a still pic with Michael Christopher and Beau Matthews, from Arthur Bressan’s Pleasure Beach (1983).
I’ll probably have to watch the film to see who’s in that poster – this pic cuts off the head.
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a still pic with Michael Christopher and Beau Matthews, from Arthur Bressan’s Pleasure Beach (1983).
I’ll probably have to watch the film to see who’s in that poster – this pic cuts off the head.
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I have a vague recollection, that it was Adrian Zmed. But I could very well, be wrong.
it looks like a drawing more than a picture
anyone want to skim through Pleasure Beach – it’s over here: https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5a31808787b61
You see the full poster better in later scenes, I screencapped a few of the best shots I could find. The middle image was the reflection in a mirror, that’s why the towel is draping the other way on his neck.
https://i.imgur.com/B9kcKGW.jpg
I can’t tell who it is, if anyone famous or just some random guy. Maybe BJ or someone else recognizes him?
zephyr – it wants me to sign in – odd, cuz I was able to view briefly last night on my phone! didn’t look recognizable, so was hoping to see it “bigger” on the PC. thanks for trying – anyway else able to see?
I whizzed through the movie and froze the picture–it seems a drawing or painting to me too, but not sure. Goodlooking face, maybe Hispanic, part black maybe, with tall hair and clipped beard (but not like the extremely styled facial hair of today.) I had trouble with the sign-in too so decided to leave that alone.
They’ve changed a bunch of things around on imgur, I attempted to link directly to the image but I got a strange message the first time I tried to open it just now as well. It’s not a “mature” image, meaning I didn’t include any of the naughty bits on Michael or anyone else in what I snipped. Odd, wish they would just leave shit alone once I’ve learned how to do it (I’d imagine there’s a lot of people like me in that regard). Maybe this might work? It’s the same image but not a direct link this time, the only different part is the missing “i.” just after the http and the slashes:
https://imgur.com/B9kcKGW
If this one works you can make it bigger by clicking on it. Whoever it is does look a bit familiar but I’m not landing on a name or where I saw him before.
zephyr – thanks – i can only view on my phone! so funny, but links you sent – but here it is, in case anyone else can decipher. At this point, I’m going with sexy drawing.
Cal Culver?
Thanks for copying it over here, and sorry to anyone who tried and failed to view it via my links above. Those were the best three of the screencaps I made watching your link of the film from comment #3, then I just made them all approximately the same height and lined them up next to each other. I’m trying to figure out what those marks are above both of his shoulders, it looks like pillow creases maybe? That might indicate that it is a drawing and not a model. I’m stumped.
Wouldn’t pillow creases mean he’s lying down? Doesn’t like a pose lying down or it wouldn’t have presented that way, would it? But I think it’s a drawing, though.
Can’t be Cal Culver aka Casey Donovan. B.J. has some archives on him as Donovan. I first heard of him as Culver when Director Ellis Raab was renting him while doing a play at Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center.
I stumbled upon this classic photo of Cal Culver / Casey Donovan. His body was obviously used as the inspiration for the drawing in that poster – even the line of his jeans’ waistband is identical. But the head is definitely not Cal/Casey. https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2015/01/08/tbt-back-baths?pg=9&fb_comment_id=747405438688607_747987095297108
The identity of the guy from the poster, plus the photographer or artist, has been one of those nagging thoughts rattling around my brain – it looks so familiar but I don’t know that we ever solved this for sure. Here’s another partial glimpse of it, peeking around from behind Michael Christopher. He’s missing most of the torso view but the face is visible, and it’s a nice large image:
https://zeus-gay-boutik.myshopify.com/cdn/shop/files/Scan_20240603_60_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1717456682
It does seem similar to the pic of Casey Donovan at least in his pose, though it’s obviously not him. And I can see a resemblance to Adrian Zmed too, as Obsessed pointed out. So the artist (assuming it is art and not a photo) may have used one of these as the inspiration for the poster.
The same poster shows up in another film, Making It Huge if I’m not mistaken. I remember Jim Bentley walking right past it.