Word: pg
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...class-action suit against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for ground contamination fought with self-trained legal assistant Erin Brockovich?was made into a 2000 film starring Julia Roberts; of complications from diabetes; in Los Angeles. Nearly bankrupted by his defense of 648 residents of Hinkley, California, who said PG&E tanks caused high incidences of cancer and other illnesses, Masry's work led to a landmark $333 million settlement and a lasting friendship with his similarly brassy aide. "No one has called me more names than Erin Brockovich and I've called her everything in the book," he said...
...bludgers game of Quidditch is mentioned in passing, but its complex rules are never discussed). “Goblet” adroitly combines Hollywood action and thriller genres with a sturdy narrative backbone and more than a little hormonal voltage for good measure. The film’s PG-13 rating is well-deserved. In his fourth year, Harry participates in the Triwizard Tournament—a sadistic series of tasks to win the Goblet of Fire—taking the viewer along for a terrifying ride including dragons and carnivorous caverns. Along with these visually rich action scenes...
...poster for Mirrormask yesterday. I was delighted at the bottom where it says, PG, Parental Guidance Suggested, and then underneath they had to give a reason. It says, 'for some mild thematic elements and scary images'. I thought, that's cool. It's PG for thematic elements...
...girlfriend's virginity." New ballet slippers. My own room. Cash. Thirteen-year-olds have more power than discipline, more weapons than shields. They demand more respect from their parents and show them less. The Motion Picture Association of America understood the nature of the age when it invented the PG rating--parental guidance suggested--as though it knew that from here on, parents can guide, they can suggest, but kids are making more decisions, taking fewer orders. They have absorbed the family's values because the years of Total Parental Control are coming...
...being a teenager is not all bad. I'm old enough to see a PG-13 movie without a parent, I am able to go places with my friends, I can constantly call my favorite radio station, K-Earth, and request that they play Kokomo, and I finally get to move on to high school...