1989: sex, lies and videotape: Rob Lowe and James Spader (Erotic 80s Part 12)

2022-06-21 · 99 min · episode 199 · 4 entities

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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.