Word: flynt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaking, of course, of Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell. Those who are familiar with the gentlemen's reputation will no doubt recognize my interest in their eternal torment. Flynt is best known as the fat, wheelchairridden publisher of Hustler, a journal known in the obscure lexicon of the trade as a "magazine for men." "Whose souls will soon lie within Satan's dreaded clasp," the masthead should truthfully read, but no matter...
...teetotaling leader of the Moral Majority saying that he always got "sloshed" before preaching and that he had lost his virginity in an outhouse with his mother. Falwell used the ad in a direct-mail solicitation to outraged supporters who raised $800,000, but he also sued Publisher Larry Flynt for both libel and "intentional infliction of emotional distress...
...federal court jury of eight women and four men in Roanoke, Va., decided that Falwell had not been libeled because the parody was patently unbelievable. Yet in a surprising twist, it found Flynt and his magazine liable on the emotional-distress charge, awarding Falwell $200,000 in compensatory and punitive damages...
...that deals with emotional suffering is far looser than that governing libel. In general, all that is required is that the offending act be intentional, outrageous, and inflict serious emotional damage. By those measures, many political satires and cartoons could be targets. Declares Arthur Strickland, one of Flynt's attorneys: "Reagan could sue Art Buchwald. George Bush could sue Garry Trudeau. Bush could say, 'Whenever I read Doonesbury I'm a basket case for the rest of the day,' and have a cause of action. Where does it stop?" Flynt's lawyers plan...
...trial delays was caused by the insistence of CBS-TV on broadcasting an FBI videotape of De Lorean's arrest at the Sheraton Plaza La Reina hotel near the Los Angeles airport on Oct. 19, 1982. The tape had been made available by the ubiquitous and unsavory Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine. In the film, De Lorean talks with agents posing as drug dealers, fondles the coke packets and says, "It's better than gold." A door opens and a man enters. "Hi John," the stranger says folksily. "I'm Jerry West from...