Tag: Media

‘Snakes on a Plane’: A Brief Hisssstory

As Jim wrote last week, few travel-themed films capture the spirit of travel as we see it here at World Hum. “Snakes on a Plane” likely will not be one of those movies. But if you haven’t heard about it yet, prepare yourself. You probably will not be able to avoid it for the next few months. “Snakes,” which stars Samuel L. Jackson as an FBI agent dealing with, um, snakes on a plane, has already become one of the oddest entertainment stories of the year, spawning, among other things, Web sites, song-writing contests, groan-inducing headlines (see above), dialogue suggestions (“Ever play Roulette? Always bet on Black Mamba”), an NPR segment and a page translating the title into various languages, including Esperanto (“Serpentoj en Aeroplano”). All this, and the movie doesn’t even open until Aug. 18.

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Eva Airways Harnesses the Power of Hello Kitty

Oh, those toys do get around. While Barbie’s man Ken was off backpacking through Tibet, Hello Kitty was flying around Asia. Taiwanese airline Eva Airways recently painted an Airbus A330-200 with images of Hello Kitty and dressed up its flight attendants in Hello Kitty-themed outfits. It turns out the ever-popular cartoon cat sure can sell airline tickets. Since Hello Kitty made the scene, bookings are up 13 percent, the New York Times reports.


World Tourism Organization Warns of Avian Flu “Scaremongering”

Watching CNN’s coverage of the spread of avian flu is enough to make you want to crawl under the sheets and hide. Now, the World Tourism Organization is warning media and government officials to “act responsibly” in reporting on the avian flu, noting that “unnecessary scaremongering can cause a sharp drop in tourism that squeezes the economies, especially those of developing nations and the incomes of millions of workers in this industry.”

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