There were a couple of threads at Plastic yesterday about pushing the boundaries of acceptable content on network television. This anecdote isn’t about network television, but about commercial cable channels, but it shocked me nonetheless at the time.
I was watching Gene Wilder’s movie, “Silver Streak,” on one of those cable movie channels that features commercials — I’m pretty sure it was A&E. Anyway, someone had gone through and edited out all the f- words, which didn’t surprise me because that’s pretty common. But then near the end of the movie they did not edit out Patrick McGoohan calling Richard Pryor’s character the n- word.
That really floored me.
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