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A Crime Spree
For the Kiddies
published May 09
Here’s more bad news for parents of teenage boys: Grand Theft Auto is here to stay. In its first week, the latest version of the adult-themed video game racked up $500 million in sales, beating the phenomenally successful popular Halo3 by a country mile. For comparison, the top grossing film of all time, Titanic, pulled in about $600 million over ten years. Grand Theft’s story line, such as it is, concerns drug-trafficking, prostitution and murder, and although it’s mostly the bad guys who get rubbed out, if you get an urge to bludgeon a hooker or flatten some grandma as she hobbles across a pedestrian walkway, such homicidal acts of cruelty are well provisioned by the designers of “GTA,” as the game is called. Compared to a 15-year-old with his thumbs on PlayStation’s controller, Richard Widmark’s Tommy Udo character in Kiss of Death was a choir boy.
