Child sex abuser Gary
Glitter’s making money (again)
with Jim Carrey's new movie
“Yes man!”
December 12, 2008: Gary Glitter,
the convicted pedophile and child sex abuser, is back making
money again thanks to Jim Carrey’s new movie “Yes man." The
movie opens in the U.S. on December 19 and in the UK on
December 26. One of the TV commercials for the movie carries
the background jingle “Rock ‘n Roll – Part 2” by – you
guessed it – Gary Glitter. This has been brought to the
media's attention by child sexual abuse prevention watchdog
Child AbuseWatch (www.abusewatch.net)
The song was co-written by
Glitter and Mike Leander, the song was a big hit for Glitter
in the UK and the US. Glitter owns this song and benefits
financially every time it’s used. The NFL and NHL stopped
using the song at games in 2005/06 after Glitters arrest and
conviction on child sexual abuse charges.
Listen to the 'Yes Man" movie trailer
on YouTube
here:1
Glitter sings the original in 1972
here:
2
Glitter was
recently expelled from Vietnam after serving a jail sentence
for having sex with children. He is a previously convicted
pedophile in the United Kingdom. Read about him here in this
Times article: ‘Gary
Glitter - mad, bad or just dangerous to know?’3
Glitter is nearly constantly in the UK news such is
his reputation as a faded rock star and as a child sex
abuser.
Evin Daly, Child AbuseWatch’s
founder and director said “It’s incredible that once again
Gary Glitter’s - a world renown pedophile - music is being
used in a way that benefits him financially and so
inappropriately in a Christmas release family movie, 'Yes
Man.' Glitter’s reputation isn’t exactly a secret.”
AbuseWatch has written to the studio and has attempted to
contact Carrey personally. Child AbuseWatch.net was
responsible for leading the charge in halting Hewlett
Packard’s “Touch” commercial that used Glitters music in
November of this year.
Child AbuseWatch.net would
like to see the song use addressed and removed by Warner
Brothers, Heyday Films and Jim Carrey prior to the release.
They suggest an apology and a donation to Speak Up
For Kids, a child advocacy non profit that
represents the Guardian ad Litem program in Palm Beach.
Child
AbuseWatch.net
is a U.S. based Child Abuse Prevention organization (www.abusewatch.net)
which provides child abuse prevention resources to the
general public, 36,000 Guardian ad Litem/Court Appointed
Special Guardians nationwide, health-care professionals and
law enforcement. CAN also tracks absconded sex offenders and
provides information to Federal authorities. Privately
funded, 100% of all donations go directly to children in
need through Guardian ad Litem Programs.
www.abusewatch.net
Contact: info@abusewatch.net
References:
1. "Yes man" movie commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qYrcnNr1eY&feature=channel_page
2. Glitters sings the original on You
Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xd44PWZGzg
3. Gary Glitter - mad, bad or just
dangerous to know?’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article4597374.ece?Submitted=true
4. Child AbuseWatch
www.abusewatch.net
5.
Guardian
ad Litem
www.galpbc.org
