Sunday, Jul. 31, 2005

Protesting Punch Lines

By Rebecca Winters

In Wedding Crashers, OWEN WILSON and VINCE VAUGHN tote fake Purple Hearts to score lusty bridesmaids, irking U.S. veterans who support a new congressional bill to ban such behavior. The vets aren't the only ones taking summer comedies very, very seriously.

Food-allergy sufferers call JANE FONDA'S feeding nuts to an allergic Jennifer Lopez in Monster-in-Law "vindictive." Is Hollywood encouraging murder by trail mix?

Citing "limited audience appeal," AMC theaters dropped The Aristocrats, a documentary on a dirty joke told by the likes of Full House paterfamilias BOB SAGET.

Ben Jones, Cooter on TV's Dukes of Hazzard, says the JOHNNY KNOXVILLE remake "mocks the good clean values of our series." Like short shorts and shotguns?