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From: LindyBill	3/23/2005 8:12:06 PM
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I'm Mad as Hell, and I'm Not Gonna 'Tard it Anymore! reason.com What makes television network censors nervous nowadays? According to four TV writers who sat on a great American Cinema Foundation/L.A. Press Club panel moderated by occasional reason contributor Cathy Seipp Saturday night, today's big no-no's include: * Having sympathetic characters smoke. "If you show people smoking," Boston Legal Executive Producer Scott Kaufer quoted his network as pleading to him, "don't show them inhaling." * Having anyone, let alone a serial killer (which was the case in question) use the word "retard." * Using the word "vagina." * Referring to a specific product, like, say, "Viagra." (It would make Cialis mad, etc.) Angel writer Tim Minear also fired off a nice one-liner, when asked what he says to people who tell him they don't watch TV: "I run them over with my Mercedes."

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