Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

Congress headed by Newt Gingrich unsuccessfully strove to shut it down. The show's frank portrayal of "senior" sexuality and explicit sex scenes generated controversy although it won a rare endorsement by the AARP. Kramer (1979) and Testament (1983) all of which earned her Oscar nods Brubaker (1980) The Cider House Rules (1999) and Fur (2006) in which Jane Alexander played Gertrude Nemerov mother of Diane Arbus played in the film by Nicole Kidman.

Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen Alexander has played an array of roles in theater film and television and has committed herself to a variety of charitable causes.