"We worked so hard trying to figure that scene out," she told GQ about a Cosby-themed scene for her show, "Inside Amy Schumer," which wound up featuring her as an attorney defending the comedian against those accusing him of sexual assault.
If you have to grip your remote in order to fast-forward adult-themed scenes in a Disney film, then there is clearly a problem.
Strengthening Filipchuck and Beaulieu's intellectual property theft case is the more circumstantial evidence in the "Hey Mama" video, in which Guetta and Minaj galavant in distinctly Burning Man-themed scenes, replete with dusty post-apocalyptic revelers, art cars, and a stage setup commonly used at Burner spin-off events like Desert Hearts.
It was the quintessential theme park scene: tourists chattering noisily, a chubby man digging through his fanny pack, boys using the railings as a swing set.
At his Inaugural, a year ago, Trump was grandiose and dark in his rhetoric, taking as his theme a scene of "American carnage" that he insisted was sweeping the land.
For a mule kick of cultural disjunction, try tourist-drunk Times Square, radiant with both an enormous new Toys RR" Us store and the new World Theater (which doubles as the World Wrestling Federation's theme restaurant), scene of a death-metal concert last Wednesday by Deicide and Morbid Angel.
The result was an explosion of protests and not a few insults directed at Mr. Messier, who this summer moved his operating base to New York as part of his strategy of strengthening Vivendi Universal's place on the American movie, music, television and theme park scene.
The video itself features a strong sexual theme with scenes of S&M and bondage, as well as scenes in a church and several prestigious-looking buildings.
The director's Nazi theme – including scenes of people dying in gas chambers, being shot and raped, and of members of a family having their heads shaved ahead of their execution – had been feted as one of the highlights of celebrations for the bicentenary of Wagner's birth this month.
(Catherine Zuber designed the costumes.) Scott Pask's set includes many rolling cutouts to create the mood for the obligatory courtroom, jailhouse and theme park scenes.
