In days gone by, the late Anastasia Blue provided me many paragraphs of colorful copy as did her then-manager Scotty Schwartz. Here’s one of those stories from July, 1999, and in many ways it seems weird now. Because drama erupted over the fact that Blue had taken a boat ride during the shooting of two Babewatch features whereas some of Blue’s family members apparently died in a boating incident.

Here’s how the story went:

From stranded boats to stranded babes in motel parking lots, two Babewatch shoots were full of thrills and adventure on the high and low seas.
Anastasia Blue claims she was the strandee and that Buck Adams, the show’s producer, was the strander.

Scotty Schwartz, Blue’s manager, has this to say about the incident at an Oxnard motel:

“She was at the Babewatch shoot with Buck Adams,” says Schwartz who described the shoot as a disaster. People were leaving the set. And sex wasn’t being shot.

“They just shot running on the beach and all that kind of bullshit,” continued Schwartz.

“They were supposed to go out on a boat and shoot four sex scenes or five sex scenes. They ended up shooting two, one with Anastasia, and one with somebody else. She was supposed to do two scenes. It never happened.”

Blue had been rooming with Adams, apparently in separate beds, and was reputedly drinking the entire time, according to the stories. And Adams, apparently pissed off with her, was even more so when Blue elected to have sex with Billy Glide in the room.

“On the way home she was tired and achy,” added Schwartz. Who described how Adams took Blue from somewhere in Ventura to Ventura Road in Oxnard and just decided that he had enough.

“He dropped her ass off at another hotel, the Wagon Wheel Hotel at 12:30 at night,” said Schwartz.

“She was still in her Babewatch costume. She freaked out, and he didn’t realize that her wallet was still in his glove compartment. She put it there originally because she didn’t want to take her wallet on the boat that afternoon.”

Blue had no way of checking in to get a room. And Buck supposedly just dropped her off and left. That’s when Blue called Schwartz from her cell phone.

Coming from a set, Schwartz went straight to the motel and picked her up. He was at Tampa and the 101 at a Nic Cramer shoot when he got the call. Schwartz then got in his car and drove 40 miles up to Oxnard, picking Blue up about 1:20 in the morning.

Schwartz also had to talk to the woman at the front desk to get directions to get the motel because Blue was three sheets to the wind and tripping over her tongue.

“She was babbling, ‘Buck left me,’” Schwartz recalls. “She was still in her Babewatch outfit and wiggin’ out: ‘Fuck them, fuck him. This isn’t right.’ I happened to agree with her.”

Blue obviously a wreck was supposed to do a scene later that day.

“No fuckin’ way that was happening,” Schwartz recalled.

“She went to the shoot but didn’t end up shooting. Buck didn’t give a shit. When she got there, she ran into Buck’s car and of course opened up his glove box and there was her wallet. No problem. When I talked to Buck it was ‘these fuckin’ bitches, this and that.’ I said, man, you know better. You’re over 40. You could be her father for godsakes. What do you do this shit for? You know you shouldn’t leave talent in the middle of fuckin’ nowhere when you got to shoot them the next day. Basically his explanation wasn’t one that was acceptable. It was almost like a spoiled brat who didn’t get his way and lashed back. I hate to say that about Buck, but that’s the way it is, man.”

According to Schwartz, Notorious had paid Blue for the shoot for the first day and paid her for the one scene she did the next. But Schwartz felt she should have gotten paid for the scene they didn’t shoot because of what happened with Buck.

“It’s not professional,” said Schwartz. “This wasn’t right. I don’t care what she did. The girl is working her ass off for you for two days, spent 12 hours on a fucking boat, and if she bitches and moans, I don’t give a shit, you take the girl home. Unless she’s physically abusing you, you take her home. Just tune her out and get her ass home. To do what he did was just completely out of line.”

Schwartz also felt that Notorious was out of line to a certain extent:

“They don’t give a fuck. They want their shit, they want it done right, but they’re not willing to do anything to help the fucking talent. It’s wrong. In my eyes they should have paid her for the second scene. That she didn’t do it was their problem, their fault, not hers. Any girl would have told them to go fuck themselves. Other girls were walking off that set.”

Obviously with Notorious drawn into the middle of another porn star brouhaha it deferred much of the decision making ultimately to Buck who had this to say:

“I’m not out to cause any troubles if I can avoid them,” said Adams chuckling mildly.

“Am I going to be barbecued? I don’t want this whole malarkey to get big. I don’t want to hurt the girl or say anything that will turn this into a big thing. But it’s almost like I’m starting to get mad about it. Hey, she showed up for work not knowing her lines. She was waking me up four in the morning, phoning strange people in the hotel room. And now I gotta listen to this shit after it’s all over. I almost want to get mad and respond with all the bad things.”

I gently remind Buck that he kind of sounded like an old lecher in this scenario.

“I know,” he agreed.

“The bottom line is this. There were a lot of things going on. First off, she walks up to my car 12:30 in the morning, hysterically crying and she doesn’t stop. I’m sleeping in a parking lot waiting to give this girl her suitcase.

“I had no idea that she put her wallet in my glove compartment. It was so tense in that parking lot, with her yelling and complaining. It was like, whoa, slow down. I kind of got panicked and drove away with no money, no anything to get home. And she’s yapping at me.”

“I ask her do you want to go someplace else? You can ride back with them, and it was like a no answer-thing. I said, listen, you got to make a decision. I’m not going to ride through the night, passing out at the wheel, listening to you yell. It’s just not going to happen.”

“I’m not going to drop dead because you’ve got some problem. I said why don’t I stop off at the next hotel. And she was like, okay, sure. I pulled off the freeway and let her off at the hotel. I pulled her bag out of the bag. Then the big scene starts. Say what you want about that crap, but don’t go pasting around shit that I was drinking on the set. You saw me. You were there.” True, Adams was better behaved than an Eagle scout on the set.

“I heard stuff from Scotty like I was drunk, drinking before shots,” Adams continued.

“I told Scotty, you know what, you need to go away. It wasn’t like a grabbed some poor girl and put her out of a car. I sat in that parking lot two hours waiting for her, making sure she could have her stupid suitcase. Don’t start screaming at me for no reason.”

“The bottom line? I kissed that girl’s ass for two days. I wasn’t sleeping with her. I wasn’t having sex with her. This is bullshit. I’ve had it with her. We gave her a good part. We wrote a character specifically around her. Alec Metro the director is furious at her. He’s like screw her. We’re waiting for her seven hours, she shows up on the set, she’s one of the lead characters, she doesn’t know her dialogue. He [Metro] could care less. He said respond, Buck, say something. I prefer to let it die.”

“After this was over and we were talking, I didn’t realize all the problems Alec was having with her – with the multiple takes. Excuse me, three lines, you don’t blow 16 times. Alec was furious about it. He said, ‘I’ll do anything for anybody but when you come show up on a big job like this where we’re all busting butt, we’re all out stranded on some freakin’ island and you don’t want to study your dialog? I have no mercy for you. If you want to wind up being a bitch and the little princess of the show, people will accept that. But when you’re not doing your job and want to fly off, people aren’t going to accept that. You don’t wind up driving down freeways with people yelling at you. That’s how you get in wrecks. You did the right thing.’”

Buck said he made a mistake hiring Blue.

“I was the one who really humped for that girl to play that character,” he continued, noting that the other female performers in the cast knew their lines.

“It was a long, hard shoot. You get in the sun and on those boats, it’s not easy. You’re not cruising to a studio for a day and waiting to do your scene on some little set and your life’s real easy. If it was so easy to make a good movie, everybody would do it. But they don’t. If it wasn’t hard, it wouldn’t be good. You don’t go through trauma like that and not come out with something really wonderful.”

In hindsight Adams wished the situation hadn’t occurred and conceded that he might have overreacted.

“Anastasia was probably upset about the boat ride,” he added. “I hear that her family members died in some boating accident. That was a little piece of the puzzle that I didn’t have when all this occurred. I was on that whole shoot. I wasn’t screaming at anybody. I wasn’t yelling at anybody.”

“I wasn’t pushing people too hard. I wasn’t even directing. I was kind of the master planner and Alec Metro did the directing. It was his first feature. I wanted to supply him with all the tools to do a good job. Nobody ever gave me that option. It was always you produce, you act in it, and you direct. It’s an overwhelming load. Alec asked me how I did that for all those times.”

Blue, however, said it was Metro who needed those 16 takes, not her.

“Alec was cool. It was Buck,” Blue said. “When he picked me up to go to the shoot, the first place we stopped was a liquor store. He got a little thing of Vodka and drank it in the parking lot.”

“He was drinking and driving and he just got crazy. You don’t drink and drive in front of talent. You don’t freak out on talent. We went out on this boat for 12 hours. When we got back to the docks it was around 11:30 pm, 12. I couldn’t find my bags. They were on another boat. We started driving bag, and Buck was in a weird mood. I said my back hurt from being on the boat. He freaked out. He pulled off into this little town in the middle of nowhere. He dropped me off at this hotel. He said you want to be a brat, call your manager. My wallet was in his glove compartment, but he just left.”

“The thing of it is, I swam for a month and tanned for this shoot. My skin freaked out. Buck can’t say I didn’t cooperate. I worked a month for this shoot. They shouldn’t hire somebody like that who drinks all the time. There were all these empty bottles of Vodka everywhere.”