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I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

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By summer of 1966, the national scene was marked by insurrection on the campus, riots in the streets, rise in women's liberation, protest of the young, doubts about the institution of marriage, abandonment of old guiding slogans, and the crumbling of social traditions. It would have been foolish to believe that movies, that most creative of art forms, could have remained unaffected by the change and torment in our society.
The result of all this was the emergence of a "new kind" of American movie — frank and open, and made by filmmakers subject to very few self-imposed restraints.


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We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.

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Born: September 5, 1921
Died: April 26, 2007 (aged 85)
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