Word: pg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, establishes six broad rating categories. Children's programming would be labeled either TV-Y (for shows acceptable for all ages) or TV-7 (for shows with some violence or other material unsuitable for children under seven). Other fare would be classified as TV-G (for all audiences); TV-PG (parental guidance suggested); TV-14 (not suitable for children under 14); or TV-M (for mature audiences only). The ratings would be made by the producers and distributors of shows, and would be printed in newspaper TV listings so parents could use them as a guide for shielding their kids...
...first glance, the selection makes sense. As the biggest movie of the summer, it would resonate with the maximum number of voters. Normal folk buying tickets to the PG-13 film (no sex, please, we're the Doles) and indulging in Goobers and popcorn makes for an excellent photo-op. Culturally clueless--his favorite entertainers, Glenn Miller and John Wayne, are dead--Dole was taken to task after his first Hollywood "nightmares-of-depravity" speech for criticizing movies he hadn't seen and music he hadn't heard. Now that he was planning to do a back flip with...
...strategy of Michael Crichton and his wife Anne-Marie Martin, who wrote the script, is obvious: turn the chaotic tragedy of natural disaster into a PG-13 thrill ride, a succession of wow special effects that the kid in all of us can get off on. Such story as the screenplay provides (an estranged couple of meteorologists, played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, bicker their way toward reconciliation while chasing storms in an effort to test a new measuring instrument) is also an emotional low-pressure zone...
...transmit "indecent" material over the Internet. While the courts have not defined this term as clearly, curse words and images of nudity probably fall into this category. As one critic of the CDA notes, the presence of indecent material in motion pictures separates a 'G' rating from a 'PG...
...local mall, an innocent town. It's destruct-o-rama, kids! Fun for the whole dysfunctional family! Because it exploits children's weakness for noise, clutter and anarchy, Jumanji is a perfect Christmas gift--for Bob Dole. Let's see if the Movie Morals Monitor goes after a PG film that really deserves a righteous swat...