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"Beauty" Kiss Banned from MTV
The studio behind Oscar-winning Best Pic American Beauty has refused to let MTV use a clip of the film's creepy lip-locking for the network's ninth annual Movie Awards, despite the smooch snagging a viewers' nomination for best onscreen buss.
Awards show producer Joel Gallen says the nomination was yanked because DreamWorks disapproved.
"They wouldn't clear it for us. It's a shame," Gallen says. "We generate nominees by viewer survey, and that came in the top five, but the only way it works is if we get the clips. Obviously, it was a very controversial kiss, and DreamWorks felt it was out of context without being part of the overall movie."
In case you missed it, American Beauty's questionable kiss features Spacey sharing some un-fatherly quality time with his daughter's high school friend, played by Suvari (yes, the one under those strategically placed rose petals). The film went on to take both the Golden Globes and Academy Awards by storm, thanks in part to DreamWorks' massive marketing campaign.
A DreamWorks spokesperson said the studio didn't want the scene glorified by MTV's light-hearted award.
"It's inappropriate to celebrate a relationship between a 16-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man within the context of a 'Best Kiss' clip," the rep (who requested anonymity) says. "Within the context of the entire movie, the relationship is made clear, and the kiss is seen as inappropriate."
Gallen says he went to the film's producers to get the clip okayed, but a final decision remained up in the air until the last minute. Entertainment Weekly even included Suvari and Spacey's tonsil tag in its "exclusive" early list of best kissers.
But the smooch was conspicuously missing when nominations were announced Monday.
Instead, the list was pared down to four picks: gender-bender Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny in Boys Don't Cry; Sarah Michelle Gellar and kissing-trainee Selma Blair in Cruel Intentions; Katie Holmes and Barry Watson for Teaching Mrs. Tingle; and Drew Barrymore and Michael Vartan in Never Been Kissed.
Overall, The Matrix and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me led this year's nominations, with six each. The typically raucous awards show will be taped June 3 and aired on MTV June 8 at 9 p.m. Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker is slated to host.
Despite the snub, American Beauty still snagged two MTV nominations, and the studio did allow producers to use video clips for the best movie and breakthrough male performance (Wes Bentley) categories. Odds are Spacey won't lose too much sleep over his dissed kiss, seeing that a golden box of popcorn seems a tad out of place on a mantel next to two Oscars.
So what would DreamWorks make of Suvari's honeymoon? After all, the 21-year-old actress tied the knot just last month with 38-year-old cinematographer, Robert Brinkmann. (Of course, she's not really in high school, and he's not the father of her best friend.)
"I think they just felt that it's a bad thing to run on MTV 10 times a day, three days a week," Gallen adds. "I was very disappointed, but what are you going to do?"
Just kiss it off.
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