Word: porno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rumored to be cruising for an adults-only rating. The X was the forbidden zone, which strong directors could fight, sometimes successfully, to avoid. The NC-17 is different: a limbo rating. Will the board award it more freely? Will the studios declare it taboo? What if a cynical porno distributor submits his hard-core film for a rating and gets the same NC-17? Will publishers and theater owners, seeing the designation as a new euphemism for X, allow movies so rated to be advertised and exhibited? So far, nobody knows...
...These are scenes from a porno movie made in the '50s. It was shot in a nightclub called La Rose Rouge...
...played in a couple of teen bands, wrote for gardening and porno magazines, worked in a doughnut shop and acquired the close-up view of life along the fault line that shapes and colors his songs. He and Ricketts had been making demos of a few tunes, and one of their tapes landed flukily at A&M Records. Boomtown was born out of that tape...
...Association of America's ratings board, means that no one younger than 18 may be admitted. But the classification has other hazards. Most newspapers will not run ads for X-rated movies. Most pay-cable networks will not air them. And, because the letter has been appropriated by the porno industry, to many people X stands for sex -- impure and simple...
...Lover and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer -- given the X tag. Their distributors have rightly decided to release these strong, disturbing melodramas as is, uncut and without the MPAA's rating. They will strut naked into the marketplace, allowing adult audiences to judge for themselves whether this is porno...