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From Apryl Duncan, for About.com

Mickey Rooney Bummed Over the Super Bowl

Monday January 10, 2005
FOX says no way to an ad featuring Mickey Rooney's wardrobe malfunction, revealing the 84-year-old's bare bottom. The commercial for Airborne, a natural cold remedy, shows Rooney in a sauna dressed in a towel. When a man behind him coughs, Rooney jumps up and leaves...without his towel.

Airborne execs say showing Rooney's bum isn't sexual and compare showing his bottom to showing a baby's bottom. Rooney says he's angry FOX is banning the 15 second ad with a $1.2 million Super Bowl price tag.

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