HeavyDutyDadup asks Bill Mortimer a.k.a. Baldiewonkanobi!

[John Hansen]

Awesome answers Baldie! I was LOL at the peeing in your pants doing chin-ups. That was great. I want to hear some of the Hollywood stories in more detail. It sounds like you met a ton of legendary stars! What was Arnold promoting when you were in the green room with him?

[Curt James]

2. Who was the hardest trainer you have ever seen?

Joe Antouri. Mr. Everything in the 1980s. If he competed today he would have his pro card several times. He won Mr. L.A., Mr. So Calif., Mr. Calif., Mr. USA, Mr. Physique, and NABBA World. And, I forgot a few. Joe currently runs the PTA, Private Trainers Assoc., a Weider endorsed company. He hires retired IFBB champs as teachers.

I first met Joe when he was a 128 pound 5’6” teen. He blossomed to 190 on stage, 230 offseason. He hit the DNA jackpot with Arabic/Italian blood. Joe would train for hours. He was one of the pioneers of the way our champions train/eat today. I swear he measured every gram and noted when he consumed it.

Joe loved to sweat and would wear several layers while training. He looked like a drowned rat when he was done. I trained with Joe for several years and it required that I take a nap right after for recovery. Once he was near fainting doing high rep (LIKE 20) squats with 315 and asked me to slap him across the face. “Are you kidding?” “SLAP ME!!!” He would train until he lost his voice. I could only hear a whisper. We often did twice-a-days. He believed there was no such thing as over training, just under rest and under nutrition. I had the privilege of training him for his USA and World wins.

Joe Antouri's National and International Awards

NPC Mr. Physique USA 1st Place
NPC Mr. Southern California 1st Place and Overall Winner / couples 1st Place
NPC Mr. Los Angeles 1st Place
AAU Mr. Central California 1st Place & Best Poser
AAU Mr. California 1st Place
NPC Superbowl of Bodybuilding Champion 1st Place
NPC Iron Man Champion 1st Place
WABBA World Bodybuilding Champion 2nd Place
AAU Mr. USA 1st Place and Most Muscular Award
NPC U.S.A. Bodybuilding Champion 3rd Place
AAU Nationals Bodybuilding Champion 1st Place
NABBA World Amateur Bodybuilding Champion 6th Place
NABBA World Amateur Bodybuilding Championship couples 6th Place

More @ http://personaltrainerscertification.com/our-founder/

[Baldiewonkanobi]

Awesome answers Baldie! I was LOL at the peeing in your pants doing chin-ups. That was great. I want to hear some of the Hollywood stories in more detail. It sounds like you met a ton of legendary stars! What was Arnold promoting when you were in the green room with him?

My sister in law was assoc. producer on a TV show. I was there to meet with her and Arnold came in dressed in a tennis outfit. Short white pants and tight powder blue polo shirt. He was there for a tennis game with the producer whose name escapes me.

I lived for a while in Beverly Hills in the canyons. Mickey Rooney lived next door and Jill St. John across the street. I helped Mic with his landscaping and as a thanks he gave me a season long box with valet parking at the Hollywood Park race track. Only used it once. One day I heard Jill scream out for me. I ran across the street to find her naked and screaming. She and a GF were nude sun bathing and the GF passed out stone white. I carried her inside, covered her with wet towels and she slowly recovered. Too much champagne and sun. My thanks was an eye feast. They never did cover up. Her boyfriend was Lance Reventlow, Woolworth Dept. store fortune and race car driver. He came home one night drunk on his Harley and it fell over on him. Yes, again I was called into action. I pulled the bike off Lance and carried him into their home. Man were those crazy ass days.

Baldie

[data4]

This is an incredible thread. Please keep the stories coming!

[Baldiewonkanobi]

Funny. My memory of these wild and crazy times come to me like a flash out of the fog of "Oldtimers".

One sunny So Calif weekend early 70s I was throwing a Margarita party by the pool. Indoors we had weed and nose candy for the asking. I started the day early with too much candy and took a long hot shower and a Lude to calm down. I needed to be the gracious host and bartender. I remember the party to this day for two reasons 1. the Lude (would NEVER do that again) and 2. one of the surprise guests was O.J. Simpson. He was a date of one of my female relatives. I followed him thru his football career and was anxious to talk with him. I recall he took a toke or two and stayed with the Margaritas. He never went in the pool. Personable dude. I liked him and was shocked when he was acused of murder.

Now during this period I did train once or twice a week only doing incline dumbell presses, dumbell curls and abbs. I was one skinny ass mofo. My 2 pack a day Marlboros jones interfered.

Baldie

[Dadup]

Baldie, will you adopt me?

[Baldiewonkanobi]

In the late 60s I had remarried and begun my career in big rig truck sales. Thru family and friends (my weed dealer) I had begun to hang around the Star Trek peeps. My friend was a Best Boy on the show and everyone's dealer. My family member was in the administrative office. I knew George Takei from L.A. High days. The set itself was a riot. Loads of plywood and vinyl. The Enterprise command center was a joke in person....looked OK on TV. The automatic cabin doors were opened by two men just out of site. Never the less I loved taking command of the Starship Enterprise while my wife just smiled and shook her head. The real fun was at the parties. I remember one New Years where Shatner and I sat outside in the balmy So Calif winters night and layed away an entire fat joint. We laughed for an hour about what I can't recall. My fondest memory of Gene Roddenbery's office was all the rubber life size aliens and a sign behind his desk..."Fuck Communism". And his wife Majel Barrett, one sweet but focused lady. She owns the name today. Where did the time go?


Baldie

[John Hansen]

Wow, the Hollywood stories are the best! Tiffany Case herself in the nude!!

[Baldiewonkanobi]

Great pics Curt. BTW the carpet did not match the drapes.


Baldie

[Curt James]

lol :-D

[HeavyDutyGuy]

You noticied the drapes???

[Hydroshake]

Great pics Curt. BTW the carpet did not match the drapes.


Baldie

LOLLL.

baldie is easily the best and most interesting poster on RX.
only if ric drasin would post here.

[hifrommike65]

Baldie has been things & seen places. & he ain't finished yet!

[Baldiewonkanobi]

Here is a high school prank I pulled that was equally ranked as "brilliant" and "poor taste".

In 1956 Hollywood was both mourning the sudden death of super star James Dean and the release of his latest film The Giant, also staring Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson.

Dean crashed his Porche 550 roadster on a back road on the way from L.A. to Laguna Seca racetrack near Carmel, Ca. His death had most of the girls at L.A. High in tears and the guys really choked up. Dean was an idol of my highschool fraternity, the Regents. One of our club members, Willy Willits, was a dead ringer for Dean and had all of his body language down pat.

I went to work on my scheme. James Dean is not dead....'He's alive I tell ya, ALIVE". We started the rumor at school and it went home with frat members who's family were in show biz. We mentioned it where ever we were in public. It spread about Hollywood like things go viral today.

I had Willie, now I needed tickets to the premier and a Porche 550. Easy done. One friend knew Chuck Connors the baseball player/actor and was able to score his tickets. Another friend had a friend with a Porche 550, same silver color as Dean's. We rented Willie a tux and the prettiest girl in school bought in and was his date.

Dress rehersal went perfect. We positioned the Porche so Willie could jump in line as soon as he saw Liz Taylor's limo passed. I had 50 or so fellow students positioned along Hollywood Blvd. and near the Grumans Chinese Theater, site of the premiere. We started the montra..."Dean is alive, Dean is alive, Dean is alive." I had someone I did not know tap me and say...did you hear Dean is alive and will be here tonight. By police estimates 10,000 people lined the boulevard. Then all hell broke lose. The crowd went wild as Willie inched the Porche along waving to all. Then the flahbulbs lit Willie up as he and his date walked the red carpet into the theater. I was told later the TV dude doing the live telecast said, "this is the sickest joke ever played in Hollywood."

By chance Willie sat next to Taylor. She told him..."You disgust me."

Some saw this as brilliant and Willie was signed to do the James Dean story but succomed to alcohol poisoning and sadly died before age 20.

The L.A. Times found me out and did a scathing article. I was brought before the school proncipal. He closed the door and shook my hand..."Brilliant and funny. Tell no one I said this"


Baldie

[Baldiewonkanobi]

bill mortimore, joe, ric-1.jpg

Here is a pic with Joe Antouri and Ric Drasin. BTW its Mortimer.

Baldie