It's not such a small world after all: The 'Why-even-bother?' edition

The phrase “like selling ice cubes to Eskimos” exists for a reason.

Today, a quick round-up of media and entertainment distribution efforts that have substantially misjudged their target audiences.

Golden Globe or not, it turns out, Israelis aren’t eager to see a movie about suicide bombers.

Indonesia, the Far East’s largest Muslim county, shockingly enough, isn’t eager to embrace Playboy.

Now if we could just get Playboy to aim for Israel, we’d have something to talk about: I know a lot of mensches who’ve been

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