Inspired simultaneously and erratically by the blog thoughts of both Stanley Lee and Ned Rorem.

Jan 14, 2003

Perhaps this is the real reason classical music isn't popular in the massive public. On a sidenote, Ebert has my ultimate respect, as always.

The restored Director's Cut of "Amadeus" opens Friday at the Landmark Century, and is in revival around the country. The one brief scene of Constanze's breasts, in medium-long shot, has inspired the flywheels at the MPAA to re-rate the movie R from its original PG. Thus high school students are discouraged from seeing this movie. Our rating system is held hostage by sick crypto-moralists. Surely PG-13 would have been adequate to advise parents of this scene, while acknowledging that anyone over 13 in America who is alarmed by the simple sight of a woman's breasts is in need of counseling (I include our attorney general).

-Roger Ebert

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