MY PLEASURE IS MY BUSINESS (1975) Dark Force Entertainment Blu-ray Screenshots + Review
The second half of this double bill is the 70's "sex-comedy" My Business Is My Pleasure (1975), directed by Canadian actor Al Waxman (Class of 1984) that tells the sort of true story of Xaviera Hollander, best known as the author of the 1971 autobiography The Happy Hooker which was made into a same-titled film starring Vanessa Redgrave, coming out the same year as this more comical take on the topic. The idea to cast Hollander as basically a version of herself named Gabrielle is an interesting idea, though in my opinion the flick is not very entertaining at all After upsetting a U.S. senator by refusing to acknowledge his sexual prowess Hollander is forced to vacate the U.S. in search of a new home, but after being refused in several countries because of her notoriety she ends up in the small republic of Gestalt, where the President (Henry Ramer, the voice of Dr. Doom from tons of 70's Marvel cartoons) is convinced by his aide Freddie (Colin Fox, Scanners III: The Takeover) to allow her into the country, hoping that the country's moral outrage might distract from the leader's own scandals, only to be surprised that everyone seems to love having sexy Gabriela around. It plays out in a series of vignettes of pervy men hiding away in her hotel room or leering at her, an obsessed hotel manager (George Sperdakos, Dirty Work), and there's lesbian therapist (Monica Parker, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment) that comes onto her, and the President hires a goofy private eye (Marvin Goldhar, Deadline) to try to catch her in a scandalous act for which she could be used to toss her out of the country. Chock full of racial and sexual stereotypes that like most of the ill-conceived humor fall flat on it's face, worst of all it's a sexless sex-comedy, so its a bit of a bore from all sides here folks.