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This story is rated GP; general readership permitted, parental guidance advised...
...been snipping scenes since 1941 and now heads the Code and Rating Administration. Although Dougherty and the ten board members who serve with him have generally won the praise of exhibitors and the gratitude of parents, there has been increasingly vehement criticism that the categories G-GP-R-X are just so much alphabet soup...
...National Council of Churches and the Catholic Office for Motion Pictures announced withdrawal of their backing because they found the ratings unreliable. They cited several films, including the recently released 10 Rillington Place-a clinical examination of the career of a mass murderer-that had been rated GP (general admission, parental guidance advised). Other examples of the raters...
...their ilk, which used to be limited to a few hundred city theaters, are now shown in about 2,000 moviehouses, many of them in suburbs and small towns, while the criteria by which commercial films are rated are flickering rapidly skinward. What was once R is now GP, and what was X only a year ago is now R. As such ratings and audience thresholds change, so does the borderline of legal obscenity, which is partially defined by "contemporary community standards" that are constantly getting lower...
...country as it will be profitable for Hollywood. With Love Story, the town sees a comeback, a chance to make films that no longer strain for an indecipherable segment of the unfathomable audience. It makes the kind of fiscal sense that no company can afford to ignore. A GP film can admit Mom and Dad, plus the two kids shut out of Easy Rider, plus an aunt or a grandmother. That makes an increase...