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Spencer declined to comment, and CBS publicist Michelle Hooper said contestants were forbidden from giving interviews before the show airs. She also declined to comment about Spencer or the selection process...
...anti-governmental stances, Fo was forbidden a visa to enter the United States throughout the 1970s and during most of the Regan administration. It wasn’t until 1986 that Robert Brustein, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, succeeded in bringing the great Italian playwright and performer to American shores for the first time. True to form, Fo thanked President Regan for generating publicity by keeping him out of the country...
...Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered the grand old man of Korean cinema. (His lush reworking of Chunhyang, Korea's most famous love story, recently won rave reviews in the U.S.) "You could only show kissing scenes from behind...
...support for Pastrana and the peace process. That said, Washington, like many Colombian military officers, has no enthusiasm for the continued existence of "FARClandia," the Switzerland-sized chunk of territory the government turned over to the guerillas two-and-a-half years ago which the Colombian army is forbidden to enter. Many Colombians, especially urban Colombians, see that the FARC got something for free, because it hasn't let up on its insurgency despite being given this chunk of territory. President Pastrana has to decide in the next month whether to reauthorize the existence of this zone...
...Make Jerusalem a forbidden city, uninhabited except...