Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004952, Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:57:04 -0800

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EDITOR's NOTE. Interesting thought.
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From: Thomas E.Braun <cawriter@usa.net>
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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.
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>Tom Braun
>Palmdale, California, USA
>cawriter@hotmail.com
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