1966 (The Valenti Papers)/ the one after 909

.Warner Brothers studio executives sat down to look at a rough cut of  Edward Albee's"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf *without music,  a Life magazine reporter was present. He printed the following quote from one of the studio chiefs: "My God! We've got a seven million dollar dirty movie on our hands!"

The film was considered groundbreaking for having a level of profanity and sexual implication unheard of at that time. Jack Valenti, who had just become president of the MPAA in 1966, had abolished the old Production Code. In order for the film to be released with MPAA approval, Warner Brothers  agreed to deletions of certain profanities and to have a special warning placed on all advertisements for the film, indicating adult content. In addition, all contracts with theatres exhibiting the film included a clause to prohibit anyone under the age of 18 from admittance without adult supervision. Even the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP) refused to "condemn" the film, with the office ruling it as "morally unobjectionable for adults, with reservations." It was this film and another groundbreaking film, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up , that led Jack Valenti to begin work on the MPAA film rating system that went into effect on November 1, 1968.

*according to insiders (and Albee himself) "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" was about what is often referred to as organized gang stalking., in one of Albee's last interviews{removed from a web site that included the interview in 2013} Albee suggested that "Rosemary's Baby" was about the same subject...Albee suggested that Ira  Levin like he was "encouraged" to write "a certain way" about "certain things" as-- 'inside joke for various new organizations and affiliates'. Nobody ,at the time[Albee claimed] knew" what one was getting into nor what they could never get out of..."