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By
Giacomo Tramontagna
A Current Affair
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced by Mike Donner and Steve
Jerome. Written and directed by Mike
Donner. Videography by Mike Donner, and
Steve Jerome. Edited by Steve Jerome.
Starring
Kent Larson, Jake Hansen, Sandy Sloane,
Thomas Bond, Dante Foxx, Dean Marx, Kai
Raven, Jake Matthews, Chris Bolt, Ty Smith,
Sean Kelley, and Angelo Bestiamo.
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The principal setting is San Diego's well-known Current Affairs Bookstore, where an array of politico-literary luminaries have lectured, signed books, and held readings. Dylan Davis
(Kent Larsen), an anomalously self-effacing gay writer, wanders into the shop, opens a copy of E.M. Forster's Maurice, and begins to read. Quentin, the store's fictional owner (Jake
Hansen), catches him in the act of becoming the first person ever to get sexually aroused while reading E.M. Forster. Intrigued, the proprietor invites the bearded, muscular browser to attend
that evening's meeting of a men's reading group. Quentin realizes later that the customer was none other than the author of
A Current Affair, a popular new queer novel.
The first four sex scenes are fantasies spun out of books-- a ludicrous sequence drawn from Maurice, a more successful three-way episode sparked by a book of photographs, and
two scenes conjured up by A Current Affair.
Davis's book, a dizzy subliterate mess full of phrases like "the certainty of everlasting forever," is coincidentally about its narrator's love for
a character named Quentin. This aspect seems to vitiate Quentin the bookstore owner's critical judgment; at the men's literary gathering, he asks an associate to read one of Davis's
chapters aloud. The passage triggers a reverie in which four men's-group attendees writhe on a table while Larsen and Hansen sit at opposite ends of the orgy, naked, stroking their cocks and
ogling each other. The pair gets to give their burgeoning erotic rapport a real-life workout when they finally link up in the fifth and last segment.
The models in A Current Affair aren't locked into top or bottom roles; Mike Donner's direction stresses fervent 69s and no-nonsense flip-flop fucking. The sometimes electric
sexual interplay eclipses the silliness of the script. There's also one good visual joke: prominently displayed behind the bookstore's front counter is
The Death of Good and Evil by Tammy Bruce,
the reactionary lesbian who once headed L.A. NOW. Placing Bruce's anti-gay, anti-porn, right-wing polemic in this context both acknowledges her First Amendment right to spout
erotophobic drivel, and at the same time gives her the tweaking she richly deserves.
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