2006 Film Index Back to Main Site		Back F*CK Steve Anderson (US, 2005, 93 min) Documentary Saturday, Oct 7, 5:30pm, Student Union Theatre Sponsored by the CWU First Amendment Festival EFF-ing hilarious! This entertaining and thoughtful documentary examines the controversial epithet from its much-disputed origins to the present-day debates that surround it. At a time when the FCC has jacked up the fines on profanity, this documentary questions whether censorship in defense of mere manners is worth the toll it takes on our basic rights – namely freedom of speech. Woven throughout the discussion are examples of how profanity – and our reactions to it – affects people in more ways than you would think. As Lenny Bruce said, “If you can’t say fuck, you can’t say fuck the government.” [David Skover, Author/First Amendment Scholar, in Attendance.] Interviewees (selected list): Pat Boone, Chuck D, Ice-T, Alanis Morissette, Drew Carey, Bill Maher, Dennis Prager, Billy Connolly, Alan Keyes, Judith “Miss Manners” Martin, Hunter S. Thompson, Ron Jeremy, Michael Medved, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Bradlee, Kevin Smith, Tera Patrick, Evan Seinfeld, and David Skover (present at the EFF screening). David Skover Biosketch: David Skover is the Dean’s Distinguished Research Scholar & Professor of Law at Seattle University. He teaches, writes, and lectures in the fields of federal constitutional law, federal courts, free speech & the internet, and mass communications theory. He is also a regionally acclaimed opera and musical theater singer. David graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Domestic Affairs at Princeton University. He received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Thereafter, he served as a law clerk for federal judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Skover is the co-author of Tactics of Legal Reasoning (Carolina Academic Press, 1986), The Death of Discourse (Westview Press, 1996; Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed. 2005), and The Trials of Lenny Bruce (Sourcebooks, 2002). He is currently working on two books – the first on the First Amendment jurisprudence of Justice Louis Brandeis and the second on the obscenity trial involving Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. In 2003, Skover and his coauthor, Ron Collins, successfully petitioned Governor Pataki of New York State to posthumously pardon Lenny Bruce. In 2004, they received the High Hefner First Amendment Award for The Trials of Lenny Bruce and their pardon effort. Festivals: SxSW Film Festival (Austin), Philadelphia Film Festival, AFI Festival (LA), Newport Beach Int’l Film Festival, San Francisco Indie Fest, Web: www.fourletterfilm.com