Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Chastity Watch: Beware of Naked Greeks Dancing
From today's Studio Briefing:

FCC Probes Telecast of Olympics Opening Ceremonies
The FCC, acting on "one or more indecency complaints," has asked NBC for tapes of its coverage of the opening ceremonies of the Athens Summer Olympics. According to published reports, the agency received at least one letter about naked dancers covered only in body paint who participated in the Aug. 13 show. Some reports indicated that the performance had already been heavily edited by the network before it aired and that the complaining party (or parties) may have been reacting to printed reports about it. (Leni Riefenstahl's classic 1938 documentary Olympia, Parts 1 and 2, which opens with a nude male runner carrying a torch among the ruins of Olympia, Greece, would presumably touch off a similar probe if it aired today. The documentary scene reportedly originated the modern Olympic torch ceremony.)


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