'Easy Rider' at 50: How the MPAA's anti-sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll plea inspired Peter Fonda to craft biker classic
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Sep 15
he actor, who died on Friday at the age of 79, was attending a film exhibition convention in Canada on Sept. 26, 1967 to promote his new LSD-fueled Roger Corman-Jack Nicholson film The Trip. Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) who was quickly developing a reputation as "morals watchdog" as the content of films was becoming edgier in the late-'60s, issued a plea to those in attendance. "And he got up there, and he said, 'My friends, and you are ...
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