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The “Comeback” of Wayne Chance
June 16, 2008 | 9 Comments
This past Saturday night, June 14, I had the pleasure of watching the inimitable Wayne Chance (click here) mount a cum-back of sorts. He has penned a two-act play, with just two actors (including the legend himself) titled Comeback. It covers his tumultuous life, professionally and personally. He says the timing was right for it. “My YouTube thing has only been up for six months,” he brags, “and it already has some 200,000 hits. They want me. The fans want Wayne.” The iconic sex star’s career stretched from 1971 all the way through 1983 or thereabouts. Remember PHONEMAN? It was the first and only gay porn movie to be reviewed (rapturously, one might add) in Daily Variety. Mr. Chance worked with the biggest√¢‚Ǩ‚Äùthe Gage brothers and Jerry Douglas, fellow erotica legends Bob Blount and Fred Halsted, Casey Donovan and Al Parker (“I always forgot how short he was,” Mr. Chance recalls, “and also how much more luminous in person”). This was a workshop production √¢‚Ǩ‚Äùone night only√¢‚Ǩ‚Äùand the small theatre in Santa Monica, not far from the ocean, was filled with theatre habitu√ɬ©s and a few rabid fans who caught word of the show and trekked thru hill and dale to be there. Stay tuned… [H/T Highways.]
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I found the article interesting on Wayne Chance because unfortunately I had never heard of him. I tried to look up his films on numerous websites but they and him were not listed.
Is he realy 48 and not 58? By starting in 1971 and presumably in his 20s would make him older for his ‘comeback’?
He said he was bored and yet he has 375 friends although the ones he worked with – and I do remember them – are now gone.
I wish him and his two-act play every success!
I found the article interesting on Wayne Chance because unfortunately I had never heard of him. I tried to look up his films on numerous websites but they and him were not listed.
Is he realy 48 and not 58? By starting in 1971 and presumably in his 20s would make him older for his ‘comeback’?
He said he was bored and yet he has 375 friends although the ones he worked with – and I do remember them – are now gone.
I wish him and his two-act play every success!
Hmmm. I’ve never heard of Wayne Chance. Play sounds interesting, in any case. But something’s fishy, that’s Jon King in some of those clips.
Yes, something is totally fishy. I wondred why the hell he played those JW King/John King clips in the video for reasons I didn’t understand. Then I looked at his pics on his MySpace page, and he posted a JW King centerfold pic. JW King is Wayne Chance? JW King is long gone, I thought. And clearly not all those pics are JW King, but some are.
I’m skeptical about this. Why can’t I find any information about this guy? And why does he post pics of J.W. King saying that it was HIM who was in the Playgirl centerfold…? According to the YouTube video he created, which is almost completely made up of J.W. King clips (thus they are disqualified), he only did one video, L.A. TOOL & DIE, and I thought the guy he claims to be was Michael Kearns (the guy who sits in the middle of a circle jerk for multiple facials)…? I believe this may just be an interesting publicity ploy for his play.
OK I just checked Michael Kearns’ website, http://www.michaelkearns.net, and it’s the same guy. So this is just publicity for his play, I don’t believe he’s claiming to be J.W. King.
Oh, and JC, I don’t know what PHONEMAN is (there is no listing on IMDB or GEVI), but Variety also reviewed all of Wakefield Poole’s films, as well as other gay adult titles from this era.
Is JCA just playfully going along with the joke here about a mythical porn star?
Yes, I think JCA was having a little fun with the idea of a “legendary” porn “star” making his tragedy-fueled comeback. It’s very Michael Kearns, whom I’ve seen perform before (and not just in L.A. Tool & Die, either, but an actual theater).