In 1996, Love starred in The People vs. Larry Flynt and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.

He was also nominated for a Best Director Oscar for The People vs. Larry Flynt.

According to Dixie's Forgotten People: the South's Poor Whites, by J. Wayne Flynt, geophagy was quite common among poor whites in the South-eastern United States.

Flynt was born in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, the first of three children to 23-year-old Larry Claxton Flynt, Sr. ( August 16, 1919 – July 1, 2005 ), a sharecropper and a World War II veteran, and 17-year-old Edith ( née Arnett ; August 13, 1925 – March 29, 1982 ), a homemaker.

Flynt was raised in poverty, and claimed Magoffin County was the poorest county in the nation during the Great Depression.

Since the United States was at peace, the Army decided to honorably discharge Flynt.

Although the first few issues went largely unnoticed, within a year the magazine became highly lucrative and Flynt was able to pay his tax debts.

Shortly thereafter, Flynt was approached by a paparazzo who had taken nude pictures of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis while she was sunbathing on vacation in 1971.

In 1994 Flynt bought a Gulfstream II private jet, which was used in the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt.

In July 1974, Flynt first published Hustler as a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter, which was advertising for his businesses.

Hustler has often featured more explicit photographs than comparable magazines and has contained depictions of women that some find demeaning, such as a naked woman in a meat grinder or presented as a dog on a leash — though Flynt later said that the meat grinder image was a criticism of the pornography industry itself.

" During the subsequent trial, Flynt wore an American flag as a diaper and was jailed for six months for desecration of the flag.

In 1988, Flynt won an important Supreme Court decision, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, after being sued by Reverend Jerry Falwell in 1983, over an offensive ad parody in Hustler that suggested that Falwell's first sexual encounter was with his mother in an out-house.

After Falwell's death, Flynt stated that despite their differences, he and Falwell had become friends over the years, adding, " I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.

As a result of a sting operation in April 1998, Flynt was charged with a number of obscenity-related offenses concerning the sale of sex videos to a youth in a Cincinnati adult store he owned.

In 2003, Flynt was a candidate in the recall election of California governor Gray Davis, calling himself a " smut peddler who cares ".

A film, The People vs. Larry Flynt ( 1996 ), was based on his life which features Woody Harrelson in the title role.

A documentary, available on DVD, Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone, directed by Joan Brooker-Marks was released in 2008.

One Nation Under Sex which documents the colorful sex lives of America's most powerful leaders, was co-written by Larry Flynt and Columbia University history professor David Eisenbach and published in 2011.

The most commonly cited include the series of Chamber's Street loft concerts, New York, curated by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young in 1961 featuring pieces by Jackson Mac Low and Henry Flynt, the month-long Yam festival held in upstate New York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May, 1963 with Ray Johnson and Allan Kaprow that was the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces, and a series of concerts held in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Cologne, 1960-61 featuring Nam June Paik and John Cage amongst many others.

* March 6 – American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

The shooting left Flynt partially paralyzed, with permanent spinal cord damage, and in need of a wheelchair.

Flynt Leverett calls Iran a rising power that might well become a nuclear power in coming years — if the US does not prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear technology, as part of a grand bargain under which Iran would cease its nuclear activities in exchange for a guarantee of its borders by the US.

Flynt attended Salyersville High School ( now Magoffin County High School ) in the ninth grade, however ran away from home and, despite being only 15 years old, joined the United States Army using a counterfeit birth certificate.

In early 1965, Flynt took $ 1, 800 from his savings and bought his mother's Dayton, Ohio bar, the Keewee.

Flynt had to fight to publish each issue, as many people, including some at his distribution company, found the magazine too explicit and threatened to remove it from the market.

Robert Livingston – a congressman from Louisiana ... abruptly retired after learning that Mr Flynt was about to reveal that he had also had an affair.

This and the following three SMILE issues otherwise featured an eclectic mixture of manifesto-style writing, political reflections on radical left-wing anti-art movements from the Lettrist International, the Situationists, Fluxus, Mail Art, invididuals such as Gustav Metzger and Henry Flynt, and short parodistic skinhead pulp prose in the style of his then unwritten early novels.

While such material has earned Hustler much criticism from feminists and other critics, Flynt and his supporters defend the cartoons as bawdy social satire.

This magazine is not owned by Larry Flynt, but is licensed to publish material from the American version.

During a bookstore signing in July 2011, Flynt stated that less than five percent of his income comes from the print magazine ; he also speculated that the print magazine will not be around in 2 to 3 years.

Henry Flynt ’ s work devolves from what he calls cognitive nihilism ; a concept he developed and first announced in the 1960 and 1961 drafts of a paper called Philosophy Proper.

Flynt read publicly from his text From Culture to Veramusment at Walter De Maria's loft on February 28, 1963-an act which can be considered performance art.

* Henry Flynt interview from 1989

Kaupas then received a call from Larry Flynt Publications.

After Morgan's death, publisher Larry Flynt offered to purchase copies of video tapes showing a number of high-ranking people in the Reagan administration in sexual trysts from Beverly Hills attorney Robert Steinberg.

* John James Flynt, Jr. ( 1914 – 2007 ), U. S. Representative from Georgia

In Fall 2004, Lane contributed the lead vocals for the first ever theme song to a novel, The Devil of Shakespeare, by author, Billy McCarthy, along with JY from Styx, Ron Flynt 20 / 20, Chip Z ' Nuff of Enuff Z ' Nuff.

It features scenes from the movie, news of the time and interviews, both from archive and purpose-made, with director Gerard Damiano, actor Harry Reems, actress Linda Lovelace, Gore Vidal, Larry Flynt, Hugh Hefner, John Waters, Erica Jong, a prosecutor, Reems ' defense, Mafia money collectors, and other people involved or just commenting on the film.

* John James Flynt, Jr. ( 1940 ), United States Congressman from Georgia

Media moguls emerged from the state, including Ted Turner and Larry Flynt.