It was bound to happen -- only a matter of time before someone thought to exploit kink culture and the BDSM underground as a source of comedy, and in PERMANENT OBSCURITY, Richard Perez manages to do this. Even with the dark subtitle of this book (and the mention of porn and death), even as everything goes to hell in a handbasket with these two women, you expect to hear a laughtrack. In some ways, Dolores and Serena, the primary characters of this … [Read more...]
Randall Dottin – A Filmmaker’s Tale of Perseverance
If you asked him 30 years ago what he wanted to be, Randall Dottin would have said, "An actor like Bill Cosby."He would have told you he raced home after school every day to catch Cosby in old episodes of I Spy and The Electric Company, and how he even tried to catch him on the silver screen. "I really wanted to be an actor," the 37-year-old says.The Cambridge-native didn't know then fate had a bigger plan for him - one that entailed him being … [Read more...]