We talked to Amber SexXxum Monday morning while she was readying to board a flight from LAX to Las Vegas where she was going to do a feature for Ray Pistol with Bud Lee directing. Amber says Buck Adams had made sexual advances upon her this past weekend [Saturday night] during the shooting of Liquid Blue, Adams' big surfing movie.
SexXxum: "Buck Adams fell in love with me and wouldn't let off. I told him if kept struggling to flirt with me on the set during this movie, the movie would be ruined because I couldn't act to the fullest of my abilities. My driver, Steve Houston, who was there to make sure that I got home, got messed up on GHB. Of course there I was. After an hour and a half I said I had enough and I wanted to go home. I told Buck I wanted to go home and read my script for tomorrow [Sunday]. Steve Houston told me, 'I'm too fucked up. I can't drive you.' So I was stuck. I said I had to go lay down. I have to get up for this shoot.' I'm all business. Within thirty seconds, Buck stuck his arm down my pants. I said I want out of here right now. He goes, 'Fuck you! Get the fuck outta here!' Then, as I was getting ready to go to the shoot [the next day] I get a call telling me not to bother.
"JB came over Sunday night about 11:30, twelve o'clock with a model release but no check. I said, sorry, I don't do business that way. I was told not to sign a release without being paid. I had to call JB all night to get his attention to come over. He asked me what did I want. I said I need a check. I need a model release. He goes you want to play hardball, sue me."
G. Ross: "You weren't paid?"
SexXxum: "At all."
G. Ross: "The story on Luke's site is that you came on to Buck."
SexXxum: "I read the whole thing. But if you read it, you'll see that Buck was fondling the breasts of this girl named Trish. Go figure. He's a harasser."
G. Ross: "He was sticking his hands down you pants when?"
SexXxum: "This was Saturday night when no one would take me home."
G. Ross: "How did you get home?"
SexXxum: "When Buck screamed get the fuck outta here, I said to Steve you got to straighten up, or I'll take the car, and I'll learn how to drive a stick and find my way back to Robert's. He took me."
G. Ross: "Who were you staying with?"
SexXxum: "Robert Herrera."
G. Ross: "Did anything occur on the shoot Friday?"
SexXxum: "Through the whole thing Buck was telling me what a wonderful person I am and that he can't believe he finally met a real girl and that he was so happy to have me. People on the set were telling me, watch out, he's falling in love with you. Even Billy Glyde told me he was afraid to give me his card because he didn't want to get in trouble. The whole set was afraid of this guy. Rather than be harassed, I feel I should be glad.
"I told Buck I didn't do interracial, then he set me up in a threeway with a girl who's half-black. That was Friday. I did two sex scenes with Billy Glyde both had dialogue. I'm his girlfriend in the movie. Then I got booted Sunday. If this means coming out and not getting paid for scenes, this is not for me, then. I'm an actress. I love sex. I love doing this. But what I've put up with, I could sleep for three days. I'm so depressed.
"Billy Glyde is not the easiest man to take, I've never had anything that big. I worked all day, two days in a row. Dialogue. Buck knows for boy-girl I charge a thousand dollars. He tried to sneak in a girl on a threeway. I didn't do it. I spent all my days there, I did dialogue both days and he still only wanted to give me a thousand each scene. My God, these people are just rotten!"
Dirty Bob adds these comments:
Dirty Bob: "The easy part is that Amber was trying to do a three-day film. In a nutshell she shot Friday and Saturday. I guess Buck being the horndog wouldn't let her alone. She kept putting him off and he fired her for Sunday because she wouldn't do him. A bunch of people went to Buck's place. Buck put the move on her, stuck his hand down her pants. She said no. He got all stark raving mad and hysterical. She left. Next day she got the phone call saying she got replaced. Amber's all depressed about this business. This is the stuff she wanted to avoid. She's thinking about going back home, now. In fact I spoke to Bud Lee and he told me he got fired by Buck recently."
Rainy days and Sundays apparently get Buck Adams down, at least according to reports on Luke Ford's site, where Buck supposedly became Capt. Bligh on the set of his movie Liquid Blue and started taking everyone to the yardarm. Buck says it's not quite as bad as it sounded, that he only wound up firing one girl - Amber SexXxum. He says he had good reasons.
"Luke Ford has a way of making a birthday party sound like a maiming," Adams mused. "We had to get rid of the girl. She was just so looped. She was eating pills a mile a minute." Adams says problems really came to a head Saturday when SexXxum's driver, Steve Houston, came over to the house. [Buck shares digs with Alec Metro]
"He [Houston] was crawling on the floors," says Adams. "He was jacking off on peoples' doors. I told her you got to get out of here with your guy."
Adams: "She was supposed to come to work the next day. [Sunday]. She came over with this driver. He was all fucked up and crawling on the floor. I don't know what the fuck he was on, but he was crawling around and jacking off on the floor, listening at Alec's [Metro] door. I don't need this crap. So I tell her [SexXxum] to get your driver outta here. She goes, 'he can't drive.' I said I don't give a rat's fucking ass, you gotta go. If Alec opens his door and there's some guy wacking off, we got a problem. She goes home, next day she calls in. I guess she gets really loopy with JB on the phone. JB calls me up and asks what should we do? He said she doesn't want to do the two dialogue sequences and wants to jack her pay up by $500. I said what do you want to do? JB said, personally, he'd fire her. I said fire her. Get her out. Then I get a call from Robert Herrera at the TeN Channel going, 'yeah, you were trying to fuck this girl; she didn't want to fuck you so you threw her out of the house.' I'm saying, what are you talking about?
"I called JB back and said this thing's really getting out of hand. Let's pay this girl. He said she just wants to cause some crap. I said talk to her. For two days this girl chased me all over the set trying to get in my pants."
G. Ross: "She has a different story."
Adams: "All you have to do is ask anybody on the set."
G. Ross: "She's claiming you sexually harassed her. [Adams laughs uproariously.] And that you were sticking your hands down her pants Saturday and when she wasn't going to play ball, things got ugly and that's when she realized it was time to leave."
Adams: "That's fucking so funny. I mean my wife's [Aspen Brock] coming to the set to work, right? She might be working on Alec's gig. That's all I need is to be fucking one of the models while I'm having problems with my wife. Jesus Christ like I need that headache. I mean this chick's coming on to me. She's your lead actress, you kinda play a little bit of the game with her. They came over, the guy [Houston] passes out. Now she's got to spend the night. I look at Alec, dude, we got a problem. What if my wife calls. Then one of my wife's girlfriends is coming over. Man, this is so fucked up.
"They were all jacked up, right? I'm already in bed, asleep. I hear a noise going out in the room. I ask the girl where her guy's at. Alec's already telling me to get this guy [Houston] out, that he's trying to pick up Alec's date. Alec has a couple of girls over. Anyway, I walking through the house and can't find the guy. I walk right by him twice. My God he's there by Alec's door jacking off. I didn't know what to do to be honest with you. That's when I told her [Amber] you gotta go, your driver's jacking off. She gave me a minute-long stutter. Her comeback was this, 'well, u-u-u-h you could have done somethin' about it.' What am I going to do? Jump on the guy? Fight with a naked man with his penis in his hand? If I wanted to fuck this girl, I would have just played one of the parts in the movie.
"So JB goes over there Sunday and she's all fucking pilled-out of her tree. This was the whole shoot. I had to take her down from about 22 pages of dialogue down to four lines. I was cutting my script to shreds. You can tell when somebody keeps needing more and more pills. She was going [slurring according Adams] hey, buddy, pal, you're my buddy, yadda yadda. It wasn't working. Then, by the second day of the shoot she told me that she was going out partying. She had all of her big dialogue Sunday. I told her, no, if you're going to party come by the house and stay there, so I'll know you'll come by the next day. That's how that shenanigan went down.
"Then we get to the set. Luke Ford's there and he can turn anything into anything. A lot of that on the site is a put on. One of the crew guys was trying to fuck a chick on the set. I told JB you gotta fire this crew guy. I don't need that crap on the set. Now I'm getting blamed over this girl-shit. She called Sunday and wanted to come to the set but JB wanted to fire her, too. It couldn't have been too bad of a situation or she wouldn't have called wanting to come to the set. They're writing her a check. Nobody's been fired. Only the girl and all she got fired from was two dialogue sequences."
G. Ross: "What's this movie about?"
Adams: "Liquid Blue is this huge surging movie, full tilt. Billy Glyde and Brick Majors play these roommates that are surfers. We have Charlie Angel and Farrah and this new gal Kiki Dare a really cute girl. The show's going really well and I'm very happy with it. I'm stunned by Billy. He just got out of the pokie and he's all cleaned up. The kid is just ripped to shreds. And he's doing a pretty good job. I'm impressed by it."
[Adams says Josie Snyder at Sin City is handling his foreign and Adam & Eve deal; Adams does his own cable deal and is opening his offices with Kevin Beech.]
Adams: "Perfect Pictures starts up April 15 or something. Kevin is handling distribution. We're going to have our offices there. It's going to be so much less trouble."
G. Ross: "I was under the impression that you were going to do this surfing movie with Multimedia."
Adams: "I was, then, to be honest, my movies will sell, but they won't sell when they got a bunch of crap attached to them. When you got to move a bunch of junky gonzo out the door and your movie's supposed to be the flagship, your numbers are going to hurt. I didn't see it happening with those Notorious guys any longer. Nobody's bringing them money. They come to Buck. That's where the money comes from. Buck's always got the investors. I talked to Kevin. Kevin gave me a great deal. I had a meeting with Mark [Snyder], Josie and David [Sturman] and they promised me the world. As long as they're happy and Kevin's happy, and the movie comes out great I don't care what the hell they write about me."
G. Ross: "What's the story with Babewatch?"
Adams: "Anybody who wants to give me static when I move it, I just back to the original guy which is David. David goes, 'if anybody's got the right to the Babewatch name other than Buck, it's me.' He's always protected me on it all the way down the line. The lawyers explained it to me kinda funny. Once you've done something for a long time, you're kind of the master of it. We've moved it through three different companies and have shown that we've always maintained control of the projects. It's understood that it stays wherever I go. I don't imagine too many people will want to fuck with Kevin Beech over the release of Babewatch. I made my movies for very specific reasons. That's why I'm in with Kevin. Kevin makes sure you get paid. Two, you don't have to many problems with people trying to screw you over especially when you're messing with money that Kevin's making. And with David, that's where I started this whole big run of stuff. I like Mark and Josie and David has always been a big brother figure to me. Nobody ever took care of me over at Notorious. I had to bring in the money to do my own shoots. They always tapped danced with the Fonz and I didn't see any dramatic sales numbers when they handled Operation Centerfold. I wasn't real happy with their marketing gag. It was time to move on. No hard feelings, no problems. Just stay away. Leave me alone. If I'm leaving, don't try to steal from my pockets when I go. I'm happy as a lark to be going over to Kevin's building."
G. Ross: "I hear you and Hank Weinstein had personal problems, that's why you took off."
Adams: "Somewhat.... I don't like them over there. Nobody ever treated me well. Problems with my wife turn into big disasters. Fuck you, Hank. Get out of my way, dude. I got 2.6 million dollars and you're no longer a friend of mine. She's sitting at Hank's house and it's tough to be working with the boys at Notorious if those kinds of shenanigans are going on."
Hank Weinstein says that whatever Adams has to say about him [Weinstein] and Aspen Brock "is an absolute lie." Weinstein describes Brock as a "friend." In fact, Adams, according to Weinstein, had asked Weinstein to look out for Brock when he ran into problems. [Remember the cops and the octopus story?}
Weinstein: "The reason why Buck left Notorious is that he didn't have any more movies to make."
G. Ross: "I was under the impression that he was going to do this surfing movie for you guys."
Weinstein: "The owner of Notorious wanted to distribute it, but Buck didn't have the financing for it. Notorious doesn't finance. Nothing Buck has sold her like Operation Centerfold is financed by Notorious. Buck finances projects and brings them in and Notorious figures whether it's worthwhile to distribute them. For whatever reasons Buck pulled out of here, it had nothing to do with the business relationship.
"As far as Aspen, I don't know what to tell you. Buck was arrested for spousal abuse. He was in jail for spousal abuse. He asked me to look after her. I did. She's trying to get her life back together, but you can't do that when you got no place to stay. I don't think Buck was letting her work with the promise that he was going to do all these big movies. I would never have allowed his wife into my house if Buck hadn't begged me with tears from jail to make sure that she'd be looked after."
Jim Powers had this to say about Adams.
Powers: "You know how Buck hates us every six months. I'm sure he'll be back next year. This is the usual bullshit. I think he's mad because he blames losing his wife to our marketing director [Weinstein]. He claims he's going to make 1.68 million in about four weeks. That's his payoff for this movie. He's going to put it all into ruining our marketing guy. He hates us because he thinks Hank stole his wife. I'm giving you the God's honest truth. Buck lives in this fantasy land, and she had to get out of it, there's only so much she can take. That's why Buck is running around shopping Babewatch to other places. We own the name Buck Adams' Babewatch. We paid him off a long time ago. We have contracts. If anyone else puts it out, we'll sue 'em.
"Buck supposedly has a $360,000 budget on this movie [Liquid Blue]. He called me up a couple of weeks ago going beserk one night how he was going to kill Hank and sue us. He's suing us because Hank works at our place. Are you allowed to sue somebody if they take your girl?"
G. Ross: "Did Hank take her?"
Powers: "No. She left Buck she got sick of his bullshit. Hank's just a nice guy and let's her stay at his place. That's all that it is. She got tired of Buck being on crack cocaine. She was getting him crack. I don't know how Buck's heart is going to take all this. But of course he explained to you how it was a fly that did it to him in last time. I guess if he doesn't go near the flies he's okay. When last Buck left us, Aspen dropped him off at Alec Metro's and he hasn't left the couch since. And Aspen was living there too. She says she has restraining orders against him. Buck drama is a classic. He saw us the other week but that was to let us know that he has $1.68 million earmarked towards his battery of attorneys which he'll be suing Hank for taking his wife.
"Buck married Aspen because he heard that she was going to be inheriting $30 million. It never ends. Buck Adams should have his own website for all the stories coming out. Buck has just lost it."
JB adds his take on what happened between him and Amber SexXxum Sunday night.
JB: "I try to follow a righteous path nowadays. I don't party. I don't go to the conventions. I work and go home. I don't want this bullshit, high school chaos in my life. I want peace and quiet."
G. Ross: "Do the words Liquid Blue ring a familiar note?"
JB: "I have this way of blocking out painful things in my life even if they're recent."
G. Ross: "Speaking of which, Amber SexXxum is claiming that you came over to the place where she was staying Sunday night."
JB: "Correct."
G. Ross: "With a model release.."
JB: "Right, and deal memos and W-9's and verifications of U.S. citizineship and all the paper work that the investment bankers backing the project require me to get for payroll."
G. Ross: "She's claiming that you were supposed to give her a check and never gave her a check."
JB: "Right. I'll repeat this which I told her about seven times. But if you take as much Xanax as she does, it's kind of hard to compute. I don't write the checks, BUT..I may have certain reputations. One of them is not being a thief or a ripoff. My word is gold. I've never burnt anybody for a nickel in this business. I told her this at length after she changed her deal with me four or five times during the course of the shoot and wanted more money every time lunch was 30 minutes late - because Dirty Bob is telling her what she should charge people and how films are made - he's one of the greats. I never promised her a check.
"Basically, she was nothing but a problem from day one. She's a fucking nutcase. I would never have hired her. Basically, she's getting paid. She's getting paid even though she didn't sign a fucking release. I'll take care of what I have to, to get the paperwork. She's not going to get burnt for a nickel. She's going to get every dime due her but it takes 24 to 48 hours to process the check. I'll do the right thing. Last night [Sunday] I told her this on the phone. When I got to the front door where she was staying, I had to go her Florida cell phone number to wake her up. Then she passed out in the middle of the conversation. She was in such a fucking haze. This girl has a monumental drug problem. You talk to her there's noting there. She can't even answer a question.
"I'm standing in the rain at the front door, banging on the door. Then I gotta call Robert Herrera who she's staying with, wake him up to come open the door.
"We had already made this agreement. I was going to come by with the paperwork; I'll walk her check through financial [Monday]; I'll have it at the latest, noon, Tuesday. Fine. I get there last night [Sunday] she goes, 'I got to get paid before I sign a release.' Well how about when you work for VCA and it takes 10 days to get your payroll? How about Vivid when it goes in on Thursday and comes out the following week? Do you hold them up to? So it's basically, fuck you, bitch, here's your money. I never want to look at your disgusting, drug-addicted face again.
"Of course the most beautiful thing is that the day Luke comes out is the melt down day. I pull Buck aside when he first gets there. I go that guy over there is Luke Ford. Anything you say he will print. If he doesn't have something to print, he'll make it up. So be careful what you say around him. Of course this is porno so doesn't this have to be the most fucked up possibilities at all times?"
G. Ross: "So you say Amber was trouble from the get-go?"
JB: "The whole time...you take her and Buck and stir the whole pot up, I feel like I'm running a day care center for retards. It's unbelievable. When am I going to wake up and this whole period of my life is a bad dream?"
