Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miami Vice is the most intensely serious cop show on TV. The drug smugglers, mob bosses, psychotic youth gangs and smut peddlers who emerge from the underworld each week are the most vividly portrayed evildoers on TV since Eliot Ness squared off against Frank Nitti on The Untouchables. Even more striking, however, is the show's depiction of the temptation that evil presents to basically good men. It is no accident that Crockett and Tubbs frequently go undercover, and seem to blend in perfectly when they do. Moreover, the show's most powerful episodes deal with law-enforcement officials...
...styles." The result is a deftly improvised confusion in which the suburbs become the stage for fragments of Elizabethan comedy, bits of Wodehouse farce and a generalized send-up of The Great Gatsby. There is even a climactic courtroom scene in which Teeters must defend himself against charges of smut peddling. Unfortunately, he has arrived in Merrymount one beat behind the conservative backlash and cannot convince a jury that his cassettes are the visual equivalent...
...intends to shut down America's dens of depravity MacKinnon's targets, however, are not the Piccadilly Filly or the Boathouse, but Nini's Corner and Out of Town News Katherine MacKinnon wants to make the world safe for America's women by closing down shops that sell smut...
...inferior" qualifies as pornography. Out goes A Clockwork Orange, Gone with the Wind, and almost every action film ever made. When MacKinnon was asked whether the bill was overly broad, she replied. "Tell us how to make it better." This statement effectively sums up the problem of subjectivity. Smut is in the eye of the beholder; it is difficult, if not impossible, to set an objective standard...
...Chaplin's dearest friend; when sober, has him thrown out of the house. A new gag: Chaplin trying to light his cigar but succeeding only in lighting the cigar which another character is waving airily before his face. As in all Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle...