MAN OF THE YEAR (1995)

Directed by: Dirk Shafer
Starring: Dirk Shafer, Vivian Paxton, Claudette Sutherland, Michael Ornstein, Cal Bartlett, Mary Stein, Beth Broderick, Cynthia Szigeti, Dennis Bailey, Charles Sloane, Phyllis Franklin, Bill Brochtrup, Lu Leonard, Rhonda Dotson, Thom Collins, Deidra Shafer, Rex Chandler (Paul D. Fow), Fort Atkinson, Felix Montano, Fabio, Merri Biechler, Mindy Sterling

86 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, nudity)

PLOT:
Mockumentary look at Playgirl Magazine centerfold and 1992 Man of the Year, Dirk Shafer, who kept it a secret from the magazine that he is gay. Most of the film is a fictionalized retelling of Dirk's decision to send a photograph to Playgirl, his selection as a centerfold and then the annual honor, his many TV interviews, his friend Vivian Paxton posing as his beard, and the pressures from his live-in lover to come out of the closet. Interspersed with this chronological narrative are a black and white look at an evening Dirk spends with Angela Lucassey, a woman from Reno who wins Playgirl's national contest to have a date with Dirk, and an interview with a stripper who tracks Dirk down.