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According to an August story from the Associated Press, Mormon communities in Utah are providing a market for bowdlerized videos of Hollywood movies. At CleanFlicks, a trio of video outlets near Provo, Ray Lines rents tapes of major-studio releases from which the sex, cursing, nudity, and extreme violence have been deleted, and in Kaysville, David Schenk’s Clean Cut Video club has 62 edited tapes for members to check out. Said Schenk, “Great movies are great because they have a great story line, not because they drop the F-bomb.”
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