Re: FILM: "Puritans Go Hollywood"

[Diane Durbin <dianed@TENET.EDU>]

Tom Scales' review on NPR was equally scathing, and funny, too.

Diane Durbin
dianed@tenet.edu

On Sat, 14 Oct 1995, Mel Roseman wrote:

>         Beginning with the above headline and with the sub-head
> "Skinny-Dipping Free Spirits of 'Scarlet' Stray Far From Letter of Novel,"
> Kenneth Turan s scathing review of The Scarlet Letter in the Los
> Angeles Times (10/13) states this: "... When this film's opening titles
> read, 'freely adapted from,' they are not being excessivly modest."
>
>         Mr. Turan then mocks everything about the film and ends his
> review thus:  "Though it's unclear what the audience would be for a
> faithful rendition of the Hawthorne novel, the question of who would ever
> want to see this one is murkier still."
>
>         This is followed by the Times Recommendation:
>
> *MPAA rating: R, for violence and sexuality.  Times guidelines: rape,
> suicide, a scalping, male and female nudity, but no bad language.
>
>                                                         - Mel Roseman
>
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> Mel Roseman                                                       mel@lafn.org
>