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Thomas Jane Not Hung On Prostitution Rumors: 'People Heard What They Wanted To Hear'


Posted on Dec 20, 2011 @ 04:00AM - Add a comment

By Radar Staff

Hung star Thomas Jane hasn't ever sold himself — he just plays a guy that does.

The 42-year-old, who plays male prostitute Ray Drecker on the HBO hit, told The Fix he was misquoted in the Los Angeles Times interview in which the implication was made that he'd had sex with men for money as an upstart actor in Hollywood more than 20 years ago.

"As an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don’t accept people’s sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn’t have any money and I was living in my car," he said in the October 4 interview.

"I was 18. I wasn’t averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

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BOOKS: If You Liked Boogie Nights and Wonderland...


Posted on Aug 05, 2010 @ 12:31PM - Add a comment

He's been dead more than twenty years, but the story of troubled porn legend John Holmes continues to intrigue the masses in a big way, for better or for worse.

Now, continuing in the tradition of films such as Boogie Nights and Wonderland, comes The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes, a chilling book from Dawn Schiller, Holmes’ pixyish teen companion (played by Kate Bosworth in Wonderland) who he took down a road of drug addiction, abuse, arrests, forced prostitution, disease and murder.

He's been dead more than twenty years, but the story of troubled porn legend John Holmes continues to intrigue the masses in a big way, for better or for worse.

Now, continuing in the tradition of films such as Boogie Nights and Wonderland, comes The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes, a chilling book from Dawn Schiller, Holmes’ pixyish teen companion (played by Kate Bosworth in Wonderland) who he took down a road of drug addiction, abuse, arrests, forced prostitution, disease and murder.

Reviews for the highly-anticipated book have been pouring in from all spectrums, and readers seemed to be fascinatingly disturbed by the long and winding road Schiller traveled through Wonderland.

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