{"id":195739,"date":"2008-06-17T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/people-who-need-to-get-a-life-or-at-least-a-sense-of-humor\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:29:00","slug":"people-who-need-to-get-a-life-or-at-least-a-sense-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/people-who-need-to-get-a-life-or-at-least-a-sense-of-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"People Who Need to Get a Life, Or At Least a Sense of Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/17\/healthscience\/16smoke.php\">American Medical Association<\/a> (AMA):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Last week, the advocacy arm of the powerful physicians&#8217; group unleashed a tsk-tsk campaign against &#8220;The Incredible Hulk,&#8221; a Marvel film that opened on Friday and is distributed by Universal Pictures. The complaint was of &#8220;gratuitous depictions of smoking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the movie, which drew a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, General Thunderbolt Ross, a bad guy played by William Hurt, is rarely seen without a smoke-spewing cigar. (Presumably, the physicians&#8217; association worries that children who identify with the authoritarian general \u0097 who wants to annihilate the Hulk, played by Edward Norton \u0097 may be tempted to pick up the habit.)<\/p>\n<p>Dianne Fenyk, president of the advocacy group, AMA Alliance, is particularly infuriated because General Ross did not smoke in &#8220;Hulk,&#8221; the 2003 film directed by Ang Lee, though he always smoked in the comic books. &#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dianne Fenyk is arguably the 2nd most <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">over<\/span>employed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmedia.com\/comics\/dilbert\/dnrc\/\">induhvidual<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Medical Association (AMA): Last week, the advocacy arm of the powerful physicians&#8217; group unleashed a tsk-tsk campaign against &#8220;The Incredible Hulk,&#8221; a Marvel film that opened on Friday and is distributed by Universal Pictures. The complaint was of &#8220;gratuitous depictions of smoking.&#8221; In the movie, which drew a PG-13 rating from the Motion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1065,1064,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-entertainment","category-media","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}