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...percent, and its tuition—of which Joey’s is paid for with the inheritance money Dawson received when Mr. Brooks, the filmmaker/neighbor who dated Jen’s grandmother, died last season—is $32,810. Portrayed by Duke University in Durham, NC, Worthington has a beautiful gothic campus with large grassy quads, tall stone bell towers and stained glass windows...
Despite its lack of graphic content, L.I.E. has been slapped with a dreaded NC-17 rating, although the highly honored American Beauty exploited a more explicit, and much less affectionate (heterosexual) May-December romance and was only dealt an R from the MPAA. Clearly, suburbia isn’t the only cave to mine for hypocrisy...
...Harvard Crimson: What is your reaction to the Motion Picture Association of America giving Requiem an NC-17 rating...
...Darren Aronofsky: I wanted to make an NC-17 film. I was like let's put a rated X on the poster. I mean there's no pornography in the film, there's no gratuitous violence, and it's just that I want people to know that they're getting involved with something intense. I want everyone to know that if you want to see a straight down the middle film, then go see Bounce. But if you want to see something that is a more punk, youthful, fucked up movie, come see Requiem. And if anything the controversy (over...
...same, the First Amendment does not guarantee minors the right to purchase the same material that adults can. The FTC report suggested that more retailers should not let kids buy stickered CDs and video games, just as teens are barred from NC-17 films. This would allow record labels and video-game makers to release whatever they please, and adults to buy it and even pass it on to their kids if they thought that was O.K. But that's a prospect that makes entertainment executives nervous, since the market for the raunchiest and most belligerent pop culture is made...