Larry Flynt is a profoundly significant political figure.
Even just a cursory scratch below the sugar and smack-coated santised version put out by Milos Foreman's film* reveals someone far spikier and much more interesting than the sleazy, smut-peddler turned free speech street brawler;
"The talk about Mr. Hefner seemed to get Mr. Flynt thinking about old friends. He said he had shared many conversations with John F. Kennedy Jr. about his possible career in politics; he also said that he was scheduled to dine with him the Wednesday after he died.
In 1996, after a screening of The People Vs. Larry Flynt in New York that John Kennedy attended, Mr. Flynt said he rolled up to Kennedy, nearly 20 years after publishing nude photos of his mother bathing on the island of Scorpios, and apologized.
“He told me, ‘I’m a Kennedy. I’ve got a thick skin. Don’t worry about it,’” Mr. Flynt recalled, adding: “He was a really solid guy.”
Less than 3 years after that reconciliation with the fellow publishing kingpin, John would fall prey to the more famous and tragic family tradtions that stalk the men of his family down through the years and ended up being a really dead guy as well.
(*his vision of Andy Kaufman's ideosyncratic cult of personality was lebelled similarly revisionist by somewho had been there at the time)
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