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.
"I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education, but is it just possible that once again something is bothering you and you are taking it out on me?"
Any comedic film that can discuss the quantification of a plethora AND emotional transferrence is a gem. :-)
Either Kidman has not had a script offered to her in a very long time or else she didn't read the script.
I am not a big fan but to intentionally commit career suicide is nuts. Dunnaway offed herself with Mommy Dearest and this could do the same.
This I knew, but...not her too?! Not with those...talents.
Iconic themes - life, brutality, death. Rarely has the human condition been more accurately captured on celluloid.
Alive and well in northwest CT. :)
This was done up here in the GWN. Any charges might have to be dealt with up here too I imagine. This is kind of ironic since the Brooke Shields film Pretty Baby was banned at least in Ontario when it was released because it was felt to be child porn. I imagine the production is over and everyone has gotten out of Dodge so its quite convenient all around. Any talk of banning it elsewhere of course gets the porn protectors up in arms.
Ta! Blazing Saddles, The Three Amigos, The Blues Brothers, The Thin Man series, etc... so many good and wonderful movies, so little free time. I am planning of wathing Young Frankenstein for about the 5,000th time.
I like the one who is not so smart."
(pause)
"Which one is that?"
Ok...check that. On closer reading no mention of the exact location this was filmed is mentioned but I am guessing it was here in Canada from the fact of the child actor being Canadian.
"Do you have anything other than Mexican food?"
I still laugh aloud at that one. I also enjoy this exchange:
Woman: "You can kiss me on the veranda."
Dusty: "Lips will be fine."
Dusty: "Lips will be fine."
LOL! One of my favorites, too!
And the male/mail plane exchange... Lucky Day is just smart enough to pretend he gets the joke.
"Gads, are there more than ten heterosexual women left in Hollyweird?"
Not according to my eye and ear. I see so many who strike me as gay that I think I MUST be mistaken, but in life my perceptions are pretty accurate.
In fact I was watching Heather whats her name in one of the Austin Powers flicks and I had a strange feeling nagging at me that I didn't consciously address until I was 7/8ths thru the film and it turned out to be: wait a minute, SHE "LOOKS" HETRO!
On another point: I believe the then 10 yr old Brooke Shields did a nude scene with a grown man in the movie "Pretty Baby". I mean a scene in which Brooke was in fact nude. I have never figured out how this can be anything other than child abuse.
"Look at the leetle seesies!"
I guess I've hijacked THIS thread enough for one day :)
I don't blame you in the least. You have plenty of company. I teach film courses and my students agree that most movies made today do not even come close to the classics of Ford, Hitch, and the rest.
After the Wesson comment... I'd say we're even. :)
They are really mocking The Cross of Christ as well as taking the institution of marriage through the dirt.
Turning out mediocre movies and overpay actors with outspoken contempt for traditional values and some even leave the US setting up shop in Europe.
They preach anti-values.
This ain't right. No way, no how.
You teach film, eh. Excellent. So few good dramas and comedies have been made in the last ten years. It seems that after about 1992 or 1994, the ratio of good to bad movies shifted greatly. Most "comedies" today would insult the intelligence of an eight-year-old child who spent their early years sniffing glue. Many dramas are titled as such only because they are slow in tempo and rather devoid of humour. Even good mindless comedies have suffered (mindless in that they require little thought and are just a good romp). I admit to enjoying Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I watch it today and enjoy just how surprisingly witty it is. Not much good clean fun today.
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