Posted on 06/13/2004 1:31:13 PM PDT by Pikamax
Row over Kidman's film romp with youngster 10:31 BST, Sunday 13th June 2004 -- by Neil Wilkes Nicole Kidman has been caught up in a row over a new film which features her kissing a ten-year-old boy while naked.
In the movie, called Birth, Kidman plays a widow who believes the boy to be a reincarnation of her husband.
Two scenes in particular have come under fire; in both, Kidman and the boy - Canadian child actor Cameron Bright - are "completely naked and caressing each other." In one of them, there is a close-up of " a very passionate kiss" as they sit in the bathtub together.
"The last thing on earth Nicole needs is a movie which is going to be jumped on by sickos and used in some perverse way to promote paedophilia," a source told the Daily Star Sunday today. "But truth is, the publicity department is already describing the movie as a nightmare. The producers, director and Nicole herself are likely to face a lot of flack."
It will cost film studo New Line around $50 million if they decide to axe the movie altoegther.
It's the next step.
I have predicted on FR in the past -- by 2040 we will be able to watch kids having sex with animals on broadcast TV (or the equivalent), if our country survives that long.
The ten year old boy probably said exactly that but it's Ms. Kidman, the director, and the boy's parents who failed the common sense and propriety test. If the genders were reversed everybody involved in the film would be (correctly) brought up on charges.
Kinda makes me wonder about the name of that one type of whale... what was it....?... the "sperm whale"?
It's only a matter of time before we see birth control pills shaped like Fred Flintstone.
Here's a true story.
It's the night of the 2000 election, and I'm in a bar in DC that is just down the street from the Hawk and Dove (it was packed, so this cousin of mine I was visiting decided to hole up in a Greek place, watch the election, and get some food.)
The results are coming in. My cousin is a big D and I'm, of course, an R. Every time a state is coming in for Bush, I'm doing the 'Yeah, Baby!!' thing louder and louder as the night and our alcohol consumption progress.
Way down at the end of the bar are some of the hottest, smartest looking women collected in one place in a long time. I'm married, overweight, and am in DC during the end of the Clinton era with my cousin whose 45, single, and pretty handsome. They are looking our way as this cousin of mine and I are watching the election and cheering our candidates on.
Bartender comes over and says to the two of us that the ladies at the end of the bar want to buy one of us a drink. I'm starting to shake my head and figure, "Don't let this get you down, your married anyway!"
That's when the bartender goes,
"Which one of you is the Republican?"
:-} Good story. Should I snopes it?
Bingo we have a winner! Lady Lawyer your post matches what I've been seeing happen for quite awhile.
Semper Fi
I'm telling ya.....'Race Against Evil'....the book that could change a few things...
Maybe I should email the author a copy of this article?? ;)
Absolutely. One of the coolest things that has every happened to me.
It also made me realize that Rush is more and more right about the fact that the world is definitely turning toward the right.
What about the humpback?
Really!!?? Hell Anny, that aint classy at all!
Would there be any flack about this in Canada? I think not. Canada is going to hell...fast.
No offense to entertainers on this forum but may I remind us that the theater and circus was considered nothing more than a den of ill repute by most of mankind for millenia. The Emporer Justinian's married to an actress caused public scandal in Rome and Constatinople. And that's no small feat to cause those people blush.
Why else do you think entertainers usually marry each other, lawyers, or politicians? (Rimshot)
I know. *sigh* I was young and cable foolish back then.
At the time actors were considered to be in the same class as prostitutes.
Spot on, if you ask me.
My goal is to ask every Freeperette.
You haven't asked any guys? Sexist llama-loving pig.
"What knockers!"
According to Austrailian news reports, the character Kidman plays shares an intimate bath and kiss with the 10 year old boy. To the studios credit they labeled the scenes disgusting.
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