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Kinsey & Ebert, At the Movies
Illinois Leader ^ | 11/19/2004 | Arlen Williams

Posted on 11/26/2004 12:26:19 PM PST by McCormick Reaper

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To: longtermmemmory
Does the EU have similar buzz outlets? Do EU movie goers have the same access to the internet, text messaging movie observations, or just finding the movie reviews?

I'm sure the lawsuit by the Greek Lawyers for Truth, so to speak, is getting buzz. But in Europe, does a homosexual tag hurt or help boxoffice? "That is the question." Probably helps in Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels....

21 posted on 11/26/2004 1:22:01 PM PST by unspun (unspun.info | Did U work your precinct, churchmembers, etc. for good votes?)
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To: DTA
So was Margaret Mead's.

What did Margaret fudge?

22 posted on 11/26/2004 1:23:19 PM PST by McCormick Reaper
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To: McCormick Reaper
Thanks for the include.
23 posted on 11/26/2004 1:24:15 PM PST by unspun (unspun.info | Did U work your precinct, churchmembers, etc. for good votes?)
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To: unspun
No Dicking Around: Bill Condon's movie about Kinsey is warm -- and plenty hot, too

This alternative weekly newspaper had a review for Kinsey and said that it was "non-judgemental", yet it sounds like much is done to demonize anyone who would speak of morals.

He lives under the thumb of a proselytizing pop (John Lithgow), who believes everything made by man leads to sin -- especially the zipper, which provides "speedy access to moral oblivion." Kinsey's father, we discover later, has his understandable reasons for believing sex a deviant's pastime; Condon, as tolerant and compassionate as his subject, is not beyond trying to understand how a man becomes a monster.

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Among his students is Clara "Mac" McMillen (Laura Linney), who fancies the professor but believes him "too churchy." Theirs is a cool courtship that culminates in wedding-night lovemaking more akin to wrestling than sex. Watching the pain on her face, and the humiliation on his, is almost too much to bear, but Condon doesn't pull back or grimace or, yes, even judge.

The writer claims that the Kinsey's had awkward sex when they both lost virginity on their wedding night. "Certainly" wouldn't have had anything to do with Alfred's preference of male sexual encounters, now would it?

24 posted on 11/26/2004 1:32:03 PM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: weegee
Can you say, "agenda?"

I knew you could.
25 posted on 11/26/2004 1:35:01 PM PST by unspun (unspun.info | Did U work your precinct, churchmembers, etc. for good votes?)
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To: Bullish
Roger isn't gay, just not always lucky in love. He is married now. Russ Meyer got him a lot of women back in the 1970s (at least one was purported to be working as an escort).

He does count Summer Lovers (with its menage a tois) as one of his 10 guilty pleasures and I think that he has confessed to not being above giving a movie a positive review if he has a crush on one of the actresses.

26 posted on 11/26/2004 1:35:44 PM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: McCormick Reaper

The "Report" came out in times where few would dispute it due to the stigma of the subject itself.


27 posted on 11/26/2004 1:42:12 PM PST by Solamente
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To: McCormick Reaper
His death in 1956 is attributed to "orchitis," which flowery word refers to a testicular infection that according to noted Kinsey debunker, Judith Reisman, Ph.D., "followed years of sadistic, orgiastic 'self-abuse.'"

Actually orchitis refers to inflamation or swelling of the testicals. It does not have to be associated with an infection. Sometimes one can get it as a result of a hernia or forms of cancer. One of the most common infection that causes orchitis is mump and is very uncommon in adult males. If he had an infection it would be nice to know what it was. Men do not usually die of orchitis alone.

28 posted on 11/26/2004 2:02:05 PM PST by foolscap
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To: unspun

I saw this movie at an advanced screening... by Fox Films. I wonder what Rupert has to say?


29 posted on 11/26/2004 2:07:57 PM PST by yayforlater
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To: McCormick Reaper

Talk about perverse. This guy is still regarded as a "pioneer" in the study of human sexuality. He was a pedophile, and a sexual sadist as well.


30 posted on 11/26/2004 2:14:35 PM PST by thombo
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To: Paul Atreides
Wasn't there a movie a few years ago, glorifying the Marquis de Sade?

Yep. IIRC it was called "Quills" and Ebert loved it.

31 posted on 11/26/2004 2:16:39 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I haven't read an Ebert review for years (I don't go to movies anymore anyway), but when I did go, I found Ebert to be a perfect reverse barometer. If he hated something, I usually liked it and vice versa. It seemed Ebert especially loves that pseudo-arty European "cine" trash. I watched a few promoted as wonderful by Roger the Snob and duly regretted it.


32 posted on 11/26/2004 3:48:40 PM PST by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: McCormick Reaper
>>>>>What did Margaret fudge?<<<<<

Her "Coming to age in Samoa" was taken as a Holy scripture by agents of change. It is a gross scientiffic fraud, fiction presented antropological facts

33 posted on 11/26/2004 4:31:11 PM PST by DTA (proud pajamista)
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To: driftless

A person could usually pick the movies that Ebert would like, before he even said a word.


34 posted on 11/26/2004 6:40:48 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: yayforlater
I saw this movie at an advanced screening... by Fox Films. I wonder what Rupert has to say?

Probably, "Give me even more money."

35 posted on 11/27/2004 8:59:48 AM PST by unspun (unspun.info | Did U work your precinct, churchmembers, etc. for good votes?)
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