# Songs, books, movies, etc., indelibly linked to scandal having little/nothing to do with the artist **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-books-movies-etc-indelibly-linked-to-scandal-having-little-nothing-to-do-with-the-artist/506088 "2009-08-11T18:22:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-books-movies-etc-indelibly-linked-to-scandal-having-little-nothing-to-do-with-the-artist/506088/41 "2009-08-17T09:24:30Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > **Black Sunday**. A segment of the book (omitted from the movie) is one that lots of terrorists find to be, um, instructional. A copy of the book used to be frequently found among the possessions of terrorist suspects. \ …which, if true, means death for us all. \ Seriously, though, could you expound on this? Wikipedia was of no help. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-books-movies-etc-indelibly-linked-to-scandal-having-little-nothing-to-do-with-the-artist/506088/42 "2009-08-17T14:43:51Z")
The band Anthrax in 2001 issued a press release defending the use of their name and saying they meant no offense to victims of the Anthrax mailings. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-books-movies-etc-indelibly-linked-to-scandal-having-little-nothing-to-do-with-the-artist/506088/43 "2009-08-17T15:01:52Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > The band Anthrax in 2001 issued a press release defending the use of their name and saying they meant no offense to victims of the Anthrax mailings. Similarly, the band Jimmy Eat World had released their album [Bleed American](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_American) a few months before Sept. 11, 2001, and copies after that point had the title removed, making it their “second” self-titled album. (More recent copies had the title restored, it seems.) Also, the group The Coup had an album, [Party Music](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Music), scheduled to release in September 2001. The cover art had a group member appear to be “blowing up” the Twin Towers. :eek: (It was actually a piece of musical equipment being held, not some kind of detonator.) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-books-movies-etc-indelibly-linked-to-scandal-having-little-nothing-to-do-with-the-artist/506088/44 "2009-08-17T15:06:28Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > **Threepenny Opera**. It’s an article of faith among actors (though not historians) that Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr dueled because they were both involved with the actress playing Polly Peachum. If you’re serious, then I assume you mean **The Beggar’s Opera**. **The Threepenny Opera** wasn’t written until over a century after the duel. Maybe that’s why historians don’t believe the story. ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-books-movies-etc-indelibly-linked-to-scandal-having-little-nothing-to-do-with-the-artist/506088/45 "2009-08-17T15:19:44Z")
The UK [James Bulger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger) case - in which a small boy was abducted and killed by two older boys - is irrevocably linked to the movie Child’s Play. “Possible motivators of the boys’ actions were heatedly discussed, both in the courtroom as well as in public discourse and the media: video violence and domestic violence. Venables and Thompson had access to a collection of violent films, though no testimony that the boys had been watching them was presented at their trial. The media, however, printed a list of such films (including Child’s Play 3, in which a possessed doll kills children), which they alleged may have motivated the boys and which were subsequently banned and voluntarily removed by several video rental chains.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-books-movies-etc-indelibly-linked-to-scandal-having-little-nothing-to-do-with-the-artist/506088.md?page=2)