Column #707

We’re catching up with GayPornLand’s best and brightest in this week’s “Adams Report by JC Adams.” Keep reading for updates on a passel of performers, directors and photographers from Michael Lucas to Chi Chi LaRue, Lucas Kazan to Blue Blake as well as the latest from Studio 2000. Plus we have an update on the shocking murder of Cobra Video’s Bryan Kocis as former Cobra performer Brent Corrigan and the Kocis family release official statements.

KOCIS UPDATE

As we noted last week, Cobra Video’s Bryan Kocis, 44, was murdered late last month and his suburban Pennsylvania home gutted by fire. Initially believed to have perished in the blaze, investigators have determined he was stabbed multiple times by an unknown assailant and the fire intentionally set. Police are seeking the driver of a light-colored SUV seen leaving his home shortly before the fire broke out.

According to reports, Mr. Kocis was awaiting the arrival of a potential new Cobra performer known only as “Drake,” who is yet to be located. Per the Citizen’s Voice newspaper, police “did not specify what they wanted to speak to the man about, nor did they say he was a suspect.”

Bryan Kocis and Cobra Video had been embroiled in a nasty court battle with performer Brent Corrigan who was underage when he filmed his first several videos for the company. Per press reports, Mr. Corrigan, and his business partners had settled the lawsuit with Mr. Kocis just weeks before he was killed (keep reading for details). In a new post on his blog at BrentCorrigan Online.com, Mr. Corrigan has asked that respect be paid to Mr. Kocis.

“In light of the [recent] tragic events,” he wrote, “and due to the extreme sensitivity and its nature, I have been advised by my attorneys and law enforcement officials in charge of the investigation not to make public comments regarding this very sad and senseless crime. When I am able again, I will address the issues surrounding this terrible tragedy. Contrary to what others may have written, we had finalized a settlement with Cobra Video and Bryan regarding the civil lawsuit. The settlement documents were signed, and all parties were looking forward to moving on to a mutually beneficial arrangement. Please pay your respects to Bryan Kocis, his family and friends. It is time to show them all the love and support you have shown me.”

In other news, the Kocis family has criticized media outlets for glossing over the brutal murder in favor of more salacious and sordid angles. “Now is not the time for insinuating that his life is worth something less because of his involvement in a lawful adult entertainment business or his lifestyle,” read a family statement. “Public attention and media concern should focus on the murder of this young man and the devastating impact that this crime has had on his [family].”

The family harshly criticized media outlets for wrongly tagging Mr. Kocis as a sexual predator. In 2001, he was charged with having sex with a 15-year-old teen. According to a Citizen’s Voice story, Mr. Kocis was never required to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law because “prosecutors determined the boy lied about his age and the sex was consensual.” Mr. Kocis received one reduced charge of corruption of minors.

“No court has ever determined that Bryan Kocis was a pedophile or sexual predator subject to Megan’s Law registration,” read the family statement, “or that he was operating an illegal Internet porn business ... Bryan is a human being, he did not deserve to be murdered, and no one should forget this fact.”

MICHAEL LUCAS

We’ll start our roundup with Lucas Entertainment’s Michael Lucas, who will be in Eastern Europe when you read this column. The multi-GAYVN-nominee is overseeing a couple of pictures for his international line. We spoke before he jumped on a plane and gabbed about everything from porn awards to the coming VOD revolution (it’s already taking place).

We also cleared out some pesky gossip. A rumor had been going around that an internal struggle was taking place within the ranks for control of Lucas Entertainment. Mr. Lucas was puzzled about where that rumor could have started. “I am the sole owner,” he told me. “I have no partners. Over the years I’ve had chances to take on partners, and it certainly would have made running my company much easier in some ways. But I never did it. So how could there be an internal struggle? Who am I struggling with? Myself?” Point taken, Mr. Lucas.

BLUE BLAKE

I recently caught up with shutterbug Anthony Duran at EatWell restaurant in West Hollywood. We’ve worked together a couple times now at Studio 2000. He was prepping for a work trip out of town, and so we wanted to get caught up on all the gossip. He brought along a surprise companion: Hall of Famer Blue Blake. I just featured Mr. Blake’s latest discovery on the cover of XXX Showcase, a shockingly gorgeous young bodybuilder with an aquiline nose and jet-black hair named Cody Miller. He’s the breakout star of Big Blue Productions’ Musclemen Moving Co. 2, and the pics from that film were snapped by Mr. Duran. It just so happens to be one of the fastest-selling issues in the magazine’s recent history.

Mr. Miller is kinda-sorta straight, and it seemed at first that he would become another beautiful-but-untouchable cock tease, all glistening muscle but never touching another man on screen. Well, never fear: Mr. Miller is moving into more explicitly erotic territory in his next blue movie. In the meantime, Mr. Blake is moving ahead with a couple of new movies to be shoot over the spring and summer but not before he tops off the next draft of his memoirs. They’re set for publication next year at this time.

LUCAS KAZAN

A couple days later, it was lunch with director Lucas Kazan and his partner in business and life, ex-performer Ettore Tosi. The latter was in town for a few weeks attending to Lucas Kazan Productions business and he’s looking even better, more muscular and lean, than he did back in 1999’s Hotel Italia. These days he’s busy managing EttoreTosi.tv.

Kazan was celebrating five nods for his The School for Lovers, among them Best Packaging, Videography (by LKP regular Leonardo Rossi) and Solo Performance (the striking newbie Fabinho), plus Best Actor Foreign Release for national treasure Jean Franko and Best Foreign Release.

The helmer is still working various promotional angles to keep The School for Lovers in the spotlight. We also had a spirited discussion about, natch, the inorexable shift by the entire porn business, gay and straight, from brick-and-mortar stores and physical DVDs to pay-per-view channels and VOD. Boutique companies like LKP face unique challenges as they seek to set themselves apart on this wild and woolly new playing field.

STUDIO 2000

I’m working with cameraman-editor Andre Adair on a couple of upcoming Studio 2000 productions. We met to plan out the flicks at the Starbucks in WeHo on Santa Monica Boulevard, which just so happens to be the cruisiest coffeeshop on the planet: I could have cast the film just from the hunks standing in line for their nonfat grande lattes. As we sat down to our business, the underground erotic superstar Bud was zipping out the door. Catch him exercise the most stretchable rectum on two coasts in Slam Dunk! for Hot House and Fisting Punks for Dark Alley Media.

In line behind Mr. Adair and I happened to be director-performer Doug Jeffries, still happily buzzing about his GAYVN nod as Best Director for Delinquents for All Worlds Video. We quickly caught up on the latest at Channel 1 Releasing, and it turned out directrix Chi Chi LaRue was outside finishing a phone call, so I dashed out to say hello. I coaxed him into spilling a few juicy details about a huuuuge production about to get under way this month and next here in Los Angeles. It’s certain to be among the biggest fuck flicks of 2007. Stay tuned for more on that movie in the weeks to come.

(Speaking of the GAYVN Awards, I’d like to have a word with its scheduling department. Whose bright idea was it to schedule the “gay porn Oscars” on the night before the actual Academy Awards, otherwise known as the “gay Super Bowl?” Come on, people! It better not have been a fellow queer, because I’d hate to be forced to strip a gay of his credentials.)

Later that week, I helmed a scorching sports-themed scene for Studio 2000 that featured studio exclusives Brian Bodine, in from Miami, and Jake Havoc, on break from college classes in Georgia. We shot the sex inside an actual boxing gym and snapped the glamour pics at Tango Blues Entertainment, owned by Drew Warner; other cast and crew included Mr. Adair, S2K’s new owner, David McKay, shutterbug Greg “Mocha” Lenzman and terrif new makeup artist Joseph (just “Joseph” thanks), who also helps paint the faces of the chorines on America’s Next Top Model, so ya know I got the gossip on that show, including the upcoming season. Man, I am so gay ...

300 HARD ... SWORDS

Have you seen the trailer yet for the swords-and-sandals epic 300 from Warner Bros.? It opens in theatres March 9. I first wrote about the movie last summer when a few making-of vignettes hit the internets. 300 is based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Frank Miller and tells the story of the infamous Battle of Thermopylae, during which 300 Spartan soldiers fought off a thousands-strong Persian army. The film’s eye-popping visuals are something to behold judging from the trailers at 300the movie.com.

There’s another reason 300 should be of interest to Constant Readers: Headliner Gerard Butler spends most of the movie wearing nothing but a beard, red cape, helmet and leather codpiece. He and his fellow Spartans (played mostly by French-Canadian stuntmen) sport tanned, sinewy bodies and are gorgeously photographed seminude, glistening with sweat as they swing their swords at each other. It looks like the most expensive gay soft-core porn film ever made. I already have my ticket.

- J.C. Adams
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