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Director David Lynch is joined by the Hollywood High School Sheiks marching band in Los Angeles, Calif., December 13, 2006.
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Allow me to recount my favorite story ever about filmmaker David Lynch, perhaps apocryphal: Lynch submits his 1999 Disney-produced film The Straight Story to the ratings bureau of the Motion Picture Association of America and gets a call back, with a man saying they are going to give it a G rating.
Lynch pauses, and asks the man to repeat that again, slowly.
About the Author
Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.
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Allow me to recount my favorite story ever about filmmaker David Lynch, perhaps apocryphal: Lynch submits his 1999 Disney-produced film The Straight Story to the ratings bureau of the Motion Picture Association of America and gets a call back, with a man saying they are going to give it a G rating.
Lynch pauses, and asks the man to repeat that again, slowly.
About the Author
Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.
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