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Throwaway Boy

The True Story of a Quarter Rat and His “Most Important Asset”

by Robert W. Fieseler

“I’ve decided to tell you all the bad side of my life first. And then after I tell you all my bad side, I’ll tell what I remember of the good. Because, with everybody’s life, there’s a little good. Even mine.”

Rookie porn star Rodd Donovan stood in possession of God’s gift, what the narrator to his debut film, Think Big (a 1989 straight-to-VHS feature), described as “the most important asset.” But even in the opening sequence of this plot-lite fare, billed by Seabag Productions as “an excessively endowed young man and his quest for XXX-rated stardom,” the viewer confronts not Rodd’s fabled member but a teen who dreams of something more.

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