[lbo-talk] Liberals

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 09:11:35 PDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:


> At 08:32 AM 6/3/2011, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> > At least he took us to a movie theater to see
>> > Polanski's MacBeth...
>>
>> Golly, he could go to jail for that, nowadays.
>
>
> I don't know. Polanski's still making movies and winning awards. He was
> academy award best director only a few years ago. As Carmine Lupertazzi
> might say, "There's no stigmata."
>

I think Michael was referring to the full frontal nudity of the fugly (esp. to HS boys and girls in '78) witches at the start of the film, the gruesome violence throughout the pic and "community standards" (and parental lawsuits) in the present. A



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