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SMOTHERED: THE CENSORSHIP STRUGGLES OF THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR (DVD)

By | September 2003

The Smothers Brothers may have been flawed pioneers, but their impact on the shifting changes in American cultural perceptions need to be recalled and this film does a fine job in paying tribute to their contribution…

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SMOTHERED: THE CENSORSHIP STRUGGLES OF THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR (DVD)

During the late 1960s, the Smothers Brothers were the unlikely center of a major controversy. Tom and Dick Smothers had gained enough popularity over the...

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Some of my favorite movies are the kind that leave you scratching your head once they’re finished. Movies so strange that you couldn’t, for the life...

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I can only presume that the creators of “Arachnia” want viewers to think of this latest “giant spider” movie as “so bad it’s good”. Well,...

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