Porn Valley – Paradise Visuals announced this week that it would be releasing the John Wayne Bobbitt movie UNCUT, September 10 through Anabolic Video. In 2007 Paradise had acquired the rights to UNCUT, considered one of the best selling adult movies of all time, from Leisure Time Entertainment. Leisure Time was in the middle of a fire sale with most of the company catalogue eventually going to Sunshine Video.
Ron Jeremy, who directed UNCUT, writes about it in his autobiography.
Jeremy met Bobbitt in Las Vegas at a Playboy Wet N’ Wild party after the incident in which Bobbitt’s penis was severed by his wife with an eight-inch carving knife and reattached by medics. Lorena Bobbitt at the time threw the shriveled remains from her car window. The severed penis was discovered in a nearby pasture and doctors were able to perform a miracle of sorts.
During their conversation, Jeremy wondered if there was any chance Bobbitt might consider being in a porn movie. Not so much as a performer but in a cameo part. The idea was for Bobbitt to come out and say a few lines. Jeremy told him it would be easy. But not so easy if you got to talk to Bobbitt who’s not the brightest guy in the Algebra class.
According to Jeremy, Bobbitt stood out in the crowd at the party as the media man of the hour. Jeremy describes how all eyes were on Bobbitt, staring at the infamous bulge in his pants, wondering what it looked like. Jeremy felt that the entire world wanted to see it, wondering if it was covered in stitches and scar tissue and did it look like a penis any more. More importantly, did it work?
Tabloids were trying to get a picture and during Howard Stern’s 1994 New Year’s Eve Special on pay-per-view, Bobbitt was offered $15,000 to flash for the cameras but refused. Jeremy figured at the time that if Bobbitt wasn’t showing it to Stern, he, sure as hell, wasn’t showing it to Jeremy. Much less allowing Jeremy to photograph him having sex with a porn actress.
Jeremy would have settled for a cameo, but the following morning Jeremy got a call from Bobbitt’s managers at the time, Aaron and Jack Gordon. Jeremy describes them as scandal chasers with a stable that included B-list stars and celebrities. Among their clients were Paula Jones, Divine Brown and a lounge singer who claimed to be Elvis’ illegitimate son.
Jack Gordon said to Jeremy, “Ronnie, baby, it looks like we’re going to be doing business together.”
According to Gordon, who talks in a raspy chuckle, he had a long talk with Bobbitt about the movie proposal but Gordon figured why stop at dialogue, that if you’re going to do a porno, you go the whole nine yards. Jeremy was shocked with the news that Bobbitt wanted to do the project and have sex on camera. Jeremy asked Gordon if he was fucking with him and Gordon convinced him he wasn’t. However, Gordon also made it very clear that this was going to cost.
The thought was obviously in Jeremy’s mind that Bobbitt’s penis might not function. At the same time, he realized he might have hit the lottery if it does. It was then that Jeremy called Mark Carriere, the owner of Leisure Time to see if he’d back the project. Jeremy writes that he was criticized for this fact because Carriere was already a millionaire a few times over and that Jeremy was making a rich man even richer.
Jeremy defended his position on the grounds that Carriere had been a good friend and loyal to him for years.
“If I had taken the deal to another major company like Vivid, VCA or Wicked, they would have thrown me a few grand as a finder’s fee and passed it along to one of their few in-house directors.”
In the deal, Bobbitt wanted thousands up front and a hefty percentage of the profits. According to Jeremy, Bobbitt may have stood to make maybe $500,000 out of it.
“It wasn’t chump change,” observes Jeremy, realizing that Carriere’s were the only pockets that deep to cover the project. Days later Jeremy and Carriere met with Bobbitt at a restaurant in Caesar’s Palace. Jeremy writes how they had become the centers of attention with waiters doing double-takes and diners pausing in mid-bite. They were staring at Bobbitt, pointing at him, wondering if he was the guy who got his dick chopped off.
Jeremy, Carriere and Bobbitt signed contracts and sealed the deal with a handshake. Jeremy and Bobbitt then posed with steak knives, aiming the sharp edges at each other’s crotch.
“Be careful with that thing,” Bobbitt warned Jeremy.
Jeremy then tells Bobbitt how he could have made the movie without him, that Robert DeNiro was going to play him and Danny DeVito was going to play his penis.
Jeremy notes that Bobbitt arrived the first day on the set looking uneasy. Jeremy wondered if Bobbitt was having second thoughts. Jeremy writes that the first experience in porn can be frightening enough but when your cock is laced with sutures and hanging by a string, a guy can be excused for a little performance anxiety. Jeremy was also of the opinion that Bobbitt’s penis didn’t look that bad and the stitches were hardly noticeable.
“It had a slight curve in the middle like someone had tried to snap it in half,” says Jeremy. “Otherwise it looked like any other penile shaft.”
Jeremy then makes a few jokes to Bobbitt about how when Bobbitt’s penis was left outdoors, dogs, stray cats and squirrels avoided it.
Jeremy asked Bobbitt how it was that no animal took a sniff. Bobbitt smiled. Jeremy also told Bobbitt he was going to have Lorena in the movie but she got into a car accident when some prick cut her off. Bobbitt looked blankly like he didn’t get it.
The real question was could Bobbitt get hard. But that matter wasn’t left to chance after it was apparent that Bobbitt couldn’t do it on his own.
“It was a losing battle,” reflects Jeremy. This being the age before Viagra, it wasn’t that simple to give Bobbitt a few pills. However with the help of a few doctors it was possible to get your hands on some Caverject, says Jeremy who goes on to describe what it is and how it’s injected directly into the spongy tissue of the penis. Five minutes later, blam-o, instant hard-on. The problem, writes Jeremy, is that it’s injected with a huge, menacing looking needle.
“The thought of having your arm punctured with a needle the size of a fencing sword is enough to make most people a little light headed. Imagine taking that same needle and jabbing it into your penis.”
The job of injecting Bobbitt was given to Carriere’s assistant, Adam. He would take Bobbitt into the bathroom and demonstrate how the shots were used. Jeremy thought it was a temporary situation, that Bobbitt would eventually be able to inject himself. Such was not the case. Because Bobbitt didn’t have the nerve to do it, Adam became the designated injector. Jeremy said Adam was a little anxious wondering if this was going to work.
“Please, please, please, I heard him muttering,” says Jeremy. Invariably, Bobbitt would go limp again and the process would have to be repeated.
According to Jeremy, Bobbitt’s co-stars all knew about the Caverject but were curious why Adam kept accompanying him. Jeremy explained that Adam was giving Bobbitt a few playful jerks in the stall.
“The girls believed it,” says Jeremy. And Adam went ballistic when he heard about the stories Jeremy was spreading.
“I do not jerk that man’s penis nor do I blow him- that is a filthy, rotten lie!” Adam swore. Jeremy then assured Adam that no one thought any less of him for doing it, and Adam replied, “I’m going to kill you, you motherfucker!”
Even though Bobbitt caught on to giving himself the injections, he still wasn’t any good at it. In one instance Jeremy describes how Bobbitt came out of the bathroom clutching his balls like he had just been kicked there. Bobbitt thought he put it in wrong and said that it hurt. Jeremy advised him to apply some ice and take a break.
Jeremy also elected to be in the movie with the belief that audiences might get bored watching Bobbitt carry the entire show. And a mini orgy was arranged.
“It was a risky proposition but he handled it well,” says Jeremy describing the shoot as a surreal experience.
During the course of the shoot, Jeremy described how they’d be besieged by news crews, vans and helicopters. Aaron Gordon who served as the p.r. director, had his hands full dealing with the media.
The production was under tight security and no one was allowed on the shoot. With one exception, it seems. Jeremy said a spy got past everyone and took stills with a tiny camera hidden in his sleeve until a crew member nabbed him.
“We caught the little bugger red-handed,” states Jeremy. “He was an extra hired for a boat party scene.”
Jeremy identifies the spy as someone named Steve Duran who was working for A Current Affair. Which was bad enough because Aaron Gordon had cut an exclusive deal with Hard Copy. Duran identified his accomplice as Devon Shire www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=27602 a porn chick who was Jeremy’s roommate at the time.
Jeremy confronted her, more impressed by Devon Shire's ingenuity than anything else. Jeremy wondered if she got paid well and Devon Shire told him, “you think I’d sell you out for free?”
Jeremy, who couldn’t believe she pulled it off, complimented her on a job well done.
The real challenge, according to Jeremy, was editing the footage into an actual movie. Jeremy had put a lot of effort into writing the script based on court transcripts and witness testimony. One of his favorite gags occurs in the film’s opening minutes when two women driving a car are startled by Bobbitt’s penis hitting their window. [According to police logs, this is true.]
The first woman asks the other if that was a fly. The second woman replies, if it was, it had the biggest penis she had ever seen. Jeremy also thought it was one of the best projects he had ever done.
Carriere pulled out all the stops for the world premiere. It was screened in Beverly Hills at the Motion Picture of Academy Arts and Science. The after party was held at the Steven Spielberg Pavilion, or Jeremy thinks it was. There were even a few unintentional celebrity guests, particularly rumors of Eric Roberts showing up thinking there was a screening of the Shawshank Redemption.
When Roberts found out he was at a premiere of a porn movie he got reportedly upset and pushed a photographer in an attempt to make a hasty retreat. At least that’s the story Jeremy heard. I heard the same one.
Sales of Uncut in video stores were beyond what was anticipated. The average porn release at the time was moving between two to three thousand copies. Uncut supposedly sold 80,000 tapes in the first few weeks. It received rave reviews by AVN but was panned by the XRCO which called it the worst film of the year. For that Jeremy received a bronze roll of toilet paper.
In subsequent promotion, Jeremy went on Geraldo Rivera’s daytime show with one of the co-stars, Tiffany Lords, a buxom blond. Jeremy describes how Lords, out of nowhere, began mumbling something about skeletons in her closet, alluding to secrets she had been hiding for too long. When Geraldo asked her to elaborate, and kept urging her on it, Lords blurted out that she was pregnant.
Geraldo made the assumption that Bobbitt was the father. Lords confirmed it and said Bobbitt had been the only man she had sex with in the last three months. Lords also said she was sure it happened on the set.
Jeremy was knocked for a loop because he had just made comments about sexual diseases, HIV, and the fact that safe sex is practiced on porn sets with the ejaculations being external. Jeremy, on TV, then whispered to Lords, “why didn’t you tell me?”
Tears began welling in Lords’ eye as she apologized to him. But during a commercial break, Jeremy was let in on the scam by Leisure Time’s marketing director Eric Barzoom. Jeremy was told, with a sly wink, that Lords wasn’t really pregnant.
Jeremy thought it was disgusting, devious, dishonest and was annoyed that he didn’t think of it first.
