Jimmy Kimmel May Be Back. Trump’s Attacks on the First Amendment Aren’t Over

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In the the 1985 Letterman segment “Test the Censors,” the studio audience saw a video of a bunny humping a slipper, while the at-home audience saw the network-edited version on the right. Which brings us to Network, the 1976 film written by Paddy Chayefsky, which won him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. United Artists/Getty ImagesA few months ago, I was asked to be in a documentary about Chayefsky (Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words, which airs on HBO Oct. 1), so I re-watched his most famous work for the first time since it was released. Paddy Chayefsky saw this moment coming 50 years ago. She is the recipient of the 2020 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, the Writers Guild of America West’s highest honor for television writing.