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...admits he hasn't watched a lot of TV since. It's true, during the ratings-sweeps periods, the networks each put on a few movies that include scenes of comparatively graphic violence. But those are anomalies, and as theatrical films they wouldn't even get PG-13 ratings...
...what about those benighted creative types who don't want to make family films? Will the studios still finance their work? J.F. Lawton wrote Pretty Woman and Under Siege, both rated R, both worldwide hits. He recently did a PG-13 rewrite of Damon Wayans' spoof Blankman. "There was a scene where some gangsters come in and shoot people," he says. "We changed it so they shot at the ceiling and the people ran out of the room." Now Lawton is wrangling over his script for The Adventures of Fartman, starring Howard Stern, America's top radio ranter. "We didn...
...agitation over Fartman indicates Hollywood's bottom line under all the fine talk about making good films for kids. Richard Heffner, head of the industry's ratings board, appreciates this distinction. "There is some feeling that producers are looking to make more PG or PG-13 films," he observes. "I don't think that's quite true. It's truer to say that they are looking to get PG or PG-13 ratings. They don't want to make the film that most parents would consider appropriate. They're just interested in getting the rating...
...book Hollywood vs. America, critic Michael Medved sounded a shrill warning to the movies to clean up their act. He feels vindicated by the new tendency to softer movies, yet he is not quite satisfied. "Most people do not understand the difference between PG and PG-13," Medved claims. "We should call the PG-13 rating R-13, which would be much more reflective of what...
Home Alone's bonanza sends filmmakers on a PG spree...