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last as long- as anyone will watch It. Bikinis are commonplace, hut overly-exposed bosoms still evoke a negative shake of the head from Slmr-lock, as likely to arouse Impressionable males unduly.“There was a time when we fought desperately to hide the feminine nave 1, Sliurlock said, laughing. “Now it’s the first thing you see in a lot of movies. But movies didn’t start that trend. Women themselves displayed * their navels publicly before we followed suit on the screen.*In 1959 pictures from France and England showed girls in bikinis. We re-edited the scones because ‘we thought they were extreme, and said so in letters to the studios on standards'of nudity.Then one day I looked in a department store window and the manikins were wearing bikinis. After that we quit writing letters about Bikinis.” According' to Shnrlock the code now follows fashions and mores.“If there comes a time when absolute nudity is accepted by the public,11 he said, “then it will be followed in movies;. Changes on the screen are brought about by the public going way ahead of the code restrictions. We have to catch up to stay-in business,'JThe code of the MPAA may not be in business much longer if studios continue lo skirt the organization and the code.It's a simple matter. A major studio makes a picture depicting a nude couple embraced In the love act. Its
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Pasadena, California, US
Sun, Apr 14, 1968
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