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Oh Mickey, You’re So Fine
08 Jan
Fox rejects commercial featuring Mickey Rooney’s bare ass:
The network rejected a cold remedy commercial that includes a brief shot of the 84-year-old actor’s behind, said Fox Sports spokesman Lou D’Ermilio.
“Our standards department reviewed the ad, and it was deemed inappropriate for broadcast television,” he said.
Wait, I’m confused: a Rupert Murdoch-owned network has a “standards department?”
I’m not sure what’s more amusing: the idea that the network responsible for “Who’s Your Daddy?” could deem anything inappropriate for broadcast television, or the fact that I thought Mickey Rooney was the cranky old guy on “60 Minutes…”
Apparently, the original script for the commercial called for Rooney to whip off his towel and jump into Terrell Owens’ arms, but it was scrapped when T.O. broke his leg…
