Janet Jackson showing tit at the halftime show.

[JSngry]

I just got an e-mail from the Commisioner!

We deeply regret the appalling incident that occurred during halftime celebrations at the Super Bowl yesterday. For 40 years and more our league has been tantalizing our fans with partial views of women's breasts. We have been committed to showing cleavage and, failing that, the outline of women's breasts on our cheerleaders, in the commercials of our sponsors, the silhouettes of our network sideline reporters and the crowd shots by our network broadcast teams - to titillate and to fill downtime. We have hoped that our viewers would discuss women's breasts and imagine women's breasts, speculate on their authenticity, ponder nipple color and size, daydream of seizing those spongy masses and twisting them this way and then that way, of burying one's face in them like a spaniel at the dinner bowl. Above all, we have hoped that our viewers will associate women's breasts with the National Football League.

But we never meant to show you the whole thing. We sincerely regret that our half-century long tease overshot its mark yesterday. We urge our viewers to forgive us, and to continue to content themselves with veils and innuendo in our future seasons.

P. S. And no pussy. Ever. Quite.

Sincerely,

Paul Tagliabue NFL Commissioner

Wow, he really DOES care!

[7/4]

[JSngry]

Now you can have your tit and eat it too!

http://www.amateurgourmet.com/the_amateur_..._jackson_b.html

[7/4]

I'm on a diet, but I'll have a nibble.

[Brad]

I'm not. I want a whole mouthful:g

[7/4]

I'm not.  I want a whole mouthful:g

Ah, but I didn't mention grabbing those cupcakes with my hands!

[PHILLYQ]

Do the cupcakes come with a red lace wrapper?

[mikeweil]

Janet Jackson wears outfits that look like S&M gear, and I watched part of one of her concerts on HBO once where she did what amounted to a lap dance on one of the audience members. Given that, it's not a big surprise that she would do something like pop a boobie.

It may have been intentional - I've seen it for the first time today, and it looks like it, wardrobe and all - but it also looks like she lost her courage at the last second.

[BERIGAN]

Entertainment - Variety

LENA HORNE ZAPS JANET

Mon Feb 23, 7:00 PM ET

MICHAEL FLEMING and JOSEF ADALIAN

(Variety) In the latest ripple caused by Janet Jackson (news)'s Super Bowl exposure, the singer has abruptly withdrawn from an ABC biopic about Lena Horne (news) ---putting the project in limbo.

Storyline Entertainment partners Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have ankled as exec producers in solidarity with Jackson, who was due to play Horne.

A spokeswoman for Jackson said she was effectively dis-invited from the movie by Horne and her daughter Gail Lumet Buckley, who were incensed when Jackson flashed during the halftime show. Horne refused to return her contract for the pic until ABC guaranteed that Jackson was off the project, which is being produced by Storyline and Sony Pictures Television. ABC execs refused Horne's demand, but the issue has become moot with the reaction of Jackson, Zadan and Meron.

Alphabet insiders said the project is now up in the air; barring another superstar casting, however, it's unlikely to move forward.

"It's sad this had to happen. It was a perfect match," one ABC insider said.

The Super Bowl stunt has had far reaching implications. The FCC (news - web sites) is investigating, and broadcasters have in turn tightened the screws to eliminate the chance of another unscripted surprise that could shock and offend mass audiences.

Stormy weather was rumored to be brewing over the ABC biopic early last week, as word surfaced that Horne's displeasure hadn't abated. At the time, it was hoped that the singers would meet and that the duet would end harmoniously. But Horne refused to meet with Jackson.

Jackson looked at the movie as a prestigious way to jumpstart her acting career, which has included roles in 1970s sitcom "Good Times" and John Singleton (news)'s "Poetic Justice." She was recently photographed as Horne in a glamorous Vanity Fair layout.

Zadan and Meron left the project right after Jackson, and a spokeswoman for the producers said they would concentrate on finding another project to do with the singer.

It's not surprising they stuck by Jackson. While ABC already had optioned a Horne bio, it wasn't until Jackson approached the producers that the project became a film on the fast track.

Jackson signed to play the elegant singer who broke racial barriers, and she also planned to re-record some of Horne's classic songs.

"She is someone I've admired my whole life," Jackson said of Horne when the project was greenlit last fall.

Roy Campanella Jr. was set to direct Shirley Pierce's script based on "Lena," the autobiography the singer wrote with Richard Schickel.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ne_zaps_janet_1

[jazzbo]

Hopefully they can get a better actress to star as Lena.

Is the controversy now officially ended, and there's possibly time now for news about the huge deficit and other real problems?

[PHILLYQ]

Now that's some very positive fallout from the unleashed boobie episode. Janet Jackson playing Lena Horne would be enough of a travesty, but then she wanted to re-record her tunes?! That is a truly nauseating thought!

[BERIGAN]

Only one person could play Lena.....

[PHILLYQ]

If Halle Berry could lipsync as well as Angela Basset did in the Tina Turner biopic, it would be a great choice!

[A Lark Ascending]

Have a giggle here:

http://www.richardthompson-music.com/catch..._day.asp?id=242

Edited April 6, 2004 by Bev Stapleton