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Michael Lucas, Bruno Gmunder Team Up

Michael Lucas and Bruno Gmunder have signed a partnership deal that has the duo co-producing a few book, calendar and magazine products ... The deal also allows Gmunder to distribute Lucas Entertainment products in Europe ...

Here is the full press release ...

Lucas Entertainment is pleased to announce its partnership with Bruno Gmunder for multiple high quality book, calendar, and magazine publications and exclusive DVD distribution in Europe.

Michael Lucas, CEO and President of Lucas Entertainment, says "I am proud to be working with a distributor that carries a long history of quality and greatness in all its products, and the only European distributor that does not distribute bareback films. Everyone at Lucas Entertainment is looking forward to gaining increased positioning in the European market and building a stronger relationship with these customers."

"We are proud to have Lucas Entertainment on board. We share the same vision of quality and see a perfect partner in Michael Lucas," says Michael Taubenheim, CEO of Bruno Gmunder.

The first publications include a Lucas Entertainment 2009 Calendar (to be released in Europe in July and the U.S. in August), a photobook titled Michael Lucas' Gigolos, (set for European release in August and U.S. release in October), and a Porn Up! special featuring Lucas Entertainment's greatest videos. All products will be available both at LucasEntertainment.com and in local stores.

~Papi Chulo~

Talk of the Town :: Finesse Mitchell Ain't Jokin' 'Bout Romance ... Or Is He ???

Finesse Mitchell is a renaissance man ... He is a comedian, actor, and relationship adviser ...

The Miramar, FL resident and Saturday Night Live alumnus is the author of book on relationships titled Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much: A Brother's Take on Dating and Mating for Sistas ...

Finesse's first glimpse at stardom was during an open-mike night at the Miami Improv in Coconut Grove ... that night he took the rookie title his first time on stage ...

Finesse Mitchell: "I was on top of the world. So I came back the next week with a whole new routine. The silence was sooooooo loud! I heard the worst thing in the world next to silence. That lip smacking sound that skeptical women make. And the woman that did it had a look on her face like, 'You're still here?' It was a very humbling experience."

In 2002 ... Lorne Michaels (SNL executive producer) saw a tape of Mitchell performing stand-up and invited him to audition for a spot on Saturday Night Live ...

Finesse Mitchell: "SNL was a blast. I can't tell you how much fun it was to do improv, to play a particular personality, and then to meet that person and get their impression of your impression of them!"

The 36-year-old comedian got cut from the series in 2006 due to budget cuts ... A few weeks later he accepted a friend's offer to write a one-time guest column for Essence magazine ...

Finesse Mitchell: "They wanted me to write something on relationships and give advice to women about how to deal with hard-headed men."

The column was so well received that the magazine offered him a monthly job as relationship-advice columnist ...

Then a literary agent contacted Finesse thinking that his column would be the basis of a funny book ... after submitting a proposal ... his book was born ...

Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much hit bookstores in November ...

~Papi Chulo~

BangBangBoys Calendar Available at Target.com

BangBangBoys.com will be offering its 2009 calendars at upscale adult retailers and at Amazon.com and Target.com ...

The softcore calendar is offered through Target's website since Amazon.com operates it ...

Skin 2009 is described on Target's site as "tall, dark, handsome and nude. These sexy South American men will drive your customers wild. It’ll be summer all year long with this second collection of exotic studs from BangBangBoys.com."

Naked & Exposed 2009 "reveals what fraternity guys do when they are not studying" ... Naked & Exposed is not available on Target.com since it features nudity ... but it is available on Amazon.com ...

For more information on BangBangBoys ... Click Here ...

~Papi Chulo~

Talk of the Town :: Mario Lopez

Mario Lopez dropped by Borders Merrick Park in South Miami to promote his new fitness book Mario Lopez's Knockout Fitness ...

The book promises to help men and women achieve their fitness goals in just six weeks by following a sensible diet and a varied workout routine ...

The 34-year-old musclebound Latino is experiencing the "busiest time of [his] life" ... Lopez is currently starring in Broadway's A Chorus Line and guest hosts Extra TV ...

With his hectic schedule ... Lopez still finds time to fit in daily workouts ... I guess that must be how he attained his rock-hard abs and sculpted pectorals ...

Mario Lopez: "I'm not a calorie counter. I try not to eat carbs after 3 p.m. I do have my cheat meals -- when I eat a steady flow of crap: pizza, ice cream, cookies, you name it. But you gotta live, just be healthy and balanced. There are no shortcuts."

Mario Lopez's Knockout Fitness is currently available ...

~Papi Chulo~

"Playgirl" Calls Mario Lopez

Mario Lopez is certainly not ashamed of his body ... but he does have his limits ...

When Playgirl magazine called ...

Mario Lopez: "I politely declined. It's not something for me at the moment. But it's ironic, because I'm, like, 'nature boy.' I'm always running around the house in underwear or nothing."

The former Dancing With the Stars contestant has just released a health and fitness book titles Mario Lopez's Knockout Fitness ...

New York Post's Page Six has dubbed the musclebound Latino "Flex" ...

Lopez can currently been seen on Broadway's A Chorus Line ...

~Papi Chulo~

Star Vs. Barbara :: Jones Bites Back!

Barbara Walters visited The Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday ... Walters was there to promote her new book Audition ...

Winfrey asked Walters about Star Jones' departure from The View ... Walters said that she (along with her co-hosts) was forced to lie about Jones' gastric bypass surgery as the behest of Jones ...

Jones responded to Walters' words ...

Star Jones: "It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character."

While on The View ... Jones maintained that she lost more than 160 pounds in 2003 due to portion control and Pilates ... Walters wanted to have Jones on 20/20 to chronicle the bypass surgery and Jones' recovery ... Jones rejected the proposal stating that she didn't want to be the "poster child" for the operation ...

It wasn't until 2007 ... a year after leaving The View ... that Jones came clean about having the procedure ...

Walters also chatted about her secret affair with then married Senator Edward Brooke in the 1970s on Oprah ...

~Papi Chulo~

Bobby Brown Releases Tell-All Book in June

Bobby Brown releases Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But... on June 1 ... The autobiography talks heavily about his drug-fueled past and headline-making marriage to Whitney Houston ...

Passages from the book have been popping up online and Brown states that he wasn't the bad guy in the marriage ... that Houston fueled his appetite for drugs ... then used him to tidy up her image ...

Bobby Brown: "I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice."

Brown says that their marriage was "doomed from the very beginning" ... even stating that Houston wanted to get married and get pregnant to "kill all speculation" about her sexuality ...

Brown promises his book will reveal "the real reason he left New Edition" ... He also states that the only thing Karrine "Superhead" Steffans is good for is "what her nickname stood for" ...

Houston's representative says in a statement that she is "sad that Bobby feels the need to say such things, but she chooses to take the high road, and will not speak badly about the father of her child even if it's to set the record straight" ...

~Papi Chulo~

John Holmes Biography Arrives This Summer

The biography John Holmes: A Life Measured In Inches has been completed and its writers ... Jennifer Sugar and Jill Nelson ... have announced that it will be released in August through Bear Manor Media ...

The publication date ... August 8 ... would have been John Holmes' 64th birthday ...

The book traces the performer's life from his hard-scrabble childhood in rural Pickaway County, Ohio through his glory days playing fictional character "Johnny Wadd" to his cocaine- addled final years that included an alleged involvement in the infamous and unsolved "Wonderland murders" and Holmes's AIDS-related death.

The book also includes exclusive interviews, over 100 reviews of Holmes' most notable films, photos and a filmography ...

To pre-order John Holmes: A Life Measured In Inches ... Visit JohnHolmesInches.com ...

~Papi Chulo~

Harry Potter Gets Sliced in Half

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ... the final book in J.K. Rowling's phenomenally successful series ... will be made into two movies ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 will hit theaters in November 2010 ... and six months later Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 will premiere in May 2011 ...

David Heyman (Harry Potter Producer): "I swear to you it was born out of purely creative reasons. [The final book] is so packed with important details that unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book. The question will be, where do you break [the two movies]?... Do you break [them] with a moment of suspense or one of resolution?""

Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter"): "I think it's the only way you can do it without cutting out a huge portion of the book."

David Yates will direct both Deathly Hallows installments ... Yates directed 2007's Order of the Phoenix and is currently directing Half-Blood Prince ... Steve Kloves ... who has written five of the six film adaptations will write the last two as well ...

~Papi Chulo~

Lex Talks "Impaler" and "Money Shot"

It was announced last week that Lexington Steele and Jules Jordan are re-teaming to shoot Lex the Impaler 3 ... The first new volume in the series since 2002 ...

Lexington Steele: "Impaler 1 and 2 have been so good for everybody in terms of my popularity, in terms of Jules' popularity, and at no point had we decided to not collaborate again on volume three. The combination of Jules' videography and my performance skills have created some of the most valuable pornography shot in the history of pornography, so for the fans out there, we decided to do it again. The impact should be great for both of us."

Lex has rarely performed for another studio since forming Mercenary Pictures ... But Lex sees this collaboration as a form of good cross-promotion ...

Lexington Steele: "There's not a lot of new stuff with Lexington Steele outside of Mercenary, and this gives a chance for people that maybe have not come across Mercenary, but are very strong fans of Jules Jordan, to see that I'm still doing stuff today, and they can make available to themselves all of the Mercenary new stuff. So it works out pretty well. Jules and I have always been good friends, and it was one of those things like, 'Hey, let's get together and do another one, why not?' Like I said, we've done some very historic things, and we look to do it again with number three."

Mercenary is also enjoying some extra publicity through the form of the new book Money Shot: The Wild Nights and Lonely Days Inside the Black Porn Industry ... written by Lawrence C. Ross Jr. ... The book was released this past fall through Thunder's Mouth Press ...

Money Shot devotes a lot of attention on Steele ... whose activities over the course of a year are described throughout the book ...

Lexington Steele: "I met [Ross] at one of the AVN Awards shows, I believe it was AVN 2006. We met on several occasions over more than a year, actually, and we were able to display what happens when a person is moving from performer/director into ownership and distribution. It wasn't completely about me ... it covers the gamut of ethnic performers in the business."

Some of the big name stars featured in the book are Sean Michaels, Sinnamon Love and Sledge Hammer ...

Lexington Steele: "I still enjoy doing scenes. I enjoy running my company more. I tend to spend more time in executive and administrative roles than in performance roles. But I would say I might perform for the camera for maybe another year. 2008 may be my last year in front of the camera. After I finish 2008, then I'll see whether I still feel like performing. I wouldn't say that I'm going to be a 15-year guy."

A release date has not been set for Lex the Impaler 3 ... Money Shot is currently available for purchase ...

~Papi Chulo~

Ex-Porn Star Bobby Blake to Release Tell-All Book

Retired gay porn star Bobby Blake is set to release a tell-book about his life within the porn industry in May 2008 ...

The book ... titled My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story ... will explore the former porn star's life before the industry ... how he became the star he is today ... and his life after the industry ...

Bobby Blake retired from the industry seven years ago ... Bobby is currently a minister in a Tennessee church ... and is strongly against gay marriage ...

Here is what Bobby Blake says about the current state of gay porn to Herndon Davis ...

"Porn today I don't think it's a good thing. There are companies who use young men as though they are animals."

Here are a few clips of classic Bobby Blake scenes ...