{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 37: Tom DeSimone's CATCHING UP (1975)","description":"When Tom DeSimone\u2019s CATCHING UP begins, two lovers are in crisis. The older man, Frank, tells his younger partner Dennis that their relationship has grown stagnant after a mere three months of living together. Frank\u2019s solution? Spice things up by opening their relationship! At first outraged by this suggestion, the doe-eyed, yet well-hung Dennis (Keith Anthoni, here in his screen debut) rises up to the challenge by throwing himself into a journey of sexual maturation and, well, CATCHING UP. From cruisey movie theater balconies to kinky personals, the romantic comedy-drama of CATCHING UP manages to resonate with relationship issues and tropes still common today.    Critically lauded at the time of its release, CATCHING UP was a watershed film for filmmaker Tom DeSimone. Its success allowed him to finally make the jump beyond pornography \u2014 and the stigma that went with it \u2014 into more legitimate mainstream films. In this episode, we focus on this, as well as DeSimone\u2019s relationship with Hand in Hand\u2019s Jack Deveau, and the unlikely college education of one of the film\u2019s beefcake stars. We also mull over why the film has been somewhat forgotten over the years, especially compared to some of DeSimone\u2019s other work.  ","author_name":"Cruising the Movies","author_url":"http:\/\/askanybuddy.libsyn.com\/website","html":"