Yesterday’s announcement of Cinemax’s sally into original softcore fare and the ensuing discussion about saxophone-laden, smeary-focused sex scenes naturally got us thinking: Whither Joe Eszterhas, the guy whose mix of violence, nudity, and hot blonde women who will kill you after doing you has served as the exemplar for so many cable-bound knock-offs over the years? As it turns out, we weren’t the only ones thinking Eszterhas was due for a comeback, nearly 16 years after he abandoned the erotic thriller (in the wake of the back-to-back flops of Showgirls and Jade), left Hollywood, and more or less concentrated on raising a family and writing some decidedly non-erotic memoirs.