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Lincoln directed 1979's Daisy May - a crude parody of Al Capp's Lil Abner. But when the nonsense stops and the sex starts, the movie takes off. The same year, Fred directed Serena - An Adult Fairy Tale, which combines an inside profile of the porn star with the adult version of the Cinderella story. Few '70s films have as much lesbian action. In 1980, Lincoln produced Beyond Shame. Sharon Mitchell directed. Seka and Paul Thomas star. The highlight of the film is the middle portion with three sex scenes cross cut with one another. (Jim Holliday) Fred Lincoln produced and directed 1981's Same Time Next Year. The boys, Mike Ranger, Michael Morrison and Paul Thomas, go away together every year to the Nirvana Resort, telling their wives they have a convention. "The film is relentless, never lacking for good hardcore action. And the girls (Tiffany Clark, Shauna Grant, Joanna Storm, Jeanne Silver) are pistol-hot." (AFW 96D p.260) Fred Lincoln wrote, produced and directed 1983's That's Outrageous. A restrained Jamie Gillis plays two characters who juggle a couple of gorgeous French girls - Frannie and Natasha. "Fred's sex scenes always reflect the story and the characters as a cohesive unit," says Woody Long. "He doesn't just piece it together in the editing room." (HEVG) Fred J. Lincoln grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. "My family didn't have much. I looked forward to Saturday afternoons at the movies. I always told myself that someday I'd be in film. "When I was eleven, I came for the first time, and I thought to myself, "Wow, this is better than mugging people, this is better than baseball, this is better than anything." (HEVG) Lincoln acted in theater, stunts, commercials, and the movie French Connection. He produced and starred in a Broadway play with an S&M theme called The Wrong Way to Love. Fred also did a sex scene in an early '60s porno. In the early '70s, he helped make an early slasher flick The Last House on the Left. "The censors made a conscious decision as to which they were going to sanctify," says Fred, "either porn or horror. And they chose to sanction the slasher movies. Violence over sex." Lincoln says that on-screen violence is bad while on-screen sex is good. This is a common line in the biz but pornographers can't have it both ways. On the one hand, they complain about not being able to do violence and sex while on the other hand they say "sex good, violence bad." But it's easy to say that something you can't do is bad. Different audiences get different messages from the industry. The public are told simply, "sex good, violence bad," while privately pornographers yearn for the '70s when they could show rape, fisting, and sadomasochism combined with explicit sex. "The only movie I've ever been ashamed of being a part of is The Last House on the Left," says Fred Lincoln, "because we take two young girls and humiliate, rape and kill them. "I used to do TV shows and talk about the business [porn]. One time I was on Tom Snyder and I asked why is it cool to kill and not cool to have sex? They wouldn't air the show because it was too controversial. "Why is it good for a man to be a heavyweight champion of the world and it's not ok for a woman to be a hooker? Both are using their bodies to make a living. "Why does society hate and fear women so much? We can't even pass an Equal Rights Amendment. People are trying to make gays equal. Are you crazy? We haven't even honored our mothers yet with equality? "The Republican party sounds just like the Klu Klux Klan. If you take out "family values" and put "pure Aryan race" in there instead, you've got Hitler making speeches again." Either Fred Lincoln doesn't know what Hitler and Nazism did - started World War II which cost the lives of 55 million persons - or he does know and doesn't care. There is no other possibility. To compare a major political party in the democratic United States with Nazis is obscene, but typical amongst the left-of-center crowd that dominates porn, entertainment generally, the media and academia. "I was a good kid. I used to go to church all the time and when I first started gettin' a hard-on, I told the priest. He told me the devil was possessing me and I should pray. What was he, f---in' nuts? I'm possessed because I get a hard-on?" (HEVG) Lincoln presumably goes to a doctor when he's ill, even though there are bad doctors. But because he met a bad clergyman, he dismisses religion. "Guys don't even watch guys in these movies. I've had producers say, "Don't put the guy's face in the cum shot." Cinematically, that doesn't work. You've got to see the cause and the effect." (HEVG) Better filmmakers than Fred Lincoln disagree. Gregory Dark back in the '80s pioneered the technique of dropping the faces of the men pumping. Heterosexuals get little pleasure watching the screwed up face of some jerk screwing an adorable chick. We want to imagine that we're doing the girl. That's what gets us off. "When women become strong, they're always accused of being manipulative and bitchy. A career is still something to do till she finds a guy to abuse her or take care of her or whatever the trip is. You couldn't impose limits on a man's career." (HEVG) Perhaps Fred Lincoln should figure out what marriage is before he does it again. He's already gone through six wives. Pat Riley review's 1993's Saturday Night Porn. "Fred Lincoln directing a comedy? Will wonders never cease? Unfortunately, "wonder" is not the right word for this poor attempt at a parody of Saturday Night Live; "boring" might be better. How the porn industry thinks it can parody a comedy show (which itself parodies other shows) is beyond me. The jokes are not amusing, the laugh track is irritating and many of the concepts have been used before with equally poor results." (X-Rated Videotape Guide #4, p. 483) Actress Sharon Stone sang the pop rock songs in Lincoln's excellent 1986 production Freedom of Choice. Tiffany Clark, Sharon Kane and Tish Ambrose lip-sync. The story takes place in a nightclub where the patrons are hooked on "screwdrivers for breakfast, champagne for lunch, and coke, speed and smack the rest of the day." (AFW)
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