Word: rentzel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pages will want to pick out who its characters are based on. Since Gent's autobiographical hero has move from offense to defense, is cornerback Ezra Lytle--a cuckold who gets his kicks with 11-years-olds--modeled at least in part on the Cowboy star of yore, Lance Rentzel? And who really is L.D. Groover, the 270-lb. defensive tackle and disciple of Wilhelm Reich who jerks off in a rabbit-fur-lined Coldspot? No matter...
...Confessed exhibitionist and wide receiver Lance Rentzel...
Despite these weaknesses, All the Laughter is a pleasant surprise. Rentzel's anecdotes are amusing, his experience bizarre. Sadly, writing a book has not purged his life of problems. Rentzel was recently indicted on charges of possessing marijuana. Since he is already on probation for exhibiting himself, his next book will have to be written in jail...
...Rentzel's attempt to analyze his sexual problems are painful to him, and to the reader as well. He maintains that because of an over-loving, smothering mother, he had an intense desire to be able to prove his masculinity. When he failed live up to his or anyone else's expectations, when he dropped passes or mismanaged a night club, the only way he could reassure himself that he was not a loser was to exhibit his masculinity, to expose himself. Rentzel strives to be honest here, but his analysis is suspiciously similar to that of his psychiatrist...
...When Rentzel turns to his relationship with Joey Heatherton, the writing looks more like a script for a soap opera than anything else. At one point, Rentzel says that Joey "seemed to have everything I wanted in a woman--sincerity, intelligence, talent, glamour, and incredible beauty." Later, he relates how Joey once neglected to tell him that she was going to be in New York for the weekend. The star receiver, angered by her apparent selfishness, compares the experience to "being hit by a linebacker from the blind side." Come on, Lance...