Warner Brothers Video "See Spot Run" rated PG for family is 
seriously anti-Italian and offensive.

All, I thought I was sitting down on this past Friday night with 
my wife and two children, eight and nine, to watch a family movie 
but instead we were exposed to worst bigotry imaginable.   

For a full ninety minutes this "made-for-family hour" video depicted 
two bumbling Italian-American mobsters as central figures trying 
to "rub-out" a Spot, the dog hero of the film.

During this video:
* The two mobsters talk in incomplete sentences and in stupid 
nonsensical tones,
* They eat Italian food and are overweight,
* Both attack a defenseless dog but are thwarted by this dog,
* One is urinated on by a dog in the park,
* One Mobster loses both testicles to Spot.

My wife and I are well educated, both with CPAs, live in an affluent 
town with top schools and in an executive neighborhood.  I have 
earned dual Master Degrees at Wharton Graduate School of 
business and attended executive education at Harvard and MIT.   

This video did however provide an opportunity for my wife and I to 
discuss bigotry in the Time Warner's media towards Italian 
Americans with our children and neighbors, which made them 
angry with Time Warner.

As a proud Italian American, I applaud AIDA, NIAF, UNICO and others
organizations' efforts to fight anti-Italian imaging in the media.  We need
more actions like these.

I have provided you with the list of the "credits"...

See Spot Run Movie Credits

Warner Brothers Video, Village Roadshow Videos, 
NPV Entertainment,
Robert Simonds Production
Executive Producers Michael Alexander Miller
Produced by Robert Simonds, Tracey Trench, and Andrew Deane
Co-Producers John Peter Kousakis and Ira Shuman
Casting by Roger Mussenden
Edited by Cara Silverman
Production Designer Mark Freeborn
 

Bob Paladino
Vice President
Global Utility and Telecommunications Practice
Balanced Scorecard Collaborative
55 Old Bedford Road
Lincoln, MA 01773
Fax: 978-440-9214