It was all a fluke that started two months ago on a trip to New Orleans. On my last day there (for vacation) I agreed to meet with Vidkid Timo for an hour. We had a beer and I got to tell him how much I enjoyed Mardi Gras Cowboy. As it turned out, he had just been given a GV Guide nomination for Best Supporting Actor. We planned to get together when he came to L.A. for the awards. As an afterthought he asked, "Is it OK if I bring Jim Buck and Wash West to meet you?" Hello! Need you ask?
To make a long story short(er) Timo was unable to make the trip to L.A., but he helped arrange the meeting with Buck and West. Fast forward to December. Enter Big Daddy Ferguson and Adam Morris who had just arrived from Chicago for the show. We decided to get together at my house so that I could meet Morris and we'd just have a small "Behind Closed Doors" staff party (now that we have a staff). As conversation traveled from video to video, Big Daddy started to rave about Naked Highway. To our chagrin, Adam and I had not seen the video, but felt we should since we knew we'd soon be rubbing elbows with the director West and star Buck.
Anyway, the idea snowballed into us deciding to do the first ever staff review of a video. We brought out the tortilla chips and salsa and popped in the video. Also, joining the BCD trio was Adam (Adam Morris' lover) and Rick, a friend of Big Daddy's. What follows are the comments made along the way, with my usual review.
We were all impressed by the nice opening montage. My first big observation was "Jim Buck has his hair back!" Hurrah! The story starts in Bayou La Fort, Louisiana in 1996. Buck and a brunet Austin are having sex in a canoe in the middle of a swamp, trading sucking and popping juicy cum shots. At a saloon the bartender is Timo (who went on to win GV Guide and Gay Chicago awards for Best Supporting Actor). Between pouring drinks, Timo lectures Buck about his heavy imbibing habits. Buck retorts "You even know how to take the fun out of drinkin'." Buck is upset that lover Austin has moved to L.A.
Reluctantly, Timo turns him on to the truth: Austin has gone to Hollywood to make blue movies under the name Sterling Hardon. He gives Buck a fictional gay video called Extra Topping to watch. We see the (now) blond Austin answer the door to pizza boy Adam Wolf, who is wearing tight shorts and sporting a major basket. Their stilted dialog leads to Wolf telling Austin, "I've got your extra topping." The video cuts to a close-up of the pizza guy banging his salami into Austin's hole. watching the video, Buck is amazed. Austin had never allowed himself to be fucked, and now that's all he does through this scene. "The music is good," observes Big Daddy. "It's not overpowering either," adds Rick.
I observe that Austin has a semi-hard-on. However, Morris gives him credit for "Maybe two-thirds." Anyway, the fuck views get hotter and hotter. Austin pops an awesome cum shot. The pizza guy shoots a huge wad on the pizza. So does Buck, thanks to brilliant editing. Watching the video, he lays his load on the TV screen. Everyone is very impressed.
Back at the bar, Timo is on the phone to Buck. When the camera view widens, we see someone on his knees blowing Timo. The scene is more funny than sexy, with only a softcore view of the sucking. "He's hitchin' a train?" Adam asks. We see Buck freeload on a moving tanker.
Cut to Houston, Texas. Streetwalker Joey Violence gets picked up by suave client Dino DeMarco. "Oh I'd want him - this kid is hot!" Big Daddy says, concerning Violence. As DeMarco starts to get sucked, a mark on his dick prompts Rick to jump up, unzip his fly and show everyone the birthmark on his dick. "We are all watching a porno, we can all whip out our dicks," says Rick. "I don't think so." Big Daddy objects.
On screen, DeMarco's fat boner looks good getting chugged. Then he and Violence jump in the pool for a spectacular underwater scene. It looks more like a cologne commercial than a porno flick, if you don't count the nudity. This triggers another round of remarks, beginning with Big Daddy noting that "People forget (to explore in videos) the beauty of the male body." Morris observes, "They also have hard-ons - that's amazing." Big Daddy adds "Ester Williams would be proud." Adam adds, "Ester Williams would be jealous." Rick quips, "Ester Williams doesn't have a dick." Touché.
The scene prompts Adam and Morris to testify to the pleasure of underwater fucking. (Of course they did it without a film crew.) DeMarco pumps his fat dick into Violence and the camera catches it all. "That is awesome," Rick swoons. Everyone once again admires the editing as well as the hot fucking that takes place once the stars are out of the water. They pop great cum shots. DeMarco really lets it fly. Adam offers, "It's like a shower. I love it when it gets all over your cock and balls." Thanks for sharing. In the film, DeMarco does actually go to take a shower. It will be his last. Ever heard of Andrew Cunanon?
Driving the now-deceased DeMarco's car, Violence remembers how a story about two escaped convicts turned him on when he was younger. His mind plays a grainy scene that looks like a film clip from the '70s. We see two convicts run through a field and collapse together. The brunet Clay Maverick gets his big boner sucked by his blond buddy. We get hot views. "That's awesome," says Rick, "I hate size queens but I love their boyfriends." The blond Brett Baldwin bends over for a well-captured fuck. Big Daddy plays with my pussy. Pussycat - that is.
As Violence drives through Yoakum County, Texas he picks up Buck, who is hitchhiking his way to L.A. to find his lover. Buck is driving by the time they reach Chavez County, New Mexico. The car is stopped by cop J.T. Sloan. The policeman is the one with a gun, so Buck uses sex as a weapon, seducing Sloan into a roadside foray. As Buck goes down Sloan's plump bone, Big Daddy notes, "Buck really knows how to suck." Buck also rims Sloan's beefy butt before being rewarded with a hot facial. Up to now, Violence had been hiding in the back seat and emerges with Sloan's gun put on top of the car during the heat of passion. When Sloan discovers that there is a second guy, he retorts, "Oh no - Thelma and Louise queens!" But it's too late, the cop has already been caught with his pants down.
In a subsequent argument, Violence comes up with an even better line, complaining to Buck "You're just sore because you just finished sucking pig dick!" They stop by a country bar, where Violence hustles a few men out of their money at the pool table. The locals get back at him by slipping a roofie into his drink. Violence wakes up naked on the pool table. It's a cross between Flashpoint and Deliverance. Troy Halston is unrecognizable as the scruffy blond leader. He gets blown by brunet Price Stevens as Sam Crockett gets sucked by Violence, who is snap-back hard (as confirmed by Adam and company). They pile into a heap of flesh on the pool table and we get hot suck and rim views. Crockett pile drives Joey's ass, followed by Halston. There is awesome ass-stuffing footage and great jizzers. Violence acts contrite upon his return to the car.
At the Quality Liquor Store in Happy Jack, Arizona the clerk Bo Langston is happily jacking off in the storeroom. We get very nice views of the blond's fat hose as he works it out. It a very satisfying J/O with a camera that knows where it's going. Langston cums huge. Soon after, he ends up on the wrong end of Buck's gun.
You have to see the video to understand this. As if this epic hadn't already taken us to enough places, there is a video clip from "a previous life" in black and white. Kurt Young and David Thomson are perfectly cast as '50s models. As gay video's only married couple, they wear thongs while they do poses and gymnastics. Big Daddy noted "It looks like a cover from Physique magazine." Anyway, the guys get it on in a hotel room. The scene could have been shorter (everyone agreed). Though filmed for Naked Highway it is an incredible knock-off of '50s film stock. The hung Young is sucked before he plows his husband's butt.
There is more great dialogue in the car as Buck and Violence make it to L.A. They watch a Sterling Hardon movie in a theater and Violence professes that he has fallen in love with Buck. However, out of loyalty to his lover. Buck has to let Violence be "the one that got away." He goes to Austin's tacky apartment and they get it on. As Austin rides his fat boner, Buck fantasizes about having sex with Violence in a pond, swapping stiff blow jobs. Violence is nicely hard as Buck slides a hot fuck into him. The fantasy ends with nice cummers. In the "reality" scene, Buck and Austin take turns doing pop shots. There is a humorous ending that we'll leave for you to discover.
"This is one of those videos that you have to watch straight through." - Rick
"The underwater scene gets 10 stars" - Adam Morris
"If you get only one video this year - you are missing out. But if it has to be only one, get Naked Highway. It takes you more places than any other vid." - Hank Ferguson
"It has something for everyone." - Big Daddy Ferguson
One of the most nominated videos of the year, Naked Highway went on to win the most GV Guide awards: Best Screenplay (a tie), Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Video of the Year. Was it all just a coincidence? Nah - I call it a fluke. Anyway, feel free to follow suit. Invite some friends over and review Naked Highway for yourself. It is sure to be a crowd pleaser.
- Hank Ferguson