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		THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT also weaves in the bittersweet story of Flynt's true love, Althea Leasure, whom he meets as a dancer in his club and later marries, and who devotedly stands alongside him throughout his trials and tribulations.
		Larry Flynt is shown as being occassionally gruff, harsh, and overtly aggressive with his friends and colleagues, but with Althea, we see his loving, affectionate side.
		Ultimately, the emotional power that the film hits at its conclusion comes not from his achievements from his battles against censors, but from the strength of Flynt and Althea's love for each other.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/65/6559 (842 words)

	maikels.html
		On the other hand, Love's portrayal of Flynt's beloved Althea not only shares the goal to be both grotesque and likable, but she also has the amazing ability to pull it off quite effectively.
		In one scene, where Flynt and Althea make love in a hot tub with two other women while Flynt's parents are sleeping in the neighboring room.
		In the span of Flynt's life, we see many quirky and interesting moments arise such as his meeting, romance with and subsequent marriage to Althea Leasure (Love).
	kendrick.colgate.edu /maroon/ArchivesS97/jan2497/maikels.html (794 words)

	The Cavalier Daily January 15, 1997 Arts and Entertainment Section -- Harrelson, Love capture audiences in 'Flynt' bio
		However, the astounding performances of Woody Harrelson as Flynt and Courtney Love as his wife, Althea Leasure, coupled with Forman's the hilarious and sensitive direction make "The People Vs. Larry Flynt" one of the best movies of the year.
		Courtney Love, lead singer of alterna-grunge act Hole, delivers an incredible performance as Althea Leasure, the love of Flynt's life.
		Browsing Flynt's history does not exactly make him seem like a character the masses would enjoy: he pioneered the porn magazine industry by exceeding Playboy's standards for nudity, grappled with religious icon Jerry Falwell before the Supreme Court, and was routinely obnoxious.
	www.cavalierdaily.com:2001 /.Archives/1997/January/15/aeflynt.asp (732 words)

	The Discreet Charm of the Profane Genius
		Courtney Love's brilliant performance remains convincing throughout, both when Althea is young and beautiful, and when she is a ghostly, prematurely aged addict, and Flynt continues to be touchingly loyal to her.
		In the final scene, Flynt lies on his bed, watching a video of a breathtakingly beautiful young Althea simultaneously played on three televisions lined side-by-side.
		As well, when we first encounter Leasure, as Flynt does, performing a striptease on stage, she is astonishingly beautiful, all porcelain-white skin and masses of pre-Raphaelite hair.
	www.leaderu.com /marshill/mhr08/eden1.html (2704 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com Film Meanwhile, Back at the Raunch 1997-01-09
		Flynt also hooked up with Althea Leasure (Courtney Love), a 17-year-old bisexual stripper in one of his Cincinnati clubs who went on to marry him and help manage his empire.
		And so Larry Flynt, after a rollicking first hour, bogs down in Althea's extended druggie aria (Love's performance also bogs down).
		When Flynt was shot by a fanatic outside a Georgia courthouse in 1978--rendering him wheelchair-bound for life--it was Althea's idea to put a photo spread of Flynt's wounds into Hustler.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1997-01-09/film/film.html (1424 words)

	A famed pornographer shot from his good side
		The movie conveys without embarrassment Flynt's tremendous affection for Althea, to whom he remains steadfastly dedicated even as she deteriorates as a heroin addict and an AIDS victim later on in the film.
		While Flynt is in a psychiatric prison, Althea discovers that she has AIDS and thereafter deteriorates into an incoherent needle-bruised corpse as she gets sicker and continues using drugs.
		The movie takes us from Flynt's early days through his rise to fortune with Hustler and his enduring relationship with his wife Althea Leasure (Courtney Love).
	www-tech.mit.edu /V116/N67/flynt.67a.html (741 words)

	The Ten Best Films of 1996
		But the part that really took me by surprise was the incredibly well written screenplay and the true heart of the story -- the romance between Flynt and Althea Leasure, portrayed by Courtney Love in a performance of incredible strength, surprising subtlety, and fresh vitality.
		Their relationship, as it goes through all the bizarre and trying events in Flynt's life, including an assassination attempt which leaves Flynt paralyzed, is a stunning and freshly realized on screen love relationship, its success due in no small part to the performances of Love and Woody Harrelson.
		That in itself is a very important story worth telling, and Flynt's story of taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court is an intriguing, truly American story all its own.
	www.oscarworld.net /1996best.htm (1052 words)

	Movie Reviews by Mark Leeper
		Had there been some nobility shown in Althea beyond her initial loyalty to Flynt, she might have made an interesting character.
		While at his club he meets dancer Althea Leasure (Courtney Love) who shows immediate romantic interest in Flynt.
		With other characters his love for Althea might have been touching, but only occasionally is there any chemistry between the two of them or any feeling that it is good that these two people have found each other.
	www.eclectica.org /v1n5/leeper.html (1824 words)

	Porno Patriots - January 16, 1997
		It is in one of these establishments that he meets his future wife Althea Leasure (Love), a bisexual stripper whose ambition and sex drive is a perfect match for Flynt.
		The film, which stars a fiery Woody Harrelson as the controversial porn publisher, also focuses on the unconventional relationship between Flynt and his bisexual ex-stripper wife Althea, uncannily portrayed by Courtney Love.
		Outspoken and sharp, she helps Flynt as he creates a national magazine out of the Hustler Newsletter, a cheap nudie publication originally created to promote the clubs.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/90/77/34_1_m.html (826 words)

	histcontext
		Flynt declares, “there was never any drugs as part of [Althea and his] relationship until after the shooting.” But when asked about his amphetamine usage in his early days, he stumbles over his words and tries to conjure an excuse.
		[11] After the shooting, Flynt and Althea retreated to Bel Air, California, and hid in their bedroom behind a steel door.
		A bisexual runaway, Althea was raised in an orphanage after witnessing her father murder her mother and grandparents before committing suicide.
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/ssm6/ssm6-histcontext.html (3995 words)

	New Media Index: Focus
		The first half focuses on Flynt's rise to power, chronicling the founding of Hustler and his marriage to the stripper Althea Leasure.
		In most ways Althea's life was rougher than Flynt's.
		Althea really isn't a complex character, and Love certainly doesn't put herself on the line.
	index.truman.edu /issues/970410/Focus/movie10.html (617 words)

	NewStandard: 1/17/97
		Love's drug-addicted Althea Leasure meets Flynt while working at his strip club.
		(Argentine first lady Eva Peron succumbed to uterine cancer in 1952; Kentucky-born and AIDS-stricken Althea Leasure Flynt, wife of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, died in 1987.)
		Love was struggling to get her rock career off the ground, she, too, worked as a stripper.
	www.s-t.com /daily/01-97/01-17-97/b05ae060.htm (907 words)

	Search Results
		Love's breakthrough role was that of Althea Flynt, the drug-addicted wife of pornography tycoon Larry Flynt in "The People Vs. Larry Flynt" for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination and New York Film Critics Circle award.
		Best known as the flamboyant and controversial leader of the rock group Hole, and for her marriage to the late leader of the group Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love is also a recognized film actress.
	www.thecastlist.com /castlist/actors.cgi?action=view&id=55309968.tcl (89 words)

	The Stranger - Pullout - Street Eats - I Loved Courtney
		First appearing as an underage stripper in a Flynt brother's nightclub, Althea/Courtney sashays onto stage to the McCoys' 1965 hit "Hang on Sloopy," stripping down to panties while dancing in a manner that was brilliantly, perfectly...
		After a relentlessly hokey opening sequence depicting Flynt's backwoods childhood, the film leapt forward to Flynt's first sighting of the woman who'd become the closest thing the bullet-ridden pornographer would ever have to a soul mate: Althea Leasure, portrayed in the film by Courtney Love.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=16346 (383 words)

	From Hustler to Hero
		The film's most emotional scene is when Leasure, suffering from AIDS drowns in the couple's bathtub and Flynt finds her pale naked gaunt bruised and trackmarked body submerged in the tub and cradles her in his arms.
		to get an Oscar nomination.) Leasure is the perfect partner for Flynt; she's the only other person beside for Flynt himself who has slept with all of his strippers, she admits when they first meet.
		The odd (for a mainstream film) relationship between Althea and Larry is explored in some depth.
	www.poprocks.com /journ/flynt.htm (1132 words)

	What’s Wrong With This Picture?
		The sister of Althea Leasure, Flynt’s fourth wife, says that rather than being the abiding soul mate depicted in the movie, Leasure tried to escape from Flynt several times, but couldn’t because he controlled her finances.
		Several people who know Flynt are angered by the long lie of this movie.
	www.terry.uga.edu /~dawndba/4500WrongWPic.html (829 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		The bulk of Forman's film details Flynt's often outrageous legal battles with authorities and his unconventional relationship with a stripper named Althea Leasure, played in a grand manner by Courtney Love.
		The first minutes of the film sketch the early years of Flynt's career, showing his ownership of an unprofitable string of strip clubs, his first mild success with a pornographic promotional newsletter, and the initial controversy engendered by the publication of Hustler.
		Screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (who collaborated previously on "Ed Wood") don't give us any hint in the film that Flynt's marriage to Leasure was his fourth and that he has remarried since her AIDS-related death.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1997/jan/01-13-97/arts/arts1.html (696 words)

	Review: The People vs. Larry Flynt
		The most moving aspect of the film is undoubtedly the relationship between Larry and Althea, and the scenes of these two together contain elements of eroticism and genuine romance.
		With varying degrees of success, The People vs. Larry Flynt presents a character study of its main subject, a look at how he raised an empire from a small group of strip bars, and the sometimes-tender, sometimes- turbulent love story between Flynt and his wife, Althea (Courtney Love).
		And, with the real Flynt taking a bit part (an unsympathetic judge who presides over the first trial), and his lawyer, Alan Isaacman, acting as consultant, it's reasonable to wonder how much the publishing magnate's image has been smoothed over to make him more palatable to an unbiased viewing audience.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/people_vs.html (943 words)

	larry_flynt
		Larry certainly didn't find out about Althea's AIDS while in prison, nor did Hustler staff refuse to shake her hand, nor did he wheel Althea to her final bath nor did he discover her dead body, nor did he cry when he heard about her death.
		Flynt won an important case before the Supreme Court that prevents public figures from suing for their hurt feelings that result from satire.
		Flynt wrote letters to Tonya's half-sister Judy, born in 1964, signed "Dad." Judy's mother is Peggy.
	www.lukeford.com /stars/crew/larry_flynt.html (3280 words)

	Larry Flint reluctantly says 'I do'
		Althea Leasure Flynt, who was married to the publisher for 11 years, died in 1987 at age 33 in the bathtub of their home.
		Flynt, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since a 1978 assassination attempt, said the couple will honeymoon in St. Martin.
		The death was ruled a drowning stemming from drug intoxication and the effects of AIDS.
	www.th-record.com /1998/06/23/flynt23.htm (160 words)

	David van den Berg
		Almost immediately, Flynt meets the love of his life, a bisexual stripper named Althea Leasure, played by Courtney Love.
		Chances are good that many hooted with laughter when they heard that Courtney Love, lead singer of the grunge rock band, “Hole”, was cast as Althea Leasure.
		Norton portrays Isaacson’s vulnerability remarkably well in dealing with his eccentric and controversial client; with his superiors, who want him to dump Flynt; and with his own emotional dilemma: deciding between trying to earn acclaim defending a smut king or passing on his chance to climb the ladder until a safer client comes along.
	criterion.uchicago.edu /issues/i3/vandenberg.html (1107 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The People vs. Larry Flynt: SE (1996)
		Despite the biographical milestones found in the film, the comparatively underplayed centerpiece of The People vs. Larry Flynt is the wonderfully cock-eyed relationship between Flynt and wife Althea Leasure (Courtney Love).
		I've never been particularly overwhelmed by Love as an actress in other film roles, but her portrayal of Althea is remarkable; she oozes sleaze, love and power with a kind of unfettered ease that never seems forced or unnatural.
		Plus, there is an incredible performance by Courtney Love as the drug-addled Tinkerbell, Althea Leasure, and a nice set of extras that makes this special edition worth owning.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/24566 (1420 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]
		But it's really an epic romance that casts gleefully tasteless, backwoods pornographer Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and underage, bisexual stripper-turned-junkie Althea Leasure (Courtney Love) as lovers and inseparable soul mates in the grand tradition of Tristan and Isolde.
		But long after you've grown tired of his escapades, the scenes in which he and Althea support one another against the slings an arrows of outrageous fortune are touching and, ultimately, genuinely tragic.
		Flynt's cornpone showmanship eventually wears thin -- though his impassioned avowal that if God created women's genitals, it's the next best thing to a holy duty to glorify them in girlie pictures is especially meretriciously entertaining.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=38433 (206 words)

	LoveShy
		She lost 13.5kg to become to exotic dancer Althea Leasure who tames Larry Flynt and then becomes addicted to drugs and begins that all too familiar downward spiral.
		A few things are made clear by director Milos Foreman, who was so desperate to cast Love as Althea Leasure against the wishes of Columbia Pictures that he arranged and helped pay for the massive $600, 000 insurance premium for the rookie actor.
		She has stormed out of a couple of interviews already and no amount of careful sailing is going to elicit much useful information from Love about her excellent big screen performance as the exotic dancer turned drug-addicted wife of porn king Larry Flynt.
	members.iinet.net.au /~kgregson/LoveShy.htm (823 words)

	Althea Flynt- Edward Norton Information Page
		The fiery, dark-haired Althea may have been a 17-year-old stripper who had just blown her $10,000 inheritance on clothes and drugs when she walked into Flynt's Columbus, Ohio, girlie bar in 1970, but within eight years, she was savvy enough to oversee his $100 million empire.
		Althea had a difficult disease, and he was very loving and tolerant, and wanted her just to have the best of everything.
		Althea believed in the rights of the individual to pursue life as you choose it.
	www.edward-norton.org /pvlf/AFlynt.html (1786 words)

	histcontext
		Flynt declares, “there was never any drugs as part of [Althea and his] relationship until after the shooting.” But when asked about his amphetamine usage in his early days, he stumbles over his words and tries to conjure an excuse.
		Flynt recollects, however, that her health had been long deteriorating, since she was still addicted to heroine and had contracted the AIDS virus.
		Flynt, who fervently denies the allegation, expressed that his daughter, whom he hardly knows, has a host of mental problems and is trying to "seize her 15 minutes of fame." According to the AandE documentary "American Justice," Flynt took a lie detector test concerning this matter and "passed with flying colors."
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/ssm6/ssm6-histcontext.html (3995 words)

	Scene Log
		Althea tells him about her "epiphany" and screams that they are going to be broke as a result of his change in values.
		Althea explains to Larry that, "nobody on this planet wants their religion and porn mixed together." But even after sales are affected, he refuses to change his mind.
		Althea, who is addicted to the painkillers, tries to give some pills to Larry, but he adamantly refuses.
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/ssm6/ssm6-scenelog.html (2409 words)

	The People vs. Larry Flynt
		Larry is influenced by her just long enough to have an epiphany ("Where'd you learn that damn word?" Althea asks suspiciously) and devote Hustler disastrously to religious porn.
		Flynt, after all, is a man who wore a star-spangled diaper for one court appearance.
		The real Flynt plays a judge in one scene, sitting near Harrelson just long enough to remind the audience that a beaming, attractive Larry Flynt is very much a movie invention.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/flynt.html (769 words)

	Amazon.com: Unseemly Man: Books: Larry Flynt,Kenneth Ross
		Flynt's most tender moments here come when reflecting on his strong-willed, hell-raising, drug-addicted wife, Althea, who eventually died from AIDS.
		Is Larry Flynt a champion of free speech, exposer of hypocrisy among clay-footed moralists in elected office, and likable purveyor of dirty magazines, or is the man the gravest threat to community decency since the abolition of the chastity belt?
		So when Flynt made his return to "Censornati" in the late '90's to re-open the first adult bookstore in town since he left in the aftermath of his ill-advised trial, it was major local news and I was bemusedly interested.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0787111430?v=glance (1234 words)

	In-depth biography of Althea Flynt and images
		The fiery, dark-haired Althea may have been a 17-year-old stripper who had just blown her $10,000 inheritance on clothes and drugs when she walked into Flynt's Columbus, Ohio, girlie bar in 1970, but within eight years, she was savvy enough to oversee his $100 million empire.
		Althea Leasure walked into Larry Flynt's Columbus, Ohio, girlie bar in 1970 to work as a go-go dancer.
		Friends credit Althea, who eventually drew an annual salary of $1.6 million, with saving the blue book when Flynt wanted to revamp it during a brief 1977 religious awakening.
	biography.noongirl.com /althea_flynt (1778 words)

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