But one of the reasons is that the show came out of the gate with absurd levels of gore (although apparently Botticelli’s naked ladies have to be blurred out because painted depictions of nipples and vaginas are disgusting, right?) and has to keep upping the ante in order to keep being...
We commissioned Brad Holland and Matt Groening (in his pre-Simpson days) and asked fashion illustrator Mats Gustafson to draw a portrait of Gore Vidal. We had fun. We hit on the idea that our regular columns should be a showcase: Sue Arnold’s funny and spiky column (think Lucy Mangan ...
The nature of the movie's content - the mind-numbing gore, violence, sexual obscenity, and graphic and disturbing imagery - meant that countries such as the UK, Australia, and New Zealand refused to even classify it, meaning it could not be legally supplied in any format. Those familiar wi...
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