Bottom Feeders: From Free Love To Hard Core - The Rise And Fall Of Jim And Arti by Hubner, John - 1993

US: Doubleday. Book Description An account of the lives of Jim and Artie Mitchell describes how the hippies found fame and fortune with their making of Behind the Green Door, an inst ant pornographic film classic, but lost it all when one brother killed the other. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Hubner ( Monkey on a Stick ) presents a raw, compellingly lurid account of Jim Mitchell (b. 1943) and his younger brother, Artie (b.1945), who pioneer ed "mainstream" pornographic films during the 1970s. Raised in an "Okie" fa mily in California's San Joaquin Valley, the brothers started out filming " loops" of topless hippie women in '60s San Francisco, where they later open ed the O'Farrell Theater as a venue for their work. As they progressed to m ore explicit fare, they added plots and creative camera angles as means to justify their movies' artistic merits and thus get around antipornography l aws. During their heyday, the brothers tangled with antiporn activists, inc luding Dianne Feinstein (elected to the U.S. Senate last fall) and convicte d S & L felon Charles Keating, and gave porn star Marilyn Chambers her star t in Behind the Green Door . Hubner concentrates on the Mitchells' headstro ng, country-boy mentality as he leads up to their last act: in 1991 Jim fat ally shot Artie, who had become a drug addict and alcoholic. Jim was convic ted of voluntary manslaughter. In a book that no doubt will receive major l ocal attention, Hubner neither sensationalizes nor flinches from the sordid facts in the lives of these emblematic "pornographers of the flower childr en." Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal San Fr . Hardcover. 1993. 1st Edition. Fine.