The Perils of Tangling With Jack Valenti
Nothing gets the Hollywood entertainment media community going quite like the MPAA’s occasional puritanical habit of slapping an NC-17 rating on some unsuspecting piece of film art. The latest casualty, at least until Harvey Weinstein gets to the bottom of things, is Blue Valentine, a 2010 Sundance and Cannes entry starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.
One of the very best perspectives on the matter comes from veteran reporter Jack Mathews, largely because he’s been around long enough to remember the origins of this whole NC-17 mess.
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