BONUS NUMBER 23: COMME DES GARÇONS
(Did You Sleep With the Models?)
Every year on July 14 (le quatorze juillet) the French celebrate the storming of the Bastille on that date in 1789, a major event in the French Revolution.
The 14th falls on Friday this year. Since that’s the day I post a weekly chapter of Did You Sleep With the Models?, I’m sending out this bonus a few days early. Francophiles and homophiles surely won’t mind celebrating in advance.
Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944-2008) was a prolific homoerotic cinéaste, the French equivalent of such California filmmakers as Jim French of Colt Studios and Chuck Holmes of Falcon.
I met Jean-Daniel only once when he came to the Modernismo offices to see our publisher, George Mavety. I translated for them that day, and several other times on the phone. I wish I had known Cadinot better, for he had a very French sense of humor. Speaking of his parents, who were tailors in Paris, he told an interviewer, “Oh yes, they dressed men in the latest fashion, then I grew up and became famous for taking the clothes off.”
Id be modelling with them. As I do.
Viva La France!