CBS Special: Siskel & Ebert Special, May 21 1990
Danny Devito, David Lynch, War of the Roses, Mel Gibson, Hamlet, Kathleen Turner, Jack Valenti, Body Heat, Jewel on the Nile, Prizzi’s Honor, Crimes of Passion, Roger Rabbit, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, White Hunter Black Heart.
Roger and Gene bring up the rating system again. They talk to director Zalman King who directed Wild Orchid. King showed were the film was edited to get an R rating. Roger seemed to put King at unease in suggesting the film was pornographic. Roger talks to Jack Valenti about ratings.
Some pretty cool Eastwood and Turner footage not seen anywhere else.
Jack Valenti was an idiot.
It seems like to me that Siskel and Elbert should be members and presidents of the ratings board rather Jack idioti because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about it, and as for the lawyers who they’re shouldn’t be two ratings they can just take their comments and shove it because they’re solution is not better either.