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Alfred Kinsey: James Jones
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Condon's film - which stars another Oscar nominee, Laura Linney, as Kinsey's more free-spirited wife, Clara - is a bit more serious. Condon, 49, was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for his screenplay for Chicago and won an Oscar four years ago for his script for Gods and Monsters, a cleverly original biopic of a lesser 1950s-era personality, the Hollywood horror director James Whale. Condon ... directed the movie in which Ian McKellen played Whale.
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[R]eporting was not what Kinsey was about. In fact, right and wrong, the moral imperative of thwarting evil, and protecting the innocent and vulnerable didn’t seem to occupy any part of the coldly relativistic pseudo-scientist’s priority list. As James H. Jones, a pro-Kinsey biographer wrote, “Kinsey wanted his staff to know that as scientists, they are not bound by bourgeois morality.”
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Paul Gebhard, an associate of Kinsey's who was a major source for the two biographers and is played in the film by Timothy Hutton, calls both books "reasonably accurate." But he calls Mr. Jones's "definitive" and notes that it includes interviews with sources who died before Mr. Gathorne-Hardy could reach them.
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Kinsey, always portrayed in the press as a wholesome "leave it to Beaver" style family man, was "one of the scholarly eugenicists of pre-World War II", according to biographer James Jones. Kinsey recommended that a portion of the "lower classes" be sterilized to foster a more robust gene pool.
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