Word: flynt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blame the guy. If the choice were to go down as either the publisher of cheap porn or a First Amendment activist, you'd be trying to get arrested too. So Larry Flynt returned to Cincinnati to martyr himself again. The Ohio city, where Flynt was arrested on obscenity charges in 1977, is called Censornati by free-speech crusaders, and is one of the few smut-free zones in the country. Enforcement is so strict that residents had to drive to Kentucky to see Paula Jones naked in Penthouse. Trying to catch the eye of the Cincinnati police, Flynt handed...
...Flynt wants to prove that the obscenity exception to the First Amendment, as defined in the Supreme Court decision in Miller v. California, is bogus. The 1973 case allows local communities to determine what is acceptable. Flynt argues that even in Cincinnati, Americans no longer find much of anything to be obscene. In a society where anything can be downloaded on the Internet, where Bernard Shaw uses the F word on CNN and where one of Jerry Springer's most popular returning guests is a porn star famous for having sex with 300 people in one day, what can possibly...
...Deters, the young Hamilton County prosecutor who scored the indictment against Flynt last Tuesday, thinks he knows an obscene film when he sees one. "There's no pretense of a plot here; there's not even any music," he says. Citing one of Flynt's legal arguments that these videos are used as marital aids, he laughs and says: "Couples use these as marital aids? Yeah, right. Bring them in. Because we'd like to ask them some questions...
...Ford in Air Force One, Bill Pullman in Independence Day--the Commander in Chief as somebody who can do a nice head butt. Musclehead or sex fiend--that's not much of a choice. Before long the only guys suitable for the part will be Jackie Chan and Larry Flynt...
Most antihero movies wuss out. Studios figure that audiences need someone to root for, that the real Larry Flynt, say, would be too unpleasant to watch for two hours. But the TNT mini-series George Wallace (Aug. 24 and 26, 8 p.m. ET), like its subject, isn't afraid to give it to you straight, unpleasantness...