Where Does This Leave Sam Peckinpah?

"We could condone showing the murder of three, four or five people, but when tens of thousands are being burned ... Egyptian audiences couldn't bear it."

-- Chief Egyptian censor Hamdy Sorour, explaining why he was forced to ban Schindler's List last week

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