Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004953, Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:11:59 -0800

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Fw: [Fw: American Beauty / The Eye]
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From: Rob Aguirre <rob@alltel.net>
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>In response to the below. I will add that the theme of incest is one of
the
>barriers that kept Lolita out of theaters, while plain old pedophilia
(older
>man lusting after young girl) is becoming a cultural norm.
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>Robert Aguirre
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>> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@GTE.net>
>> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
>> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:57:04 -0800
>> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
>> Subject: Fw: [Fw: American Beauty / The Eye]
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>>> Anyone care to discuss why "American Beauty" seduced this year's Oscars
>> while,
>>> two years earlier, Adrian Lyne's "Lolita" couldn't even find an American
>>> distributor because the subject matter - a middle-aged man lusting after
a
>>> teenaged girl - was too hot to handle? One good point: maybe the
religious
>>> right is finally dying a most overdue death in America, so that
>>> "controversial" topics can again be discussed.
>>>
>>> Tom Braun
>>> Palmdale, California, USA
>>> cawriter@hotmail.com
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