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Larry Flynt is small potatoes these days. His visit to Seattle came with nary a mention, aside from the Daily Weekly blog, which reports that he arrived at Boeing Field yesterday to meet with law students at Seattle University. His visit was sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union, which wanted to give law students a chance to learn more about the First Amendment. Flynt rolled up in a gold wheelchair, sporting bad red hair dye. And one student, awe-struck, called him a "living legend." In the end though, the Daily Weekly says he's a worthy source of inspiration, writing: "If sex doesn’t suffer the same censorship as it did in the eighties, free speech may still need protection in a country where for years after the September 11 attacks, journalists and opinion makers who questioned the evidence leading us into war were branded disloyal and unpatriotic."
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The People vs. Larry Flynt is not a documentary but a parable on the value of free speech. Free speech is the crucible that separates the truth from the fabric of lies woven by the powerful. Trent Lott's call on Face the Nation for legal action against the New York Times for publishing Newt Gingrich's cynical manipulation only shows how relevant this topic is today. The Kafkan Farce now being played in Congress only show's how Orwell's 1984 has come and nobody's noticed.
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Now, in the summer of 2004, Larry Flynt has a memoir in the bookstores called Sex, Lies & Politics: The Naked Truth. The book begins with several American soldiers selling him topless pictures of Jessica Lynch (taken at Fort Bliss, Texas) for an undisclosed amount of money. Flynt tells how he paid them their 30 pieces of silver, and then put Jessica's photographs away in his drawer forever.
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Larry Flynt, seen here attending the premiere of The People Vs. Larry Flynt, recently had an outhouse liaison with his own mother (inset). Flynt has vowed to fight himself in court over the sex act, which he called "unconscionable and sick."
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Telling the story of Larry Flynt, the unsympathetic character behind Hustler magazine, was always going to be a hard job. However, Foreman's movie manages to pull it off thanks to great jobs from all round. It starts with a brief clip of Flynt's early life as a boy, peddling booze to redneck farmers and throwing a jug at his father, who's drunk all his wares. Fastforward to his strip joints where he meets feisty, unpredictable but undeniably sexy Althea (Love). Before long they've set up Hustler magazine and not long after that they find themselves in a series of court cases concerning the decency of Flynt's publication. The story really switches gears though when Flynt is gunned down by a sniper's bullet, leading to his Althea's drug addiction and Flynt's increasing eccentricity.
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Larry Flynt won an important Supreme Court decision, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, in 1988, after having been sued by Jerry Falwell in 1983 over an offensive ad parody in Hustler that featured Falwell. The ad suggested that Falwell's first sexual encounter was with his mother in an out-house. Falwell sued Flynt citing emotional distress caused by the ad, but lost in court. The decision clarified that public figures cannot recover damages for, "intentional infliction of emotional distress" based on parodies.
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