Posted
5:15 PM
by Gene
A bunch of researchers gives ammunition for some ninnies' demand for an R rating for smoking, and SAMMY GLICKMAN realizes the untenable position he's in:"We and others in our industry should do our best to eliminate gratuitous on-screen portrayals of smoking, particularly in movies that children see," Glickman says. "I don't like to be in a position to dictate what a storyteller can or cannot say."We won't comment on that dictate biz --
THE CONSPIRACY does it every day -- but this must count as progress, however microscopic;
DR. EVIL would have carted out the First Amendment hook, line and sinker, and swung his victims by the hooks through their mouths.