Time For A Tax Revolt

I'm thinking that we don't pay anymore taxes untill the Federal Government cuts the CBC loose.

Small wonder, considering the movie features Sook-Yin Lee, the host of CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera, doing things definitely not done on camera by CBC radio hosts.

Sofia, the orgasm-challenged "relationship counsellor" played by Lee is not only seen having vigorously athletic real sex with her husband (played by Raphael Barker), she also engages in various forms of auto-erotic stimulation to try to get past the portals of the big O.

Mitchell's movie, which features an ensemble of actors playing New Yorkers who are experiencing lots of (graphic) sex but little intimacy, has enough explicit activity that it will inevitably be charged with pornography (a label which the director strenuously disavows). But the sex is intended to be incidental to the movie's larger issue, which is an epidemic crisis of emotional detachment in a world steeped, in Mitchell's words, "in the fear of sex.''

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As for the good old grey CBC, Lee was understandably diplomatic in her account of how her superiors reacted when they learned she was going to appear in a movie doing things that might reflect controversially on the public broadcaster.

"There was confusion and fear on the part of my bosses when I originally was cast in the movie," she admitted. "The bottom line was, they had to answer to the public," Lee explained. "And the fear was the public would be outraged, that we would be talking candidly about our sexuality, about our desire to connect, about all these things. They thought the world is not ready for this, there's going to be a backlash, and in reality the backlash was people coming to the fore and saying, 'Wait a minute this should exist.'"

"It was the most beautiful thing because in the end my bosses just went `Phew, you are allowed to do this. Go do it. There are no restraints on you whatsoever, we're really proud of you.'"

Besides, when you get right down to it (so to speak), what Lee's character gets up to in the movie is pretty mild compared to certain other activities, such as a three-way, all-male engagement — which brought the house down at the screening — involving the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" into a man's rectum. [...]

I'm gratefull this isn't a CBC production but having the CBC endorse it is completely unconsionable. I don't think we, as taxpayers, should be paying their salaries anymore.