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Posted Jan. 16, 2008,
Banksy Does Rambo?
By Ann Magnuson
After seeing these Banksy-style posters for Rambo all over hell and creation I wondered, what up? Well, Monday's L.A.Times revealed that, once again, the clever Mr. Tim Palen, marketing whiz at Lion's Gate, is responsible for the campaign. The image (done by Jason Lindeman from Ignition Print) was initially meant for a T-shirt, but Stallone was so taken with the image that the faux-Banksy ended up splattered all over town.
Described by Palen as "Che Guevara meets Jesus," the poster, according to the Times article, "has spawned various street-art retorts, including a competing Rimbaud poster at a public transit stop in San Francisco."
Posted Oct. 26, 2007,
Hollwood Hellhouse Contest
By Ann Magnuson
We got an early start on Halloween last week by touring the Hollywood Hellhouse. Located in an abandoned Acapulco restaurant in West Hollywood, this haunted house is a faithful recreation of the Christian hellhouses that have proliferated around the country in recent years. (Jerry Falwell is thought to have created the first one in the 1970s.) This Hollywood version was dreamt up by a bunch of damned-for-all-time Hollywood types (led, I believe, by Mr. Satan himself, Bill Mahr) and emphasizes the secular horrors outlined in the original the Christian Hell House Outreach™ kits. (Homosexuality, abortion, adultery, drinking, drugs -- you know, the usual suspects.) According to the Hollywood Hellhouse website, these scripts include "a 263 page manual which covers everything from casting to publicity to instructions on how to make hamburger meat look like a fetus and where to store vats of blood."