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The Adams Report
by J.C. Adams
August 2001
It’s been getting busy in Gay Porn Land. Recently I received a note from the one and only Eric Hanson, who for the past few months has been living in Miami with a new significant other and working as a personal trainer. “I miss L.A.,” he told me. “I’m coming back soon.” In the meantime, the peripatetic Mr. Hanson is ready and eager to get back in front of the camera, despite a catfight with a director on the East Coast that ended up getting copied into the e-mail boxes of half the industry. Eric’s appearance in Wash West’s The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony (All Worlds Video) is perhaps his best performance, and a surefire nominee for a 2002 GayVN Award. “Wash really pulled it off,” one mildly envious porn insider told me. “He managed to make a porn film that actually feels like a movie. And Eric’s never been better utilized.”
A few Sundays back I ran into Dean Coulter at Basix restaurant in West Hollywood as he was unsuccessfully trying to hobble into the men’s room on crutches. He’s slowly recovering from a motorcycle accident that left a nasty scar running down one leg. Dean was caught between two cars and his leg was crushed when a motorist cut him off as it made a right-hand turn. Two months later, model-turned-director Blue Blake suffered a nearly identical accident. I called to check up on him, but Blake had just returned from surgery to reconstruct his leg. “They pieced me back together with pins,” he said woozily. “Forgive me, but I’m extremely high on Vicodin at the moment.” Blake jokingly admonished me not to publish anything he might say while under the influence of painkillers.
Directrix Chi Chi LaRue’s latest project is a remake of the 1972 gay erotica classic The Back Row. The original (starring the late, legendary Casey Donovan) was directed by Jerry Douglas, and has never been released on video--until now, that is. In October, Channel 1 Releasing will be packaging Ms. LaRue’s remake together with Mr. Douglas’s original in a special boxed set. “We recreated the original as close as possible,” LaRue tells me, “right down to the camera angles and the original locations. It was a lot of goddamn work, but it turned out beautifully.” She took on the project as a homage to both Douglas and the film. “It was one of the first fuck films I ever saw, and I loved it. If you’re gonna remake something, you might as well start with the best!” For his part, Mr. Douglas, now 65 years young, is thrilled that his film will be exposed to a new porn audience. Both directors appeared (with models Chad Hunt and Kyle Kennedy) for a screening of the ’72 Back Row and a Q&A at the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in July.
Forget about the rumors that claimed Hot House Entertainment was closing its doors for good, even though their main director, Chris Ward, is now working for his own company (Raging Stallion) and Falcon. Hot House’s Steven Scarborough released a statement denying the closure. He did leave open the possibility that the kink video company--formed eight years ago--might be sold. “No deal’s complete,” he wrote. “There’s a deal in negotiation, [and] when it’s completed I’ll call you.”
Last month I wrote about a new play called Blueboys, by Gregg Rodriguez, that was to feature Ryan Idol of all people as the late Joey Stefano. Chi Chi LaRue and David Geffen were also characters in the play. The play was being staged at the Ashland Street Theatre. That is, until the fire department realized the theater company hadn’t completed mandated changes to the building’s aging electrical wiring and shut and locked the building up tight. The month-long run of Blueboys and all future Ashland Street Theatre productions were canceled. “The producers of Blueboys claim there’s simply no way they can financially afford to do the electrical work,” says David Forest, Mr. Idol’s agent. “So, in effect, they’ve been put out of business.” I told someone who’s familiar with most of the parties involved about the closing and why it happened. He smirked and said, “Yeah, right. And my grandma can fly.” Make of it what you will.
Finally, a couple of months back, in a set report on Pacific Sun Entertainment’s Getting It at the Rave, I mentioned that costar Christopher Young starred in my first ill-fated attempt at directing a porn flick. A number of you jokers sent imploring e-mails, asking that I reveal the title of the film. Well, I can’t. Two of the scenes were so beyond salvation they got tossed in the thresher, and two more were put into different films. One of them isn’t so bad; the other is OK if you’re not in a particularly demanding mood. But I’m not telling you which films they are. That’s for me to know and you to figure out. I’ve embarrassed myself enough as it is. When I make another attempt at directing (early in 2002), I promise to reveal all.
Faversham…
—J.C. Adams
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