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Contents:
- 27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH
- GAY FOR PAY / ARE THERE REALLY ANY STRAIGHT MEN GAY PORN?
- THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH
Stay away om this utnary tale about the gay porn dtry -- blows. * gay fluffer *
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Related: Out actor Jonathan Bailey says ’s ‘fantastic’ straight guys play gay rol, but there’s a ‘but’. A low-rent, high-scuzz analog to 1997's wonrful Love And Death On Long Island, the film exam the same rapt obssn a gay man feels for a straight movie star, but don't approach the earlier film's plexy or pth of emotn.
GAY FOR PAY / ARE THERE REALLY ANY STRAIGHT MEN GAY PORN?
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Like Love And Death, The Fluffer begs wh a marquee mix-up: Jt as John Hurt tend to see Merchant-Ivory and stumbled to Hot Pants College II stead, stralaced 22-year-old Michael Cun rents a py of Cizen Kane that's been swched for Cizen Cum, a gay porn vio. Cun's merawork fails to imprs his superrs, but he be valuable as a fluffer for Gurney, a reluctant former straight star who turned to gay porn for the extra sh to fuel his dg hab.
But whenever The Fluffer breaks away om the world of gay porn—one that Wtmoreland, an award-wng director, knows well— los s novelty and dulg melodramatic clichés. Stay away om this utnary tale about the gay porn dtry -- blows. The poster for Andre Teche's unbearably sensive gay drama "Wild Reeds" that adorns the wall of Sean's cmmy apartment marks him as a sensive cephile, as do the e-a-mute monologue he livers on the obssive them of "Vertigo" at an dtry party when he's wired on crystal meth.
THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
There's nothg like a good gay photo. You n hardly turn around a gallery whout bumpg to a photo that was eher snapped by a queer person or one for a subject: om Calyn Jenner's portra by Annie Leibovz to the provotive works of Robert Mapplethorpe to the geni of Andy Warhol, Cathere Opie, and Pierre and Gill. Maybe there's somethg queer about the photograph, the transformatn om a subject to an object a flash. Or maybe all our years of takg selfi for Grdr prepared for the job. In any se, what mak the gay photo gay is the look levels at the viewer: We are ed to beg seen, but now we n look back. * gay fluffer *
Johnny Rebel, the object of Sean's adorg lt, isn't even gay. He's what the dtry lls "gay for pay, " a performer who has found that men n make more money gay porn than straight porn (where the women are the big earners), and who asserts his straightns by workg strictly as a "top" (that is to say, a fucker stead of a fuckee, a recipient of oral sex but not a giver). But the ia of a young gay Candi loose porn-land seems such a natural for rnchy edy that the movie feels like one long missed opportuny.
(The exceptn is a club scen where gay porn director Chi Chi Lae leads a spired rendn of the Runaways' sleaze-rock perennial "Cherry Bomb. Michael Cun's Sean has the thick look of a sensive, rn-fed lunkhead (he's like the nt of the same lter that produced Ryan Philippe) and Stt Gurney's Johnny has the blank, narcissism of any number of terchangeable gay porn studs.
The women fare much better here, Ada Porter who brgs a nice, brtlens to the role of Silver, a lbian who works behd the scen bee she's to gay porn, and Roxanne Day as Johnny's stripper girliend Babylon. For 22-year-old Leo, a gay prostute Strasbourg, France, turng tricks is more than a job.