January Gossip with Mickey Skee



Chi Chi LaRue has shot in some amazing and lavish places (I've been lucky enough to visit a few of the sets), but the Palm Springs location for Excess apparently will take the cake. LaRue promises plenty of firsts in this Channel 1 and Rascal Video release, including the fact that it's Cort Donovan"s first movie since his Falcon contract expired, and it's a first-time bottoming for Nathan Sommers, who'd never even had a pinky up his butt until working with LaRue. I also love LaRue's all-oral specialty vids, and this time he found an old warehouse while in Palm Springs and shot a vid starring Cameron Marshall called Suck It Up!...

Roland Dane started a new fan site, RolandDaneXXX.com, with COLT Studio Group's help as he continues to direct and star in his own titles. Dane's Bodyguards debuted on the site, which is the first time COLT did something like that. Dane's doing live-cam performances and introducing some new studs online before he breaks them in with filming....

Chris Steele's latest, Cock Tease, from Jet Set Men focuses on a funny idea of 11 guys in a reality game show talking about being teased by a straight guy. It's a comeback for handsome Derrick Vinyard who hasn't been in front of the screen for more than a year....

Speaking of staying off the screen, did you realize that it's been two years since Michael Brandon's very own Monster has been seen in a video? Completely unaware of missing his piece of meat on camera, I was told by Brandon that he had a "quiet retirement" and doesn't see himself going back in front of the camera any time soon....

Hyde Park is allowing a personal peek into their titles, starting with Twink Dreams, in which they've given the camera to Jon Jameson, who walks in the Colorado wilderness with some of the totally naked title twinks for a feature on the 45-minute bonus disc. He finds out that a few of them had their cherries popped for the first time in this experience. Jaime Knight, just 19, admits he was a virgin until 19-year-old Ryan Meyers plugged him in the beautiful outdoors of Breckinridge, which is a mile high. "It's easy to get short of breath," Knight said. Other funny tidbits revealed include that Chris O'Connor, the supposedly straight guy from Missouri, was the one most of the guys were checking out when they were all living in the rustic cabin in the mountains....

How great to find gay porn stars popping up in the mainstream news, especially when it's outing another Republican hypocrite. When Washington state rep Richard Curtis was found prancing around in girl's clothing, he later latched up with Cody Castagna, who's also known as just "Cody" in porn titles such as Seattle Frat Boyz, Seattle Wet Summer and Damon Blows....

Reviewer and judge Vincent Lambert (VincentLambert.com) broke a story when porn great Johnny Hanson talked about making the switch to bareback films. In an exclusive interview, the onetime Falcon exclusive, now 42, said, "I was paid the top dollar I asked for and I figured being the top wasn't too much of a health risk." When Hanson made a recent comeback with a Michael Lucas film, he said he thought barebacking was dumb. He was quoted as saying, "I think that is just stupid. It's not too smart and way too risky."...

I was honored to get a sneak peek at Raging Stallion's Grunts with Michael Brandon and Chris Ward literally handing me copies hot off the press, along with their stupendously sexy posters of the 21 hot studs (including RJ Danvers, pictured) who are turned into "fucking killers" during the boot camp sex scenes. Although putting out the DVDs as a six-set package at first seems counter-productive, Ward says the fans are buying the entire set, and some of them may buy the two-disc boxed sets later. "We're not out to play games with our customers, we tell them what they get and don't get for all those special editions," says Ward, who also promises a separate fisting video with some of these same guys.

What will be ultimately super controversial about this sex-travaganza is that it is shot with some actual former military men (one's even from the Israeli army) and they talk about their service for their country in the outtakes. Filmed in San Luis Opisbo, Calif., with 110 degree-plus heat in the afternoons, these guys lived and worked together in a bunkhouse and ended up playing around and teaming up quite a bit off camera.

The flick is well-shot with the most fantastic muscle hunks on the planet, and there are plenty of fascinating positions and quirks that have never been put together in one porn title. Not only does this have a production budget of near $300,000 (not including promotions), it forces some hot taboos down our throats. Most notably, Steve Cruz and Orlando Toro play brothers who are virtual mirror images of each other. So when they compare cocks and more in the "Brothers in Arms" section, it's rather remarkable. This is truly the best military sex video I've seen in more than two decades of reviewing these movies.