Yesterday I posted a photo of a young Bill Lake and mentioned he also posed for Old Reliable roughly five years later as Mike Doll. Cambria sent me this O.R. photo of Mike/Bill. It has long been my favorite photo of this guy and I'm surprised I've never posted it.
No disrespect to Cambria, but I once had a larger and clearer version of this photo that now seems to have disappeared. Does anyone have that larger photo?
Ty Arthur (shirt) and Bill Lake in the Nova film Beached released in 1979. IMO this was Nova at it's best! The production values were top shelf -- especially when you consider this was filmed 45 years ago. Great color, both indoors and outdoors. No live sound, but decent voiceovers to move the story.
The first sex scene between Ty and Bill takes place in the Pacific Ocean! Actually it was filmed in a backyard pool, but there's seaweed and some curious fish in the scenery. Nice touch! The guys eventually move their tryst to a towel on the beach -- sand be damned! (It looks like Black's Beach.) Then Bill takes Ty to his beach cabin and they wind up on the shag carpeted floor. Two very versatile performers who clearly enjoyed working together. Or, they were damned good actors. 5 Stars!
P.S. Bill Lake showed up at Old Reliable in 1984 -- a little older, but none the worse. He was called Mike Doll. The same year Nova released Beached, Ty posed for AMG as Scott Lafayette. My search for any evidence of his work at AMG is now in its fourth decade.
