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| anonymous@remailer.hastio.org 2006-08-28, 1:16 pm |
| woud someone please get some hi-def pics of this and post a URL where I can
d/l them?
Thanks.
Tokyo Subway to Display Naked Spears Ad
Aug 24, 6:32 PM (ET)
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo's subway authority will allow a station advertisement
featuring a nude and pregnant Britney Spears, officials said Thursday,
dropping an earlier plan to censor the photo.
HB Japan Inc., publisher of the Japanese edition of Harper's Bazaar, plans
to rent ad space at the posh Omotesando station next week to promote its
October issue with Spears posing naked on the cover.
The ad, in which Spears bares her belly but covers her breasts with her
hands, is the same one used in the August issue of the magazine's U.S.
edition. The 24-year-old pop star is pregnant with her second child.
Tokyo Metro Co.'s obscenity screening team had initially raised objections
to the nudity and asked HB Japan to modify the photograph during
negotiations last month.
The publisher reluctantly agreed to blacken out the image from the waist
down - covering most of the singer's belly and thighs - but had planned to
write in the black space: "in this place we are not allowed to exercise the
same level of freedom of expression as the original Harper's Bazaar."
But on Thursday, Tokyo Metro said it would allow full presentation of the
photo as an exception to its obscenity rule, saying it understood the
publisher's intention was to portray a happy mother - not to be sexually
explicit.
The magazine's deputy chief editor, Kayoko Higashino, welcomed the move.
"I'm glad the subway officials understood the meaning of the photo," she
said.
Before the reversal, Higashino had called the restriction "ridiculous,"
saying Spears would look "like a chubby woman" and not someone who is
pregnant.
In principle, nudity is not accepted in ads in subway cars and stations,
said Tokyo Metro spokesman Tatsuya Edakubo.
"Our earlier request to cover the photo from the waist down was because of
nudity, not because we had anything against pregnant women," he said,
adding that officials later decided that censoring the photo would be
inappropriate.
The Omotesando display will include 50 posters for the fashion magazine,
five of them of Spears.
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| George Orwell 2006-08-28, 1:16 pm |
| In article <AHH9B4UT38957.6124652778@anonymous.poster>
anonymous@remailer.hastio.org wrote:
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> woud someone please get some hi-def pics of this and post a URL where I can
> d/l them?
Why?
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| George Orwell 2006-08-28, 7:13 pm |
| > Tokyo's subway authority will allow a station advertisement
> featuring a nude and pregnant Britney Spears,
The last pic i saw of BS, she looked like a fat trailer-trash
cow on a beach somewhere. Fat XXX, fat thighs, and saggy tits.
Those crazy Japanese!
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