{"id":6274,"date":"2026-01-08T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/?p=6274"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:37:32","slug":"robert-alvarez-rip-12-29-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/08\/robert-alvarez-rip-12-29-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Alvarez (RIP 12\/29\/25)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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:<\/a> <\/p>\n

“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”<\/i><\/p>\n

If you don’t know, Robert co-founded Hand in Hand Films<\/i> with director (and his life partner) Jack Deveau,<\/a> and edited most<\/a> of the films (certainly all of Jack’s), as well as directing a couple of short films for Hand in Hand.<\/i> 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<\/a> <\/p>\n

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,<\/a> 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.”<\/i><\/p>\n

You can read my post from later that day<\/a> – 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<\/i><\/a> – 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.<\/p>\n

this post: wanna fuck? I’ll meet you in the living room in 10 seconds<\/i> <\/a> a clip from Drive,<\/i><\/a> original music from composer David Earnest<\/p>\n


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from the film Fire Island Fever,<\/i><\/a> featuring this music – Let Me Be Your Fantasy<\/a><\/i> (1978) from Penthouse presents The Love Symphony Orchestra.<\/i> <\/p>\n

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YorjYefferson’s reddit review of Drive<\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n

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