No interview in the adult business is either casual for its own sake or lacks for ultimate significance. Several weeks ago, we had a chance run in with Tony Montana at the Sin City sound stage and got some biog snippets - of course, with no clue at the time, that events of the past week would re-shape his destiny.
Montana: "I came into the business late '79. I used to dance for a place called Manpower Playgirl Centerfold. Then I started working for a guy named Johnny Castano. I did a lot of stills for him for Gourmet Magazine. I shot so much for them. They used to put mustaches and wigs on me and all that to make me look different. Then I started doing videos. Well, here we are today."
Montana has a background in carpentry and continues to employ his craft to build porno sets [he got his start constructing sets with British photog Roy Brewington] in between acting gigs. "He had a studio with Frank James. Remember Frank James? That's where I started building sets.
"I also used to work for a company called Fleetwood Machines which made guidance systems for missiles. They used to sell to Lockheed.
"I had some personal problems with an old girlfriend and wound up doing porno," Montana went on to say. "This was way before Blondie. This was a girl named Amy. Then I ended up working at a place called Filthy McNasty's as a waiter. Then I went into stripping and pornos. I did my first movie for Ted Snyder and worked with his wife not knowing it was his wife, Sharon. It went from one thing to another.
At the time we spoke to him, Montana said he was still performing. "I've been working a lot for Elegant Angel and Mark Carriere and doing videos in Spanish for a company called Video Amor. Montana also said he was involved with a site, pornosexlounge.com
"A couple of guys I know started it and it's done very well so far. Ron Jeremy and I are the hosts. We do the girls and tell people how to masturbate. It's one of those things where they follow you with a camera and you do what you want to do. The nice thing is they get all these pretty young girls for us and we're happy to do them."
If you're keeping score of such things, Montana's last ever feature now appears to be The Pussy Cartel from year-old New Century Cinema whose distributor, by the way, is Gentlemen's Video. Writer/director Drill, who's one of the company's three owners, talks about the feature.
Drill: "We did a parody of the 1970's-style television shows that were action/drama police kinds of thing. We got the voiceovers and the freeze frames between each scene accompanied by some cool 70's style music. Bridget Kerkove stars in it. We also got Charlene Aspen, Chandler, Samantha, Billy Glide, Chris Cannon and Obsession.
"Obsession's in the middle of the Tony Montana story because of us. They worked together on that one, and we really feature him in it. He's the head of the Pussy Cartel. Tony Montana sort of plays Tony Montana. He's this pussy dealer living high in his South American hacienda. We've got some great scenery with pools and waterfalls.
"I brought Tony back for a pick-up shoot about three weeks later in which he was a voyeur watching Chandler and Samantha go off. He sits on a couch and watches the action. He pops off on himself as they're doing their scene. Of course, the phone calls from everyone involved with those two girls, were like the boyfriends and husbands flipping out: 'Are you sure Tony didn't touch them?' It was getting pretty heavy for awhile. I had to show them video to prove he didn't touch them. Of course, he brought his paperwork which was still negative. Then he came up about two weeks later as positive."
The Pussy Cartel comes out October 21. Positive.
