Monday, March 6, 2000
AVN's Mark Kernes Rants Against Internet Gossip
Adult Video News (AVN) features editor Mark Kernes, who's my opposite in many ways, writes against net gossip here:
http://www.avn.com/html/avn/news/nws/news1512.html
The headline reads: "On Gossip And Other Forms of Rape." Here's an excerpt: Gossip as a medium creeps me out. Gossip as an institution creeps me out even more - and I don't think it's a "very human desire" at all; I think it's a learned perversion. Without hauling Dr. Freud too far out of his grave, I can't imagine a person who's reasonably at peace with him/herself and reasonably confident of his/her own abilities and philosophy giving a rat's ass about why Starlet Y has split with Boyfriend Z, or whether Actress Q is unhappy in her contract with Studio R or Website S.
Perhaps the best recent example is this Rough Sex brouhaha, which you can read all about in this issue. (Sometimes the line between gossip and news is rather thin. I usually prefer to err on the side of sticking my big nose out of things.) The controversy started (where else?) on r.a.m.e. (rec.arts.movies.erotica, an Internet newsgroup) with Ridley99, and perhaps others, who aren't even in the porn biz, nonetheless expressing their opinions on how the industry should be run....
Of course, Thoren's letter first appeared on a Website the owner of which, a self-described "journalist," has publicly admitted both that he lies and that he cares little whether what he posts has any basis in fact - which should have been another clue to the Net-set of Boobus Americanus not to take seriously too much of what's written there...
Dangerman writes: Now why is this a recurring theme amongst the industry? "Who gives a f--- what the end-users of porn have to say" - I guess there obviously is something particulary wrong with it then? Yes, the whole discussion on r.a.m.e. got very silly at a point, but it was not a meaningless exchange of opinions at all; it actually evolved to touch some very good points regarding i.e. what are the limits of pornography. But this isn't worth mentioning - after all everyone who reads l-keford.com, geneross.com (whose site these days has more mud-flinging than yours does) and r.a.m.e. absolutely is unable to think for themselves and should be treated accordingly?
YES, MARK, I BELIEVE EVERY WORD ON l-keford & GENEROSS AS I FALL INTO EVERY TROLL THREAD ON R.A.M.E. AND PLEASE PLEASE DON'T EVER CONTRIBUTE YOUR OWN OPINIONS BUT SIT BACK AND KNOW BETTER SO I COULD *BELIEVE* AND REMEMBER RESISTANCE IS FUTILE JUST BELIEVE. Ivory castles are cold and lonely places.
Metro Bails Out its Contract Girl Kianna Bradley
Director James DiGiorgio writes Monday evening: "lukey...just read the kianna bradley/BO BRASCO fiasco. once again, BO is at the center of another of his f---ing scams. when is talent going to learn? when is this business going to learn?? according to BO, it's always everyone else who is lying and not being straight up. right. another example of the obvious: the common denominator to this kinda drama always seems to be BO. now BO claims kendra's a drug addict, and the retard calls her on stern to proclaim this. what a loser. in his "X UP HIS ASS ALTERED STATE," he probably believes the fiction he keeps concocting on his site. Hey BO, you're running up a pretty big tab, paying the bill's gonna be a bitch. Cya soon pal. Rob sends his regards as well."
XXX: "Bo is f---ing up. I saw your Kianna stuff. He's beat me on scenes. He told me to send him some scenes. I sent them. And they got returned. I got the run around from his secretary, his brother. I don't know what is going on with Bo."
My friend, Metro contract girl Kianna Bradley, phoned late Sunday night.
Kianna: "Bo and I had talked about selling him scenes. He said, 'Yeah, if you do 'em, send them to me and I'll buy them. I'm always looking for scenes.' I've heard he's been doing that with quite a few people.
"So I went and did all these scenes [Kianna shot ten scenes] and sent them to him and he sent them back. Well, he hasn't actually sent them back yet. He told me he did last week but they haven't arrived. I ended up owing all this talent money. My cameraman was s---ty. I tried selling it to Extreme and Elegant Angel and they wouldn't buy them. But they tried. And they were being really cool about it.
"So Greg Alves [Metro's general manager, and the best GM in the biz IMHO] calls me into the office. And I go, I am so fired because I put myself into the scenes to make a movie.
"And I get there and he goes, 'Why didn't you come to me first?' So he's buying the scenes and everything is fine. And now all the talent will get paid. It turned out good but it really scared me."
Luke: "You're not supposed to be doing stuff like that if you have a contract with Metro?"
Kianna: "No, no, no. Metro gave me permission. They said I could shoot the scenes. They were really cool about it. But I wasn't supposed to put myself in the scenes. I was just supposed to direct and produce it. But to save my ass, Metro is going to buy it.
"There was a lot of slapping and stuff in one scene and I thought, 'Ohmigod, nobody is going to take this except Extreme.' So I met with Rob Black and Josh Levy. And they were so cooool, Luke. And they even asked me to work for them. And I said, 'I can't. I'm with Metro.'
"I think they wanted to make something against Jasmine [St. Clair]. But Jasmin calls me now. We talked and everything is fine.
"A bunch of people are calling me and asking me about this heroin thing with Earl. Did it really happen? How he almost overdosed December 21st? And I'm telling them yes. I was there. It happened at my house."
Earl denies that he does heroin or any drug. Earl denies that he almost overdosed in December of 1999.
Luke: "Did Bo [LGI owner John Kenney] let you down on this?"
Kianna: "Yes."
Luke: "Because he said he'd buy the scenes?"
Kianna: "Yes."
Luke: "But his excuse was he didn't like the camerawork?"
Kianna: "First he called Earl [Slate] of all people. 'What's going on with Kianna? All these people are calling me and telling me that she is shooting these scenes for me and I don't know nothin' about it.' Then Bo called Damien Michaels and told him the same thing. Then I hear from three people that they were doing the same thing for him [shooting scenes] and also waiting on their money.
"Then Phyllisha [Ann] calls [Bo] and says what's going on. And Bo says the camerawork is awful. And Phyllisha says oh, it was the camerawork.
"Bo's not taking any of my calls. And his office says they've sent the tapes but I still have not seen them.
"All the people I hired are waiting for their money. I told them that they would get paid in 30 days. Now I had to explain to them, maybe I jumped the gun. Maybe I shouldn't have done this. Maybe I misunderstood Bo. I'm doing the best I can and you will get your money.
"Then Greg [Alves] said to me, 'Why didn't you come to me first?' And I said, 'Because I was embarrassed. I wanted you guys to be proud of me.' He goes, 'We're proud of you. Basically you got f---ed. At least you did it. I don't know how you got all these people to work for you for free.' That says something about you. Now we've got to fix the problem.'
"I apologize to everybody for the wait in getting paid. Maybe I misunderstood Bo, because I really want to see what he has to say about this. He told me that he didn't buy the scenes because he already has too much stuff. He told Phyllisha that it is the camerawork. Then he calls everybody and tells them that he never told me that.
"Renee LaRue and Greg Murphy were sitting here when I talked to him. He talked to my office manager. I incorporated my company [K&K Productions] since then through Tynsdale and Nicholson. Luke, I'm getting in over my head here."
Kianna laughs.
Kianna: "I'm a hyper person anyway. If I get something in my head, I just go with it. It worked out because I got it done. I had people from Anabolic, Leisure Time, Elegant Angel helping me...
"And I squirted in one of the scenes. I never squirted before."
Luke: "Wow. I'm glad Greg Alves came through for you."
Kianna: "Metro has been so good to me.
"And Bo... Maybe I did misunderstand him, Luke, but I don't think I did. I asked him for $12,000 for a movie and he said, 'Oh no, I can't spend that much.' And he said he would call me back with a budget. And I told him of the four scenes I was going to shoot then - me and Renee LaRue, me and Manny, Olivia and Eric Price, and Olivia and Wendy Knight. And he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine. Shoot them and send them to me, blah, blah, blah.
"And I know that he told Earl that he could shoot stuff for him. Damien Michaels told me that Bo had called him and wanted him to do some stuff. I think Chuck Martino is shooting for him. And Kevin Beech says he wants to buy stuff. What's he going to do with all this? Is Bo going to dog me for this?
"Kevin loaned me some money a while ago.
"Oh Luke, you have got to put up there that everything about the overdose with Earl is true. It happened at my house in my bedroom. Me and my roommate are the ones who called 9-1-1. December 21st. And he was in the hospital for four days. And he came back to my house three weeks ago on heroin again. He walked in my house and I think he's drunk.
"I've noticed his little pattern when he does heroin. He gets antsy.
"He comes in and I'm asking him, 'Why are you f---ed up?' And he goes 'No, no, no, no.' I go, 'You're on heroin.' And he goes, 'No, I'm not.' And I looked at him and his eyes were pins again. And he said 'Ok, I've done a little.'
"He said he cooked the heroin and it turned into liquid and he snorted it as liquid. Everybody needs to be careful of him.
"And somebody needs to check him for hepatitis. When I went to the hospital with him [December 21st], the doctor said there was a very good chance he had hepatitis because his liver was so f---ed up from drugs and alcohol. It scares me. I called him and asked him what the test results were and he said they came back clear.
"But then I talked to his mom and she said that the night I asked him for the test results, after I got after off the phone with him, he got on the phone with the doctor asking for the test results. After he told me they were negative."
Kianna Bradley and Earl Slate got married last year in Las Vegas. A few weeks later, they got the marriage annulled. But they were hanging out together at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
"Luke, I am a pathetic porn star. I have not had sex with anybody but Earl. Please remind everybody that I am single and if anybody wants to go out with a very single person, a nice person..."
Kianna: "I think the guys at Extreme are awesome but I can't turn my back on Metro because they've been so good to me. After all the s--- I went through with Earl that I put them through. They did not want Earl to sit at their table at the AVN Awards. They almost didn't give him a ticket. I begged them for a ticket. It was at the back of the award show. Then I begged Greg to let him sit up with me, and Greg said fine. So Earl pulled up a chair.
"Then Earl tried charging me for the dress he bought me [for the AVN Awards]. Then he was adding up everything. He was charging me for food and gas for taking me places. I never had a date charge me for dinner, much less a husband. I said 'You must be high.' He charged me for food. It totally amazed me when he said, 'I bought you food on this date and this date.' I went 'What?' He marked the dates down in his calendar when he bought dinner.
"Then I talked to Jasmine. I just don't like people f---ing with people I care about. You came at it full force and I came back at you. Then she said, 'Yeah, but now do you understand?' And I said, 'I guess I do.'
"My experiences with him, and the stories I've heard from other people, the stories are quite similar. That's scary.
"Now put on this story the big headline 'Kianna Bradley Apologizes To Everybody.'"
LGI responds on their site porngossip.com: Kianna must hungery for her name in the headlines. She called the office of lgi and left a message for bo "please call me I have Randy West and Ed Powers who want to shoot some scenes for me". Bo returns the call and tells Kianna then have Ed or Randy call me and we will talk. No call from Randy or Ed (duh), later Kianna calls back, and says she has the shoot all set up. Bo asks who are in the movies. She names oliva, eric and some more people and she wants to pay these people $1200.oo a person a scene. (these are not scenes for a movie but clips for the internet), bo tells Kianna I'll think about it and get back to you if I'm interested.
The next day lgi starts getting calls that Kianna is running all over town using Bo's name and stating she's doing scenes for us and lgi's picking up the tap and can she borrow lights and equipment for this. Bo tells everyone no, she is not doing this for lgi. Damien calls, he too was told she was not authorized to shoot anything for lgi. Then a package arrives from Earl with this movies, Bo calls Earl and asks what are these, and Earl says the scenes from Kianna. Bo again tells Earl, we never authorzed her to do any scenes for lgi. Kianna calls and Bo tells her i never told you to shoot for me, plus you owe someone some money and you need to get that straight first, maybe i'll take the scene of you for your website, but the others I do not want or need, and we will send back the other stuff. Kianna calls back in a tiss because we told her they were being returned to sender who happen to be Earl. then she has Phyllisha Ann call and ask whats the deal, Agin for the 100th time in about 72 hours she is told lgi do not authorize Kianna to shoot for us and they were being returned to sender. no one ever said anything about the camera work because no one ever looked at the footage, because again it was not something lgi wanted. Now if Mr. Powers or West was in it we would have seriously considered buying the scenes. (From porngossip.com)
French Porn Star Lolo Ferrari Dead
GRASSE, France, March 5 (Reuters) - French porn star Lolo Ferrari died on Sunday of natural causes in her house on the French Riveria, police said. She was 30. Ferrari was billed as ``the woman with the biggest breasts in the world'' and had a reputed 71-inch (177.5 centimetre) silicone-enhanced bust. A bid to register her name as a fashion label was defeated two years ago by her namesake, the Italian car-maker.
Sergio writes: You better be serious about this Lolo Ferrari stuff, or I will have to stuff you with marbles and call you sweet lollIpop guy. Cause I am changing an entire page of my mag to put an elegy about the dead bobbied deceased! (BTW, I laugh just figuring the shape of the coffin...)
Luke: I am dead serious.
Peter Hayes writes: More about the death of Lola Ferrari (real name Eve Valois): The autopsy, carried out today (Monday), confirms that 30 year old actress died of natural causes and there was no suspicious circumstances. Nevertheless tests for toxins will yield results in the next ten days. She was found at dead by her husband Eric Vigne at their luxury home near Grasse. They had on children. They had known each other for 14 years.
Her death made the television news in France and she was well liked locally despite her unlikely bosom - that was her only asset. She was famous in France more for her appearance on TV shows such as Eurotrash - than for her films. At the time of her death her breasts measured 130 cm. She said, on Eurotrash, that she "wanted to incorporate the perfect woman." Her various plastic surgery operations helping where nature failed Her her role model and hero was Bridget Bardot. She made frequent nightclub appearances and even released a pop song called "Airbag Generation" which had modest local sales. She had made an nightclub appearance in Paris on Monday and Tuesday before her death where she performed a striptease.
Junior writes: European porn star Lolo Ferrari was found dead at her French home yesterday at the age of 30. Lolo who boasted a massive 58F chest, is believed to have died from natural causes. Her husband and manager Eric Vigne discovered her body in the early hours yesterday. Lolo went under the knife 18 times to get her eye popping bust, her sillicon enhanced assets implanted with the equivalent in weight of 12 pints of beer won her the coveted titles of Miss Tits Europe and Miss Air Bag 1995. Lolo suffered from depression and also had ops done on her lips, nose and cheeks. She once said: "I hate reality - I want to be wholly artificial."
Tuesdays With Robbie
With the rain pouring down outside, I stayed in bed until 10:30 Sunday morning before showering and updating my site. I ate four big chocolate chunk with Macadamia nuts Pepperidge Farm cookies, one instant lunch Maruchan "Ramen Noodles With Vegetables" and seven bites of low fat cottage cheese. I read online the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Salon.com. And I thought about last Tuesday with Robbie.
I spent a cold cloudy Tuesday (2/29/00) this past week with Rob Spallone and James DiGiorgio at their shooting house in Sunland.
Jennifer James, formerly a guy who's now a girl, directs a one-day wonder "The Adventures of Honeysuckle" starring Aja for Gigi Appleton's distributorship Avalon. James comes from a background in music videos and this is only her third porno.
Jennifer funds the movie through her own investors.
Luke: "Do you notice a trend of men becoming women taking over the porn industry?"
Jim: "I have not seen it as a trend, but I think we should all be on guard. Who's going to be next to takeover porn? I think it will be the Koreans. If they ever come in, they will bring their whole family to work it. It used to be that Americans owned donut shops, then the Koreans took over."
Luke: "What is the ethnicity of David Sturman's [owner of GVA West] wife?"
Jim: "Phillipino. And a very beautiful woman. And a very nice woman. And a very intelligent and sophisticated woman."
Luke: "And she brought her whole family with her. They all work for David."
Jim: "Candy Roxxx just flew in from Vegas to be in this movie. She has to fly back today because she's featuring at the CanCan for eight nights."
A three year porn veteran, Candy is a tall slender blonde with pumped up breasts.
Luke: "How did Candy get into porn?"
Candy: "A childhood dream."
Jim: "She went to the unemployment office and saw porno as a job offering."
Candy: "I thought the ad said hair, and it was giving head. I applied for the job and got it. I am a beauty school dropout and very proud of it.
""I was dancing in the midwest and I met a lot of features who came through. About one feature per month. I already enjoyed watching and I wanted to find out what it would be like to do one. And I did my first one for Misty Rain - Misty Cam 2. In Nebraska. A couple of months later, I came to LA and went around to several different companies and the rest is history."
Roxxx, who's appeared in 60 pornographic movies, married a year ago. She lives and loves in Las Vegas.
Roxxx: "I come out to LA regularly and find work. I don't wait for it to find me."
Jim: "Pornographers are notoriously cheap and nobody wants to make that toll call to Las Vegas."
Candy: "I know. That's why I finally got an 818 pager for all the people who were too damn cheap...
"Even though I live in Vegas, I will always be at the set on time while most of the girls who live in California will flake."
Luke: "You don't show up to sets intoxicated or under the influence?"
Candy: "No, I don't need to do drugs or drink alcohol to have sex. And I'm never sloppy unless I want to be and I always remember it."
Luke: "How's the reality of the adult business compared to what you thought it would be like?"
Candy: "I expected a lot more glamor. Maybe a few years ago there was, but now there are so many girls in the industry. It's lost its glamor. But the reality is good. This has been a good experience."
Luke: "Does your family know about your new career?"
Candy: "No. I don't feel it is something that I need to bring up to them. If they find out, they find out, and we deal with it then. But I'm a big girl. I pay the bills.
"I had a couple of people I knew from childhood in Minnessota who recognized me [as a porn star]. I wanted to go back to my highschool reunion in a big stretch limo with a big buffed dude on each side handing out pornos. 'Here, check me out now.' I don't think I'll do that."
Luke: "What did you want to do in high school when you grew up?"
Candy: "I had nothing definite in mind. I thought maybe law but I had some turnoffs with the law. It didn't really turn out to be what I wanted to be. I looked at different things and just decided that the time in school wasn't something that I was willing to do. And the laws are always changing and justice isn't exactly what it sounds and I decided it wasn't for me afterall. Then I started dancing and the rest is history. I like performing."
Luke: "What will you be doing in ten years?"
Candy: "I'll have my own business, massage therapy. It's something I've been interested. It will be a bummer that my long nails will have to go."
Jim: "Luke, I am not a junkie."
Luke to Candy: "Did you get implants?"
Candy: "Well, yes I did. My theory is, if you don't have it, and you want it, buy it! And I wanted it and I got them. And my clothes fit a lot better and when I am at home playing with myself, I enjoy it a lot more. I moved from a B [cup] to a DD. I measure 36DD-25-35."
Luke: "How do you stay so slender?"
Candy: "I have a lot of sex and dance a lot but I don't work out..."
Jim: "A high protein diet."
Luke: "When did you last have sex off camera?"
Candy: "Two days ago."
Jim: "A lot of girls tell me that they don't have a sex life outside of the camera."
Donita: "We have sex every day unless he's going to be doing a scene that day."
Jim: "I was never homophobic until my brother came out gay and I started worrying about genetics."
Luke: "What's happening in this movie?"
Jim: "Aja plays a hapless waif named Honeysuckle who delivers pizza and wanders upon a porn set. Then things take their course and she ends up a porn star."
Aja, now a blond, has shut down her producing company Golden Orchid after eight films and her distributor Pleasure Dome. "It was more trouble than its worth. I'm closing down and returning to bimbo mode."
Jim: "I saw Buck Adams walking down Saticoy Avenue the other day looking very lost."
Buck's $300,000 movie Liquid Blue is on hold.
Aja shows off her tattoos of runes on her lower legs.
Aja: "They're Northern European. That's my shield knot... This symbolizes a spiritual journey."
Jim: "I was very disappointed by the movie 'The 13th Warrior.' The ending was lame. It needed a bigger bang."
Aja: "I was looking to see if it was historically accurate. And it was. I liked that the guy from Morocco was just accepting that the Vikings had their own gods and he wasn't trying to push his god on them."
Jim:"Yet he did not forsake his god."
Aja: "Right, there was respect for both cultures. That's what I liked about it. And he was willing to learn and have an open mind."
A grizzled man in the second half of life, Kenji, serves as the still photographer. He stands about 5'9" and weighs about 350 pounds.
Aja says she doesn't seek on camera work but if someone offers it...
Male performer Kyle Stone, one of the first porners I met (3/96), looks at my site every once in a while to make sure he's not on it. Then he breathes a sigh of relief and returns to the football game "Madden 200" on the Sony Playstation.
Kyle: "I'm not married and never have been. I want to do it once and do it right. After I'm done with this business as a performer. I don't know too many women who could handle it. Maybe another girl who was a performer could handle it but I don't know if I would want my wife being a performer [of sex]."
Luke: "How long can you keep pumping on camera?"
Kyle: "Good question. I'm still horny... I will stop when I feel that I can no longer do the job. I figure that I can do this for another five years. I've been doing this for seven years. For my first year, I was a filing clerk at a law firm in Century City but they got tired of that when they found out what I was doing in my off hours. And it became such a scandal. I'd walk down the hallways and the secretaries would say 'There he is.' And the attorneys got tired of coming out of their offices and hearing about Kyle Stone... And they waited until they could find a decent reason to fire me, and they did. For excessive absences."
Luke: "What would you go back to doing in the straight world?"
Kyle: "I don't know. That's the tough thing. I always had a problem with the 9-5 thing. I don't know if I could go back to 9-5. I hate to be lumped in with every other performer but here we go. Eventually I would like to direct something. As it is, I've been doing this so long, that I point things out [to the director]. I've even had directors come to me and say 'Do you have any idea how we can shoot this?' Eventually, I am in no hurry."
Luke: "What's been the biggest change in the industry?"
Kyle: "The introduction of Viagra. Doing what I do used to be a skill, now it is just take a pill. I am THE exception as far as I know. I never have used Viagra and never will. Viagra is a heart medication. My mother died a year ago of a heart attack. Any director who offers me Viagra is saying 'Here, take this pill. Take a chance on dying because I want to get a scene.' I tell them, 'I am not taking it. I will give you a good scene. Don't ever bring that s--- up to me again.' I think people are going to have some serious medical problems because of that drug and it could easily shut our business down. If somebody kicks it, and the investigators come around and find out that the director handed him a blue pill before he did the scene, we're shut down. That's dispensing of pharmaceuticals. The government would love nothing better than to stamp on us for that.
"I got interviewed by Hustler [David Buchbinder] because it was rumored that I was one of four guys who's never taken Viagra. I refer to myself as 'Old School.' I like girls.
"That's been the biggest change. And because of Viagra, a lot of the girls attitudes have changed. Most girls now expect wood. If you're not instantly hard when you take your pants off, she's shocked, because until now, every guy she's been with has been raging to go.
"I've had to tell a few girls, 'Honey, I realize that every guy you've been with has been rock hard... But I do this for a living. There was a beautiful girl yesterday and there will be a beautiful girl tomorrow. It takes a little bit to get going. With Viagra, a lot of girls expect the guy to be ready to go. Certainly no fluffing. They don't have to do anything. The hardon's not going away whether they're into the scene or not.
"Nah, I'm old school. You don't have to blow me but talk a little 976 or let me look at you and that will let me do it. If I wasn't horny all the time, I wouldn't be in this business. That's saving me thousands of dollars in therapy."
Luke: "How much do you f--- around outside the industry?"
Kyle: "Very little. Personal sex means a great deal to me. Because of who I am and what I do, it's usually girls in the business... I play safe. I'm responsible for everybody else's life in the business as well as my own.
"If a girl wants me to use a condom in a scene, she has every right. Disease is out there and people can die. And girls are most at risk. That's the way it is. Women are more of a receptacle and more likely to pick up things. Without the women, this business goes nowhere. Their comfort should be the number one priority.
"I've heard guys say that watching a porno video involves their fantasy and their fantasies don't involve condoms. Well, reality involves condoms, and they do happen to meet a girl somewhere and get with her in that ultimate fantasy, more than likely she's going to have him wear a condom, so he might as well work that into his fantasy as well.
"About 80-90% of my scenes use condoms. Though some girls can't handle condoms. They're allergic. Their pussy swells up and turns red. I just go with whatever the girl's comfortable with. Now that also includes me. If I look at a girl and something in the back of my mind goes... I'll wear a condom. And anybody outside the business who's not tested, I'll always use a condom."
Luke: "How do you think the internet has affected the business?"
Kyle: "I think it has opened it up more and diluted it. Because now there is so much out there. And you have these little girls all over the country taking pictures of themselves and slapping it all over the internet. I think it can be a danger to the younger girls around the world. That they see something they might want to do and then really regret."
Luke: "Have you met many women in the industry who regretted their work?"
Kyle: "A couple. One was my ex-girlfriend. Kailani. She ran away from home. Came out here and got involved in the business. It wasn't for her. She wasn't that stable. She was taking Prozac. We got together. It didn't work out. I heard some stories that she got into some situations that weren't good for her. She ended up going back home to the Midwest. I called her not too long ago because my mother had passed away... She said she wanted to put the whole thing behind her. It was a big mistake in her life. And I said I understand. I'll probably never speak to her again.
"I think a lot of girls get into it and don't regret it, but just realize that it is not for them. But they enjoy the experience. They learned... They got all the f---ing they could want but found that wouldn't really satisfy them. What they really wanted was for somebody to take care of them.
"I work 12-20 times a month. Certain directors, if they're shooting, hire me regularly. You also have to play the matchmaker game. A lot of girls have a lot of lists and a lot of girls have a lot of power and may not want me on a set because they don't care for me. They just don't want me on a set, even if they're not working with me. And they use their power that way.
"There have been girls who've told me directly to my face that they don't want to work with me. And I appreciate that. I wish that any girl who doesn't want to work with me will just come up and tell me. I don't flip out. I respect it. I'm friends with Sydney Steele but she doesn't want to work with me.
"A contract girl was screaming the other day that guys don't want to work with her. And she was asked why and she said 'Because I don't want to f--- 'em.' I turned to her, 'Honey, not everybody who works with you wants to f--- you. Sometimes they are just there for the money.'"
Tyce Bune takes on Aja and Cherry Mirage in the first scene of the day. Cherry's husband watches the scene on a monitor with technical director James DiGiorgio. Jennifer James operates the camera. She appears a curious combination of man and woman. About six feet tall, she has large breasts and developed back muscles. She has the gentle manner of a woman but the voice of a man.
I sit with about eight people in the side room watching the scene on a monitor.
Is Cherry's hubby freaking out while watching his wife get pronged? No. He's struggling to stay awake.
Rob Spallone gets in his four-wheel drive to go see Russ Hampshire at VCA and Jack and Bruce at Legend. I tell Rob that I will go with him, and bring my golf club along to trash the office of whoever doesn't pay up. Rob leaves without me.
Jim checks with Jennifer over how much video they've used. About 55 minutes total, 45 minutes for the sex scene.
Jim: "We're going to FIP (Fake Internal Popshot for the cable version) then f--- to a pop."
It's 2PM and we're building towards the climactic finish of scene one. Tyce buries his face in Aja's shoulder as he pumps her savagely. Now he rears up. Cherry and Age prepare to lap up his juices. Tyce sprays his sperm over their faces.
Jim: "He popped pretty good. Lots of force behind it. A healthy dose. A pop with panache."
Cherry wants to get the cum out of her ear.
Jim: "We were on the set of Nightshift 3. We rented a stripclub as a set. We were talking about lactating. Jacklyn Lick comes up to me and says she can lactate. I say, let me see. So she squeezes her nipples and they both shot milk out and hit me in both eyes."
We eat a lunch of pizza and talk about religion.
Jim: "A very Aryan looking Tyce Bune is making antiSemitic remarks."
Tyce: "What's a kosher pork? Two Jews screwing."
Aja: "I can't keep my thoughts straight. I just had three orgasms."
Aja brings out a book ("The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Socio-Historical Approach to Religious Transformation" by James C. Russell) to settle an argument over religion.
Kyle Stone walks out the door.
Kyle: "Look, even Nick East wrote a book, so what does that prove?"
Various porners say how stupid the Bible is and how wonderful paganism is. Kenji calls for a return to child sacrifice.
Kyle: "I'm about to do a porno version of Midsummer Night's Dream. I'm playing the role of [Kevin] Kline for Stuart Canterbury."
Kenji complains about how he was tortured in the Roman Catholic school system.
Kenji: "But I had no interest in learning the Latin...I got into so much trouble. Then four years later [in Vatican II] they outlawed Latin."
Jim: "Nor was he interested in having sex with priests."
None of the porners around the table believe in God. Except maybe Kyle Stone.
Kyle: "I've never thought of it as a person. More as an energy."
Luke: "Does God monitor what you do and reward and punish you for your behavior?"
Kyle: "No. It's more of a collective conscience. You should monitor what you do."
Kenji: "He's a spiritual accountant."
Aja talks about her book. "It's just talking about missionary work and how dangerous it is to go into other societies and try to change their behavior."
When I first met Aja in March of 1997, she was muscular from working out frequently. She took part in fitness competitions like Miss Fitness Hollywood. But she quit soon after and resumed smoking.
Aja: "I was set to meet with my gymnastics instructor to work out a routine. Then I got a divorce. We were doing two incomes and it had to turn into one income. And I had to put that off."
Candy Roxxx gets anxious about her plane ride back to Las Vegas. They talk about a kill fill.
Jim: "A kill fee is when they pay you not to kill them because they took too long to shoot the scene."
Rob dropped Jim's sports gonzo off at VCA which ran it through QC (Quality Control). Jim says they have tougher QC at VCA than at mainstream places he's worked for. VCA is making a list of "dropouts" - where the video quality is bad. VCA picked up a couple right at the beginning of the tape.
Jim: "I've turned in one movie out of all the movies that passed QC on the first test. Russ said that was the first movie in a year to pass QC on the first run, and that includes all their inside productions. I've not been able to do it since.
"Some other companies pay VCA to QC their shows for them. Maybe Metro and others..."
Luke: "Sin City should pay them to QC their shows for them."
Jim smiles. "I think that every company in this business should be responsible enough to do a solid QC."
Luke: "Particularly important for Sin City?"
Jim: "I wouldn't want to single out any companies."
Luke: "George W, do you now think it was a mistake for you to go to Bob Jones University and not speak out against bigotry?"
Jim: "I think I missed an opportunity, when it was there, to condemn Bob Jones University for their blatantly anti-Catholic stance."
Later on, I catch Jim lecturing Candy Roxxx and Gigi Appleton on ethics.
Jim: "People don't give a s--- if society passes laws that say 'Thou Shalt Not Steal.' They'll steal anyway. They'll just assume they won't get caught. But if it is God who says 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' how do you get away with it? Because God is omniscient. He sees all and knows all and you cannot hide the fact that you stole, from God."
Jimmy believes in God.
Rob bought a lovely box of illegal Cuban cigars from Michael Esposito.
Goddess writes: Luke, you need to stop hanging around Mike South. Your bad habits are starting to rub off. It's pathetic enough that you write to yourself and expound on all things Jewish, but now Mike is writing to HIMSELF, raving about how hot and sexy he is. Of course, he's lying and saying some chick is dying to get her hands on his body, but I think we know better. I have to give you credit, Luke, at least YOU never sank this low:)
Oh-oh, Luke, Gene's site is looking PRETTY SHARP tonight. AND it doesn't take forever to open. Learn from the master.
Ron Jeremy and Car Wash Angels
Patrick Riley writes on RAME about Car Wash Angels #2. "RJ [Ron Jeremy] is not listed on the one sheet, doubtless so as not to scare the viewers. When you get inside not only does he appear he actually takes off his clothes and screws Bobbi Bliss. I hope she received hazardous duty pay. Being slapped around in a Kahn Tuson movie would to me be a much-preferred fate than to be touched by the hedgehog. The name "hedgehog" is really a misnomer as it implies some resemblance to a not-particularly-disgusting animal; a more apt nickname for RJ would be "grub" or "sloth" but even then you don't get the full feeling of the level of nausea engendered by watching this lump of flabby jello-like barely-human flesh. No non-human animal deteriorates to this extent and Ed with his pasty body and ugly face is just an amateur in comparison. Fighting waves of nausea and trying to think of something more pleasant like doing my tax return I tried not to look too much at the fast-forward images but from what I did see the much vaunted "He can perform on cue, never has wood problems, and can ejaculate on demand," didn't seem to be true. He looked like he was struggling and he wasn't really very hard. At the end it occurred to me that maybe he kissed her at the beginning as he is wont to do but I wasn't about to rewind to verify this. Can anyone with a stronger stomach than I, confirm?
"BAN RJ FROM PORNO MOVIES! I can think of even more permanent solutions but as long as I never see him again I suppose the aesthetic quality of the population will have to suffer. Speaking of which there's a rumor that Al Goldstein has recently appeared in a performing role too. Someone please tell me the movie so I can put it on my "To be reviewed after the year 3000" list.
"As to the rest of CWA #2, does any responsible person at VCA review these Holliday epics? This one is almost 100% pure Holliday drivel. A massive ego trip with the girl stooges mouthing Holliday-isms interrupted by occasional perfunctory sex with over the hill women. Sheesh! What does "The six ways to get to first base" have to do with porn? Isn't baseball one of those things you think about to get rid of a hard-on? And the long blather about Norse gods with Holliday presiding over a banquet table dressed in sunglasses and a viking helmut? What the f---? When you do get to some sex scenes the women are near identical with their trowelled on makeup and whorish hair. Who was the hefty blonde Evan Stone screws over the desk? Woof, woof! And in the DP scene at the end with Jill Kelly the guys seems to wander off and then return. Had to answer their page I suppose. Or is it just part of the generally lousy camerawork and shoddy editing? In the pick-up scene near the beginning I kept trying to see who the girl with Sindee Steele was; no way, the camera unintentionally I'm sure, keeps well away from her face. All in all a very poor effort. If VCA are going to be using Holliday again, they should allocate someone to control his ego (and use fresh girls).
"Barbara Broadcast is a 1977 movie by Radley Metzger, one of the star directors of the seventies who tried to produce mainstream-quality movies (i.e. real movies) with explicit sex. He also has quite a list of softcore movies to his credit. If you liked BB, you'll also like The Opening Of Misty Beethoven, arguably the best explicit sex movie ever made. Not only is Misty very fast moving and amusing but IMO it includes a very erotic ending sex scene between Jamie Gillis and Constance Money. She's attractive and the two exhibit a level of passion only seen today in mainstream movies such as Bound or in the amateurs with two people who are really in love. It's the way porn should have developed but sadly the raincoaters stole it."
XXXGen Signs Inari Vachs
Delaney Daniels wrote this press release:
Toronto, Canada-March 5, 2000- XXXGeneration Magazine is very pleased to announce the signing of Inari Vachs, one of the adult industries hottest performers to an exclusive contract.
Inari will be starring in 12 adult movies this year from XXXGeneration Video, showcasing not only her sexual prowess, but her acting abilities as well.
The blonde haired, brown eyed bombshell stands at a petite 5'5, 123 pounds, with awe inspiring stats of 34-25-36. Combining an appetite for passion and a body built for sin, this Sex Goddess is sure to remain in the hearts and loins of admirers for years to come.
Inari is the winner of this years AVN award for Female Performer Of The Year. She displays an unequaled heat in each of her 170 video and film credits. Through her unbridled enthusiasm and especially her superior skills as a master fellatrix, Inari has raised the standards for female performers in the new millenium.
Along with her movie performances Inari will also be covering the music scene for XXXGeneration magazine, interviewing a different artist every week. Her in-depth interview with Ice-T can be read in the upcoming April 2000 issue of XXXGeneration magazine. Miss Vachs quick wit, and undeniable sexual chemistry make her an interviewer that no true rock n roller can miss. Also look for Inari's brand new multi-media website at www.InariVachs.com coming soon!!
Keep Lesbians Out Of Newspaper
FRONT ROYAL, Va., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- "This unrelenting assault on our families and children has got to stop", demanded Father Richard Welch, CSSR, JCD, President of Human Life International, the world's largest pro-family, pro-life, pro-faith apostolate. "Our society has been so inundated with unsavory images, perversion and political correctness that we hardly notice when the outrageous happens, and when it does, we are too scared to speak out against it." Father Welch was referring to the many weekly TV program inserts in American newspapers last week that featured a cover story promoting If These Walls Could Talk, II, an HBO feature portraying three lesbian stories.
"This is not about censorship", stated Father Welch. "It is about decency and parental rights. HBO can produce and broadcast whatever it wants, and people can choose to pay to watch it. But let's not be afraid of the truth -- lesbianism, and homosexuality, are perversions and are not appropriate, nor beneficial topics for the average American living room. When the cover story on the weekly TV program listing features these topics, it is an attack on the American family. This is a publication that sits in the home for 7 days, and is used by every member of the family who can read. Should our teenagers, pre- teens, even our seven and eight year old children be leafing through publications promoting lesbian features? Out of the scores of networks and hundreds of programs offered this week, isn't there one that the newspapers could have featured that did not subject our young people to inappropriate material?"
Father Welch continued, "It is difficult enough being a parent, safeguarding your children's upbringing, protecting their faith, innocence and purity. A parent used to be able to rely on our trusted institutions -- the media, the school, and the government -- to show a sense of responsibility in what was made readily available to the young. Now, it appears that everyone, even so-called "family" newspapers, are pandering to seduction, sex and sensationalism -- either to satisfy their own frightful agenda, to build sales, or out of fear of television and the internet."
"That fear may well be justified. If we cannot allow our children to open your newspapers without censoring them first, if their teachers cannot assign newspaper readership in class with confidence, then the parents and families of America must turn to media we can absolutely trust."
Father Welch invited parents, teachers and journalists to contact Human Life International for details on the disastrous effects pornography, homosexuality and sex education have had on sexually transmitted diseases, teenage birth rates, abortion, divorce, teenage promiscuity and other indicators of the decay in our society. HLI can be contacted at the Human Life International website (www.HLI.org.), by mail to Human Life International, 4 Family Life, Front Royal, VA 22630, or by phone at 540-635-7884.
"As we advertise perversion and licentiousness to our children, we lead them away from an understanding of God and the goodness of all he offers us. I personally challenge the publishers of these papers to say whether they share and advocate the topics on the cover of their own publications with their young children and grandchildren. In their hearts, these must be good men and women. Please, for all of our sakes, show the great heritage of American journalism. Uphold the great tradition of the American family paper. Don't turn our dailies into propaganda tools for perversion, or mercantile panderings to our base nature. Let Ben Franklin be our guide, not Larry Flynt." Founded in 1981, Human Life International is the world's largest pro-life and pro-family educational apostolate, with chapters in the United States and a network of international branches and affiliates serving 90 countries.
Alan writes: Anyone has to acknowledge that all the women of the sex industry perform sex with other girls and thus qualify as bi/lesbians. Everyone inside the sex industry knows this, nobody outside the industry knows it. There's a blatant information gap. Without these bi/lesbians, could there even be a sex industry?
Here's a futuristic angle for you: if the sex industry were smart they would begin directly recruiting bi/lesbian girls as early as the high school level. But they're too stupid and too marginally profit-oriented to think like that. They could build an entire sex industry by identifying and marketing(by whatever means, word-of-mouth, whatever) specifically to this niche of bi/lesbian girls. Most of these girls haven't come out and are in denial(and will be for decades, and after marriages, children, and then divorces etc.)
If the sex industry were smart, they would present their industry as a chic, alternative environment where it's OK to be girl-girl. They could also appeal to fashion-oriented bi/lesbian girls since these girls show this same bi/lesbian daring in the way they dress, as do bi/lesbian counter-cultural girls who get piercings,etc.
No, I'm not advocating any of this. In fact, it would probably generate a huge backlash from mainstream society if they believed young girls were being targeted, and bring pressures that might even put the whole sex industry out of business. Like you(I think), I'd love to see the whole disgusting marginal sex industry go altogether down the toilet. But perhaps this is a legit angle you might use to stir things up--ads for high school bi/lesbians, career in the sex industry, etc.
I think it's amazing Jim Gunn is in denial that the girls he recruits are bi/lesbian....oh, no, they might pose for an occasional pic for their boyfriends but they're definitely not lesbian...right!!! If he doesn't get it, when he's immersed in it 24/7, who will? Obviously, he's just delivering his best sales pitch and comes on like he doesn't want to blow their bi/lesbian cover so he lies for them and says just because you have sex with girls doesn't mean you're bi/lesbian! What transparent crap! What would happen if these girls did not feel the sex industry were a safe haven for coming out publicly with their bi/lesbian identities? Would they get the hell out? Or would they just give even more furious vent to their rebelliousness?
Please take a look at Elaine Siegel's book. This is the deepest you'll ever go into the psychology of bi/lesbians, who form the basis for the sex industry. The reality that they have clitoral and vaginal anesthesias is remarkable-- they have not even included their clitorises and vaginas in their conscious/unconscious body maps! Extraordinary stuff, especially when you have all these bi/lesbians orgasming on screen, and that's the central stuff of all of porn. She documents all of it in her book.
If you remember, even Brandy Alexandre, answering "the questions" on your site, said she doesn't have any direct experience of or knowledge of her own clitoral erections...she said it's like having a red spot under your arm! Get the point? These girls are even more out of touch with their own bodies than anyone ever imagined.
I urge you to contact Elaine Siegel for an interview on the psychodynamics of the bi/lesbians of the sex industry. The bi/lesbian stuff is the clearest angle you can take on what fundamentally motivates the sex industry, in my view. It's an absolutely clear-cut take, like no other.
(I do not really understand what is unique about the male customers, for example, even though I am one! I would guess failure to identify with one's father is probably one dimension, but I have no way to test this idea. That most male porn consumers are hung up on anal and bi/lesbian sex is truly a glaring anomaly, but I don't understand it. I do not believe that all hetero men in society have these same hang-ups, but I do believe normal development is probably based on identifying with a strong heterosexual father.)
But this is murky....the bi/lesbian angle is clear, and self-evident to everyone in the sex industry....so why bother to get into dubious, muddy psychoanalytic-speak when bi/lesbianism is so explicitly obvious to everyone without making any arguments?
Another controversial angle you might take is interviewing the parents of porn stars. This might stir things up! You might also assist them in "rescuing" their sons and daughters from porn as another story angle, or even talk to rescue-styled, brainwashing experts, boot camp psychologists, etc.
Dinner With Luke And Louie
I met a fan for dinner Sunday night. Afterwards I took him on a tour of Jewish LA. The ungrateful bastard (Galifrey@aol.com) writes: "Luke- Thanks for our wonderful date last night! While I enjoyed our dinner, and especially enjoyed both the lecture at the Museum of Tolerance and the Israeli couples dancing you took me to, I have to say that at this point in time I must remain heterosexual. It's not you, it's me! I just can't go that way, as much as I like you.... Toodles..."
Steve from AdultStarsMagazine.com writes: Luke, the movie you want to see is High Heels and Hot Wheels with R. Jeremy, Al Goldstein and Dennis Hof of Bunnyranch Fame It's hilarious. Metro is releasing this soon.
Luzdedos1: so, r u with craig or jb or both?
KendraJXXX: i am not with either yet
KendraJXXX: bo called in like an idiot
KendraJXXX: and i would like to do too hot #3 with john
Luzdedos1: r u readin?
KendraJXXX: yes. a book by john douglas
KendraJXXX: called the anatamy of motive
Luzdedos1: criminal profiler
KendraJXXX: yes. i just got done with nietzche
KendraJXXX: getting used to this laptop
KendraJXXX: but this one by j.d. is analyzing motives and minds of
many killers
Luzdedos1: did you like how the show went?
KendraJXXX: do u like nietzche
KendraJXXX: yes it was ok.kinda lame
Luzdedos1: i find nietzche troubling but interesting
Luzdedos1: people always ask me about my relationship with you, i
say that you're smart, that you read books
Luzdedos1: i'm exercisin and watching my diet because i want to lose
my double chin and tummy
KendraJXXX: i got so much email today after stern show
KendraJXXX: u dont have a double chin silly
KendraJXXX: but diet and excersize is good
Luzdedos1: i do, i see it in acting class when we replay on tape
Luzdedos1: i'm gettin teased about it
Luzdedos1: maybe i will get liposuction
KendraJXXX: hehehehehehhhehhehehehehehe
Luzdedos1: will you come see me in the hospital?
Luzdedos1: I am doing well in my acting class, and feeling good the
past two months.
Luzdedos1: when i walk into a scene, i take charge, i am projecting
power and confidence because i am feeling that again Luzdedos1: not
yet, but my manager is sending me out for stuff, and I will probably
get to do this 2hr nightly web radio show KendraJXXX: do u think your
site has potential to damage or help an acting career?
Luzdedos1: both, but more help
KendraJXXX: can i b your sidekick?like howard and robin?? lol
Luzdedos1: but ur not black
KendraJXXX: woo hoo! we will kick ass. i ncan pretend im black.im
cuban.close enough.
XXX: inari is a beauty, ain't she? makes me wonder what she's doing
in this business
XXX: really? i have to wonder why kinda guy marries a porn star
XXX: rumdar is an idiot. shinto is not a religion
XXX: how is jenna doing? still consoling her long distance? she's
on the self-destruct train...
XXX: so how go the lawsuits?
Luzdedos1: now that i've settled on the lawyers, it is smooth
XXX: you mean you finally found one who'd take it? :)
Luzdedos1: my insurance kicked in
XXX: you have legal insurance?
Luzdedos1: libel insurance, lloyds of london
XXX: you're kidding
Luzdedos1: no i am serious
XXX: and how did that get you a lawyer?
Luzdedos1: i just faxed the rep the case and they took it from there
XXX: wow. you gonna try and settle?
Luzdedos1: no
XXX: going for broke, huh?
BrandyAlx1: I have a feeling Rosie O'Donnell knows who I am. When people send her comments or suggestions she likes, she reads then on the show and gives their name. She's read mine twice and has yet to say Brandy Alexandre.
Fred Flinstone writes: I agree with Father Welch. Everyone should study the wisdom of Ben Frnklin. Here is an appropriate excerpt from Franklin, dated June 25, 1745:
I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer older women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these.
1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreeable.
2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services, small and great, and are most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.
3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.
4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.
5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of improvement.
6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.
7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.
8[thly and Lastly] They are so grateful! Another opinion of Franklin that I think represents fine instruction for all humankind: I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as that would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not, like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them. (October 24, 1788).
On the question of whether Christ is divine: I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that Belief has the good Consequence, as probably it has, of making his Doctrines more respected and better observed, especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his Government of the World with any peculiar Marks of his Displeasure. (March 9, 1790).
BTW, regarding your comment that Porn stars are interesting like an auto wreck, unless you want quick meaningless sex, heck, there's a lot to be said for quick meaningless sex. So Kendra reads Neitzche, eh? Watcha think. L, is she pretty bright? So of all of the actresses in the industry that you met, which one do you suppose would provide the most interesting conversation over a few glasses of wine?
Luke: Asia Carrera, Nina Hartley.