Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watserv1!djohnson
From: djohnson@watserv1.waterloo.edu ( DOUG JOHNSON - GEOGRAPHY )
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Stupid Censor Board
Message-ID: <230@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 01:21:34 GMT
References: <647@alias.UUCP> <51925@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: djohnson@watserv1.waterloo.edu ( DOUG JOHNSON - GEOGRAPHY )
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 15

In article <51925@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>I thought that was strange.  Usually CITY doesn't drop the bad words
>at all.  In Predator, they cut out most of the fucks, as will happen
>when they get a film that has been censored for general viewing.
>
>But I can't believe that a general TV censor would leave in
>	"one bad <blank> fucker"

At least one of the movies in question was Hollywood Shuffle. It makes
me wonder who is responsible for the editing - is it the individual
stations/networks/distributers? All of the above? Anyone know the answer?
(BTW I thought the ONtario Censor Board didn't have a mandate to censor
television, only to classify movies and videos - any comments on this?).

DJ


Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com