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Finances force director into pornBy Lee GrantLos Angeles Times ServiceHOLLYWOOD — The first week the Weston family moved into its current house, a contingent of neighborhood women dropped by for coffee.They had a question for Roslyn Weston: What does your husband do for a living?” Her reply: I told them he made educational films.”Roslyn Weston’s husband is Sam Weston, prodigious director of hard-core, sexually explicit motion pictures. This year, his film Nothing to Hide,” took the top prize at the annual Erotic Film Awards.Weston, 55, the brother of actor Jack Weston (The Four Seasons”), has experienced a rather bumpy show-business ride. There were peaks. In 1964, he produced a respected and acclaimed mainstream film called One Potato, Two Potato.” The story of an interracial marriage, the picture won a major award at the Cannes Film Festival.WESTON SAVORS the memory. It was screened for a black-tie audience,” he said recently. After it ended, there was not a sound in the hall. It was quiet.Suddenly, one person applauded and then everybody. There was a standing ovation. We all hugged and kissed and cried.They turned a spotlight on us and we stood up. It was one of the proudest moments of my life.”And there were valleys. Following the achievement of One Potato, Two Potato,” he did not work for years. An idealistic film-maker with a fluke success, he cared less for three-picture deals than projects that said something about people.So, broke and a family man (three children) living in an apartment, Weston sold encyclopedias door to door. One day, on his salesman's rounds he spotted a marquee on a theater advertising a triple X-rated” movie. He bought a ticket.I saw this hard-core sex film that was just terrible, he said. It was 16 millimeter, the photography and the acting were awful. I raced home, wrote a 13-page script and called it 'Diary of a Nymph,' made a movie and went around the country selling it.” Weston was back in the business.TEN YEARS HAVE passed since then and now Weston (using the pseudonym Anthony Spinelli) is one of the top directors in the adult genre. His credits include such films as Easy,” 'Talk Dirty to Me, Sex World” and Vista Valley P.T.A.”Nothing to Hide” is an unusual movie for the hardcore market. Although the requisite sex scenes exhibitors demand are there, it is a movie with an intelligent script, decent acting and emotional content.Its director is a funny, rotund man. Weston’s home in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge is filled with his bellowing, chandelier-shaking laugh. He is a man of long, convoluted stories and dreams of moving once again into conventional films.I could make the transition in a minute,” he said. All the phone has to do is ring.”Weston is as proud of Nothing to Hide” as One Potato, Two Potato.”It’s the best work I’ve ever done, he said, and shows how far the adult film industry has come.”NOTHING TO HIDE” cost $400,000 to make, an enormous figure in the hard-core field, and was filmed • Please turn to page 4B: Pom
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Fri, Aug 27, 1982
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