mentoneman
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With the reports surfacing about Sean Coombs and Clive Davis recently, I was hit with a flood of memories oddly connecting my past to a litany of current headlines regarding high profile figures and sex/pedo scandal.
Barry’s high school yearbook picture portrays him playing basketball with a person named Ray. I met Ray in high school and can tell you unequivocally that he was an evil drug dealing pedophile. I wasn’t one of his victims but I had a friend who was. He would entice wayward teens with drugs laced with hallucinogenics and prey on them. He was later killed by one of his gay lovers with a hammer and rolled up in a carpet. One of my best friend’s girlfriend’s mom was on the jury for the murder case. Why would Barry single him out in his high school senior picture and quote, thanking him for all the good times?
Lent a great deal if credibility to the Bathhouse Barry stories.
I worked on Usher’s first music video when he was a wide eyed chubby kid and S”puffy”C co-directed the shoot. I rode around in a car in the desert with both of them, SC driving, me in the passenger seat, and Usher in the back seat discussing how scenes would be laid out. SC was very demanding and not friendly and Usher was intimidated in a scared way and did not strike me as a happy kid. I remember thinking it strange as he should have been excited about his first big video.
I worked on 2 ABC children’s projects with Kool Moe Dee, Brandy, Ray J, Lloyd Bridges, Kirsty Allie, and Ross Mallinger-the child actor playing Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan’s son in Sleepless in Seattle. The director and producer were a gay couple. The standards and practices rep from ABC’s children program division monitoring the set was gay. His job was escorting child actors from the set in large dark soundstages at prescribed intervals for tutoring. I later had to film content for an accompanying interactive CD-Rom to help promote the program. We shot at the producer’s palatial home in hollywood hills. Me, producer, producer’s partner and Ross. No one else. After I finished filming I had to leave Ross alone with those two and felt pretty uneasy about that. my takeaway from that experience was that parents who were present with their children actors all seemed very paranoid and defensive.
I worked on a music video for Thug Life featuring Tupac. He was the most challenging celeb i have encountered. One of my responsibilities was retrieving him from his trailer when the crew was ready to film a scene. Each time I went to get him I encountered guns, drugs, gnarly bodyguards, wading through clouds of potsmoke weirdos and women. He was difficult to say the least.
At the end of the long night as i was walking through the parking lot towards my car, he was driving off in his mercedes and i gave a courtesy wave goodbye. he pulled up to me, cracked the window, and stuck out his ring studded hand in a gesture i could only interpret as “kiss my ring”. i looked at him like “Rrright..” grabbed his pinky and shook it and he peeled off. The rumor mill about him and SC putting a hit on him seems plausible given his lifestyle and the cast of characters i saw him with that night.
Barry’s high school yearbook picture portrays him playing basketball with a person named Ray. I met Ray in high school and can tell you unequivocally that he was an evil drug dealing pedophile. I wasn’t one of his victims but I had a friend who was. He would entice wayward teens with drugs laced with hallucinogenics and prey on them. He was later killed by one of his gay lovers with a hammer and rolled up in a carpet. One of my best friend’s girlfriend’s mom was on the jury for the murder case. Why would Barry single him out in his high school senior picture and quote, thanking him for all the good times?
Lent a great deal if credibility to the Bathhouse Barry stories.
I worked on Usher’s first music video when he was a wide eyed chubby kid and S”puffy”C co-directed the shoot. I rode around in a car in the desert with both of them, SC driving, me in the passenger seat, and Usher in the back seat discussing how scenes would be laid out. SC was very demanding and not friendly and Usher was intimidated in a scared way and did not strike me as a happy kid. I remember thinking it strange as he should have been excited about his first big video.
I worked on 2 ABC children’s projects with Kool Moe Dee, Brandy, Ray J, Lloyd Bridges, Kirsty Allie, and Ross Mallinger-the child actor playing Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan’s son in Sleepless in Seattle. The director and producer were a gay couple. The standards and practices rep from ABC’s children program division monitoring the set was gay. His job was escorting child actors from the set in large dark soundstages at prescribed intervals for tutoring. I later had to film content for an accompanying interactive CD-Rom to help promote the program. We shot at the producer’s palatial home in hollywood hills. Me, producer, producer’s partner and Ross. No one else. After I finished filming I had to leave Ross alone with those two and felt pretty uneasy about that. my takeaway from that experience was that parents who were present with their children actors all seemed very paranoid and defensive.
I worked on a music video for Thug Life featuring Tupac. He was the most challenging celeb i have encountered. One of my responsibilities was retrieving him from his trailer when the crew was ready to film a scene. Each time I went to get him I encountered guns, drugs, gnarly bodyguards, wading through clouds of potsmoke weirdos and women. He was difficult to say the least.
At the end of the long night as i was walking through the parking lot towards my car, he was driving off in his mercedes and i gave a courtesy wave goodbye. he pulled up to me, cracked the window, and stuck out his ring studded hand in a gesture i could only interpret as “kiss my ring”. i looked at him like “Rrright..” grabbed his pinky and shook it and he peeled off. The rumor mill about him and SC putting a hit on him seems plausible given his lifestyle and the cast of characters i saw him with that night.
