The distributor of rapper 50 Cent’s new film said it would remove posters advertising the film after complaints they glorify gun violence. Posters for ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’ showed 50 Cent holding a gun in his left hand and a microphone the other. Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich wrote to Paramount Pictures, urging them to take down the posters. The company said it had taken down one poster near a Los Angeles nursery school, and planned to remove more.
An Ozzy Osbourne fan dies by suicide Nineteen-year-old John McCollum is found shot to death on his bed in Indio, California. Although it was quickly determined that the fatal wound was self-inflicted, McCollum’s parents believed that singer Ozzy Osbourne was actually responsible because their son had been listening to Osbourne’s album, Blizzard of Oz, which contains the song, “Suicide Solution,” when he killed himself.
