I saw the film yesterday. I don't know what radio piece Ross was 
referring to, but Flynt comes off less as a constitutional scholar and 
more as a schmoe screwed over by the moral majority. The free speech 
battle serves as kind of a legitimizing factor for the God-vs.-Satan duel 
between hypocritical Reaganites headed by Jerry Falwell and Charles Keating 
and the garish porn crew around Flynt.

The film itself is alright. It gets off to a bad start, with an annoying 
habit of jumping from scene to scene, leaving issues and evidence hanging 
out. It settles down about halfway through and finds a nice rhythm. 
Hole's surprisingly good and Harrelson's fair, especially in the latter 
half. Not too bad overall. Worth a matinee showing or a rental.

On the positive side, both Crispin Glover and James Carville have roles, 
and Flynt has a brief spot as the judge in his first trial (in the 
tradition of the film's producer, Oliver Stone, who let Jim Garrison play 
Earl Warren in the abyssmal "JFK").

Fighting the power,
Kevin Kruse