Posts tagged with documentary

UK T&A Is on the Way—Somebody Say “Hey!”

It looks like Brits will soon put down the Susan Boyle CDs and blood pudding long enough to check out what promises to be some dashed good skin on their TVs.

With The L Word long gone, BBC 3 will be filling the demand for onscreen girl-on-girl sex with a new lesbian drama called Lip Service.

Playing Frankie, a commitment-phobic photographer with an insatiable craving for naked chicks, is recently naked Ruta Gedmintas, who showed off her tit-mintas on the historical drama The Tudors.

Laura Fraser, who played Shelley Conn’s groin-grinding gal pal in Nina’s Heavenly Delights and went full frontal in Left Luggage, will play Frankie’s ex Cat.

Are we going to see some pussy, Cat?

Read more after the jump.

By Count Rackula

Matthew Kaufman is one of the directors of the new documentary American Swing, available on DVD April 14, which tells the story of New York City’s infamous swingers’ club Plato’s Retreat.

Open from 1977 to 1985, the club was frequented by celebrities like Buck Henry and Mario Van Peebles and featured a buffet, disco, sauna, and a mattress room filled with people having anonymous sex.

The film takes a naked look at the storied establishment and includes interviews with former patrons and lots of behind-the-scenes footage. Matthew recently discussed the film in a phone interview.

Read more after the jump.

Mr. Mike Hits DVD, but Does Mr. Bill Get Raped? Oh, Nooo!

In 1979, Michael O’Donoghue, legendary National Lampoon editor and Saturday Night Live’s original head writer, created one of the goddamndest things ever intended for network television broadcast: Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video.

A parody of 1960s’ Italian-made globetrotting shockumentaries (Mondo Cane, Africa Addio) that examined outrageous human beliefs and behaviors, NBC commissioned O’Donoghue to create Mondo Video as a pilot to be an occasional fill-in for Saturday Night Live.

Suffice to say, the finished hodgepodge of splatter gags, wet cats, Sid Vicious, ancient porn, and other eye-poppers never made it to the air. Instead, producer Lorne Michaels released Mondo Video to theaters with the tagline “The TV Show That Can’t Be Shown on TV”, accompanied by a “special” Mr. Bill Show.

Shout! Factory just issued Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video on DVD, minus Mr. Bill. I’m glad to have the show on disc, but I really, really need to know the truth about that Mr. Bill short.

Here’s why: back in ’79, a kid I knew claimed to have seen Mondo Video in a theater, and he told me that the “special” Mr. Bill Show consisted of Mr. Hand greasing up Sluggo’s big, black cock with Vaseline, and then Sluggo barbarically raping Mr Bill in the ass.

Could it be that that young rapscallion was fibbing?