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Kurt Lockwood vs Patti Rhodes
2003-10-29 14:39:32
Gene Ross reports on Adultfyi.com

Tuesday afternoon, October 28. Porn set of Butterfly, a production by Shay Sights and Renee LaRue.

Kurt Lockwood plays me a phone message from a male member of Patti Rhodes crew named AJ. He calls from a cell phone with Patti's voice on the voicemail.

Message: "Hi, this is Patti," in Patti Rhodes' voice.

AJ: "Hey, stupid, check this f-cking sh-t out. You just ran your mouth off to the wrong motherf-cking crew. You got a problem with it? We've got a problem with it. Stay where you are."

This was in response to a stern inquiry Kurt delivered to Patti over her cell phone.

Kurt: "This is going to cause a sh-t storm across the web."

Luke: "Who's AJ?"

Kurt: "One of Patti Rhodes crew. Mustache. Balding. You know about all that stuff."

Luke: "No I don't. What happened?"

Kurt: "Don't play dumb. It's all over your website.

"Patti Rhodes made sure that I wouldn't work for VCA again.

"Patti is talking sh-t about me all over. She's blowing everything out of proportion. Patti claims I slapped a girl on a set. If I did, I'd be in jail. Who's the girl? It's supposed to be Aria. Aria and I are good friends."

DUC calls Aria. She says: "Kurt never slapped me. Patti Rhodes told me that she never said that Kurt slapped anyone."

Kurt: "I lost a job for Sin City over this. I called Bud Lee. He said he got it from Patty. I went off on Bud. You're just believing these baseless allegations.

"I called her [Patti] up and asked if she said I slapped a girl on a set. Patti said, 'Oh no, I did not say that.' Then why are they saying you did say that? I don't know. Are you calling them a liar? If they say I said, I didn't say it.

"I told Patti, if you said I slapped a girl, you just bought yourself a lawsuit.

"I called Bud. 'Patti is calling you a liar.' Bud says, I haven't talked to Patti in more than a year. Also, she said it [allegation] to Scott Justice. And in addition, Scott doesn't want to hire you because you want too much money."

Barry Woods interrupts: "From her cell phone. These guys are not the smartest."

Kurt: "These guys think it's 1975 Wonderland. It's 2003. Your asses are going to jail. They've probably already been to jail. Three strikes and you're out.

"Some elements of this business are still run like the Wild Wild West. I hate it.

"It's a $250 billion a year industry. In some ways, it would be good if the government did step in and regulate because some of this bullsh-t...."

Miles Long, the AD, kicks Kurt for his government regulation remarks.

Kurt: "I don't need that sh--. I just show up and do my job and I'm getting death threats."

A crew member: "I'd go file a temporary restraining order."

Kurt: "There's that other crew guy she uses all the time with "White Power" tattooed down his arms.

"I called Bruce over at VCA. Bruce, if you don't want to hire me anymore, live and let live. I work every day. I don't care. But get a hold of your animals. Are these the best people you can get to run your operation?"

XXX says: "This one guy [male talent] brings a gun to the set every time. Has [painkillers] in one hand, a gun in the other. He's been to jail four times."

Barry Woods to Kurt: "How do you really feel about Patti Rhodes?"

Kurt: "I think she's a wonderful sweet angel of a human being.

"If I had just flaked that day, which I never do, I'd still be working for VCA."

Barry: "Why are you starting with this?"

Kurt: "He already knows. It's all over the Internet."

How dangerous are Patti's guys?

Kurt: "They're unstable. They're leaving death threats on my voicemail from a traceable phone number. They don't even have it together enough to go to a pay phone to make a death threat."

Barry: "You won't find any black kids on their crew. I wouldn't mess with them."

XXX: "The Track One crew."

Kurt: "All the other VCA directors I got along fine with. Chloe, Red, Rob Spallone, Jim Holliday. Jim was going to do a different movie with me in it but he toned all the dialogue down so he could focus on the girls.

"VCA banned T.T. Boy too and he's a multi-millionaire now too."

Kurt Lockwood jokes that if he dies, he wants to be played by Johnny Depp in the movie. And Natasha Henstridge should play his girlfriend Ava Vincent.

Gene Ross writes on Adultfyi.com: "Kurt Lockwood has been locked in some escalating drama with Patti Rhodes and promises to give more details. The whole thing began on a Toni English shoot when English supposedly encouraged Lockwood to kiss Tyler Faith's face on the spot where Lockwood planted a facial. English later said she was kidding. Lockwood said English has anti-male talent agendas."

Kurt says www.kurtlockwood.com is going to become a pay site. "Some of the other models say that people won't pay to see them if they can see them for free on my site. And if you require a credit card, you can be sure kids won't get into the hardcore."

I sit opposite Kurt. I notice him pull out a bag of green and start stuffing it into a little wooden box.

Luke: "What is that?"

Kurt: "The caterer has great oregano and I want to save some for my dishes later. I'm like Emerald Puck."

Luke: "What are those other implements next to you?"

Kurt: "Your garden variety cigarette and lighter."

Luke: "Why do you like to keep your oregano in a wooden container?"

Kurt: "It keeps it fresh."

Luke: "How much does a bag of oregano like that cost?"

Kurt: "It's the standard cost."

Luke: "Who's your supplier?"

Kurt: "I believe that oregano can be found at any number of fine grocery store chains in the Southland?"

Luke: "Do you like oregano before or after your scenes?"

Kurt: "If I could, I'd have some oregano during my scenes."

He's meticulous at picking up every flake of green oregano and placing it in his wooden box.

Luke: "It looks like grass. An ignorant person could think that."

Kurt: "It is foliage. It is part of the grass family."

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Patti and I talk by phone Wednesday afternoon, October 29.

Patti: "This is not my number. It is somebody else's cell."

Luke: "But it's got your voice mail message."

Patti: "But it is someone else's phone. I use it. It's like my third phone."

Luke: "I was talking to Kurt and he played me this message from one of your crew warning him to back off on Patti."

Patti: "I know all about it. Kurt called my set threatening me. Supposedly I told Bud Lee that Kurt had slapped Aria. I never said any such thing.

"Bud called him back two hours later and said, 'Hey, you got it wrong. I haven't talked to Patti in a year.

"Kurt just got what he heard from Bud confused. Kurt called me while I was sitting next to Gene Ross in a club. We're shooting a scene. Everyone in the room, everyone within 50 feet, could hear this screaming. I did not even know who it was.

"Kurt was threatening me."

Luke: "He was threatening your life, your career, your livelihood?"

Patti: "Just threatening. 'I'm going to take action if you keep doing things like this to me.' One of my crew took the phone outside and left a message for him."

Luke: "It was blunt and to the point."

Patti: "This all stems from an incident on Antonio Passolini's VCA shoot. I was the person he didn't have a problem with.

"He had a 9AM call time. He showed up at 10AM. He was scheduled to be on another set at 1PM. This is Cafe Flesh. He freaked out because Antonio did three takes on dialogue. He said, 'I'm not doing any more takes. I have a hard dick. This is a DP scene.'

"He was erratic. I think he might have some medication he needs to be taking or vice versa.

"I was the one who wanted to smooth things over. I'll have this other guy come in. It was a spoof on a porn scene anyway. This other guy will come in, be the doctor, and kick you off, so you can go do your other shoot.

"He walked off in the middle of the scene and I paid him half his rate. I was the peacemaker.

"He had a problem with Toni English from another shoot. He says Toni doesn't treat talent right. As you know, she's the biggest pussy cat in the business. Toni's incredibly sweet to talent and I've always been fair with talent. If anybody spoils people in the business, it's Kelly and I.

"Kurt does a lot of yelling without listening. A lot of other VCA shoots cancelled on Kurt because Bud Lee didn't hire Kurt after that. Kurt walked off VCA's biggest shoot (Cafe Flesh) of the year.

"Bud shoots for VCA and other companies. Bud confronted Kurt about it [the rumor]. Bud got the story from other actors. You know how that goes.

"I used Kurt as the lead in my last couple projects. His thing with Toni English and Antonio Passolini, I was the production manager. I was off in the office. Someone came and got me. I calmed him down and found ways to fix it. Kurt was insisting on leaving within three minutes.

"I said, whoa. Give the other guy five minutes to put on a doctor's costume. We'll set up the cameras and shoot the exit and then you're out of here. You can go to the other set.

"The whole thing comes from double-booking. You know how that goes with male talent. Few things go as scheduled in this industry.

"It's not like he didn't know from the getgo. I emailed him the script. He knew he had dialogue. He knew it was a big project. And he knew that Antonio is a meticulous director. It's not like Antonio doesn't have a reputation for shooting long scenes.

"Kurt was very irrational, to the point where I had to have someone else shoot camera on the exit scene, because he objected to Toni English. She upset him. He didn't like her presence."

Luke: "Should he be concerned about your crew? I'm hearing you have this homicidal crew."

Patti: "I have a crew that's very loyal to me. They work on all my adult projects and on my music videos. If anybody threatened me or tried to harm me in any way, yes, my crew would react badly. And rightfully so.

"He called VCA about this. He called Rob Spallone. And Rob gave him some wise advice - don't mess with Patti's crew. Yeah, they're real sweet guys who will do anything for you, including protect you.

"Are they going to go looking for him? No. They have no intention of doing that. If he should come to some place I was and cause a problem, they would prevent him from doing anything. Very emphatically.

"You were on my set. You saw my crew. Did they intimidate you in any way?"

Luke: "No."

Patti: "You can tell that they are guys who have certain principles.

"When I brought them on the first music video I did, the production manager now hires them on other things. I work with director Gregory Dark on all his music videos. Gregory and his wife have all those guys do all the work at their house.

"I've produced Gregory's music videos for the past year-and-a-half.

"Yeah, these guys are all bikers. They're tough guys. If we need something done, they do it. We shoot a lot under the Sixth Street Bridge [in downtown Los Angeles] with homeless people all around. We shot part of Antonio's movie down there. Obviously, if any of the locals try to steal a camera, my crew is going to have a problem with that. But also, no girl ever carries her own stuff, or needs a ride and doesn't get one.

"Everyone who was within 50 feet could hear Kurt screaming. So the guy whose phone it was, walked outside, and said something in reaction to what Kurt said. It's not like the guy called Kurt up from out of the blue.

"Kurt is radically different from what Kurt was a couple of months ago. I would suspect some kind of substance issue. I don't think he's a drug addict. He just needs something to relieve his stress."

Luke: "Tell me about the Mexico trip on the Toni English Adam & Eve shoot "Girl's Night Out In Tijuana"?"

Patti: "We walked into the big clubs. We put the girls up on different platforms and hit them with the spotlight. They did their thing. Then we whisked them out of there.

"Carmen knows how to turn on a crowd. As soon as she got going on a dance, the crowd went crazy. Another reason I had my crew with me. I got my girls safely in and out of those places. One of the guys tried to buy a dance with her. He's offering us cash.

"It's not that the girls don't want to be friendly, but it could create a mob scene in a place like that. The girls were flashing and doing the Girls Gone Wild thing."

Luke: "When do you think Gregory will get his first feature in mainstream?"

Patti: "He's been in meetings for two years. He's got several greenlighted projects but nothing set in stone for dates.

"He just did the new soundtrack job this weekend with Chingy, Fat Joe, Big Daddy and Buster Rhymes. They were all in different cities and none of them wanted to fly to the other cities. We did the shoot on a chartered jet. We flew to one city, shot the one. Flew to the next city..."

Luke: "You don't see that in porn."

Patti: "No. Going on a porn set is like a vacation now because it is easier. On the music videos, I have a lot of things to coordinate. It's more challenging. It makes these things with Kurt... How can it take it seriously? It's just a small part of my life. If this whole flare-up didn't happen, I would've hired him again by now. I was hiring him a lot. He was doing good scenes. He was a decent actor.

"Once they have that weird personality thing, you can't depend on them. A majority of the actors in the business have had it. Then they get in their good phase and you hire them again. There are guys who've been around ten years. They have their little problems. They go away. They solve them. They come back. You hire them. They start f---ing up again. You stop hiring them for a while."

Luke: "It sounds like Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights?"

Patti: "If he keeps stirring s--- up, it's going to come back to haunt him. He keeps sending me emails, telling me how many people are hiring him. Fine. If you want to go do gonzo, that's fine.

"As an actor, the easier gig is doing gonzo scenes. Most of the people are in this business for the attention. And you don't get attention for the gonzo scenes, you get it for the big features. I'm sure Cafe Flesh is going to outsell most gonzo tapes.

"They want the awards and the attention and the way you get it is through the big features. But big features don't shoot in two hours. That's the nature of the business which he miscalculated."

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Kurt Lockwood says:

Ask Patti if she told Scott Justice that Kurt Lockwood slapped Aria? Did she say it to anyone? I'm not making up this story.

My only threat to Patti was to sue.

You treated Patti with kid gloves. I'd like to see her answer for what her crew member said, it was far more ugly and evil than what you imply in your question to her.

On Cafe Flesh, I was not due on another set at 1PM. It was 4PM. I'm not freaked by features. I come from mainstream. It was five takes of getting a fake thermometer shoved up my ass.

She wants to smooth things out? She threatens to finish my career. She threatened to complain about me to Jim South. She threatened to get me blackballed.

I did not walk off in the middle of the scene. I totally let them shoot me out.

Toni English is the biggest pussycat in the business, if you are not male talent.

I challenge you to find five people in porn who have something nice to say about VCA.

Bud Lee does not have the power to take me off VCA shoots. She went crying to Bruce, the director of VCA.

Bud told me he got the slanderous story about me slapping a girl from Scott Justice [at Sin City].

I have no problem with Antonio Passolini. He was genuinely grateful when I agreed to wear the straitjacket when Joel Lawrence said he would walk if made to wear the straitjacket. Antonio never said a negative word to me.

I gave them ten minutes, not three minutes.

I was emailed one page of dialogue. It wasn't War & Peace. And we were there four hours shooting a DP. I did not know anything about Antonio. I've never worked with him before or know anyone who has.

It was Toni English who refused to shoot me out. I did not demand that she leave.

I love how she describes her crew as angels and she also describes herself as Ma Barker and the boys.

Do you know what Rob Spallone told me? I can do nothing for you. Take it to the cops. "Don't mess with Patti's crew." Look at how bad-ass she's trying to make herself.

Notice how in your interview she keeps making these veiled threats. If these guys have certain principles, why do one of her guys have "white power" tattooed on his arms? Is that one of the principles she's trumpeting?

I'm glad that VCA feels that the Aryan Brotherhood is an acceptable hiring house for them. If these guys have principles, why am I receiving threatening calls? Why do these angels sit around on the set telling crack stories and jail stories? Why do they bring loaded guns on set? Why do they ask me to get them drugs?

These guys are a ticking time bomb. Something is going to happen. The industry needs to be warned about these guys. If it is not me they are going to go all cracked out on, it will be somebody else.

I appreciate the stress relief advice, Dr. Phil.

As far as substance issues, she can kiss my ass. I smoke pot. That's it. Anyone can go to AIM and look at my drug tests. I came up clean.

I hated working for Patti. Anyone who likes working at 4AM at Dry Gulch Ranch in Malibu needs to have their head examined.

I have never emailed Patti Rhodes after we had this falling out. She is such a liar.

[DUC emailed Patti, asking her to forward any of Kurt's recent emails. Patti replies: "He sent a multi page email which I forwarded to Toni English and Antonio Passolini, but i do not still have in my files, I get about 30 emails a day, and since he sent this more than a month ago when Cafe Flesh was shot, I no longer have it."]

I am not trying to win awards. I am not in this business for attention. I'm in it for the money. I make more of it than Patti Rhodes does.

I don't care about Patti Rhodes. I only care that she has a personal vendetta against me. She keeps stirring it up.

I have a degree in theater. I have my SAG (Screen Actors Guild) card. People hire me for features because I can act. If you treat me with respect, you will get the best scene. If you treat me like a piece of meat, I'm not going to deal with that. I'm not going to get my dick hard and soft five times before we start shooting. I'm not going to let somebody stick a thermometer up my ass for five takes and be ok with it.

I went to the police about AJ's telephone threat. I gave them a complete report. I named and described all the guys. They took a tape recording of the threatening message. They said if anything else happens, to come straight to the police and they will bring them [Patti's crew] in for questioning.

I'm sick of this. Leave me alone. I don't want to hear Patti Rhodes' name or voice again. I don't want any trouble with Patti. If she will stay on her corner of the porn world and leave me alone, I will stay on mine and I will leave her alone.

I remembered when I was last on a Patti Rhodes set [a movie about gypsies] September 4, Patti's crew produced a loaded gun, took the bullets out... We were shooting at 4AM in Dry Gulch. There was no cell phone service. There's no bathroom. No one can hear you for miles around. They produced guns.

Marty Romano [male talent who's friendly with Patti's crew but is not a member of it] comes up to replace a girl. He steps out of the cab of his truck with a loaded gun in one hand. One of the talent goes up and asks for Oxycon [painkiller that Rush Limbaugh got hooked on], which he produces from his other pocket. He's got a loaded gun in one hand and a handful of Oxycon in the other.

You can ask Black Daryl. I hate to refer to him as that. His name is Daryl and he's a crew guy and he's black and he was there yesterday [on Shay Sights and Renee LaRue production Butterfly].

Marty Romano hangs with Patti's crew. This is not the first time I've seen him produce guns on a set. He pretty much does it every time. I want the industry put on alert that these guys are a ticking time bomb.

My main reason for putting this out there is not to be Mr. Controversy. I have to look out for my family here. I live with Ava. I have my nieces who come over here. I have my other family who visits. Not to mention my dogs. This is porno. And these guys take themselves way too seriously. It's getting out of hand. I want the spotlight of media attention put on this. This is wrong. This is like the Wild Wild West.

If something happens to me, I want people to know where to start looking. If porn is going to be like this, I'd rather face whatever penalty it would be to have the government come in and regulate it. It's not worth risking anybody's life. We don't need that John Holmes Wonderland drama. We should be more legitimate. Accountants don't have to worry about this sh-t.

I'm your wet dream, aren't I, DUC?

Luke: "I thought Ava was, but I guess you are, in a different way."

Kurt: "I called Jim South to tell him what had happened with Patti. She threatened to complain about me to Jim. Jim South Jr. told me [DUC interrupts: This story is without evidence] that Patti had allegedly had his father, Jim South Sr, beaten with a baseball bat and his arms broken [about 15 years ago] and put him in the hospital. And that I shouldn't watch out for Patti's crew."

Kurt did not present any evidence for this beyond what Jim South Jr told him. Jim South Jr. did not present any evidence for this. This is purely an allegation without evidence.

DUC emailed Patti about the story. She replied, "I have no idea what that's all about."

DUC emails Kurt Lockwood: "Did you enjoy it when they kept shoving that thermometer up your ass?"

Kurt replies: "Ha, ha. No!"

Nathan West, Male Video West, writes l-keford.com: LEX WHO? MARCUS WHAT? RIBAS SHMIBAS. KURT LOCKWOOD IS THE MAN OF THE MOMENT! Scott, pass along this message to that beautiful Kurt Lockwood fellow that everyone is talking about. KURT, PLEASE CONTINUE TO STAND TALL AND DON'T LET THESE WHORES CASTRATE THE MALE RACE. If a female director wants you to blast your cum on a starlet's face then kiss it off afterwards tell here to SUCK MY DICK BITCH and walk out. And if you ever want to star in gay films at 5k a pop call me because you my friend are gorgeous.

From my files 9/8/03:

Kurt Lockwood writes Luke: Here is a copy of the e-mail that I sent to Patty regarding the incident and my side of things. I have since found out that they have alleged that I was "on drugs." So I went straight to AIM and got my drug test which is available for anyone to check and which I admit to smoking pot but my test is completely negative for everything else and I got it taken in a timely fashion that would've covered the shooting time. I don't even drink! They can't accept that I left because they were shooting a DP like it was a regular BG and they had all the time in the world and were treating me like sh-t. Anyway, Patty is now trying to "you'll never work in this town again" on me and I still shoot every day. In fact, I can't believe how many people like Chloe, Red, Jim Holiday, and others have expressed their support of me and aren't in agreement with VCA. Let me know if you have any questions. P.s. Though I say "I walked. " in the e-mail. Technically, I didn't "walk" . I still got wood and I still agreed to "two vag positions and a pop, just no DP." and when THEY refused I still stayed until they could "shoot me out" or bring another actor in and shoot me logically exiting. It is also important to note that this is my FIRST ever problem on a set.
peace
KURT



Patty
Before you "report me to Jim South" or "blacklist me at VCA" as you threatened me with today, I thought just maybe you might be interested in at least hearing my side of things.

#1 Was told beforehand that DP was with Aria and HER HUSBAND whom I've done DP's with before and feel comfortable working with. Was not alerted to cast change ahead of time, not that I have anything against Joel but DP's are tricky things and if possible you like working with guys you've already gone thru it successfully with once.

#2 When Joel refused to wear the straight jacket I agreed to without hesitation.

#3 Why was my call time 9 a.m. and we didn't start shooting until 12:30 p.m. with NO SCENES PRIOR?

#4 I alerted eveyone politely about five times that the REAL STRAIGHT JACKET was really f-cking hot underneath the lights but everyone wants to act like Kurt is a primadonna because he's sweating bullets in a f-cking straight jacket and would like not to before sex scene.

#5 It was really nice for them to stick the giant fake rectal thermometer up near my asshole WITHOUT alerting me beforehand, or God Forbid, ask my permission. I had to endure this for FIVE TAKES!!

#6 Aria comes in gives me a bj while joel f-cks her from behind I get wood great...cut! put Kurt away let's re-light for different coverage...ten minutes later Kurt is, of course, soft again by now, here we go rolling aria comes in gives me another bj, gets me hard cut! time to relight put Kurt's cock away AGAIN and let it get soft AGAIN! This happened...no lie...at least five times. Again, here is where I am politely asking "aren't we shooting a DP?" You can't get male talent hard and then soft over and over agian especially when you are about to shoot a DP!

#7 After we have already had Joel f-cking Aria (who is wincing in pain with every stroke, always a real turn on, and was too sick to work and shouldn't have worked today.) so after Joel has been f-cking her for an hour we find out oh, we didn't get any hard coverage of that. what?! so after moving on from that to the double bj we have to back track to get the hard coverage after we had already moved on. Now we also decide it's time to see Aria squirt. So Kurt gets his dick gnawed on for a half hour by an obviously in pain and sick Aria who is desperately trying to squirt to no avail.

#8 Every time I politely mentioned something. Kelli, would make a snide remark likel, "we're making a movie here." no sh-t sherlock, I've only done over fifty features already. This is the same Kelli who tried to get me to eat my own cum on my last feature with her. and when I refused to kiss my own cum on the face of the girl Kelli yells cut, "great pop shot but you just ruined my movie." Whatever. She has no respect for me as male talent and thinks we are just her machine pawns to do whatever with and she even told me on the set that she wished she could replace us with robots. This is true! You can ask Joel Lawrence because he had to make a joke out of it becuase he couldn't believe she was even half serious. f-ck THAT!! And what was up with her refusing to shoot the last scene with me in it. Look, if I can stay and shoot it, she can stay and shoot it too. It's called PROFESSIONALISM. Notice I didn't say, Okay I'll let you shoot me out but only if SHE doesn't shoot it.

#9 Nobody told me Aria was condom only anal. And since she couldn't take Joel's big cock up her ass, guess who has to do all the anal WITH A CONDOM in a DP!!!

#10 I can't believe you threatened me and since I just got off the phone with Jim South it looks like you went and made good on your threat. It doesn't matter. I make him too much money for him to care. As for blacklisting me with VCA...well, I've already talked to CHLOE who said I was still in. ANd I talked to RED who said if it's up to him I'm still in. ANd I don't think Mr. Holiday is going to cancel on me. ('coz we're friends who show each other RESPECT)

Patty, I like you. I don't hold any of this against you. You weren't even there for most of it. Yes, I walked. But you have to understand, we male talent are looked on as worthless garbage who are just chopped liver in this business, if we don't stand up for ourselves when we feel we are being compromised (as with the hot REAL straight jacket under the hot lights, the thermometer up my ass, the repeated takes of me getting my limp cock out to get it hard only to have it put away five times and the same thing happen over and over, Kelli's snippy remarks etc.) if we don't speak up for ourselves, no one will. I shoot every day. Yes, every day. You can't expect me to put with such humiliation and lack of respect when I make double and triple my rate a day for gonzo and OTHER FEATURES THAT GO OFF WITHOUT A HITCH. I won't do it. This is industry is not worth me or ANYONE feeling humiliated not one bit ever. I have too much fun working on other sets, I know how good it CAN go whether it be gonzo OR feature. It is worth noting that I still offered to do vag positions and pop but that only the DP wasn't going to happen. Anyway, I don't know if any of this matters.
peace

9/19/03

HAHAHA These little people and their games. That's an absolute lie. You can ask Miles Long. What happened was the girl and I filmed the COMPLETE sex scene on an uncomfortable DJ Booth setting. When it came time for the pop, I politely asked the girl if we could go into the bathroom to "work up the pop" for a few minutes. We were in there for a total of five minutes. We come out to go to the set to shoot the pop, I've got full wood at this point and ready to pop, and LUCKY the girl's manager, decides right then and there to get in my face and confront me to say "Don't you ever take one of my girl's offset again!" We were only in there for five minutes, I only took her in there because we were shooting in a warehouse where I couldn't exactly ask everyone to "give us a minute" as is accepted on every regular house shoot, so I asked her into the bathroom. I got pissed that Lucky would confront me as I"m nude with a hard cock about to explode jizz. (He could've waited unit AFTER THE POP AND SCENE) I said I didn't appreciate it and asked that he be removed from set. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT I TOOK ABOUT TEN MINUTES TO WORK THE POP UP AGAIN AND THEN I POPPED THUS COMPLETING THE SCENE AND HAD NO TROUBLE PERFORMING AT ALL!!! The only problem I had was some jealous suitcase pimp parasitic leach asshole trying to pick a fight with me while I'm naked with a boner to pop and just DOING MY JOB!!! As for working for MICHAEL NINN again. You mean Porn Lucas? I could give a f-ck! Let me tell you two things that happened that day regarding the ego of this pint-sized porn Scor-cheezy. He's shooting me through his little digicam and he does a reveal shot of me and the chick from behind this disco ball and then he says to no one in particular but loud enough for all to hear and in all sincerity, "Oh God....Thank you for giving me such talent." I sh-t you not. He said it. So then he calls Barry the camera guy over and says,"Hey Barry check this out." So Barry comes over and starts shooting it then Mini-Fellini himself says, "Oh sure, the li'l guy (The Li'l Guy! He called HIMSELF "The Li'l Guy") gets a shot and suddenly everyone wants it!" And then he cackled uncontrollably at his own humor. His statement, of course, being totally false since it was HE who had pointed out this GODSEND of a shot." Whatever. I don't have time for this high school he-said she-said bullsh-t. THe bottomline is that Lucky is in really well with Michael Ninn aka "The Li'l Guy" I think Lucky does The LI'l Guy's website or some sh-t and The Li'l Guy uses Lucky's girls (the ones who don't have HUGE grievances with him like Shayla LA Vieux or Kylie Ireland both of whom he STILL has up on his website as if you could book them today thru him yet they both hate his guts that's what kind of a slimeball he is.) ANd since I'm the "new guy" it's hip to bag on me and PLUS guys in this biz are just supposed to be dirt who don't mind being treated like dirt by SOME directors of diminutive stature who have Napoleon complexes. And if it was so bad why did ALI, Laurent's asst tell me he agreed with me and thought it was wrong what they did to me as well AND why did Miles Long agree with me to the point where he ACTUALLY REMOVED LUCKY from the set that day?
In the end, none of this high school back and forth bullsh-t matters. I shoot nearly every day and I'm not going to like shooting for everybody and not everybody is going to like working with me. That's how it is in this biz. You find who you like and you go from there. Luckily, the biz is big enough to accomodate all. The directors who like me LOVE me and the one's that don't are just too jealous and stupid and jaded and have nothing better to do with their time than to talk sh-t. Let them talk. I'm not on drugs (anyone can check my current drug test at AIM) I always show up on time, always have wood, always pop. IF the worst thing anyone can say about me is that one out of every hundreds of shoots, my patience gets stretched to the max and I tell somebody off (which let's face it , is all we're really talking about here) as long as I DO MY JOB IN A TIMELY FASHION that's cool with me. I post pics in my journal updated daily from my shoots that go off just fine without a hitch. The proof is right there. Let them talk about me all they want. I'm too busy f-cking and cashing checks to care.

9/27/03

Kurt Lockwood of WWW.KURTLOCKWOOD.COM here. I want to thank VCA Direntor Rob Spallone for telling the truth when you asked him about me. Rob is a great/funny guy who I've had the honor of working for on a number of occasions where he was either the Director as in Sopornos 5 and Sopornos 6 or where he was PM as for VCA director Mr. Jim Holiday. I'm glad he set the record straight as far as the spotless record that I have as far as working for him goes. This unprofessional back-stabbing nonsense I'vd had to put up with is spewing like vomit from the mouth of the very bitter P. Rhodes who obviously has nothing better to do with her time than to talk sh-t and spread lies about me. Since you asked Rob Spallone about me. (And received a glowing, truthful account of me I might add,.) How about asking the other in-house VCA directors I've shot for about me too-like the aforementioned Mr. Jim Holiday (whom I've the utmost respect and admiration for) and Jane Hamilton or how about CHloe and RED? I think if and when you do you will find similar responses as to the one that you received from ROb Spallone. While you're at it go talk to Michael Rayven, Jill Kelley, Skye Blue, Brad Armstrong, Clive and Erica at Barely Legal, Jim Steel at VIVID, CHi CHi La Rue, IRa and Nina (I could go on and on), or how about my co-stars like Ginger Lynn, Bella Donna, Amber Lynn, Shay Sweet, Taylor Rain, Tyler Faith (Again, I could go on and on).I haven't had a single problem with anyone over there at VCA besides this last shoot and it all comes back to a bitter and mean smear campaign from the lovely and talented P. Rhodes (who I'm told the industry just LOVES anyway, cough cough.) Heck, I'm even sure that under different circumstances. I'm sure that Anthony Spinelli and I would have had no probs either. We were chatting and getting along just fine before that particular shoot and he seemed genuinely appreciative when I offered to wear the straightjacket for the scene after the other guy steadfastly refused to and it wasn't even supposed to be my role. Anyway, I read Wanker Wang say something to the effect that if you are male talent in this industry and you can %95 of your shoots go off without a hitch, then you are what he described as "bulletproof." Well, even after all this "checking up" on me, Flashman, according to Wanker Wang's theorem, I'm still way ahead of the game. Check my journal at www.KurtLockwood.com if you don't believe me where I post behind the scenes pix of me working (nearly every day). The proof is right there. I still do four scenes or more a week so if VCA doesn't want to hire me, I'm not sure but I think I'll live. In fact, I wish them well because if P. Rhodes continues to treat male talent like worthless sh-t then they are going to find themselves in an even more serious "male talent shortage" then the rest of the industry. It does, after all, go both ways. By the way, it's so funny that P. Rhodes is pulling this "you'll never work in this town again" I mean WTF???! Hahaha! Who even says sh-t like that anymore? It's hilarious because we all know that with the explosion of the industry in gonzo and internet, it is just impossible for ANYONE to pull that kind of an ego trip of "you'll never work again!" Yeah, right. And if someobody out there DOES have that kind of power (okay maybe Larry Flynt) it sure as sh-t ain't P.Rhodes haha! Sigh. I've said it before. I don't use drugs (except occasional pot). (My drug test is at AIM for anyone to see. For real. I don't even drink.) I always show up on time. I always get wood. I always pop. Therefore, I will continue to work. If my biggest "problem" is that my patience gets stretched a bit thin once out of every 50-60 shoots shoots. Well, after doing 150+ scenes in this last year I think I can tell the difference between when I'm being "used" and when I'm being "abused." Besides, I'm only human too you know. I mean haven't we all been an asshole at least once in our lives? I mean, give me a break. I'm pretty sure that I'm not breaking any new ground here, I'm pretty sure that I'm not the first actor (male or female) to ever get frustrated about how a f-cking DOUBLE PENETRATION scene was taking 4 f-cking hours to shoot (from call time) because of how long production was taking (even tho we were the FIRST SCENE OF THE DAY!!!) and the four hour delay had nothing to do with the actors involved. Plus, things change in this industry lightning fast. I think someday I probably will shoot for VCA again. Maybe after P. Rhodes is gone. After all, I really had awesome working experiences with the "OTHER NON-MAN HATING DIRECTORS" at VCA like Mr. Holiday, Rob Spallone, Red, Janey Hamilton, and Chloe. They all have spotless reports of me yet because of one male talent-hating (okay maybe there's two if you want to count K. Holland), I can't work for ALL these other directors at VCA who I've already worked tons for and to equally happy results because of one male-hater who I never really enjoyed working for anyway and I probably had no business ever accepting her shoots to begin with. IF I didn't shoot as much as I do every week, I would probably care more about the sh-tstorm this P.Rhodes person is trying to create around me. But let's face it. As you can see by my journal, with Gonzo I can shoot two scenes a day (making double my full rate) in the time it takes to do just one feature. And I still shoot for the other feature companies like Vivid, anyway. But listen to all the haters out there, P. Rhodes put me in a boiling hot real straight jacket and then had the female Model play with a giant thermometer around my asshole while I'm restrained and can't stop it from happening! What would YOU have done? (not to mention we were rolling camera when she surprised me with it (so I can't say "stop" or I'm the asshole for ruining the take)-all of this time mind you while we are supposed to be filming a f-cking DOUBLE PENETRATION scene btw!! WTF??!!) I don't have time for that kind of nonsense. Anyway, In the end all this helps me, what is the saying, "there's no such thing as bad press"? So maybe I should be thanking P. Rhodes? Besides, it drives traffic to my site at WWW.KURTLOCKWOOD.COM to see the proof for themselves in the journal pics which I think you should all do right now.


1/21/05

KSEX Wankus' Apology to Jim Holliday

AVN reports. More.

Wankus: "I'm embarrassed and disgusted that I was forced to be part of such immature behavior."

I asked Kurt Lockwood via email for a response to this and when one comes in, I will post it.

I was not able to make the memorial because I'm sick with the flu.

Wankus writes:

I would like to first say that it was my true honor to be invited to Jim Holliday's service by Bill Margold and scattered other adult industry personalities. While I never officially met Jim, I really wanted to attend his memorial service as a way of meeting him through the experiences of others. With touching stories from Bill [Margold], Ron Jeremy, Shayla LaVeaux, Sharon Mitchell, Gene Ross, Kylie Ireland, Katie Morgan, D'Cypher, Jill Kelly, Henri Pachard and so many of his "Angels" and industry peers, I am very happy that I made the decision to attend the celebration of life, for someone that meant so much to the direction our industry has taken.

I was a bit disappointed in the turn-out and felt that others like me who didn't have the privilege of knowing Jim should have attended as well. It is my belief that we can learn a lot from our upper classman and if anything, we owe them the respect and appreciation for the struggles, accomplishments and hard work they provided over many years--dedication that paved the way for our travels through this complicated career path.

With that said, I would like to take this time to apologize for the unexpected outburst and near physical confrontation I was surprised with from male performer, Kurt Lockwood. At the time of the incident, I was chatting with friends, only to see him charge towards me, mutter angry allegations and challenge me to a fight as the service was coming to a close. I'm embarrassed and disgusted that I was forced to be part of such immature behavior on such a sacred day and am truly shocked that these were the actions of someone that has been rewarded by this industry as one of the top new talents of porn.

In an effort to douse the flames and save the respect of the memorial service, I told Kurt that I would not play into his inappropriate behavior and did not accept his desire to throw blows. Further, in an effort to act in a mature, adult manner, I telephoned Kurt on the way home from the service to try to determine where these hostilities were coming from and to see if we could make it go away civilly. After listening to him brag about how many different ways he planned on killing me with his gun, I decided to terminate the conversation.

While I can't explain Mr. Lockwood's behavior, I would like to very clearly express my sincere apology to Jim Holliday, his friends, porn family and those who came out to honor him. I meant you no disrespect and I am very sorry for your loss. For our loss.

What's Going On Between Wankus And Kurt Lockwood?

Mike South says Lockwood is angry that Wankus has hooked up with Kurt's ex-girlfriend Tyler Faith (Jill Kelly Productions contract girl).

I asked Wankus about his relationship with Tyler. He replied: "Tyler and I have become very close."

Wankus has not bashed Kurt on the air. In fact, he introduced Kurt to his cohost Michelle Lay, who has a crush on him. Kurt and Michelle had sex on the air and Michelle has subsequently hired Kurt for many of her productions.

8/13/05

Kurt Lockwood phones me at 4:03pm Saturday. He sounds angry.

I want you to print this on your site verbatim. You're a parasite. I see that you've written something about my friend Tim Connelly. You're talking out of your ass. You don't what you're saying. You should have more consideration for somebody who is going through something rather than using every means necessary to make a quick buck. You're a parasite. If you write about my friend again, you're going to have to deal with me when you see me in person. Got it.

8/22/05

Kurt Lockwood writes me:

Fluke Bored (aka Dirt Merchant) In response to your oh-so-touching inquiry as to the current health status of my bandmate and more importantly, my friend, Tim Connelly: Yes, of course Tim will be drumming at the rock show. We've put a ton of time and preperation to make Fri. nite at the King King our best show yet. Tim Connelly's a true fuckin' rock n' roller and plus it's a benefit for charity, a concept I'm sure you personally couldn't grasp if it bit you on your fat, Aussie ass. And if you dare to show your parasite self, perhaps Tim can repay you for all the respect and support you've been giving him on the web with a nice bout to your smug face. Hey, then you can write all about how you got the shit kicked out of you for being a gossiping, scumbag, loser! Scoop! Now go find yourself a rock and crawl back under it you bitter, hateful, jealous, good-for-nothing, asshole.

8/29/05

Kurt writes me:

Show was amazing fun. The girls were amazing hot. Plus, we raised $4000 for AIM HEALTHCARE DETOX BED PROGRAM and we were approached by major management based on our original songs. Rock n roll. (Started late because Fayner's opening band cancelled due to his bass player breaking his arm in a car accident the night before the show) Why weren't you there, FLuke Bored? O yeah, I remember now, 'coz you are one of the useless, parasite, bottomfeeders of the adult business who disgustingly and ashamedly makes his living off publicizing the sad, misfortunes of others and as being the slimeball, jealous wretch that you are, you probably would've gotten that well deserved karmic beatdown you've had coming. What's the matter? I guess it's ok for you, you bastion of journalistic integrity you, to write about OTHER PEOPLE'S bad times and make a cheap buck off of it, but you don't wanna cover your OWN come-uppance? C'mon FLuke, think of the hits you'll get! The banner revenue! Gossip Dirt+$$=FLuke's true god. Right? FLuke, you are delusional. "Dirt" Merchants suck. Seek help and fuck off. Have a nice day.

9/12/05

Luke: "Did Kurt Lockwood treat you like a lady on Friday?"

Joanna laughs. "I think I treated him like a lady."

Luke: "What does that mean?"

Joanna: "I don't feel like going into it."

Kurt Lockwood responds to my email inquiry:

Dear Useless Dirt Merchant Fluke Bored:

VCA director Eon McKai told me it was the hottest scene in the movie so go ask him. Now please stop e-mailing me. I mean, it's every week now you gotta send me another lame gossip inquiry? Seriously, it's borderline stalking. If I wanna correspond with the village idiot I'll write a letter to the President. Your schoolgirl obsession with me has gotten kinda creepy. Don't you have some poor, new, would-be porn starlet's drug use to exploit for banner revenue? Ugh, even responding to you makes feel like I'm gonna be sick. Get a real job, bitch.

9/14/05

Luke: "With Kurt Lockwood, were you inserting your fingers certain places?"

Joanna Angel laughs. "Yes, I did. He said he liked it. I had to give the boy what he wanted."

10/26/05

Kurt Lockwood writes:

Dear AVN, I need your help. Some cowardly, self-loathing, loser posted a rather lengthy and really disgustingly homophobic rant on one of the hate-ridden "gossip" sites and said they were me. (I don't want to give it any press here. E-mail me and I will give you the link.) I DID NOT WRITE THIS! Usually, I would just ignore these haters as I am too busy actually shooting movies nearly everyday in this business or too busy celebrating my one year anniversary living with my girlfriend, SAMANTHA RYAN, but this new low of actually STEALING MY IDENTITY went too far. I just found out about this today and I guess whatever hater posted this, did so to try to influence AVN voting. I have friends like Vivid Director Chi Chi La Rue and Playgirl Dir. Kelly Holland's P.M. Jim Steele who are both openly gay and whom I consider friends and would not want them offended by this purile garbage from this imposter. Thanks for listening. Sincerely The REAL Kurt Lockwood P.S. If you or anybody reading this can e-mail me as to any possible legal steps I can take towards this gossip site and its owners for slander or identity theft please send them to Kurt@KurtLockwood.com.

1/13/05

Kurt writes on AVN's blog:

...and the spin has been put on over-time by various haters, wannabes, and hanger-ons desperate for attention and website hits for cheap-ass banner revenue. They're so broke and pathetic. (How's that Kia running Luke? Gene, how's life in that one bedroom apartment off Ventura you've been living in for years? You guys live like the rats you are. I make SIX FIGURES A YEAR being one of the busiest working guys in the business, I get PAID to fuck hot chicks EVERY DAY and to travel and shoot all over the world-Caribbean, New York, Vegas, etc.-so hate on THAT you worthless gasbags. All of you white trash gossip writers are all broke-ass failures as men, you should be ashamed of yourselves.)

...This year, this coward [Mike South] from Atlanta, who thought he'd get away with being a loudmouth hater because I would only see him once a year found out he was wrong. Again, I begged him to take it outside and he wouldn't even get up from his seat, Instead, this pussy threw a drink over his shoulder without even looking at me and he completely missed! What a yellow-bellied blow-hard!

Wankus responds.

Mike South responds on the AVN Blog:

I'm gonna give ya a little heads up Lackwood, something you obviously don't know. It is by my grace that you are alive to write that thread, believe it. You see when you pulled that cowardly sneak up from behind act you were your usual stupid self. My very firt thought was to take the fork sitting right in front of me and shove it into your throat, thus ridding porn of the embarrassment that calls himself Kurt Lockwood and simultaineously raising the average IQ of Porn Valley by several points. But as much of a service to the gene pool that it would have been it simply wasn't worth the hassle of having to cop a plea to involuntary manslaughter, though I am sure if the judge knows you he would have likely given me a humanitarian award in leiu of a jail sentence. It's easy to say let's take it outside after you have put 10 yards between us and are hurrying to add to that, what am I supposed to do? Jump up and run you down? Sorry you aren't worth the effort. That's OK though Kurt I see big things in your ass...I mean future... I was here when got in the biz and I will be here when you are long forgotten.

2/24/06

L.A.'s unsung prophet

The following article is satirical:

Kurt Lockwood resents his hometown's refusal to recognize his greatness. Really.

A popular proverb in Spanish says, "You cannot be a prophet in your own land." And that's how quintessential Los Angeles pornographer Kurt Lockwood feels today, as he asks aloud why he isn't more famous in his hometown.

After all, his 2006 movie "The Decline of Western Civilization, Part 60: The Porno Years has been hailed as a classic L.A. crack-up film. His less well-received "After Midnight," he believes "is unknown for the masterpiece that it is." His short scenes have won awards (Kurt Lockwood & Ashley Long won the 2004 AVN award for Best Couples Sex Scene for Compulsion) and run in numerous compilations. So why is he better known in his new home of four years, San Francisco, he asks, than in his own city of fellow fallen angels?

"I'm not just another porner. I don't think people understand my relationship with this city, and they don't understand what I've achieved," Lockwood declares, as he sits in Guelaguetza, the Oaxacan mole mecca, near his childhood haunts in Mar Vista.

He's dressed in a black flamenco-style skirt, with black-stiletto-heeled boots, and a long black coat with flame-red trim — a style the San Francisco Chronicle described as "Morticia Addams gone gypsy." His eyelids and earrings are dusted with gold.

"There is not another male porn star in Southern California who sits between John Holmes and John Leslie, next to Rocco and Stagliano. I have the most stature, certainly, of any man in Southern California," Lockwood says.

"What is the disconnect that has occurred between me and Los Angeles throughout my career?" he asked, as he prepared to unveil his latest song, "Frantic Transmissions to and From Los Angeles," which details the geographical dislocation that he said pushed him away.

It was the lack of recognition that made him leave Los Angeles, he said and an inhospitable geography that explains "why Los Angeles doesn't have a literary and pornographic scene like New York and San Francisco." There, he said, "everything is within a plausible distance. There you can say, 'I'll go to your reading.'"

Lockwood says he believes he is misunderstood partly because he has engaged in the kind of backdoor excesses that, in his view, are permissible "tools of creativity" in the hands of only female porn stars.

Lockwood says he has been diagnosed as manic-depressive three times. He said he tried medication briefly but abandoned it when it strangled his performing.

"I made a conscious decision that I would prefer to live with the often debilitating effects of my mental problem and be a functional porn star," he said.

Observed at a party this past weekend, Lockwood was not shy. He would step forward, give a firm yet supple handshake, and say, "Hi, I'm Kurt Lockwod, porn star."

If one visits KurtLockwood.com, the header reads: "Pornstar, Model, Actor, Musician..." With a college degree in drama, Lockwood is truly a renaissance man.

"What has made my life in Los Angeles untenable, and made me have to leave Los Angeles, is that I am treated as a non-person in this city. L.A. can still claim me as the splendid mutation that crawled out from the stucco slums of Sepulveda," he says.

But he's not holding her breath. "It isn't just that L.A. doesn't understand your literary stature," he says. "Your own hometown isn't supporting you."

He continues, as the sunset deepens into twilight in the strip mall parking lot outside. "I'm the best-kept secret in L.A."

1/19/06

Kurt Lockwood Superstar - Hotter Than A Human Torch

Paula posts: "That's one HOT pic!! Of course considering the subject,it would be hard to not be HOT!! I say leave the nipples alone..... they are perfcet as they are, don't mess with perfection!! MUAH!"

Jed Riley emails:

Seeing the picture of Kurt Lockwood Superstar, made me want to check what that numbskull was up to again. Went to kurtlockjaw.com and the 'art' section has been updated. Kurt has 'written' a one man play about Kurt Cobain. 'Written' suggesting Lockwood had a fresh perspective on Cobain. Unfortunately for all theatre goers, Lockwood's creative talent limited to him cutting and pasting a bunch of Cobain quotes together. Must have taken some effort scouring the internet, slapping it all together and clicking 'save' in word.

Heading over to myspace, we find Lockwood as a regular reader of lukeisback and fan of your photography. Seems he's stolen two of your pictures, with one as his main photo. Maybe he doesn't really hate you, or maybe he's never seen a picture of himself he didn't like. I suspect the later, as he's also sporting a picture looking dead set like a lesbian.

Lockwood has even found time to issue a 'press realase' (which Variety obviously missed) about his relationship breakup with Samantha Ryan. On any other page, we could find this as a tongue-in-cheek couple of paragraphs, yet Lockwood is deadly serious, even down to quoting himself.

Lockwood posts Nov. 30, 2006:

BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO (BEING SINGLE AGAIN...)
Category: Blogging
Press Release

Multi- AVN award winning adult film star KURT LOCKWOOD and SAMANTHA RYAN have decided to put and end to their two year relationship. A porn "power couple" for 2005 and most of 2006, Lockwood directed Ryan in six of his adult features for SEX Z PICTURES in which Ryan starred, "THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART 69: THE PORNO YEARS," "L.A. VICE," LORDS OF DOGGYSTYLE TOWN," "THUMBSUCKERS, vol 1 and 2," and "SORORITY SLUTS: IOTA ETA PI." The split was amicable and the couple remain close friends and will still be signing together at the SEX Z PICTURES booth at the AEE convention in Las Vegas in January.

"The individual travel commitments of our careers were becoming too difficult to negotiate. Relationships are tough in general, add in the particular pressures and constraints of working every day in adult and (as any porn star in a similar relationship can tell you) it's a real challenge. Anyway, she's a really beautiful, sexy, intelligent, talented girl with the singing voice of an angel and I hope everything works out for her for the best. It's just became time for me to move on and see what's the next horizon for me. Honestly, right now, I just want to focus on directing my new full length adult feature for SEX Z PICTURES, THE REAL BOOGIE NIGHTS, rock with my band, Porn City Punx, and really, I'm just looking forward to enjoying being single again," Lockwood said.

3/1/07

Kurt Lockwood Blows Up On Egoist 'eXXXtra' Set Thursday

Email Luke a caption (the winner gets a dinner for two with Kurt):

Jim Jones: Lockwood and Gram battle it out like men...while Luke hides like a pansy.

Luke simpers: "I'm not about to get in the middle of that dust-up, mate! Those two were like a couple of tightly coiled death adders! Besides...I'm gay!"

Jed emails: Don't you know who I am? L.A. Vice? The Real Boogie Nights? err.... Mixed Nuts? C'mon! Steve Martin was in that.... No he didn't f--- me in the arse!

Abby Ehmann emails:

You called me a fag!
C'mon, pussy!
How ya gonna spin this?
Don't ya just love my new tribal tats?
Do ya like my new pec implants?

Kurt Lockwood finds out the morning of March 1 that his latest movie will not be released by Sex Z Pictures because much of its script was stolen from P.T. Anderson's 1998 movie Boogie Nights.

11:10 a.m. DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES: Arriving an hour late with his dog, Kurt tries to park in the cramped building lot.

The building manager has a dog and tells Kurt he can't park there with his dog.

Kurt threatens the manager: "I'll kick your ass."

The manager tells the movie crew that he does not want Kurt in his building.

Kurt backs out on to the street.

Jennifer James and some of the crew walk down to the street to try to sort out the problem.

Gram Ponante and Abby Ehmann walk up.

Kurt screams at Gram: "You want to fight?"

Jumping out of his car, screaming threats, and pulling off his shirt and jacket, Lockwood shoves Ponante several times, spilling Gram's coffee all over his shirt. (Video)

Nursing a $1200 laptop, Gram tries to apply his Harvard education and superior intellect to defusing the situation but Kurt is not to be appeased. (High-res picture.)

Lockwood gets back in his car but keeps yelling.

Director Jennifer James tries to calm him.

Kurt repeatedly screams at Ponante: "Call me a fag now!"

A van stuck behind Lockwood on the street honks. Kurt threatens the driver.

Three crew members and the building manager chat with Kurt. (Video, Video)

Lockwood eventually shakes hands with the manager.

Eventually, Gram has a sit down chat with Jennifer James and Egoist owner Brian Scott. Gram says he'll press charges of assault against Lockwood.

Jennifer and Brian are apologetic but they need Kurt for this shoot and so Ponante is asked to leave.

A few minutes later, Kurt tells Brian that either I leave or he leaves.

Brian and the production manager ask me to leave.

I do.

Video of Sunny Lane, hair in curlers, rehearsing with James Bartholet. Video.

An Adult videographer emails:

As a camera guy, I've worked alongside Kurt a few times. I have nothing personally to gain by making comments pro or con about him. I've seen Kurt exhibit extremely bad judgment on a set. At the same time, I've also seen him treat crew and talent with absolute class on occasion. It goes both ways (no pun intended)...

After working alongside porn "actors" for quite a while, I think I pretty much have the psychology down as to why some of them act the way they do. In my opinion, porn is a magnet for people with self-esteem issues. The attention that these actors receive working in porn is probably the most amount of "acceptance" they've ever received in their entire lives including family or anyone else. Therefore, certain types of people process this porn attention into meaning something more than what it actually is. Being the best porn actor around doesn't really amount to anything in Hollywood or the rest of the mainstream world.

Johno Rogers posts to XPT: "I love it how Kurt Lockwood sticks it up the morons and cretins who attack him like cowards over the internet He's one of the few guys who can defeat a ton of haters with a few choice words. While he's out having sex with tons of gorgeous women, many of the haters are sitting at home wasting away."

Conky posts: " I can add nothing more to this awesome story illustrating the pressures modern performer/directors find themselves under."

Kurt Lockwood emails Willie D and the XPT crew:

Date: Nov 18, 2006 2:19 AM
Subject: TO MY NUMBER ONE FAN!!

Body:

HEY WILLIE D "Steve, don't forget that you're pushing middle age, and that ultra-hot sex you brag about happens because other people pay those whores to allow you to penetrate them. But I wouldn't excpect you to understand...you're Caligula...Caligula was a sociopath, too."

YAWN... OKAY NOW I AM STARTING TO GET BORED. THIS JUST GETS REPETITIVE AND I'M REPEATING MYSELF NOW. BTW, I LIKE HOW YOU DIDN'T POST MY LAST RESPONSE TO YOU. CHICKENMASTER DID THE SAME THING. YOU HATERS ARE SUCH COWARDS. I PUT YOU IN YOUR PLACE IN THAT LAST POST AND YOU COULDN'T BRING YOURSELF TO POST IT, HUH, COWARD? NOR DID YOU ANSWER ME BUT YOU STILL TAKE POST SHOTS AT ME ANYWAY LIKE THE PUSSY THAT YOU REALLY ARE. SO OKAY HERE WE GO... AGAIN...

YES, I AM PUSHING MIDDLE AGE AND WHAT? FATHER TIME COMES FOR US ALL MY FRIEND. I THINK I"M DOING BETTER THAN MOST IN THAT DEPT. I'M LOVING GROWING OLDER AND THE WISDOM THAT COMES WITH IT. PLUS, IT TURNS ME ON THAT THE HOT CHICKS ARE 18 AND I'M 36. PLUS, WOMEN WILL TELL YOU MEN GET BETTER LOOKING AS THEY GET OLDER. EXCEPT YOU OF COURSE. BTW, ONE LOOK AT YOUR FAT, GRIZZLED, UGLY MUG AND I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY WHY YOU HATE ME. IF I LOOKED LIKE YOU HATERS I WOULD HATE ME TOO. WE ARE THE SAME AGE AND YOU LOOK 20 YEARS OLDER THAN ME AT LEAST. AS FOR THE GIRLS WHO HAVE ULTRA HOT SEX WITH ME ARE PAID BY SOMEONE TO... WHO GIVES A f---? I'LL TAKE IT, HAHA!

IT SURE BEATS THE HELL OUT OF NOT GETTING ALL THAT HOT PUSSY THAT I GET TO f---. I'LL TAKE THE HOT f---ING GIRLS WHO ARE PAID TO HAVE SEX WITH ME OVER WHATEVER NOTHING SEX LIFE YOU f---IN' VIRGINS HAVE (OR DON'T HAVE) ANY DAY. YOU HATERS ARE MISSING THE POINT. GUYS LIKE YOU WHO PAY SO MUCH ATTENTION TO OTHER GUYS' SEX LIVES ARE G.A.Y. AND THERE'S NO WAY AROUND THAT FACT. YOUR BEHAVIOR IS GAY!! AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE CALIGULA LINE? AT LAST, YOU ARE FINALLY BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND ME. GOD, YOU HATERS ARE JUST DUMB. LAST BUT NOT LEAST. USING MY REAL NAME? EVEN FOR A SCUMBAG LIKE YOU THAT IS A NEW LOW, ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU HIDE IN ANONYMITY, ASSHOLE. GET SOME f---IN' PERSPECTIVE, DICKHEAD.

I'LL SEND THIS BELOW TO YOU BECAUSE I KNOW YOU WILL PASS IT ON TO CONKY ON XPT. HEY CONKY ZZZZZZZZZZZ.... OH ARE YOU DONE? I MUST'VE DOZED OFF.

YOUR OBSESSION WITH ME IS TRULY REMARKABLE. SEVERAL POSTS FROM YOU ABOUT ME A DAY? GOD, I MUST BE THE FIRST THING YOU THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU WAKE UP. YOU ARE TRULY THE ULTIMATE FAN. I KNOW YOU SAY THE CONTRARY BUT IT'S TOTALLY A CASE OF "THE HATER DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH METHINKS." HERE'S YOUR FATAL FLAW. YOU CAN'T SAY YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ME WHEN YOU POST ABOUT ME EVERY DAY. THERE IS AN ORGY OF EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THE CONTRARY. I IRRITATE YOU? EXCELLENT! I WANT TO IRRITATE STUPID HATER ASSHOLES LIE YOU AND YOUR ILK DUMBASS! THAT'S MY WHOLE f---ING PURPOSE FOR RESPONDING TO THESE THINGS! DON'T YOU GET IT YET? AS FOR MY EGO BEING MY DOWNFALL. WHAT DOWNFALL? LET ME TELL YA TRUE CONKY, I WOULDN'T SWAP LIVES WITH ANY OF YOU LOSERS. NOT FOR A SINGLE f---ING SECOND! YET I THINK THERE ARE MANY OF YOU HATERS WHO WOULD SWAP LIVES WITH ME IN A f---IN' NANO-SECOND. AND YOU KNOW THAT'S THE TRUTH. ABOUT IMPRESSING YOU AND AFFECTING YOUR LIFE? WHO GIVES A f---? WHO EVER SAID I WAS OUT TO IMPRESS YOU? I'M JUST WAVING MY DICK IN YOUR FACE AND LAUGHING AND WATCHING YOU HATERS SQUIRM. I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR SMALL LIFE. IT'S YOU WHO POST ABOUT ME MR. OBSESSIVE NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. I COULD GIVE TWO s---S ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DO. OF COURSE YOU DON'T OPEN YOURSELF UP TO EQUAL SCRUTINY BEHIND YOUR HATER WALL OF ANONYMITY NOW DO YA PUSSY? ANYWAY, I STOPPED READING YOUR SECOND PARAGRAPH ABOUT HALF WAY DOWN BECAUSE I'VE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE AND IT'S BLAH BLAH BLAH. AND KURT'S A FAG AND WHATEVER.... NEENER NEENER. THAT'S WHAT YOU DON'T GET. MY RESPONSE TO YOU AND THE REST OF THE HATERS IS: I GET IT. YOU HATE ME. AND WHAT? IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY? DID YOU GET IT ALL OUT? COZ I'M STILL GONNA RUB IT IN YOUR FACE. SO SAVE YOUR UN-SOLICITED DIMESTORE B.S. PSYCHO-BABBLE, DR. PHIL. I MEAN, I LOVE THAT YOU STUDY ME SO HARD THAT YOU TRY TO PSYCHO-ANALYZE ME. (GOD, I AM THE MOST EXCITING THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD TO YOU, HUH?) AS FAR AS YOU BEING IN THE BIZ LONGER, THAN WHY HAVEN'T YOU GROWN A f---IN SAC IN ALL THOSE EXTRA YEARS? WHY HIDE YOUR PORN IDENTITY? WHY? BECAUSE YOU ARE A FULL OF s--- WANNABE LOSER NOBODY DELUDING YOURSELF THAT YOU ARE NOW IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU ARE POSTING ON A STUPID WORTHLESS HATER BOARD? CONGRATS! YOU MADE IT! AS FAR AS MY CINEMATIC QUALIFICATIONS GO, WHO GIVES A f---? I GOTTA JOB DOING WHAT I LOVE AND BEING CREATIVE AND IT'S SELLING WELL AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM f---ING LINE.

PLUS I WILL LET YOU IN ON A LITTLE SECRET. I'M ABOUT TO SIGN AN EXCLUSIVE FEATURE DIRECTING CONTRACT WITH SEX Z PICTURES WORTH SIX FIGURES. THAT'S IN ADDITION TO THE SIX FIGURES I ALREADY MAKE, ASSHOLES. OH SNAP! YOU REALLY HATE ME NOW, HUH? YOU'RE s---TING YOURSELF RIGHT ABOUT NOW, RIGHT? YEP. YOU'LL BE HEARING ABOUT IT SOON. GONNA BE MAKING CLOSE TO A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR SOON. HOW ABOUT HAT? PLUS I WILL f--- ABOUT 400 GIRLS THIS YEAR. HATE ON THAT $UCCE$$, YOU HATER MOTHERf---ERS. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST. HEY JRV, I SEE YOU'VE JOINED IN THE FRAY. JESUS, YOU LOSERS ABOUND. TO MY KNOWLEDGE WE'VE NEVER MET, I'VE NEVER SAID A WORD ABOUT YOU. BUT YET YOU TALK s---. FUNNY I SAW YOU AT THE PARTY THE OTHER NIGHT AND YOU DIDN'T SAY A WORD. WHY NOT SAY SOMETHING THEN? WHAT COULD BE PREVENTING YOU? SELF-PRESERVATION I THINK. BUT JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER COWARDLY HATERS YOU LOVE TO TALK s--- WHEN I AM NOT IN FRONT OF YOU. TELL YA WHAT. NEXT PARTY I SEE YA, YOU OLD, UGLY, IMPOTENT, FAT, f---. I'LL GIVE YA CHANCE TO REPEAT YOUR COMMENT TO MY FACE. FAIR ENOUGH? SEE YA SOON. ANYWAY, LOVE TO ALL THE HATERS. IT'S COOL. I GO ON MYSPACE AND THERE'S MY POSTIVE RABID FANS (WHO THANKFULLY COMPLETELY DESTROY YOU HATERS IN SHEER NUMBERS AND LOVE) AND THEN I CHECK XPT WHICH IS LIKE MY NEGATIVE FANS, BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, YOU CAN DELUDE YOURSELVES ALL YOU LIKE, BUT YOU HATERS CAN'T POST THIS MUCH ABOUT ME AND NOT ADMIT THAT YOU ARE OBSESSED WITH ME. FOLLOW THE LOGIC, ASSHOLES. ANYWAY, I'M TIRED AND GOING TO BED. TOMORROW I SHOOT THE THIRD AND LAST DAY OF FILMING "COCK ROCKERS #2" OUT ON SEX Z PICTURES. TOMORROW I'M f---ING BRITNEY AND WHITNEY STEVENS...TOGETHER, HAHA! BEST, KURT f---IN' LOCKWOOD

Nov 10, 2006 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: RE: TO MY NUMBER ONE FAN!!

Body: Hey Willie D Glad to see you have a sense of humor. One that you have never allowed for me, btw. Let's see Jamesn has given me his stamp of approval, Chickenmaster threw in the towel (and like a true Chickens--- didn't post his side of the conversation where he complimented me and told me I was "alright" in his book and said that my talking to him was a "complement (sic)." But rather than admit it in XPT he fell on his own sword, er, chickenclaw, haha. So who is next? Lockwood 2 Haters 0.

Willie perhaps I should call you into question next. How about this post from you on xfanz.xom When I joined here I said I enjoyed the drama, backstabbing, and something else I forgot how to spell, but I left out one crucial element to my enjoyment of modern pornography: the gossip. There wasn't a whole lot of drama in my high school, except when one of Barry Goldwater's relatives got kicked out for drinking on campus...so porn is filling that void in my life which was lacking. - Willie D Dude!! This speaks volumes about you and your life and your hate! Not too mention, porn "filling a void in your life??" Weak. A "gossip void"? Dude. Seriously, I may like strap on sex, but you sir, are a F.A.G.! A grown, successful man does not bemoan the "gossip void" his high school left him with. Jesus Christ! f---ing grow a pair! Is the D. in Willie D. for douchebag or what? What are you? A little old lady in a sewing circle? Waaah, no gossip in my high school! I'm a little bitch! Still, this speaks VOLUMES about you and what cheap thrills you get out of this and why. Do you feel like you have an identity now, "Wiilie D"? Do you feel sexier as "Willie D?" Do you delude yourself in thinking that your internet hate carries any real-world weight at all? Seriously? Or are you too, just sucking your own dick and kidding yourself into thinking that bonding over the impersonal safety of the internet over shared anonymous hatred of others is somehow making real human connections and makes you noteworthy? Truth? It won't and it doesn't.

I told all you hatersl, my responses seem to be making their way to xpt just fine from here. I'm responding because it gives me pleasure. It's like mooning all you haters right to your faces and none of you can do a damn thing about it. Hey, I don't expect you to understand what I'm saying, I mean anyone who is that satisfied with themselves for so little has really lost perspective of what is important in life before we even start, know what I mean? Who knows maybe you can come up with some bit of oh-so-clever hatred that Smeely Monkey will compliment you on and make your whole f---in' hater life! That's pretty thin and noticeably pathetic. But you go and enjoy that. As for me, I just f---ed Luscious Lopez and I've got six scenes over the next three days to go shoot. Count dat money, bitches! Best, Kurt f---in' Lockwood

Kurt Lockwood - Orgasmic Analyst

Proving that XRCO members, indeed, do have a sense of humor, Kurt Lockwood received an honorary mention in the Orgasmic Analyst category. "Lockwood did have more than enough actual nominations to be listed," XRCO co-chairman Dirty Bob revealed. "However, we decided that this award is best served for females – hence he is listed, but in a non-voting capacity."

Conky writes:

I think we at XPT should take the moral high ground from this point. It's time to start the healing. I think this appalling act by XRCO will only heap more pressure upon Kurt to appear ultra macho. Unless we now step in and embrace him as one of our own, he can only be days away from demonstrating his strength by ripping up phone directories and pushing nerds around at his local high school. It's time to stop the hate, people. Like his black lab, Kurt needs to be rescued and re-housed. I think he should become a Moderator here at XPT and usher in a new dawn of metrosexuality and compact SUV ownership.

Egoist 'eXXXtra' Shoot

Jennifer James responds:

hi luke, I am sorry about the upsetness that happened that day, and the resulting abrupt departure of yourself and Gram... after all I did invite both of you. I did not know anything about the problems, and was caught totally off guard. I am sorry about what happened to gram, after all I invited him as well, but i had torn up my right shoulder just days before the shoot and had gotten a cortisone shot in my shoulder, could not move my right arm and was shooting, in great pain, left handed. And i was not about to jump in the middle of the two of them, and risk any more damage.

After everything, Kurt came on set and delivered a breathtaking performance, I wrote the role with him in mind and it called for a guy who was a bit "over the top".He did a great acting job , requiring few retakes and gave a white hot sex scene with Sunny Lane. and I would love to workwith him in the future.. I wish you would have come back at the end of the day to see the blistering anal sex scene between Audrey Hollander and hubby Otto Bauer, I think it will be an award winner..both Lynn Lemay and Sunny lane stayed around just to watch, and were blown away, as were the rest of us, amazing performance on their part.

We have a great movie in the can, and with Hustler handling the DVD distribution it's a great way to launch Egoist Entertainment, a company that, like myself, believes in all those things our business seems to have forgotten, romance, seduction, beauty, sensuality, great production values, doing business in an honorable way and paying on set with checks that don't bounce!

AdultDVDTalk Locks Discussion Of Kurt Lockwood's Jihad

Moderator Hardware posts: "I don't see what this has to do with porn, besides the guys in whatever this incident is being in the biz. Rather than move it to another forum, where I doubt it would be any more appreciated by the mods than it is here, I'm locking it."

It won't take much escalation in Kurt Lockwood's feuds for somebody to get killed, but I guess that has nothing to do with porn. Nor did Wonderland Avenue, I suppose.

Here's an ADT thread on Lockwood that has not been locked.

Von Swine posts on ADT:

It's become apparent that the ideals of 'restricting' ones opinions is becoming commonplace thesedays in/on adult message boards. No longer is one free to rebuke others statements no matter how slanderous or mis-informed, without running the risk of having said retort erased completely, never having seen the light of day. I ask you fellow posters/ADT bretheren, would you agree to such practice here on your beloved and frequently contributed to public message board? I think not! For XXX breeds one of the last domains of freedom and expression in our current era, and we should not have this form of censorship! Do not expect your voice, or opinion to be represented, or even displayed here after your fingers toils since every single thing that you write/type, is subject to anothers approval, regardless of validity. Communism works in many places, but not where I reside. Not now, not ever. Free me from these shackles if you can, by any means neccessary, so I can live free and proud like America gives promise to.

Drew Black, owner of ADT, posts:

Moderators are volunteers. They are not paid employees. Often moderation actions are taken simply to make their jobs easier. When a thread starts like the Ponante/Whywood thing it's obvious that a s---storm-and-a-half is brewing and those things tend to spread like cancer.

I find it entertaining that people have finally figured out that they can pretty much post anything they want in WN & N cuz the moderator of this forum is asleep at the wheel.

Thursday, March 8, 2007, I published these two satirical stories (some of the time I labeled them as satire and some of the time I did not):

Kurt Lockwood - American Sex Idol

LOS ANGELES, March 3 — Three of the leading candidates for Playboy TV's American Sex Idol on Saturday denounced one of their industry’s best-known commentators for using an antigay epithet on actor Kurt Lockwood.

Speaking at the XBiz Political Action Conference before an overflow crowd on Friday, Mr. Gram Ponante said, “I was going to have a few comments on Kurt Lockwood, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Lockwood.”

“Kurt was singled out for a personal attack because the porn blogging establishment knows he poses the greatest threat to their power,” said Sex Z Pictures owner Bo Kenney. “Since they have nothing real to use against him, Ponante’s resorting to the classic right-wing strategy of riling up hate to smear a progressive champion.”

Mr. Ponante, asked for a reaction to the criticism, said in an e-mail message: “C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like Kurt Lockwood. That would be mean.”

Mags Drop Ponante Column After Lockwood Slur

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three magazines said this week they will drop Gram Ponante's column after the conservative author referred to American Sex Idol candidate Kurt Lockwood as a ``faggot.''

Adult Video News in Chatsworth, Hustler magazine in Beverly Hills and Adam Film World in Los Angeles said they would stop running Ponante's syndicated column because of the comment he made last week.

``We will not continue to publish the columns of someone who uses people as a punch line to get a cheap laugh and who so freely uses an offensive term to describe another human being,'' Hustler Editor Bruce David wrote.

AVN's editorial board said it would halt the column following Ponante's ``crude characterization of Kurt Lockwood as a homosexual.''

Tod Hunter emails me:

I remember reading an autobiographical work, I believe Scoring by Dan Greenberg but I wouldn't swear to it, in which the author said that he was working at Playboy on editorial staff and they had a quandary. At Playboy, everything is labeled: Humor, Memoir, Ribald Classic, Pictorial. whatever. They had something satirical that was not typical Playboy material but was going into the magazine as a humor piece -- Girls of Amish Country with everybody in ankle-length dresses and bonnets or something equally atypical -- and they were in a big debate whether they should label it Satire or not. The author argued that it shouldn't be labeled as Satire, part of the point was that they were presenting it straight.

Bottom line: If you have to label something as "Satire," you aren't doing it right.

Egoist's Version

Brian Scott emails:

Luke,

Love the new pic of you in the plaid shirt!

I am with Egoist Entertainment, the producer of "eXXXtra eXXXtra".

I was told some time ago, that life is not about what happens to you, but how you deal with what happens to you and I wanted to thank you and everyone on the cast and crew for the way they handled what could have been a bad situation. I have not responded because I thought this would all blow over, but it does not seem to be going anywhere and I wanted to make sure that some of the facts are corrected.

Any issues between Kurt and Gram had nothing to do with Egoist Entertainment. Any altercations took place outside before they entered the set. As you can see from your video the altercation happened on the street, not on the set. I wish you would have been able to come back at the end of the day to see the amazing sex scene between Audrey Hollander and Otto Bauer. After you left we went on to shot some great footage with no issues whatsoever.

I have read that Gram wanted more of an apology from Jennifer James. I want to know why Gram has not apologized to Jennifer? or to Me? When Jennifer invited Gram to the set, he knew that Kurt was going to be on set that day. If he had any idea there would be tension between the two of them, he should have mentioned that to Jennifer or showed up at a different time. It was Gram who could have put "eXXXtra eXXXtra" in jeopardy.

Brian Scott

PS. The Satire is hilarious!

Willie emails:

Has Brian Scott ever had a real job? One where people who hold different opinions have to learn to get along? Implying that Ponante is the responsible party here insults the intelligence of everyone in the room. He jeopardized a porno shoot? How, by attempting to show up and publicize it? Brian, people in the real world often come into contact with people they can't stand. But the vast majority of us handle it without resorting to ripping off our clothes and physically threatening people. You can put James Carville and DIck Morris in the same room. You know they hate each other's beliefs to the point of spitting, but strangely they maintain some type of composure. Just quietly own up to the concept that you hired a self-admitted mentally unstable performer to work, and he flipped his lid. Trying to throw it back on someone else will only further the negativity generated by this simultaneously hilarious and tragic event.

I do give Brian credit for a well-written, albeit misguided message, a rarity in porn these days.

Bornyo posts on XPT: "Now that's ridiculous. It's pretty clear from all reports and from the video that Ponante had NO IDEA he was going to be attacked. Truly, I'd bet that Gram wouldn't go to a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant if he suspected two nine year olds might mix it up."

Conky posts:

Wow. That email is just... it's just stunning. I thought I was up on the concept of denial. Until now. Gram should apologize? Yes, Gram should apologize here and now for never, ever featuring one of their products in anything he ever writes (except police statements) from this point onwards. I'm still just plain amazed that there is no blame here. No sense of shame. No one suggesting that this kind of behavior should be seen as unacceptable in a so called civilized society. Gram, I suggest you send them all Hallmark cards to apologize for your frankly outrageous behavior. Picking fights with the talent before they're even on set? Shame on you, sir!

Conky posts:

It's pretty standard to have journalists from magazines or websites on-set these days, along with a photog who shoots bts pics and posed action shots for the layouts. If you think about it, it's pretty obvious why sets are open to the adult press: with hundreds of new releases a month, the best way to get coverage is an on-set report in a skin mag or leading website. And it can make a huge difference at both wholesale and retail time if the people you're trying to sell to are aware your product exists in advance.

Assault on the Media

Gram Ponante blogs:

If I were writing for the news departments of either of the trade magazines I would frame this story, in descending level of importance, thusly:

* Unethical business practices. The defendant (allegedly) verbally threatened one employee and (definitely) physically assaulted an invited guest. Despite this being witnessed by employees of the troubled movie in question, the defendant was allowed to work.

* Assault on media. Yes, yes, I know: Is what is written on these sites really news? Often enough not, but the difference between these blog sites and other advertiser-supported publications is really a matter of degrees rather than substance. These publications and blogs are the only games in the business except every so often when the L.A. Times or LA Weekly drops in.

* Trade publication writers: have you ever been sold out by your management in favor of an advertiser?

* Is something not newsworthy unless it is written in a press release? Porn publicists write most of the news in this business; editorial departments are often reduced to copyediting.

* Media representatives sent home at the demand of the defendant (Mike South speculates on why the director in question hasn't had any work released in some time).

* Talents' views on media, particularly the idea that writers "take potshots under cover"

* An ordinary fracas on a porn set (and yes, in that all parties involved moved from the street to inside the building, and in that the assault happened under the auspices of this troubled movie, it was on the set).

LAPD Wants To Talk To Kurt

Gene Ross writes on Adultfyi:

"This has gotten a little crazy," says James who was directing a fight in downtown LA when a movie broke out. Basically there was a shoving match involving Lockwood and journalist Ponante. And we're saying shoving match because Ponante's, now, evidently, showing bruises as evidence from the altercation.

"It's escalated to the point where the law has been brought in," James continues. "I thought this whole thing was silly and no big deal but I got a call from the LAPD- she was a detective and very nice," continues James. "She wanted details of the episode and said assault and battery charges were going to be filed. She said Gram had gone in and had spoken to the police dept. He had shown them pictures of bruises and bruises on his chest which I find hard to believe considering I was standing right there. It seems hard to believe that the little shoving match could have caused anything that would have been noticeable."

In the shoving match, James said Lockwood pushed Ponante and Ponante in turn threw coffee on Lockwood. "Things started coming off of Gram, like his glasses- it was stupid," continues James. "Kurt's point was that this guy had said bad things about him and he should have at least said them to his face. This was one of those situations where both people were at fault. You can't go around shoving people who say bad things about you. In this business we all have targets on our backs. On the other hand, to be able to say anything you want against anybody, to insinuate and hide it in cute words and clever analogies- that's really not fair, either. One should be responsible for what one says."

Calvin writes on XPT:

This may work at recess for a 2nd grader, but in the adult world it does not excuse assault if your victim allegedly wrote bad things about you. It just makes it premeditated assault.

What a radical political agenda. If the founding fathers had wanted us to be able to write whatever we want with impunity, they surely would have said something about it in the Bill or Rights or somewhere.

I don't know if it has ever been established that Gram actually used the "F" word with reference to Kurt. But even if he did, Kurt is, in this context, what he has always wanted to be: a public figure. This means that it is only libel if it is known to be a falsehood. One does not even need to prove that the printed claim is true, only that it is consistent with their public persona.

Dragging everyone into court in order to prove whether one person called the other a fag, and whether the other person was then justified in assaulting them, complete with showings of "Put Your Finger in my Ass #4" as evidence is just what porn needs to prove that it really is the "adult" industry.

Conky writes on XPT:

At least this goes to show that if you want to be part of a civilized society, you have to follow society's rules. The insistence of so many people on this production that it was all just nothing still amazes me. Jennifer James has done herself absolutely no good whatsoever in PR terms with her little speech to Gene. Claiming that Ponante wants to write "whatever he wants with impunity" is just a load of horse puckey. Gram simply doesn't feature gossip on his site. He's one of the straightest, funniest writers in the industry. If James had a clue about this business, she'd be aware of that. She would also know that he's far more popular with most companies because of that; he doesn't just print rumors or gossip. It's not his market. And with Fleshbot, that's a far larger market than she perhaps realizes.

Regardless of the legal outcome, it's high time someone took a stand and just said, "No! That is not acceptable behavior."

Full marks to Gram for not being cowed by a porn director and her crew into silence. Jennifer, please remember your main professional aim in life is male ejaculation. It's your buyers who are important, and you court them through people like Gram, Luke, Gene and the wider adult press like the web, skin mags etc.. Alienating them is just a bad, bad idea.

In a perfect world, I'd like to see Fishbein's take on this (yes, I know he's not universally popular, but...). If this industry is ever to achieve public acceptability or shield itself from the government, the perceived 'leaders' need to address this sort of behavior, drug abuse and the crooks and hang them out to dry.

Gram Ponante Files Assault Charge After On Set Altercation

“The police have decided not to pursue this and I’m content with leaving it at that,” Lockwood told XBIZ. “It’s really hard to believe everything you read and anyone who has been so overly concerned needs to get a life. There are guys dying in Iraq and some people are worried if I pushed Gram or not. It’s ridiculous.”