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YOUTH EXPRESS Albuquerque Journal Friday, August 18, 1995 B4: Kids9 assaelts emotiops with hopeless tele "I want people to see the film. So I'm a little disappointed so many people think it's a controversial film, including those who haven 't seen u. DIRECTOR LARRY CLARK Parents may be turned off by the subject matter, and their children are not likely to see any "Kids" ads on TV they're too expensive, and many stations won't advertise unrated films. "I want people to see the film," Clark says. "So I'm a little disappointed so many people think it's a controversial film, including those who haven't seen it." Those who do see it, however, are bound to be troubled by "Kids." For parents, the movie is sure to bring a much darker meaning to the question, "Do you know where your kids are?" To get around the dilemma Miramax founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein set up a new company called Excalibur Films.

The new enterprise, funded by the Weinsteins, acquired "Kids" from Miramax, is marketing and distributing it. Excalibur ostensibly is completely separate from Miramax (and hence Disney), but a person who is working on the film said some Miramax employees are working on "Kids." Harvey Weinstein did not respond to repeated interview requests. Miramax's biggest challenge may rest in finding an audience for the film. from PAGE B1 should be grateful for the decision." The film's distributor appealed the rating without success and is releasing "Kids" unrated. Because the distributor, a small independent, is not a member of the MPAA, it is not required to place ratings on its films.

Beyond its subject matter, what makes "Kids" particularly disturbing is the film's pseudodocumentary style and the apparent young age of its cast. Despite the movie's improvisational feel, the story was tightly Miramax Films, the art-house division of the Walt Disney Co. Miramax bought the film last year for $3.5 million. Disney is contractually prohibited from releasing unrated movies, and has forbidden Miramax to handle films with the adults-only NC-17 scripted. The performers, while not professionals, were paid actors, and those involved in sex scenes were all 16 years or older, says Vachon.

"No kids were actually having sex," Vachon says. "Kids" was originally to be distributed by Vivid odor memory can't put a name to what we smell ufhn BY JOEL ACHENBACH filings are hooked up to the rest of the brain differently than, say, visual memory is the olfactory system is hooked up to the primitive, emotional part of the brain, where visual input is linked to the more highly evolved language circuits of the brain." Most people can't summon odor images the way they can summon visual images. Most people remember childhood smells only when they smell them anew. (It's the secret reason people have kids to play with their old toys again.) 1995, Washington Post Writers Group al. Smells that remind us of Mom's cooking are great, even if Mom's cooking was objectively terrible.

We like the smell of Band-Aids because it reminds us of someone taking care of us. Marcia Levin Pelchat, an experimental psychologist at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, says a survey of older Americans found many who did not like the smell of oil of clove (eugenol), even though most people would agree that cloves smell good. The reason: Before World War II, it was commonly used as an anesthetic by dentists. is the intensity, the vividness, of the smell. Yet, paradoxically, you might not be able to name the source of the smell if you were blindfolded and someone waved Play-Doh under your nose.

You would instantly register the familiarity of the smell, but you might struggle to put a name to it. This is the tip-of-the-nose phenomenon, Pelchat says. It's not that we have poor odor memory clearly we have excellent memory of the odor itself but rather the part of the brain that remembers smells is completely different from the part of the brain that names smells. Odor memory "seems to be have any innate preference for certain smells? That's a controversial area. The orthodoxy has been that we learn to like or dislike specific odors.

Preferred tastes, on the other hand such as the love of sweets are thought to be with us from day one. But there are those who say there's a genetic component to smell preferences. Pelchat's colleague, Charles Wysocki, thinks that if smell preferences arent genetically encoded, at the least they are established much earlier in infancy than had previously been supposed. What is amazing about Play-Doh Q. Why does Play-Doh smell so great? A.

It is perhaps the best smell on the planet. Better than honeysuckle on the vine, better than bread baking in the oven, better than bucket-loads of Velveeta melted on chips at a matinee of a Stallone movie. But does Play-Doh have an objectively pleasant scent, or do we merely like it because it reminds us of childhood? (This is presuming that as an adult you have found other things to keep you occupied, like medical bills and Mylanta.) The probable reason that Play-Doh smells really great is because the odor is associated with happy memories. It reminds us of the carefree time of youth when no one was giving us a test or making us play the violin in front of strangers. We like childhood smells in gener- The bigger question is: Do we ft 4 i rW.

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"If they want to see it, they'll find a way," she said of her peers, adding that many will wait to see the film when it comes out in video. And teens will find a way to'rent the video even if there are restrictions. "People who can't see it will rent it, or get an older brother or sister or friend to rent it," Serrano said. "Just like with music they tried to put an age limit on music and they couldn't do it." from PAGE B1 Some Albuquerque teens said the strict ratings- and the ensuing hype will only encourage teens to want to see the film. "If they put a label on it that says do not touch they're going to want to touch it," said Jeremy Manning, 16, a junior at Bernalillo High School.

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