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Hollywood Entertainment is honored to host legendary photographer and artist Rick Castro for a special 30th anniversary screening of Hustler White, the kinky street-level satirical classic he co-directed with Bruce LaBruce.

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Narrated by a corpse in a Hollywood hot tub a la Sunset Boulevard, Hustler White is the sordid tale of anthropologist Jürgen Anger (LaBruce) studying Santa Monica Boulevard hustling culture. In his survey, he meets and becomes obsessed with Monti (Tony Ward), following him into a world of sex work and the porn industry, exploring liberation and illicit lust, the horny and the wholesome, perversity and politics, fetish and fun, the shocking and the sexy. Or as our narrator promises, “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing up your butt.”

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Featuring a cast of icons including Glenn Meadmore, Ron Athey, Vaginal Davis, Paul Bellini and Tony Powers, Hustler White is a classic sun-bathed LA sex noir, a stunning fusion of romance, desire, LA's underground, and Hollywood's seductive eye.

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dirs Bruce LaBruce & Rick Castro, 1996
United States, digital projection
80 min

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SUNDAY, 8/23
7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING

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$14 general admission.

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‍Whammy! is located at 1200 N Alvarado St, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please do not park in the library parking lot, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines, the 2, the 4, and the 93.

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About Rick Castro:

Rick Castro is an independent filmmaker photographer, writer and third generation Los Angeleno. His photography has appeared in a variety of publications including Huck Mag, UK and Gruppe Magazine Berlin. He co-wrote and directed the cult-classic Hustler White (1996) with Bruce LaBruce. Castro also directed the first documentary about the furry fandom entitled Plushies and Furries (2001), produced by World of Wonder for MTV.

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His photography, books and films are in the permanent collections of The Alfred Kinsey Institute and the Getty Center. He was a featured photographer for Queer Lens: A History of Photography at the Getty Center (2025), Rick Owens: Temple of Love at Palais Galliera in Paris (2026), and Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascism at The Box in Los Angeles (2025-2026).