'Romeo and Juliet' child actors sue over 1968 nude scene

[brianthainess]

10 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Next: Jesus is suing whoever because there are bare-chested pictures from them out there. They were nonbinary but because of the oppressing patriarchy they were too shy to come out at that time.

And his 'Virgin' mother with her breast out.

[brianthainess]

Jerry Lee Louis was married to a 15yr old. just saying.

[brianthainess]

5 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

It really doesn't matter what they call it , it was two naked children  in a sex scene .

   The BBC had an appalling record of that sort of thing  , mainly to do with heir staff rather than what they broadcast though 

This was not made by the BBC, it was made in the USA where marriage was legal at 15. I have been in Australia where 12yr old girls were topless on the beach. No one seemed bothered.

[giddyup]

10 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Forgetting something? She was 15.

Why weren't her parents protecting her? Oh, that's right, they were too busy pocketing the loot.

[Bert got kinky]

32 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

Jerry Lee Louis was married to a 15yr old. just saying.

 

Who????

If you are talking about Jerry Lee Lewis, he was married to his 13 year old cousin, Myra.

 

[LaosLover]

I read his authorized bio. Said Jerry Lee: "But....but Elvis and Priscilla".

 

It's a mean ol' world when you're not on a major record label.

[bunnydrops]

It was filmed in Italy, if that makes a difference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_(1968_film)

[OneMoreFarang]

I wonder how many people who "complain" here were around at that time.

Do you remember how people lived at that time?

Or did you at least talk to someone who was an adult at that time?

 

Times change and it doesn't make much sense to judge what happened 50 years ago as if it would happen now.

[OneMoreFarang]

10 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

It was filmed in Italy, if that makes a difference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_(1968_film)

That obviously explains it. It's kind of a long-time tradition over there.

 

[n00dle]

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I wonder how many people who "complain" here were around at that time.

 

I suspect quite a few. 

You can find them on other threads espousing pro-rape attitudes from a bygone era. 

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

2 minutes ago, n00dle said:

I suspect quite a few. 

You can find them on other threads espousing pro-rape attitudes from a bygone era. 

 

 

You are obviously not one of them. Otherwise you wouldn't call it "espousing pro-rape attitudes".

 

[VocalNeal]

The law suit may not be their idea. Just some over ambitious ambulance chaser.

[LaosLover]

On Bob Seger's epochal and genius live album, Live Bullet, Saint Bob changes the lyrics of a Chuck Berry song to:

 

She's too cute to be a minute over thirteen. 

 

Bob was having a little joke, of the type that was acceptable in that era. Cancel Bob Seger?

[OneMoreFarang]

2 hours ago, LaosLover said:

Cancel Bob Seger?

Only cancel him?

Prosecute him! Put him into jail! 

He should have known in 1976 that people in 2022 don't accept such language. 

???? 

[LaosLover]

And THEN, Bob had the nerve to mimic a black man right after admitting to craving sex with a 13 year old with a zesty, "hmmm, Ah do beleeve it".

 

-Cultural appropriation or what? Keep Bob Seger out of our schools.

 

Oh wait, no one under 50 remembers him.

 

Brown Sugar? Don't get me started. 

 

 

[seedy]

In 1964, Justice Potter Stewart, weighing in on the possible obscenity of the film Les Amants, wrote: “I shall not attempt to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description 'hard-core pornography'. But I know it when I see it.”

[ozimoron]

There's no justification for exploiting a minor for nudity to generate a profit.

[LaosLover]

I agree. TODAY.

 

But when I was young, I said stuff that would be considered racist now.

 

Particularly about the prospect of having sex with Tina Turner. I mean Ike era-wig Tina, not now- wigTina.

 

And I snarfled at Ted Nugent having a teenage girlfriend. I have cracked at least 22 Jail Bait jokes.

 

Back then. Not today.

 

So shoot me.

[KannikaP]

4 hours ago, LaosLover said:

I read his authorized bio. Said Jerry Lee: "But....but Elvis and Priscilla".

 

It's a mean ol' world when you're not on a major record label.

And Bill Wyman.

[wangotango]

14 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

They are still underage , paying Children to get naked and filming them  doesn't make it acceptable .

  Just because you pay them , doesn't make it OK

They should be sueing their parents for allowing them to do it ????????

[LaosLover]

I read Bill Wyman's super I-was-there book Stone Alone. He has 4 pages about when they met Gene Pitney. 

 

Guess what interesting life chapter he left out.

[Fat is a type of crazy]

5 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

And Bill Wyman.

We could go on the hovercraft
Across the water
They'll think I'm your dad
And you're my daughter

 

Not a bad song from 1980ish Je Suis Un Rockstar

My personal opinion is if they were told there was no nakedness but then tricked into getting naked on the day as they seem to say they may have a point but too long ago I should think. 

[LaosLover]

Bill lived near my town in Suffolk. Very big in metal detecting as a hobby. He did a lecture. Mega-bland.

 

In England, if you have a nutty haircut and enough time passes, all is forgiven.

 

Gary Glitter? Bald.

 

[eboy]

Maybe they should sue Shakespeare.

 

[Jingthing]

15 minutes ago, eboy said:

Maybe they should sue Shakespeare.

 

He would have had a bloke play Juliet innit 

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Director Franco Zeffirelli's son calls sexual exploitation lawsuit from Romeo and Juliet stars 'embarrassing'

Stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey are suing Paramount Pictures over a nude bedroom scene from the 1968 film.

[Jingthing]

24 minutes ago, Black Ops said:

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Director Franco Zeffirelli's son calls sexual exploitation lawsuit from Romeo and Juliet stars 'embarrassing'

Stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey are suing Paramount Pictures over a nude bedroom scene from the 1968 film.

Indeed.

 

Pippo speaks the truth!

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/director-franco-zeffirellis-son-calls-002205055.html

 

 

"Romeo and Juliet director Franco Zeffirelli's son has spoken out against the sexual exploitation lawsuit filed by stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey.

Speaking with The Guardian, Pippo Zeffirelli called the lawsuit filed against Paramount Pictures last month "embarrassing" and maintained that the nude scene at the center of the complaint was "far from pornographic."

He said of the case, "It is embarrassing to hear that today, 55 years after filming, two elderly actors who owe their notoriety essentially to this film wake up to declare that they have suffered an abuse that has caused them years of anxiety and emotional discomfort.""