Priorities
Christ, people, don't we have
real problems? From today's IMdB:
In advance of a Senate hearing on the influence of motion pictures on smoking, Vans Stevenson, a senior official of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has said that the movie-studio group will resist demands by politicians to impose an R rating on any film depicting smoking. "Smoking is a matter of creative expression. People smoke, and that is an element that is sometimes depicted on screen," Stevenson told today's (Tuesday) Pasadena Star-News. "We're not in the business of telling people how to tell stories." Stevenson's remarks would appear to conflict with those of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, who claims that nicotine-addicted movie stars insist that their characters be depicted as smokers.
Posted by sciencegrrl at May 12, 2004 09:17 AM