Depending on your view of pornography, director Paul Thomas is either the Ernst Lubitsch or the Mack Sennett of hardcore. Thomas maintains a surprisingly ambivalent outlook about screen sex, however, and feels uneasy even watching extended lovemaking scenes in R-rated films. Photo by Kevin Scanlon Thomas, a fit and commanding-looking man of 57, came to the trade in ways both traditional and novel. On the one hand, he began his plus-role acting career by making 8-mm fuck loops for Jim and Artie Mitchell along with such scripted classics as The Autobiography of a Flea , and then, in , moved on to directing. He was also born into the Sara Lee baking family as Philip Toubus and, in , would serve a year in prison for cocaine smuggling. Thomas understands that film is the medium whose texture is closest to dreams, while video makes sex look as though it were recorded on surveillance tape. These people are more businesslike, but they want business like a bunch of whores.

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Sign In. Up 2, this week. He is a director and actor. He has been married to Judy Epstein since December 14, Filmography by Job Trailers and Videos. Share this page:. Mainstream to Porn. Guys in Adult Entertainment.
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Podcast: Play in new window Download. Subscribe: Android RSS. Until the last few years, was still in the business as a director. During the past four decades, PT won every kind of adult award — from Best Actor to Best Director, and was inducted into every Hall of Fame the sex film industry has ever invented. First he came from a wealthy family — one that owned household-name businesses like Sara Lee and Jim Beam — and he was brought up in relative luxury. In fact, he was being groomed by the William Morris Agency in Hollywood for a big career in mainstream television and movies. So with all the money and success, what motivated PT to move into the newly formed adult industry — a business frowned upon by much of mainstream society, not to mention full of legal and reputational risks for its participants? It all comes down to a series of questions: Why? Why did he do it, when he had so many alternatives? Why did he stay in the business for so long?