Darren Aronofsky flipping off Mickey Rourke
After receiving 18 complaints from viewers, the FCC is investigating NBC's telecast of the Golden Globes for possible violations of indecency rules . . . because why wouldn't you waste taxpayer dollars investigating complaints by 18 of the 14.6 million people that watched the show? We can't just forget about that .000001 percent of viewers. The networks must adapt their programming to them. It's what our Founding Fathers fought for. From the Los Angeles Times:
Toward the end of the program, director Darren Aronofsky was caught on camera jokingly making an obscene gesture -- "flipping the bird," as it's commonly called -- at actor Mickey Rourke, who was onstage accepting an acting award for Aronofsky's film "The Wrestler." Rourke and other attendees also salted their speeches with occasional off-color language, some of which was bleeped by NBC censors.If you're one of the 17* people that called the FCC to complain about a middle finger, do us all a favor and please kill yourself now. Or at least rip out your reproductive organs and set them on fire.
Now the FCC, which regulates decency issues on the broadcast networks, has stepped into the fray. "We received 18 complaints about the Golden Globes telecast," FCC spokeswoman Edie Herman wrote in an e-mail to The Times, "and the commission is reviewing the matter." (Source)
*The 18th was me. I called to complain about Mickey Rourke's face. That thing is just plain offensive.
