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Kidman's Kissing Scene with Boy Sparks Outrage
IMDb.com ^ | 6-21-04

Posted on 06/21/2004 8:16:46 AM PDT by Paul Atreides

Hollywood star Nicole Kidman's latest film has sparked controversy before its even been released - because of a passionate clinch she shares with a ten-year- old boy. The Oscar-winning actress, 36, is seen getting romantic with a ten-year-old boy she believes is the reincarnation of her dead husband in Birth - which has horrified film executives. New Line Cinema bosses are anxious over scenes involving Kidman and the boy stripping off together for a bath - while another scene see the two locking lips. PR companies who are set to promote the $54 million film have allegedly called it a 'publicity nightmare'.


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KEYWORDS: hollywoodleft; pedophilia
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To: Tax-chick
Nicole Kidman is gorgeous ... but a 10-year-old who'd be interested in kissing her is SICK.

Re lucky kid comments: Yeah, but 10-year old characters are often played by 14 or 15 year-old actors. The symbolism might be screwed up for the viewer, but it wouldn't be so bad for the actor on the set. "No pre-pubescents were molested for the film." Like dolphin-free tuna, so to speak.

41 posted on 06/21/2004 9:17:02 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Paul Atreides

Oh grose! Where are the boy's parents in all this?


42 posted on 06/21/2004 9:20:08 AM PDT by diamond6
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Yeah, but 10-year old characters are often played by 14 or 15 year-old actors.

Not this time, though ... Cameron Bright was born in '93, which makes him 10.

43 posted on 06/21/2004 9:20:45 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: diamond6
Where are the boy's parents in all this?

At the bank cashing the check from the film studio is where they are.

44 posted on 06/21/2004 9:24:39 AM PDT by kako
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To: Paul Atreides

Publicity "nightmare" my buttocks...this will be a nightmare just like all the controversey for Passion was a "nightmare."

This nightmare will go all the way to the bank...


45 posted on 06/21/2004 9:25:00 AM PDT by krb (the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
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To: Tax-chick
I know you're joking

Yeah, it was a jole. But there is a lesson here, too. It's awfully easy to project myself onto this 10-yo kid. That's the real danger of the "it's art" crowd, BTW. They forget what damage their "art" or their own sexual desires can cause to kids.

46 posted on 06/21/2004 9:25:16 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Pearls Before Swine

So much for a good idea ... teenage girls are often played by actresses in their 20's, too, but it doesn't work if the girls are supposed to be pre-adolescent.

I have four young sons, and, especially in view of Carlo3b's comments, I think this whole thing is absolutely gross. It's tempting just to say that anyone who even dramatizes "adult-child sex," even if it's an animation, just ought to be removed from the environment of normal people by any means necessary. The people who think of it are perverts, and the people who want to watch it are perverts, and they shouldn't be anywhere around children.


47 posted on 06/21/2004 9:25:31 AM PDT by Tax-chick (A rifle without ammunition is just a stick.)
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To: Paul Atreides

Geez, this is sick.


48 posted on 06/21/2004 9:26:21 AM PDT by MEGoody (Kerry - isn't that a girl's name? (Conan O'Brian))
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To: Paul Atreides; All

relevant article

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157364/posts


49 posted on 06/21/2004 9:29:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick (A rifle without ammunition is just a stick.)
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To: r9etb
Re info the actor was born in '93:

Well then, its not dolphin-free, to use my metaphor. I don't disagree on the symbolism, and now you've told me the actor is too young. Nicole's got great stuff, but she has made a career of flaunting it. I guess this one splashes over the top.

50 posted on 06/21/2004 9:32:31 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rintense
A 10 year old tells her that he is the reincarnation of her dead husband. That's the plot.

Well, then, that's a weak plot. And it isn't even original. Cybil Shephard and Robert Downey, Jr. did that years ago ... except that he was supposed to be college-aged.

To clarify my earlier remark: was this in the context of a woman going crazy, seeing her dead husband in the young boy, and were there consequences for this behavior? Apparently, this is not the case, and I couldn't find this acceptable in a film. (And even in context, an explicit, extremely passionate kiss would be over the line. An implied kiss might not be automatically.)

TS

51 posted on 06/21/2004 9:44:59 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I have No Blog to speak of)
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To: Paul Atreides

Hollywood...pure, unadulterated TRASH!


52 posted on 06/21/2004 9:46:27 AM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush...he will prevail in spite of the naysayers)
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To: Paul Atreides

"Also, if this film gets to protect itself behind the banner of being "art," what is to prevent the manufacturers/performers of child porn from doing the same?"


Or the makers of beastiality films as "art". There is such thing as common sense and the liberal left lacks any and panders to no boundaries in the name of freedom of speech. They twist, warp and degrade it till it's garbage.
Which I am certain is their intent all along.


53 posted on 06/21/2004 9:46:38 AM PDT by SunnySide
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To: old and tired

"This little boy's parents should be thrown in jail"


I totally agree, it's not as if a child has the knowledge or maturity to understand or comprehend what he/she is getting set up for in the form of such a movie scene as this. These kids are being used as tools by all the adults involved.


54 posted on 06/21/2004 9:49:48 AM PDT by SunnySide
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To: kako

Where are the boy's PIMPS (parents) in all this?
At the bank cashing the check from the film studio is where they are along with the rest of the pimpin parents selling their kids souls for a materialistic world.


55 posted on 06/21/2004 9:51:24 AM PDT by SunnySide
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To: Paul Atreides
Actually a man/girl film was made some years ago with Brook Shields. I believe it was called pretty baby and the story line was she was raised in a whore house, and became a child whore.
56 posted on 06/21/2004 10:03:38 AM PDT by mouser (run the rats out its the only hope we have)
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To: Paul Atreides

Looks like Tom Cruise might not have been the bad guy.


57 posted on 06/21/2004 10:17:30 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Anyone see this movie?

58 posted on 06/21/2004 12:08:42 PM PDT by bmwcyle (<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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To: mouser

You're right. And let's not forget "Lolita".


59 posted on 06/21/2004 12:34:13 PM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: bmwcyle

Summer of '42

Yes I saw it and the male lead college aged actor was of legal - consenting adult appropriate age NOT a ten year old grammar school aged boy!


60 posted on 06/21/2004 3:34:42 PM PDT by SunnySide
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