Essay: Casablanca In Color? I'm Shocked, Shocked!

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But if so, let the great black-and-white crusaders stand up and boycott and protect us from other debased and debasing junk in our culture. Otherwise, we have a right to conclude that they are not serious, just a bunch of effetes moved by nostalgia, snobbery and fear. A Puritan, goes the old joke, is a person who lives in mortal fear that someone somewhere is having fun. A Hollywood Puritan is a person who lives in mortal fear that someone somewhere is watching Ingrid Bergman blush red in Rick's Cafe.

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CARRIE PREJEAN, former Miss California, telling Fox's Sean Hannity about an explicit videotape she made as a teenager for a former boyfriend
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