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...more than I hate racism...and I hate racism. I guess this is what I mean, really. BL: We all know that “March Madness” is just an expression, but do you ever fear actual insanity? CT: Last year I cursed off my mom when NC State lost to an incredibly unethical Wisconsin team and then I cried tears of sorrow when KU lost to Bucknell. So yeah, that is a legitimate fear of mine. BL: Duke’s J.J. Redick has established himself as something of a poet. You are a self-proclaimed freestyle...
...Which is fine for a leisurely read, but at 24 frames a second--movie speed--that can cause whiplash. Not to mention total incomprehension. Plus the book had some gnarly violence, and it took place mostly in strip clubs. If the MPAA rated books, that one would have been NC...
...There’s lots of crying, yelling, strange behavior, and kinky sex (a personal favorite for weirdness is the drugged-out scene between Karen and a girl dressed as Alice in Wonderland)—enough of the latter for the MPAA to slap the movie with an NC-17 rating. Underneath all that, however, is a simplistic whodunit (was it the loose cannon? The straight arrow? The butler?) without too many character nuances getting in the way. Scenes with the mother of the dead girl, intended to add a more human dimension to the murder, tend toward...
...that a studio had the balls to get it out there. THC: Your film seems outwardly similar to films like “A Civil Action” or “Erin Brockovich.” How do you distinguish your film from the variety of courtroom dramas? NC: How I distinguish this from a great film like “Erin Brockovich” is sex. I feel that the issue of the film was pretty unsexy and the lead character was very sexy. I mean, Julia Roberts in a pushup bra—you take notice, right...
...film version of this collection of Anais Nin’s diaries was the first movie to receive a NC-17 rating. But that was the sex without the pathos and the writing. In 1931, Nin meets exuberant masculinist writer Henry Miller (“Tropic of Cancer”) and his bisexual spitfire of a wife June, and Nin immediately falls for her beauty and his writing. June soon leaves, allowing the married Nin to begin an affair with Henry, which leads to her complete sexual awakening. It is an emotional and captivating true narrative matched perfectly by Nin?...