ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, December 20, 1996 TAG: 9612200043
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
The Rev. Jerry Falwell and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt will meet again tonight at 9 on CNN's "Larry King Live" to debate the limits of the First Amendment. Both will appear for the full hour and take calls from viewers.
Falwell filed a $45million libel suit against Flynt in 1983 after Hustler ran an ad parody that portrayed Falwell as a drunkard who had sex with his mother.
A Roanoke federal court jury found in 1984 that there was no libel but said Flynt should pay Falwell $200,000 for intentionally inflicting emotional distress on the Lynchburg preacher. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the verdict in 1988, saying, "the fact that society may find speech offensive is not a sufficient reason for suppressing it."
Flynt, who was shot and permanently paralyzed from the waist down in 1987, has recently written his autobiography, ``An Unseemly Man: My Life as a Pornographer, Pundit and Social Outcast.'' His life also is chronicled in the soon-to-be-released movie ``The People vs. Larry Flynt,'' starring Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love.
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