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Courtesy photo Tom DeSimone, who transitioned from directing adult films into helming a host of B-movies including cult pic “Reform School Girls” and talking-vagina comedy “Chatterbox,” died Oct. 17 in Cathedral City, Calif. He was 87.
His brother Bob confirmed his death and said he chose to die with medically assisted end of death after a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Born in Revere, Massachusetts and raised in Newton and Weston, DeSimone earned a master’s in film at UCLA and directed the low-budget 1968 adventure film “Terror in the Jungle.”
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