"Henry and June", the first movie officially granted an NC-17 rating, ended up being a big box-office failure. It lost money in part because, in most cases, television, most newspapers, and later video stores would not advertise or carry the film. And besides, certain cinemas, due to pressure by politicians, self-appointed morality groups, and narrow-minded citizens, would not or could not carry NC-17 films. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s, in my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays, and in UMass/Boston's Mass Media student newspaper in the mid-90s.]
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