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By Harvey F. Chartrand
Michael Moriarty, who starred in such classic films as Who’ll Stop the Rain and Pale Rider, exiled himself to Canada in 1995, following a nasty confrontation with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in a Washington, D.C. hotel room. Moriarty was invited along with network television executives and producers to hear Reno’s views on censorship of TV violence. Law and Order, one of the least violent shows on television, was cited as a major offender. Incensed by Reno's campaign to “forcibly end violence on television and trample on rights of free expression as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution,” Moriarty quit the series and left the U.S. in protest. He has been a landed immigrant in Canada ever since. Why the fateful encounter with Reno led to a radical (and seemingly overnight) transformation of Moriarty’s...
By Harvey F. Chartrand
Michael Moriarty, who starred in such classic films as Who’ll Stop the Rain and Pale Rider, exiled himself to Canada in 1995, following a nasty confrontation with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in a Washington, D.C. hotel room. Moriarty was invited along with network television executives and producers to hear Reno’s views on censorship of TV violence. Law and Order, one of the least violent shows on television, was cited as a major offender. Incensed by Reno's campaign to “forcibly end violence on television and trample on rights of free expression as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution,” Moriarty quit the series and left the U.S. in protest. He has been a landed immigrant in Canada ever since. Why the fateful encounter with Reno led to a radical (and seemingly overnight) transformation of Moriarty’s...
- 8/7/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Dean Jones fathered a love child last year, it has been reported. The retired Australian cricketer, who has daughters Phoebe and Isabella with wife of 24 years Jane, has been stripped of his Father of the Year title after it was revealed that he had a ten-year affair with a model. Kerri-Anne Hamilton, who first met Jones in 1998, told A Current Affair that she was "disappointed" when Jones rejected her son Koby when he was born in August last (more)...
- 7/21/2010
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
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