The Wolf of Virginia: A Media Disaster [Planet Hollywood]

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This is a media-politics vignette symbolic of our media-immersed TrumpUSA and inspired by the film Newsies.

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People of know of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and Roanoke lore in Virginia but few people know of the once visit of the Provos-IRA to Virginia in the 1950s which led to a discovery of werewolves. This gang of IRA rogues decided to travel to America from Northern Ireland to create an underground support network in the New World. The 'Gang' was led by Sean Finn, Thomas O'Hara, and Shelbye Connor. Their account would be the subject of an eerie documentary produced in the new millennium by Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise.

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The 'Gang' wanted an underground sub-culture network in Virginia which would serve as an invaluable source of communication and rhetoric, hopefully encouraging the U.S. government to intercede on behalf of Irish-Catholics living in Belfast and struggling to coexist with British-Protestants and the UK. The Gang collected various comics about werewolves and compared these 'wolfen-tales' to the sociopolitical struggle in Ireland against the taxation and bias weight of the British Parliament. However, the Gang did not know there were real werewolves residing in Virginia at the time.

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The Gang met an avant-garde comics-artist named Ajay Satan (an Algerian-American) who was creating new age comics stories about an anti-hero American vigilante named Red Wolf who tackled the villainy of political corruption and urban crime syndicates in D.C. and elsewhere. The Gang wanted Ajay to pen a series of fables about IRA crusaders trying to recruit werewolves to help them in their mystical quest to end the blood-moon domination of Catholic-life in Belfast (Northern Ireland). Ajay thought the idea was rather eccentric and intriguing and had no idea the Gang was formally tied to the IRA in Belfast, so he went ahead and began creating Red Wolf fables about the Provos-IRA.

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Ajay's Red Wolf tales involved the anti-hero trying to offer political support for the Provos-IRA in Belfast by sending them cases of water-guns to distribute to Irish-Catholic kids to play with in the streets. Red Wolf would also send with his cases of water-guns child-like stick-figure color-pencil doodles of himself as a 'crusading diplomat' of Catholic missions. Meanwhile, Red Wolf would also ask his allied werewolves of Virginia to network with the werewolves of London and Belfast to aid the Provos-IRA as well as Sinn Fein. Ajay thought the idea was ingenious, and it inspired him to actually travel to Belfast and make a documentary on the perspective of Irish-Catholic schoolchildren on the 'troubles' between the IRA and the UK.

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Ajay returned to America and marketed his discoveries and documentary and comics-art about Red Wolf and Provos-IRA fables to the PBS kids' educational cartoon program Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. It was a big success, and messages about cultural conflicts between Protestants and Catholics were evaluated/discussed in programs geared towards anthropological lessons for American youngsters. While all this transpired, the 'Gang' in Virginia, still building support-networks for the IRA, ran in to real-life werewolves and managed to survive. When they returned to Belfast, no one believed them, but their Irish compatriots did share with them some nifty Carmen Sandiego marketing/media broadcasted on Belfast-TV.

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Ajay's good works caught the attention of modern celebrities Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise who decided to adapt the fables into a documentary about IRA-related cultural tensions between Protestants and Catholics in the UK and US. The documentary would of course include testimonies of the 'Gang' claiming they encountered real werewolves in Virginia while trying to establish support-networks for the Irish-Catholic cause in Belfast. The documentary would earn much praise and awards, and Ajay Satan was thrilled he was part of it all.

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Ajay decided to continue the wolfen-fables involving the IRA-mystique and troubled by creating a new series involving werewolves and goblins in Virginia and Belfast preying on human sensibilities regarding the 'complications' of religious peace and globalization. His comics writings were accompanied, once again, by nifty child-like doodles and slightly more developed pencil-drawings of goblin-sketches meant to remind Americans of the cultural links between Gaelic Samhain and pluralism-promoting Halloween festivities in the USA.

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Ajay created a fictional time-traveling archer named Robin who would try to kill these goblins and werewolves preying on religious sensibilities among the politically-challenged people of Virginia and Belfast. Ajay continued to ponder about the testimony of the 'Gang' claiming they encountered real werewolves while trying to establish support-networks for the Provos-IRA in Virginia in the 1950s. Ajay decided to have his fictional time-traveling archer Robin accidentally walking into a Hollywood movie studio and landing a role in a major movie about colonialism-era folklore in America.

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The notion that goblins and werewolves accompanied real-life sociopolitical 'troubles' in Virginia and Belfast was not entirely alien. Americans knew of the settlement-paranoia themed fable of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow and therefore welcomed Ajay Satan's perspective on eerie creatures confounding and complicating political realities in Virginia and Belfast. It was all thrilling, and when Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise released their provocative documentary, the Planet Hollywood movie-based restaurant franchise decided to mount a photo-portrait of their IRA-documentary in some of their branches.

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HANKS: Ajay Satan gave us a great cultural-template.
CRUISE: Comics-art reaches the masses now...
HANKS: Our documentary is 'honored' in Planet Hollywood.
CRUISE: If all of this becomes 'market-candy,' it'll be a tragedy!
HANKS: Yes, we don't want the frivolities of consumerism to undermine the politics.
CRUISE: Are you a fan of IRA-films such as The Devil's Own?
HANKS: I find them quite interesting...
CRUISE: When consumerism turns art into popcorn, it's a media disaster!
HANKS: Isn't that what the Planet Hollywood franchise was meant to avert?
CRUISE: Yes, it was meant to honor the concept of media-consciousness...
HANKS: Well, let's hope there aren't real werewolves in Virginia/Belfast.


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