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17 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE; Fb. 10, 1983 rr What happens when porn star goes legit? "As audacious as this may seem, I want to one day win an Academy Award." Warfield, who has become partially blind because of a recent illness, said Pittsburgh was chosen as the market to unveil the film because he and Leslie hail from the district. Also, having connections with local exhibitors helped, he added. Warfield was born here but moved to Los Angeles with his parents when he was an infant. Leslie grew up in Midland, Beaver County.

He left in 1964 when he was in his teens. He ended up living on the out-" skirts of San Francisco, where he free-lanced as a painter. He continues to spend much of his free time painting when he's not gardening: In 1977, he debuted as an X-rated actor. He eventually was honored with a number of awards from the Adult Film Association of America. These included best actor in the adult business for his role in "Talk Dirty To Me." "I'm not ashamed of what I do.

I'm not saying that if this film is a hit I'll never make another porn film. It depends," Leslie said. "I'm close with my family and what I do with my life is my business. They accept it because they accept me. It reminds me of the line in 'Godfather 2' in which Michael's brother apologizes to him for doing something.

"Michael says, 'You don't have to apologize to me. You're my "That's the way it is with my family. What I do with my life is my business. I don't have to apologize. Leslie said even he's surprised how adult films have cut a swath across Middle America in recent years thanks, in great part, to videotape machines.

"There was a time when the only place you could see films was in a seedy theater somewhere. Now, thanks to videotape machines, you tan watch them at home. "I was amazed how many of those straight-looking ladies in the audience on the 'Phil Donahue Show' had seen my movies. I had to stand in line for an hour after the show tired of watching the same old stuff on television are ready to be confronted with." The man in the chair in the corner hoped the latter was true. He's Chris Warfield, producer of the film.

He said he's gambled everything he's got on "Murder, Baby." How much that is, he refused to say. Before becoming a producer, he had been a contract player for MGM. He had minor roles in such films as "Student Prince," "Her 12 Men," and "Take the High Ground. But. his bank account began to take on some proportion only after he produced such sexplicit films as "Sex World" and "Champagne for Breakfast," which did boffo at the box office as well as in the adult videotape market.

So why would he risk making an R-rated film when making so much with the fare? "I could continue doing very well with adult films," was Warfield's hard-core answer. "But where would the challenge be? I want to move beyond the genre where I've made my money. By Mike Kalina Post-Gazette Staff Writer An excess of sex can spell success in X-rated films. And the porn is green (we're talking dollars). But what happens when a star of "adult" films decides to "go "It's anybody's guess," said John Leslie, a.lc.a.

the "Rudolph Valentino of American film erotica." "I think my first departure from the X-rated realm is a good film. But how can I be objective? I'm starring in it." He was talking about "It's Called Murder, Baby," opening tomorrow at Cinemette East, Cinema World Route 30, Fiesta, McKnight and Village. "The movie essentially is a whodunit. The audience acts as a detective," said Leslie, whose drooping eyelids make him look romantically involved with anything he stares at including the glass of youthful wine he was gazing at in his Hilton suite. "Maybe that's asking too much from an audience.

Then again, maybe it's the kind of challenge those Sydney Harris John Leslie and Lisa Trego in "It's Called Murder, Baby." signing autographs. "On the plane in from the West Coast, the stewardesses all recognized me. Said they'd seen my movies. I thought that was nice." Leslie said he'll be anxiously awaiting the results of the opening here. Which he won't attend.

"I like doing the film. But after it's over, I can't pull myself to go and sit with an audience and watch it. I'd rather do that in private. At home. "It's much easier that way.

Maybe it's that I'm afraid of the reaction. Or, maybe again, it's because I'm a private person." It may seem ironic that a man whose private parts have been public is actually a private person. But, then again, that's entertainment! Thoughts it large People are right in consulting the Bible, but wrong in regarding it as if it were a recipe book providing the answers; for it is really a book of questions asked of us, and we respond in different ways which is why the Word can be, and has been, used to justify nearly any position. Political manipulators who are fond of invoking the "grass roots" wouldn't know a grass root from a patch of ragweed. The latest irritating illiteracy, perpetrated' mostly by sports figures and their commentators, is the word "penultimate," which they apparently think means the absolute pinnacle of achievement, rather than the next-to-the-last of anything.

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