Kevin Blatt

March 15, 2007

KB: "Leaving my hotel in New York last week, and Kat Williams, a black comedian, was staying at the Trump. I see this black girl walking out of the limo and I say, 'You're the [hooker] chick from Borat!' She said, 'That's right, doll.' She had a birthday party last night at Miyagis.

"She said that the hardest part of working with Sacha Baron Cohen was that he keeps kosher and it was hard to find kosher food in Romania [where all the Kazakhstan scenes were filmed]. It all had to be shipped in."

Luke: "Have you heard any scoop?"

KB: "You know me. I'm a narcissist. I live in my own little world."

I've heard through the grapevine that KB is kickin' it with Lela Star. He attended a party two weeks back for Charmane Star and Lela got wild with KB in the back of the club.

AVN reports:

LOS ANGELES - This Friday night, March 16, American Cannibal will premiere at the Fine Arts Theater in Los Angeles. The evening will be sponsored by AVN, WantedList, PussyCash, and Clips4Sale.

Kevin Blatt, coming off a busy press tour that included interviews with Entertainment Tonight, ShowBiz Tonight, HDNet, the New York Times, the New York Post, and TeleMundo, is "excited about all of the positive press and rave reviews" of his new film. The New York Post called the film "deliciously bizarre," while Variety dubbed the film a "trainwreck fascination."

From Newsday's review of American Cannibal:

Their subjects are Dave Roberts and Gil S. Ripley, two smart, self-aware aspiring filmmakers who sell their souls to get a project deal going. Hooking up with Kevin Blatt, the man who marketed Paris Hilton's sex tapes, they interest him in a reality show about sexually pure young men called "Virgin Territory" (marketing tag? "You win it, you lose it"). But it is a jokey throwaway idea that really gets Blatt's mojo working: a post-"Survival" show in which the contestants are thrown on an island and starved.

As the team's outlandish concept (called "The Ultimate, Ultimate Challenge") moves closer to realization, Grebein and Nigro interview a variety of latter-day Sammy Glicks and entertainment media pundits, who pontificate about how crazy and competitive the business has become.

From ComingSoon.net:

CS: What has the reaction been to the movie from the different people actually in the movie like Kevin Blatt? Has he seen the movie and commented on it?
Grebin: He's been begging us for a copy of the movie, 'cause he knows it's coming out.
Nigro: He saw it at Tribeca. The only reason we knew he was there was because we said we'd save two seats for him at the back of every screening, and the first screening, we didn't know he showed up but he did.
Grebin: He did see the movie. I saw it on a UK movie blog. Someone saw it in New York and he said that he'd been in the back row sitting next to the pornographer that's in the movie, Kevin Blatt and his girlfriend, and that's how we knew Kevin was at the movie. He came to the first one but we didn't find out until the next day, and he said later that he was so concerned about how he would be portrayed that he couldn't even tell if the movie is good or not.

March 19, 2007

American Cannibal Kevin Blatt

I call KB Monday morning.

KB: "Who tells all these gonzo girls that they can become mainstream actresses? Every girl I meet has these delusions of grandeur. I've had three gonzo girls tell me that they reading for these B-list parts for Showtime and are going on casting calls for NBC pilots.

"Do they know that you're a porn star? 'I'm using my real name.'

"I have dates with two porn stars today and a non-porn star. A reality star."

"This American Cannibal movie is three years of my life. That means 22 jobs and 48 business cards and over a billion names dropped. That's over 117 porn stars f---ed. For this to culminate Friday night in all my friends and family going to my premiere...and have them love it, it's overwhelming. It's like studying for your bar mitzvah and all of a sudden you're up on the bima.

"You don't see Dig420 on mtv.com do you? Whatever happened to Bernie? I saw him at the last show and he was shaved bald and I didn't recognize him."