Ronnie Larsen Explained

Ronnie Larsen is a playwright and film director specializing in writing plays about sex.^[1]

His play Making Porn was about the gay porn industry in the 1980s, and the production was notable for casting gay porn actors. Productions have starred Blue Blake, Rex Chandler and Ryan Idol.

In 1997, Larsen made a documentary about the gay porn industry entitled Shooting Porn. It is not a filmed version of the play Making Porn.^[2] ^[3] The film featured figures from the gay pornography industry including Gino Colbert, Chi Chi LaRue, Blue Blake, Adam Rom, Rip Stone and Adam Wilde.

Plays produced

1994 Scenes From My Love Life
1995 Making Porn^[4]
1996 Talk Show later to be titled Sleeping with Straight Men ^[5]
1998 Peep Show^[6]
2002 10 Naked Men^[7]

Reviews

New York Times critic Stephen Holden found the film Shooting Porn to be "disappointingly frivolous," characterizing it as "coyly unrevealing" and a "shallow, titillating look" at its subject.^[3]

Notes and References

Web site: Mickey's Quickies; Ringing in a Gay Porn 2010 . AVN . 30 December 2009 . 2010-03-13.
Web site: Shooting Porn . AVN . 2010-03-13.
News: Revealing All and That's All . Holden . Stephen . July 11, 1997 . . 2010-03-13 .
Web site: 'Making Porn' Back on Boards in Florida . JC Adams . JC Adams . Gay Porn Times . 4 February 2010 . 2010-03-13.
News: When a Sexual Decision wound up with a Fatality, New York Times. The New York Times . 19 February 2003 . Gates . Anita .
News: Theater Review; So What's A Nice Guy Like You... . Van Gelder . Lawrence . April 14, 1998 . The New York Times . 2010-03-13 . ...Ronnie Larsen's Peep Show mingles raunch and research. And thanks to its flawless cast and the smooth direction of Mr. Larsen, his 90-minute intermissionless excursion behind the scenes of peep parlors that beckon in places like midtown Manhattan adds up to a good time..
Web site: 10 Naked Men Expose H-wood And Hustling . Sister Dana Van Iquity . . 25 August 2005 . 2010-03-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120329004449/http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=4029 . March 29, 2012.