An All Time High
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| Title: | An All Time High |
| Publisher: | Crazy Moon Press/In Person Press |
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| Author(s): | NJ Kippax |
| Cover Artist(s): | SVE |
| Illustrator(s): | BARAVAN |
| Date(s): | May 1993 |
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| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Kiefer/Lou |
| Language: | English |
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An All Time High is a 202-page slash Kiefer/Lou novel by NJ Kippax. The color cover by SVE and additional art is by BARAVAN. Art samples are included on Fanlore with the publisher's permission.
From the publisher, "Book One of the Allagash/Mendoza Saga. In the film, “Bright Lights, Big City,” KS portrays NY playboy, Tad Allagash. In this novel, Tad meets Dr. Sean Mendoza, an idealistic Mexican-Irish ER physician from California. As their relationship grows and is tested, will Tad accept that Sean’s unconditional love provides a finer high than any he has found with fast sex and drugs? "
Part of a Series
It is part of a series, the last which was never published:
- An All Time High
- Higher and Higher
- "Flying High" (for more see Flying High)
From the Editor
From the zine:
Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips ~ two wonderful actors, who've created wonderful characters to dream about, to write about. Welcome to a fascinating world, another permutation of characters in this still-unnamed fandom. The actors starred together in the film "Renegades" and appeared together in both "Young Guns" films, too. Yet the characters they play in those films aren’t enough. Fan writers’ imaginations being what they are ~amazingly fertile~ we go one better, taking a Kiefer character from one film and pairing him with a Lou character from another, or creating clone characters who look like one or the other of the actors and giving him a life and personality all his own. Discovering this new fandom was a delight and it continues to be so more than a year following the publication of the first zine from Crazy Moon Press, THE BOYS ARE BACK. There will be a second issue of that zine, SASE for information on its availability, probably in the fall of ’93. The combinations and characters in this fannish fantasy world are endless, a true IDIC ~ infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
From the Author
From the zine:
One of the most captivating characters brought to life by Kiefer Sutherland was the second banana, Tad Allagash, from the movie starring Michael J. Fox, "Bright Lights, Big City." Tad Allagash? you might question, doubting my sanity, or at least, my judgment. Coke-snorting, womanizing, flip, arrogant Tad Allagash? Take another look. We’re seeing the movie through the eyes of Jamie Conway, the Fox character. Disregard what he says to and about Tad. He’s jealous ~ and far more shallow than he accuses his friend Tad of being. Watch the subtleties of the Allagash character, the vulnerability, the loneliness coming through the casual exterior. Maybe Jamie couldn’t see it, but I sure could. Reconsider the scene in Jamie’s apartment, when Tad remarks that he doesn’t know why Jamie married Amanda. Or watch the way Tad's face falls at the end of the film, when Jamie lashes out at him.
Throughout the story, he's done nothing but be Jamie’s friend, been there for him when he needed someone. Look beyond the dialogue, find the person created by an accomplished, perceptive actor.
If you take the opportunity to read the novel by McInerney from which the film was made, you’ll be even more amazed at the depth Kiefer gave to such a minor character. He literally breathed life into young Tad and gave a cockeyed, screwed-up coke-head an identity and made him someone with whom we can sympathize, despite his flaws.
For all that I've loved Kiefer for some time, I never found him particularly sexy. Not until I noticed him dancing at Odeon, seductively embracing an anonymous bimbo in slow motion while the rock music boomed. And that wardrobe! Those tailored suits, Armani-style, to die for. Hey, he’s gorgeous, right? No argument there!
Okay, but what’s a Kiefer ~ especially a sexy Kiefer ~ without a Lou? Tad Allagash needed a counterpart. Rather than use one of Lou Diamond Phillips' roles, several of which may have fit, I opted to create my own character. Selecting two of Lou’s "57 varieties", the hispanic/Irish Sean Mendoza was born. And the sanctimonious twit hasn’t left me alone yet! Nor has he left Tad alone, which is even better.
My spirit quickly became possessed by Sean and Tad. They became as real to me as friends I know personally. They began to think for themselves and often took the story down paths I hadn’t expected to travel, or uttered dialogue that had me in awe of their elocution, wit, and/or pathos. I discovered they were great guys to have around.
And I wasn’t the only one. A small circle of friends waited as anxiously as I did for the next installment of their story. Pages were given out on an almost weekly basis. The small circle shared by love for Sean and Tad.
Sample Interior
SVE
BARAVAN
Flying High
"Flying High" was to be the third installment in this series, but it was never published.
From the author in Higher and Higher:
Sin may exact its punishment, but it can also produce its little rewards, as Sean Mendoza discovers in the upcoming novel, which picks up three years after the end of Book Two.
Repercussions of his infidelity with Renee Candeloro reach a startling conclusion, contributing to the complex conflicts in the lives of Sean and Tad.
And as Mr. Allagash nears his 30th birthday, plagued by echoes from the past and suffering from a premature mid-life crisis, he discovers there is much truth in the old adage, “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. "His lack of judgment may well destroy the relationship he's worked so hard to make a success... but does it, after all, matter to him?
Follow the highs and lows of life in South Tagged and the trials and tribulations of these two noble men and the love they share that refuses to die.