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know. Fleiss was set to be sentenced and incarcer­
ho says tw entysom ethings
ated on Feb. 12.
haven’t defined themselves as a
generation? Those of us origi­
nother 28-year-old riding a big wave is
nally dubbed “Gen X” are now
French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz.
in our late 20 s, and while some
Although his last film, Café au Lait,
of us are still slackers, the over-achievers among
demonstrated a hip and savvy approach to race
us are really heating things up.
and sexual politics that earned comparisons to the
First there’s 28-year-old Heidi Fleiss, pro­
early work of Spike Lee, he’s come into his own
filed in Nick Broomfield’s shock-u-mentary Heidi
with La Haine or, as it will be known in the United
Fleiss: Hollywood Madam. Did you know that
States, Hate. Currently all the rage in Europe,
Kassovitz’s film portrays 24 hours in the lives of
three friends after a riot in the project where they
live. Filled with rage over police brutality in
general and a specific attack on a friend who was
taken into custody, these young men are wound
even after Fleiss was arrested for making millions
up tight and about to explode. The surprise is that
providing nubile California Girl-type prostitutes
while the film is set in the suburbs outside Paris,
to rich men and studio executives in Los Angeles,
and the three friends are a Jew, an Arab and an
she found another outlet for her entrepreneurial
Afro-Caribbean (an uncommon trio stateside),
talents? While awaiting trial (that is, after she got
out of rehab), Fleiss opened
an aerobics clothing store in a
Pasadena called “ H eidi- a
W ear.” Wow! Everything 35
you ever wanted to know £
about F le iss— m eet her o
mother, her lovers/enemies,
her friends/enem ies, her
former co-workers/enemies,
her competitors/enemies—
and more, can be found in
B roomfield’s latest hair-rais­
ing effort.
Having previously pro­
filed lesbian serial killer and
prostitute Aileen Wuomos,
Broomfield has a thing for
“strong” women and a pen­
chant for getting people to
talk on camera after paying
them off with money he gets
from the BBC (is this arts
funding?). Until I saw this
film, I thought no one could
be more obnoxious than
B room field him self, but
Fleiss surrounds herself with
some pretty amazing people
(at least the ones we see, who
would talk to Broomfield for
cash)— people who make an
average talk-show guest
seem like the top of the food
chain.
Heidi Fleiss
One of Fleiss’ ex-best
friends is Victoria Sellers
Everything you ever wanted to know about
(daughter of Peter Sel lers and
Britt Ekland), fresh from re­ Fleiss—meet her mother, her lovers/enemies,
hab and dressed head to toe
her friends/enemies, her former co-workers/
by Adidas, who tells of how
enemies, her competitors/enemies—and
she and Fleiss used to live
more, can be found in Broomfield's latest
together but now she’s been
forced to take legal action
hair-raising effort.
against Fleiss to get her fur­
niture out of the house they once shared—a house
the film is startlingly familiar. There’s nothing
which Heidi bought from actor Michael Douglas.
like the lure of a foreign film to scare you into
Oh, it’s so sleazy, it’s so decadent yet tasteless,
recognizing the kind of hostility we have brewing
it’s so L. A., and— like trash TV— it’s pretty damn
right in our own backyards. My lesbian friend in
compelling.
London was so crazy about Hate that I thought for
Fleiss herself remains a total enigma— the
sure it must have lesbians in it. Not a chance—
daughter of a Beverly Hills doctor who started
although the film is being presented by Jodie
dating a 60-year-old millionaire when she was
Foster’s Egg Pictures, this is all about straight
19, and who became a self-made millionaire
male pride. But if you’ve been feeding yourself a
herself at 25 by setting up $40,000-a-night fan­
diet of quality films with an edge, like Dead Man
tasy gigs for tricks with special needs? Cocky, yet
Walking, Forty Deuce, Georgia or Leaving Las
naive— how did she do it, and why is she the only
Vegas— make sure Hate is the next one on your
one being prosecuted for it? The world may never
plate.
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