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...story was done by Hollywood's megahot scriptwriter Joe Eszterhas (Jagged Edge), who was paid a record $3 million for his work. It casts Douglas as a cop with a reckless past who falls in love with a bisexual novelist, one of three women suspected of the ice-pick killing of an aging rock star. Each of the women, a lesbian, a bisexual and a heterosexual, has a motive for the crime...
Shortly after shooting began, representatives of the Queer Nation and other gay groups met with Eszterhas, director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop) and producer Alan Marshall. They asked for script revisions and proposed that Douglas' cop character be played by a woman. Basic Instinct, they charged, is a "clearly homophobic, lesbophobic film that once again inverts the realities of our lives." Eszterhas, sympathetic, proposed some revisions, which he said would have resulted in "a more socially responsible and creative movie...
...least 10 attorneys and six private detectives were unleashed by Scientology and its followers in an effort to threaten, harass and discredit me. Last Oct. 12, not long after I began this assignment, I planned to lunch with Eugene Ingram, the church's leading private eye and a former cop. Ingram, who was tossed off the Los Angeles police force in 1981 for alleged ties to prostitutes and drug dealers, had told me that he might be able to arrange a meeting with church boss David Miscavige. Just hours before the lunch, the church's "national trial counsel," Earle Cooley...
Instead, Anderson, Miami's top cop since 1988 who ends his 21 years of service on April 30, says he eagerly awaits his May 15 arrival as Cambridge's first-ever police commissioner...
...scene conjures up images of a celebrity defendant being rushed past hordes of reporters outside the courtroom, or, worse, a handcuffed murder suspect being escorted from cop car to courthouse, his newspaper-shielded head bowed in shame...