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It's been described as Mary Kay Letourneau meets 'Ghost.' But Nicole Kidman (search) insists her new R-rated movie, which features a shocking scene of the Oscar-winner naked in the bathtub with a 10-year-old boy, is done in the best possible taste. 'Yes, it's an unusual scene, but the whole film is unusual,' Kidman says of 'Birth,' (search) the controversial film that was booed at the recent Venice International Film Festival (search) and is likely to spark outrage when it opens here Oct. 29. 'It's not about sex, you know, it's certainly not about sex. It's about love, it's about being ... under the spell of somebody.' The high-concept drama stars Kidman as a fragile young widow named Anna, who believes her dead husband has been reincarnated in the body of a 10-year-old boy. In one scene, Anna tenderly kisses the young boy, played by 11-year-old Canadian Cameron Bright (search), on the lips; in another, they share an ice-cream sundae and she asks him whether he has ever made love to a girl. But the most controversial scene — which drew a hostile reaction in Venice — has the young pre-teen slowly undressing before joining Kidman's character in the bath. Shot over Kidman's bare back, the scene shows him from the waist up in the water.'The film disturbs some people and it makes them uncomfortable,' Kidman said during an interview in Beverly Hills over the weekend. 'It's meant to do that, but not in a way where you're trying to exploit a young boy.' New Line Cinema is hoping to offset uninformed Internet gossip with early press screenings of 'Birth.' 'When you see the performances in the context of the plot, it makes perfect sense,' studio exec Mark Ordesky has said. Kidman admitted that kissing Bright felt strange — particularly as her own son, Connor, is almost the same age as her co-star. 'It sort of was, but ... the first time I read [the script] I really saw it, because when you read it you're not picturing a child. 'You're ac
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