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Here's another set of reviews, the last for November. I was going 
to review PornoTV: The Return to Gilligan's Island also, but 
someone else got to it first. As there's currently a gap in the 
reviewing field it's more fair of me to pick up the wallflowers.

I have noticed more individual reviews being posted to 
alt.sex.stories.discussions, and that's good; and it would be even 
better if some enterprising soul created a website to gather all 
these, or better yet a mailing list with a mail list digest so people 
can read them at their leisure.  


The stories:

The Ladies Who Lunch, by Jenny Blythe (F+/M, humor)
Blind Date, by Martina Lee (M+/F cons)
Hypno Celeb TNG 16: Claire Danes, by KMB (F/F, celeb)
JTT and Erik von D, by J.O. Dickingson (M/M, celeb)
The Master, Parts 1 and 2 by Millamber (M/m, BDSM, rom)
Movie Notes: Velvet Goldmine, Boogie Nights



The Ladies Who Lunch 1 [A]
Where posted: ASS, ASSM
When posted: 11/20/98
Author: Jenny Blythe
Address: VLBT40D@prodigy.com

In the nation's capitol, three mature career women periodically 
get together for the purpose of kidnapping young studs for their 
sexual use. That's the premise of this story, and it's a good one, 
with a great hook. The style was fun and breezy without being too 
heavy (no BDSM here) only the naughty implications of sex with 
the handcuffed victim in the back of a luxury car, with more 
implied when they reach their destination. Don't take it too 
seriously, and watch for part 2.



Blind Date [A]
Where posted: ASS, ASSM
When posted: 11/24/98
Author: Martina Lee
Address: susanasue@hotmail.com

This story is one of a series called "Oh Susana!" all written by the 
same author. The main character, in case you haven't guessed it, 
is named Susana. The title of this story is something of a red 
herring in that she doesn't go on a blind date, her date blinds her 
(with a blindfold.) He then takes her to a hotel room where three 
other men are waiting, and there's a semi-gangbang where she's 
more than willing to take them all on, all at once--mouth, pussy, 
and both hands.

As a stroke story this one was very good, the sex taking center 
stage with the characters acting as believable props for it. 
Nothing new was said, but the ride was well orchestrated and on 
the realistic side. This may sound contradictory, but nothing 
breaks the mood of a good stroke story as when the characters 
start acting in ways no flesh-and-blood human being ever would 
(I mean nipples that protrude six inches and grown men who say, 
"Oh, I wanna cum on your tits! Please let me tank you up!") 



The Master, Parts 1 and 2 [A-]
Where posted: ASSGM
When posted: 11/5/98, 11/14/98
Author: The Master
Address: Millamber@email.msn.com

This story was posted as BDSM and deals, by its title, with the 
Master/slave relationship, but it was really more of anti-slave 
story in that the two characters seek to grow out of their roles 
rather than into them. Though the writing was rough it was quite 
a hanky-puller in places, with a strong father/son feel.

In the fantasy world of the story slavery is an underground 
operation in 20th century America, and Danny is a teenage slave 
who's met nothing but abuse. He's traded a number of times, 
never knowing what he's done wrong, until a kindly older man 
rescues him from the auction block. The rest of the story deals 
with their sexual relationship as the new master tries to get 
Danny to stop cringing and start trusting him. Good, sentimental 
stuff.

BTW can someone please tell me where the name 'Millamber' 
comes from? I sweat it's from a series of David Eddings novels, but 
I'm not sure.



Hypno Celeb TNG 16: Claire Danes [B+]
Where posted: ASS, ASSM
When posted: 11/15/98
Author: K B
Address: kmb_76@yahoo.com

In the two years I've been reviewing I've seen about four 
different series dealing with celebrities and hypnosis and they 
all follow a common pattern: the young, attractive female lust 
object is interrupted from her latest activity and hypnotized into 
having sex with someone (50/50 for the someone being male or 
female, with an edge towards female) who dissolves the spell at 
the end of the story with the celebrity going her merry way 
none the wiser. In this story the celebrity is young actress Claire 
Danes (Romeo and Juliet) with the hypnotizer being a sort of 
floor advisor whose job it is to settle Claire into her freshman 
dorm at Yale; the author more likely than not got this 
information from People magazine or Entertainment Tonight.

The sex here was OK and the story well written, but like all 
celebrity stories, if you're not familiar with the celebrity in 
question it's kind of pointless. You wouldn't know anything more 
about Claire Danes if you read this story than if you read two 
inches of text in a gossip column. I suppose there is a sort of 
naughty thrill in imagining the beautiful people fucking like 
rabid she-wolves, but the problem is the female celebrity in this 
story could have been anyone; there's nothing to distinguish the 
way Claire Danes has sex from Julia Roberts or Drew Barrymore 
because, obviously, the author has never had sex with Claire 
Danes; if he or she had, there wouldn't be a reason for the story.

In sum, if you enjoy generic mind-controlled f/f encounters 
you'll probably like this, but don't expect any real dirt about the 
actress.



JTT & Erik von D [B+]
Where posted: ASSGM
When posted: 11/8/98
Author: Dream Spinner
Address: authorsix@hotmail.com

Apparently, celebrity stories are so popular they've spawned gay 
versions, featuring young, hunky actors like Brad Pitt and 
Leonardo di Caprio. In this story, the celebrities are Jonathan 
Taylor Thomas and Erik von Detten, neither of whom I've heard 
of, which affected my critique of the story more than a little. The 
story follows the celebrity pattern in that the main character 
goes about his daily life (speeding in his car, reflecting on how 
much sex he's been getting lately, going to charity functions, 
appearing on talk shows, yadda yadda yadda....all of which comes 
across as incredibly boring) and meets another celebrity doing 
the same thing. They fuck.

My reservations about this story are the same as the previous 
one: it purports to be about two real-life guys, yet they never 
come to life despite the gossip-rag spewings. Therefore it's 
probably more reasonable to consider the story as a generic 
sexual encounter, as some of the action was hot (spreading foil 
packets of hot dog condiments on each other's dicks) than trying 
to stick faces on the anonymously rutting bodies. However, if 
you're a fan of the young men in question, you might get more 
out of the story than I would, though I can't imagine how.



Movie Notes: Velvet Goldmine (1998, dir. Todd Hayes); Boogie 
Nights (1998)

Speaking of gay male celebrity stories...

"Velvet Goldmine" is a film from abroad about the birth of the 
early 70s glam rock movement in England, with fictionalized 
analogs of David Bowie (Brian Slade), Bryan Ferry (Jack Fairy) 
and Iggy Pop/Lou Reed (Curt Wild). There's lots of good-looking 
boys kissing boys, some orgies, not a few nude bodies, frontal 
male nudity (a drunk rock star wagging about on stage, in 
every sense of the word), simulated masturbation, and male sex 
(shot from a distance, but it's unmistakable.) The songs were a 
mixture of period pieces ("Satellite of Love") and competent 
originals that sounded like Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust period 
with touches of early Roxy Music. 

I liked the movie, but I had several bones to pick with it:

1. The rock stars all looked way too healthy to be rock stars.

2. Too many Oscar Wild allusions.

3. The costumes, though superficially authentic, were too 
exaggerated for the early 70s and were made of materials that 
didn't exist at the time.

4. The David Bowie analog was a pretty face and nothing more; he 
didn't have Bowie's lean angularity and graceful sense of 
movement, or his sense of mime.

5. The Iggy Pop analog (played by Ewan McGregor) was modeled 
far too heavily on Kurt Cobain.

6. The movie couldn't make up its mind whether it wanted to be 
realism or a rock n'roll fantasy puff piece like Brian De Palma's 
"The Phantom of the Paradise."

7. Not a good date movie if your date is a heterosexual man.


On the other hand, last year's "Boogie Nights" is everything 
you've heard, and more (though there was less sex than the 
movie above.) I particularly liked the banality of it: though the 
actors could have hot sex on cue, they couldn't act, couldn't paint, 
couldn't sing, couldn't get a loan, and couldn't make intelligent 
conversation...just a bunch of boringly average everyday people 
trying to be nice and get along. Though the movie marred by 
some gratuitous violence, especially a shoot-out in a donut store 
that leaves all participants drilled slabs of cold meat, I 
recommend it. The soundtrack alone is worth the rental, dredging 
up old 70s favorites like the Electric Light Orchestra, and when 
was the last time you saw an actor wearing a braided terrycloth 
sweatband?

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