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...continued to follow O'Hair's story. They experienced a frisson when her son Bill, in whose name she originally brought suit, announced on Mother's Day 1980 that he had found God; they were vaguely aware that she was attached (as "chief speechwriter") to porn king Larry Flynt's 1984 presidential bid; they marveled at her longevity as a talk-show guest...
Frederick Shauer, Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School, and Wendy Kaminer, public policy fellow at Radcliffe College criticized Forman's film on the ground that it reconstructed Flynt as a likable champion of the first amendment...
...film] did romanticize Larry Flynt by romanticizing what his magazine does," Kaminer said. "It makes it look like defending the first amendment is easy...
Forman responded vigorously to Kaminer's contention that the film glossed over Flynt's smuttier side...
Questions from the audience ranged from how much artistic integrity Forman felt he sacrificed to Hollywood producers to whether or not he was accurate in his depiction of Flynt's story...