Publisher Description

"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 SedarisWith 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.

Author Biography

Eric Spitznagel is the author of four humour books, including The Junk Food Companion. His writing appears frequently in Playboy, Esquire, Harper's, and The Believer.

Review

"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"

Promotional

* Hollywood currently releases 11,000 adult movies per year. * Americans rent upwards of 800 million porn videos and DVD's a year compared with 3.6 billion nonporn videos. * One in 4 American adults surveyed in 2002 admitted to seeing an x-rated movie in the last year. * 50% of hotel in room movie rentals are porn movies. * The average time a porn movie is watched in a hotel room is 12 minutes.

Long Description

"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 .

Description for Sales People

- Eric Spitznagel is the author of four humor books: Planet Baywatch: The Unofficial Guide to the New World Order (St. Martin's Griffin, 1997), A Guy's Guide To Dating (Doubleday, 1998), Cigar Asphyxianado (Warner Books, 1998), and The Junk Food Companion: A Celebration of Eating Badly (Plume, 1999). - His writing appears frequently in Playboy, Esquire, Spy, Blender, Harper's, McSweeney's and Salon.com. He is currently an editor at The Believer magazine. - He is co-author of porn star Ron Jeremy's autobiography, forthcoming from HarperCollins, summer 2006.

Description for Library

"A humorous behind-the-scenes account of the pornographic film industry, as seen through the eyes of one of its writers."--Provided by the publisher.

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