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“Like most pornography, I found Fast
Forward to be a relentless and indecent assault on the
traditional family values that Americans find most sacred.
Makes a great stocking stuffer.”—Amy Sedaris
With dreams of becoming a highly respected
screenwriter, Eric Spitznagel moves to Los Angeles. When Hollywood
fails to notice him, he settles for the next best thing: writing
scripts for adult films. Determined to make the most of his
bad luck, he sets out to make a movie that will be celebrated
more for its witty dialogue and gripping plot than its raw
depictions of hardcore sex. As Spitznagel discovers, making
the Great American Porn is far from easy, especially when
you’ve been hired to write a sequel to Butt Crazy.
Spitznagel struggles to be taken seriously
as an artist, a seeming impossibility in an industry averse
to “complicated words.” Along the way, he meets
a director with delusions of being the porn Kurosawa, an actress
with a scholarly knowledge of medical maladies, and an NBA
star who might just make the biggest mistake of his life.
In an industry devoted to churning out disposable erotica,
can one lowly writer make an adult film that compels viewers
to admire the plot without hovering a thumb over the fast
forward button?
Eric Spitznagel is the author of
four humor books, including The Junk Food Companion: A
Celebration of Eating Badly (Plume, 1999). His writing
appears frequently in Playboy, Esquire, Harper’s
Magazine, and The Believer.
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