One week after it was reported that Sony Pictures had rejected Albert Brooks’s latest movie, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World [aaaaahhhhhh … Albert Brooks is funny!] … because of concern that the title would offend Muslims, Sony’s computer entertainment division was under fire from the Catholic Church in Italy for a series of print ads depicting a young man wearing a crown of thorns in honor of the tenth anniversary of Sony’s PlayStation. The ad was headlined “Ten Years of Passion.” Antonio Sciortino, editor of the magazine Famiglia Cristiana (Christian Family), wrote: “This time they’ve gone too far. … Read all.
Have you seen any other examples of questionable taste recently (not counting Harriet Miers)?
