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Teen seeks to change ‘Bully’ rating

LOS ANGELES

A teen activist has collected more than 200,000 signatures in an effort to change the R rating of the teen-focused documentary “Bully,” but she says the Motion Picture Association of America doesn’t want to make the change.

Katy Butler, 17, met Wednesday with MPAA officials and delivered four boxes of papers containing the signatures she collected online. She is urging the organization to change the film’s rating from R to PG-13 so more young people can see it.

Monkees won’t attend Davy Jones’ funeral

LOS ANGELES

Davy Jones’ funeral will not be the stage for a reunion of his former Monkees bandmates, according to the group’s Micky Dolenz, who said his understanding was that the family wanted to keep the service “low-key” and avoid a “media circus.”

Dolenz told Billboard.com that if he, Peter Tork or Mike Nesmith were to show up by themselves or together, “it would very quickly be degraded into something that I don’t think his immediate family would want to deal with.”

The three had, however, spoken with one another since Jones’ death, he said, and were all “in shock.”

Jones died of a heart attack Feb. 29. He was 66.

Vindicator wire services