Post by pinkadilly on Mar 11, 2007 3:30:04 GMT
i found something interesting i thought id share. the funny thing is they dont specify what film theyre talking about, they confuse Clouseau with Cato, and they even misspell Peter Sellers' name! i still thought itwas kinda interesting, though, dspite all that:
IT'S curious to look back at what got our great and good hot under the collar more than 30 years ago.
Civic leaders in 1976 weren't issuing Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) or worrying over "hoodies" lurking on every street corner.
They were too busy demonising what would seem a much more docile danger – the Pink Panther!
Concern was raised at a meeting of the North Regional Home Safety Council, held at South Shields Town Hall, over the BBC's decision to screen the 1964 Peter Sellars movie unedited.
But it wasn't a sex scene or gratuitous violence which raised their hackles.
Fears centred on a scene in which Sellars is seen jumping out of a refrigerator.
Meeting members agreed to contact BBC bosses to express their concern at the "reckless" scene, which they feared could be copied by naive children.
Thankfully, there were no reports in the Gazette of youngsters with frost-bite being admitted to South Shields District Hospital in the days after the film's screening.
link:
www.southtynesidetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2112822&SectionID=1111
;D
IT'S curious to look back at what got our great and good hot under the collar more than 30 years ago.
Civic leaders in 1976 weren't issuing Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) or worrying over "hoodies" lurking on every street corner.
They were too busy demonising what would seem a much more docile danger – the Pink Panther!
Concern was raised at a meeting of the North Regional Home Safety Council, held at South Shields Town Hall, over the BBC's decision to screen the 1964 Peter Sellars movie unedited.
But it wasn't a sex scene or gratuitous violence which raised their hackles.
Fears centred on a scene in which Sellars is seen jumping out of a refrigerator.
Meeting members agreed to contact BBC bosses to express their concern at the "reckless" scene, which they feared could be copied by naive children.
Thankfully, there were no reports in the Gazette of youngsters with frost-bite being admitted to South Shields District Hospital in the days after the film's screening.
link:
www.southtynesidetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2112822&SectionID=1111
;D
