{"id":11029,"date":"2009-09-23T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11029"},"modified":"2009-09-23T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:24:16","slug":"the-elephant-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11029","title":{"rendered":"The Elephant Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

I identify with The Elephant Man<\/a>. Sure, my flaws are more moral and psychological than physical, but I know what it is like to be a freak.<\/p>\n

Here are some painful memories from the set of Taboo 22, shot in 2007:<\/p>\n

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Throughout the day, Ava [Rose] says to me, "Luke, you’re not an animal<\/a>."<\/p>\n

DCypher: "Despite what other women have said."<\/p>\n

Luke: "Despite what Holly says."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I first saw The Elephant Man<\/a> at Pacific Union College around 1980. They presented a specially edited version with some of the naughty bits cut out. I was not sure what was redacted, but I told my friends that night that in the real version, the Elephant Man had sex with the Anne Bancroft character.<\/p>\n

Tonight I got to see the real version for the first time. There was no such sex.<\/p>\n

I wonder what my dirty little mind was so preoccupied with when it was only 14? How could I have imagined such a monstrous thing?<\/p>\n

Anyway, despite my flaws, I am not an animal.<\/p>\n

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