I like this one:
Posted on 12/27/2019 6:21:25 PM PST by Borges
Lyon was a model with two acting credits to her name when she beat out a reported 800 other actors for the part of Dolores Haze. Sue Lyon, the titular "nymphet" in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, has died. The actor was 73.
Lyon died on Thursday in Los Angeles, according to The New York Times, which broke the news. A friend, Phil Syracopoulos, told the publication that she had been in "declining health" for a while, but a cause of death was not provided.
Born in 1946 in Davenport, Iowa, Lyon was a model with two acting credits to her name when she beat out a reported 800 other actors for the part of Dolores Haze in Kubrick's Lolita, a project that was controversial from the start. Seven years old at the time of its film adaptation's release, Lolita divided critics over its depiction of a pedophile's relationship with a 12-year-old girl. After its initial publication in 1955 in France, officials in the U.K. and France banned sales of the book, which was finally published in the U.S. in 1958. In the face of naysayers, Lolita nevertheless became a bestseller and cultural sensation.
Though Nabokov was originally hired to write Lolita's screenplay, the famously finicky Kubrick rewrote much of the script which, in its final edition, portrayed Dolores Haze as a 15-year-old instead of a 12-year-old to comply with Motion Picture Production Code mandates. The movie was filmed secretly in London due to its difficult subject matter and though Lyon was 14 at the time that the film was shot, Lolita was infamously marketed with a picture of Lyon lounging in a bikini, wearing red-shaped sunglasses and licking a lollipop.
Reception of the film was mixed at the time of its release, and critics were divided over how the film treated the book's pedophilia. However, Kubrick's Lolita currently has a 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, showing how critical consensus has grown more positive over time.
Lyon shot to fame after playing Haze and, two years later, appeared in John Huston's Night of the Iguana. She also starred in John Ford's 1966 film 7 Women, 1967's Tony Rome and 1970's Four Rode Out and Evel Knievel, among a few other titles. Most recently, Lyon appeared in 1980's Alligator as an "ABC Newswoman."
In her personal life, Lyon married five times, to actor and filmmaker Hampton Fancher (Blade Runner); photographer and football coach Roland Harrison; Cotton Adamson, who was a convicted murderer at the time of their marriage; Edward Weathers; and radio engineer Richard Rudman. Lyon has blamed her controversial union with Adamson, who she met via a mutual friend, for losing out on parts in the industry.
But by the time of her marriage to Rudman, Lyon had ended her acting career, something she said in an early interview that she would eventually like to do: "I'd like to teach school and I'd like to get married and have children," she told The Pittsburgh Press in 1967.
Lyon is survived by her daughter with Harrison, Nona.
The annual Post-Christmas Die-Off is underway.
Don’t Stand So Close to Me!
Jerry Herman also passed away, very famous Broadway composer.
Hollywood messed her up. Married 5 times including a guy she met in prison. A car accident did not help either.
Glad to see that Hollywood Reporter is maintaining its high journalistic standards.
(What shape does the color red have, anyway?!)
Regards,
I like this one:
I caught it on TCM once and he was.
Lolita suffers due to two things, the first, the actual writing. The second, is people who haven’t read the book commenting on a book they haven’t read.
Sheila Jackson-Lee insists the term is “Oysterperson”
There were probably a couple of cross dressers in there, but that wasn’t Kubrick’s thing... See ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ for further reference.
There are actually three different types of pedophiles.
The one we typically think of is the guy who has never been attracted to anyone other than children. Totally untreatable.
The others are more opportunistic. They are sexually attracted to other adults, but are extremely immature and have low impulse control. Given access and the right set of circumstances, they will molest a child.
This is why women who bring guys around their kids way too early are so effin dangerous. And stupid, selfish people.
No woman should ever introduce her kids to a new boyfriend or male friend for a *minimum* of six months. A year is better.
Man do I agree with you.
I was maybe 24 and a woman at a bar invited me back to her house.
So we get thee and she says to keep quiet going in because her 2 girls, I think they were 6 and 12, were likely asleep.
First, that’s kinda young to leave at home in charge, a 12 year old.
Second, she knows me 2 hours!
I told her I’m not going in with 2 young girls in the house.
Then I went home and took a cold shower :)
As Groucho once said,
"When we were in Africa we took pictures of the native girls, but they're not developed. We're going back in a few years."
lol
The Marx Brothers got their sex-themed jokes in, but one had to pay attention.
“you haven’t got a breeder’s guide!!!??”
“Not so loud...even my best friends don’t know I don’t have a breeder’s guide!”
I Die laughing at that scene in “A Day at the Races” every time I see it.
They must have meant it that way. But since it wasn’t stated in a graphic way, I always question myself if that was their real intent :)
12 year olds babysit
They were third cousins, which can legally marry in the US.
Albert Einstein married his first cousin, Elsa Lowenthal.
Rock and Roll was new and folks were very much against it. They tried to destroy Jerry Lee to put and end to the music that he played.
RIP.. loved her in “Night of the Iguana”
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She had some great potential. “Lolita” probably made her become typecast - thought of in that type of role only by the casting people. That, plus her personal problems kind of help sink her acting career.
Interesting rare interview from the 1980s with her -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00hkm-Ct8Zg
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