In Memoriam: Gay Director John Summers
August 23rd, 2010 
Mike Of all the people I’ve met working on this Chuck Holmes documentary, director John Summers was one of my favorites. He died yesterday morning in his North Hollywood home from an apparent heart attack. Summers was one of the people most responsible for the Falcon look — he brought a style and class to post-Aspen [...]
2010 GayVN Gay Porn ‘Oscar’ Noms Announced
August 18th, 2010 Mike Start picking out your harness now, because the GayVNs are back and filthier than ever! The nominations for the 2010 Awards — presented by NakedSword, hosted by Alec Mapa, filmed by Showtime and scheduled to take place over the shockingly perverse Folsom Fair Weekend — were released under cover of darkness last night, and we’re [...]
Gay Porn Milk Carton: Jim Bentley and Kevin Williams
August 16th, 2010 Mike I’ve mentioned before that for the past year or so, we’ve been shooting a documentary about Falcon Studios founder Chuck Holmes. We’ve been slowly making our way through the living Falcon superstars to talk about what it was like to work with Chuck. Thanks to help from people like Steven Scarborough of Hot House and [...]
Vintage Gay Porn Stars: Kurt Marshall
June 27th, 2010 Mike There are a few porn stars that have staying power decades later — Dick Fisk, Jon King, Chad Douglas, Joey Stefano, and Al Parker to name a few. For the past year or so, Jack and I (along with Raging Stallion director Ben Leon) have been in production on a documentary about the early history [...]
GAY VINTAGE PORN: JOEY STEFANO IN PLUNGE
October 8th, 2009 Mike Joey Stefano. Once, the hottest star in gay porn. And one of my most enduring crushes. We’ve been researching the history of Falcon Studios (now Falcon Entertainment) for a documentary on founder Chuck Holmes, and I have become fairly obsessed with the Falcon movies that I grew up with, before the internet. In college in [...]
Top 7 Careers for Gay Porn Stars
August 30th, 2007 Shamama Conventional wisdom dictates that doing porn will ruin your chances of ever being able to do anything besides escorting or becoming a house boy for some rich fag in the Hollywood Hills, but I beg to differ! I’ve rounded up seven lucrative post-porn careers. 7. DJ Chi Chi’s been doing it for years, but what [...]
John Rutherford Buys Colt
June 11th, 2003 thesword Former Falcon Studio President, John Rutherford, after a surprize resignation a few months ago, has emerged to publicly announce that he has purchased Colt Studio. Read the press release…
