Apr

30

Kyros vs. Thomas: Battle of the Emo Twinks!

April 30, 2008 | 25 Comments

[Edits 7:15pm.] My colleagues over at FriskyNews take (friendly) issue with my recent characterization of Kyros “The Candy Spookie” Christian as “the first emo twink” (click here). As if the Triplet Wars weren’t bad enough…now we have The Great and Terrible Battle of the Emo Twinks (okay, so maybe I’m exaggering a touch on this slow news day). “The first emo twink model we became familiar [with] is Czech model Thomas Dyk, the prolific, versatile twink star for Eurocreme, AYOR Studios and many others,” FriskyNews writes. “In 2006’s TALES 2 from AYOR, the very emo looking Dyk explains his love of music and DJ’ing to the camera.” He does kind of look the part, right? (He is billed as “Ondrey” for TALES 2 which, yes, is a condomless film.) So Thomas Dyk has a year’s head start on Kyros Christian, who debuted in 2007 with OLIVER TWINK (PZP Productions). Yes, they’re both legal-age adults. Stay tuned for the latest salvo… [Dyk © Wholesome Films; Christian © PZP Productions.]

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Apr

30

“DNA” Reaches #100 (Gives Michael Lucas Away)

April 30, 2008 | 16 Comments

Australia’s porn-friendly (very friendly…) DNA magazine is celebrating issue no. 100, on stands now. Look for a pair of crazy hot male models bulging out of tiny red Speedos on the cover. In fact, lifeguards and bathing suits and sundry are major features of the issue; plus, Eric Bana. Yep, I am so there. There doesn’t appear, at first glance, to be any gay adult features. However, they are celebrating their milestone by offering a membership to LucasEntertainment.com with a new or reupped subscription. Nice bit of PR, that bit.

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Apr

30

U.K. Moves to Criminalize “Extreme” Porn Images

April 30, 2008 | 4 Comments

As of May 8, citizens of the United Kingdom may be prohibited from owning images the government considers “too extreme.” Part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill includes the banning of images of bestiality and necrophilia, as well as acts or depictions of acts which “threaten or appear to threaten a person’s life [and] result or appear to result in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals.” According to AVN.com, the law is expected to be approved and was prompted by the 2003 murder of Jane Longhurst, whose killer was found to frequent websites that feature graphically sexual and violent imagery. Reports AVN.com, “This led Longhurst’s mother Liz to campaign for a ban on the possession of sexually violent images.” Click here for more details…

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Apr

30

Awards: 2008 EGPA Shortlist

April 30, 2008 | 6 Comments

Awards! Awards! Gimme more awards! Wa-aa-ay back in November (click here) we first wrote about the 2nd Annual European Gay Porn Awards. There were literally dozens and dozens of nominees—27 Best Actor potentials, 31 movies up for Best Film, 28 nominees for Best Duo and 19 for Best Group Scene. And of course there was the usual category confusion: Best Twink Film and Best Young Stud Film? Best Hunk Film and Best Stud Film? Anyway, those were apparently pre-nominees. The rolls have now been whittled down to manageable levels in 24 categories, in case you missed it. This is the second year the EGPA has handed out kudos; Constant Readers will recall last year’s controversy over their citing bareback films and studios (and, no, I’m not talking about the David Awards, either. That’s the other European-gay-porn-awards-bareback-controversy.) I got in trouble with the presenting body behind the EGPA two years ago when I first wrote about the controversy over the bareback nominees, as well as complaints of favoritism and the like (click here and here and here). I’ve been on their shit list ever since, I guess. Life goes on. They’re counting AVN, QueerClick and XBIZ, among others, as sponsors this year. The 2nd Annual European Gay Porn Awards unspool Saturday, May 17 in Berlin. Click here for the full list of nominees…

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Apr

29

A Porn Blogger has No Boundaries

April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments

Raging Stallion exclusive Antonio ”Dick of Death” Biaggi (he’s hung eleven inches, give or take) demonstrates the hard-earned knowledge that successful blogging is a 24/7 enterprise. (The New York Times, no less, presented an entire feature last month about bloggers keeling over and expiring from exhaustion and general anomie.) Mr. Biaggi is onscreen now in the appropriately titled BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST: PART ONE, and wrapped PART TWO last week in San Francisco. [Image © Antonio Biaggi.]

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Apr

29

Awards: Grabbys Name “Trophy Studs”

April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Porn Awards: Pictured are the recently announced “trophy studs” for the 2008 Grabby Awards, set to unspool Memorial Day weekend in Chicago (together with International Mr. Leather and Bear Pride! If you can’t get laid in Chicago that weekend, ya might as well take it off and keep it in a drawer). Aaron James, C.J. Knight, Ricky Parks and Blake Riley—exclusives for, respectively, Jet Set Productions, Hot House Video, COLT Studio and Rascal Video—join co-hosts Chi Chi LaRue and Honey West with Raging Stallion’s Jake Deckard, Titan’s Dean Flynn, and Trevor Knight.

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Apr

29

“Crazy James” Embraces Porn Gigs

April 29, 2008 | 11 Comments

We wrote yesterday (click here or scroll down) about 21-year-old “Crazy” James Zinkland, the pink-mohawked Big Brother 9 castmate who was voted out of the show by his castmates, but ended up snagging a $25,000 audience-favorite prize. Given his nascent reality-TV fame, I was curious as to how he would handle his porn work—some web wanking and a costarring role in Dirty Boy Video and NakedSword’s DIRTY TRICKS—during press interviews. To his credit, Mr. Zinkland has embraced it. In a video interview with a Los Angeles CBS affiliate (click here) he says he is bisexual and the porn was no big deal. “I had sex with dudes. It doesn’t blow my mind,” he says, and “it shouldn’t blow your mind, you know? I just did it on tape, you know? And I did it in an environment that was conducive where I didn’t have to worry about a lot of things going wrong.” He figured the porn work would inevitably surface after he began appearing on network television three times a week. “Absolutely. I was okay with it, I was comfortable with it, I was very open with it, but I didn’t want to bring it out on the show because…a lot of people are homophobic. Even with the bisexual thing, people were like, ‘Ooh!’ ” His interviewer doesn’t ask if CBS knew about the gay porn (oy, my grandmother could’ve done a better job and RealityBlurred agrees) but does reveal Mr. Zinkland’s nickname was “Big Brother 9.5.” Bah-duh-bum. [H/T RealityBlurred.]

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Apr

29

New Release Desk: “Brittany’s Transformation”

April 29, 2008 | 8 Comments

[Edits 8:15am.] Big news this week for Stonie fans as well as trannylovers. BRITTANY’S TRANSFORMATION drops Tuesday today from Evolution Erotica and director Paul Barresi. Stonie, as Constant Readers know, is now Brittany CoxXx. Three months ago we revealed the news that the popular gay adult performer and twink star Stonie had undergone gender reassignment and re-emerged as Brittany CoxXx (that’s how she formats her surname). Our two stories—”Meet Britttany Coxxx (aka Stonie)” and “Brittany Coxxx (aka Stonie) Cast in First Adult Feature“—are among the top-ten most heavily trafficked stories here on GPTimes. Very few bits of news have generated as much buzz as the revelation that the fan-fave superbottom is now a coltishly pretty woman named Brittany. Click here for details on the new flick…

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Apr

28

Titan Suspects Piracy in Target Switch

April 28, 2008 | 7 Comments

Earlier today we wrote about a recent incident in Virgina City, Virgina where a woman purchased what she thought was “a discount cartoon DVD” from a local Target mega-mart that turned out to be a disk containing a Titan Media adult film. When she and her husband returned the DVD to the store, they learned it was the third such incident since Christmas. Titan Media VP Keith Webb read our item and immediately responded (click here or scroll down to read the full text of his comment). “We are appalled and outraged that a DVD with our content would end up in the hands of children,” he wrote. “We are convinced that the disk in question did not come from a legitimate Titan Media vendor or replicator. We believe the disk in question may have come from a pirated source.” The company manufactures their films in “two tightly controlled USA factories,” he notes, “neither of which produce cartoon DVDs sold at Target.” I spoke with Keith Webb via email for a bit of clarification. Click here for the details…

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Apr

28

Adieu, Cadinot

April 28, 2008 | 5 Comments

The gay adult industry, and the blogosphere in general, is still reacting to the news that Jean-Daniel Cadinot has died. Click here or scroll down a bit for our story, whose comments section is filled with moving testaments to his influence from colleagues and fans. GayPornBlog writes, “To me one of the saddest things about Jean-Daniel Cadinot’s death is not so much his relatively young age (64) but the fact that his work has become somewhat unknown to gay audiences in the US for reasons I’m having a hard time understanding.” Agreed. Here are some of other stories and tributes (we’ll update as they appear):
Fleshbot: “In Memoriam: Au Revoir, Jean-Daniel Cadinot”
GayPornBlog: “Remembering Jean-Daniel Cadinot”
AVN.com: “Jean-Daniel Cadinot, 1944-2008”

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Apr

28

“Crazy James” Wins $25K from “Big Brother”

April 28, 2008 | 3 Comments

“Crazy” James Zinkland may have been evicted from the Big Brother 9 fishbowl, but he didn’t walk away empty-handed. The inked-up, mohawked, quasi-bisexual free spirit—with gay porn on his resume—won $25,000 as “America’s favorite juror” during the season finale Sunday night. He’s also currently appearing (as “Alex”) on the first season of DIRTY TRICKS, the East Village-based online-only gay soap opera co-produced by Dirty Boy Video and NakedSword. It was taped last autumn in New York, prior to his appearance on BB. “Crazy James,” 21, is truly a product of this new age (post-internet? Post-post-gay?) where erotic work is merely a slot on your resume. Here’s hoping he finds a pop-culture niche for himself. [H/T Realityblurred.]

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Apr

28

Raging Stallion to Fuel High Octane

April 28, 2008 | 7 Comments

Raging Stallion Studios announced this morning they have purchased Euro-studio High Octane. The deal includes ownership of the 50-plus High Octane catalog and “an ongoing production agreement” to produce six new titles a year. Director Herve Bodilis (a/k/a Herve Handsome) will continue in his position as Head of Production, while Patrick Albret, the former company president, will transition to Head of European Operations. Raging Stallion President Chris Ward notes in the press release that he moved to acquire the company “as soon as [he] heard it was available” and notes their style “is a natural fit for Raging Stallion. High Octane is all about quality—quality men, quality filmmaking, and quality fucking!” Mr. Ward also cites the acquisition as a key move towards establishing an exclusive European “beachead.” While other studios must purchase films from independent producers, High Octane will now be exclusive to Raging Stallion. “We will be sending our top exclusives to work in Europe,” he notes. “Indeed, European working vacations will become a standard part of our new model contracts. This also gives us the ability to sign some of the top European stars to exclusive contracts.” The purchase of High Octane continues a period of acquisitions and contraction among gay adult companies; in recent years, MSR Videos was absorbed by Titan Media, while All Worlds Video and Catalina Video were purchased and brought under Channel 1 Releasing umbrella. The next High Octane film in the pipeline is MASTERS AND SERVANTS. It will be released under the new deal and streets June 13.

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Apr

28

VA Family Buys Batman DVD, Gets Titan Instead

April 28, 2008 | 5 Comments

[Edits 2:20 pm.] A James City, Virginia woman received a jolt recently when “a discount cartoon DVD” she’d purchased from a Target for her young son turned out to be a disc containing a Titan Media film. Per a newspaper report, “there was nothing about the packaging or disc to suggest pornography.” The DVD itself was blank, although it had been sealed and packaged normally. The woman says she ” ‘opened it, put it in the player and went into the kitchen. I heard my son scream, and when I went to check on him, instead of Batman the screen had three men on it, one of whom had no pants on.’ ” Before ejecting the DVD, she saw the Titan logo. When the disc was returned, a store manager allegedly revealed “it was the third time since Christmas a disc had been returned for the same reason.” The family suspects the switch occurred at the facility where the DVDs are packaged. No complaints have been filed with the police and Target has apologized for the incident. [Source: Vagazette.com.]

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Apr

27

Porn Star Birthdays: April 28 - May 4

April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

Dirk Amsterdam, Brad Buff, Kid Cock, Fredy Costa, Bobby Golden, Eric Hunter, Jason King, John Ross, Peter Wilder (April 28); Nick Moore (April 29); Big Boss, Ryan MacAllen, Joey Harden, Jeff Mitchell, Cesar Moreno, Mike Nichols, Franko Parezzi, Logan Reed (April 30); Alex Berlin, Mitch Fitz, Zaire Masters, Gino Romero, Elec Voughn (May 1); Ren Adams, Tony Monroe, Christian Olsen, Derek Steel, Ralph Woods (May 2); Sebastian Bonnet, Sam Chamberlain, Kris De Ferr, Dane Hyde, Mauro Pelle, Leonardo Santangelo, Sam Sun, Anthony Torrez, Wendy Williams, Cedrick York (May 3); Andre Bolla, Yuri Breshnev [Boris], Dean Clarke, Tom Colt, Jerek, Geoff Powell, Rick Rogue, Diogo Silva (May 4). [Did we leave out a PSB? Leave a comment and let us know!]

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Apr

26

Hot Links: The Week in Review

April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This week the hottest items here on Gay Porn Times were anything to do with the Visconti Triplets: Our most recent story was “Elite Male vs. Bel Ami: Triplet Wars Continue!” and preceded by “Beauty Shot (x3): Visconti Triplets” and “Hunky Triplets Defect: Bel Ami to Elite Male” and “Elite Male Snaps Up Sexy Triplets” and “Three Times the Fun: Bel Ami Triplets!“. The strange, sordid story of Edmon “Nickolay Petrov” Vardanyan continues to fascinate: “Nickolay Petrov Charged with Attempting to Kill Florida Couple“. And talking about a gay porn skit on the MTV sketch show Human Giant brought a lot of new eyeballs to the neighborhood: “Yes, We Are All Human Giants“. On the gossip front, Derek Brodie’s bottoming debut and Tony DiMarco’s defection from Lucas Entertainment to Raging Stallion stirred the pot.

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