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Show The Salt Lake AAG Professor: V-Chip Will Take ing, belly-punching humor stirs up anti-violence advocates, a com. Showings of the Stooges’ violence Stooges, limit potential audiences programs aviolencelabel, Morlan tory of film and the history of Americanculture weshouldn't be losing,” said The fears of the harmful ef- the University of Dayton fects the Three Stooges have on kids are vastly overrated,” Mor- professor said The Stooges made 190 shorts between 1934 and 1958. i yhem of the as well as some chil dren's cartoons, might earn the We're losing a part of thehis lan said, adding that children can distinguish between fantasy and reality Morlan Stooges’ slapping, said Larry, Moe, Curly, Shemp and Curly Joe produced someof the best slapstick comedyin cine ma's golden age and probably Stooges comedy,'’ were the best sight-gag comedians in the business. Morlan presented a paper, Much Ado About Nothing: Vio- But where he sees humor Washington-basedCenter for Me dia Education, a group that advo- Nobody ever got killed in a he said. “No- bodyever sawblood lence in the Three Stooges Come- cates improvementsin children’s dies, last week during a national conference in Las Vegas spon- lence. broadcast programming, sees vio- Inthe deepest recesses of a Senate office building hair dy n't meant for young view ers, said Jeff Chester, executive director of the center. Parents want the tools to con: trol what their children watch, Chester said. He addedthat thev chip also will motivate networks to improve programming, since advertisers might hesitate to eryone smiling, which is saying something in this environment But all that ended last week, when a young. parttime staffer from the office of Sen. Mitch McConnell. R-Ky., walked by Harris’ register. So offended was follow. A confidential memois written. Information is leaked to the media. Damage control begins. And in thethick of it all stands the staff of Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va First, meet Bernice Harris. For more than 30 back to his he by Harris’ salutation that he hustled ‘confidenoffice and dashed off a memo stamped detailing tial” and headlined “Sexual Harassment how uncomfortable he was being called “baby. anHarris’ supervisor decidedto transfer her to precious” or, even, “sweetheart And for more than 30 years, each person passing retireShequit just three weeks shy of her eligible pension ment date, therefore denying herself a full letTwenty-two members of Robb’s staff signeda ter of support. A leak to the media was orchestrated the Roll Call, a newspaper dedicated to covering years, Bernice Harris has greeted each person moving by her coffee shop cash register as “baby,” or by Harris’ cash register has accepted her terms of endearment with a smile. For some, it was anuplift ing part of their morning routine People don’t saythey're goingto get coffee. They say they're going to see Bernice,” said Karen Gravois, Robb’s spokeswoman. “She always keeps ev- other cafeteria, but Harris would havenoneof that Hill, broke the story last Monday. The Wall Street Journal followed up Tuesday Unlike so many other Washington “scandals,” this episode ends happily. Harris is back on the job. sponsor shows somefamilies would block out A lot of the stuff on kids’ TV today wouldnot filter through a v-chip,”’ hesaid Morlan acknowledged that some Stooges episodes go too far. In one, Moe is boosting Curly upa telephone poleandgets poked in the nd ear with the climbing spike Curly's shoe But they are few andfar be- tween. Morlan said And it didn’t hurt Moe. He bouncedright back. Champion Canine Apparently Has Excellent Credit THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONROE, N.C. — Think man’s best friend deserves somecredit? So does General Electric NEWS S thereis an encounter. Charges of sexual harassment pulling and other physical come to block individual shows or cate- “y-chip” could further KNIGHT-RIDDER WASHINGTON — Oh, baby, it could only happen DON MORLAN ty of Di ‘ The 1996 »n Capitol Hill Stooges comedy.”’ recognize shows that are tronically labeled for sexual content, Paren! remote control device film shorts already are relegated mostly to late-night programming slots, Don Morlan said. The ad: vent of television's proposedanti March 31, ~ ‘Baby’ Remark Leads to Harassment Uproar ““Thefears of the American Culture The Tele signed into quires new television equipped with the chip munications professor says. NATION Sur harmful effects the Three Stooges have on kids are vastly overrated. 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