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SCSI Post editor Montel Bradford phoned me Friday about AVN’s nomination of Asia Carrera and her video Appassionata for Best Music. "AVN stated that Asia Carrera played all the piano in it. That’s not true. Bud and Asia know that’s my music. I produced and played all the piano pieces that she supposedly played because Bud Lee can’t mike a piano. He miked the piano by the pedals. Appassionata was the first thing I ever did in the industry and Bud wouldn’t pay me for it. "I know this sonofabitch Bud. I’ve edited six movies for him including Looker and Intimate Strangers. I work for SCSI Post [post-production house]. But he doesn’t want to give us credit. I did the best music [in those videos]. Bud gives the credit to fictitious names… "Bud is the most inept guy. He doesn’t think in advance and get good music. He wimps out. I quit working for him because he doesn’t pay on time. "My music in Appassionata comes from a track I cut for a Chippendale movie which I produced and directed. I spent $200,000 on it. I put that same piece [of music] in a couple of other movies and they weren’t nominated. It’s instrumental Beethoven slowed down… A beautiful piece that I spent time on…" Asia Carrera replies: "First of all, "Appassionata" was edited by J.P. at SCSi Post, not this schmuck. Second of all, he obviously has no idea who Bud is, because Bud didn't direct "Lookers" or "Intimate Strangers". Nic Cramer did. Third of all, I played the 3rd movement of Beethoven's "Sonata Pathetique", and the first movement of "Moonlight Sonata", exactly as Beethoven wrote them 200 years ago, so if this guy is claiming to have written those pieces, he needs to take it up with Ludwig, not me. "I recorded the pieces on DAT tapes post-production, courtesy of Moonlight Studios in L.A., and we laid those tracks in over the actual live performance. The other piece I played (in the modern-day bar scene) was written by me, and performed live on film, from my own handwritten sheet music. I made a couple of mistakes in the song, but we chose to use the live track anyway, because we liked the overall effect. I can produce my handwritten sheet music from that bar scene - now I want to see him produce a "Chippendales Movie" with my song in it. "I'm flattered that this jerk wants to take credit for my performance, mistakes and all, but he's concocted this story out of thin air, and it shows. If he wants to pursue this slander any further, I'll gladly challenge him to a live performance of Beethoven's "Sonata Pathetique" in a court of law, and then I'm gonna slap him with such a lawsuit that he'll spend the rest of his life wishing he'd taken piano lessons as a kid, instead of Wanking 101." Somehow Asia missed the fact that I had printed her response to the charge, and she sent me this note Monday morning: "Where is my response? Why do I even waste my time talking to you? You are the most evil, selfish, ASSHOLE to ever walk the earth. I can't believe you went and posted that completely fictitious creation, knowing that it was a lie, without even printing my response. Thanks for making me cry twice in two days. I hope you're proud of yourself, you scum-sucking monster. Rot in hell." Montel Bradford: "My first [adult] film was Miscreants. I did all the music on it and I edited it. Rob Black dropped it off… I never got paid a cent for it because there was a deal here at SCSI [with Black] that it had to be out by a certain date [which SCSI did not reach]. "That’s how it is at SCSI. They set people up… I love Jake and everything. They are good people at heart but sometimes they bend over backwards to get work in here. They make deals that are impossible to meet. Media 100 is a s---ty editing system. I’m working here because it’s my first job in this side of the entertainment industry. "Larry Elder [KABC talkshow host] did a thing – ‘porn is not porn anymore. It’s going mainstream.’ This is the stuff that they say about the music that I do because it is a big production. I was paid $2500 a song by Chippendales to make this soundtrack. So I have 21 original songs that are sex-oriented that I put in from time to time in different pieces like Intimate Strangers. Bud Lee and Asia must think that I am stupid and that I don’t read these things [like AVN]. "I used to star in films with Patrick Swayze and stuff, but unfortunately the mainstream is just as seedy [as porno]. Unfortunately, when you star in a major movie, guys like David Geffen come up to you and hit on you and say, ‘if you blow this guy, then you’re going right to the top.’ So I’m basically blacklisted from the mainstream industry [because he wouldn’t blow the gay mob]. "I starred in the movie Skatetown USA. My real name is Greg Bradford but in adult I use Montel Bradford. I did the TV series Facts of Life, and I did the movie Zapped where I played Heather Thomas’ jerk boyfriend. I got Willie Ames’ part." The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) lists Greg (Montel) Bradford for the following: 1.Vendetta (1986) .... Joe-Bob 2.Lovelines (1984) .... Rick Johnson 3.Let's Do It! (1982) .... Freddie 4.Zapped! (1982) .... Robert Wolcott ... aka Wiz Kid, The (1982) (USA: working title) 5.Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979) .... Stan Notable TV guest appearances 1."CHiPs" (1977) playing "Chad Sullivan" in episode: "11-99: Officer Needs Help" (episode # 4.11) 1/18/1981 2."CHiPs" (1977) playing "Bart" in episode: "Valley Go Home!" (episode # 3.3) 9/29/1979 Montel Bradford: "I’m working in adult because it is the only avenue left for me to be creative. I see lots of crap but I believe that adult can become a mainstream thing if they make sure that the sex scenes advance the story line and develop the character. I’ve written a couple of scripts like that… "I wrote a script about
the Chippendale murders. There’s a big movie from Sony about the Chippendales
which is [supposedly] a true story. Not really because it’s got the
ok from Chippendales [male stripper company]. I was on the cover of
their 1983 Calendar. I appeared in the 1987 Chipendales calendar. And
I produced and directed [and shot and edited] a movie (Stranded – "Chippendales is a huge touring show that is bigger than Cats and Phantom of the Opera. It’s the biggest touring American show in Europe, bigger than David Hasselhoff. The reason that it is so big in Europe and that it died here is because he (owner Steve Banerjee) killed his partner (Nick Denoia). "The reason that Chippendales left the US? Nick Denoya owned the rights. So the cops always thought, ‘why is Nick dead? You killed him for this.’ "[Steve says:] ‘I could care less about the tours in America because every time we play a goddam 3000 seat house like we do in Europe, we have to pay union dues. There are no union dues in Europe.’ "So, the FBI kinda believed him. When I was on tour with him [Steve Banerjee’s Chippendales], I saw an undercover FBI agent who was a friend of mine. "My first movie was Star 80 with Dorothy Stratten. She and I had an affair. I knew her husband (Paul Snyder) well. Paul was a cool guy [who eventually murdered Dorothy and killed himself]. She [Dorothy Stratten] introduced me to the owner of Chippendales on the set of Skate Town USA. [JL points out that if Montel had an affair with Dorothy Stratten on Star 80, then he had an affair with a dead person. Dorothy was already dead at the time. Star 80 starred Mariel Hemingway, and it was about the life of Stratten.] "I’m the nicest guy in the world. I have nothing against gay people. But I didn’t want to blow the gay mob. I do have a problem with people discriminating against people based on their sexuality. The gay mob employ the boys who are in the know. Barry Diller is another huge gay mafia guy. He hit on me at the premiere of Grease [Greg was a background dancer]. The Grease producer, Carr, was my manager. He was the one David Geffen told me that I had to blow. "Adult… Nobody wants to pay in this industry… You buy a used car because you want to pay less but you end up paying more… This whole industry is backwards… Instead of doing something right, like Bud Lee and Matt Zane, who can’t get audio right… "[Montel’s boss] Jake Jacobs (of the production company Go For Broke and SCSI Post) is the shooter in the industry. He shot Exile and all of Johnathan Morgan’s movies. "I cut the trailer for Nic Cramer’s Intimate Strangers and put this nice music to it. I never got paid. He didn’t like the trailer because it looked too much like a real movie. He wanted it to look like sex. "I shoot for Wicked. I was on that MTV documentary on the Wicked shoot Eros. "My girlfriend (Naudy Naudia) just came out in this masturbation video – Home Alone 6. And it’s all my music behind it. She had a boyfriend, a rockn’roller named Festus… They wanted me to do a video of him sucking his own dick…" From the 7/31/94 Newsday: The owner of Chippendales, the Manhattan-based male stripper company, pleaded guilty Friday to the 1987 contract murder of his former choreographer in what prosecutors described as a pattern of eliminating the competition. Somen Banerjee, 47, will be sentenced to 26 years in prison under a plea agreement for arranging the murder of children's television producer Nick Denoia in Manhattan in April, 1987, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Sally Meloch. Denoia, who was 46 and had won five Emmy Awards for producing an NBC musical fairy-tale, left Chippendales and began a rival company called Chippendales Universal that booked male dancers into clubs around the country. He was found shot in the face in his midtown office. Banerjee was indicted last September for plotting to murder three former associates who were affiliated with another rival dance troupe, but he was charged in Denoia's murder a month later, Meloch said. According to Meloch, Banerjee admitted to paying two hit men to murder Denoia as part of a pattern of eliminating competition. Denoia was born in New Jersey and lived in Weehawken at the time of his murder. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped the three attempted-murder charges against Banerjee. Chippendales continues as a touring revue, but the two nightclubs that used to operate in Los Angeles and New York are now closed. Banerjee also admitted to one count of racketeering in promoting his business, Meloch said. He entered his plea in U.S. District Court Friday and agreed to forfeit his business to the government, Meloch said.
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