WHAT IT'S ABOUT: On the morning of June 23, 1993, police in Manassas, Va., get a call about a man whose penis has been severed by his wife. The rest is tabloid TV history. "Lorena," produced by Oscar winner Jordan Peele, features extended interviews with Lorena Bobbitt, now 48 _ and using her maiden name, Gallo _ and her ex-husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, 51. There are also extensive interviews with police, lawyers, neighbors, reporters _ seemingly anyone who had anything to do with this.
Lorena Bobbitt, who was born in Ecuador and raised in Venezuela, said her husband had sexually assaulted her for several months. John Bobbitt said she assaulted him after he had told her he was leaving her. A former Marine who came from a broken home, he was charged with marital sexual assault, while she was charged with malicious wounding. Both trials, in '93 and '94 respectively, ended in acquittals.
MY SAY: If "Lorena" sounds like a four-hour root canal procedure, then congratulations. Your gag reflex is perfectly normal. Four hours? On this? But 25 years hence, a little perspective might help before forging ahead:
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