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'The People vs. Larry Flynt'
The life of the real Larry Flynt lent itself infamously to discussion of
the Constitution's First Amendment. As the movie shows, the
erstwhile strip-club owner (Woody Harrelson) made a name for himself
when he founded Hustler Magazine, an immodest, show-all
pornography magazine that made Playboy's airbrushed pullouts
look positively uptight. In perpetual conflict with the courts, which
knew pornography when they saw it, he spent most of his adult life
fighting the legal system.
The latter section of the movie pays attention to Flynt's darker
episodes. Struck by an unknown assailant's gunfire as he left a
courtroom, he was permanently crippled. He also lost Althea to
AIDS. -- Desson Howe
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