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...acts on air. To broadcasters--and many viewers--it's the censorial hysteria that's out of control, as when Fox, in a rerun of Family Guy, chose to remove the bare bottom of the character Stewie, who is 1) a baby and 2) a cartoon. From Washington to Hollywood to your living room, the air war is in full effect...
...that--despite Powell's reputation as Howard Stern's Inspector Javert--the group found the former chair unresponsive to its concerns. ("I don't want the government as my nanny," Powell said in 2001.) Winter, a lifelong Democrat who heads the PTC's Los Angeles and Alexandria offices (to Hollywood, he's the good cop to Bozell's bad cop), says, "We embarrass the FCC. We prove that they're not doing their job, and they are embarrassed...
...advertisers; for instance, it claims to have driven away 50 sponsors from FX's edgy Nip/Tuck and The Shield. It offers program-content reviews and other tools for parents, who, Bozell stresses, have the chief responsibility for their kids. "It's not as simple as 'It's all Hollywood's fault,'" he says. And the PTC has harnessed technology: besides the ETS, it says it has an e-mail list of 125,000 "online members," and its website offers complaint form letters and streaming video clips of TV episodes so that visitors can watch, be offended and click...
...heartland.” The film itself is driven by its energetic camerawork, tantalizing leads, and a madcap soundtrack ranging from vintage French cabaret to the Kinks. Adventurous moviegoers should be driven by curiosity and the desire to stray from the well-beaten Hollywood track, and they will not be disappointed...
...only notable for Watts’s ultra-sassy heroine moment (“I’m not your fuckin’ mommy!”) and Nakata’s nice handling of some scenes that in less capable hands could have ended up drenched in Hollywood pathos...