Keith Manheim’s Blog

Botox® The Saga Continues

As my first blog entry regarding my recent Botox injections was so well received I thought I’d give you an update on the status of my obsession with wrinkles. 

 Only now can I understand what doctors refer to as “Plastic Surgery Junkies” as I’m probably going to be one.  After the amazing results of the first shots to remove my ugly crow’s feet worked so remarkably, I started staring at my face looking for new spots to inject this stuff into and I didn’t have to wait long!  As the full effects of the Botox in the eye area became numb and wrinkle free, another, new, horrible, even worse enemy appeared.  My under eye area sagged, forming a fold every time I’d smile… now that was not what I wanted, to remove one flaw only to replace it with another.  It so happens that the muscles that generate the Crow’s feet actually stretch the skin under the eye, so when they don’t do that any more, the amazing new flaw appeared.

 I was really thinking about this day in and day out, looking at myself in a mirror, with disgust.  This morning, I took my dogs to the vet, and on the way home, I swung by at Dr. Botox office to whine about these unsuspected side effects from the earlier injection.  I just have to say, what a great doctor.  He told me not to worry, that I just needed another 10 units or so in another area to get rid of this one… and that without a payment! 

I was thrilled as I’d thought I’d have to empty my savings account to recover my lost beauty, but no, it was free. Now, why on earth would it be free I started to wonder and came upon the realization on the way back home that they where trying to get me hooked!  Just as with drugs, the drug dealer gives you the dope at first, but then you got to pay! 

Now well, if that’s the case I’ll just find a new innocent doctor to pray on and get lots more of free Botox refills, just as you would with a big gulp at 7/11.

Competition in DVD distribution

I got the news just a few days ago that we were in high risk, and in fact have lost our distribution. The reason being is the highly competitive niche of the Twink DVD market.  I have to agree that we are not set up to battle the giants like Bel Ami® or other big brand name studios, but that has never been our intention.  We started setting out with the goal to make porn we liked as a group of highly diversified pornographers. We have proved that with the Keith Manheim website, it retains, sells and competes with large number of websites out there and scores highly on many user review and webmaster written review sites.

We regret that this is happening but as always there are opportunities at every turn and we will surely not stop distribution the Keith Manheim line of DVDs.  This year we are set to launch five new titles and are in negotiations with a new distributor that appreciates our artistic values more than our previous company.

Gay Cowboy Scene

It’s a great job being a pornographer and all but can you imagine being in this position, just inches away from the live action? I’ve always wanted to write a script for a cowboy movie and I did just that, and I believe the DVD is just out about now. Planting his Seed will be available from all better corner shops and adult DVD retail websites soon so look for it and tell me if you liked it.

Here is some inside scoop on the scene this photo was taken in. We had originally casted another actor in the role of the Villon of this scene, but for some reason that actor didn’t show up and we where panicking for hours trying to find a replacement.  I had the brilliant idea to go to the local village and look around the street if I would see any unemployed factory workers (apparently there was a strike at the time of the film being shot) and guess what; I found the perfect Villon and he was much better than we had originally cast for the part.  Turned out to be a great day of shooting on our first gay Cowboy themed title ‘Planting his Seed’

Keith Manheim in Out Magazine

A few days ago yours truly opened his e-mail inbox.  Illy Martiz, a freelance writer at Out Magazine wrote me and told me that an interview he did with us on our last session in Prague had been published in the April issue of Out Magazine.  Here are some quotes from the article. 

“I joined the scout and his three recruits outside a Prague shopping center. The production house that placed the ad, Keith Manheim Studios, said it would be OK to sit in on a shoot with them. It wasn’t Bel Ami but it would have to do.

The fixer a Romanian named Constantin was clad head to toe in Nike gear. The actors whore distressed jeans, spiked hair, and leather jackets. Everyone loaded into Constantin’s gold BMW 528, tearing off through the streets of Prague at a terrifying speed. A short distance outside Prague’s city limits, Constantin steered into a suburb of newly built American-style homes. He pulled up in front of an eight-car garage and led the men inside, introducing them to the director, Keith Manheim, a doughy Icelander in his early 30s.”

“The action was plodding. Filming each individual position went on for 15 minutes or more, demanding that the actors stay in formation the entire time, moaning monotonously as they thrust and parried. Jan tried to lighten the mood by making faces. Occasionally the owner of the garage, a real-life auto technician who looks nothing like Under the Hood’s mechanics, passed through to retrieve a tool”

Source: Out Magazine, April issue.