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on the lips” reads the title across the bottom of the screen.
Luc was in Paris, visiting his mother, when Jack Fritscher
brought Robert Mapplethorpe to San Francisco. I first met
Mapplethorpe with Jack at Gene Weber’s place, thanks to Max
Morales, a friend of Gene’s. Later the same night, on a party
circuit, Max and I ran into Jack and Robert at a big blowout
in Wakefield Poole’s attic. Who would have guessed this young
Manhattanite-in-leather would become the heavyweight photog-
rapher who would soon scare the bejesus out of God’s right-wing
bullies?
