chairman of Motion Picture Consulting, a group that helps filmmakers navigate the MPAA world
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Ethan Noble
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Rating the Ratings A new study out today shows that parents become desensitized to violence and sex the more they watch it -- that the more violence and sex they see in a series of movies, the less likely they are to rate the movies with R ratings. Which could tell us something about the way movies are rated. The people who rate the movies for the MPAA are just average L.A. parents after all.
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Trump says goodbye Paris Accord: What does it mean for U.S. and the planet? President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, the landmark international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Trump was to renegotiate a new deal, but will that happen?