Once More, with Feeling (book)

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Once More, with Feeling: How We Tried to Make the Greatest Porn Film Ever
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Authors Victoria Coren
Charlie Skelton
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
2003
Media typePrint
ISBN 978-1841154374

Once More, with Feeling: How We Tried to Make the Greatest Porn Film Ever is a 2003 book by Victoria Coren and Charlie Skelton. The authors, whose only experience of the pornography industry were as journalists for the Erotic Review magazine, set out to make a pornographic film which would differ from the industry's standard output. Once More, with Feeling is their account of the time they spent researching and shooting the film.

Contents

The film they made was entitled The Naughty Twins and was only screened for "friends, colleagues and some blokes off the telly". [1] Rowan Pelling, writing for The Independent , stated that "the plot was labyrinthine" and claimed she "particularly liked a lesbian bath scene where a muscular plumber enters the room with an enormous spanner, consults his pager, then says, "Oh dear, wrong day!" and promptly disappears." [1]

The book deal was in place before the movie was shot.

Reception

The Times review said, "What could so easily have been a saucy postcard of a book becomes a rewarding meditation on human desire - with lots of smut." [2] (The postcard reference is to the work of Donald McGill.) The Guardian called it "a relentlessly funny book", with Coren and Skelton "a couple of Hugh Grant-like characters". [3] The Sunday Telegraph said it "is indeed a jolly read". [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Pelling, Rowan (15 September 2002). "Why shouldn't we laugh in bed? - Columnists, Opinion". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 July 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  2. Power, Chris (5 July 2003). "Naked Ambition - Paperback Non-Fiction". The Times . London: News Corporation.
  3. Merritt, Stephanie (25 August 2002). "The pornography brokers: Very funny, but the story is not about making a sex film, just about making a deal". The Guardian . London: Guardian News and Media.
  4. Carpenter, Louise (4 August 2002). "Proud to be pornographers". The Sunday Telegraph . London: Telegraph Media Group.