Friday, August 04, 2006
Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) is a sexually voracious young woman who connects with men through sex. One night at a party, she meets David (Eric Balfour). Later, as she has casual sex with a stranger outside, David and his girlfriend mirror her actions in their car. Their eyes lock, beginning a courtship ritual that initiates their own sexual affair. Leila and David get to know each other – which means being intimate - in bed, on the roof, in the park, everywhere. For them and other members of their generation, sex is communication. Just as Leila realizes her attraction to David is different than anything she has ever known, he retreats. Her explosive reaction knows no bounds. Now they must conquer their demons in order to move beyond the purely physical…and satisfy the emotional connection they unknowingly crave.
Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall--London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages (familiar to anyone who's ever been in love) unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
At the age of 40, wildly successful gay adult film star Colton Ford decides to leave porn behind and to pursue his dream: music. He definitely has the talent, but can he successfully use his porn past to build up a new career as a singer-songwriter? Christopher Long's intelligent and appealing documentary, Naked Fame, attempts to answer that question, following Colton and his life partner, fellow adult film star Blake Harper, as Colton moves from the film studio to the music recording studio. This documentary explores the inner-workings of the music industry, capturing the intense emotional drama involved in the pursuit of stardom against the stigma of a porn-star past.
Born in the small town of Tuna, Texas, (but doing some of his growing up in Oklahoma), Dirk first came to public attention when he appeared, at age 27, in a nude photo-spread in Playgirl Magazine's "Holiday 1990" issue. This handsome, hairy-chested blond proved unusually popular with readers and when given a chance to select 1992's "Man of the Year", these readers picked Dirk from among a field of twelve candidates. He subsequently stripped down for another nude photo-spread in Playgirl's February 1992 issue. This "exposure" led to a number of personal appearances, press interviews, and guest spots on TV talk shows. Dirk used some of these experiences as the basis for a theatrical film titled Man of the Year (1995) which was released in 1995. Dirk played himself in this "mockumentray" which told, in generally light-hearted fashion, of the tribulations a gay man might face when he's presented as the female's ideal of a sex symbol. The movie received mixed reviews and didn't play in many theaters but it proved popular at gay film festivals. Dirk followed this with another movie in 2001 titled _Circuit (2001/I)_ which also dealt with a gay man's life.
Jordan started his career in porn in 1999 at Jocks, a division of Falcon Studios. His first movie for this studio was Thrusted, and many more were to follow. Jordan was eighteen years old at the time of the production of Thrusted, and was a quintessential twink boy at the start of his pornographic career. His slender and smooth body, bright blue eyes and his bleach-blond hair aided him to quickly grasp star-status as a bottom in gay porn of the early 2000s.