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Description

1. 286 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "From child prodigy to the most notorious director of gay adult films, Wakefield Poole wrote the rules for living on the edge with no safety line and no apologies. How a former singer and ballet dancer went from the Broadway stage to behind the camera as the world's most beautiful men bared all for him is just part of a story that takes us on a tour of the early days of the sexual revolution, when "anything goes" was more than a phrase - it was a religion.
2. While rubbing shoulders with the elite of the day, including the likes of Noel Coward, Marlene Dietrich, Andy Warhol, Tallulah Bankhead, Liza Minnelli, Bob Fosse, and Stephen Sondheim, Poole created Boys in the Sand, the film that would revolutionize the gay pornography industry and serve as the ruler by which adult entertainment is measured. Poole's memoir takes readers on a trip to an era when anything was possible and everything was celebrated as long as it had style."--Jacket.

Alternative title

1. Autobiography of a gay porn pioneer

Subject

1. Poole, Wakefield
2. Poole, Wakefield
3. Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography
4. Gay motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography
5. Gay pornographic films > United States > History
6. Gay pornographic films
7. Gay motion picture producers and directors
8. Motion picture producers and directors
9. Sexfilm
10. Homosexualität
11. United States
12. USA

Genre/Form

1. Autobiography
2. History.
3. Autobiographies.
4. Biographies.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library