Australian Police Raid Home Of Filmmaker Searching For Copy Of Banned Bruce LaBruce Film LA Zombie, Glee Bully Max Alder Hints More Surprises Ahead, Third Hate Crime In Under Three Months At University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 17 Year Old Kicker Reinstated On Mississippi High School Football Team After Threatening To Sue For Being Cut Because He Wore Pink Cleats

Richard Wolstencroft, the head of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, defended his decision to screen the banned Canadian director Bruce LaBruce’s LA Zombie, after his Melbourne home was raided by police Thursday, Wolstencroft telling the AFP that “Police searched for a copy of the film, but we destroyed ours after the Melbourne Underground Film Festival screening in September. We thought that police might come for that screening. But they didn’t. We don’t understand why they came after all this time.” LA Zombie was pulled from the Melbourne International Film Festival in July after Australian censors banned the film for objectionable content. Wolstencroft held a “public disobedience” screening in September, saying that the hour-long, wordless film was an important treatise on schizophrenia. “We thought the interdiction was ridiculous and decided to hold a public disobedience screening,” he said. “Bruce LaBruce has been a guest at our festival in the past. This is one of his most powerful movies which talks about schizophrenia. This shows the problem with freedom of speech in Australia. There are laws which date back to 1954.”

Max Alder, who plays Dave Karofsky, Glee’s football player tells Zap2it.com he is as surprised as everyone else that his character kissed Chris Colfer’s Kurt Hummel, saying “Before this was written, I thought there’s got to be a reason why he’s so angry, why he’s such a bully, why he’s going out of his way to make other people’s lives a living hell. So I toyed with it. When this developed, it was kind of cool. I just got the script delivered and was reading it. I thought, ‘This is getting serious. He’s not backing off. He’s going to punch him.’ And then I turn the page and it says, “Karofsky kisses Kurt.’ I was like, ‘What?’ I jumped off the couch. I was just as shocked as anybody else.” Could the kiss lead to even more surprising romantic pairing of the two characters – a possible “Kurtofsky’? Max won’t say, but he does reveal that in an episode to air November 23rd titled “Furt” things get a tad complicated, his mother introduced into the series. Max does say he is “just glad to represent such a large group of people. I’ve gotten so many messages from people all around the world these last couple of days thanking me because they either are Karofsky, they were Karofsky or they know a Karofsky.”

Inexplicably, another hate crime - the third in less than three months - has occurred on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, WUWM reporting that officials say the cars belonging to three African-American students were vandalised earlier this week, “KKK” spray painted on the hoods and roofs of the vehicles, the tires slashed.

Coy Sheppard, the kicker for the Mendenhall High School football team, in Mississippi, was kicked off the team for wearing pink cleats, but Thursday his attorney said that the senior is back on the roster and will play Friday in a playoff game against Purvis, according to 16 WAPT News. According to earlier reports, Coy filed suit last week claiming that Mendenhall High School football coach Chris Peterson “dressed down” the 17year old during an October 8th game for wearing the pink cleats. The following week, when Coy came to practice, Peterson cut him. JoAnne Sheppard, his mother, said that the cleats were a gift from his 82 year old great-grandmother, and that he wore them to honour her and his step-grandmother, both breast cancer survivors. Sheppard’s attorney, Oliver Diaz, said that the player’s family agreed to drop the suit against the coach, principal, and the school system under the condition that Coy returns to the team with the same standing as he had when he left.