[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <<I really don't see how sanitized movies help achieve that goal.>> > > I can assure you that the makers of "A Beautiful Mind" never once considered this >the goal of their film. > > Bob
Bob, I am delurking to disagree with you and I feel badly about that - but Ron Howard has done sanitized versions of everything that he has ever done and A Beautiful Mind is an extreme example. Left out are gay encounters of which he had many, his child by another woman, his areests for solicitation in men's rooms which cost him his security clearance, among other things. And his bisexuality was used to indicate that he was schizophreniac, which he is, but not for that reason, and to leave that out is too cosmetically sweet for homophobia in the US government, It also implies that he was someone redeemed by the love a woman, which is very romantic, but not true in this case. The line from the producers was that the American public would not acceot Russell Crowe solicitng in mens rooms - although he has done that in an Australian movie in the early 90s. I believe that he only recently was deinstitutionalized. Anyway back into my hole. (the Rev) Vince
