Another gay filmmaker, another NC-17.THE MOTION Picture Association of America continued its jihad against gay sexuality in movies when Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education was slapped with an NC-17 rating. Like John Waters's A Dirty Shame, the film was given the most restrictive rating despite the absence of explicit sexual content. Publicists for Bad say objections were raised over a scene in which Gael Garcia Bernal, in drag, simulates oral sex on another man. The ratings board didn't object to Bernal's head moving from side to side, but they did have a problem with his head bobbing up and down. "To try to dissect dissect /dis·sect/ (di-sekt´) (di-sekt´) 1. to cut apart, or separate. 2. to expose structures of a cadaver for anatomical study. dis·sect v. the minds of the MPAA MPAA abbr. Motion Picture Association of America with regard to what is acceptable can be a black hole of inscrutable in·scru·ta·ble adj. Difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable. See Synonyms at mysterious. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin logic," says Dawn Hudson of the Independent Feature Project/Los Angeles, who says independent filmmakers have often been left out of the MPAA's decision process. She hopes that the organization's new president, Dan Glickman Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. , will be open to a little Education from IFP (1) (Intelligent Forms Processing) Using advanced techniques to scan documents and determine their data content. See ICR. (2) (Integer Factorization Problem) The difficulty of finding prime numbers in an encryption key. about the difference between art films and pornography. |
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