Here's a look at 'Philly' today...
... all grown up:
http://www.hewlett.org/AboutUs/Staff/ericBrown.htm
interesting. thanks
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MovieChat Forums > Private Lessons (1981) Discussion > Here's a look at 'Philly' today...
How come the article doesn't mention that he was in a movie in the 80's?
shareUmmm... Just a guess here but...
Maybe he didn't want that he was in a pedophilic movie on his professional profile for his job?
I wouldn't.
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Yeah all the more reason for him NOT to want THIS dreck mentioned!!! Cute movie I guess, but it IS after all, Pedophilia... He's what, 12??? IF that?
shareEric was actually 17(which was legal at the time) when this was filmed. He was supposed to be 15 in the movie.
shareIt's not pedophilia. Pedophilia is sexual abuse of a prepubescent, which Philly was clearly past.
He was 16 years old and passed puberty and was engaged in consensual sex.
In the United States and most developed countries in the world, its perfectly legal for a 16 year old to have consensual sex with any other adult of their choosing.
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The latest link to Eric Brown's picture...
http://www.hewlett.org/uploads/images/ericcopy.jpg
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Barb,
Your particular brand of neo-puritan ignorance is MUCH more dangerous to the safety of children than a film about a TEENAGER doing what 60% of teenagers do every day.
Conflating sex with a statutory minor, someone over the age of 14, with PEDOPHILIA diverts the attention of the public away from those who are actually preying on innocent children.
Obviously, Eric didn't actually have sex with anyone in the film, but body doubles did come very close.
Even if, as did happen in European and Brazlian films of that era, someone over 14 was involved in a sexual act in a film, it would make everyone in the theater breathe a wistful sigh of nostalgia for their youth, not light up torches like ne'er-do-well do-gooders like yourself.
The greatest threat to our children from predators is posed, not by the predators themselves, but by an immature society that fails to properly educate its youth about sex and sexuality out of a misplaced fear that they will be more likely to become sexually active (proven a lie) or that it will increase rates of marital infidelity (proven lie) or that it will anger Jesus (maybe, probably not, but who cares?).
America's lack of comprehensive sex and sexuality education is what leaves its children most vulnerable to attacks by predators. Informed, empowered children see right through the mind games of predators and it is educated children like that who are the most likely to report and stop predators in their tracks. Cops and vigilantes posing as 13yo kids in chat rooms will keep idiots like Chris Hanson on TV, but will do very little to stop exploitation. In fact, exploitation is what keeps Chris Hanson, certain cops, and vigilantes like Perverted Justice in business.
Love is like breathing. You have to take some in and let it out to live.
The Foundation bio also says:
Prior to that, he was press secretary and speechwriter for Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez, a seven-term member of Congress from New York.
The IMDB bio for the actor says:
Used to be a press secretary for NY congresswoman Nydia Velazquez.
Bingo! It's him ...
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That would be my reasoning as well. And regardless of the subject matter of this film, I don't think his performance here is worth mentioning in a professional profile.
shareLink update:
http://www.hewlett.org/newsroom/news/interview-larry-kramer
Here, Eric, looking very much the 50 years old that he is (he was 17 when making Private Lessons, not 12, like some creepy anti-sex people claim) interviews the latest president of the Hewlett Foundation, Larry Kramer.
Anyone can plainly see it is indeed the same Eric who starred in Private Lessons, Mama's Place, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. The same Eric who, when he was nearly an adult, made himself my personal hero at age 11, just getting my adolescence underway.
What I find most interesting is that Kramer admits, at 2:13 that the Hewlett Foundation "does some horrible things". While it is certainly no secret (at least, not a well-kept one) that a great many clandestine torture and assassination campaigns are actually executed by "non-profit foundations" which are really very highly profitable mercenary groups funded by U.S. tax dollars, it surprises me to hear that a president of a non-profit would let it slip that his foundation "does horrible things".
It is possible, of course, that he misspoke and that what he really meant to say was that, like any organization, they make mistakes and "do things horribly" that they might have done better with proper planning. It does, however, pique my interest to take a closer look into what The Hewlett Foundation actually DOES do in the name of "Philanthropy", one of the greatest misnomers of the English language.
The only reason foundations exist is to provide tax shelters to greedy robber barons and to give them a "Happy Face" to show to the public. It is quite obvious to anyone smarter than a hamster that if wealthy people (ANY wealthy people) actually cared about their fellow human beings, they would not spend one minute of time chasing after money after stealing their first $100 million from the sweat of the workers and would be chasing down cures for disease, ways to more equitably and efficiently distribute the planet's resources, and ways to diffuse ethnic, political and religious tensions without violence or shaming. Since there are exactly ZERO wealthy people doing anything like that (though they make a great effort to fool the public into thinking they do), you can be assured that Eric's buddies at the Hewlett Foundation are, indeed, doing some horrible things. The trick is, tracking down and exposing what those horrible things are and why they are doing them. It usually has to do with grabbing more money and power for those who possess too much of both already.
That's a choice gig, Eric. I'm sure many would ask who'd you have to sleep with to get it and how old were you when you did?
Love is like breathing. You have to take some in and let it out to live.