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- <text id=93TT2580>
- <title>
- Jan. 04, 1993: Malle-Practice
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 04, 1993 Man of the Year:Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
- Malle-Practice
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A respected foreign filmmaker duels with American movie ratings
- </p>
- <p> Which movie deserves an NC-17 "Adults Only'' rating: A) the
- escapades of an oversexed ice-pick murderer or B) a somber
- study of upper-class Britons? If you picked B, you too can work
- for the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA forced
- French director Louis Malle (Atlantic City) to re-edit a love
- scene in Damage, which opened last week, before receiving the
- same "R" given the gore and genitalia of Basic Instinct. Malle
- had no choice--many theaters won't show NC-17 movies. "In no
- way was the scene pornographic," he insisted. "In Europe we
- don't have this problem with nudity." Explaining the double
- standard, MPAA head Jack Valenti said, "Violence comes in many
- different forms. With sex there are only so many positions."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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