PAGING DON CORLEONE
"We're not saying you have to pay us any protection money. We're just saying that it's a real nice store you got here, and it would be a shame if anything bad happened to it."
Or, as they say in California:
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"We're not saying any law has been broken," said Tom Dresslar, a spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer (search), one of the officials who signed the letter. "We're just asking out of a concern for the health of our kids that the industry do what it can to ensure that kids don't start smoking."
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From Fox News, via Miss Liberty's Film & TV Update (a weekly newsletter covering film and TV of interest to libertarians), and Reason magazine on-line, it's come to my attention that 24 state Attorneys General have ganged up on Hollywood to "ask" the MPAA to "do something" about smoking in movies, for the sake of impressionable teens.
The Fox link will just piss you off, so if you click that, be sure to click the Reason link, too, since they merrily mock the whole concept of Hollywood corrupting youth. For example:
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Why are the attorneys general limiting themselves to reducing only smoking in movies? There is any number of other equally pressing social problems that are caused by movies that need to be addressed. The list is endless, but it certainly includes the following:
1. Car chases can solve problems. At least since the groundbreaking car chase in 1968's Bullitt—in which Steve McQueen also dangerously glamorizes cops who play by their own rules—virtually every movie features the sort of unsafe motoring that keeps the nation's driver ed teachers up at night. Only a tool of the automotive industry would deny that even impressionable adults ranging from O.J. Simpson to South Dakota Congressman Bill Janklow have been negatively influenced by what they've seen on the big screen
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4 more where that came from.
Go read.
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