ART DIRECTION
I thought twice about posting this mention of my sordid past. But it happened and there's no going back.
In 1979 or so, I was hired to write a script based upon an original story by the Amero Brothers to be called "Blonde Ambition."
It was meant to be a "cross-over" film for playing to "adult" audiences as well as the general populace. And indeed, it accomplished that and even achieved a bit of a "cult" following being the first "porno" that was a musical.
It played Saturday night midnight showings at the Eight Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village where it ran for many months.
Also, I doubled as Art Director for the film and, believe it or not, won the Critics Adult Film Award for Best Art Direction in 1981.
The awards were handed out at the Copacabana and was quite the evening. I remember Margaret Whiting was in attendance with her boyfriend Jack Wrangler. And as the picture below indicates, Fabian, myself, John and Lem Amero were also on the scene. (A jeweler friend loaned me a couple thousand dollars worth of gold chains which I wore for the occasion...everyone was into chains that year.)
The only thing I remember about my acceptance speech was thanking Fabian for the loan of his grandmothers hooked rug as set décor in one scene. I further mentioned that it was a good thing she had passed on because "this film would kill her." Ah, the foibles of youth!
In 1979 or so, I was hired to write a script based upon an original story by the Amero Brothers to be called "Blonde Ambition."
It was meant to be a "cross-over" film for playing to "adult" audiences as well as the general populace. And indeed, it accomplished that and even achieved a bit of a "cult" following being the first "porno" that was a musical.
It played Saturday night midnight showings at the Eight Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village where it ran for many months.
Also, I doubled as Art Director for the film and, believe it or not, won the Critics Adult Film Award for Best Art Direction in 1981.
The awards were handed out at the Copacabana and was quite the evening. I remember Margaret Whiting was in attendance with her boyfriend Jack Wrangler. And as the picture below indicates, Fabian, myself, John and Lem Amero were also on the scene. (A jeweler friend loaned me a couple thousand dollars worth of gold chains which I wore for the occasion...everyone was into chains that year.)
The only thing I remember about my acceptance speech was thanking Fabian for the loan of his grandmothers hooked rug as set décor in one scene. I further mentioned that it was a good thing she had passed on because "this film would kill her." Ah, the foibles of youth!
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