Porn Valley- – XXX calls to tell me that he’s cleaning up some porn VOD accounts that owe him money. One is a company called Cinema Now. Except when he called the number, it referred him to another number which turns out to be Lion’s Gate Entertainment. He called that number then asked for the accounts payable dept. for Cinema Now and was told he couldn’t be connected. Why not, he asked. “You have to give me a name,” he was told by some woman. “Unless you know who you want to talk to,” they won’t connect you XXX tells me. “I told them I want to connect to the accounts payable dept. for Cinema Now. They told me no. I said can you give me the address. No. I said I usually speak to XXXX XXXXX. She said you said the name, I can connect you now. I get into the voice mail and said please call me. To me what they’re doing is covering up that Lion’s Gate is into porn.”
But what makes this story have a Three Days of the Condor edge to it, is that when XXX went to call the Cinema Now number with me on the other line, instead of the message referring you to Lion’s Gate, there was a new one just telling you to leave a name and number.
> Nothing I like better than being awakened out of a sound sleep. And Dino Bravo obviously knew that when he called me 11 pm Monday night. Bravo said he was told by some people that I did an interview with Sandy Bunz https://www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=7459. Apparently Bravo didn’t read the article first hand but expressed surprise at the “softballs” I threw Bunz.
“We can discuss this more in length tomorrow,” he said. I told Bravo that, no, we weren’t. The case, which went to small claims court this past summer, was closed as far as I was concerned between him and Bunz until such time that Bunz forks over the $5,000 the court has awarded to Bravo. But Bunz hasn’t and states that he won’t. “We’ve gone through this thing a million times and you have had ample opportunity to state your case,” I told Bravo. “He’s never talked about it and I wasn’t interviewing him. This piece had NOTHING to do with you.”
But Bravo wasn’t listening- a trait he often exhibits in an attempt to lobby for his points of view. And Dino was filibustering again to the point where I went off on him- especially when he began trying to tell me how to do my job. Bravo then went on to say that he was going to Nevada to get a restraining order against Bunz, claiming that he doesn’t want Bunz on the AEE convention floor, that Bunz is paying for a booth presumably with the money he owes Bravo. Bravo went on to point out that in the Bunz article Bunz’s salesgirl supposedly quit a job paying 6gs a month. “What kind of person does that? And you bought his bullshit?” Bravo asks me. “What kind of journalist are you? I feel sorry for any of those individuals who believe what is on there.”
Which, of course, lit my fire because that’s not what the article says and my intention was not to grill Bunz in a piece that was essentially meant to be light and cover a variety of topics in an offbeat manner. But, for the record, the article does state that Bunz FIRED his sales girl because she took advantage of a situation and went to Disneyland. But Bravo apparently hears what he wants to hear on any subject related to Sandy Bunz. I also told Bravo he was an idiot. Filing a restraining order against Bunz? Cut me a break.
I also suggested that Bravo give me the time of night he goes to bed so that I can wake him an hour later to discuss the sex scene he did that day and critique it for him. In the course of conversation, I also told Bravo that I was warned in advance several years ago before I had met him that he was a nice guy but a major league pain in the ass, with the Bunz situation only verifying it. Which probably now has Bravo conducting a full scale Congressional investigation, as we speak, to discover just who leaked this vital information to me.
It’s also fair to point out that in my discussions with Bunz about the Bravo money issue, he claims that Bravo backdoored product when he sold for him. Bravo swears that never happened.
Nonetheless, Bravo said he was going to let me cool down. Which only set me off again because it was Bravo who called and raised this idiotic issue to begin with, giving me 11 pm lectures about journalism. Bravo, apologizing, said he was irritated over the whole issue which has been going on over six months. While I can understand Bravo’s frustration, I also had to point out to him that Bunz’s comment about not coughing up is as decisive a comment as you can get under the circumstances.
But Bravo, who was only to willing to dish out Bunz dirt about his so-called real estate scams, thought I should have pressed the matter further. How much further can you go when someone says no? I tell Dino if he collects, this is a whole different matter and a brand new story. For now it’s dead in the water, but who am I kidding?