Kevin Bacon claims the "Today" show bumped him from a scheduled interview segment after producers realized the movie he was promoting was rated NC-17 because of a gay sex scene.

The kiss-of-death rating was assigned to director Atom Egoyan's "Where the Truth Lies" over a steamy scene involving Bacon and Colin Firth. "They had me booked on the 'Today' show today, and they canceled it because of the NC-17 rating," Bacon said on Howard Stern's radio show. "And I come to find out that none of the other morning shows will have me on."

A spokeswoman for "Today" said, "While we always enjoy having Kevin Bacon on the show, in this case he was never booked to appear." Bacon suspects that homophobia was behind the movie's NC-17 rating: "If that scene didn't end with a homosexual act, would the ratings board have given us the NC-17? I don't know. I can't answer that because I'm not behind closed doors."

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Posted by Lawren at October 10, 2005 08:39 AM | Trackbacks (0)

You Said

The more conservative this fucking country gets, the more sadistically puritanical and two-faced it becomes.

Rome is dead.

Vesuvius is dead.

Sodom and Gamorrah is gone.

Las Vegas is next... think about it, folks.

Nice.

Says: Johnny Chicago at October 10, 2005 07:36 PM

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Ummm...hi. I am still alive - and just wanted to say...

A steamy scene between Bacon and COLIN FIRTH?????

Colin is just so yummy, I don't care who he gets steamy with...I'm just sayin'.

Says: Kelly P. at October 11, 2005 08:34 AM

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