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* The producers of the classic films, ''[[The Pawnbroker]]'' and ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' when they successfully appealed to the [[Hays Code]] board of governors and made them bend to the inclusion of artistically necessary nudity and harsh language respectively, with the excuse of them being "special exceptions" |
* The producers of the classic films, ''[[The Pawnbroker]]'' and ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' when they successfully appealed to the [[Hays Code]] board of governors and made them bend to the inclusion of artistically necessary nudity and harsh language respectively, with the excuse of them being "special exceptions" |
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* [[MGM]] when it outright defied the [[Hays Code]] and released ''[[ |
* [[MGM]] when it outright defied the [[Hays Code]] and released ''[[Blowup]]'' despite their attempts to stop it to great critical and box office success. |
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* [[Stan Lee]] when he defied the [[Comics Code]] and published his famous ''[[Spider-Man]]'' anti-drug story without the approval seal and undermined the code's credibility (the code forbade ''any and all'' depictions of drugs). This in spite of the fact that the comic was commissioned by the ''United States government'' as an anti-drug issue. |
* [[Stan Lee]] when he defied the [[Comics Code]] and published his famous ''[[Spider-Man]]'' anti-drug story without the approval seal and undermined the code's credibility (the code forbade ''any and all'' depictions of drugs). This in spite of the fact that the comic was commissioned by the ''United States government'' as an anti-drug issue. |
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* When [[The Doors]] were on The Ed Sullivan show, they were told they couldn't sing the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher". Jim Morrison did anyway, getting them banned from the show from then on. Incident appears in the [[Biopic]] as a [[Moment of Awesome]]. |
* When [[The Doors]] were on The Ed Sullivan show, they were told they couldn't sing the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher". Jim Morrison did anyway, getting them banned from the show from then on. Incident appears in the [[Biopic]] as a [[Moment of Awesome]]. |
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