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Robert Alvarez (RIP 12/29/25)

I was hoping to find this sad news in a “legitimate” newspaper before posting, but it’s been over a week, and I have no reason to doubt the veracity of this facebook post:

“I was just informed by a friend who still lives in the building that Bobby died today at 87. He was practically porn royalty. RIP Robert Alvarez”

If you don’t know, Robert co-founded Hand in Hand Films with director (and his life partner) Jack Deveau, and edited most of the films (certainly all of Jack’s), as well as directing a couple of short films for Hand in Hand. I encourage you to check out this 2019 piece over at BIJOU WORLD VIDEO – Interview with Robert Alvarez, Hand in Hand Films Co-Founder/Editor

I met Robert Alvarez back in 2003 – after he had emailed me when a friend of his alerted him that a photo of him and Jack was on some guy’s blog on the web. No doubt the pic of the pair on my Jack Deveau, director’s page. Alas, I don’t have the handful of emails, but it included an invite to meet – which I greedily accepted – especially since he said he still lived in their famed apartment, or as he said “the scene of the crimes.”

You can read my post from later that day – but I’ll just leave you with two clips i absolutely loved, and was lucky enough not only to compliment him on them, but see his face light up when I mentioned them. He lent me his copy of unedited VHS tape of Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie – which he brought up after having read my “wish list.” Alas, I still have it – we never connected again but for one other time, by accident/coincidence, at a Wakefield Poole lecture/screening. I saw him, got up the nerve to approach, and not til I mentioned the VHS tape did he remember me, but lit up and teased that I stole it, and he assured me he’d contact me when he had time for me to return it. Gosh, why wasn’t I pushier and followed up with a simple email. sigh.

this post: wanna fuck? I’ll meet you in the living room in 10 seconds a clip from Drive, original music from composer David Earnest


from the film Fire Island Fever, featuring this music – Let Me Be Your Fantasy (1978) from Penthouse presents The Love Symphony Orchestra.

YorjYefferson’s reddit review of Drive

I’ll leave you with one of his films, Noon, part of the 1985 film In Heat, starring two favorites of mine, J.D. Slater and Brian Michaels (and Billy Knight and Rod Hunter (in the chair)).


they had Fire Island Fever, shirts!

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Christopher Rage directors pornoclips

orgy

this post has been in drafts for years! dusted it off after some comments over here regarding a Christopher Rage (Tray Christopher – more on that in yet Another post!) photo. Bits of a mess, but has lots of stuff – so here goes:





at some point SPUNK VIDEO re-released a bunch of CHristopher Rage titles, including this one – more importantly, they had the full 90-minutes, unlike the version I sold more than once (can’t recall if my big box oldest version was 70 or 90 minutes)

the following are notes from the last time I sold the video cassette, in about 2013:

Director: Christopher Rage (1983) – “precondom” – 70 minutes running time (edited version)

Starring: Colon Topar, Daniel Holt, Leslie Williams, Scorpio, Jim Davies, Bosch Wagner, Dwan, Jay Richards and Lorenzo Vidal

70 minutes running time

“Voted one of Drummer magazine’s “Best Videos of 1983,” the models here are seen playing with themselves and (having oral and anal) in various combinations until the film’s final episode, when they all turn up for an orgy.”

some highlights (from my eBay auction notes back in 2008):

  • Colon Topor, a dark-haired, bearded top-man with intense intelligent features, resplendent in 1980s punk leather gear (big studs on gauntlets and his hat, arrogant gloves, major dark sunglasses, and long chains on the chest) leads into one of the most easy, flexible anal scenes, almost like a dance as his tight muscle ass bounces
  • Perhaps it s Leslie Williams, kind of geeky at first, who gradually disrobes at the seeming unconscious prompting of the voiceover, Why don t you take off your clothes? (Note the long tube socks and the playboy bunny on his black underwear.) He begins to masturbates shaved crotch. Topor appears in his arrogant splendor, and a parallel action occurs: a slow disrobing, all except the gauntlets, gloves and the chains.
  • Another scene unfolds, which intercuts with the Topor/Williams interaction: hunky thick mustachioed Bosch Wagner (who always looks open-mouthed throughout the film) and Scorpio of the colossal crotch. Do it again, yeah! the voice murmurs as the oral-fest unfolds, and at third mustachioed person emerges to join. Scorpio definitely enjoys getting his worshipped, and deservedly so. Bosch really likes oral, and the sound effects seem to whisper this phrase.

  • Bosch (or another mustachioed dude who looks like him) now tops a bronzed Latin type (ecstatic expressions abound); the Latin hunk spontaneously . Note the spontaneity; no obvious breaks or pauses or takes before the shots. These men are really getting into hot sex.

  • Another inter cut (note the parallel scenes often merge into each other, but seamlessly) and Topor, striding the camera like a colossus, is doing it fast and hard, and eventually dominates Williams and another stud with his average sized yet virile crotch. Colon slaps the face of his bottom s with his awesome gloves, really natural given the flow of the action: let us all worship him, he seems to imply.
  • A fourth stud appears, and then a fifth, the Bosch/Scorpio tribe joins the Colon tribe, but Colon is still in charge. Bosch s distinctive longing mouth takes all he can, and a mustachioed dude in a leather vest appears.

I did not credit / nor do I remember where I lifted this description from – perhaps a review.

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SLATER4U


“An in-tight, inside, insightful interview with bad-bay genius J.D. Slater by Clayton Winfield”; originally published in Drummer 152 (1991)

I will admit to not yet reading the interview in its entirety; but I pulled it out of the drafts folder in order to have a post go up. There’s some here about J.D.’s directing.

Speaking of, Hard was his directorial debut. That movie also had a theme song by J.D., and was another of the many movies cut down from its original length (87 minutes) to a shorter version (72 minutes) in subsequent releases by HIS video.




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Coletti – manshots interview

as much as I love this pic of Jimmy Metz, I wish the images of John and Ken (Bill Harrison) were larger and clearer. oh well!

this interview – from two issues of 1990 MANSHOTS – February and April (click that link to view – or download the zip file here) He does briefly mention his work for COLT, but no real details, alas. I don’t think I’ve seen him in any publication – which is too bad – just a few random shots available in photosets, slides (hmmm, now should i give credit to someone who’s obsessed with getting credit??? let me think on that!)

if its not obvious, the above two images are the first 2 pages of part 1 (February 1990), and below is the first page of part 2 (April issue).

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John Coletti

who you may remember from such films as:

  • Ramrod (1973) w/ Bruce Morgan and Ray Jackson – in 3D???? wow!
  • The Shaft (1973) AKA Black Velvet pt 1 & Pt 2 w/ Bill Harrison – found in many collections

another post languishing in drafts folder, let’s hit “publish” and sort it out later! I know there’s a 1995 MANSHOTS interview (2 parts) that I’d like to add or make separate post, but let’s not wait til I get a roundtuit.

AKA John Traynor (John Trainer)

who you may remember from such magazines as:

  • Playgirl July (1974)
  • Macho Man Vol1 No1 (c1977) – single pic, jockstrapped
  • MANSHOTS, February (1995) John Coletti interview pt 1 (on founding Fox Studio) by Jerry Douglas
  • MANSHOTS, April (1995) John Coletti interview pt 2 (on founding Sierra Pacific) by Jerry Douglas

who you may also remember as director on such films as:

  • (Sex Machine) (?) – compilation, doubtful this is accurate
  • School Daze (1980)
  • Intruders (1984)
  • Hard to Come By (1985)
  • Buns ‘n Hoses (1989)
  • Up ‘n Arms (1994)


who’s photography you may remember from such magazines as:

  • Fox Hunt 1 (1978)
  • Fox Hunt 2 (1981)
  • Fox Hunt 3 (1983)
  • TORSO, September – (1983)
  • TORSO, February – (1985) – Doug O’Brien cover and centerfold
  • TORSO, April (1985) – Ron Hutton spread
  • All Muscle Two (1987)


previously on BJland – Actual Size

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directors Drummer magazine

Jim Wigler

Director: Jim Wigler

who you may remember from such films as:

  • Folsom Street Sex (1990)
  • Manrites (1994)
  • Sex in Dangerous Places (1994)
  • Shop Sex (1994)
  • Man to Man (1995)
  • Copsucker (1996)
  • Red Dog Saloon (1997)
  • Uniforms M4M (1998)

(another post languishing in “drafts” folder – there’s a lot more to Wigler’s career than this post, of course, but if I wait any longer, it will be 3 more years and no discernible difference!)

I will readily acknowledge that I did not know he directed porno flicks, even though I know quite well I’ve enjoyed Copsucker (the title alone, plus Donnie Russo – I mean, c’mon!) Anyway, I was familiar with him as an excellent photographer, and now that I am trying to be better about researching and acknowledging who created the sexy photos I like to post, that’s when I discovered his work as a director. Most of what pops up when I search my own hard drive for “Wigler” is going to be Drummer magazines I’ve sold over the years (and some Bear-related zines as well); plus some videotapes where he played a different role than director, like Dildo Boot Pigs, (how can you not love that title) where he handled videography, editing, and score! Oh, and 90’s HONCHO magazines… and… you can see why stuff gets tuck in drafts – always more research.




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directors Old Reliable

(April 12, 2023) David Hurles dies

Legendary gay pornographer David Hurles dies

How embarrassing – this stuck in my “drafts” folder for coming on 2 years!
– via Vintage Old Reliable blog – Legendary gay pornographer David Hurles dies


A rare glimpse of David with one of his models – Springer Anthony & David Hurles – Video

Some of his work was part of an art exhibit – David Hurles | Outsider Porn – back in 2010. You can see some here – David Hurles | Outsider Porn. and here’s a nice piece from Susie Bright’s Journal –
The Death of Old Reliable: David Hurles (An homage and history by Dian Hanson with notes from Susie Bright)