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...Lover, critics and directors petitioned the M.P.A.A. to amend its system and classify certain serious fare with an A (adult) rating. Publicly, M.P.A.A. president Jack Valenti opposed any alteration, while in private he helped hammer out the compromise. This week the first NC-17 film will be released: Philip Kaufman's love quadrangle Henry & June...
...they would take the free publicity, ignore the label and release the picture unrated. That option was not open to the major studios, which are M.P.A.A. members, so they obliged directors to deliver R-rated films (in which children under 17 must be accompanied by an adult). Kaufman was the latest auteur to face an X. He has faced it down. And Hollywood, for now, has saved face...
Analysts had predicted that Republicans had the best chance in years of capturing the governorship, and White House aide Ron Kaufman said President Bush would come to Massachusetts to help campaign for Republicans here...
...rated film. "We want to support Phil's vision," says Universal president Tom Pollack, "as we did with Spike Lee on Do the Right Thing and Martin Scorsese on The Last Temptation of Christ." But if Henry & June loses its Oct. 3 appeal to the rating board, Kaufman has only two options: cut the film to the censors' pattern or take his movie to an independent distributor...
...reason prevails and Henry & June is released as is, its ads can run a money quote: "A masterpiece! Don't cut a frame of it!" What movie critic proffered that rave? Richard Heffner, head of the rating board, who made those comments to Kaufman as he awarded the film its toxic...