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QUICK TAKES - Jan. 15, 2009

After receiving multiple complaints about NBC’s Sunday telecast of the Golden Globes, the FCC said Wednesday that it was reviewing the program for possible violations of indecency rules.

Toward the end of the program, director Darren Aronofsky was caught on camera jokingly making an obscene gesture at Mickey Rourke, who was onstage accepting an acting award for Aronofsky’s film “The Wrestler.” Rourke and other attendees also salted their speeches with occasional off-color language, some of which was bleeped by NBC.

An NBC spokeswoman confirmed that it aired the Aronofsky gesture on the live telecast. “On the West Coast, it went to black for two seconds,” the spokeswoman e-mailed. “Beyond that, we have no further comment.”

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