Two years after Hollywood announced dueling Linda Lovelace biopics , the first and possibly only one to materialize , Lovelace , makes its way to the screen on Friday. Julie Miller : You were just in Las Vegas for a premiere of the film. Did you have time to do anything fun while you were there? Amanda Seyfried : No, it was quick. There is nothing really fun for me to do in Vegas anyway, though.
H er fame began as it ended, with a car crash. In , at the age of 21, Linda Lovelace was lying on a chaise-longue outside her parents' home near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when the sun was blocked by a girlfriend and a man called Charles Traynor, a photographer and bar-owner. Lovelace was in a bikini, recuperating from an accident that had happened a few months before, when a Chrysler had hit the side of her Opel Cadet. There were bruises on her face, and scars on her body from a lacerated spleen and liver.
I've been spray-tanning people for about 4 years now, and was shocked to see recently -- for the first time in all that time -- not one but two women under the age of 30 with "landing strips. So for all I know Amy, pubic hair is making a comeback! Amy Alkon.
I grew up watching it with her at least once a year, lying on our living room floor in front of the sickly green glow of the screen. Various movies have filled this role in my life, too: not movies I love or even like, but ones I feel contain some kernel of meaning I can never quite grasp. The movie, which had comparatively high production values and a script well aware of the humor inherent in its premise, became not just a success, but a cultural touchstone of the era, and can be credited both with providing an alias for a key player in the Watergate scandal and with introducing oral sex as a topic of conversation to legions of middle Americans.