It’s late 2003, and I’m interviewing to become Chico Wang’s “minion.” Essentially, it was someone who would learn the business and assist on set. I first emailed Chico when he was running LukeFord.com, and he took Curt and me out to lunch at a Thai restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Curt was the editor for Anabolic and Diabolic Video. He was much more than just a “cutter.” Curt could take a new director, sit him down in the editing bay, and show him how to make his content better. Then he’d add his own magical touch to every scene. And I mean every<\/em> scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Curt, along with Chico, brought a style of humor to porn that, in my opinion, has never been matched\u2014and I don’t think anyone has come close since. He also edited movies for Sal Genoa, John Strong, and probably a few others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Curt was pumping out so many DVDs that he had his own room at the studio: a bed, a bathroom, a shower, a fridge…everything. He literally lived at the studio and was an editing machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, and did I fail to mention that Curt drove us to that Thai restaurant while a bottle of urine rolled around the back seat next to me? Quite the first impression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventually, Curt worked his magic on me in the editing bay, too. In fact, I even edited several scenes that made it onto released DVDs. This was around 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He passed away in 2019, and I missed his memorial because I got hit with a severe case of bronchitis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They truly don’t make them like Curt, and I often think about him. I hope Jumper McLedge (an inside joke) is resting in eternal peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s late 2003, and I’m interviewing to become Chico Wang’s “minion.” Essentially, it was someone who would learn the business and assist on set. I first emailed Chico when he was running LukeFord.com, and he took Curt and me out to lunch at a Thai restaurant. Curt was the editor for Anabolic and Diabolic Video….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailsfromset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}