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Shocker: Kanye West, as an adolescent, liked porn. His mother will reveal as much in an upcoming book that the NEW YORK POST has giddily excerpted: "I'll never forget the day he took the X-rated magazine to school [and] was passing it around for the other boys to...
Even Valenti's critics would acknowledge the ratings system worked well for a while. X, belying its suggestion of toxicity, simply meant films for adults only. Most, like Medium Cool, were serious, intense, mature social studies; and one, Midnight Cowboy, won the Oscar for the best picture of 1969. But...
I know people who hated Jack Valenti, or rather hated the ratings system he created and sustained. Kirby Dick's documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated makes a good case for the prejudice the MPAA showed in favor of major-studio product and against the more adventurous indies. Francis...
DREAMGIRLS Rated PG-13; on DVD May 1
Not that I was trying to encourage the Woodward and Bernstein model of muckraking in a land with no First Amendment and no Bill of Rights. Last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists rated Syria ninth on its list of the ten most censored countries. And many in Lebanon blame...