Word: hustler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forman's "love letter" stars Woody Harrelson as Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler magazine. The movie documents the unlikely hero's court struggle and his eventual vindication by the United States Supreme Court...
Schauer based his criticism on the historical precedent of free speech cases in the United States, arguing that the film left viewers with the false impression that Falwell vs. Hustler was a landmark decision in the American legal battle over free speech...
Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, certainly has not forgotten Keating either. In the 1970s and early '80s, Keating became an antismut crusader, attacking Flynt and winning an appointment from Richard Nixon to an antipornography commission. Flynt told TIME, "The Keatings of this world are the real perverts. You can't dismiss him as someone who just wanted to take people's money; he's one of the most dangerous men in America because he is completely intolerant of others and believes he is always right...
...guilty of is bad taste," says the movie Larry Flynt, who, as portrayed by Woody Harrelson, is an outrageous but lovable American original. Judging from the film, almost the only thing that distinguishes Flynt's magazine from those of competitors like Guccione and Hugh Hefner is that Hustler's nudes are presented as nature intended, without benefit of airbrush or Vaselined camera lens. "The problem in this country," the movie Flynt proclaims, "is that sex [is considered] bad and ugly and dirty...If you don't like vaginas," he adds, "complain to the manufacturer." He means...
...Steinem and other critics, notably Hanna Rosin in the New Republic, point out that the sex in Hustler is, in fact, often portrayed as bad and ugly and dirty, with women depicted in rape fantasies, smeared with excrement, likened literally to pieces of meat. Of course, a lot of Hustler's grosser features, like the infamous woman-in-a-meat-grinder cover (glimpsed briefly in the film), are supposed to be, in perhaps the loosest sense of the word yet devised, satiric. But as is the case with a lot of humor that allegedly pokes fun at demeaning racial stereotypes...