Topless Restaurants & Chocolate Jesus
Taking the Hooters concept more or less its logical conclusion, Joe Francis, the individual responsible for Girls Gone Wild, has announced that he's moving into the topless restaurant business in late 2007. CNBC briefly commented on the impresario's new venture - and his legal problems - here.
If you thought topless restaurants had the potential to be controversial, that's nothing compared to the firestorm recently sparked by a chocolate Jesus sculpture. At issue was the My Sweet Lord display at Manhattan's Lab Gallery, which was to include a six-foot, anatomically correct sculpture of you know who.
The exhibition was set to get underway just four days before Good Friday, but had to be canceled because of the outcry, which included death threats (so much for turning the other cheek, tolerance, and all those other Jesus-like notions). The creative director of the gallery resigned, due to the cancellation. There's apparently no truth to the rumor that the show would go on with a six-foot, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of a bunny rabbit.
According to the Associated Press, artist Cosimo Cavallaro has worked in food before, including "repainting" a hotel room with melted mozzarella, spraying five tons of cheese on a Wyoming home, and decorating a four-poster bed with more than 300 pounds of processed ham (Spam?).
I'm still waiting for someone to open up a "Pecs" for us ladies.
Posted by:Tink | April 12, 2007 at 01:11 PM