Furious Art Dealer Meets Movie's 'Sex With Mother and Son' Claim Halfway
We're on the record as having thoroughly enjoyed the pulpy, incest-tinged, true-crime biopic Savage Grace, starring Julianne Moore as Bakelite plastics matriarch and certified son-fucker Barbara Baekeland. Alas, one of Baekeland's lovers depicted in the film wants to make it clear that he didn't fuck anyone's son — especially Baekeland's — but that the whole "homosexual romp" thing? Yeah, that might be worth a lawsuit:
[Art dealer Sam] Green told us he has no problem being depicted as one of the many characters who hung around the Baekelands. But a scene in which he and Tony have sex simply never happened, he insists.
He's consulted a lawyer about filing a defamation suit. "The lawyer said this is a winner," Green said. "How do they think they can get away with it?"
Rainbow Media, parent company of IFC Films, told us: "The film was based on a book about Barbara Baekeland and carries a disclaimer that explains that characters may be composites or entirely fictitious."
Look, Sam, it's like this: When you play in the World Series of Fucked-Up, you're gonna get hit by a wild pitch every now and then. And anyway, your depiction in Savage Grace seemed pretty flattering to us, with your bronzed lothario's effortless seduction of Barbara Baekeland rivaled only by your cool in the sack with both mother and son — at the same time. You're a stud! Just take the feather, put it in your cap and enjoy your bit part in the myth. You may as well — you just publicized the hell out of it.