Posted on 04/27/2010 8:58:06 AM PDT by EveningStar
Michael Raso of RetroSeduction Cinema has contacted me with the sad news that writer-director Joseph W. Sarno passed away this evening at his home in Manhattan after a short illness. He was 89.
Sarno toiled in the sexploitation industry, but I dislike referring to him as a sexploitation or even an exploitation director, though his films were certainly sold this way.
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And so we have finally come to it in the death of American culture.
The author of this article is honoring - not just noting but honoring - a man who spent his life making sleazy movies.
Disgusting.
I have no idea whether or not his movies had any redeeming social value, because I never saw any of them.
The sex film genre never appealed to me. In the distant past, friends took me to some porn films. Each time, I was bored silly.
RIP.
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