Former MPAA Ratings Chief Richard Heffner Dies at 88

With him in charge, Brian De Palma's "Scarface" received a contentious X rating. Heffner also helped launch WNET-TV in New York and created and hosted the public-affairs program "The Open Mind." Richard Heffner, who spent two decades as chairman of the ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America, died Tuesday of a cerebral hemorrhage in New York. He was 88. Heffner was asked by then-MPAA president Jack Valenti to become head of the Classification and Ratings Administration in 1974...