- Gail Palmer
Gail Palmer (also Gail Palmer-Slater, real name Gail Parmentier, born in 1954 or 1955 [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEED61E39F937A15756C0A966958260 Hunter Thompson Told to Stand Trial On Felony Charges] , "The New York Times", 24 May 1990] ) was active as a writer, producer and director of pornographic movies in the U.S. during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Among her well-known movies are "
Hot Summer in the City " (1976) starringLisa Baker as a white girl who is abducted and abused by a group of black men, and the comedies "The Erotic Adventures of Candy" (1978) starring John Holmes and Carol Connors and "Candy Goes to Hollywood " (1979) starring Carol Connors and later punk singerWendy O. Williams .After a visit to
Hunter S. Thompson 's home in 1990 she accused the writer of sexual assault; the charges were later dropped. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFDB153EF932A05756C0A966958260 Victory for Hunter Thompson] , "The New York Times", 31 May 1990]She was featured in "
Playboy " September 1977 as a Michigan State girl, mentioned in "Playboy" February 1979 in "The Year in Sex", and in an article in "Swank " in June 1980. Her autobiography, "Candy goes to Hollywood: the Gail Palmer story", appeared in 1994.In
Peter Sagal 's 2007 bookThe Book of Vice , Sagal goes into how she did not actually direct the movies attributed to her, and was actually a front for her boyfriend. [ [http://www.nerve.com/screeningroom/books/interview_PeterSagal/ NPR quiz-show host delves into a world of blackjack and wifeswapping] , "Nerve"]References
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