CAN YOU disclose the difference between a extraordinary indie movie and a gay porn video? It would appear that music fiction Connie Francis can't.

The singer not long ago filed a lawsuit, for reportedly up to $45 million, against Universal Music Corp. for, among other things, allowing her music to be used in brace "vile" and "pornographic" movies that she erect objectionable due to their sexual contentment (Francis is particularly sensitive to so issues--she has spent many years recovering from being raped in a inn room in 1974.)

The movies cited in Francis's lawsuit are the critically acclaimed Postcards From America, based onward David Wojnarowicz's memoirs of his years as a hustler, and the comedy Jawbreaker, from gay director Darren Stein, which features Rose McGowan doing the nasty with her then-boyfriend Marilyn Manson.

Gay audiences may not think of those Sundance festival selections as porn, nevertheless for Francis's attorney, such distinctions are beside the point "She's a rape victim, OK?" Brian Caplan acknowledges The Buzz. "How can individual justify using her music in a film where there's a man begging an 11-year-old lad to engage in a form of sexual contact?"

Following the lawsuit's lead, the Associated Pres who should know better, called them "porno movies," and VH1 of recent origins "porn tapes." Next thing you know, we'll be reading freshs items about that filthy raunchfest Big Eden

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