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...company's second defense of Cop Killer is the classic one of free expression: "We stand for creative freedom. We believe that the worth of what an artist or journalist has to say does not depend on preapproval from a government official or a corporate censor...
...such user, an insurance claims adjuster whose sensitivity to his clients' suffering extends to having sex with nearly all of them, from frowsy couples to purring studs to a burnt-out stunner (the lustrous Jennifer Dale). It makes life tough for Noah's wife (Arsinee Khanjian), a film censor. Both have jobs appraising erotic desires and pathetic dreams; both have a ruthless talent for "sorting things out, deciding what has value and what doesn't." The Adjuster has value: it finds wit and melancholy in all these warty souls...
...Indiana advertising-promotions executive, declared himself a congressional candidate in his district's Republican primary, largely in order to run a series of antiabortion ads on television. The 30-second spots graphically depict what he says are aborted fetuses; under federal regulations, local television stations have no power to censor political ads. "I always have believed that if television stations ever aired pictures of aborted babies, it would begin to change many people's minds about the issue," Bailey explains. "People would focus on the evidence of abortion -- which is the aborted baby -- rather than this ill-conceived idea...
McKee's thick, 37-page Army dossier contains so many blacked-out words that it's hard to glean the danger he faced. Surviving the censor's ink was his title, "Team Chief." Under "Evaluation," it was written that he "performs constantly in the highest-stress environment with clear operational judgment and demeanor . . . Especially strong in accomplishing the mission with minimal guidance and supervision . . . Continues to perform one of the most hazardous and demanding jobs in the Army...
According to his letter, Ellen found the parodyoffensive but did not censor the piece...