Tom DeSimone Dies at 87 (thanks Zephyr for ID’ing the magazine one of my pics came from).
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Tom DeSimone Dies at 87
Tom DeSimone, Director of ‘Chatterbox,’ ‘Hell Night’ and ‘Reform School Girls,’ Dies at 87 – sigh. Dunno what to say, but NONE of the headlines mention the porno work – but you will get this – “who emerged from the world of 1970s gay adult movies to direct such mainstream cult films as…. I know I am biased.. anyway. I love the nude photo, I need to dig up the magazine (In Touch, perhaps) and scan better quality.
this is photo most obits show – I’d like to see the full bottle of wine!
Not an obit, written 2 years ago, but this – Unsung Auteurs: Tom DeSimone discusses his adult film career in more detail than any of the obits I’ve read since hearing the news last night.
Just last week I began re-working BJ’s TOM DESIMONE page; great gay film maker – but hadn’t hit “publish” yet.
I never met Tom, but he did email me many many years ago offering a copy of the then impossible to find Confessions of a Male Groupie – (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Electric Banana) – (1971) – one of his proudest works – and he asked (since I was an early blogger about porn) if I had an original copy of his The Idol (his PROUDEST work) because he had carefully selected the music, but Hand In Hand changed that not long after it put it out on VHS. I did not, but he sent a VHS copy of Confessions – and I was blown away – not for the sex, but the music, editing, and shear FUN! As he explained, everyone in this film were personal friends of his, the “freaks” he ran around with, and he was aching to do something other than typical porn.
the promo
Sweet Lady Mary –
My you can’t always get what you want post from some years back.
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A Little Romance
A Little Romance – a scene from Tom Desimone’s 1980 film, Wet Shorts – featuring RON ZALE (AKA Lee Brubaker ) and J.W. KING on a bear skin rug.
“There is nothing like the peace & quiet of your own pad with its flaming fireplace — and its red hot Adonis to lovingly defile the peace and wantonly violate the quiet! Our Lothario and his lover ignite and then quench the flames of their desire.”
YorjYefferson’s Wet Shorts review
Casey Scott’s Letterboxd Wet Shorts review – which also includes some cool background info on the making of
music:
- Quiet Evenings – Daren Grusin
- Midnight And You – Love Unlimited Orchestra
- – actual fucking-no-music sounds for 2 minutes
- Barry’s Theme – Love Unlimited Orchestra
- – post sex talk
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Extra Hot Tub
Hot Tub AKA Extra Hot Tub from the 1980 film Flesh and Fantasy
We’ve got Jim Bataglia and Bob Moore (we only see Bob in 2 other films?? – both from Steve Scott, Performance – is he in the audience for the “performance? and Turned On! – is he in the fantasy/orgy scene?). I digress. DeSimone chooses a male/female couple to introduce each scene (off camera) with a perplexed lady wondering why she’s involved, as the male lays out the storyline, briefly.
oh, and shout out to DAVID M who pointed out this is same hot tub/back yard as we saw over in The Hot Tub post from a few days back – thanks DAVID!
Images are from a magazine OVERLOAD, which has photos from the film – but oddly changes all the models’ names, the scene names, leaves one scene out, and (no complaints here) has 2 photospreads for the Overtime Training scene. Probably a future post breaking all that down. This scene in the magazine is called Hard Water.
and the cover of the magazine – which I wish I had a better quality scan, but what can you do?
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The Hot Tub
from Hand In Hand films’ Private Collection (1980?) – Scene 3: The Hot Tub (from director Tom DeSimone ) Ken Carter (who we’ve seen in a bunch of NOVA films), Dan Gentry (who’s only in one other film, The Frenchman and the Lovers ?? – does he have an alias??) and Becky Logan
“Beefy blond Dan Gentry and his girlfriend are soaking in their hot tub, when a phone call takes the girlfriend away. Dan doesn’t mind because he’s been eyeing Ken Carter, the hot blond yardboy, who immediately swoops over for mutual cocksucking, then Dan rims and fucks Ken.”
note the pic above the clip is NOT from the film, but the only image of Dan Gentry I could find on my hard drive
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Bad Bad Boys (intro)
I cannot remember why I wanted to post the intro to Tom DeSimone 1979 film, Bad, Bad Boys, but irregardless, here it is. And with all the love sent to Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. with TWO of his films getting restored and shown on the big screen this month, let’s not forget Tom – much more prolific, some amazing stars have worked with him, let’s hope some of his work gets the star treatment it deserves as well.
oh wait – it had something to do with this comment on another post – perhaps a scene from here appears on that tape?
Starring: Guy De Silva, Rufus, Guy Lance, Derrick Stanton, Steve Event, Lenny Koto, Bill Leonard, Dick Miller, Johnny Ryan, and introducing Johnny Dawes (as B.J.)
so here we go – this is the promo for the film, above; a link to the full version of Theo Vaness’s I’m A Bad Bad Boy, which of course is the theme music to the film! A review of the film many years later in Manshots magazine; and of course, previously on BJland posts
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Skin Deep shower
Director: Lancer Brooks (Tom De Simone) (1982)
So last time we were discussing Skin Deep, it come up that there was a missing golden shower scene (thanks Stewart) which made sense since the writer Dawes was clearly talking about it – (“special showers with special aroma” and “wet me all over, make me take me your hot wet golden…” vrrrmmpf!) – and the odd quick cut mid sentence seemed off. But alas, it was located (thanks, Tyler!!) and the cut was still there, but cut TO a brief, 2 minutes of Ben Barker enjoying Michael Christopher’s hot wet golden
