Posted on 07/21/2006 8:47:28 AM PDT by Akeirook
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=396762&in_page_id=1773
War of the Worlds star Dakota, 12, has signed up to appear in Hounddog.
The screenplay calls for Fanning's character to be raped in one explicit scene and to appear naked or clad only in "underpants" in several other horrifying moments.
A source close to the film said: "The two taboos in Hollywood are child abuse and the killing of animals.
"In this movie, both things happen." Fanning's mother, Joy, and her Hollywood agent, Cindy Osbrink, see the movie, written and directed by Deborah Kampmeier, as a possible Oscar vehicle for the pint-size star.
Brooke Shields was in Bob the Butlers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216584/
And Jodi Foster did the same thing in Taxi Driver.
Her sister did the scenes for her
If Libs were to go unchecked, all children would be in some sort of "Gone Wild" video.
You can kinda see what happened. She's been in a bunch of these big high budget movies as a kid. Somebody said she needed a role to show off her acting chops and get "street cred" in an indepdent film. This thing popped up -- which more or less shows you the level of independent films these days.
And 50 years ago in 'Baby Doll'.
Most of her films have been okay. Whenever I've seen her on TV, she seems quite mature but nice. I've never seen her dress sleezy, but tastefully for her age.
I hope her parents don't make her grow up too fast.
Well, Foster turned into a lesbian and Shields has had a notorious bout with depression. Though I guess by Hollywood standards, they are OK. Better off than Anissa Jones or Judy Garland anyway.
SOME of the more explicit scenes - yes.
Judy Garland was literally killed by the Studio System.
And this just in:
Hollywood Causes Postpartum Depression!
sure...I hope were aren't starting a list.
When art/media enourage the sexualization of kids...then its society's freefall.
Depends on your meaning of well adjusted, I guess, as Jodie is sharing her life with another woman, raising two kids conceived by an unknown sperm donar.
Brooke does appear to be doing great, however.
You're doing great. It's been hard for me to give up movies - but it does gets easier with time...
...and that kid who played the piano in the Fame movie is writing jingles and soundtracks.
...and that other kid, from the Willy Wonka movie is a vet someplace...
Horrors, horrors!
there was a movie about a decade ago called "Kids". The opening scene was two pre-teens having sex. I guess the way they got around the law was the girl had her breasts covered (barely)
Larry Clark movie. Far, far from mainstream Hollywood...
'Kids' was in the spirit of 'Scared Straight' films they used to show in middle school.
Again I disagree that merely creating a work of art about a subject encourages it.
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