Getting Busy......

I see our customers playing guessing game about which of the solo/photosession models are going to continue working? Well, I have to say that more often than not it is mystery to me as well. Nowadays it became fairly serious decision for the boys. Chances are that parents/friends/professors or employers are going to find out is really high and in some cases the consequences can be really unpleasant. So I've given up recruiting models where I suspect serious personal distress later on. But of course - my task is to recruit them not to discourage them, so I have a serious conflict of interest. Nevertheless I am concentrating on easier models or the ones who are more independent-minded. As a result it happens that, here and there, I miss the ones I'd like most. (And many of the best simply wouldn't go beyond the solo.) On the other hand, thanks to the Goldman Sachs financial wizards, our recruitment seems to be way easier than a couple of years earlier.

Despite all the troubles our recruitment ratio is good. Currently about 16 - 20 new boys are being prepared for shooting full scale sex scenes. Some of them (more mature looking) are going to be premiered on the main site in the "step by step" section which is coming out later in the summer to replace the bonus Corbin Fisher programming. The younger, twinkier ones will be gradually premiered on the new site in a "prep-school" section. (Or should I call it BA Choir Boys ?) In any case - 400 000 frustrated catholic priests would make for a great customer base. I'll think it over.

Return from Capetown

George Duroy Letter: "So we are back from Cape Town. Half of the models were instantly laid up in bed by all sorts of flu and diarrhea viruses. From an average temperature of 90+F we are down to reality of 45 and the suntan is quickly evaporating. My favorite toothless black maid Nanana is gone and burly blond valkyry Silvia is back in charge of my household. The radio is playing the McGuire sisters ('Sincerely'), Dolph is doing school assignments in his bedroom while Sascha Chaykin is bumming around trying to attract my attention. He has a spent a month or two in the gym to regain his original shape. From what I can see, he succeeded.
I admit I miss the terrace overseeing white sandy beaches and the ocean and lazy early morning coffee. I also miss little Kevin (see the picture). Every morning he slipped in my room and crawled under bottom part of my blanket like a Sioux Indian. On his way up he would stop for a short blowjob. When he felt I had woken up, his smiley face would stick out from underneath the blanket. His 'Good Morning, Mr. George!' sounded remarkably close to Marylin Monroe's 'Happy birtday, Mr. President!'.
The McGuire Sisters have arrived at 'It may sound Silly'. Time to go. Happy Easter. Sincerely yours - Mr.GEORGE."

Packing for Cape Town!

I am packing for Cape Town right now - as you read these words I will already be in South Africa - and gearing up for what will probably be the biggest single shoot in Bel Ami history. A few days after I arrive I'll be followed by a complete Bel Ami crew: cameramen, production managers, interpreters, drivers, assistants, a person in charge of archiving materials and, of course, models (27 of them!) who are arriving in two big groups from airports in Vienna and Budapest.

One week later, we will be joined by photographers, Photo School participants and occasional celebrity visitors. I have to admit to being a bit nervous about the whole venture. Considering the actual shape of the porn industry right now, the whole thing seems to be out of proportion.

It is our first African trip following a four-year pause - and the last one was a real disaster. So keep your dicks crossed for me. If you pray enough to Dionysus, you'll get a new website as a result plus great summer programming. If you don't pray enough, you'll get increased fees instead to foot the bill.

Originally I wanted to be an investment banker, you know!

Sleepy Season

January and February are traditionally slow months here at Bel Ami. Firstly, the weather is not merely cold - it is Siberian. Secondly, the camera people edit as much material as they possibly can to have enough time for spring and summer shoots. Thirdly, we are accumulating funds for the March Cape Town projects which I planned a bit too generously and our accountants are getting desperate. March happens to be also tax month. (There will be seven cameramen and thirty models not to count rest of the crew going).

March will be followed by a quieter April and the models are scheduled to travel to do rather exotic assignments in locations like Istanbul, Israel or Nevada. I am quite busy, too. I must prepare newsletters and programming for three months ahead of time.

The good news is that you'll get monthly updates on many of your favorites: Kris Evans, the Peters twins and Trevor Yates will appear regularly. A junior team of yummy 18-20 y/o newcomers is being prepared including rather over-sized blond cousin of Dolph Lambert who is still blushing while having sex. And finally: we acquired a new puppy. Ariel Vanean has a new dog, Sisi. Or Sissy? Who the hell knows - and she doesn't care anyway!

Christmas musings

Well, I am writing this letter three days before Christmas day. I've spent the whole afternoon cooking Kapustnica (A traditional sourkraut soup with lots of smoked meat, dried wild mushrooms, dried plums and tons of different sausages). Shopping took three hours (You have to taste and select the right homemade stuff on the local markets), cooking another three hours and "post-production" and cleaning another two. So I am exhausted. Todd Rosset helped with the shopping, Manuel and Alex with the cooking and Luke, who returned late from School, with the rest of it. So we have now huge container for all the employees and models for our 16th Christmas Lunch. Mostly the same team as in 1993. New models, of course... Bit of Miracle!

It was a good year for the Bel Ami team. (And, I hope for customers and fans as well). Business grew significantly and we completed the transition to becoming a primarily online operation. (Well, we are still going to release about 20 films next year but they are now based mainly on our internet programming). In 2010 we plan to finalize improvements on the existing site and to release a new complementary one to test a completely new approach to shooting porn. And of course we plan to gradually introduce globalization in the company and start working with more international talent.... Well, and I plan to lose at least 50 pounds. And now I am going to taste the Kapustnica to make sure it is up to my usual (high) standards. Happy new year ! GD

Letter from Capetown

After three and half years I have returned to the scene of crime.
This article I am writing in Cape Town once again. (Rather lazily and unwillingly - Luke is pulling down his shorts and parading around in nude, oiling himself for a sunbath and arguing about prices on the local market).

The reason for being in CT is simple: I am preparing the situation for a major winter shoot and possible BelAmi Photo School, which would be opened for the first time for our customers and fans (and -hopefully - help to pay the bill for the location rentals, of course.) You'll learn more about it in the top part of this newsletter.

The other reason is to pre-shoot material for a new complementary website which we are preparing for next year. (All of your favorites and a whole new group of fresh 18-19 years old models.) This time we are meeting also some South African boys for interviews .

At the same time Marty, Johan, Lukas, Elliot are shooting in Budapest full speed, trying to finish projects before the announced flu pandemic starts in earnest. Today they finished a scene with Kris Evans, Vadim Farrell and Manuel Rios, wo new blond beauties which will remind you of a young Josh Elliot, and a BJ marathon with 10 new boys... and... and so on.

I guess that this article is about as lazy as I am at this moment so I'll better go to check some locations.

This time I gave in and rented a small helicopter to make Luke happy. I just hope he'll dress for the occasion an put on his pants. (It would be embarrassing if the helicopter crashes and he is without pants). Hope some of you will join us in March. Who knows - may be we'll discover some major talent. and if not, you'll have some really good time.
And don't worry about economy. Bernanke promised to fix it - and as you all know, he always keeps his promises.

Seriously Sexy

This month I am not continuing my bitching favorites, but never fear as they will soon return. This month, instead, I am feeling seriously sexy. Of course, that is also the title of our new movie starring Brandon Manilow. Some of the scenes here featuring Brandon were filmed years ago and I have heard from our customers who want to know why they are being released now. Well, there is an interesting story to that.

A very different movie was to be filmed in March 2006 in Capetown, South Africa. We had been filming in the picturesque city since 2002 and this was our eighth production trip. We had secured a beautiful hotel with landscaped grounds; it was quite lovely and our location scout assured us the hotel was aware of our intentions.

Then we arrived and it all went very wrong. The hotel somehow was under the impression we were there for a fashion photo shoot, not to film porn. So we had a cast and crew of 20 people ready to begin filming the very next day, and no location at all. It was a total disaster; I really had to improvise.

For five days we flmed without knowing what kind of movie the episodes would become. All the while, our location scout was busy securing new locations. I shot two episodes in our rooms, just standalone scenes. Then one day at breakfast, I was reading the "Capetown Times" and there was a headline that jumped out at me: "Green Light to Pink Marriages."

Suddenly, I had my idea! Already I knew our customers enjoyed Brandon Manilow and Josh Eliot together. So I decided they would play a couple and the movie would be about gay marriage; it was a complete improvisation.

We had secured a private home owned by a woman that all of our boys loved. She was quite a character. We were to film a party scene that turned into a huge orgy. But I realized it doesn't usually happen that way. At these parties sometimes two people will steal away to an empty room or quiet corner and start having sex: blowjobs, rimming, fucking, whatever. This was a means to make multiple scenes out of one large group of boys.

The final scene was to feature Brandon and Josh in a flip-flop scene but neither one of them could bottom for various reasons. We tried to make it work and it did not. This was a love story with a romantic couple who drive the whole story and I could not have the final scene between them. I was pissed, I can tell you.

So because I have the luxury of having other material in reserve, and because I have them around all the time, I decided to store the film and wait until I could convince them to properly bottom for each other. I was almost sure it would work out. But when one of them was ready, the other was not. This went on and on until I had to give up on the idea. And so I had to think about what to do to make this story work.

After the original production what I had was too much material for one film, and not enough material for two films. I eventually used two episodes for other projects. I met with my team and we finally finished the film this year. We shot two new scenes this past summer, which you will see in Part Two next spring. And I improvised an ending that is a different angle on the original storyline.

I believe our customers will enjoy the cast for these films. Alex, Manuel and Brandon are still around, of course, and Paul Valery is still in contact with us and available to film again. But most of the other cast members are not currently active. Never fear, however, as I have plenty of episodes still in reserve for each member of this cast.