All I can say to Gloria Steinem is why doesn't she go and get her own movie made." Janet Yang, co-producer of The People Vs. Larry Flynt, is clearly furious about attacks on the film from the anti-pornography lobby. "It's very sad if people see it as a movie glorifying pornography - very sad and very simple-minded," she continues and rails against critics "with narrow agendas using and hijacking the film".
Yang, who is on the Board of Directors of Women In Film, points out that, on one level at least, Larry Flynt is a women's film - without her participation and without the support of ex-Columbia boss, Lisa Henson, it never would have been made. "Up until this movie, I had impeccable feminist credentials," she wryly reflects. She is not attempting to side-step the pornography debate, but insists that that is not what The People Vs. Larry Flynt is about.
A first-generation American herself (her parents emigrated to the US from China), she regards the Larry Flynt story as a modern-day equivalent to the Horatio Alger myth - a tale of a poor boy who hustled his way to fame and fortune. She recently saw Flynt appear alongside his old tormentor Reverend Jerry Falwell on a TV chat show. "It was hilarious, ironic, surreal and heartbreaking at the same time. Geoffrey Macnab
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