“Are we going to eat?” wonders Arthur Kade, his eyes surveying the menu of the Oyster House as he sips a Diet Coke one Monday in August. “I’m diabetic, and I have got to eat.” This is Arthur Kade? The vodka-swilling, womanizing wannabe actor who began his pursuit of Hollywood fame almost three years ago (and became an Internet sensation in the process)? No, that was Old Arthur. This—well, this is the new one, who, at 33, says he’s finished with acting and his old, loathsome ways.
Kade settles on cherrystones with a glass of pinot grigio, adding that he’d temporarily cut out alcohol due to a photo shoot for the annual Daily News Sexy Singles issue earlier in the day: “I wore these tiny little bottoms.” But just as Old Arthur glimmers in the distance, the new one beats him down. “I’m done with that persona,” he promises. “I created it as a shortcut to my dreams, but the lines became blurred. And I’ve found that the Journey”—that’s what he calls his life’s path—“is to find the real love and the real me.”
Kade says this all started about a year ago when he lost the love of his life. “She couldn’t take it,” he reflects, seeming to choke up. “She’s very private.” Once she left him, Kade says, he lost control—drinking too much, putting on 30 pounds. He explains that he’s found a new path through a church, Trumpet Call, in the Northeast: “I’ve turned my life over to God.”
As for fame, that’s the one thing he’s not willing to sacrifice, though he intends to get there not through acting (“It’s over. I’m 33 and I have a lisp”), but through celebrity video interviews, dozens of which appear on his blog, with everyone from Jersey Shore’s J-Woww to model and Bravo host Tyson Beckford. “I’m going to be the Larry King of the Internet,”
Kade says.
Whether the new Kade is to be believed is anyone’s guess. After all, this is a man who spent three years selling himself as someone he’s now claiming never to have been. Then again, anyone who says he prays several times a day, as Kade does … well, maybe it’s best to give him the benefit of the doubt.
This article originally appeared in the September 2011 issue of Philadelphia magazine—on newsstands now.
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:56 am
SINCERELY
ARTHUR’S DAD.
September 6th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
What Arthur doesn’t realize is that that person already exists. In fact, there are dozens of them in the form of writers for gossip sites like TMZ, PerezHilton.com, EW, etc. Kade once again thinks that he can create something that’s never been done (remember his claims of being the new “modern actor”?) and he believes this wholeheartedly.
As for his new path in life – interviewing the people he so desperately wishes he was – it is amateur hour in every one of his videos. Poorly framed shots, all audio recorded in mono, recitation of Wiki entries and Billboard stats, and lots and lots of lies. Nobody who is 33 years old tells a member of the band Creed that they “grew up listening to them,” and no self respecting person of any age admits that Creed is a favorite band of theirs. Kade will forever be haunted by an inability to be truthful and honest – it’s exactly why he turned the comments off on his blog. He can’t handle being exposed as the goof he is.
Kade’s interviews are lessons in how not to interview celebrities, if they are anything. He has a great time doing them for sure, but the ear-to-ear grins, and constant amazement that, yes, celebrities can be humble, regular people too will never get him anywhere. He will always be on the outside looking in.
I give Arthur credit, however, for finally admitting about acting: “It’s over. I’m 33 and I have a lisp.” Finally Kade! His blog commentators were telling him that for two years and he finally figured it out.
September 21st, 2011 at 12:42 am
He interviews “celebrities” using a crappy camera and dime store microphone that records in MONO. Instead of actually learning how to edit and fix the horrible audio, which peaks constantly, or do some kind of intro to his “show” (and I use that term loosely) he just throws it up on the internet hoping someone discovers him. Its pretty pathetic. People go to college for four years and major in communications just so they can learn how to perform on camera interviewing people, work a camera properly and know the bare bones basics of non linear editing, etc. Newsflash idiot, you’re not gonna be the next Mario Lopez or Larry King.
But this article did show me that maybe even Arthur gets it now. He’s finally admitted he’s never going to be an actor. He sucks at it and he’s got a God awful lisp. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard him being completely honest with himself which shocks me to my core. Am I living in some kind of parallel universe where Arthur Kade is honest with himself and not the super delusional douche bag we all know him to be?!?!
I’m sure Arthur is reading this because he’s such an egomaniac so I’ll tell you this Artie: I’d tell you what you can do to potentially have even a sliver of a chance of making it on YouTube, the internet, broadcasting, etc. but I won’t even waste my breath because you’d never put the time in to learn what you so desperately need to learn.
Your 15 minutes have come and gone KAIDES. Its time to give up the charade for all our sakes because seeing these interviews is worse than suffering through your Gordon Gekko “Greed is good” monologue….and we all know how bad that is.
Please go away,
Kevin
PS – How’s it going with that “New York Times bestseller” you’re writing?