Thursday - October 07, 2004

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“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.”
-- Hodding Carter

1968 - Movie Ratings System Adopted
The movie industry adopts a film ratings system for the first time. The initial ratings were G (for general audiences), M (for mature audiences), R (no one under 16 admitted without an adult), and X (no one under 16 admitted). Until the late 1960s, American films were unrated. Instead, the industry’s self-imposed regulations, the Production Code, dictated permissible screen content. The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America adopted the code in 1930; it went into strict effect in 1934. The code outlined specific details of what was suitable for a film, including requirements that a movie not “lower the standards of those who see it.” The code forbade the portrayal of drug trafficking, “excessive and lustful kissing,” seduction, and mixed-race relationships. It also stated that movies should not portray villains sympathetically or make fun of clergy members. Though the code was a guideline rather than a law, few producers risked making films that violated its standards. Social changes in the 1960s rendered the code increasingly obsolete, however, and it was revised to suggest restraint in sexual themes (rather than forbidding them), among other changes. The ratings system adopted in 1968 was modified in subsequent years. In 1970, M was replaced by PG (parental guidance suggested), and R movies restricted admission of people under the age of 17 unless they were accompanied by a parent or guardian. In 1984, the PG-13 rating was added at the request of moviemaker Steven Spielberg, who wanted to address concerns raised by parents of preteens who thought some of Spielberg’s films, including the “Indiana Jones” series and Gremlins, were too scary for their children, even though they fit within the other guidelines for a PG movie. In 1990, the Motion Picture Association of America replaced the X rating with NC-17, after its Code and Ratings System Administration gave 10 mainstream films the X rating. NC-17 was designed to indicate a non-pornographic film with sexual content that might be inappropriate for viewers under 17.

1765 - The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.

1849 - Poet-writer Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40.

1949 - The Republic of East Germany was formed.

1982 - Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats,” the longest running show in Broadway history, opened.

1985 - The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen in the Mediterranean.

2001 - U.S. and British forces launched bombing campaign against Taliban government and al-Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan.

Desmond Tutu, (1931- ), South African religious leader.
Niels Henrik David Bohr, (1885–1962), Danish physicist

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