the first emo kid?

Did you know the lyrics for "Suicide is Painless" were written by Robert Altman's (the director of the MASH movie) son who was fourteen at the time?

OK, they're nothing deep as lyrics, but the funny thing is his kid made over a million dollars for song-writing credit, while Robert got paid $70K to direct the movie. Wow.

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This parents' guide for whether or not to let their kids see Sin City is pretty funny; they detail each scene of violence, which does a pretty good job of summarizing the movie: http://www.kids-in-mind.com/s/sincity.htm

Also: "DISCUSSION TOPICS - Murder, revenge, love, torture, cannibalism, law and order, corruption, psychopaths, being framed for murder, child molestation, rape, serial killing, torment, pity, racism, humiliation. MESSAGE - Love can grow even out of the darkest circumstances."

That's not exactly the message I got, but whatever.

All in all, though, it's a good resource and their scheme (re-calibrated for general use) should be used instead of the current ratings. Their dataset would also be nice to run a regression on, to use their more detailed descriptions (including interactions) as predictors for receiving an R-or-worse rating. It's obvious that sex will "matter" more than violence, but we could also model time trends, and look for interactions (does a religious theme make profanity better or worse, &c.).