So we've heard. Chambers, a consultant on Mitchell, says, ''It's going to be really hard to do [these films] from the waist up.'' So how do you make a movie about porn and avoid an NC-17 rating? ''Now you've asked the $100,000 question,'' says Mitchell producer Jane Rosenthal (A Bronx Tale). ''That's why you want a real filmmaker to do this, to be somewhat inventive.'' Before production began on Flynt, Yang met with a Sony lawyer ''who went through the script and said, 'Okay, if you see an erect penis for a second, it's okay, but if you're dwelling on it....' It was one of the funniest business conversations I've ever had.''
Still, you're not likely to find these films attracting the family crowd. As Yang puts it, ''I wasn't so happy about telling my parents I was making this movie.''
(Additional reporting by Jeffrey Wells)
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