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Re: Good flicks?

Subject: Re: Good flicks?
From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:23:12 -0700 (PDT)
cc: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0008071642020.25243-100000 at ursa_calvin.edu>

Just wondering ... but why is it creepy if a middle-aged guy falls in love
with a teenage girl in _American Beauty_ or _Lolita_, but not in, say,
_Sense and Sensibility_?  (I found that film especially weird because Alan
Rickman had, just previously, played a man who has an affair with a young
girl in _An Awfully Big Adventure_; there, it was a tragic thing, but in
_Sense and Sensibility_, it was a happy-ending kind of thing.)

Does anyone else here remember the wedding-night scene between Jerry Lee
Lewis (played by 35-year-old Dennis Quaid) and his 13-year-old cousin
(played by 17-year-old Winona Ryder) in _Great Balls of Fire!_?

--- Peter T. Chattaway ------------------------ petert at interchg_ubc.ca ---
 "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
      Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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