MEDIA & SOCIETY

Critics say money means more than morality to the Walt Disney Co. The controversy swirls around Miramax Films, a New York distributor Disney bought two years ago. Miramax was set to release the controversial movie Priest nationwide on Good Friday, but Disney, reacting to complaints by Catholics, ordered a delay until April 19. However, the film already is showing in some major markets. It is about five fictional priests, two of whom are sexually active -- a homosexual and a heterosexual. ..."The most lurid, disgusting, diabolical film I have ever seen" is the way Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, described Priest. She is spearheading a boycott of Disney movies, videos, and theme parks. Some 40 organizations already have joined the boycott.

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Volume 21, No. 3, March, 1997

News of Interest

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Disney music more than kiddie songs

Hollywood Records has bagged a stable of hard driving rock bands. Acts which are signed to the Disney-owned label include:

Danzig - an occultic "death rock" group. The Suicide Machines - "brash new sonic vehicle," "ska-punk" * Flipp - "irreverent rock'n roll burlesque," "demented glam/thrash/pop cocktail." * van gogh's daughter - songs are based on "drinking, anger, our heads and relationships." * Fastball - "specialize[s] in terse, edgy bursts of power punk/pop blending equal parts sweetness and savagery." * Queen - the classic rock band whose career spanned 1971-1991. Hollywood Records also distributes the soundtrack from the movie The Crow: City of Angels. The album includes a song from White Zombie whose earlier works include Soul Crusher, Make Them Die Slowly and La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1.

* Description from Hollywood Records World Wide Web site