Word: censorable
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...tremendous excitement it generated in audiences was mostly Freudulent. The play packed them in on Broadway for more than 20 months, and was sold to Hollywood for $300,000. After that, the movie world wondered: Had M-G-M spent a bad buck? For almost a year the Hollywood censors and the studio bosses hassled over the weighty problems the film posed. Is the U.S. moviegoer old enough to be told that there is such a thing as homosexuality? Is it decent to suggest that there are worse things than adultery? The answer to both questions was a resounding...
...London, Britain's Lord Chamberlain Roger Lumley, Earl of Scarbrough, offi cial censor of public stage plays, slapped a ban on Playwright Miller's latest one-acter, A View from the Bridge. "The play has a theme of incestuous love," ex plained Miller ruefully. "That got by all right, but the censor objected to a scene" in which two men embrace one another." ¶ Wife Marilyn was getting mixed no tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable...
...Moscow coverage would be jeopardized if the Russians got the notion that Norton was breaking censorship. The Herald had already run the first installment. But after the Sun called the Miami paper, the series vanished, just as completely as if it had been bottled up by the Russian censor himself...
...fell between Pierrepoint and his readers. The government, which still supports the death penalty, felt that the memoirs made grisly grist for foes of capital punishment, who are now pushing their bill in the House of Lords. Under the Official Secrets Act, the Home Office demanded the right to censor the stories. When the paper defied the censorship in one installment, the government threatened to prosecute at the next violation...
...advice from the expert was followed, brought no complaints from viewers. Expert Helffrich, 44, is NBC's director of continuity acceptance, which means he is a censor with the accent on the positive. Aided by a coast-to-coast staff of 35, he passes on all radio and TV material that goes out over the network. But he has transformed the censor's formula ("You can't do this") into the editor's ("This...