No Sneezing on Delta: No "God Bless You"
Friday, January 26, 2007
My daughters are 21-months and they can say, "God Bless You." Now I must be careful not to sneeze on Delta, apparently. An overzealous editor snipped all the reference to "God" in "God Bless You" in the film "The Queen:" The word God was removed seven times in all after an inexperienced employee of a California company that edits movies for in-flight entertainment was told to take out all profanities - including any blasphemy. By mistake a bleep was inserted each time a character said God, instead of just when used as part of a profanity, according to Jeff Klein, president of Jaguar Distribution, which distributed the movie to Air New Zealand, Delta and other carriers this month. "A reference to God is not taboo in any culture that I know of," Mr Klein said. "We excise foul language, excessive violence and nudity."
Labels: Pop Culture, Religion in America
Posted by B Feiler at 3:22 PM
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