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Taylor Hackford the director, and Helen Mirren the actress, talk about their new film 'Love Ranch'
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- acting
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robdverity 07/04/2010 03:50 PM Report
Need help with that Mirren look. Is it (experienced) bedroom? She's has an allure - in a class alone.
REMant 07/01/2010 11:34 AM Report
As Ms Mirren has raised this to the level of a feminist-liberal campaign like so much of Hollywood's output these days, (see http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/2008/09/07/dame-helen-mirren-calls-for-the-legalisation-of-broth els-78057-20726491/) she perhaps won't mind if I raise some objections myself. I don't think the objection to selling love or sex is "puritanical." You have to distinguish those who think it demeaning, and object to all manner of prostitution not just that involving sex, from those who are sexually inhibited and find it shameful. The latter may indeed be the typical American attitude, most surveys conclude that, but tho Europeans are a great deal freer about it, they are not particularly in favor of selling sex either. Certainly not where children are concerned. And then the people in the sex industry are rarely what they seem, frequently no more interested in love than they are in the opposite sex, and there is no hard-and-fast line among magazine models, pornstars, dancers, escorts, masseurs, fetishists and prostitutes. Many of them had been sexually abused. This notion is too much like the "Playboy philosophy," which I hope the Playmates, themselves, over the years have dispelled. The only argument that can be made is that, like legalizing drugs, it is better to bring it into the open than to have it underground, however, the Mustang Ranch, seems to have suffered no shortage of the same practices. As for the film, itself, I think from the excerpts that she is ill-suited for the role, and that, true or not, it is pretty unconvincing. This is, BTW, not the first film on this subject in this country, even the first serious one. There was Working Girls and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in the '80s, Never on Sunday, The Happy Hooker and Pretty Baby before that, and many other films touching on prositutes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_prostitution), plus something of the sort is a staple of cable TV movies such as Wild Orchid 2 and Showgirls these days.