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...film has courted scandal since it was a script, which earned a record $3 million for writer Joe Eszterhas. Before shooting began, the original producer, Irwin Winkler, quit, complaining that director Paul Verhoeven was obsessed with showing body parts "in various stages of excitement." Eszterhas also stormed off the project once or twice. Last spring the production was picketed in San Francisco by gay activists objecting to the script's depiction of killer lesbians. Everyone else was gossiping about the sex scenes. "Michael Douglas and I went as far as anyone could go," Stone told Movieline magazine...
...which allows children to see a film in the company of an adult. After two preliminary screenings, the Motion Picture Association of America's classification board indicated that in its present form, Basic Instinct would receive an NC-17 rating (no children; 17 or older). Douglas and Verhoeven have urged that the disputed scenes stay, even if this results in an adults-only tag. But Carolco, which produced the $40 million film, and Tri-Star, which is to release it in March, are insisting that Verhoeven keep cutting Basic Instinct until it gets an R. Fearful that they will make...
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...
...Nasty Girl Michael Verhoeven's exuberant, stylish satire, based on recent fact, examines the lingering shadow Nazism casts across Germany and the obsessive determination of one teenager to expose it. As the anti-Nazi girl, Lena Stolze is impish, imperious, utterly adorable...
...Predator (1987) twists another commando genre into a jungle monster movie: half a dozen supersoldiers infiltrate enemy territory -- and Arnold gets to go mano a mano with a space alien who looks like the Creature from the Black Hole. And in this year's Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven, he prowls through a densely detailed futureworld while masquerading as a villain, a fat woman and (least convincingly) an ordinary...