Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita of $250,000 and multiple celebrity cameos. In 2007 at the GayVN's in San Francisco, it won all 14 awards it was nominated for, including best picture, best director (Michael Lucas & Tony DiMarco), best threesome (Michael Lucas, Derrick Hanson, and Jason Ridge), best actor (Michael Lucas) and best non-sexual performance (Savanna Samson). Lucas Entertainment, Inc., its distribution wing and Michael Lucas were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by International Media Films, Inc. in February 2007. The suit alleges willful trademark and copyright infringement against the "La Dolce Vita" mark. International Media Films owns the rights to Fellini's "La
La Dolce Viva revealed the seedier side of Andy Warhol’s entourage through Viva. “I had never seen anything like it,” Tom Wolfe wrote of accompanying nude photos from Diane Arbus. According to contemporary "New York Times" review of the book, "La Dolce Viva" gave an insight to Warhol’s relationship to other people. But the articles appearance in the "New York" hurt the magazine ("The Nude Photos that Nearly Destroyed New York"), and "New York"s editor, Clay Felker, was aware of the commercial risk he ran in publishing the piece. Some reviewers of "La Dolce Viva" were generally hesitant to read this piece, but