Concerned that artist Andy Warhol was involved in the interstate transportation of obscene material--in this case his movie "Lonesome Cowboys"--the FBI once sent two of its agents to scope the film during a San Francisco festival. Though not as polished as Pauline Kael or Roger Ebert, the agents still get two thumbs up for delivering this marvelously entertaining report. Prosecutors in New York, Georgia, and Arizona subsequently declined to prosecute Warhol on obscenity charges. For more fantastic FBI film criticism, go here or here. (4 pages)

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