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Man of the Year (1995) is a mockumentary written and directed by and starring Dirk Shafer. The film is a fictionalized account of Shafer's reign as Playgirl magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year" and his struggle with reconciling his public persona as a sex symbol to women with his identity as a gay man. Shafer combines mock interviews (both with some of the actual people involved and with actors standing in for the actual people) with archive footage from Shafer's appearances on talk shows like Donahue, The Maury Povich Show and The Jerry Springer Show (along with an early appearance on Dance Fever) and recreations of events like his Playgirl photoshoots, his "fantasy date" with a Playgirl reader and the death of his friend Pledge Cartwright (played by actor Bill Brochtrup) of an AIDS-related illness to relate the story.
Original Release
09/15/1995
US Release
03/15/1996
Cast
Name | Character |
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Vivian Paxton | Vivian / Self |
Claudette Sutherland | Tammy Shafer |
Michael Ornstein | Mike Miller |
Cal Bartlett | Ken Shafer |
Mary Stein | Angela Lucassy / Angela Lucassey |
Dirk Shafer | Dirk / Self |
Beth Broderick | Kelly Bound |
Cynthia Szigeti | Betty Levy |
Dennis Bailey | Howie Diadone |
Charles Sloane | Ed, the Photographer |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Vivian Paxton | Vivian / Self |
Claudette Sutherland | Tammy Shafer |
Michael Ornstein | Mike Miller |
Cal Bartlett | Ken Shafer |
Mary Stein | Angela Lucassy / Angela Lucassey |
Dirk Shafer | Dirk / Self |
Beth Broderick | Kelly Bound |
Cynthia Szigeti | Betty Levy |
Dennis Bailey | Howie Diadone |
Charles Sloane | Ed, the Photographer |
Patricia Domiano | Ballroom Dancer |
Dawn Christie | Woman Exercising |
Phyllis Franklin | Dr. Marsha Demarkey / Dr. Marsha Demarky |
Bill Brochtrup | Pledge Cartwright |
Lu Leonard | Dee Dee / Dee Dee Sweatman |
Rhonda Dotson | Lady La Flame |
Thom Collins | Thom / Self |
Deidra Shafer | Self |
Paul D. Fow | Rex / Rex Chandler |
Fort Atkinson | Buck Hallren |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Christian Moeyaert | Executive Producer |
Simon Bowler | Producer |
Jeff Collins | Producer |
Matt Keener | Producer |
Jeffrey Marcus | Producer |
Hugh Hefner | Producer |