In a message dated 7/18/99 2:55:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, erespess@inil.com writes: << you know, though - i got the feeling that it was slaughtered to edit it down to a r rating from the nc-17 it would've gotten otherwise. it seemed to me that the lack of continuity was due to the editing, not to the director's lack of vision of follow-through. did anyone else get that sense? elizabeth >> i don't think that parts of the movie were edited out.... i heard kubrick left the movie as it was.. but added images in to cover up some parts of scenes that would make the movie have the nc-17 rating.. so the movie stayed the same length.. ~marisa