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Parents want 'Underpants' removed

Tattle looks at the library association’s “challenged” books, Ke$ha’s challenged fashion sense,and fashion and anti-Semitism.

The ever-controversial Captain Underpants.
The ever-controversial Captain Underpants.Read moreImage via Scholastic

TATTLE loves it when the American Library Association releases its list of "challenged" books because it gives a little window into the nation's "crazy."

Between the American Family Association inundating the FCC every time someone on TV makes a racy joke and a few hundred nervous nellies complaining to the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (464 vs. last year's 326), whenever a book expresses a raunchy idea, we wonder how long it will be before every child is homeschooled in an insulated little plastic bubble in their fallout shelter.

As Boston again showed us Monday, there are serious problems in the world, people.

Captain Underpants isn't one of them.

Yes, the most challenged book of 2012 was the Captain Underpants series for children by Dav Pilkey. It was followed by The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, an award-winning young-adult novel by Sherman Alexie; Thirteen Reasons Why, one of the most important young-adult novels of the last decade, by Jay Asher; Fifty Shades of Grey, the best-selling housewife porn by E.L. James; And Tango Makes Three, the children's book by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson; The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini;Looking for Alaska by John Green; the Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz; The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls; and Beloved by Toni Morrison.

Some of those books were in Tattle's mom's book club.

* As for TV shows that must be high on any censorship group's list, "Californication" has to be near the top.

Although the show's sixth season just ended, Showtime announced Monday that Mary Lynn Rajskub ("24") and longtime Tattle fave Heather Graham have already signed on for roles in Season 7, which will air in 2014.

Say 'No' to the dress

Israel's national broadcast authority has banned Moran Mazor, the country's contestant in the upcoming Eurovision song contest, from wearing a dress made by John Galliano, citing an anti-Semitic rant by the celebrity designer two years ago.

Galliano, however, says he never offered to make the dress.

Galliano's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, said Monday that claims by Mazor that Galliano had agreed to design her dress were false, and that there had not been any "official correspondence" between the singer's stylist and Galliano.

Galliano has apologized for his drunken outburst and has even convinced Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of his sincerity.

"I believe that if we want people to change their minds and hearts, you've got to accept when they say they are sorry," Foxman said. "I see a human being who wants to repair." He said the Israeli refusal to accept his apologies appeared "arrogant."

Galliano declined an interview request. But Rosenberg said he appreciated Foxman's support.

"Mr. Galliano has been working diligently these last two years on his sobriety, making amends and seeking forgiveness from the Jewish community and the people he offended," she said.

Mazor did not respond to an emailed request for comment. Her stylist, Gili Algabi, said he was still in touch with assistants to Galliano about designing the dress. He added he had never been in direct contact with Galliano.

TATTBITS

* Not only did the Jackie Robinson biopic "42" win the weekend box office (the second straight week that the Daily News Friday cover story came out on top) it also was rated A+ by moviegoers on CinemaScore.

According to the Wrap, only 29 movies have received an A+ since the service began in 1999.

Then again, other A+ films were "The Avengers," "Soul Surfer" and "Tangled."

Michael Douglas' son, Cameron Douglas, will have to finish serving his nearly 10-year prison sentence after an appeals court Monday sided with a judge who punished him severely after he was caught with drugs in prison.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that nearly doubling Cameron's original five-year prison to 9 1/2 years was reasonable.

The sentence is "extraordinary" since most inmates with drug infractions are punished within prison, but judges are not required "to turn a blind eye to behavior that can reasonably be understood as demonstrating that a particular defendant has shown himself to be a poor candidate for treatment or leniency," Judge Gerald Lynch wrote.

Douglas, 34, is scheduled for release in early 2018.

In a message aimed at prodding Congress toward reform, the court said: "It may well be that the nation would be better served by a medical approach to treating and preventing addiction than by a criminal-justice-based 'war on drugs.' "

* There's a reason why Ke$ha is frequently among the worst dressed on "Fashion Police."

She tries.

Ke$ha said her mother is most proud of her when she is criticized for her daring style choices.

She said her fashion philosophy includes having fun, making mistakes, taking risks. "Rock whatever you're comfortable in."

And when it comes to her fashion critics, Ke$ha had two words: "Suck it." That girl is classy.

- Daily News wire services

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