friday night and the kids are alright

yee haw. it's the weekend. i'm going to see hairspray tomorrow night at hershey, and i've heard good things. and, got to play movie catch up. just finished watching This Film is Not Yet Rated, a documentary about the film ratings system. Oddly enough, this little gem got me all fired up to see Hairspray because one of the main interviewees in the film is John Waters. The movie focuses entirely on the very fuzzy, arbitrary line drawn by the MPAA in what amount of sex (almost exclusively sex and not violence) leads to the NC-17 rating instead of an R. In The Cooler, the board blamed it on a brief shot of pubic hair; in jersey girl(yeah, that movie got hit with an NC-17 initially; who knew?) it was liv tyler telling ben affleck that she masturbates regularly.
The movie came complete with side by side shots of almost identical sex scenes from two different movies, with the only real difference being who was having the sex - gay sex gets an nc-17 and straight sex gets the R.
And no movie (or article, or blurb) about movie ratings would be complete without the obligatory matt stone interview talking about Team America's puppet sex, and how they had to cut the golden shower from the puppet sex to get an R. It's a bunch of goddamned facsists, if you ask me. of course, no one did, so i'll shut up now.