Normally, I wouldn't put my two cents in, but the subject does warrant discussion. For years we've had all kinds of censorship in movies and now we see even more censorship as a result of the soon-to-die, extremely flawed idea of "political correctness." PC has required those who wish to have others do their thinking for them to include a new list of forbidden words and pictures. But there is a positive side to this. A large, expansive medium like film and/or tv exposes the PC spectrum of foolishness to a wide group of people, which should hasten its demise. Freedom of thought and expression, especially in creative, visual mediums, is a wonderful thought indeed. Recently, I saw a film a I made several years ago on the tube. It was a film called "Arizona Heat" and contained much rough, highly objectionable material. In one scene, the local censors(whomever they are), changed a line from, "She's a dyke." to "She's gay." The character was a street wise, hard drinking, hard living, crude, thoughtless and sometimes brutal character named, "Kapinski." (played by Michael Parks) The character he was refering to, his female partner, was indeed gay. But his character would NEVER say "She's gay." But none-the-less, our local censor, most probably a recent college student, had the words changed. The female character would probably refer to Kapinski as a thoughtless, insensitive, ugly, foul, worthless pig of a person. And that would be an accurate description. Kapniski would probably say, "Thanks for the compliment." So, I think this new censorship is of the worst kind of all. The sooner it passes through, sort of like a kidney stone, the better for us all. ____________________________________________________________________________ ---------------->from John G. Thomas ([log in to unmask]) <------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________