XAVIERA HOLLANDER, "THE HAPPY HOOKER": PORTRAIT OF A SEXUAL
REVOLUTIONARY is about one of the world's most important sexual
icons. Through interviews with Larry King, rare footage and
commentary from America's foremost sexologists- the film explores
Xaviera's rise and fall, her deportation from the United States and
her political significance to the Feminist Movement and Sexual
Revolution of the 1970's. During a recent book tour in Bulgaria the
interviewer confessed, 'I learned English by reading THE HAPPY
HOOKER!' Her revolutionary masterpiece about the exploits of a call
girl who became the world's most famous madam, is now in it's 28th
printing, having sold over 20 million copies. Nineteen books were to
follow. Her column 'Call Me Madam' for Penthouse Magazine has kept
her in the public spotlight for over 35 years.
ert Dunlap