. What a Girl Wants
opens Friday.


-- 
John Fettig <jfettig at uiuc.edu>