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| Tweet Topic Started: May 11 2007, 09:42 PM (247 Views) | |
| ivorythumper | May 11 2007, 09:42 PM Post #1 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Movie group slaps new restrictions on smoking By Arthur Spiegelman Reuters LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Attention film producers: smoking may now be hazardous to your movies. The film industry group that rates U.S. movies in terms of their suitability for children Thursday unveiled new rules affecting tobacco use in films that would stop children from seeing movies that glorified on-screen smoking. The Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, said that in the past, illegal teen smoking has been just one factor in rating films, alongside other parental concerns such as sex, violence and adult language. But now smoking itself will be considered as a factor and depictions that glamorize smoking, or movies that feature pervasive smoking, may receive ratings that do not allow children into theaters to see them. The MPAA classifies movies suitable for all children as "G," whereas an "R" rating restricts audiences to people 17 years or older, among its ratings. The industry group has long been under pressure from several health groups to ban children from seeing characters light up in movies, and the MPAA's decision fell short of that goal. MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said in a statement, "The rating board ... will now consider smoking as a factor, among many other factors, including violence, sexual situations and language, in the rating of films. "Clearly, smoking is increasingly an unacceptable behavior in our society. There is broad awareness of smoking as a unique public health concern due to nicotine's highly addictive nature, and no parent wants their child to take up the habit. The appropriate response of the rating system is to give more information to parents on this issue." Glickman said while some people have called for a 'mandatory R' rating on all films containing any smoking, the MPAA does not believe such a step would further its goal of getting more information to parents on this issue. The MPAA said films whose rating is impacted by tobacco use will now include phrases such as "glamorized smoking" or "pervasive smoking" in their description. Reuters/Nielsen Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. |
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| George K | May 12 2007, 03:31 AM Post #2 |
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I remember going to a movie theater that had a smoking section in the theater itself where you could sit, have a smoke, and watch the film. I sat there when I watched M*A*S*H. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| John D'Oh | May 12 2007, 05:23 AM Post #3 |
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MAMIL
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When I was 15 that was one of the prime reasons for going to the cinema. It was one place a schoolboy could smoke without fear of interference. Personally, I think that glamourising smoking in children's movies is potentially considerably more harmful than swearing. Nobody ever died from using the f-word. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 12 2007, 05:26 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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You did not grow up where I did. I know a couple people who died from mouthing off.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| bachophile | May 12 2007, 05:29 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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there goes casablanca....![]() (i think this is going too far, if u ask me...) |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| jon-nyc | May 12 2007, 05:29 AM Post #6 |
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Cheers
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I remember my mother smoking in the waiting room of our family doctor. |
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| bachophile | May 12 2007, 05:32 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| George K | May 12 2007, 05:40 AM Post #8 |
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I remember walking into a nursing station in the hospital and lighting up a Marlboro. Edit: bach - they called Camels a "mild" cigarette. :lol: Must've been the ones with filters. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | May 12 2007, 05:58 AM Post #9 |
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Cheers
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Ahh, the good old days.
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| Klaus | May 12 2007, 06:10 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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This is going much too far, in my opinion. What about the freedom of art? What happened to tolerance in this society? People have lived for hundreds of years with cigarettes. Nobody dies from watching other people smoke. It does not make sense to attempt to shield children from all and everything. This will backfire once they turn 18 or 21. This whole "non-smoking" thing has turned into a witch-hunt. I think it is good to protect those who do not want to smoke, but everything beyond that is just intolerance and disregard of the freedom of the individual. I have never smoked in my whole life, by the way. But I don't mind at all if my friends do. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| jon-nyc | May 12 2007, 06:14 AM Post #11 |
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Cheers
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Agreed, Klaus. THis is silly. But then this won't have an effect on art, just on the sh1t coming out of hollywood. |
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| George K | May 12 2007, 06:17 AM Post #12 |
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But you can always spice 'em up, or even try to class them up.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mark | May 12 2007, 06:17 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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If you want to see a great movie watch "Thank You For Smoking".
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| Klaus | May 12 2007, 06:24 AM Post #14 |
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I have seen the movie. The most fascinating part of it was .... - that nobody smoked! |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 12 2007, 06:34 AM Post #15 |
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Does this apply to marijuana, crack and methamphetamine as well, or just tobacco? Cigars? Pipes? |
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| ivorythumper | May 12 2007, 06:59 AM Post #16 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Yeah, you'd think drug use would merit a censure. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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