WARNING!
Distributor | Released | Length |
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Studio 2000 | 1996 | 88 |
Description source: promotional material
STUDIO 2000 launches its new year (our fifth) with a jaunty, tongue-deeply-in-cheek celebration of a gay version of The American Dream--the pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (translate: sex). Playing To Win is about guys on the rise--a upwardly mobile crowd who seem to be up, up, up all of the time. Our tale follows the adventures of two good buddies--Steve Sax (more about this later), a very rising young entrepreneur who has almost everything--money, looks, a body to die for and a cock that could kill, and Pagan Prince (a STUDIO 2000 exclusive whose wonderful cock knows no limits except hard, harder and hardest), a television sports reporter who personifies the idea of minimum effort for maximum effect.
The action begins as Steve and Pagan leave the ball park and head for the nearest butch gay bar. Steve bemoans the fact that his search for a new lover is going nowhere; Pagan replies that he's too busy for a lover--and that probably Steve is also. Steve says that he just hasn't found the right guy. He thinks he needs a good injection of up-and-coming ballplayer, Josh Sterling. Pagan is skeptical and asks what is happening with Steve's latest affair. Startled, Steve remembers that he is almost late for his date.
Steve arrives home just in time to greet his latest, Tony Piagi. Sex with Tony is always dynamite--one explosion after another, hot and fiery and just about as good as it gets. And, after enjoying getting down with Tony thoroughly, Steve realizes that it is too perfect--too professional to fill that space in his mind that's labeled "Lover".
The next morning, Pagan drops by to invite Steve over to his house for his therapy group meeting--a bonding group called Manly Men which is a combination of EST, Esslin and orgy. The whole idea triggers Steve's gag reflex until Pagan informs him that Josh is going to be there. Suddenly Steve thinks that confession may be very good for the soul.
That evening at the meeting of manly men includes Dave Russell, J.T. Sloan, Kevin Kramer, guru Hunter Scott as well as Pagan, Steve, and Josh. We are quickly introduced to everyone's hangups (and everyone has them). When the medicine begins to get heavy, Steve and Josh, who have been doing some bonding of their own on the side, slip away for a little one-on-one. Later most of the others leave with similar plans--leaving just Kevin Kramer. Knowing that a bird in the house is worth two at the bar, Pagan introduces Kevin to some deep therapy that is good for what ails you and leaves copious and wet evidence of its curative powers.
Back at Steve's, t ' he two~ guys. start a fire in the fireplace, spend about thirty seconds discussing the deeper aspects of life and then proceed to build a really big fire on the sofa, the kind where you can't see the flames but you certainly feel them in your brain, your heart and your groin. The logs in the fireplace don't stand a chance of competing with the intense conflagration consuming the men until they are driven to hosing the fires down with big loads of ball juice that brings the fires under control if only for a short while. Unknown to Steve and Josh, much of their scene is witnessed by Steve's secretary, Kyle Brandon, who may like and respect his boss but who is obviously quite up and tight about Josh.
Everything goes along wonderfully well until Steve, deeply smitten, decides to put his business talents to work helping Josh's career. Controlling Mr. Good Guy really can't imagine that Josh might have legitimate reasons for being pissed with Steve's interference and that it could cause a serious rift between them. As Steve sits in the bar with Pagan bemoaning Josh's 11mysterious" reactions, Pagan tries to lend a sympathetic ear but is soon distracted by the pretty butt--and body--of Rob Boxxer whom he pursues into a storage area in back of the bar. As Steve mopes in his beer, Pagan mops up the back room with the luscious parts of Rob. As Pagan pounds away at Rob's hungry hole the whole room seems to be jumpin'--and it ain't "swing and sway" but definitely "rock and roll" as each gives the other his best for a full round of wet ones.
A little time passes and Steve visits Josh at the ball park hoping that things will be better. What he discovers, however, is that he has been replaced by his own secretary as Josh and Kyle fill the locker room with the roars and growls of man-lust out of control. The steam heat rising here isn't from the sauna or the showers but from two hot bodies with their own special brand of hot rocks working to drive each other to maximum endurance and geysers of gushing release.
Steve is destroyed as he shares the bad news with Pagan who is very responsive until a wink from Kevin across the bar suggests a replay. Totally alone, Steve is totally nonplused. But only for a moment. After all, life has to go on and that's what cellular phones are for (now don't get any sick ideas--he uses it to make a call--or two).
In addition to being an exceptionally fast moving, action packed video filled with relentless sex, some luscious kink and the usual production values you have come to expect from STUDIO 2000, John Travis and Scott Master, Playing To Win has some other special features to be noted. After almost two years, Josh Sterling is back. We introduced him to video audience in Nights In Eden back then. He was hot, handsome and good then. He's grown a lot. He's great now--really. His performance is very impressive and very special. Our exclusive Pagan Prince is back for his third video. Those who saw him in Mavericks or Seamen First Class (and if you haven't, you should) will well-remember how his performances are always high points in any show. Pagan gives good sex--always. Playing To Win introduces Steve Sax to the video world. Steve is a real discovery and everyone is after him. Luckily we got him first. We like that. This lad is a real comer (in more ways than one!). Devilishly handsome with a body that begs for your eyes and tongue everywhere--Steve has everything it takes to fulfill the promise of his visual impact--a dick that goes a very long way, a mouth of such talent that it brings the best out in everyone and a grasping, pulsing hole that won't let go before it has milked the beast dry. Steve Sax is a lot of man whom you will be seeing a lot of--but never any better than here.
Of very special importance, Playing To Win is the debut of Mickey Skee as a screenwriter. A young man of multiple talents--short-story writer, critic (he writes for a number of publications reviewing gay videos), editor (of a number of publications including Adult Video News where he is the editor of the gay, bisexual and trans sections of that popular publication), promoter (he is, and has been from their beginnings, instrumental in the production of the Gay Video Guide Award show each year), teacher (classes at a big Southland university) and AIDS activist (the Awards and various other fund raising charity projects), Micky responded with his usual total humbleness and enthusiasm when we invited him to write a screenplay for us. Playing To Win is the result. We are very pleased with that result and we think you will be too. A light, funny and very sexual celebration of gay life that is a joy to see, the show touches lightly but sharply an many of the problems with which the contemporary gay struggles to cope--the controlling urge; the ying and yang of being laid back versus being aggressive; and especially the way we turn potential lovers into fantasy images that we can easily love only to have the fantasy quickly destroy-any chance for a real relationship with a real person. The ideas may be serious but they are presented painlessly as a part of the happy and positive views of a very talented young man.. ..
Playing To Win: guys giving their all as they play everyone's favorite board game of life, Love and Sex--playing to win--playing hard, very hard indeed--struggling. to get to first base and beyond. That's Playing To Win from STUDIO 2000 and it scores multiple homeruns in every way--especially in hot, exhausting, memorable sex. It's a winner!