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Swearing on stage was officially banned by the Act to Restraine Abuses of Players in 1606, and a general ban on swearing followed in 1623. In some cases the original meanings of these minced oaths were forgotten; 'struth (By God's truth) came to be spelled 'strewth and zounds changed pronunciation so that it no longer sounded like By God's wounds.
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Grawlix in a speech bubble. Grawlix (/ ˈ ɡ r ɔː l ɪ k s /) or obscenicon is the use of typographical symbols to replace profanity.Mainly used in cartoons and comics, [1] [2] it is used to get around language restrictions or censorship in publishing.
It’s no surprise, then, that Herjavec’s cardinal rule of business travel has to do with packing: “Business travel rule number 101— never check a bag, don’t ever do it!”
Nicole Kidman is one of the few big-time movie stars who can still surprise us. In Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, she plays Romy, a top executive at an Amazon-type company, who has everything she ...
Presumed dead, Connery’s 007 gets a Japanese makeover that stops the film dead in its tracks. Which is a shame, because otherwise this is pretty kick-ass stuff (from a Roald Dahl script, no less ...
In a ruling announced July 13, 2010, the U.S.Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the FCC indecency policy on fleeting expletives. Calling it "unconstitutionally vague", the unanimous three-judge panel found the policy could infringe upon the constitutionally protected First Amendment freedom of speech.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An unhappy example of how not to adapt a popular novel, with a badly constructed script relying on voice-overs for explanations that could easily be included in the action and raising issues and sub-plots that are never pursued. Characterisation is minimal (the actors coming a poor second to the attractively ...