Swindell, interviewed by telephone from Boise, Idaho, said the planned Generation Life protests are intended to discourage people from seeing the film, at least until they do their own research on Kinsey's life and works. She said protesters would be handing out anti-Kinsey pamphlets and carrying signs with slogans like "Criminal, Not Hero." "If this was a true documentary, they would have included more negative information," Swindell said. "They're sugarcoating the issue, trying to make him look like a genius who all of humanity should be grateful for." Robert Peters, president of the conservative watchdog group Morality in Media, saw an advance screening. "Kinsey wasn't wrong about everything," Peters said. "No question there was an unhealthy shame about sex that prevented people from getting help. ... There were a lot of people who were suffering." "A film could have been produced that would have shown that side of Kinsey but also shown the hell that he released," Peters added. "That's part of Kinsey's legacy -- AIDS, abortion, the high divorce rate, pornography -- and there's not anything in the film to connect him with it." -David Cary.
When flinty-eyed actor Vince Curatola walks into an Italian restaurant, does he get special attention? You bet. Curatola acknowledges the benefits of playing urbane New York mob boss John Sacramoni -- Johnny Sack -- on the hit HBO series The Sopranos. "The restaurant, the bank, wherever," Curatola concedes with a laugh. "It's every moment of the day, actually, it really never stops." But of course Curatola maintains that despite playing an old-school gangster who serves as an intimidating foil to New Jersey counterpart Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), he's nothing like that in real life. "Yeah, I hope. I'm docile." The actor -- who really was born in New Jersey and lives there today -- says every once in a while, when they are shooting on location in Jersey, there's a hint that the genuine article does watch The Sopranos. "You never really know what someone does for a living," he says. "Someone maybe across the street, let's say, just gives us a little smirk and a little smile. And I guess that's maybe a sign of approval from a certain subculture that they like the show." When viewers last saw Johnny, he was in heavy conversation with Tony about the rift between their New York and New Jersey crews, when suddenly cops were pouring all over his property and Tony was fleeing in the snow like a panicky fox with bloodhounds on his tail. Is Johnny out of the picture? Heading for prison? Naturally, Curatola, like the rest of the cast, insists he doesn't know himself what's coming and probably wouldn't say if he did. Shooting on the sixth and final season of The Sopranos isn't scheduled to begin until early April, with telecasts not resuming until March 2006 on HBO and in Canada on the Movie Network and Movie Central (although season 3 is currently airing Sunday nights). But the actor does believe that the right thing would be for the two bosses -- who tend to rub each other the wrong way -- to reach an accord. Like the oft-repeated line in the Godfather movies, it should be about business, nothing personal. "An accord is the only way to avoid a complete collapse of the money-making system," he says in a telephone interview from New York. "Because, you know, this is all about money. It's not about friendship, it's not about respect. It's all about having the most toys at the end."