Cuomo Backs PG-13 Rating for Moore Film

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NEW YORK (AP) - Mario Cuomo has been hired by the distributors of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" in their effort to get a PG-13 rating instead of an R.

"I'm going to do everything I possibly can to get this picture advanced," said the former New York governor, a Democrat who has been a lawyer in private practice since being defeated in a bid for a fourth term in 1994.

A screening by the Motion Picture Association of America's appeals board has been set for June 22, just three days before the movie hits theaters. But the film's distributors, Lions Gate Films and IFC Films, are trying to move that screening up to this week to expedite a decision.

The MPAA ratings board gave the documentary - which is critical of President Bush's response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks - an R rating for "violent and disturbing images and for language." The film's images include a beheading in Saudi Arabia, Iraqis burned by napalm and an Iraqi man dumping a dead baby into a truckbed loaded with bodies.

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1. If he has to water down the content he shouldn't do it

Keep the gore in the movie. Most theaters are selective about enforcing the age limit anyway, and not too many open-minded parents forbid teenagers from attending R rated movies.