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...several new books about the Microsoft antitrust case, is the startling acknowledgment that Jackson granted author Ken Auletta "about 10 hours of taped interviews." That's a lot of time for a reporter to get out of any source, much less one bound by the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges to avoid commenting on pending cases. Judge Jackson also spoke with other media, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal...
...came on. "A Radio Picture," the tower sitting on top of the globe, the Morse code sounds on the track. I was on top of the world, too - a little boy getting exactly what he wanted...
...some reason, the advent of the talkies in 1929 threatened the guardians of American morality more than anything that had gone before, and pressure on the studios began to build until Code compliance became standard in 1934. The self-censorship mechanism was in place, and it dominated major U.S. releases without exception until 1953, when Otto Preminger used the word "virgin" in "The Moon Is Blue" and got away with it. Even David O. Selznick had to beg Hayes Office approval for the final "I don't give a damn" in "Gone With the Wind." The Code insured that...
Fortunately the version available on VHS and cable is the reconstituted original release print, without the cuts made for the 1938 rerelease. Kong's premiere in '33 made it a "pre-Code" film. The Hollywood Production Code, administered by the Hayes Office, was a self-imposed set of rules devised by the studios after the 1915 Supreme Court declaration that movies were "capable of evil, having power for it." The ruling made prior censorship by local government boards legal; expensive prints could - and would - be seized by local sheriffs and police departments...
...Kong" lost about five minutes in order the pass the Code: the shot of him eating the man in the suit; other scenes where he chews on villagers and then brutally stomps them into the ground; and the whole sequence with the wrong woman pulled out of her bed. Also missing was the tail end of the scene where he pulls off Ann's clothes (and smells them, wrinkling his nose). Unfortunately, when the movie was rebuilt in 1969, the restored footage came from 16mm prints; there are obvious shifts in density and contrast in consequence. Here are some screen...