Monday, 04/15/02

God save Roger Ebert:

Note: The restored Director's Cut of "Amadeus" opens Friday at the Landmark Century, and is in revival around the country. The one brief scene of Constanze's breasts, in medium-long shot, has inspired the flywheels at the MPAA to re-rate the movie R from its original PG. Thus high school students are discouraged from seeing this movie. Our rating system is held hostage by sick crypto-moralists. Surely PG-13 would have been adequate to advise parents of this scene, while acknowledging that anyone over 13 in America who is alarmed by the simple sight of a woman's breasts is in need of counseling (I include our attorney general).

I love it when he calls them flywheels. Several months ago I built a search engine of Ebert's reviews in part because I wanted to find all the instances where he'd used that epithet.

In other news, motivated by acquiring form 4648, I learned today a route to the nearest Kinkos which requires approximately one fifth the time and complexity of the route I'd been taking. 01:40PM «

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