Trailers Trashed

The Motion Picture Association of America, the equivalent of our British Board of Film Classification, has got up in arms, not about a couple of feature films, but the trailers for them. Although the MPAA had previously passed the trailer for the Warren Beatty/Garry Shandling comedy Town and Country, it got an attack of cold feet when someone finally realised that the phrase "muff diver" was a little bit ruder than they first imagined. Although the film's producers, New Line Cinema, were asked to pull the trailer, they refused, and it's still corrupting young minds all over America. The other victim of the MPAA's ruling was Saving Silverman, a romantic comedy starring Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black and Amanda Peet. Director Dennis Dugan was required to digitally impose a pair of blue underpants onto a yoga-practicing Zahn, and to cover up Peet's expansive cleavage, which cost him a cool $30,000. Dugan told Entertainment Weekly that he backed down and made the changes because once you "finally have a trailer that tests great, you