Dino Bravo Lashes Out At His Critics
2003-06-17 09:38:18
I meet Dino Bravo at Starbucks Sunday afternoon
at 3:45PM, 6/15/03.
Dino buys me a couple of fruity drinks and a cup of ice.
Dino: "Duc, the reason I am here to see you. There were some
allegations made about me by director Corey Jordan. Maybe I
need to hold this up here?"
Dino opens a plastic bag with an X-rated video boxcover of Young
Stuff 7. He points at four pictures on the back of Dino with
an erect penis. I cringe and ask him to put it away.
Dino: "I was the talent in the business that Corey Jordan says
I can't keep a hard-on. I wondered if he was confusing me with
somebody else. I did a scene for him [Young Stuff 7 with Alexi
O'Riley] while it was cold. We were on top of a mountain. I
gave him three positions and a pop. I buried the girl with my
DNA. I have the box. I have a review of the movie. I contacted
Corey Jordan but he won't return my calls.
"The reviewer on remi.net says, 'Not a bad scene.'
"There are a couple of other instances where it is getting back
to me that people are cheap-shotting me. I find it amusing and
humorous. I'm flattered that these people are talking about
me. I must be that good. They don't have anything on me. I respect
the male talent in this business. There should be a gentleman's
code. It's not easy what we do, especially when it is cold outside.
"I don't know David Christopher. I met him once. Two people,
Lou Bushemy and Guy Da Silva (who told me about the Corey Jordan
incident), told me David Christopher said five people had told
him bad things about me. I don't even know five people who have
talked to that man about me.
"[David] has grey hair on his head. He seems educated. He seems
to have something between his ears. My point to David Christopher
is - if these five people go to San Francisco and jump off the
Golden Gate Bridge to swim in the undertows, I guess he's going
to go with them?
"Someone I will never work for is Michael Stefano. About 18-months
ago, two people whose opinions I value, showed him me on video.
He said, 'I heard he did bad once.' Like who hasn't? He says
he heard things about me. He was asked who said these things
and he wouldn't say. Why wouldn't he say? Because he's a pussy
and a disgrace to Italian Americans.
"Urbano Martine (from Brazil) at Channel 69 can kiss my ass.
Last April, a Jim South girl, Jessica Wilde, asked me for help.
I didn't know she was Jim South's girl. I gave her a number.
She called the guy and he hired her. He's not on the World Modeling
list. It's all water under the bridge. That's why Urbano doesn't
hire me. He thinks if he hires me, I will kibbitz with the girl,
talk with her, exchange phone numbers, go on a date, f---, and
I will get her work with people who don't deal with Jim South.
"Urbano asked two people for their opinion about me and they
both said I was not that good of a performer. What a pussy!
He doesn't have the balls to say that Jim South is going to
close the book on him if he hires me.
"I'm no angel and I'm not the best performer in the world. I
think I'm a damn good one. I'll be in the industry three years
in September. I've worked for almost every company. I tell the
people, 'I will never let you down or I will never collect a
check.' I should start telling them to write that on the model
release. Dino Bravo doesn't collect unless he delivers."
Twenty minutes after he ordered it, Dino gets a free (because
it is late) Tazo Berry drink with whip cream.
Dino opens up his plastic bag again to my chagrin. "I also have
here in this bag... It's just a list. [DUC], I just want you
to see this. I'm just going to stand this up briefly."
It's a hardcore boxcover. "It's going back. I did a scene [with
Sabrina] on the top of a bridge [on Topanga and DeSoto] off
the 118 freeway. Nobody says anything about that. Don't you
think that's gutsy to do a scene out there? It was so hot, we
couldn't even touch the pavement. People are driving by and
we are up there f---ing.
"There's no reason to debate with these people. The talent in
the industry who are ripping on me have the mental capacity
of a thimble. They don't threaten. They're not going to rain
on my parade. I'm like the Energizer Bunny. I just keep going.
"To all these pussies, if they want to get in my face and say
something, they can do that. Come out from behind the mask.
The worst I will probably do is bitch-slap them. People like
this are not even worth killing. I wouldn't waste a bullet on
them. Do you know what I'm saying?
"I'll tell you some stories. I'm on a set. A white guy can't
cum. They had to get a black stunt dick to cum. I bet the editor
freaked when he saw that.
"I know guys who can't keep a hardon if they get the least amount
of blood on their pecker. I've seen guys take hours to bust.
That happens to the best of us.
"I'm here to stay. There's not an adjective that describes how
much I love women. For those retards out in porno land who don't
know what an adjective is, it describes the noun or pronoun.
We are dealing with juvenile delinquents here or people with
the mental capacity of juvenile delinquents."
Luke: "Why do you want to stay in an industry filled with juvenile
delinquents?"
Dino: "That's a good point. I enjoy what I do but the industry
as a whole does suck. It's a bunch of cheap-talking two-faces...Financially
speaking, I'm stuck [in porn]. It would be tough for me to make
the money that I am making [$1000 or so a week?] somewhere else
and pay my bills.
"I did not come into this business on the coattails of a porn
queen, like some of these cheaptalkers. I pay my own rent. I
don't sleep on somebody's floor. I want these pussies who talk
bad about me to call me at 310-245-7737. I have more style,
more charisma, more balls and more guts in my little finger
than they have in their whole body because I'm a gutsy person."
Dino gives a long list of people he wants to recognize - Rob
Spallone ("biggest balls in the industry"), Sandy Bunz, all
the Internet people like Gene Ross, KSEXradio and Wankus, Steve
Bannon at the Liberty Network, Steve Nelson at AINews.com, Flashman,
James DiGiorgio, Robert Lombard, Brandon Blackburn, Master Castillo,
Michael Ninn, Jane Waters, Jeff Coldwater, Claudio and his beautiful
wife Titsiana, Rex Ryder, Joey Strange, J.R. Wolfe, Ariel, Axel
Braun, Robert Hill, Sean Michaels, Pam Anderson, Ron Vogel,
Robert Bayon, Cash Markman, Michael Dance, Ron Sullivan, Michael
Kovacs at Leisure Time, Shawna and Gretchen, Rod Fontana, Shylar,
Charlie Crowe, Wally Wharton, Adam Wood, Dick Nasty, Bishop,
Klaus Price, Ricardo Santini, Veronica Hart, Wit Maverick, Slain
Wayne, Lee Goodwyn, Fonzi aka George Kaplan, Ed Cohen, Tom Funk,
Tabetha Yang, Kathy West, Dirty Harry, Anthony Snow, Ray Romo,
James Fox, Donald Wong, Ernie Flores, Luc Wylder "and all the
cable TV people who have me come down for readings." Herschel
Savage, Jesse Adams, Guy DaSilva, Darren James, Rick Masters,
Dave Hardman, Johnny St. James, Kyle Stone.
Dino: "If that's not a good enough list of recommendations for
people who don't know me...
"Do you know why I tip my hat to those people? Because they
keep me working. I'm like a lawyer or a doctor. I had to go
out and build a trade."
Dino repeats himself endlessly and profanely, lashing out at
his critics as "gutless wonders."
Dino says he has $40,000 worth of credit on his cards. He pulls
out an American Express and Visa card.
We go out to his car to snap pictures. He opens up the trunk.
Dino: "Could you help me get rid of this body in the back here?"
He's brought a special hat for the pictures. I snap a few. He
wants to look at them. They're not good enough. He asks that
I wait until he is still before I snap the picture.
Dino: "Is this my good side? It's a nice hat, isn't it? I'm
tipping my hat to the ladies. Did you get me tipping my hat
to the ladies? That's great. Ok, I'm moving. Don't shoot pictures
while I'm moving. Ok, I don't like those pictures. Could you
erase a couple of them? Could you take some more? Wait until
I'm still. I've got to get my hat at the right angle. I know
it looks really good on me."
Dino blasts Frank Sinatra music as he drives away.
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