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Nabokov & Lolita in the Daily News (fwd)
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From: Larry Zirlin <LARRYZ@worldnet.att.net>
The New York Daily News is not a publication where you'd expect to make
VN sighting, but an item in one of today's (many) gossip columns reads:
In Their Humbert Opinion
With scrutiny intensifying on 6-year-old beauty queens in makeup and
backless gowns, director Adrian Lyne may get even more heat than
expected for his adaptation of "Lolita." Lyne's chose to depict the
12-year-old sex object of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel as a
gum-snapping child (Dominque Swain)--world's away from the
12-going-on-29 Sue Lyon version in the Stanley Kubrick-directed classic.
And though it's hard to imagine anyone other than James Mason as Humbert
Humbert, the middle-aged man who lusts for Lolita, that's not the reason
Jeremy Irons was reluctant to take the part. Glenn Close tried to talk
her pal Irons out of taking the Humbert role, the incomparable Elizabeth
Kaye reveals in the new Esquire which shows Swain licking her finger on
the cover.
"It upsets me," Close said. "I've got a daughter." Irons himself told
Lyne, "I've played enough weirdos. I need this like a hole in the
head." Though Lyne wrapped the $50 million film last February, he still
doesn't have a distributor.
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A muddy photo of Swain accompanies the item.
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Larry Zirlin
The New York Daily News is not a publication where you'd expect to make
VN sighting, but an item in one of today's (many) gossip columns reads:
In Their Humbert Opinion
With scrutiny intensifying on 6-year-old beauty queens in makeup and
backless gowns, director Adrian Lyne may get even more heat than
expected for his adaptation of "Lolita." Lyne's chose to depict the
12-year-old sex object of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel as a
gum-snapping child (Dominque Swain)--world's away from the
12-going-on-29 Sue Lyon version in the Stanley Kubrick-directed classic.
And though it's hard to imagine anyone other than James Mason as Humbert
Humbert, the middle-aged man who lusts for Lolita, that's not the reason
Jeremy Irons was reluctant to take the part. Glenn Close tried to talk
her pal Irons out of taking the Humbert role, the incomparable Elizabeth
Kaye reveals in the new Esquire which shows Swain licking her finger on
the cover.
"It upsets me," Close said. "I've got a daughter." Irons himself told
Lyne, "I've played enough weirdos. I need this like a hole in the
head." Though Lyne wrapped the $50 million film last February, he still
doesn't have a distributor.
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A muddy photo of Swain accompanies the item.
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Larry Zirlin