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...called then) to insure that their visions reached the screen - and when a film existed only in the version that was shown in theaters. Today, the theatrical release is often just a teaser for the "unrated" DVD, like a hardcover book that implicitly promises a smuttier paperback. It's as if, back in the '50s, the hardcover edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover was censored, but the paperback had all the naughty bits. Wal-Mart won't sell NC-17 movies, but they readily peddle the gross-out versions of comedies that were originally rated...
...Jacques Barzun wrote recently that a 300-year-old "code of civilized manners" came to an end "about halfway into the 20th century." I'd argue that Barzun's dating is off by a couple of decades-otherwise my yellowed copy of a 1967 Playboy would be a lot smuttier than it is-but it's hard to disagree with his broad conclusion...
Forman responded vigorously to Kaminer's contention that the film glossed over Flynt's smuttier side...
Battleship Gertie (by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan; Courtney Burr, producer). Last season Producer Burr made a lot of money out of a naval farce called Sailor, Beware! (TIME, Oct. 9, 1933.) Battleship Gertie was supposed to be smuttier and funnier than Sailor, Beware...
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