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...Saturday-morning-TV star's arrest in a Florida porno-movie theater is reminiscent of some other famous figures who have been caught in shamemaking situations...
With POISON, Todd Haynes has people swearing at him -- the right people, if you're looking for notoriety. Donald Wildmon, head of the right-wing American Family Association, has condemned Haynes' film for its "porno scenes of homosexuals." And the Advocate, a gay biweekly, has reported that the campaign against Poison was stoked by White House chief of staff John Sununu in hopes of embarrassing John Frohnmayer, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, which helped fund the film...
...rumored to be cruising for an adults-only rating. The X was the forbidden zone, which strong directors could fight, sometimes successfully, to avoid. The NC-17 is different: a limbo rating. Will the board award it more freely? Will the studios declare it taboo? What if a cynical porno distributor submits his hard-core film for a rating and gets the same NC-17? Will publishers and theater owners, seeing the designation as a new euphemism for X, allow movies so rated to be advertised and exhibited? So far, nobody knows...
...These are scenes from a porno movie made in the '50s. It was shot in a nightclub called La Rose Rouge...
...played in a couple of teen bands, wrote for gardening and porno magazines, worked in a doughnut shop and acquired the close-up view of life along the fault line that shapes and colors his songs. He and Ricketts had been making demos of a few tunes, and one of their tapes landed flukily at A&M Records. Boomtown was born out of that tape...