This has gone too far. Much too far.

[pat]

I always found it obnoxious that iTunes censored words such as "rapist" and "molester" and "pedophile". It's absolutely ludicrous. These are not by any reasonable standards obscene words.

But the absolute nadir was reached today, when I saw the follow song listing : "A C**k-Eyed Optimist" from South Pacific.

As a society, we are losing control over our ability to use language -- we often veer between gratuitous use of scatological and sexual obscenity on the one hand (I am sometimes guilty of this myself) and the ridiculous censorship shown here on the other. Sheesh, people, where is your common sense? Not to mention your understanding of the English language?

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[jmhm.livejournal.com]

I just told my husband that there may actually be a reason I would watch that dreadful movie of South Pacific again (and really, what was it with those horrendous gels they had over different scenes? I saw a remastered print, so it wasn't just that they were stored in someone's shower. Let alone the completely motionless dishevelment of Mitzi Gaynor's hair - it was worth two or three viewings just to catch every time her tousle changed drastically between shots...)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the movie is not great. Did you catch the "South Pacific in Concert" on PBS with Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell?

I could listen to Mitchell sing forever, I really could.