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...Star Wars and Indiana Jones, more cinematic cachet. And while no one sneers at the Baker Street Irregulars, noninitiates consider Trekkies to be pretty odd: Trekkies like Pete Mohney, a computer programmer in Birmingham, Alabama, who leads a double life as captain of his local Starfleet "ship," the Hephaestus NC-2004, and publisher of a 40-page Trekkie newsletter; or Jerry Murphy, a Sugar Grove, Illinois, business manager and father of two, who is commander of a local Klingon club and frequently dresses up as one of the big-browed aliens for charity events. "Nobody messes with Klingons," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Trekking Onward | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

Although it contains no explicit sex or violence, "Clerks" was originally rated NC-17 based solely on its language...

Author: By Nell Freudenberger, | Title: Makers of 'Clerks' Speak at IOP | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...movie's rating was changed to R after Miramax and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz successfully contested the NC-17 rating, calling it "the kiss of death...

Author: By Nell Freudenberger, | Title: Makers of 'Clerks' Speak at IOP | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

Smith said the incident helped to publicize the film because "in the same week we got the NC-17, 'Natural Born Killers...

Author: By Nell Freudenberger, | Title: Makers of 'Clerks' Speak at IOP | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...Stays in the Picture (Hyperion; 412 pages; $24.95) is an NC-17 tale of mob lawyers, studio reptiles, coke dealers, starlets, domineering directors and the fast-talking operator at the center of it all. Aside from taking a few swipes at Ryan O'Neal, Francis Ford Coppola and Sharon Stone, Evans mostly tells stories on himself, charting his rise, fall and struggle to rebound with a keen staccato style usually found in hard-boiled mysteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Bio Noir | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

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