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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000058.txt from 2006/02

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day...Is Opera Next?
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:57:44 -0500


By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer

NEW YORK Feb 7, 2006 (AP)=E2=80=94 Nobody turns off the microphone on Mick =20=
Jagger=20
without a fight. Censorship of their songs during the Super Bowl halftime s=
how=20
was "absolutely ridiculous and completely unnecessary," the Rolling Stones =20
said through a spokeswoman on Tuesday.=20
=20
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=E2=80=9CWe live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own t=
hought =20
police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression=20=
of =20
dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial =20
viability."
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-David Mamet (1947) American playwright
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