Talk:Spalding Gray
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[edit] Lover and Wife
If anyone knows more of his personal biography, they might want to put a little information in the article about his sexuality. He was married at the time of his death, but also had a male long time companion?
[edit] Impossible Vacation
How autobiographical is Impossible vacation. I am not sure, but I do know a couple of the main characters very well(his two brothers), for one of them is my father, Channing. I knew spalding well when I was younger and I was on that vacation with him in ireland...Ive heard many times that alot of the book was exaggerated, but what i do know is true that channing...or topher was obsessed with the piano..and organ, and my uncle Rocky is a good man with a solid family. In some way it is unfortunate that people make them out to be crazy...just like any family i suppose -A
Impossible Vacation is NOT an autobiography, and I have corrected this in the main text. It is a novel, though the main characters are strongly based on Spaulding and his mother and his mother's suicide, as discussed in Monster in a Box
-- MJB
I had never heard of this guy til he died. 70.168.32.250 13:59, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
No, he wasn't in Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, even though some people seem to think he was. This is confirmed in in this review (search for "urban legend").--Wasabe3543 22:09, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I'm very curious just how autobiographical Impossible Vacation is, but the article here doesn't give me enough about his life. The few facts given match: childhood in Rhode Island to Christian Science parents, small porn film history, driven to monologues by not being satisfied as an actor, etc. I wish Monster in a Box was available on DVD so I could see what he himself says about it, but it is only on VHS. --User:Eli the Bearded
[edit] Swimming to Cambodia
I'm working on an article over at Swimming to Cambodia. Anybopdy wanna poke head in and help? I'm not the best at encyclopedic writing as you will soon find out.
[edit] Farmer's Daughter
The article The Farmer's Daughter is only about the 1947 title and not the 1973 porn that stared Spalding Gray. It needs some disambiguation and the link from Spalding Gray's bio needs to be changed.
- It would appear this has been done. We should also cite a source for this statement, since there are those who may doubt it. I seem to recall that Gray mentions this in one of his books, possibly Sex and Death to the Age 14, and he is also listed on Rec.Arts.Movies.Erotica's "Dead Porn Stars" list. But if anyone can add a citation, that would be helpful. 23skidoo 04:40, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- His brief porn career is something he freely acknowledged. In this chat transcript he says it's "pretty well documented" in his book Impossible Vacation. Here's a partial quote:
- From NeilActs: You have had a varied career as a monologist, a writer and an actor in mainstream film and Broadway theatre. I once heard that you appeared in porn films as well! Is this true? If so, I'm interested in how you ended up in that industry and what your personal take on it was.
- Spalding responds: Yes, I did appear in one in 1976. I did it out of curiosity and fantasy that it would be fun. It was awful. It was the hardest, in quotes hardest, and most difficult work I've ever done. Wouldn't recommend it. But no regrets. Interesting. Once was enough.
- But his recollection is a bit faulty, because at least one other title in his filmography (Maraschino Cherry) is also a hardcore porn film. I've seen myself. It's unmistakably him. This particular movie was shot in New York City during the Studio 54 era, so there's no shortage of plausible explanations to explain why he wouldn't remember making it.:-)Reelm (talk) 00:33, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
