Scotty Crane is unmoved. "'Auto Focus' is a product, and Sony is selling it as the life of Bob Crane," he says. "Hey, I have no problem with products. I buy Crest toothpaste just like everyone else, but they are marketing this like it is the true story of my father and it just isn't.

"I could write a 500,000-word book about all the inaccuracies in the film and the real Bob Crane," he continues, "but even if I did get it published, who's going to read it and who's going to believe it without the evidence? Today the public wants DNA and they want video. They want hard evidence and they just don't believe anything else."

A good deal of the hard evidence that Crane offers is housed in the "Members Only" section of his Web domain, which can be previewed for three days for $3.95 or browsed at your leisure for $19.95 a month. Despite money collected from these fees, Crane claims that the site only breaks even.

The site's downloadable movies are mostly in black and white and lack sound, except for a mechanical hum generated by Bob Crane's 1970s home-video equipment. The footage is grainy but it is undoubtedly the elder Crane in all of his swinger lifestyle glory. If you are still unsure, the site offers a large selection of crystal-clear still photographs. Some of these show him participating in mass orgies on plaid couches, while middle-aged men in polyester slacks look on as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening.

Although the pornographic scenes on Bobcrane.com would earn at least an NC-17 rating, there is no bondage or S/M, and all Crane's partners appear to be of legal age and aware that they are being filmed.

"One of the myths is that my dad videotaped women without them knowing about it, and that isn't true," Scotty Crane explains. "I have a lot of movies on here and you can tell the people in them know they are being filmed. There was one woman who said that she knew she was being photographed but not taped. The Scottsdale police reviewed the tape and they could see that she was mugging for the camera and looking right into it.

"In the movie they portray my dad's apartment as having hidden cameras and recording equipment all over it. Now, the video cameras that my dad had were huge compared to today. They didn't even have a scope that you could look through. The only way you could see what you were filming was to view it on a big black-and-white TV monitor. The walls of his small apartment looked like something from 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' with all this gadgetry. Anyone who was being filmed had to know about it."

One of the most critically lauded scenes in "Auto Focus" features Kinnear as Crane showing off his new penile implant to Dafoe's Carpenter. This has also become one of the most sensationalized facets of Scotty Crane's crusade. "My dad was murdered in 1978, and penile implants weren't out until 1982," Scotty explains.

On the Web site, Scotty combines a Maricopa County coroner's report with a picture of his father's large, erect penis to disprove the movie's claims. "Contrary to the film 'Auto Focus' this document proves that Bob's 'johnson' was ALL NATURAL!" the site tells us.

Whether you consider Scotty Crane to be an obsessive media hound, the damaged son of a murdered TV star or a David armed with a slingshot of porn against Sony's Goliath, he has adeptly exploited the public hunger for tabloid topics. For Scotty, the only way to show what his dad didn't do was to reveal everything he did. Of course, his campaign has provided more spectacular publicity for "Auto Focus" than Schrader and Sony could otherwise have managed. But Scotty still pronounces himself satisfied with his multimedia blitz and the controversy it has stirred.

"I think the Web site has done its job," he says, before striking a more reflective note on the question of his own future. While Schrader and the makers of "Auto Focus" may be haunted by Bob Crane's ghost come Oscar time, when the question of accuracy could hurt their chances for nominations, Scotty Crane will have to wrestle with his father's ghost for the rest of his life.

"This movie has forced me to come out and defend my father and my family in a way I never have previously," he reflects. "Before this, I was known as a disc jockey and a producer with platinum records -- some of them even put out by Sony. Now I am just known as Bob Crane's son."

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