Queen mother of curses gets its due, sort of.(Time Out!)(Movie critic)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November, 2006

Byline: Dann Gire - The F-word might be the queen mother of curses, but it's not profanity, a semantic point grossly ignored by the celebrity "experts" in Steve Anderson's bluntly titled documentary "F*ck." To be profane, one must insult God, Mohammed, Buddha or some other divine entity by taking that deity's name in vain.

The F-word is crude, but it doesn't profane deities. Glad we cleared that up. Meanwhile, Anderson's doc might not be a scholarly analysis of the F-word, but it gives us some history and the role the word plays in politics and culture today. Nobody really knows where the F-word came from. The assumption that it's an acronym for "Fornication Under Command of the King" is untrue, according to Anderson's language experts. What they do know...