Money Shots Net Dividends

The primetime soaper "Skin" may have been cut, but there are still a million stories in the naked city -- that is to say, our local porn industry. One day last year, when the writing team of Kirk Pynchon, James C. Leary, and Mike Meredith had reached a dead end on a feature script, Meredith started joking about a title he had for a film: "Stunt Cocks."

They couldn't stop riffing on the idea. Now, a year later, the 8-minute DV short "Stunt C*cks" -- starring Leary and Pynchon as Bill and Earl, two likeable lugs who provide the "money shots" when male stars can't finish their work--has been making film festival rounds and recently landed the writing trio literary representation at Metropolitan Talent for one of their feature scripts (not about porn but about rock 'n' roll).

Another of the team's feature scripts is set in an early '80s skating rink. That last-days-of-disco era has been a regular source of inspiration for them: Meredith and Pynchon's silly breakdancing musical "Poppin' and Lockdown" played at the 2nd Stage Theater in 2000, and a sequel is slated as a late-night offering next spring at the Actors' Gang, where Pynchon is a member.

Actually, he would think twice before calling himself a "member"; since "Stunt C*cks," Pynchon confessed, everything he says sounds like a double entendre.