Chris Columbus on KGO 810 AM with Bernie Ward

Unfortunately I missed more than half of this broadcast last night and woke up to this. Anyone else in the Bay Area catched it?

What I remembered was that Columbus told KGO listeners that he was pushing the PG-13 rating because he wanted younger audiences (obviously age 13+) to see the movie, because he wanted those viewers to have the opportunity to see the film, because nothing is like Rent out there.

I kinda vaguely remember that he mentioned a tough time with the MPAA and fear that the film almost got the R rating. Now here's my Q. Was this film intentionally 'watered down' for his push PG-13 rating? Geez, I wished I heard the whole interview. If anyone heard this broadcast, could someone speak of this more or confirm this?

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Ah...A KGO listener...you rock! Bernie told his listeners that he loved the film and encourages everyone to see it. He also took his 2 kids (I don't recall their ages, maybe teens?) and they too love the film and cried.

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I listen to KSTE and KCBS more than KGO, but yes. :)

I haven't seen Rent yet, but hopefully next week.

Interesting thing I learned tonight at Thanksgiving -- my 15-year-old cousin wants to see it, and was supposed to see it last night but it fell through. As far as I know, he's never been interested in musicals except for a brief time in 1997 when he watched the Les Miz TAC whenever it was on KQED. It just never occurred to me that he'd ever be interested in Rent, so I was happy.

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Nope, we were both in an appetizer-induced stupor, and watching a bad movie. But he did say he was going to go with a bunch of friends.

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Friggin schweeeeet! And a transcript to boot too? Blue moon, you are way to coool. Tell him he rocks and that I and others will continue to be on the listening end always!

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