Man of the Year (1995 film)
Man of the Year 1995 is a mockumentary written and directed by and starring Dirk Shafer. The film is a fictionalized account of Shafers reign as Playgirl magazines 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 Shafers 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 AIDSrelated illness to relate the story.
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