Marco Siedelmann Livres

He literally has seen it all. Wakefield Poole experienced a glowing era of American film history and the golden age" of several glorious things such as Broadway, Porno Chic, Rock Music, Gay Liberation, and the Sexual Revolution itself. After being almost forgotten, the films by adult movie pioneer Wakefield Poole are being re-discovered by a younger generation of cinematics. In a very personal and career-spanning interview, Mr. Poole shares never-heard stories and talks about every single film he made. He discusses several other stations of his life; for example: cooking in the Trump Tower and for Jackie Kennedy. Not only his well-known celluloid-masterpieces like Boys in the Sand, or Bijou are discussed, but also the often overlooked movies shot on video by the former dancer & choreographer, and his life after retirement. Includes a foreword by documentary filmmaker Jim Tushinski, the historical interview "Dirty Poole" by Jack Fritscher from the legendary Drummer' Magazine which was originally published in 1977, and a conversation with German film critic Udo Rotenberg. On top the interviews are represented visually by many stills, snapshots from private archives, artworks and ephemera pieces."

In American pop art, gangster rap, punk rock, and gay filmmaking, there is a Continental Divide between East Coast and West Coast culture typified by New York and California. This esthetic regionalism may be a moot point to today's international viewers of twenty-first-century gay porn which is more "corporate meat loops" than it is the "personal" kind of visionary film narrative made by the pioneer directors. They created gay cinema. They built their box-office fame with their stories and style, and with their superb casting back in the day when the porn stars they discovered were hot guys with real personalities they knew would make audiences hard no matter what coast or country or continent: Jack Wrangler, Casey Donovan, Peter Berlin, and a host of others. No matter the coast or country, Hot is hot. Some things are universal. Essential. Everywhere. Including interviews with J. Brian, Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, Roger Earl, David "Old Reliable" Hurles, Jim West, a guest article by cult filmmaker Toby Ross and numerous pages of pictures and photo art by Mark Hemry, Tom Bianchi, David Pearce, John J. Krause, Tom of Finland, Tom Kellie, and other iconic gay artists.

This interview collection takes us back into the roaring 1980s, when the home video market changed the whole world of film making. For a short time, everything seemed possible, and in a way everything was possible. Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment was in the right place at the right time. Although SGE closed its doors in 1995, films like THE EXTERMINATOR, BLACK ROSES, SHAKEDOWN, MOONTRAP, RED SCORPION, NO RETREAT NO SURRENDER II, BASKET CASE II & III, FRANKENHOOKER, MANIAC COP and several others remain cult favorites today. Enlightening interviews with business legends and producers are combined with extended conversations with well-known genre filmmakers. On top of this are the voices of all the key people that marketed and sold the SGE movies to the world, managed the productions, or ran the office during this fast forward period of maverick film making. Neither Jim Glickenhaus nor Leonard Shapiro have ever opened up this much about their fantastic careers in the film industry. Includes a foreword by Charles Band. All Interviewees: Leonard Shapiro, James Glickenhaus, Stephen A. Roberts, Nadia Bruce Rawlings, Lewis Horwitz, Ted Rosenblatt, Sonoko Sakai, John Alexander, William Lustig, Frank K. Isaac, Frank Henenlotter, Kevin Tent, Jefferson Richard, Cynthia Cirile, Andi Elliot, Christian Ingvordsen, Jalal Merhi, Jacqueline Palmiere, Cynthia Rothrock, Joseph Zito, Stephanie Denton, Bob Berney, Marilyn Moore, Robert Chapin