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PART 2

To embellish his story, Buck makes with the snorting ape noises and squeals describing the process as the monkeys were tearing around the set with their little cams and editor Jonathan Morgan would later have to assemble the footage. Buck recalls how Billy Glide, who was new in the industry at the time, was pissed because he only got $250 to perform while the monkeys got $750.

"He snapped," recalled Buck, noting how the monkeys went insane when they saw the platinum in Lexi Lay's hair. Apparently monkeys react that way to the color.

Dave Hardman, who was also in the movie, reacted another way.

"Hardman's telling me he's pissed off," continues Buck. "I ask him why. He says he thought the monkeys were actually going to DIRECT the movie. I ask him what are you smoking? Freon out of the refrigerator?"

Which is what I always suspected Jerry Butler was on.

Buck was of the opinion- and I?ll back him up on this- that Butler was probably the greatest male performer who ever worked in the business. One time Butler and Adams were together in a studio for 12 hours shooting a porn parody about male performers in an old age home. Butler was relentless and non-stop with the Adams jokes and they were very close friends at the time.

I also asked Buck, who was famous for his red ruffled formal shirt, what the deal was the night he and Butler came up on stage at the AVN awards behaving like two zonked-out collision dummies.

Buck recalled that as being the show where he and Butler were signing at the Model Distributors booth and how Marty the owner lambasted them for being disrespectful. Buck also recalled how Butler left the bathroom in their hotel room saturated in oil- that, along with pictures Butler hung on the walls depicting men's torsos strangely taped onto pairs of women's legs. Buck always wondered about that one.

Buck was also convinced that he was buried so deep in Paul Fishbein's dog house by that time that he'd never win anything of significance at the awards show. Which wasn?t true because Buck was a three-time winner of AVN?s Best Actor award and a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.

Buck explained why he thought he was certifiably on the outs. He remembered the time he came to a show with Raven, the dark haired porn queen from the late Eighties. Apparently she was making a loud fuss at their table as Fishbein supposedly came over to dress her down.

In an attempt to defend his date, Buck related how he pretty much grabbed Fishbein and told him he was going to beat the shit out of him.

"Yeah, I threatened the owner of AVN," stated Buck who then ran out of the ballroom only to run into a bank of cameramen and reported who began interviewing him.

An adept when it came to bullshit, Buck, without missing a beat, began delivering a spiel about AVN being the Oscars of porn, etc. etc., noticing from the side that Fishbein was dying to get his hands on him.

Buck even admitted he sold some of his own porn "Oscars" at the bar of the Tropicana in exchange for drinks. A few of those were from the movie "Roxy" which Buck had shot for Vivid, and Buck remembered how the late porn star Savannah was nominated for that movie in the Best Actress category.

When Savannah typically pouted that she didn't win, Amber Lynn, who was sitting next to her at the show apparently told her, "You'll never be the greatest as long as I'm alive."

There was another time when Adams literally died doing a scene for Legend, during the shooting of Perverted Stories 25, directed by Jim Powers.

"We go to shoot a scene at this guy's house in Northridge,? Powers recalled. ?Buck?s going to do Aspen Brock. [Adams at the time was married to her.]

?So we go over there to do the scene. She's out back doing the pretty girl shots. They have a gym in the house. These guys are boxers [Buck and Oliver]. Buck is in there training for like 20 minutes. I wasn't going to do the scene in the gym, but Buck is in there anyway. I ask him if he wants to shoot in there.

"There's natural lights, I don't have to set up any. He says it sounds fine. So he's in there showing the guys how he used to be a boxer, and he's punching the bags and hitting everything. He's working out for 20 or 30 minutes.?

"The idea behind the scene is that Buck and Oliver are fag bashers,? Powers explains.

?They go around beating up gay guys. And they're planning on going down to the Queen Mary that night to beat up on the transsexuals. When, all of a sudden, a woman comes walking in. She says, 'I really appreciate you he-men types cleaning up the neighborhood. A man like you makes a woman feel very protected. I came over here to show you how much I appreciate it.'

"So she's going to have sex with Buck. The scene's going to be they have sex, we never show her pussy, and it ends up her being a transsexual. As she's pulling her cock out at the end of the scene, Buck has a heart attack. This was going to be the scene. And then she's going to grab his friend Oliver and butt fuck him right in front of Buck.

"I start shooting the beginning of the scene where Oliver and Buck are talking," Powers continues.

"Now the girl is going to come in. I'm directing them. All of a sudden, Buck just falls face first, hits the punching bag with his face and drops to the ground. I look at him. I know immediately that he had a heart attack. I start yelling, call the paramedics, heart attack.

"Buck is wheezing and making these weird noises. He rolls over, nobody does anything. They're standing there - huh!? So Aspen stays with Buck. I run into the other room, get on the phone and call the paramedics. They say just keep him ventilated. Don't do anything, don't try CPR. You can fuck up his heart if you do that.?

"We're keeping him ventilated. We're waiting for the paramedics. It seems like an eternity. It's only been a couple of minutes now. Now Buck's eyes dilate. He shits, he pisses like he's dead. His face is turning blue like a corpse. I'm like, 'Fuck! He's going to die.'

"I call the paramedics again, 'You got to tell us what to do. He's turning blue. They're still not there. He's not breathing, nothing. His eyes are fixated. They said there's no pulse or anything? Start CPR.' So Aspen is blowing in his mouth and one of the guys there knew CPR. I'm on the phone with the paramedics and yelling instructions.

"Buck was out, but we got some air going into him. They show up. There's like 15 guys milling around, and the paramedics start doing these electrical things on him, three times to get him going.

"I have pictures of Buck with burn marks on his sides from doing those things. They got him going. He's trying to lift himself up and talk and everything, not knowing what's going on. It was funny. Here's Aspen all decked out giving him mouth-to-mouth when the paramedics come in. And they're going, 'Like, what exactly is going on here?'

"There's 15 guys, and a girl, and she starts changing into her regular clothes, getting naked in front of these guys while she's changing.

"I'm going, oh my God, this isn't looking good. Anyway they told us if we didn't call them in, Buck would have been dead. Buck then goes to the hospital.

"Meanwhile, after all this Oliver comes out of the bathroom. 'Hey, dude, ready to start the scene?' I'm like, Oliver, Buck just had a heart attack. He's at the hospital. He might die. 'Whoa, dude, does that mean it's over?' he asks.

?I'm like you fucking idiot, yes it's over. He didn't know any of this was happening. With all this commotion going on, he was in the bathroom doing God-knows-what."