1989: sex, lies and videotape: Rob Lowe and James Spader (Erotic 80s Part 12)
You Must Remember This
Karina Longworth
4.6 • 15.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
American independent film is launched into the mainstream by Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape, starring James Spader as an impotent man who gets off on filming women talking about sex. Videotape also plays a role in a Spader film released almost simultaneously, Bad Influence, in which he plays a meek yuppie at the mercy of alpha male Rob Lowe – who was trying to rehabilitate his career after a tape leaked shot by the actor and documenting his real-life threesomes — one with a 16 year-old girl. We close the first half of this season talking about Lowe, Spader and how camcorder mediation of sex changed pop culture forever.
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| 0:53.9 | Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This. |
| 1:03.3 | The podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's |
| 1:11.6 | first century on your host, Karina Longworth. |
| 1:17.2 | And this is part 12 of our ongoing series, Erotic Atees. |
| 1:25.3 | I'm getting a little fed up at sex-will-e-amansivated ladies being referred to as brawls. |
| 1:31.3 | And that doing this because somebody's making me do it. |
| 1:35.1 | You're a strange girl, being an ordinary boy. |
| 1:37.6 | Last year he was discovered making amateur videos of his own sex roles. |
| 1:41.4 | His sexual revolution has been wonderful, and has been a remarkable change from sex-equal |
| 1:53.5 | change. |
| 1:59.8 | People... |
| 2:01.1 | Dext gedremmag |
| 2:02.6 | We've spent the last 11 weeks talking about sex in Hollywood film. |
| 2:15.0 | Today, in the final episode of Heretic Aties, we move into the age of video. |
| 2:23.8 | From the real world to Rodney King, to the Pam and Tommy sex tape, to events like the death |
| 2:31.2 | of Princess Diana depicted on 24-hour cable news, largely through surveillance cam footage. |
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