Word: flynt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that literary liberals so often try to make romantic martyrs out of people they feel compelled to defend? Take Larry Flynt, whose sleazy porn magazine Hustler has run afoul of a Cincinnati obscenity prosecution in a way that does outrageous violence to press freedom. A full-page ad in the New York Times, signed by, among others, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean, wasn't willing to leave it at that. In black block letters three inches high, it proclaimed, LARRY FLYNT: AMERICAN DISSIDENT. This label was enough to move the Times...
...eighth-grade dropout who ran away from his old Kentucky home at age 14, Flynt joined the Army, then the Navy, worked the night shift at a General Motors assembly plant and, at the advanced age of 21, went bankrupt. He moved to Columbus, and a few years later, was the proprietor of eight Hustler Club bars. He eventually sold the chain, but not before turning its four-page newsletter into Hustler...
Paunchy, amiable and given to wearing an American-flag pin on the jacket of his colorful leisure suits, Flynt today commands an enterprise that occupies parts of two Columbus office buildings and has more than 150 employees. Associate publisher and chief aide is Althea Leasure, 23, whose prior publishing experience consisted of posing nude for an early Hustler. Larry and Althea, who were married last August, occupy a 27-room Columbus mansion in which they have installed a swimming pool, gold plumbing fixtures, a heart-shaped bathtub and three servants...
...Flynt remains a puritan about his work. He puts in 18-hour days, personally approves all Hustler and Chic photo layouts and edits many manuscripts himself. "When I see a long word that I don't know, I take it out," he says. Lately Flynt has hired experienced editors to help him, waged a high-minded campaign against smoking and scored a minor coup by signing Norman Mailer to do an interview with John Ehrlichman-for $12,500. Untaken offers include $1 million each to Gloria Steinem, Raquel Welch, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Barbara Walters, among others, to pose...
...Though Flynt is hopeful about having his conviction reversed on appeal, he may be spending time in still other courtrooms. He faces obscenity charges in Cleveland; indictments for sodomy, bribery and disseminating material harmful to juveniles in Cincinnati; and a $10 million breach-of-contract suit from Hustler's former national newsstand distributor. Meanwhile, representatives of the Indianapolis vice squad were at the Cincinnati trial gathering inspiration for their own possible obscenity case against Flynt...