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who’s this? and what non-porno movie is this screen cap from?

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I know the answer, but out of respect for him, I’ll leave it to someone else to identify this very controversial movie. Can you believe that I didn’t recognize it was him until years later, when I got internet access? The fact that he didn’t have a mustache, threw me off. I could kick myself.

Three years later, A.S., was also in another violent, bloody, controversial movie that also starred the same leading man. His face and sculpted body, was almost unrecognizable. He had gained about 100 pounds. He was an excellent actor and porn star. The only other two performers that I can think of, who had mainstream and gay porn success, was Wade Nichols aka Dennis Parker, and Joe Dallesandro.

If it is the same guy I’m thinking of (thanks for the mustache clue), was he in A Night at the Adonis? (one of my all time favorite movies)

CRUISING ~starring Al Pacino.
Cruising is a 1980 psychological thriller film written and directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name, by The New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, about a serial killer targeting gay men, in particular those associated with the S&M scene.
Poorly reviewed by critics, Cruising was a modest financial success, though the filming and promotion were dogged by gay rights protesters. The title is a play on words with a dual meaning, as “cruising” can describe police officers on patrol and also cruising for sex.
Philip D’Antoni, who had produced Friedkin’s 1971 film The French Connection, approached Friedkin with the idea of directing a film based on New York Times reporter Gerald Walker’s 1970 novel Cruising, about a serial killer targeting New York City’s gay community. Friedkin was not particularly interested in the project. D’Antoni tried to attach Steven Spielberg, but they were not able to interest a studio. A few years later Jerry Weintraub brought the idea back to Friedkin, who was still not interested. Friedkin changed his mind following a series of unsolved killings in gay leather bars in the early 1970s and the articles written about the murders by Village Voice journalist Arthur Bell. Friedkin also knew a police officer named Randy Jurgenson who had gone into the same sort of deep cover that Pacino’s Steve Burns did to investigate an earlier series of gay murders, and Paul Bateson, a doctor’s assistant who had appeared in Friedkin’s 1973 film The Exorcist, who had confessed to some of those murders. All of these factors gave Friedkin the angle he wanted to pursue in making the film.[1] Jurgenson and Bateson served as film consultants, as did Sonny Grosso, who had earlier consulted with Friedkin on The French Connection. Jurgenson and Grosso appear in bit parts in the film.
In his research, Friedkin worked with members of the Mafia, who at the time owned many of the city’s gay bars.[2] Al Pacino was not Friedkin’s first choice for the lead; Richard Gere had expressed a strong interest in the part, and Friedkin had opened negotiations with Gere’s agent. Gere was Friedkin’s choice because he believed that Gere would bring an androgynous quality to the role that Pacino could not.

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