Re: psychoceramics: Your update from CNN

["dustbunny" <d--@c--.net>]

The director's name is Victor Salva. He also made 'Nature of the
Beast' & 'Clownhouse'.
According to The Detroit News:
http://www.detnews.com/menu/stories/21684.htm :
By John Horn, Associated Press
Los Angeles-The director of Powder, a new Walt Disney film about a
troubled teen-ager, is a convicted child molester who once videotaped
himself with a 12-year-old.
The film's release this Friday in 1,200 U.S. theatres has prompted the
molestation victim, Nathan Winters, now 20, to go public with his
ordeal to protest Disney's employment of filmmaker Victor Salva, 37.
This week, Winters and five friends picketed outside the industry
screening of Powder, handing out leaflets about Salva to hundreds of
grim-faced Hollywood executives leaving the theatre.
Winters' decision to go public, Disney's reaction and the inevitable
media attention all raise the question of whether registered sex
offenders, apart from perpetrators of all other crimes, should live
under societal restrictions upon completion of punishment.
Disney and the film's producer argue that Salva has served his time.
Winters says he has been permanently scarred.
Salva confessed to having oral sex with Winters in 1987 while
directing him in Clownhouse, a low-budget horror film about three boys
terrorised by circus clowns. Salva, sentenced to three years in state
prison, served 15 months and completed parole in 1992.
Deena
:On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Tresy Kilbourne wrote:
:}St Aardvark the Carpeted writes:
:}
:}>Anyone know who they're referring to when
:}>they mention the movie made by a convicted child molester?
:}"Powder," about an albino boy with magical powers, was directed by a
:}convicted child molester. Can't recall his name.
:Actually that's kind of disturbing--when I saw "Powder" I noticed
that
:it has a lot of gratuituous shots of semi-naked teenage boys.
:CardX



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