Movies
February, 1997
Czech-Born director Miloš Forman, a two-time Oscar winner (for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus), should reap new honors with The People vs. Larry Flynt (Columbia). From a screenplay seething with humor, drama and social relevance (co-authored by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the team that wrote Ed Wood), Forman has wrought an ultrapop masterpiece about the controversial publisher of Hustler. Here, Flynt's stormy career in defense of First Amendment freedom more than compensa...