Word: censored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liquor Out. In the Caracas press corps there were other seasoned censor dodgers, including such photographers as LIFE'S Joe Scherschel and A.P.'s Charles Tasnadi (see cut). Some of A.P. Stringer Morris Rosenberg's early copy went out by phone in Yugoslav. At 2:30 a.m. Thursday, United Press Correspondent Joseph Taylor, 31, sent the first wire-service flash on the government's fall in pidgin French. By the time A.P. filed its first bulletin at 3:08 a.m., Taylor's English-language story had been cleared by censors and was clacking over...
...egregiously bad films to be shown in Cambridge in recent years. The plot is muddled, disjointed, turgid, improbable; the entire production, heavy, unamusing, and completely pointless. It is, in all, a careless potpourri of violence and cheap melodrama interspersed with frequent sex scenes as raw and explicit as the censor will allow...
...Created Woman (Kingsley International) opens with a shot that promises a good deal more than the picture delivers. There lies Brigitte, stretched from end to end of the CinemaScope screen, bottoms up and bare as a censor's eyeball. In the hard sun of the Riviera her round little rear glows like a peach, and the camera lingers on the subject as if waiting for it to ripen. Pretty soon an aging lecher (Curt Jurgens) appears, and the two converse with only a sheet between them...
...complaints find their way to Stockton Helffrich, 45, who as head of the network's continuity acceptance department also wields the censor's pencil. Says Helffrich: "If every special interest were to constitute a new entry in a list of taboos, we'd have to go out of business." Helffrich, like CBS's Herbert A. Carlborg, carefully weighs each beef and tries, where justified and feasible, to do something about it. For example, he makes writers, producers and directors aware of complaint trends and of requests by such groups as the American Foundation for the Blind...
...Police Censor Drama...