He's young, he's dumb, he's a hunk. He's Jason Priestley as Ronnie Bostock, the teen heartthrob who inexplicably enthralls stuffy Giles De' Ath (John Hurt) in Richard Kwietniowski's new-to-video "Love and Death on Long Island." Giles falls for Ronnie after wandering into a movie house playing "Hotpants College 2," then runs out to rent all the Bostock he can find -- every one a dead-on teen spoof.

"It was almost too easy," says the British director, who started his research with the three "Porky's" films, went on to exemplary cheese like "The Last American Virgin" ("some I chose according to their titles"), and sampled "kid-with-a-conscience" movies to inspire "Tex Mex," in which Ronnie dies defending persecuted Mexicans. "I was thinking of a bad 'Rumble Fish,'" says Kwietniowski. "If nothing else, it got Jason to try out his Elvis impression."

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