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CNN updated 2:36 PM EDT, Fri March 22, 2013   • Harmony Korine
made a name for himself as a writer for the controversial '90s
film "Kids"   • "Spring Breakers" features ex-Disney Channel
starlets Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens   • Critic calls it a
"rare potential intersection' between art film and multiplex
(CNN) -- A film poet and provocateur probably more famous for
his bombed-out appearances on David Letterman, Harmony Korine
made a name for himself in 1995 with "Kids," Larry Clark's
brutally unsentimental film about the teenage sex drive from a
screenplay Korine had written when he was 18.  Fast-forward
nearly two decades. Korine, now 40, is no longer the enfant
terrible. He's married, a father, and perhaps starting to chafe
against the marginalization that comes with such willfully
independent ventures as "Gummo," "Julian Donkey-Boy" and "Mister
Lonely." His last film, "Trash H