CHAPTER THIRTEEN -- AL PARKER, MAYBE THE BIGGEST STAR OF ALL

(Did You Sleep With the Models?)

One busy afternoon in May 1983 I look up and Al Parker is standing in my office doorway. With a California tan added to his naturally dark complection, he's even more radiant than onscreen. Like most stars of erotic cinema -- indeed, like movie stars everywhere -- he seems shorter than his screen image. In this case, one reason may be that no one really looks at his stature. Not, that is, at his vertical dimension.