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...shipped more than 800 of the jarringly lifelike sex dolls. Each week between six and eight beauties are tarted up in bra, panties and stockings and loaded into rough wooden crates for delivery from San Marcos, California, to their new owners. The dolls' creator, 32-year-old Matt McMullen, is disarmingly normal. Wearing a baseball cap and faded jeans, he looks more grunge rocker than sleaze merchant. His merchandise, on the other hand, is way out there. The five body types range from sleek nymphets to one whose upper deck would make Anna Nicole Smith insecure. "We've actually scaled...
This was not the road McMullen intended to travel. Growing up, he wanted to be an artist or a rock star. While still harboring the musician's dream, he started to work for a company making Halloween masks. A keen sculptor, he began to shape life-size figures out of silicone. "Most sculpture is like 500 pounds of rock. Once you get it, there isn't much you can do with it," he says, squinting through his constant companion cloud of cigarette smoke. "I wanted to make sculpture that could interact with people." And, as he discovered, people wanted...
...just that faking it has never looked this real. Except for the faint seams down their sides and fingers that bend in weird directions, the dolls are almost uncomfortably lifelike. Unlike many inflatable partners or love toys, Realdolls don't come with vibrators, ticklers or other enhancements. McMullen wanted them to be as natural as possible. When I ask why he didn't give them cellulite and a voice recording that says "I love only you" or, perhaps, "This is demeaning to women," he looks at me knowingly as someone who understands that realism has its limits...
...drama" came from the insurance settlement the writer-director received after he was injured in an auto accident. You had to admire the sheer nerve on display. And who knows? Maybe I was talking to the next Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness) or Edward Burns (The Brothers McMullen), both of whom got their start at the IFFM. But probably I wasn...
...report on Fred Tuttle's Senate primary victory mistakenly said his opponent Jack McMullen had not conceded the race. McMullen did concede privately to Tuttle on the night of the primary...