
Back in the go-go era that was the 1990s San Fernando Valley, Next TV lived in a Van Nuys-adjacent apartment complex that was chock-full of adult entertainment filmmakers (er, videographers) and onscreen talent.
We were friendly with the leader of these hardworking creative denizens, their studio chief -- call him "Mitch" -- a "director" who drove a cool green late-model Pontiac Trans Am, and who had his talent read scripts for him in his apartment nude ... with the blinds open.