 Baker began taking drugs , and became , in his own words , " an out of control , teenage speed freak " . He also began drinking heavily , attributing it to the fact that he was <unk> . However , even after coming out , his substance abuse remained excessive and " still had a life of its own " . After sobering up , he attended UCLA film school , where he was one of the winners of the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards , and directed two films : Mouse <unk> <unk> and Blonde Death . Mouse <unk> <unk> , a film about a Mickey Mouse Club <unk> who becomes a gay bondage <unk> , was a controversial entry in the 1976 San Francisco 's <unk> Film Festival , as some thought Baker was actually advocating Nazism . It is also credited with having caused Michael <unk> to abandon his dream of film making and instead become a film critic . 
