MOVIES - April 13, 1989

The Motion Picture Assn. of America’s ratings board has lifted an X rating and assigned an R to “Scandal,” the Miramax film about the 1963 Profumo sex affair that rocked the British government. After losing an appeal last week to have the rating changed, the producers submitted a re-edited version of an orgy scene responsible for the X rating. Most theater chains refuse to exhibit X-rated films and some newspapers will not accept their advertisements. A spokeswoman for Miramax said the orgy scene still runs the same length and no sex acts in the original version have been omitted.