Heading for 10 Years of Examination of Janet Jackson’s Nipple…FCC ask the US Supreme Court to allow them to impose fines for fleeting nudity

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The US TV censors of the Federal Communications Commission has asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision to rescind the $550,000 fine the FCC gave CBS after the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunctionat the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004.In January, the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals denied a full-court rehearing of the 2011 decision by a three-judge panel that the FCC’s fine of CBS stations was arbitrary and was a policy change for which CBS stations were improperly penalized. The FCC said in its petition that the court should not have found that its indecency policy was an arbitrary and capricious departure from precedent.

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)…Another new US bill proposed to give the state awesome censorship powers

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U.S. lawmakers have authored another bill designed to censor the internet in the name of cybersecurity. Citing cyberattacks as a threat, some legislators have lent their support to a new act that, if passed, would let the government pry into the personal correspondence of any person they choose. The website Change.org has created a petition against the act and a handful of videos have been made against it along with some articles, but the American press has been mostly silent about the potential act, HR 3523, a piece of legislation dubbed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA for short). Opponents say the bill has vague language that could well allow Congress to circumvent existing exemptions to online privacy laws and essentially monitor, censor and stop any online communication that it considers disruptive to the government or private parties. Critics have already come after CISPA for the capabilities that it will give to seemingly any federal entity that claims it is threatened by online interactions, but unlike the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Acts that were discarded on the Capitol Building floor after incredibly successful online campaigns to crush them, widespread recognition of what the latest would-be law will do has yet to surface to the same degree. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online advocacy group, has sharply condemned CISPA for what it means for the future of the Internet. It effectively creates a cybersecurity exemption to all existing laws, explains the EFF, who add in a statement of their own that There are almost no restrictions on what can be collected and how it can be used, provided a company can claim it was motivated by cybersecurity purposes.

I Don’t Give a Shit…M.I.A. continues fine tradition of offending the easily offended during the Super Bowl half time show

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American broadcaster NBC has apologised after M.I.A. put her middle finger up during her Super Bowl half-time performance. She made the gesture whilst singing: I don’t give a shit, during a performance of Madonna’s new single, Give Me All Your Luvin’. The screen was briefly blurred after M.I.A.’s gesture in a failed attempt to cut out the camera shot. The broadcaster said M.I.A. did not do anything similar during rehearsals and the league had no reason to believe she would do anything during the show. NBC spokesman Christopher McCloskey Said: We apologize for the inappropriate gesture that aired during half-time. The NFL hired the talent and produced the half-time show. Our system was late to obscure the inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers. The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing and we apologize to our fans.

Zalman King…Writer, producer and director of erotic films dies aged 70

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Zalman King, the producer, director and screenwriter of numerous erotic films, died this morning after a six-year battle with cancer. He was 70 years old. King’s credits include 9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid and the well-known Red Shoe Diaries for Showtime, which spawned many sequels and became a staple of erotic late-night cable TV. King is perhaps best known for his collaboration with director Adrian Lyne on the film 9 1/2 Weeks, which featured an incendiary sex scene between Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. The scene has long been considered the hottest sex scene in a mainstream Hollywood film. King was praised for his work by the Los Angeles Times, which said, Zalman King is the reigning auteur of erotic fantasy. Premiere Magazine called him the high priest of erotic filmmaking.

Capturing the Nutter Vote…Leading Republicans commit themselves to prosecuting major porn businesses

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Leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have each pledged to enforce federal obscenity laws against major commercial distributors of hardcore adult pornography. The pledges, compiled and published by Morality in Media, are part of the organization’s The War on Illegal Pornography mission, which invites Internet users to message the front runners anti-porn sentiments. None of the other Republican candidates nor President Obama has responded to efforts initiated by MIM to learn their views, the organization said.

Dissecting Centipedes…Pictorial details of the BBFC and US online cuts to Human Centipede 2

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The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is a 2011 Netherlands/UK horror by Tom Six. With Laurence R Harvey and Ashlynn Yennie. See IMDb The Uncut Version is available online for: 2011 Bounty Rental Streaming [UK+Australia only] at Bounty Films 2011 Bounty Download to Own [UK+Australia only] at Bounty Films BBFC Cuts Unbanned and passed 18 for very strong bloody violence and gore, and sexual violence after 2:37s of BBFC cuts for: UK 2011 Bounty Blu-ray UK 2011 Bounty R2 DVD UK 2011 cinema release See pictorial cuts details [discretion required] from movie-censorship.com US Online Cuts A pre-cut version is MPAA Unrated for: US 2011 IFC Online See pictorial cuts details [discretion required] from movie-censorship.com

One Last Flamboyant Musical…Ken Russell co-scripted the remake for Bill Osco’s great X Rated Alice in Wonderland

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A remake of the 1970s cult classic Bill Osco’s Alice in Wonderland written by Osco and Ken Russell will go ahead as a posthumous tribute to the controversial British film maker. Russell, who died suddenly in his sleep on November 28th, was in the process of making final revisions to the script for the film, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, which he was to direct in 2012… and it may be in 3D, although that part’s not confirmed yet. The original picture, released in 1976, and made on a budget of $500,000, went on to gross over $100 million. Bill Osco’s Alice remains today one of the most successful, highest grossing, adult musical comedies in motion picture history. The movie’s producers, Renaissance Media Entertainment, have announced that Russell’s wife, Elize Tribble, will participate and assist the team in bringing forward the production of this musical remake of Bill Osco’s groundbreaking feature. We are delighted that his wife Elize is coming on board and providing access to all of Ken’s notes and other materials he kept on the project, said Stuart Young, a founding member of Renaissance Media Entertainment. Ken Russell collaborated with us for over six months, and he brought an incredible creative intensity and passion to Alice. We want to make a film that keeps true to Ken’s unique perspective for the project. Shooting is expected to begin early in 2012, after the company secures the services of a suitable director.

More Serbian…The US release of A Serbian Film is less cut than the UK version

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A Serbian Film is a 2010 Serbia adult horror by Srdjan Spasojevic with Srdjan Todorovic and Sergej Trifunovic. See IMDb In the UK the film was released after 4:12s of BBFC cuts. The film has now just been released in the US on 25th October. Early reports indicate that, although MPAA Unrated, it has been cut by 1 to 2 minutes. Cuts are to the obvious newborn baby scene and to a hooded sex scene revealed as incest. The Swedish release though is reported to be uncut.

David Z Goodman…Noted for the controversial screenplay for Straw Dogs

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David Z Goodman, who died on September 26 aged 81, wrote the screenplay for the controversial thriller Straw Dogs (1971), one of the great banned films of the 1970s, which revealed rural Britain to be just as brutal as the mean streets of downtown America. Though based on The Siege Of Trencher’s Farm, a 1969 novel by the Scottish author Gordon Williams, the director, Sam Peckinpah, ordered Goodman to write in some controversial scenes that do not occur in the original. David Zelag Goodman was born on January 15 1930 in New York. His orthodox Jewish parents wanted him to become a rabbi, sending him to a yeshiva to be trained. But at 18 he became totally secular, took a degree in English at Queens’ College, studied Drama at Yale University, and became a playwright. His film breakthrough came in England in 1959, at the Bray studios in Berkshire, with the script for the Hammer adventure film Stranglers of Bombay. During the 1960s he wrote American television episodes of The Untouchables, Combat! and Mr Broadway. For Hollywood Goodman scripted the mystery thriller Man on a Swing (1974), starring Cliff Robertson, and Farewell, My Lovely (1975), a remake of the Raymond Chandler story starring Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe.

Cinema Chain…Human Centipede 2 set for a US theatrical release

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The Human Centipede Part 2 (The Full Sequence) continues to languish in the UK banned vault. The last I heard, the appeal against the ban is still in progress. But across the Atlantic in the Land of the Sometimes Free, the film is set for a theatrical release (albeit limited). According to the guys over at Arrow in the Head, The Human Centipede Part II: [Full Sequence] will hit select Landmark theatres on October 7th.