Dirty Poole : a sensual memoir / Wakefield Poole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poole, Wakefield

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poole, Wakefield.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Gay motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Gay motion picture producers and directors.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Maple Shade, N.J. : Lethe Press, 2011.

Summary:

How filmmaker Wakefield Poole, a respected Broadway dancer, choreographer, and director became the infamous creator of successful gay porn is part of a story that takes us on a tour of the early days of the sexual revolution, when anything goes was a way of life. While rubbing shoulders with the theatrical elite of the day, including Noel Coward, Marlene Deitrich, Richard Rodgers, Liza Minelli and Stephen Sondheim, Poole created Boys in the Sand, the film that would revolutionize pornography and gay film, start the "porno chic" trend of the 1970s, and serve as the ruler by which all adult entertainment is measured. This memoir looks at life in the worlds of theater and gay porn, the perils and joys of success, the horrors of drug addiction, and the resilient spirit of a man who continually re-invented himself and survived it all.

Contents:

Rolling out the red carpet

A normal start

Running wild

Broadway at last

Do I hear a waltz?

Good drugs, good times

Peter

Boys in the sand

Bijou

The Bible

Paul

Hot flash of America and take one

Bottoming out

A new start: Broadway-bound... again

The end of an era

Life After sex

Afterward: Seventy-five

Appendix: The films of Wakefield Poole.

Notes:

Originally published: Los Angeles : Alyson Books, 2000.

ISBN:

9781590212295

1590212290

OCLC:

721085580

Publisher Number:

90104771639