Today's Blind Items - The Director

It’s safe to say that everyone has heard of this director. He was always known for pushing boundaries, but for the first decade or so of his career he still had to play by certain industry rules.

But then, the same year his arguably most famous movie was released, something else happened - the old set of rules was abolished, unleashing a tide of X-rated productions that lasted half a decade. Our director could not resist the opportunity to ride in on this wave with his next film - and use it to get his rocks off.

It had only five female roles that required nudity. Our director, however, used this as an opportunity to call up every modeling agency in his country and conduct hundreds of nude auditions, in some cases pressuring and intimidating them to get naked. He photographed each one of them naked from multiple angles and kept a large collection of binders. One actress was repeatedly called in to model endless sets of panties just so he could keep seeing her naked. All the while he managed to convince his wife this was just research for the “serious” film he was making.

It was called out by many critics for the obvious fact that our director was living vicariously through the film’s main character - ultimately causing the author of the source material to disown his own work. The book had been handed to him years earlier by another author who knew what our director was into.

His next film was much more chaste, but after that he was back to his naked audition antics again.