Friday, April 27th, 2001

Internet Porn Whizkids

Ryan S. Levi, a 19-year old internet porner, writes Luke from Dayton, Ohio, about 21-year old whizkid net porner Matt Brandenburg:

It all started in May of 1997. I was with a couple of my friends at a huge car show (cruisefest 97) My buddy was telling me about this kid that had a far from stock viper gts, Mercedes slk230, and a fully loaded Expedition, and was doing it all from the income of his internet business. I was interested highly in computers at that time, so I decided to sit down with him [Matt Brandenburg] and talk. We got to talking about what he does, it turns out he wasn’t an isp, he was spamming stupid little porn sites. So I left with his e-mail address. That talk really changed my life. Well for about a year I was working at a computer store and got fired, while I was working there I talked with matt on and off. I was in the process of teaching myself web design and programming. So when I got fired I let matt know, and he said that he could pay me $200 / week.

Well I was stunned, only 16 years old and ready to to make 200$ a week from a measly $270 / 2weeks. I took the job. Designed a small little I-face for his company at the time TDTEN (The digi tech entertainment network). He loved it hired me blah. Well after the first week and a half of work he didn’t pay me 200$. So I asked him about it, and he said you have to work at least 10 hours a day though, so I thought this was kinda shady but then again I was in young and new to this kind of business that this kid was new to as well. So we were both going in on this new company (TDTEN) hosting. Well to make a really LONG story somewhat short, he was always messing around with me for the fact that I was jewish, and that he had lied to me for 2 years, telling me business wasn’t good and the money wasn’t coming in. So the only motivation for staying was the ideas we came up with. I came up with an idea and me and matt together had the idea done by the end of the night. It was an adrenaline rush. I ignored my parents, friends, and school for this kid.

Well it turns out that we moved office locations, when we did that I got kinda curious as to were the income for that was. These 2 years I designed sites for nothing, took care of customers and brought him so many customers for porn sites. He took the money usually cash, and blew it on nice cars and stupid little petty things. Well I left matt when I found out that he was talking bad about me behind my back. All the shady things he was doing I kept quiet, such as a customer coming in with 20,000 cash for a porn site. I put this kid in a hummer, two houses, a Lamborghini vt, Mercedes s500, and he stole my ideas, treated me like s---, and didn’t receive any compensation for it. He got really pissed when I left him, so he started telling everyone lies about me, bad lies. So here I am, I got f---ed my first time, I’m somewhat over the hurt from it, but it’s taught me to be a hard ass. Always watch my back and keep on the down low of things. So I’m some what glad it happened because of the business man I am today. I want the adult industry to know that Matt Brandenburg affiliated with TotalXPosure.com and gaywatch.com, is a bad business man, and anyone dealing with him should deal at risk.

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Luke says: I talked to Ryan Levi Friday afternoon. I've also emailed Matt Brandenburg for his response.

Ryan: "I started with Matt when I was 16 and I left him about five months ago. I'm now 19 [years of age]."

Luke: "Why did you choose to go public?"

Ryan: "Because people need to know what to watch out for because of scum like matt. Now that he's spamming his projects on Netpond like TotalXposure.com and cheating people out of money.

"When I worked with Matt, there was another guy in the office named Sherif. Sherif always took care of me. I worked for Matt on a "Take care of me" basis. Because Matt said he couldn’t pay me due to business being bad. I went to California to work for William at Realtime Credit on Ventura Blvd, and Matt only gave me $400 to go to California with my girlfriend. So I had to do side work for my dad to get the rest.

"I put Matt in a Lamborghini, an S500 [Mercedes?] and two houses. I got screwed bad. I took care of all Matt's clients. They came to me with their problems. Matt trusted me with everything, even his mom and dad's house.

"Matt was starting a big project, TotalXposure.com, with Diamonds Cabaret, a big strip club [in Dayton, Ohio]. I brought the idea to Matt to put cameras in a strip club. Next thing you know, in two months, TotalXposure launched [with that very concept]. We're up there [the club] installing cameras and building servers for TotalXposure.com. He says basis is s---ty, the porn sites aren't making anything, and there's no way he can pay me anything. But he's so sincere about it. He makes you want to believe him.

"He'll pick you up at a corner and drop you off. He plays with your head. He's like that with all of his clients too. He made his money by spamming. The government sent him a letter to stop a while ago. So he had to go legit. So he opened up TDTen, the Digitech Entertainment Network. Which was, 'We'll build you a porn site and host it....' I was vice-president of the company. Now he’’s back at spamming.

"He opened up companies left and right, like IncomeInc. He was just trying to open up companies so he could screw people, and take the money.

"At the car shows, he'd tell the kids. 'Look, I can build you a porn site for $15,000. I will market it, design it, do all this.' But it was me who designed the sites and made them. He just talked to the people and took their money. His mom took care of the big checks. But most of it was cash which he blew. They'd [these other kids looking to get rich fast] would come in and hand him $14,000 cash and it was a done deal.

"It was a relaxed environment, with a big screen TV and a Sony Playstation. It was a kid's office. That's why I loved it so much. I was in there playing Quake on the T1 [highspeed internet access], doing web design, my passion. The only motivation that kept me going were his promises.

"It got to the point where I heard that Matt was turning the basement of the Gaywatch house into a coke kitchen. It was not something that I wanted to be involved in. Considering we got hi-jacked on my b-day by a former client. This was due to matt’s bad business ethics, he almost got us killed.

"When I confronted Matt about it, and I told him part of the name of the local drug dealer, and Matt knew his full name.

"I warned Matt about my awareness to the problem of him being a coke head. I know that Matt is a Vicodan head because I always saw him taking Vicodan. And not one or two a day. He took 26 to Vegas and came back three days later without any. And my buddy BigA pointed out to me, when you do coke and you come down off of it, the down hurts so much that people take Vicodan to ease the pain. I never saw him do it, but I figured he was a closet user.

"Matt was building GayWatch with the part owner of Diamonds Cabaret, Luke. And we were deciding where to put the servers. At first they were going in the basement. And then Luke said no, we'll build a special closet for them upstairs. Then when my buddy BigA said, 'Why do you think they moved the servers upstairs?' And he told me about the coke kitchen and it scared me.

"I told Matt, 'Look, I just want you to be careful.' We left on good terms. He was crying when I left because I had done all this work for him.

"Where do you think I got my nickname Dr Dreidel? My first day there they went out to a gas station and came back and said, 'We're going to call you Dr. Dreidel. 'Dr' because you're smart and 'Dreidel' because you're Jewish. The whole time I was there it was Jew this, Jew that. Oh, you got Jewed."

Pornography In America

I'm reading Dr. Joseph Slade's latest book, "Pornography in America." Slade is an old fashioned liberal who believes porn enriches American culture.

Dr. Slade writes: "...[M]ost pornographic genres promote modest sexual engineering within reach of the ordinary citizen. Tens of thousands of Americans now silicone their breasts, inflate their penises; depilate their pubic hair; pierce their nipples, labia, and scrota; and tattoo themselves in intimate places, alterations made popular by pornographic media."

The Final Solution To Luke's Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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.

Flashman Battles Anti-Semitism

Porn middleman Flashman, a secular Jew, says: The [porn] girls that are doing 'Date A Pornstar.' I've had to promise them that I would not tell you or other media any of their names. They're going, 'Flashman, I can make $40,000 in seven nights. But don't tell anyone.'

Please put something good up about me. The Aryan Nations thing. I'm a good Jewish boy. I was taught to tell people that I am a Jew and to be proud of it. I'm finding out Luke that there are a lot of German and Arabs and Blacks out there who resent the Jewish people. I had a guy put his finger in my face last weekend in Las Vegas and say, 'You're lying. There was no Holocaust. And it will always be Palestine. Stop telling those Jewish lies.'

I'll be honest. I'd had a couple of cocktails and I was about ready to swing as hard as I could... I seem to let people know that I am a Jew. So put something good up about me.

Correction. On May 27, Bill Margold's doing a carwash fundraiser. The FOXE Awards may be held in July.

I remember at Playboy's Wet n'Wild, I introduced Shay [O'Neal, Los Angeles Laker center] to Cumisha Amado and Nina Hartley. And he loved them. But then when he found out that they were adult porn stars. He said to me, 'I can't afford the Inquirer, the Star and the Globe taking pictures of me with them. Introduce them to me but do not take pictures of me with the porn stars.'

I guess the Magic Johnson incident with Heather Hunter still has repercussions in Los Angeles.

Luke, people are telling me that Tod Hunter's site is easier to read than yours. Yours is a little wordy.

MikeSouth.com says: Luke I think this is because Tod's site is primarily aimed at Democrats, who are generally not as well educated nor do they have IQs as high as your average republican, much less us Libertarians, I think dumbing down your site would be a bad idea., you might attract a bad element.

Memo To All Female Journalists - Make Babies And Shut Up

Chaim Amalek writes Luke: NO FREAKING WAY SHOULD YOU RETRACT YOUR STATEMENT. The stone cold truth is that women do not have the genetic capital necessary to be objective reporters. For a woman of child bearing years to be working is itself a declaration of war on nature. Besides, such a "war" would be about the best thing to happen to you professionally since you first got into this business. All the men who run the porn biz (and they are the only ones who count, when you get right down to it) will get a chuckle out of it and think "That Luke F-rd - maybe he really DOES have some balls after all. I think I will give him a call." The women in the business who are not lesbians or feminists or Bush-hating, cat-owning, douche-defying liberals will begin to see you in a more manly light and want to f--- you, and this will rub off on all aspects of your personal life in no time. Even your CFS, BSE or whatever that is called will begin to subside.

Luke, you might even have the genesis of a new political movement here. I have the slogan you should use - Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join Luke F-rd's party.

PS On the other hand, I would retract my statement IF this Amber-person were very very hot looking and willing to give me lots of sex before and after retracting.

Is This Woman Qualified To Read Your News?

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Luke Glories In Humiliation Of Actress Turned TV Reporter

I returned home from my Friday morning prayers and surfed over to MediaNews.com to get the latest. And the site referred me to this article on the humiliation of CNN reporter and actress Andrea Thompson:

After nude pictures emerge on the Net, the Cable News Network may be backpedaling on the controversial hire of Andrea Thompson.

CNN had every expectation that Andrea Thompson, the cable network's new national correspondent, would be hot ratings material. After all, Thompson was hot stuff in her four years on ABC's cop drama NYPD Blue as the tough-talking Detective Jill Kirkendall. But thanks to some revelatory images on the Internet, it now it appears that she might be too hot for CNN to handle.

The decision to hire Thompson, a high-school dropout with less than a year of experience in the news business, was already controversial and quickly drew fire from within CNN and the broader journalism community. Her appointment to a prized position – one that many CNN correspondents spend years and decades striving for – angered many of Thompson's soon-to-be colleagues. Media critics decried what they saw as a naked attempt to boost ratings at the expense of CNN's vaunted journalistic reputation.

Now, The Industry Standard has learned that CNN might be backing away from its controversial decision to hire Thompson. On Wednesday, CNN executives learned of topless pictures of Thompson circulating on the Internet, pictures culled from her 15-year Hollywood career as an actress and model, and a career dominated by bit roles in Baywatch, JAG, Silk Stalkings and Arli$$. Most damning to CNN, it seems, were her nude scenes in a 1986 Italian erotic film called Manhattan Gigolo.

Luke says: For some sick reason, this story caused me great pleasure because it humiliated CNN, which I detest, and Andrea Thompson. I have nothing against Andrea. But I suppose that I generally don't approve of women becoming reporters. And actresses becoming TV reporters like she did, well, it lacks journalistic integrity. Or something like that.

Anyway, I went to the great hassle of signing up for Yahoo clubs so I could gaze upon page after page of nude photos of Thompson. The photos of themselves were of no interest to me - the erotic excitement was that these photos were now humiliating, or so I speculate, this TV reporter ingenue. And I can just imagine all the snide remarks that will be made behind Andrea's back by her journalistic colleagues.

I believe that the desire to hurt and humiliate is an essential element in sexual excitement as well as humor.

Andrea Thompson played the hooker in the movie Wall Street. She stops by the room of Charlie Sheen, takes him into a limousine and give him cocaine and a blowjob.

Thompson issued a statement saying she ''did pose for Black And White magazine, a prestigious artistic publication, several years ago. I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the decision I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.''

Chris Berg, who heads the news department at KOB-TV, suggested that Thompson, who has worked at rival KRQE since leaving Blue, posed no competition. "I think working in Albuquerque is out of her league, " he told the Albuquerque Journal. "Yes, I think she has improved as a news reporter, but she's still not good enough to work at our station."

Duckem writes about Andrea's performance in Manhattan Gigolo: "She has two scenes. The first is at the 18 minutes mark where she has a threesome with two other guys and this scenes lasts for at least five minutes and shows her from every angle including a glimpse of her vagina. The second is at the 40 minute mark when she is gang banged and again a glimpse of her vagina is shown."

Fred writes Luke: Sir: I sympathize with your standing up for journalistic integrity. If a bedrock, no a Rock of Gibralter of journalistic integrity like l-keford.com does not stand up for the integrity of journalism, who will? Surely, we cannot expect the weaker sisters of journalism, like the N.Y. Times, or the Times of London to carry the banner of integrity if l-keford.com fails in this important task.

Frankly, a great deal of "casting" for TV news is based on physical attractiveness, poise, and other things that in general have nothing to do with journalism. I have a vague recollection of seeing a documentary a few years back on a television journalism program at either Brigham Young or University of Utah, where they took time to teach students about how to look good on camera, i.e. issues regarding wardrobe, makeup, etc. I thought that was tacky as hell. But if you're going to go that far, why the hell not just hire actors as TV reporters. After all, an actor should know how to act authoritative, and exude that "I'm smart, serious and telling you the truth" attitude. What the hell difference does it make if the actor is just reading a script, and has no f---ing clue who the president is, where the Colombian drug lords are from (some college in N.Y., I think), or who's buried in Grant's tomb?

It's like division of labor. If you're going to make a movie, you have some guys who are really good at carpentry to build the sets, other guys who are really good writers to write the script, and other guys who look good and can remember their lines to act.

Look, do you think Tom Cruise could build a competent set, or write a competent screen play? Probably not, and it doesn't matter. That's not why he gets hired.

When you saw the movie Patton, did you really think that George C. Scott had the slightest clue as to how to command an army? Probably not.

So why should we demand that the guys who read our news be able to do anything else? Does it make the news any more believable or accurate? I don't think so.

Luke replies: Thank you for your support. I thought it important that this matter be raised for the public. I just received, while your email was coming in, an angry from phone call from Amber@EroticVideos.com. She said she was ready to declare war on me unless I retract my statement that I did not hold with women becoming reporters. She's preparing to call all her female contacts in the adult industry to pressure me to apologize. And Amber predicts that by next Friday, May 4, I will retract my statement and apologize for it.

WARREN BERGER writes Jim Romenesko at MediaNews.com: I'm a huge fan of your site and think you're doing a fantastic job. But I have to question why, on the story about Andrea Thompson, you had a link taking the reader to a topless picture of her. To run a story about the pictures is fine, because it is news. But should your site be, in effect, passing around dirty pics of a fellow journalist? Whatever people may think of Ms. Thompson's credentials, she is one of us now, and she deserves better than this.

From BRUCE BARTLETT, Syndicated columnnist, Creators Syndicate: I am very amused by all the criticism that former actress Andrea Thompson is getting for her foray into journalism. I think the reason why so many television news people are reacting so negatively to her is because the line between what they do and what she did on shows like NYPD Blue is so thin. Most television "journalists" in my opinion are nothing but actors to begin with. Both essentially do the same thing: read lines written for them by someone else and try to look good and appear believable while doing so. All the heavy lifting in television news is done by producers, whom one never sees on camera. They deserve to be called journalists. But most of the people we see on the screen are just pretty faces. That being the case, I for one would much rather see Andrea Thompson when I turn on CNN than any of the other news readers it employs.

Amber@EroticVideos.com phoned Luke Friday morning.

Amber: "I've never been so upset. You generally don't approve of women being reporters? Because we're supposed to be porn stars, strippers or mothers?"

Luke: "I'm writing out more of a primal feeling than something thought out. When women go into professions, those professions lose their glamor to men."

Amber: "Luke, I've always defended you when people talked s---. Because I have respect for you and what you're trying to do. You're trying to say that there's more to this industry than someone sucking someone's cock. And I've always stood by you even when I disagreed with you. Because I've always believed that you were trying to make a difference. I can not believe that you would say something like that. That hurts my feelings really bad. I take that personally.

"I struggle every day, as does every girl that works in this office, because we are some of the only genuine females in this business that don't get naked. And we have to put up with this s---. You can't imagine what we have to go through.

"I am in shock that you would put something like that on your site. That hurts my feelings so bad that you should say something like that. That means that all our conversations are just bulls--- and I am nothing more than a stupid woman to you. And that totally and completely breaks my heart."

Luke: "Don't you ever have feelings or thoughts that embarrass you because they go completely against your values or you find yourself looking down on people and things that you wished you didn't? But if you were honest, you'd have to admit that's what you're feeling?"

Amber: "I can't say that I'd recall one. Again, we're all from the South. I was raised that if you were honest about your feelings..."

Luke: "Let's say you're driving. And someone cuts you off. And you see that they are a minority. Don't you ever think, 'Oh, what a stupid Jew/black/latino/nun/old lady etc?"

Amber: "Honestly, I would say, 'f---ing dumbass.' I don't think that way. People are different but I would never give that as an excuse, to say that you're from California or New York, for saying that women aren't worthy of doing a f---ing job."

Luke: "You can't take my site at face value."

Amber: "Not your site, something you said..."

Luke: "You can't take everything I say at face value."

Amber: "But I do. I had a lot of respect for you. I really really valued what you did. I really go to bat for you. When your name comes up, I'm first one to speak up for you. I really believe that you can be a good force for our industry. But what you just did here, you could never go to bat genuinely for any of the girls. Because you would be such a hypocrite. You don't care about them. They're just f---ing whores to you. And that's what you said without saying it. That every woman has her place and that place is to be barefoot, pregnant and knocked up in the home.

"I worked my ass for this industry. When that stuff happened to Devon, we all went to bat for her. Not because we thought she was right or wrong but because she's a girl, maybe the guys at Vivid didn't understand her. That's what we do because we're girls. And that you would say that, and degrade us, and say that we're not worthy, shame on you. Shame on you. I thought you were so much better than every sleazeball in this business. But I stand corrected because you're not. You're just down there with them.

"The next time something bad happens, and I'd say, 'He's better than them,' well, I will never say that again. Because you are just like them. You are like Mr Marcus, you are like Marc Wallice, you are like Bobby [Vitale]. You are like every one of them. You are a man. And I will never think anything different about you unless you post a retraction. Because I genuinely believed you were different. I thought you were better. I thought you had a genuine insight into what the girls, every day in this business, have to struggle with."

Luke: "I'm sure if there was a mind reading device, and someone put that to your brain, they would find that you, like anyone else, have a lot of opinions and views and neuroses, which, if taken in isolation, would look very bad. My site is freeflowing. And I will sometimes post feelings of mine that are completely inappropriate."

Amber: "They are inappropriate. You can not degrade women in that manner. That's what you have done. So you're not going to post a retraction. You're going to stand by the fact that it is ok to be a male chauvinist pig."

Luke: "I am going to stand by the fact that it is ok to express on occassion male chauvinist comments."

Amber: "That's where you're wrong. And that's one of the things that I always liked about you. You always backed off from the racist comments. When that Mr Marcus thing hit, I was really impressed by how you handled that. I got carbon copies some of that stuff that psycho freak Bryan would send you, and you never posted those. If you're going to back off on racism, why did you post that comment? Why encourage degrading women?

"And I am not saying that some of these women don't degrade themselves. Yes they do. But why can you not be above the crowd. You've been above it most of the time, aside from the fact that you're still posting pictures of 17 year old girls."

Luke: "I will on occassion post thoughts and feelings of mine that are not good. I was embarrassed on that whole [Andrea Thompson] story..."

Amber: "You are forcing my whole hand. As a female in this industry, I can not back off. I have to take you on publicly on this issue. You know I have to. I'm serious. I am so mad. I'm writing it out. I'm giving you one chance. By the time I get back tonight, if it's not down, I'm taking you on on this. With the utmost respect but I can't sit there and let you do that."

Luke: "You should."

Amber: "So you're really not pulling it?"

Luke: "No, but I won't take any personal offence. I made a disgusting chauvinist comment."

Amber: "I just thought you were better than that."

Luke: "The way I conduct myself with women in general is on a high plane."

Amber: "As long as we know our place?"

Luke: "Look. I met this woman at synagogue two weeks ago. And we've exchanged email. And last night, I repeated to her a question that I got from Chaim Amalek. Why does the company web site not feature a photo of her so we can judge her fundamental worth as a woman?"

Amber: "Excuse me? Based on her looks?"

Luke: "It's sarcastic."

Amber: "That's completely inappropriate."

Luke: "Well, I wanted to see how she'd react. You could say that's sadistic."

Amber: "It's being a man.

"I'm having April pull out my rollerdex at this time and I'm calling every single girl I have in this rollerdex and I am pulling out Kelly's rollerdex and I am calling every single girl in that rollerdex unless you retract."

Luke: "I'm not going to retract a stray comment just because it is offensive."

Amber: "Ok, the war is on. Let's see who has the bigger balls by the end of the week. A week from today. I'm betting you that by Friday, May 4th, you're posting a retraction. Fair?"

PornPro writes Luke: "For you - a purported "journalist" who couldn't get the facts to a story straight if your life depended on it; who regularly deals in unsubstantiated gossip and innuendo - to criticize Andrea Thompson for lacking "journalistic integrity" is the funniest thing I've heard all morning. Or the most hypocritical. Better stick to those non-factual topics, Luke, like all your silly, superstitious religious beliefs."

MikeSouth.com writes: "Anyone else think she looks like Cybill Shepard (circa The Last Picture Show)?"

Redneckguy writes: Mr. Ford: Don't do it! Don't you do it! It don't matter what all them whores think, you be a man and stick to your guns. I can't believe that Amber woman is a Southern bred female. Her Daddy oughta be shot for allowing her head to get filled with such nonsense. Mr. Ford, you called it the way you saw it. And I swear on my NRA membership, and everything else that's sacred to all good Christians, that you called it right. If that other woman wants to be a good honest reporter like yourself, Mr. Ford, she shoulda thought twice before she took off her clothes in front of that camera and let everyone see her for the whore she is. You make a living reporting on these whores, and good gentlemen like yourself, and that Mr. Sturnam, and Mr. Craven, oughta be worshipped by these whores cause of all the special attention you lavish on them. It makes me plain angry. Every woman on this planet has a one basic choice to make at some time in her life: to be a whore or not to be one. And if they choose whorishness, well then, by God, they oughta just be happy with it and quit their snivellin. And if these other women who maybe aren't exactly whores want to step up and defend them, well then, they might as well get rid of their duds, step up in front of Mr. Craven's camera, and be whores too. It'd make life more simpler for them, and they'd have more time to think about more important stuff, like pleasin their man.

Fred writes Luke: I assume (with only about 70% certainty) that this was the result you were hoping to achieve by posting this editorial. My guess is that your readership will now go up. Plus, you will probably get about 5 or 10 angry e-mails that you can post on your site as "content". This is brilliant.

I say the odds are 2/3 that you apologize, or give some mealy-mouth explanation like "I did this to get a rise out of people. The odds are 1/3 that you stick to your guns.

BTW, what do you know about "Amber"? Is she good looking? What kind of woman becomes a reporter at "Erotic Videos"? See what you can dig up about her?

Actually, you should offer to meet her, try to schtuppe her, and then post a story on l-keford.com about the experience.

Also, what do you know about Amber's journalism? Has she written any articles? See if you can get some (on the pretext of seeing if she has what it takes, journalistically). Then you can post them, and provide some kind of outrageously unfair critique.

But most of all, find out if Amber is hot looking, and whether there are any compromising pictures of her to be had. Inquiring minds want to know!

Luke says: I believe Amber used to work as a stripper. You can check out her fine work at EroticVideos.com. I believe the company has no male employees.

Luke emailed Jim Romesko at MediaNews.com today:

My life's mission is to cover the porn industry and the myriad ways that attractive women will get naked and humiliate themselves for dollars. So it is with guilty pleasure that I've delved into this Andrea Thompson story and spent minutes of my valuable time signing up for Yahoo clubs so I could gaze upon her naked body.

Though she is kinda hot, it is not her beauty alone that draws me to seek out her naked pictures. It is the knowledge that these photos will forever haunt and humiliate her and she forever will be snigger material for her journalistic peers.

I feel guilty to admitting to these horrible thoughts and feelings, but I believe I am simply articulating what most people think and feel but are afraid to say.

Another thing - when women start entering into a profession, be it law or medicine or the clergy, that profession loses its glamor for men. I guess I really don't approve of women becoming reporters, particularly not women who get naked on camera and perform blowjobs on Charlie Sheen in movies like Wall Street.

Rumdar writes Luke: Should it not go well for Andrea Thompson I believe there is am alternative gig waiting for her (tailor made as it were) at www.NakedNews.com

Lynne L-patin: Not having television, I've no idea who Andrea Thompson is. I love the naked pictures. In fact, all journalists, starting with yourself, should have a portfolio of nude pix. How do we know you're being honest about that infamous 5.5 endowment? Cause if you can't be honest about your dick size, how can we trust anything else you write?
Lynne L-patin: It is absolutely irrelevant that professions hold "glamor" to men. The problem is that when women enter a profession, the wages drop.

Max writes Luke: The thing for me that makes your site interesting is the fact that you inject some intelectual thoughts along with some good journalism into your site. I do however, have one question... Do you think that once you run a story such as the Andrea the CNN gal, and discuss the moral and ethical ramifications as it relates to journalism, that most of your readers are lost or shall I say, not smart enough to understand? I am by no means demeaning some of your readers, but it would appear that many would rather read how this actress had this for dinner etc.

Rob writes: This whole story kills me. All the pornlets dream of going mainstream after being analed by Mr. Marcus and this broad who did a few soft-core tit shots is being branded with the scarlet letter. Pornlets wake up!

Time Spent On Luke Is Wasted

Lynne L-patin writes: I'm sorry you are so pissed off at me, Luke, that you need to humiliate yourself by coming out with such half-baked crap as "I generally don't approve of women becoming reporters."

Being honest and straightforward with you has its drawbacks. It's been a long time since you've been really stupid on the site, but you've done a great job of it today. Of course no one else knows what I'm talking about, because you've kept our communication private, but I don't take any of this "women shouldn't be reporters" personally because I know you do this neanderthal knee-jerk stuff just to be a smart-ass.

You write: "I believe that the desire to hurt and humiliate is an essential element in sexual excitement as well as humor."

That says it all, buddy. Your mom died and "abandoned" you, your stepmother abused you -- you've got some real issues with women, and if you haven't noticed, they don't like you very much when you act these issues out using them as targets.

The desire to hurt and humiliate is completely absent from loving sexual relationships, as well as most comedy. Should you ever heal to the point where you are capable of a loving relationship, you'll find that you no longer feel that well of sadism and sarcasm bubbling in your bosom.

As a reporter, I know that I should have been working on my story for the newspaper instead of wasting all my time last week on your emotional state, which may indeed support the your premise that women are not cut out to be reporters (or workers of any kind), but considering that I've seen my male counterparts take off work to care for sick wives or children, I don't think so. More likely it supports the premise that time spent on Luke F-rd is wasted.

Oh, and by the way: we are only "humiliated" by the nude photos in our past when they make us look ugly. As long as we look good, they are pleasurable reminders of our youth. And please don't use this as an excuse to post bad nude photos of me from twenty years ago -- it says more about you "overreacting" than it does about me as a person...

Questions For Luke's New Flame

Chaim Amalek writes: Few comments:

1. That company web site sucks - pointless opening graphic takes too long to load, and no pics of her by which to judge her fundamental worth as a woman.

2. SHE HAS ACCESS TO CAPITAL. Damn, Luke, you are smarter than most people give you credit for. It is clear to me what you are after. (Do not think I am unaware of how you cunningly dumped one girlfriend after she left Disney, where she was in a position to help you in porn, for another company that you correctly surmised was doomed.)

3. What sort of shuls do you go to again? I never ever ever met an interesting woman in a shul. That is why I am going to be trying my luck in various Christian churches. You have convinced me that it pays to see what is on the other side of the mechitza.

4. Do you want to have congress with this woman or not?

5. To get on her good side, ie to impress her, discuss the role of globalization, immigration, etc. on suppressing wages in white america.

6. Does she know what you do? What do you say?

7. How does she feel about the National Alliance?

8. Where does she stand on the Amalek question, the great moral dilemma of our time?

9. How large are her breasts? Real or fake? (And what is your optimal size?)

10. Do you have the balls to forward this list of questions to her?

11. Is she orthodox?

12. Is she a liberal?

13. Did she vote for Al Gore?

14. Does she look forward to the election of a Mexican to be mayor of LA?

15. What is her stand on extending NAFTA to all of the Americas?

16. Is she in favor of open immigration of Mexicans into America?

17. Does she favor the free immigration of Palestinians into Israel?

18. Gay people - are they worth the bother?

19. Colored folk - is it worth our putting up with them to get their cheap labor?

20. Does she see a psychiatrist?

21. Does she own any cats?

22. Where does she stand on intermarriage between jew and gentile?

23. And between white and black?

24. Does she think HIV causes aids?

25. Is she a loving, open, honest woman?

Go Ugly Young Man

Two of the women I've dated a few times over the past few months are 27 years of age, attractive and virgins! And they don't intend to give it up until they marry.

Rumdar writes: What They Really Are Saying Is: They don't intend to give it up to Levi until they marry. Twenty-seven year old virgins in LA? What they mean is "Please keep seeing me and buying me dinners until Mr. Big Dick Gentleman's Quarterly comes along." Actually Levi, I would be going after the Asian Jewess convert from shul. Of course I don't know what she looks like. You indicated she was a bit homely. Take it from an old hand (me). Many times unattractive women are outrageous in bed. Something to do with having to try harder because of low self esteem. The nookie is far superior to the lookers, and they don't syphon your billfold. My advice, "Go Ugly Young Man".

Is Tickling Cheating?

Dmoore writes: Before I got married last year I and my bride to be discussed tickling fetish at length. During our conversation the talk of what she considered cheating in a relationship would be. Ofcourse the usual "sex with another woman or man" came up but also something I hadn't considered. She said if I were to tickle another woman she would consider that me cheating on her. I don't agree. (I didn't tell her that though)

Dlaink writes: Though I'm no Dennis Prager (a well-known L.A. talk-radio host and Torah scholar who specializes in morality) I think I may be able to offer something in the way of clarity, especially since I'm in a similar situation: I'm married, never cheated, no interest in sex, per se, outside the marriage, but tickling other women is a true temptation, especially since the missus really isn't into it, nor is she terribly ticklish (but she's a fabulous match for me in every other way). Bottom line is (for me as well as you), SHE considers it cheating. Doesn't matter if tickling another gal has the moral equivalence to eating a corn dog for you (which it obviously doesn't, or you wouldn't be so troubled about it that you'd ask the counsel of a group of total strangers), she has made it clear SHE considers it serious.

Jeremy Steele - The New Galileo
Aren't The Parallels Eery?

Jeremy Steele writes Luke: In reflection, I've pondered the question of taking a vow of silence from the internet. They say the silent ones are the most dangerous, but I can't win, since just about whenever I say something, and try to stir people's minds, I make a new enemy, I become further misunderstood, as artists invariably tend to do, and I get consumed dealing with angry morons who are helplessly clueless and unworthy of my time. I hope mediocrity and stupidity continue to reign, since these are the things that are the most nourishing and the least threatening to the status quo.

I feel I have alot of things to say and I've tried to be of help on subjects like the HIV question, but I don't think anyone really cares, even those who are or know someone who is HIV positive, which in this business, includes just about everyone.

Galileo was persecuted by the Roman Inquisition as a heretic for saying the Earth is not flat or in the center of the universe, and that it revolves around the sun, and the public thought he was most obviously a lunatic. I know that the communal mind is not a mind that thinks on it's own but, just a cloud of consensus which floats whereever established winds of influence blow it, and trying to wake people up is a perilous and thankless task.

Essentially, nothing in history has changed. Once upon a time it was normal to burn witches. And it still is, only in a different way. It's too bad people don't realize how much they are mind controlled. Most people's minds, it seems, are like infants, dependent on and trustful of larger entities to carry it and feed it and supply it with all that's necessary to sustain it. I may come on one of these Tuesdays to sing my Quasarman song, but I think I'll put it to rest, after that.

I've come to learn that the more I try to help others, the more others try to hurt me. This is what truly good and great men of history have always gone through, being the enemy of society. I'm not trying to say I'm good or great.. I'm just trying to be. And occupying my time on this site I don't think will ever help me get there. Friday, I'm shooting another scene for my own movie. I'll mention updates about things like that, but otherwise, I'll keep out of the internet conversations, from now on, I think. "Delusional, Psycho, Racist, Etc". I'm tired of hearing these moronic, clueless bulls--- attacks. I'm off to new frontiers.. Ciao.

Luke Gets Mail

Stan writes: Dear Luke, I have been a fan of the adult entertainment world for 15 years. I have been a follower of Vivid Films for many years now and I have to say I am just amazed by their poor standards for contract girls now a days. Vivid Girls had a certain "starlet" respect that other women in the industry couldn't get. I found out today that Briana Banks was signed with Vivid and I was shocked. Here is a girl who has done double anal scenes and pissing videos. She wouldn't be my top pick but then again maybe Vivid wants to head in the direction of Extreme Associates and sign girls that will do anything for money, I mean her parents don't even know what she does for a living so she obviously doesn't respect herself if that's the case I guess I am now a Wicked fan at least they have respectable women they sign - way to go Ms. Steele.

Mickey writes: "Sin City/Cinema West are full of it. they are over a month late paying, when you call to ask about check they get angry like how do you dare call asking for your money. i have heard they owe several photographers for art work shot, boxes, advertisment completed and no payment. thats not right. if they are a month late, should they not aploigize for the inconvience, how do you pay your rent? just tell the landlord sorry i am changing banks, and yes checks have bounced and no they do cover the bank costs for bouning a check. and why do somepeople get checks for $KAsh and several others have not been paid? that sounds fair. Karma sin city karma. ask ( mr. raven) how many ex partners are sueing him?"

Sin City's Michael Raven replies: "Mickey, If if fact you have not received a check from Sin City for the Ka$h project or if you know of anyone that has not received a payment for that project call the Sin City office and ask for me. I do not personally cut the checks so the only way I know someone hasn't been paid is if I am notified. I agree that our accounting procedures have been FAR less than satisfactory and I know of several people who have been overlooked or have experienced long delays in payment. I do not want this to continue and have been making the necessary arrangements to staff the operation adequately to insure this doesn't happen in the future. If it is you that cannot pay rent or anyone else is in a similar situation, I will help with that as well. You may choose to feel that we are "full of it", that's your prerogative and I doubt I can do anything about that. I too believe in Karma, but if I wasn't interested in resolving the matter, why would I be covering many of these errors out of my own pocket? As to your question regarding how many ex-partners are suing me? That my friend is a matter of public record, do the research and you will find out that the answer is "none"."

Jeff writes: Luke, do you think it's possible that Rob Black would be able to sell his Porn Company and use the $ to pay off his debts and then expand his XPW wrestling promotion? I ask because I feel he has some VERY Talented wrestlers and with the proper financing he could expand the promotion to other major cities(NY,Philly,Boston)and eventually turn a profit.

Jimplasti: Im writing you a press release...for monday...Mila is officially retired from porn. For good.

JRob replies: Uh huh. Right. Set your watches.

XXX writes: This Alan Miles is hilarious!. The guy sees undercover men everywhere. Now he's charging you Luke. Is this guy paranoid or what? I wonder if he thinks they're in his closet or under his bed? What makes his hysteria and paranoia even more hilarious is he misses the guys who really ARE undercover men that are right under his nose. Absolutely hilarious...and he never figures it out!

Brandy Alexandre writes: I periodically get emails from companies who want to include me in their documentaries, and the latest I don't even know who it was. I wonder if it was this group you're talking about on your site. The email I got basically said, "We're shooting, send us your number." They didn't say who they were working for, what the production was about, any credits they already have or a reference, their OWN phone number or address. Do they think that porn stars are whores all the way through? That all you have to do is say "camera" and we run giggling vying to stand in front of it? I think not. Professionalism is everything to me (and it obviously rubs people who don't know how to be the wrong way), and if they want my participation, they need to prove to me that it's worth my time. They ARE asking favors, you know. No one, but NO ONE, is ever interested in paying for an appearance.

Grunge writes Luke: Do you EVER get tired of reading your own rantings? That syndrome is almost as bad as (or maybe worse than) "believing your own press releases."

You had an incredibly minor success with one very poorly written book, Luke. Get over it. Either join the human race, or concede.

Regarding the recent post by "Glen Scrawley": There is no writer at New Times named Glenn Scrawley, and the e-mail address does not exist. You've been had -- again.

Has the concept of checking sources not occurred to you? You're a joke in the Web journalism community, and rightly so. Do you not know what others say about you? I can't believe you'd rather be laughed at than embraced, when you could reverse the trend so easily.

I'm sad about the whole situation, Luke. You have potential, but unfortunately you've succumbed to the lure of lucre. Believe me, I understand the attraction money holds -- I've often wished I could put aside my own ethics in favor of wealth. I couldn't live with myself if I sold my soul the way you do, though. That you can may be a testament to your ability to endure in the face of overwhelming condemnation and universal scorn.

In my mind, though, it simply means you're CHEAP. Get a life, PLEASE! You can be so much better than you allow yourself to be. At least decide whether you want to be a journalist or a "gossipist." You can't be both, for obvious reasons.

Lynne writes: Regular l-keford.com contributor Johnny Scorpio and his wife, SXXX, welcome a new daughter, Cherry April, born April 24. She's their first!

Mike writes: Dear Luke, I was on your site looking at the XRCO photos and a question came to mind. Is there some rule that says if you are a producer, director or the husband/boyfriend of a porn star you must grow a goatee?

LT writes: Luke, someone better check these subliminal messages in Vivid tapes...they probably have something in there about getting breast implants and make sure any of their signees watch them. Maybe it says something like: "Steve Hirsch commands you to go and get breast implants, he recommends the following doctors..."

Lynne mentioned cosmetic surgery in porn star expenditures. That's fine, but a lot of the cost is picked up by companies. At least the original cost. The women are left to pay for a lot of the maintenence and repairs down the road. Companies also have "provided" apartments, cars and phone cards...but like record company weasels, it comes at a cost...they want cosmetic surgery and/or certain activities in exchange. I've known of cases where they've taken back cars and tried to kick women out of their apartments. This is part of that, "got them where they want them" approach I've mentioned.

Zoe mentioning David Sturman called her fat. Hasn't anyone figured out this yet? Honchos in the porn industry love to call girls "fat", "flabby", "flat chested" and "big nosed" (sometimes with other endearing four letter terms thrown in). All to get them to go to the local butcher shop by making them insecure about their looks. Such wonderful folks!

Flashman never has answered my question (for that matter neither did Skeeter Kerkove). Flashman, have you ever aggresively encouraged a porn starlet to get breast implants (or any other cosmetic procedure)? If so, who?...and I still would like to know who the seven women are that turned you down flat. I think plenty would love to know this as we would respect them greatly for it. Porn girls that don't hook, aren't call girls and trick should get credit for it. And since you're so on top of (read: obsessed) with that angle...so which porn women are going to get breast implants in the near future?

Well, has anyone figured it out yet? A lot of talk about fake boobs on your site of late, and other than Flashman, notice how overwhelmingly negative it has been. Zoe, Stacy Valentine and Alexa Rae, among others...all talking about how they are going to reduce the size of their implants and showing their dissatisfaction with them. This is what I've tried to point out for years, because it's something I know to be true...most porn women do NOT like their implants! And eventually, they come to their senses. The only reason the above (and women like Rebecca Bardoux, who also has written to you with similar complaints) don't remove the damn things altogether is because they've been convinced that their breasts will hang to their navels. This is a falsehood promoted by the cosmetic surgery industry through the media. Remember ladies, these are the same folks that said: there is no pain in getting breast implants, no scarring, and they look natural. Keep that in mind. I! f ! you remove them, how do the doctors make any more money from you? If you keep them in, you will inevitably have repairs and replacements...which equals more money for the surgeons! Rachel Ryan (and I believe Erica Boyer) successfully removed her implants, as did mainstream actress Nicole Eggert. These women should seek out and talk to women who have removed their implants and then maybe they'd realize how untrue these myths are. It's time for the industry and the slavering fans to realize how few of these women truly love their implants. Of course, the industry already knows...and doesn't care.

Likewise, the remarks Brandi Alexandre made are spot on. Brit Morgan took them personally and seems to think sticking up for breast implants is a positive, but Brandi has made accurate observations on breast implants totally unconnected to Brit personally. Several months ago she made that great comment about continually hearing lame excuses from these women as to why they get the implants.

Webmaster Michael Jacoby writes: I'm looking for SERIOUS webmasters who are having SERIOUS problems with Epoch/Paycom.net. If you're a webmaster who has been using Epoch/Paycom as your third party processor for a year or more, you've probably noticed that they are not paying ANY money back to you from your Reserve Account. We've been with them for several years and they owe us ALOT of money. They owe MANY webmasters ALOT of reserve money that they simply are not paying. I'm looking for other webmasters who are willing to get involved in a possible legal action against Epoch and fight for what is rightfully theirs. If you or someone you know is owed a large sum of money from Epoch/Paycom, please contact me immediately. We may be able to help each other out. I can be reached at garp87@hotmail.com.

Lynne L-patin: My favorite story from the "Hear Our Voices" book is about the reform Jewess in line at the supermarket, when an Orthodox man cuts in front of her, and she says...."You get back in your place OR I'LL TOUCH YOU!!!!"

Tex Ain't Dead

In January of 2000, just before flying to the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, I published a report that a male performer who I did not name (but I heard was Tex, boyfriend of female performer Bobbie Barron) had died of a drug overdose.

Rob Spallone told me this afternoon that he saw Tex at Jim South's World Modeling office this afternoon. And guess what? Tex was alive and well and working under a different name - Diablo. Bobbie has a new name too - Suzie Summers.

On my January 6, 2000 report, I published this email after eliminating the name "Tex" and replacing it with "XXX":

Paul writes: "Luke, I heard that porn stud XXX died on New Years night (Jan.1). Is this true? Some sort of an overdose? Someone said he was rushed to Tarzana hospital by ambulance, and he died later on that night. Do you have any details regarding this issue? I know that he was engaged to the porno actress XXX. I had the chance to meet them both on a set not too long ago, and they both seemed like really nice people. In fact, I remember talking to him about partying and this like that, because he was a muscian too, and he said he didn't use drugs at all, and he never had. So was this a suicide thing or something? I hope this isn't true, but if it is, I would like to know more about what happened. I tried to call World Modeling, but nobody answered the phones there. I suppose everyone is at the CES show."

Luke says: Jim South threw a big talent call at his World Modeling office in Van Nuys today.

Rob Spallone says: "We're casting. We shoot Tony's Angels - Part One, the week of May 14. We have 12 episodes of that. And we need to book Sopornos 3.

"Nobody was asking for you though. I was surprised. I thought you were going to be there. That's why I went. I like that Ava Vincent girl. She did a great job for [in Succubs]. And that one with the blue eyes [Nakita Denise], I'm hiring her every time I shoot. I love her. She's great. Oh, what a face. She's beautiful."

Luke: "And she's fun."

Rob: "Yeah. She was good today. I had fun with her."

On April 29, 1998, Rob told me: "I am one of the few guys in this industry who does not fool around. That's why the girls respect me. I am a happily married man. I love my wife. I have kids. I would not touch one of these girls with a rock. Any girl that you tell to take off her clothes and climb into the dirty dumpster and f---, and does it, is not my type of girl."

Luke: "Are you going to use Herschel in your new movies?"

Rob: "You got me in trouble with Herschel. I spoke to Herschel today and he said, 'I'm mad at you. You put s--- about me on Luke F-rd.' I said, 'I put nothing. I've been away for three weeks. I just came home.'"

Luke: "It's probably a big misunderstanding.

"Are you going to use Herschel?"

Rob: "Yeah."

Luke: "Because he owes you money?"

Rob: "He paid it off. Herschel's a good payer. A little slow but good.

"So what's new?"

Luke: "Nothing."

Rob: "You're boring. What happened to you? You used to have the scoop."

Luke: "You made a deal with Jim South."

Rob: "Ooooh."

Luke: "Those were some nice photos of you with Ron Miller's naked ass."

Rob: "Everywhere I went, that was hanging somewhere."

Luke: "I thought I erased them from my camera. I don't know how they got on my web site. It must've been a big mistake. You're smiling."

Rob: "I was happy. I knew he was behind me, that's why I was smiling."

Luke: "What's up with Jimmy? Is he out buying dope?"

Rob: "No, he goes shopping at garage sales.

"I dyed my hair blonde. I'm from California now. I'm going to Hollywood tomorrow night. I have a date."

Luke: "How are those William Morris agents?"

Rob: "They called today to check in. They're going to get back to us next week to let us know what the next step is."

Luke: "Have they asked you to set them up with any porn girls?"

Rob: "No. You lied. It wouldn't be hard but you lied. I'd just call up one of the bimbos. 'Hey, do me a favor.'"

Jimmy comes in and reads my site.

Jim: "Oh Lukey, you're trying to start a fight [with Michael Raven and David Sturman]."

Rob to Jim: "You were supposed to send them a synopsis."

Jim to Rob: "You look gay with that hair.

"He thinks he's a big shot now. A big Hollywood guy. He looks like a fag."

Rob: "Luke, he shouldn't talk to me like that."

Jim: "Why are you trying to start fights Lukey? I can't even say anything in response or that redneckguy will tear me up. He loves David Sturman and Michael Raven."

Rob: "There were a lot of girls, 18-years old [at the talent call]."

Jim: "Yeah, how many numbers did you get?"

Rob: "I'm taking one girl out tomorrow. I've got a few numbers. We're going in next week to book our movie.

"Guess who's not dead? Who's that girl we shot in Sopornos 1?"

Jim: "Bobbie Barron. But it's her ex-boyfriend who's dead."

Rob: "He was there today. Luke printed that Tex was dead. I met Tex today. And he's under a new name."

Jim: "Luke, how did you print that Tex was dead?"

Luke: "Hey, we all make mistakes."

Jim: "That's a big one. You better print that Tex ain't dead."

Rob: "Either that or I am stoned out of my mind.

"I seen him today. I said, 'I thought you were dead.' They've both changed their names."

Jim: "The only reason you wrote that stuff today was that you wanted David Sturman to listen to the radio show. I'm going to get chastised by them because they think they can chastise everyone because they think they run the business."

Rob: "Nakita Denise. Her boyfriend says that I can take her out."

Luke: "Rob, what's the name of your date?"

Rob: "I ain't gonna tell you that Luke. I will tell you on my second date. I'm dating Luke. Maybe this girl, she's Jewish, she has a friend for you."

Jim: "Luke, the two things you need in your life now are a nice charbroiled steak and you need to get laid. Steak and pussy."

Rob: "I hope that she don't f--- me on the first date or I won't like her."

Jim: "Luke, how many years have you had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?"

Luke: "Thirteen."

Jim: "That's impossible Luke because Jackie Watt, who used to work for us, one day brought in all this paperwork about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and it said that there was no recorded case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that lasted more than five years."

Rob: "Luke, it's because you don't go out."

Jim: "Luke's depressed because I'm the most popular person on his radio show."

Rob: "So you're like Howard Stern and he's like Robyn. He does the news."

Jim: "Oh Luke, you will do anything to create controversy. All I want to do is sit here and make my own pornos and make a paycheck. I don't care if they suck. As long as I get paid. Whether they suck or not, it is a moot point.

"These guys who truly think they are making something special, like the guy we're talking about right now, like Sin City. Like all those guys who wrote in today about how special they're movies are, taking f---ing porno to a new level. The key word being, it's still f---ing porno. You still have five scenes of people f---ing in the ass. Meaning it will never ever rise to something special. As long as there is some f---ing dick going into some sloppy asshole, it will never be anything but a piece of smut. They can deulate themselves all they want."

Rob: "Wow, you've really got him going, Luke."

Luke: "He sounds really angry and resentful."

Jim: "If you want to do something special, don't have any dicks in any asses. Don't have any naked girls in it. Go make a real movie. Until you make a real f---ing movie, you're nothing but a smut peddler. We're smut peddlers and we're pornographers. That's all we are. We're not filmmakers."

Rob: "I have to agree with him Luke."

Jim: "I don't know why these guys want to delude themselves into thinking they are making something special. We're mainstreaming it. f--- you. It's a porno.

"And David Sturman would be the first guy, the first f---ing guy to get on the phone and say, 'How come there weren't more dicks in more f---ing asses? I want nasty dicks in asses.' And he's said that. He knows what he wants. He knows what sells."

Luke: "He told me that he wants movies with hot sex in it, which is why he doesn't hire you anymore."

Jim: "If he wants hot sex, then why is he making all these movies for $70-80,000 dollars with big stories? And all that production value and costumes and sets because he wants really hot sex."

Luke: "Is it true that you stole the idea for Succubus from the Michael Raven movie Underworld?"

Jim: "I did actually. I stole a treatment off his desk."

Michael Raven and His Lovely Wife In New York Times

I was shooting the breeze over the phone with Michael Raven this afternoon when he was interrupted.

Michael: "Sorry, I have to go have some pictures taken for the New York Times."

The New York Times entertainment insert is putting Raven and his lovely wife Sydney Steele, a Wicked Pictures contract girl, on the cover of a Sunday in May edition.

What would be most interesting for this photo would be a third figure - that of a scowling and vengeful James DiGiorgio, who's been replaced by Raven as David Sturman's favorite son.

The New York Times article should rely on Shakespearian motifs of such timeless themes as love, honor and succession.

As anyone who listens to the The Luke F-rd and Jimmy the Mongoloid Show knows, poor old JimmyD, who was dropped by Sturman as a Sin City shooter because his movies suck, can't go one whole show without making disparaging remarks about Raven and his lovely wife Sydney Steele who he claims to be friends.

You can hear DiGiorgio play the part of the scorned lover at the beginning segment of this week's show as we discuss Sturman aka The Dalai Porn Llama.

About six weeks ago on Luke F-rd Live, Michael Raven and JimmyD mixed it up.

Leif Rock writes from Sin City: Gene, Luke, Tod I'm sure you know all about the LA Times article. But do you know about the NY Post article? The Post called me on Tuesday to ask about mainstream people coming over to porn as the strike looms. The article ran in yesterday's paper and was posted on their website. It's a brief article, but you can check it out at www.nypost.com. Look under news and scroll down. I've also been contacted by Extra, INside Edition, CNBC, CNN en espanol, and a freelance writer who contributes to the National Enquirer, the Star and lots of British scandal sheets. He wanted to know if I was interested in feeding him stories about B actors and actresses appearing in porn productions, porn stars who go over to mainstream or porn stars who have sex with mainstream stars. As I write this, a photographer for the NY Times is here, taking pics of Michael Raven for a piece the NY Times is running on the adult industry. Reporter Frank Rich was out in February to interview the players. The photographer shot Russ Hampshire and Jane Hamilton yesterday over at VCA.

Zoe Says David Sturman Called Her Fat

Zoe tells GeneRossExtreme.com: "Basically David Sturman called me one Saturday night, midnight, and told me I was fat."

Zoe says Sin City dropped her because she wouldn't do anal.

Sin City director Michael Raven writes Luke: "Zoe is correct. There was an unfortunate misunderstanding regarding whether she performed anal scenes or not. She is also correct in stating that it was never fully discussed. Assumptions were made based on her past performances with Mr. Bowen and I will take responsibility for that. I am a fan of Zoe's. I knew her before she entered this industry, perceive her as a very talented individual and will always think of her as a friend. I wish her well in all of her future endeavors.

"Regarding the alleged conversation between Zoe and David Sturman, I have no personal knowledge of that, but it doesn't seem in character for David to have made such comments."

RangerRick writes Luke: "I have been a fan of Zoe since she started in this business some time ago. I now find she has left the west coast for greener pastures back east. This all really lets me down and to be perfectly honest , I think she is a fool for retiring. Things seemed to be going her way but then she foolishly loses her contract and work becomes few and far between. Then I find out she met an untalented loser musician who she winds up supporting and then he takes a hike back east and she follows suit and all of a sudden. Pretty pathetic!!! She should have just done the anal and not had an attitude about it and then she wouldnt have to worry about how she is going to be able to support her and the guy. She probably cant find an agent to book her so she claims to book her own dance gigs ( yeah Right). At this point I give her 1 year and she will be back taking on 6 guys for half rate at Extreme. The land of anal gang bang is soon on its way and lets not forget the lucrative job of escorting which I believe was already tried."

Luke writes David Sturman, owner of Sin City Video: "I was so sorry to see your good name slandered on GeneRossExtreme.com... But you know you can count on me to check out there allegations and give THE TRUTH a forum."

David Sturman replies: "Oh, well. Thanks for being so magnanimous. I am sure you do this unselfishly. As usual, I got a kick out of Zoë's rantings. It was interesting that you picked up the story because I haven't read Ross' site for months. I have been so busy lately that it is hard to follow all the industry bulls---. The bottom line is that she blew up like a Macy's Day Parade balloon and I did tell her that to help her because I thought she would jeopardize her career. As always, I treat the contract players fairly and get dumped on. Every box cover picture of her had to be worked on for hours and her body and face were actually carved to give them a thinner look. Just another flaky porn actress I guess. All I do is spend a lot of money promoting these people who do not appreciate or understand it and end up leaving the company before they are adequately promoted so they could go out and either make a living dancing or on the internet. As I said, Oh, well."

Redneckguy writes: Mr. Ford, I was just reading your very good web site and I came across that Mr. David Sturnman's letter to you. Is he the owner of Sin City? I really like them Michael Craven movies, even though I only seen one of them, but it had some neat cars in the movie, and some pretty hot girls too. Anyway, I have to clap my hands to Mr. Sturnam. He spends a lot of money on some of these whores, and it isn't like it's his fault they get fat and disgusting and get an attitude too. I bet he pays them enough to NOT eat AND to keep a CIVIL mouth! These whores are just ungrateful, plain and simple. I don't think it's too much to ask for to just have them stay a nasty whore, not a FAT nasty whore! It's bad enough when you marry one and she blows up like a parade balloon, you sure don't expect that to happen with your porn stars. If I was that Mr. Sturnam, I would make any whore who I'm going to spend thousands of dollars on to sign a NO FAT contract. And, I'd make them sign a YES I DO ANAL contract too. It would say that they can't get fat and they have to take it in the ass or they are history. I would even add a word or two about getting an attitude. And I'd also have it say that since I'm payin them thousands of dollars to be the whores they are in my movies, I can damn well call them on the phone whenever the f--- I want to! This really pisses me off, Mr. Ford, cause all these whores are so ingrateful, and that Mr. Sturnman seem like a really good and generous man, and they are probably all taking advantage of his very good nature! I'd like to see them go out and find some other man as nice as Mr. Sturnan who is going to spend that kind of his very own hard earned money just to let them be the whores they already are.

Extreme Moves Their Offices

Porn Pro writes: It's now been two days since`ol Rug Top updated his sad site. Tuesday's boring cut-and-paste posting is still up there as of Thursday afternoon. Did Rob finally wise up and pull the plug? Inquiring minds want to know. And as long as we're on the subject, when is Extreme gonna remove that `Rob Black for Mayor' banner? It's only been like two weeks since Rob finished something like 12th in a field of 16 candidates, well behind that political powerhouse `Melrose' Larry Green.

Luke says: The reason that Gene has not updated his site is that Extreme is moving offices. But why is Extreme moving offices? Speculation on this posting board links the move to Extreme's declining financial fortunes.

TheInsideSource writes: "Im afraid i have some terrible news but look for xpw [owned by Extreme's Rob Black] to only last a little longer, as an inside source, I know these things. R.I.P. XPW."

Former XPW fan writes: "After the last show they deserve it."

ViolenceXPW writes: "News for Mr. Inside Source, XPW has been "bankrupt" for about a year now. If you know your s---, you know what I mean. XPW won't die, someone will step in and buy them at this rate. Their name sells too well. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that XPW lost money last night though."

Pornfan writes: Not that I watch a lot of porn but Vivid's movies are more sex with stories and Extreme's are more sex with nothing else, and they are little more hardcore with closeups and more extreme sexual situations. While Vivid caters to a more mainstream audience, Extreme aims for the more hardcore porn fan. I reckon its a little like wrestling, you got your hardcore style, your technical style, and everything else. Fans of one style are not neccisarily fans of another style. So saying Vivid makes better movies means little. The Extreme quality is better than Vivid because Vivid insits on shooting on film while not having knowledge of proper film lighting techniques.

As for Extreme being in trouble, they currently owe a distributor about $70,000, owe a duplication house a large sum of money, and are being sued by AVN for failure to pay for advertisements. The main problem is with the exception of the films made by Tom Byron, no one buys their stuff. The market on raping girls in wheel chairs and stuffing Bible pages in a girl's ass is apparently very small. Tom Byron's videos shy away from all that nonsense. Does all this mean Extreme is in trouble? Not really that much. Rob Black's father has very deep pockets and has been financing Extreme for some time. If rob starts losing too much money dad may get tired of footing the bill and Extreme will have to make cutbacks. If that happens I imagine XPW will be one of the first to go since it produces no revenue and loses them tons of money. Extreme recently did some gay porn, so I guess the money crunch is starting to get to them. Only time will really tell.

What's Up With The Bouncing Sin City Checks?

Iamnotyourbitch.com writes: "Uber director and Sin City co-conspirator Michael Raven is writing checks out of his ass that his bank can't cash. Sin City passes the buck to directors Michael Raven and Scott Justice, declining financial responsibility. This is the biggest no-no in the porno biz that shows the true colors of house renting car leasing pussy whipped, out-of-ass talking, so-called talented director Michael Raven. Passing the buck is a masterfull art perfected by Sin City, perfected in the last 6 years by overshooting, not paying bills and firing directors, and subsequently making a profit...until tax time."

Luke says: A few months ago, Jim South put up a letter in his office stating that he could not guarantee the reliability of Sin City's checks. Though none of his talent nor World Modeling, Jim's company, received any bounced checks at this time. A few days later, Jim removed the posted letter. Raven and many shooters do not use World Modeling's service because they believe that Jim does nothing to earn his commissions.

I hear that Sin City is planning some big budget shoots in the next few months. Sin City owner David Sturman has tons of money so I don't know what's up with the bad checks. The checks I've recieved from Sin City for advertising on this site have never bounced.

I do know that David was sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion and served two years. And the IRS has been monitoring him closely for about 15 years and still fines him on occasion.

Earlier I published an allegation that Michael Raven and Scott Justice had changed their phone numbers to avoid creditors. But they have not changed their phone numbers. They are the same as they've been for the last two years.

XXX says: This is Sin City's modus operandi. They run up big debts until the companies they owe money to go bankrupt. Or that director or talent moves on. Nobody stays at Sin City long. Ed Powers, Buck Adams, James DiGiorgio, Lasse Braun, Chuck Martino, Roy Karch, Devon Saphire, Luc Wylder, Eric Price, all moved on. And at tax time, Sin City can always say, 'Oh, we didn't make any money.' Everybody made their salary but the company didn't make any money. Michael Raven was the first one to go in there and make money for the company. But something happened. Maybe he overshot.

Redneckguy writes Luke: Mr.Ford, Pardon my abruptness, but I don't think you should be putting letters up on your site that resort to name calling and what I'm pretty sure are outright lies. First off, I seen one of Mr. Raven's movies and to call him something nasty like a uber and a cospirator just ain't right. And to say that nice Mr. Sturnam would turn his back on folks who maybe have been given a bad check (no doubt not on purpose) is a traversty. With the way that Mr. Sturnam only wants the best for them whores he hires, I can not believe he could not help himself but to do the right thing. And if he has tons of money like you say he does, I'm sure he earned every last dime of it his self, and he earned it by being the kind of man them whores only wish they could bring home to meet their mothers. As for all them directors that got fired, I'm damn well sure they all deserved it either by taking advantage of Mr. Sturnam's good nature, or by not making the kind of movies that he expects them to make. Maybe if they put a hot car or did some more of them special effects instead of putting some skanky old whore in their movies they'd still be on the gravy train like that Mr. Raven is. I think you should publicly apologize for what you put up on your site and hope that Mr. Sturnam and the rest of them boys over at Sin City are good decent christian folk who know how to forgive.

Michael Raven writes: Luke, In response to various anonymous postings regarding checks from Sin City. First of all, neither Scott Justice nor Michael Raven's numbers have been changed. We have had the same office and cell phone numbers for over a year and they have not nor will they be changed. If Iamnotyourbitch has anything to say, either one may be reached at the office or on their cellphones. It is easy for someone to make false, misleading or out of context remarks and not have to face the responsibility of dealing with the truth. While it is true that due to an accounting error on our part several payroll checks were returned by our bank, we are actively working to resolve the issue and are redeeming those checks as they are brought to our attention. This issue has been compounded by the fact that a month ago we decided to change our banking affiliation and thus there has been some confusion during the transition period. I regret the inconvenience to our valued co-workers and appreciate the understanding that so many of you have displayed.

Luke says: Initially, I incorrectly identified that email as coming from Eric Lacson, David Sturman's son-in-law. He's married to the daughter of Sturman's Phillippino wife. Lacson used to serve as Sin City's office manager. Then David put him in another one of his businesses in San Francisco but now David has the young man working back in Los Angeles.

Robert Lombard of Creative Image Management writes: Sin City/Cinema West NSF checks. Michael Raven pointed out to me that a payroll check being sent for one of my actors who appeared in a non-nude role in "Ka$h" might come back due to changing banks and payroll systems.(A generic professionally typed letter explaining the potential bank problems was enclosed with the check. Clearly indicating the potential problem that might arise) YES, it did come back. I left one phone message and sent one email....WITHIN 24 hours the NSF check was made good. It was also personally delivered by Mr. Raven's assistant. I also know first hand an 'adult actress' also had problems with her check and made a major STINK. Not understanding payroll system problems, not having a California bank account etc. She couldn't cash her check at bank of issue. Michael Raven PERSONALLY had CASH hand delivered to her hotel to pay up her room and the balance delivered in CASH a few days later. NO...I am not on payroll with Mr. Raven, nor am I a spokesman for his affairs. Just wanting to state my experience. Creative Image has on going business dealings with Mr. Raven and have received a few thousand dollars to date. This was the FIRST time one of the checks was returned. On a :-]]]] note I am still owed the $5.00 bank fee..And I know I will receive it..Right Michael? ;-]] The 740il needs petro...hurry before I need to call road service :-]]]]

chrisenglish1: XXX I hear Chris English is a good boy. He always pays cash on the nose. :-D
chrisenglish1: I hear he often gets complmentary blow jobs at the end of each scene because of his reputable practice of rollong out the lolly on the spot at the end of a hard days bonking.
chrisenglish1: But I also hear that if you don't [pay up] big blokes with base bother boots and base ball bats come round and duff you up if you don't cough up in a timely fasion over there in Hungary... Ask Rocco.

AlienX@SinCityFilms.com writes: Anon's will not be responded to... I would love to talk about this but. It's an anon problem. Not ours. Luke you should be less concerened with Davids Bank roll and more aware of how he knows this business better than anyone.

Look Luke, stop this useless drivel thread. In case you have not noticed Sin City is making some of the greatest movies around these days, we are turning heads for once and continuously taking market share. Our web sites are great, starting with www.Sincityfilms.com, our movies are great starting with Cinema West. We have Sinister blowing great adult entertainment doors as well starting with Alex and Chris English. We just released a f---en awesome movie directed with Bud Lee starring Asia Carrara in, "The Invitation". Raven is a fantastic director, movies like Adrenaline, Watchers, BEAST ( Just released yesterday and all available at www.sinistore.com ) demonstrate how a f---en great adult film is done and of which all of the above will become natural classics.

There are obviously people out there that want to scare the talent away from us, and scare new talent from comming to our company. We actually give exhisting and new talent a great head start in this business by not keeping them in the dark and clueless. Sin City has never been stronger simply put. Appearently some people can not stand the success.

As of late on the battle field I am now noting that other video production companies are on our heel's in promotional efforts on mainstream fronts and yes sometimes destroying an opportunity that would benefit everyone. I would name them but they are currently sensitive issues that have even costed mainstream companies millions of dollars from exposure. My job has been difficult and recently made more difficult from these odd counters and counter to counter moves online and offline. Now I must address things on your very site where I started giving you information months ago. Luke Please do not be a pawn in this, if you like Sin City and respect David you would not give these anon's the time of day regarding our operations. I am very busy and have little time to spend addressing these tit for tat issues.