**Decorative Pornography** In this bold and lysergic 1978 reinterpretation, Anthony Spinelli transports Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" myth to the epicenter of the sexual revolution. The plot follows Darrin Blue (a superb performance by Wade Nichols), a young man of statuesque beauty who, having made a pact with the forces of Vanity, retains his youthful vigor and physical purity while plunging into a spiral of absolute hedonism decade after decade. While he remains untouched by the passage of time and his own excesses, also does exist a hidden film, in the form of a cinematic c…
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