Word: censorable
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...Atlanta, in the city's first test of movie censorship since the Supreme Court's ruling against New York and Ohio censors last year, Loew's Inc. asked an injunction against any future ban on Blackboard Jungle (currently ranking sixth in box office receipts-see above). Loew's also asked the court to rule that Atlanta Censor Mrs. Christine Smith Gilliam acted improperly in banning the film on grounds that it was "immoral, obscene, licentious and will adversely affect the peace, health, morals and good order of the city...
...Britain's film censor, Arthur T. L. Watkins, delivered an ultimatum to U.S. producers (whose movies last year grossed $109,992,000 in Britain): "Anyone who prolongs scenes of violence is only doing so to titillate a small unhealthy section of the audience." More broadminded about sex than U.S. censors, Watkins long ago abandoned the taboo on picturing husbands and wives in bed together by commenting: "Where else would you expect them to sleep nights...
...under the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. For the new job, he named R. Karl Honaman (on leave from Bell Telephone), who had gone to Washington six months ago to boss the Commerce Department's new Office of Strategic Information. There, he was primarily a censor, had set up a system for classifying technical information that reporters had once had access to. Thus, for the top information job at Defense, reporters were dismayed that Wilson had picked a man whose chief experience had been in withholding information rather than in giving...
...Gustavo Rojo, as Lieut. Cable, was politely proper in his love scene with Liat (Maria Rey). And the lonely sailors were so surprisingly paired off with girls that the stage was cluttered with shapely dancers not quite sure of what they were there for. They were there because the censor ruled that a disproportionate number of men to women on stage smacked of homosexualism...
...Hugh M. Flick, chief New York State movie censor, declared that for a movie censor, sex is fairly easy to handle (he often cuts it out), but brutality is much harder to manage: "punishment [of a brutal villain] doesn't disconnect your unconscious identification with a star you know and like...