Dorothy From Kanas Meets The Wizard Of X by Linda Alexander
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- Pub. Date: November 2003
- 272pp
- Sales Rank: 566,820
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 2003
- Publisher: Publish America
- Format: Paperback, 272pp
- Sales Rank: 566,820
- ISBN-13: 9781413702729
- ISBN: 1413702724
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What if a tornado dropped Dorothy not into Oz but on the set of an X-rated film? This book tells of an odd camaraderie between a porn icon and a freelance writer. The storyteller's curiosity took her on a journey into a sexual world about which she knew nothing. She, an awakening "Dorothy," and Eric Edwards, a celebrated adult film star since 1969 in his own real-life "Oz," were the least likely pair, but through interviews and day-to-day living they became friends, protective of each other. Eric tried to shield Linda from sexuality's darker side and Linda was determined to share the light of Hope with Eric. This non-pornographic look behind the X-rated camera includes voices of industry insiders to offer a non-judgmental look into a most mysterious, misunderstood faction of film entertainment.
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Dorothy From Kansas Meets the Wizard of Xby Anonymous
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March 29, 2004: Like the author, I was brought up a good, little Catholic girl. And like Dorothy, the alter ego of the author, I was even brought up in Kansas. The author indicates in her forward that interviewing and writing about people who act in pornography films was a journey she needed to take for a number of reasons. She reports that as a result she came out of the experience as a better person and with a new friend, the Wizard of X, aka Rob Everett, aka Eric Edwards. Since I respect Ms. Alexander as a person, as an editor, and as a writer, I felt that I wanted to take this journey along with her, albeit vicariously, through reading her book. The author interviewed many of the actors and actresses involved in the world of X-rated films, but it was Rob Everett, who appears under the screen name Eric Edwards, with whom she spent most of her time while researching this non-fiction book. It is Rob/Eric whose life the reader follows from his early days to the present. To the author?s surprise and relief, she found that Rob and others who make their living by having sex on screen, are for the most part ordinary, everyday people, who for various reasons wandered into a world most of us have never entered. Through reading Ms. Alexander?s fascinating account of this world, you?ll gain a better understanding of this industry and the people who make it up. And, hopefully like me, you?ll find the trip well worth it.
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