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It's debatable. Warhol (in his 1980 book Popism: The Warhol Sixties) says that he originally asked a man named Charles Rydell, the boyfriend of artist and filmmaker Jerome Hill, to appear in the film, promising him five beautiful boys to suck his cock. When Rydell failed to show up at the appointed hour, Warhol called him. Rydell said he thought Warhol was kidding, and that he had no intention of appearing in such a film. In Warhol's recounting, there really were five beautiful boys and they hung around for the replacement actor, but there's been speculation that that's just storytelling. Sam Ishii-Gonzales, a professor of media studies at the New School in NYC wrote this about Blow Job years later (2001): Like all of Warhol’s best works, [it] is built on a tension between the serious and the absurd, between the real and the artificial. (“All of my films are artificial but then everything is sort of artificial. I don’t know where the artificial stops and the real starts.” - WARHOL) Is the young man we watch for half an hour really [getting a blow job]? Is he faking it? (Perhaps the event is real but the pleasure is faked, or vice versa?) Will he climax? When? Will the camera catch this moment or will the magazine run out of film at the crucial moment? These thoughts and more (much more – it depends on who you are) pass through the spectator’s mind as s/he sits and watches Warhol’s Blow Job. It is a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience. But you never know, TBT. Maybe by posting about this, some longtime cocksuckers right here on the forum will be prompted to step forward and own their place in cinematic history.

DeVeren Bookwalter (1939-1987) was an actor and director who, in 1975, became the first person to win three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for his production, direction and performance in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Globe Playhouse in West Hollywood. Bookwalter is seen below at age 24 in Andy Warhol’s Blow Job, filmed in January 1964. He was just, according to Warhol, "a good looking kid that happened to be hanging around the Factory that day" when Warhol's original choice for the film failed to show up. Blow Job shows only the face of an uncredited Bookwalter as he apparently receives fellatio from an unseen partner. The viewer only gets to assume a blow job is actually occurring. Shot at 24 frames per second, Warhol specified that it must be projected at 16 frames per second, slowing it down by a third.

Having just seen the first of four episodes -- Fat -- this is a heads-up to the rest of you about a great food show, unlike any other, recently added to Netflix. Based on the book of the same name by chef Samin Nosrat, who also hosts the show, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat offers an education on these four essential elements of great cooking -- and, I believe, takes you to a different country for each episode. (For Fat, you're in Italy.) If you like to cook, and like to travel, this is your show. https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/

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Glad you liked it, [uSER=8020]@Just Sayin'[/uSER]. Me too. I was happy to come across it. In case you've never seen it, there's a terrific documentary on Maier -- Finding Vivian Maier -- that was available on Netflix. Not sure it's still there, but, if you're interested, take a look. Fascinating character. She spent most of her life working as a nanny. The amazing photography happened in her spare time.

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This guy lost the address to your b-day party, @latbear4blk. Does that mean I can take him home with me?