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| DRUMMER Magazine No 170, December 1993 |
| Shot solo by Jack Fritscher, Cover Photograph features Donnie Russo, face and chest shot. Cover Feature copy is titled on the cover: "RUSSOMANIA: A GLIMPSE INTO THIS GUY! Photos and Interview by Jack Fritscher" Includes 12 interior photographs and an 8-page interview written by Jack Fritscher who shot Donnie Russo within six weeks of his advent into erotica. The three-day shoot, May 18-20, 1993, produced three feature-length videos in which Fritscher starred Russo. The 1993 titles are Rough Night at the Jockstrap Gym with Steve Thrasher, When Bodybuilders Collide with Brutus,and the very inter-personal solo video, Homme Alone (Gonna Fuck You Up!). Fritscher has stated that "Homme Alone is the perfect Palm Drive video, interactive, with the actor being as right with the camera as the camera is with the actor. Russo absolutely did what Russo does, and I absolutely did what Palm Drive's camera does."Fritscher shot Russo again, September 14, 1994, at Bob Cato's San Francisco house in stills and video for the Palm Drive Video feature, 5 Guys in a Whorehouse. This shoot was the first Palm Drive Video shoot to include a woman, the wife of Whorehouse model Tom Morris, Mitzi Morris, whose footage will be in another video title. The second woman, present on a Palm Drive set (during the shooting of Sunset Bull), was the wife of Sunset Bull's star Chris Duffy aka Bull Stanton. Don Russo appears 4 times in the photography book titled Jack Fritscher's American Men, GMP, London, 1995, as Frontispiece Photograph, and as "Don Russo, Screen Test, 1992," "Don Russo, I' Priapus, 1993,"and "Don Russo, Calvin Inclined, 1994." Jack Fritscher's iconic photograph of "Russo Seated Pissing" appears in color, full-page (p. 66), along three Fritscher color photographs of Russo (p. 67) in Thrust Magazine, Volume 10, Number 6, March 1997. Editor for Drummer #170, Marcus-Jay Wonacott. |