WARNING!
Distributor | Released | Length |
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Strand Releasing | 1999 | j93 |
Description source: promotional material
Daring, visually exciting and wildly enjoyable, Beefcake is Thom Fitzgerald's provocative follow-up to The Hanging Garden. With a seamless blending of fiction and documentary, he tells the story of Bob Mizer, the pioneering founder of the Athletic Model Guild (AMG), a company which produced still photographs (for muscle mags like "Adonis" and "Tomorrow''s Man") and short films, all of which extolled the beauty and chiseled physiques of men.
A fascinating look back in time at the beefcake and muscle magazines of the 1950s and `60s, highlighting the life of Bob Mizer, a photographer and magazine publisher in the days when gay erotica had to be disguised as fitness material. Includes dramatizations of Mizer`s life and the stories of some of the young men he photographed, plus interviews with such figures as fitness legend Jack LaLanne and actor/model Joe Dallesandro.
Additional material:
Original Athletic Model Guide loops: "Little Joe" starring Joe Dallesandro, "Ganymede and the Spacemen", "Kangaroo Court", "Strip Poker", "Talent for Sale", and "Blackie Preston as Narcissus".