Word: nc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attracted to the classics if they knew about Homer's graphic descriptions of spear points ripping through flesh in The Iliad or the quarts of stage blood needed for any production of Titus Andronicus. As for sex, the lewd posturings in some paintings of Hieronymous Bosch would be rated NC-17 if they showed up at the multiplex...
These little post-Lubitsch touches have Miramax concerned that Kids, scheduled to open July 21, may get an NC-17 rating, which would mean that officially most of the film's young cast could not see it. The Walt Disney Co., Miramax's corporate parent, will not release NC-17 films; so Weinstein, who paid a risky $3.5 million for the $1.5 million-budgeted film, is ready to set up a separate company to distribute Kids. There will be, he vows, no scissoring to get an R rating. As for Clark, he proclaims himself mystified by the clamor: "There...
Confusion overa possible U.S. military role in Bosniagrew as President Clinton and Congress clashed. While Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole renewed his call for a complete withdrawal of all UN peacekeepers, as well as a lifting of the international arms embargo,Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, blasted the President's statement that he may send U.S. Marines into Bosnia as "completely unacceptable." In the face of the withering criticism, Clinton backed away from his announcement yesterday that Marines might land if the UN requests their help in rescuing UN hostages, now saying instead that...
...basketball superstarMichael Jordan's father, has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and will testify against Daniel Green, the other youth charged with the crime. James Jordan was shot in July, 1993 while asleep in his car on the side of a highway, enroute to his home in Charlotte, NC. Previously pleading innocent, Demery had told authorities that he helped dispose of the body, which was found in a South Carolina swamp, but that Green had pulled the trigger...
...threatened a boycott of Miramax's owner, the Walt Disney Co., before Miramax moved the date back. Disney hardly needs the aggravation; last week it told Miramax that the studio could not distribute Kids, a scalding and graphic film about an HIV-positive teen. If Kids receives a proscriptive nc-17 rating, Miramax may be obliged to sell the film (with its hefty $3.5 million price tag) to another distributor...