Dirty Poole: A Sensual MemoirFilmmaker Wakefield Poole wrote the rules for living on the edge with no safety net and no apologies. How a respected Broadway dancer, choreographer, and director became the infamous creator of beautiful, wildly successful gay porn is just part of a gripping story that takes us on a whirlwind 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 new edition of Poole's memoir is an honest and entertaining look 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 | 1 |
A Normal Start | 11 |
Running Wild | 33 |
Broadway at Last | 57 |
Do I Hear a Waltz? | 95 |
Good Drugs Good Times | 109 |
Peter | 123 |
Boys in the Sand | 139 |
Paul | 197 |
Hot Flash of America and Take One | 211 |
Bottoming Out | 229 |
A New Start BroadwayBoundAgain | 241 |
The End of an Era | 253 |
Life After Sex | 265 |
SeventyFive | 273 |
The Films of Wakefield Poole | 279 |
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