Vapid: A Decadent Adult Gay Fantasy About Hollywood at the Beginning of the Aids Crisis

By Grant Sutor Vuille

Vapid
A Decadent Adult Gay Fantasy about Hollywood
At the Beginning of the AIDS Crisis

SYNOPSIS

Vapid is a dark comedy/satire about the decadent underworld of gay Hollywood in the early 1980s as the AIDS epidemic was on the rise. Its protagonists and antagonists are colorful caricatures of the show business world in contrast to the underworld of the gay street hustler.

A young wood be actor named Brad gets wrapped up in prostitution only to wind up in the employ and bed of aging screen siren Carlotta Carlisle. Brad joins Carlottas corral of gay, muscular and sensual houseboys, Rocky & Rusty.

Although Carlotta is a bit long-in-the-tooth, she fully intends to make a big splash again in her new motion picture. She promises roles to her young male companions, but as things work out, their paths take a little twist. We glimpse Brads home life in Los Angeles but briefly when his mother insists he fly to New York City to live with his estranged father who has promised to pay his way through college if only he will leave California and come to live with him.

But things have a way of working themselves out that is not always satisfactory for our young hero, Brad, when he becomes determined to crawl his way to the top of Hollywood stardom at the cost of exploiting his sexuality, the consequences of which are truly dire.

In the end, the neon lights of Hollywood are still glittering vacuously while the morals of that community are swept quietly under the proverbial red carpet, as Brad is now on his way to a glamorous, if vapid, celebrity lifestyle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 17, 2008
• ISBN: 9781462835034

Grant Sutor Vuille

BIOGRAPHY Grant Sutor Vuille Grant Sutor Vuille was born in 1950 in St. Petersburg, Florida. In the 1950’s and the 1960’s he took a real interest in making his own amateur 8mm fantasy films. His mother often took Grant and his siblings to live theatrical performances, as well as movies, and Grant became completely committed to the dream of having a career in show business. Grant began to write all through this time, making 8mm films, writing plays, film scripts, and short stories. Eventually he earned a BA in Theatre from F.S.U. working for many years as an actor. Grant has visited Hollywood numerous times.

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V A P I D

A Decadent Adult Gay Fantasy about

Hollywood at the Beginning of the AIDS Crisis.

Grant Sutor Vuille

Copyright © 2008 by Grant Sutor Vuille.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the

product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Dedicated in the Memory

of My Friend and Companion

Edward Eddie Glenn Niola

June 26, 1958-April 23, 1992

From Complications of HIV/AIDS

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The author will donate 50% of all personal profits

earned from the sale of this book

to HIV/AIDS charities in Eddie’s name.

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Eddie at home, Circa 1978

Chapter 1

The sun arises over the plush mansion belonging to Carlotta Carlisle, movie siren desperate for a comeback. The pink morning light sparkles mystically amidst the dewdrops, overshadowed ominously by the immense Hollywoodland sign on the mountain behind her estate. The time is the present, and the future belongs to aspiring starlets and budding young stud actor types.

Such is the setting when Carlotta suddenly awoke on this glorious pink day to exclaim, My God! I’ve got to get to the studio! I’m late for the Tide commercial gig!

She springs from her bed and screams for assistance. Rocky! Rusty! Quick! I’m late for work! Help me get dressed! Slap me in makeup!

Rusty and Rocky, dressed in colorful bikini underwear, appear as if from nowhere to come to her aid. Her hair is teased and her makeup literally slapped on minutes before she is whisked out the door and into the limousine.

By no means does the Tide commercial go well. Carlotta refuses to read the cue cards correctly.

Look at these filthy makeup stains on the collar of this blouse! Disgusting! But with extra-action Tide, you can believe they’ll vanish at the end of the wash cycle. Take it from me, Carlotta Carlisle; Tide does the trick with its extra-action ingredients. But speaking from experience, it doesn’t hurt to get my houseboys to rub a little ordinary soap into the stain first—

Cut! is screamed by the director, who