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Thursday, April 26th, 2001

Greg Zeboray Splits From Tabetha Yang

From Greg Zeboray's site Zeboray.com: "We formed Mystique because of a sincere belief that quality transsexual talent were not being represented in the manner we felt they deserved. Unfortunately, a few setbacks prohibited us from continuing in the only manner which was acceptable to Golden State Equities," reported Greg Zeboray. "These setbacks, coupled with our partner - Tabetha Yang - becoming ill, meant that to continue would require an expanded role on our part - a role we were not in a position to play, especially at this time: we are dead serious about a return to auto racing, and this takes a considerable effort to accomplish. Additionally - and more importantly - we are in the planning stages of taking our Financial Services arm into a massive expansion mode, and Financial Services are the core business of Golden State Equities. We simply can not allow that to suffer from a lack of attention."

On April 5, 2001 Tabetha Yang became the sole owner of Mystique Model Management, and we wish her continued success and good health.

Nicole Moore Reflects On Howard Stern

Nicole Moore writes: The staff at Howard Stern and "E"... KC, Doug, AJ, Mike Gangie, Robin and Gary, Simon, Hank the Angry Dwarf and the rest couldn't be sweeter. KC came over to me before I left the studio, told me Howard wanted to meet and talk to me. Just then he came over thanked me for coming told me to please come back. I told him he was great, I extend my hand and shuck his. I must say for a moment it appeared to me that he was a timid shy kind of man, quite the contrary to his persona when he sits in that booth in front of that microphone with his sun glasses on. Afterward, my cell phone started ringing and the email started coming. Everyone wants to know about HousePainting in the Buff!...Sure that's what I was there for.

The next day, at least I think it was the next day. We all went to Scores for Hank The Angry Dwarfs birthday party. Lonny the owner through one hell of a party for all of us. We sat in the VIP lounge seats, in attendance was of coarse Hank, Crack Head Bob, the whole entire crew from "E" and most from Stern. I couldn't help noticing Tommy Lee (of coarse Pam absent) sitting directly across from me. I would like to let everyone know, who sent me stuff for Howard and there were allot. After security checked all of the packages he received personally every item sent.

I have several feature releases coming out this year Cracked, Be My Slave 1,2 and 3, Intimate Desires, HousePainting In The BUFF and I am currently working on two more. I was recently filmed by September Films for a feature piece on their television show and the London Daily Star, piggy backed and did an interview as well. You can check me out in the April issue of the National Examiner. I will be featured in Draculina Magazine, Nerve and in next months issue of Adult Star Magazine. Playboy's Sexcetera, will film a piece on me in May. Watch me with the always sexy and alluring Tera Patrick on The Tera Show, May 8th at 7:00 pm. I will be there with my submissive sex partner and good friend Nikki Steele and the always lovable ( haven't done him yet...wish I could ) male adult entertainer of the year Evan Stone.

Underground Jewish Porno Making Rounds In Los Angeles

Yankel Rosenbaum writes: Big news. There's an underground Jewish porno film making the rounds in Pico Robertson, here in LA. Obviously, it's taken with a hidden camera, probably by Yeshiva boys. I can't reveal my source, but I saw the tape and it's absolutely authentic. I'll do my best to describe it. Three Yeshiva girls, all about 16, on a sleep-over in a bedroom. One girl is named, I think, B'racha, brunette, cute, pigtails. She's wearing pj's with feet, quite retro. Second girl, Shayna, is wearing a Yeshiva sweatshirt and sweatpants, but, get this, her toe nails are laquered red as a chinese vase. Very hot. Third girl, Deena, a Jewish Pam Anderson, wears "cloud" pajamas, a great innocent touch for the raincoaters. The video starts out with the girls studying "Pirkei Avos" Ethics of the Fathers, for about half an hour. It's incredibly sexy as they discuss Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Eliezer, and Rabbi Shimon. At one point, Deena loses her train of thought and asks Shayna if she thinks "Moshe" a Yeshiva boy, is "cute." Shayna thinks Moshe is conceited. Bracha sighs and opines that Abe is "soooo hot she could just die." The tape ends when the girls say the Sh'ma and go to bed. Incredibly hot tape. Recommended if you can find it on the black market.

Luke asks: That's terrific, but where's the sex?

Yankel replies: Nubile Yeshiva girls studying Pikie Avos in their PJ's, what's hotter, I ask you? Oh, yes, they do kiss each other good night. So that's completely hot.

Fifth Estate Too Late With Porn Documentary

Herman Goodman writes for the London Free Press April 5:

Bell ExpressVu direct-to-home satellite TV service moved last week to pull two of its adult film channels, True Blue and Extasy, off the air. After months of unfettered broadcasting of degrading and violent pornography on those two channels, Bell ExpressVu only shut them down hours before the CBC-TV's current affairs show, The 5th Estate, was set to broadcast a documentary report on broadcasting abuses perpetrated by those and other cable and satellite service channels.

The 5th Estate report pointed out that the fare being offered on True Blue and Extasy flagrantly exceeded the limits laid down by Canadian censors regarding what was acceptable, even for a pay-per-view porn channel.

Bob Warren, of the Ontario Film Review Board, was visibly disturbed when he talked to reporter Hanna Gartner after being shown clips from hard-core films ExpressVu had already broadcast -- clips depicting rape, bondage and torture.

"It's been a long time since we've seen something this violent here at the board," Warren said, insisting the board would never have passed such films for broadcasting. That comment put the lie to ExpressVu executives' earlier claims that all the films broadcast on True Blue and Extasy had been vetted and approved by the Ontario Film Review Board.

Frankly, I was surprised by The 5th Estate documentary. Why broadcast such a story now? Cable and satellite services have been flooding average Canadian homes with pornography for years now and nobody's been saying anything. The porn merchants have been able to build up an enormous, new (and some would say "addicted") audience, by streamlining the merchandising of their wares. In order to provoke the most basic of human appetites, it's no longer necessary to line up at a theatre in a seedy part of town, or risk being seen browsing through some tacky shop. Thanks to the wonders of digital technology, it's never been harder to resist wallowing in the sort of fare that our better natures would prefer we avoid.

British Porn Documentary Hardcore

Thomas Sutcliffe writes the April 6, 2001 edition of the centrist British newspaper The Independent:

At first sight, Hardcore, a documentary about a young woman trying to break into the porn industry in Los Angeles, would seem to be just the latest contribution to this useful television genre. It turns out to be something quite different - a documentaryin which the innocence of the subject and the innocence of the film-maker crumble in tandem in front of your eyes. The result is both explicit and numbing - a film about commercial titillation which ultimately leaves you limp with disgust.

It is not, by his own account, the film that Stephen Walker set out to make - even though he knew right from the start that he didn't want to replicate the prurient tourism of most porn documentaries. "At one point I wanted to make a film that would haveno pornography in it at all," he explains. "I thought it would be a quite interesting challenge." Not a challenge that many broadcasters would be prepared to fund, though.

He was originally commissioned to make a film about a male porn star, hesitated over the obviousness of the subject matter, and then heard about Felicity - a single mother from Canvey Island who had been invited to Los Angeles by a porn agent calledRichard, someone Walker had come across in previous research. Intrigued by the conflicts between motherhood and a career in porn, Walker agreed with his commissioning editor Stephen Lambert (with whom he'd worked on Modern Times) to take a chance with three days' filming. "I jumped on that plane going out to LA - the very same day that she was going, thinking I would be home 24 hours later. I arrived there, waited about four hours at the airport, met Richard and then she turned up. The filmessentially starts with the very first frame I shot."

He soon found out. "The fact was that I hated it. I found it depressing and numbing and totally unerotic. I was prepared to find that I found it extremely erotic and quite interesting. But the truth is that having been on about 26 porn sets, it felt likebeing in the bottom of a lavatory bowl after a while." The metaphor isn't entirely surprising, given the first job that Felicity secures - a session of still photographs which required her to straddle a bucket and pee for the camera - or the almostobsessional emphasis on anal sex among her potential employers.

What might notionally have been an intriguing spectacle quickly became a depressing obligation: "I can remember that we were supposed to be filming an orgy, an orgy which Felicity was participating in and it was going to be her first anal sex scene, soit was supposed to be an element in the telling of the story... and I just couldn't face it. It was on day seven and I turned to my recordist and my assistant producer and said, `Let's go somewhere.' So we played truant. We went off and found an Italianrestaurant and sat there with a bottle of wine and I felt bad that I wasn't filming an orgy!"

The cost is clearest in Hardcore's most intense sequence, which record Felicity's unwilling encounter with Max Hardcore, a notoriously extreme porn star. After reluctantly agreeing to film with him (and ignoring Walker's insistence, audible on thesoundtrack, that she doesn't have to), Felicity breaks off in tears, having been deliberately choked during an oral sex sequence. Walker found himself filming Hardcore' s attempt to persuade her to resume filming.

Eventually, when his assistant producer Tessa Gogol pointed out that they were effectively about to film a rape, Walker stepped in, persuading Felicity not to continue and escorting her from the house. "I double- locked all the doors to the hotel room andput the rushes underneath my bed, and about three o'clock in the morning I rang my wife and - this sounds terribly silly - I completely broke down, I was in floods of tears. I kept saying to my wife, `I don't know whether I did the right thing...' ThankGod I did it in the end - but I'm not at all sure that it was not too late."

Only a few days later, Felicity agreed to take part in another extreme scene. Walker walked out after three minutes, by which time one performer was bleeding. It was at this session that the director - who refused to have his face filmed - boasted toWalker that he had offcuts from his films that made "Belsen look like a picnic".

Pasta writes on BGAFD.com: I just read the April 2001 issue of Hustler's Erotic Film Guide mag, and it carries an interview with a US porn star called Allysin Embers. In the interview, she makes graphic allegations against Max Hardcore, essentially that she was forced to continue a scene against her will. She also makes claims of non-payment. This was allegedly in France during the time of last year's Cannes Film Festival, a Max Hardcore shoot that I am sure was featured on one of those TV shows like Sex and Shopping. Anyway, she had worked with Max before and knew it would be rough, but that he went OTT. The article also mentions similar allegations by a girl called Olivia, and I have heard of further insinuations by other female performers whose names escape me...

DavidJ writes on BGAFD.com: Yes, these stories do come up, and no smoke without fire, but nothing has ever been proved. I read somewhere that one girl [Olivia] filed a civil action for rape against MH, but the case collapsed when it was shown that she went back to shoot another scene five days after the incident. He is clearly a very nasty little s---, but he must pay well.

Autolycus writes: I spoke to her [Felicity] and she is still not over it. She hasn't been out of her home for a while - even though her boyfriend tries to take her out. She thinks people will still remember and look down on her.

Luke Gets Mail

Glenn@Scrawly.net writes: Hey, Luke, I'm a writer in L.A., working for New Times magazine, and I've been looking to do a story about "Girls Gone Wild," how it's done, whether the girls consent, etc. The same thing you asked about. And I'm wondering if you got any more response from that post, and if so, if there's anybody who might be able to help me? If so, could you please pass along this note along to them?

Tom writes: I see in that same review for Trailer Trash Nurses #3. A condom was used in the anal scene with Taylor. The other videos I've see her do anal. No condoms were ever used. I wonder why the change?

Jack writes: Did Extreme finally fold? Why is it that Gene Ross hasn't posted an update today? Has he finally been fired? Wake up Luke, get off your personal bulls--- and report the adult industry. I could care less about the demented Ross, but his absense is intriging. Let us know, huh?

Eric writes: Luke- "Then, I feel that I must resolve to show all the wonderful people in the l-keford.com community who have showered me with kindness that I am worthy..."

Luke. Cummon now, this s--- is silly. You write a gossip page about Judaism, Porn, Race Relations, and in todays insanely brilliant edition...GAY NAZIS!!! Your readership consists of nothing but twisted f---s! Save us the icky self-reproach, introspection, etc...and tell us more about actors going to Brazil and risking HIV for $300! That's the entertaining s---, stick to it!

Jeremy Steele writes: Luke, I really have better things to do then respond to that mornic asshole who I already told, as you've read, is the stupidiest person I've ever spoken to on the internet. But very briefly.. I've listed specific references which he has time and again refused to look at. He says my arguments hang by toothpicks.. I gave links and specific science magazine references, including a Harvard Professor and a nobel prize winning scientist, and others. I recommend anyone reread our email correspondence that I still can't believe he actually sent to Luke. He says I lack common sense.. Please. He says I have a history of domestic violence.. Hey s---head. My ex attacked me. It's in the records. Drugs. I experimented, I admit. At worst, but mainly a one and a half year experience and a diversion that was sitting around to an increasingly insane part of my life. I was never an addict. And I'm ! not screaming out pay attn to me.. I was trying to offer alternative infomation which the s--- for brains has still refused to look at. He originally offered in a sincere sounding tone that he was open to hearing all sides then proceeded immediately to attack me. Either he didn't post to Luke our first few letters or Luke omitted them. I can go on but Enuf. Said. But once, again, I would definitely say Greg Bowman is the stupidist person I've ever corresponded with in my 32 years.

Kendra Jade Update

Kendra Jade writes: I AM CURRENTLY IN READING , PA. UNTIL SUNDAY , DANCING AT A PLACE CALLED ALS DIAMOND CABARET.ITS BEEN OK , NOT TOO BUSY BUT I LIKEIT HERE AND EVERYONE IS REALLY NICE TO ME SO ITS ALL GOOD.

APRIL 19TH WAS MY BIRTHDAY. I SPENT IT WITH MY FRIENDS , PARTYING- .ALSO ON MY BIRTHDAY I DID A PHOTO SHOOOT FOR MY FRIENDS ALBUM .I CANT WAIT TILL YOU SEE IT!! HIS NAME IS STU STONE AND HE IS A RAPPER WHO IS SURE TO EXPLODE SOON.HE IS SOOO TALENTED , NOT ONLY THAT BUT HE MENTIONS ME IN HIS SONG TITLED :" ONE CRAZY BITCH " FEATURING TOMMY MCCARTHY OF NO AUTHORITY.SO HEY , WHEN YOU GOT TWO HOT GUYS SINGIN ABOUT YA LIFE CANT BE ALL THAT BAD , HUH?

SO WE DID THE PHOTO SHOOT THEN I HEADED OVER TO THE RAINBOW WITH MY BOY TC , WHERE I RAN INTO SOME OTHER FRIENDS YOU MAY KNOW.PORN STARS RAYLENE , KRISTIN AND CHANDLER .

FOR A WHILE RAYLENE AND I DID NOT GET ALONG .BUT WE TALKED THRU IT AND WE ARE COOL NOW.SHE IS A STRAIGHT UP COOL CHICK.IN FACT I WENT TO THE CYPRESS HILL 4 :20 FESTIVAL WITH HER THAT FRIDAY. IT WAS COOL BECAUSE WE GOT OUR PASSES AND KRISTIN , CHANDLER , DAISY CHAIN , RAYLENE AND I HEADED OFF TO THE FESTIVAL/SHOW.

I GOT TO MEET EVERLAST WHICH WAS COOL. AND OF COURSE B AND CYPRESS PUT ON A KICK ASS SHOW AS ALWAYS !!!DRUNK WITH POWER ACTUALLY ROCKED THE HOUSE TOOO.YALL SHOULD CHECK THEM OUT.

DID ANY OF YOU GO TO THE 4 20? THE FOLLOWING DAY , I CO HOSTED A LOCAL TV SHOW CALLED COLLINS SLEAZY FRIENDS...WE INTERVIEWED DISTURBED AND SPINESHANK.SPINESHANK IS ON OZZFEST THIS YEAR SO IM DEFINATELY GONNA BE GOING TO CHECK THEM OUT .YOU SHOULD TOO!!!THEYRE REALLY FUN , COOL GUYS.

THE NEXT DAY AT AROUND 2 PM I GET A PHONE CALL FROM THE WONDERFUL ERIC STRETCH OF NO AUTHORITY , ASKING IF I WANTED TO BE HIS DATE FOR THE NICKELODEON KIDS CHOICE AWARDS.I SAY YES.HE THEN TELLS ME WE ONLY HAVE LIKE AN HOUR AND A HALF TO GET THERE. I RUSH TO SANTA MONICA TO MEET HIM AND WE ATTEND THE AWARD SHOW.IT WAS A BLAST. ERIC IS THE BEST GUY I HAVE EVER KNOWN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.THERES NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO COULD MAKE ME JUMP OUT OF BED TO GO MEET THEM!

Why Did Luke Get Sick?

Lynne writes: You came back from Israel last summer and got involved in some dating situations you felt were normal and would lead to something; in September I told you I wouldn't have time for the site...I remember telling Robert, "I told him I wouldn't have time for the site this term and he took to his "bed."" And I wasn't completely joking, either... So what was going on nine months ago that I don't know about? Something with women? Something with parents?

Dr. Scott Lawrence writes: Luke, I can tell you where your recent fatigue is coming from-the constant rants of that maltzo pimp Flashman. Hearing that prattle on your answering machine and the act of transcribing it is wearing you down. Somebody throw Flash in the trunk of a car and dump him off at Aryan Nation.