PARK

2ND SMASH WEEK

"A PAT ROCCO HAPPENING"

BY

ALL NEW MALE NUDE FILMS HOLLYWOOD'S TOP FILMAKER

PAT

ROCCO Gets Around

by James Kepner

Park Theatre Marquee in Los Angeles

Almost as soon as Los Angeles' Park Theatre became the first American outlet for Gay films, in early 1968, a young film buff named Pat Rocco came along. Most early Park programs combined an overpriced and often disappointing fare of oldies such as Some Like It Hot, Robert Morley's Oscar Wilde and Kenneth Anger's underground classics, with crude and plotless backyard "muscle boy" shorts. As the theatre gained in boldness the film

models dropped their pants and flopped their meat about, which sometimes seemed momentarily interesting providing the picture was in focus.

Pat Rocco revolutionized that. Starting in the genre of unrehearsed cock-danglers, and starting on a tiny budget, with inadequate equipment. and untrained actors, Pat put meaning into his models' exercizes, arranging, even where acting talent' is lacking, to make actions seem plausible and dra-

matic.

His first program of 10 to 30 minute shorts, though uneven, included the unforgettable Yes, and Love Is Blue, sensitive portrayals of men meeting, The Performance, a surreal ballet of inter-racial sexual desire, and others showing technical skill, flashes of humor, a sense of choreography and an unmatched evocation of the Gay spirit.

Pat's talent and his mastery of the medium of Gay romps and love stories,

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Pat Rocco at Disneyland, filming Ron and Chuck for DISCOVERY