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Catalina led Masters to significantly cut back on his duties. While he still managed productions, he became far less involved in casting decisions. When Merrick eventually purchased Catalina from Higgins, Masters decided to leave the studio.
227:, 386 U.S. 767 (1967), and several lower-court rulings had significantly undercut the ability of state and federal authorities to seize even materials which depicted hardcore sexual activity between individuals of the same gender. The first such magazine was
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Masters eventually shot most of the film without sound. Masters would not finally produce a sound film until 1983. But in the intervening two years, Nova Studios lost critical market share. Masters began
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Masters would be free to sell the rights to all his other films to another vendor. Catalina would also hire
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Masters announced his retirement in 1999. But he quickly returned to making adult film. He and John Travis found and hired Czech photographer Jan Novak to produce Studio 2000 International line with
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Masters doubled the length of Nova
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Masters heartily disliked that sort of filmmaking process. Jaguar
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published in the spring of 1968. Moving full-time to San Francisco from Chicago, Masters took up work as a full-time
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left and new studio head Christian Mann took over. Mann rehired LaRue, and put him to work on his first film,
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