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Recovering from his break-up with the handsome, hard-drinking Mikey, the author tries gay personal ads-but mostly ends up deflowering curious straight men. Then he meets Kieran, a naive, hot college guy precisely half his age, who's hungry for new sex, new drugs, and new experiences. The two fall in love and all's going great, until...Mikey comes back, and he falls for Kieran too. Eventually, an affectionate ménage à trois develops between this trio of erotic neurotics, and the question becomes, can they navigate the choppy waters of a three-way relationship without rules? “Funny
and frank and fearless. It’s, as they say, unputdownable.” Erotic and hilarious” “For all of you who enjoy a good book here’s one you can’t miss.
It’s a great story that I just know will have you glued to your seat.” “I was so intrigued by this offbeat look at love, and I’m sure you
will be too!” “Absolutely Sterling. A delight to read.
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romantic comedy about sex as love, sex as sin, sex as a business. Alex,
a Russian immigrant, arrives in Los Angeles seeking the American dream
only to land a low-paying job in a factory manufacturing sex toys. The
factory’s owner, Eppy, a 65 year-old Jewish mother adopts Alex like a
son and tries to set him up with another lonely single
friend of hers, Catherine, a fading adult movie star. An offbeat
love affair begins Alex, old-fashioned and deeply romantic, tries to
convince the cynical Catherine that true love does indeed exist. This low-budget sex comedy was filmed entirely in my mother’s sex toy factory in downtown L.A. No kidding. I have a wonderful and very liberated mom. Thanks to John Schlesinger (who helped me get in touch with the actors) I was able to cast it with some of my favorite thespians. Michael York, Beverley D Angelo, Brian Cox, and my teenage jerk-off fantasy, Troy Donahue. Then we got Erasure’s lead singer Andy Bell to make his movie debut playing a porno director. Erasure’s Vince Clark did all the original music. *** ½ - Box Office Magazine. “Vividly exposes the sex-toy biz”
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A British comedy series about a magazine 'agony aunt' who also runs her own radio phone-in. Like Dr. Frazier Crane many years later, she could solve everyone's problems except her own. Jane's best friends and confidantes are a gay couple, Rob and Michael, who live in the flat next door. I interviewed Cosmopolitan advice columnist, Anna Raeburn, for London’s Time Out magazine and we became friends, which eventually led to us co-writing a British comedy series about our lives. This Britcom had pot smoking (my favorite subject), happy healthy gays, and lots of radical little touches. It eventually became the dull, ”Lucie Arnaz Show” on CBS. The BBC revived “Agony” many years later as “Agony Again”. Went on to win the Banff International Television Festival, where it was in competition with “Taxi” and “Mash”. “Agony was easily the funniest
English situation comedy to have turned up in years. The wisecracking
was of a very high order. Sunday night will be much flatter without
it” “Funny and exceptionally daring. Check it out. You can thank me later.” “Agony
cuts to the bone of human relations. And it strikes a rich vein in
comedy. It’s the most refreshing, frank, and funny thing on TV.”
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Lucille Ball's daughter, Lucie Arnaz, plays Dr. Jane Lucas, a bright, attractive woman in her early 30's who is forced to contend with a still overly protective mother, a loving and interfering sister, a boyishly adolescent radio co-anchor, and a dizzily chauvinistic station manager. What a disaster. This was the American version of my gay, pot smoking, left-wing British series “Agony”. Unfortunately, it became a committee-written mess. CBS and the new writers took out everything that made “Agony” worth watching - the gays, the pot, the politics, and made the advice columnist a boringly well-adjusted doctor. As a final insult, they replaced the gays with little kids. Lasted six episodes. Instantly forgotten. “Will Miss Arnaz get better
scripts to showcase her decidedly appealing personality? Perhaps only
the producers know for sure.”
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This anthology brings together essays, cartoons, and photographs on Gay (men’s) Liberation with an introduction by gay activist Dennis Altman. In the sixties, Gary Noguera and I were lovers living in Mill Valley, across the bay from San Francisco. The publishers gave us a one-thousand dollar advance, which was a fortune to us, to organize this radical anthology. The book ended up having original contributions from John Lennon, William Burroughs, Christopher Isherwood, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, and other luminaries. You can get used copies on the net. “This
book conveys more of the flavor of the gay liberation movement than any
other I have read…an excellent volume.”
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Gloria, a witty English woman, finds herself stuck in Hollywood with her film director husband Grant. As her marriage falls apart, and Grant sets up housekeeping with a Hollywood bimbo, Gloria is forced to cast off the dreamy notions she’s clung to for years. Her fantasies of romance-past are brought alive by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as they were in their early musicals. My thirties-style screwball comedy for the stage—with sex and pot smoking thrown in (I told you it was my favorite subject). Played across Britain at thirteen venues including the Theatre Royal, Bath and the Queens Theatre, London. Also had a successful run in Buenos Aries. “Risky
Kisses is an out-and-out sophisticated comedy, making Len Richmond a
firm nominee as London’s answer to Neil Simon”. “Len Richmond’s play really glitters.”
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“Le Chinois” translates as “The Chinaman”. What the hell was I doing in Paris for two years (on and off) sitting in restaurants, drinking wine and writing a French Detective series for the legendary singer, Charles Aznavour? I mean, how lucky can white trash from Orange County get? I co-wrote the series without ever speaking French. How’s that for being a pushy American?
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The title of this British sitcom alluded to the fact that its heroine was a hairdresser named Cath. Actually, Cath had no trouble with split ends, but she was at her wit's end, forced to choose between two ardent suitors. I almost forgot to include this six-part Britcom, because it was such an awful, stomach-churning experience. The executives at Granada Television turned a dangerously edgy concept into a safe corporate stew. Not very tasty. But it did star the amazingly talented Anita Dobson straight from her national fame on the British soap opera “East Enders”.
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An American from Santa Monica, California, LEN RICHMOND created and co-wrote one of the most popular comedy series in British Television. Agony, about an advice columnist whose life is in disarray, has been broadcast in 24 countries (including twice on PBS). The series (starring Maureen Lipman) was nominated for numerous BAFTA and Writer’s Guild Awards, and won the AGLA Media Award for the “Responsible portrayal of its gay and lesbian characters”. Agony won the Banff International Television Festival as “Best Situation Comedy” and was revived by the BBC as “Agony Again”. It has been turned into a best-selling book (Arrow) and home video (W.S. Smith). U.S. television adapted the format and it became “The Lucie Arnaz Show” on CBS. Working and living in Paris, Len wrote the popular French TV detective series Le Chinois starring the legendary Charles Aznavour. Back in Britain he created another highly-rated comedy series. Split Ends, starring Anita Dobson, was set in a trendy London hair salon. In the United States, he wrote for the ABC sitcom “Three’s Company”. Len has written for British Cosmopolitan, worked as a sex-advice columnist for Forum magazine, as well as being a satirist for Britain’s premiere humor publication Punch. He is co-editor of “The Gay Liberation Book” (Ramparts Press), which had original contributions from John Lennon, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Christopher Isherwood. It was a landmark book, stocked extensively in libraries, and used as a course text in Universities. It was followed several years later by The New Gay Liberation Book, which Len also co-edited. His film reviews are featured in “The Time Out Film Guide” (Penguin Books), his humorous writings are reprinted in “The Pick of Punch” (Hutchinson), and his celebrity profiles appear in “Time Out Interviews” (Penguin Books). His stage comedy, “Risky Kisses”, a critical success in London, was followed by a national British tour, as well as a production in Buenos Aires. Len wrote and directed an award-winning independent feature film. “A Dirty Little Business” is a romantic comedy set in the sex toy business. It stars Michael York, Brian Cox, and Beverly D’Angelo, with an original musical score by Erasure. More recently, he is the author of the erotic, comedic novel, “Naked in Paradise”.
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