Subject: Re: David Lynch news [twin peaks/Cannes film festival]
From: adamfox@super.ORG (adam fox)
Date: 1990-05-23, 05:56
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: adamfox@metropolis.UUCP (adam fox)

In article <3770@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> reiher@onyx.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Peter Reiher) writes:
 Let's have a rousing three cheers for that
> >consortium of the MPAA, censorious bluenoses, and timid newspapers, studios,
> >and theater owners who work so hard to protect us from ourselves.


Well, I don't blame the MPAA nearly as much as the people who insist on 
contracting movies for an R rating.  Either accept it as an X or don't 
submit it.  Unfortunatly, neither seems to help make a movie successful
which is all most production houses care about.  However, such things can
work to an advantage if the media gets involved (eg. I never saw one TV
ad for "The Last Temptation of Christ" but I knew everywhere it was playing
becuase the news cameras were there and made a big story out of it).  Yes, 
it is sad that our society needs such a system like the MPAA but it's the
lesser of two evils, the other being state and local regulations of movies
which in many cases would be much worse, especially with Jerry Fawell's ,  
Pat Robertson's et. al. who like to enforce their personal tastes on the
world.

-- Adam Fox
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adamfox@metropolis.super.org

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