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Tuesday, June 12th, 2001

Mila Shegol Retires

Brad from Danger Boy Video writes: Mila puts her ass on the shelf! " I'm retired and done with this biz". Veteran porn starlet Mila, the infamous russian born Queen of Nasty has decided to retire after 6 years of wrecking her ass, performing in over 300 movies , directing the final 3 for Dangerboy Video, and then spending 6 months in Reno at the Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel. Mila decided that she had enough outside pressure from her friends and family to quit the biz . She is now back at work in a California medical lab doing clerical and billing work, her profession prior to XXX.

Mila's Mom says: "I am very happy to have her home with me. In the begining I didn't really know how or what Mila was doing in this business, only that she was always working and always tired. She never really made any money until she did the Dangerboy deal , and then the big money came at the ranch. With the money came stress and anxiety, so money or not...I'm glad she's done with it all. She is staying with me right now so I can monitor her health. She wasn't eating or sleeping so she has been run down. When we moved her home from Reno, she slept for a week. Now, if that goddamn Jerry Springer would stop running that stale old re-run of her ...we can move on.Mila is currently dating an old family friend, a nice, jewish boy from a good family. Hopefully someday, she can have a family too."

After her brief vacation, Mila met with the guys at Dangerboy to discuss future earnings without having to work. Together they will relaunch MILANASTY.com, Mila's official website and fan club, the ONLY such site operated by Mila.

MILA says: "I just got sick of the s---. I've done EVERYTHING imaginable, Euro footage like crazy, and after my last movie and the Fireman getting fired for doing a scene with me on Sunset Blvd, I got tired of feeling criminal. The ranch burned me out for good. I did get a little crazy at the office ( Dangerboy) a couple weeks ago....and they shot like 1000 digitals of me with toys...kinda a farewell thing. I will do a few small shoots for the website only. No more movies! Anyway...I'm kinda hiding for now..trying to regroup..but I will surface later on to visit. As for now...Email me at Mila@dangerboyvideo.com and I'll write back. I love my fans and have NO regrets about anything.Bye."

George at Dangerboy says: "I know..it shocked us that she'd quit. I always thought that Mila would be doing Mature Kink or Oldies but Goodies for TTV when shes like 70. "Come on you young f---ers, gimme that poodle dick".

"Anyway, we love her and it was all good. We made a few movies, we had a great deal with K-Beech for distribution so we made good dough, and now..this website thing is a full time project for us. We have SO MUCH content its scary. The site is up and they are adding the video clips as we speak. We all placed bets on a calender as to the date that the Queen comes out of retirement, but that little slut says NO WAY. Anyway, we have what we believe to be the 3 best Mila movies made, and we're proud of that! Now I have Brad nagging me to go find a new girl that he can turn into the new Queen of Nasty. Yeah right!"

JRob writes: "One more time... Mila has completely retired from adult films and has gone back to office work. Uh huh. Sure. Set your watches one more time."

Luke Finally Meets Porn Star Logan LaBrent

So I finally met the famous 21-year old Logan LaBrent (loganlabrent@earthlink.net) porn star, that I created on my site in December. I, and her big beautiful breasts, long brown legs and fresh face, made her a porn star.

So she got lost from my directions and we talked by cell phone and I steered her in to the Starbucks on Pico and Robertson Blvds, rather than any of the 20 or so kosher restaurants nearby, where someone from shul might recognize me and report me to the Modesty Police.

And she gets her cup of coffee and I get a small plastic bottle of lemonade... And when I order, I feel like the female clerk is flirting with me...and I with her... And she's cute and spunky, just how I like them... And yet I'm supposed to concentrate on this beautiful porn star stripper and my heart is beating over the Starbucks clerk...

So Logan and I sit down and chat and our conversation is 70% porn related. This last 30 minutes. It has the tingly awkward feel of a first date.

She thanks me. I ask her back to my place to take a few pictures. She comes back. I seat her by my computer. She says, "Is that so you can prove that I was in your apartment?" Then I snap off the pics and move in tight next to her, hold my camera away with one hand, and snap a couple of us together. She says, "Is this so you can prove to your friends that you went out with me?"

And she's gone. No sex, not even a hint of sex...except from the Starbucks clerk.

JMT writes: "At least with the Starbucks clerk, you wouldn't be going where the Hedgehog has been. (Probably.)"

Former AVN managing editor Ken Wood writes: "Uh, Luke, is this Logan LaBrent for real? You interviewed her...does she appear to be "all there"? Because she seems to be too beautiful to do porn. This was always my problem in reviewing videos: whenever I saw a really gorgeous girl (as opposed to the beauty-impaired standard in the industry today) doing a scene I was caught between thinking "Wow, she's f---in' hot!" and "Why the f--- is she doing porn?""

Luke replies: "She's for real. She's a sweet country girl from Canada. She's doing porn for the money and fame and attention and glamor and for the opportunity to have sex with Ron Jeremy."

My friend Aaron tells me over lunch, "Next time you want to seduce a girl, allow me to lend you the keys to my place. Your guesthouse is not exactly conducive to what you seek..."

Frank writes: "Oh, come now, you're pulling my leg! A girl who could just as easily find a gig with Victoria's Secret or one of the top modeling agencies choosing instead to do porn... Well, okay, maybe she ain't too bright after all. On another note, I must say I love your interview-recap style. Especially the part about the girl at Starbucks flirting with you and having to pull your attention back to the future porn starlet. Brilliant! I'd love to meet her sometime. Maybe you'll be her agent, eh?"

Fredric writes: hey Luke ask Loganif she does interracial. if she can do a scene with Ron Jeremy i'm sure there is nothing wrong with Lex,Mr.Marcus or Sean micheals!

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Luke Gets Mail

Gilles writes: Have you read that report on Barbydoll in the Arena magazine? She was the next Mrs. Alex or Heidi Fleiss. She's now in jail for the next 3 years.Well.....will Nici be next?

Ian writes: Hi Luke, Two nights ago I watched 'Stripsearch Las Vegas' on Playboy TV. One of the dancers said her name was Ruby, and that she had been working in porn for some years. Was that, by any chance, the Ruby who has been described as 'Luke's Favorite 'Ho' on your site?

Ron writes: Dear Luke: I logged onto your website and read the most recent account on Chasey Lain. Is this really true about her drug addiction? I'm not surprised, but deeply sadden. Chasey is one of the most beautiful looking people I have ever seen. My two personal favorites are Chasey and Denise Richards. I wouldn't turn either of them down. Their faces tell the story!! Are you under the same opinion as I, that Chasey could have been a great mainstream model and covergirl, given the right direction and care? It's sad to see what the outcome of porn has done to her.

Geoffrey Jones from DiscreteAdultDVD.com writes: Luke, I just wanted to drop you a short note to say hello and that I have enjoyed reading your site for quite sometime now, but your content is slowly fading into a wish-wash of escort postings, hooker ranch rants, and rumor mills. I like your journalistic style and it would be great to see you branch out and meet with industry leaders. I am not only talking about the obvious choices like the vivids and vcs's of the bunch, but the wide base of filmmakers that are out there. Maybe they would be open for you to come to shoots for personal interviews and bring along a photographer for an insiders perspective that most do not see production wise. Maybe they could invite you into the operations to observe production facilities or brainstorming sessions. I would also like to see and please remember this is just me, a real business edge being displayed in your content. These are just suggestions to mix things up a bit. My last thought is on the latest mob hysteria. Why is it that people are so enthralled by organized crime. It exist in most industries and it has shown its head in many different forms for a long time. Usually the people who try and come off as wiseguys are just sideline observers or people who are looking for an identity at that stage in their lives. I call it the "Sopranos Syndrome."

JC Lee writes: For remembering to put up candid smoking shots from your visit with the Soporno 3 film set. A total of 3 pictures??? I am assuming this was because there were so few female smokers from the set. Still, several smoking shots of the cute and sexy Julie Meadows would have been appreciated by our "smokerhood"..........btw, I am personally responsible for quite a few daily hits to your site, since getting the word out that you would be putting up candid pxs of porn ladies smoking on a regular basis. So, Please don't let me down, Luke. As always, I plan on sending my thanx to you whenever you do, and when I am fortunate enough to see them....... Take Care, jc ps: get back to me on this question. I have heard that "dork" is the Hebrew or Yiddish word for the cut-off portion of the penis after circumcision. Is this true or false????

It just seems to me that the ### (extreme profanity) "Smoke Nazis" are slowly winning the war and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find porn films with smoking scenarios. Even some of my favorite strip clubs here in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, have recently set up non smoking regulations for their dancers, on-stage and off. These used to be my favorite places for sexy "sightings"--the term applied by our smokerhood, describing seeing a good-looking woman smoke.

Bridgette Kerkove writes: Luke, let JC Lee know next time I see you, I'll give you 10 erotic smoking pictures. The next time I am at Video Secrets, I'll have my very dear friend Tony Testa scan some of my smoking photos, and he will e-mail them to you for all of the wonderful smoking fans.

Peeing - The New Salad Of Porn?

Sukazian writes on RAME: Pissing looks like it's becoming a new element in the porn recipe - like salad dressing. More and more vids feature the girls taking a wiz before the action starts. The pull-out money shot was the first thing like this, to always show us the guys' plumbing worked. I suppose the point of peeing is to always show the girls' kidneys work. Feh. But if the industry is going to keep it up, it at least needs to police a few loose ends. For one thing, as us guys all know, if they're going to do it standing, they need to put the f'ing toilet seat up.

One scene in Young, Dumb & Full of Cum #6 has Dave Hardman putting Claire on a leash and making her go wee-wee standing up with the seat down. Makes such a mess on the seat I was hoping Dave'd have to lick it up. Better she just should have just peed on him and walked off the set. In any event, peeing shots might be OK occasionally, but I hope they don't become a part of the formula.

Nicis Girls vs Body Miracle

Luke writes the moderator of the Porn Star Central board on BigDoggie.net: "I spoke last Friday with Robert from BodyMiracle.com and he told me that you pulled Nici's post about Taylor St Claire Friday because it was inaccurate. Is this true?"

The board moderator responds: "No, we pulled that post - along with about 4 others because it violated TBD's request for no advertising on the board. If you take a look back about 2 weeks ago you'll see his message discussing the fact that we don't want any advertising by agencies or independents "for the next little while", and that we are converting the board into a non-sponsored board like all of the other city and national boards."

Robert responds: "Luke, The OWNER of the Big Doggie board deleted that post, he informed me that the moderator had nothing to do with it. The OWNER also deleted another post yesterday from Nici/NYC Fantasies. I suppose if they were true, they wouldn't continue to be taken down.

"Luke, Big Doggie owner revealed that his deletion yesterday was Nici responding to her OWN earlier post using an alternate email address that he knew was her. The first Nici (pretending to be a client) asks why agencies charge so much? The second Nici responds with an answer that includes the comment that it's not that expensive since the client will then have the girls telephone number for future use and can arrange to "sell" the number to his friends for $100.00 each and this will help justify Nici's excessive fees the first time at bat. Really, she actually suggested this. No wonder it was removed."

AVN Error On Two Disc Sets

Steph from AdultDVDTalk.com writes: Hey Luke: Since there's no 'comment on this article' option on AVN... This story is titled "Simon Wolf Authors Adult's First Two-Disc DVD Feature, Appassionata."

While I appreciate Simon Wolf's efforts to make a quality 2 disc set, Appassionata is not adult's first 2 disc set. Digital Sin's My Plaything Jenna Jameson is 2 discs, as is Wicked's The Gate. Granted AVN may not consider My Plaything Jenna a "feature", but it would be difficult not to view The Gate as a feature. There may be other 2 disc sets, I'm waiting for more input here:

MikeSouth.com writes: "Nobody in porn has released a real 2 DVD set what they have released is 2 single layered DVDs 2 RDSL DVDs would be a solid 8 hours."

Netpond Gossip

Adult webmaster Lee Noga, my former radio cohost, writes on Netpond: When we use message boards, the author of the post has the copyright, this case precedence was noted dating back to BBS days when a paperbook was written by Lance Rose the icon atty during those telecommunication days...

As for Luke F-rd, he prints news, he does shock journalism, and is a sensationalist, as for liability, the party has to prove they have been damaged [meaning it has to measured in a monetary loss $$$$], without damages there is no suit. Getting pissed is not considered damages, you have to prove you lost something as a result of a comment that can be measured in money.

Any icon that is a Public figure or draws attention to themself risks print they cannot control, it goes with being high visibility. If ppl do not like the "ick" side, don't be so visible :-)) Its the lay of the land, and media coverage of any kind, including Luke F-rd is beyond anyones control.

If you cannot laugh at the negatives, you will never truly appreciate the positives, when and if the media does something right :-))) As for the words over here, too many take things way to serious but you have to find that out yourselves :-))

Confucy writes: I made comments about people whinning about their fat gross bodies on a webmaster board, and I made reference to Heather who is threatening to sue Luke F-rd because he posted something on his website she didn't like. To me, that is a cheap shot from someone who bitches about everyone and everything. If she didn't want her email posted, then she shouldn't have written to Luke F-rd. Everyone knows he posts all messages. He is an equal-opportunity news-reporting machine with a sense of humor that is greatly over-looked by the morons of the world.

Just Reading writes: Luke F-rd (even by his own admission to me via e-mail) is a very lazy and irresponsible journalist. He has no friends, credibility or support in the industry because of this. to align yourself with him, is certainly the most efficient way to alienate your self from everyone in this business.

Confucy writes on Netpond: You just don't get it, so you felt compelled to bore the hell out of poor Luke with your observations about his reporting. Luke F-rd doesn't owe you squat, Just Reading. Perhaps you should do more than just read. How about some research! Luke is an entertainer. He doesn't claim to be Matt Drudge or Mike Wallace. He is Luke F-rd, radio host...mafia tracker, porn movie photographer, reporter of porn gossip, defender of the down-and-out porn personalities like Lynne L-patin and Brandy Alexandre. Luke has many friends. You, Just Reading, are too serious for your own good. Goodnight ANON.

Adult webmaster Melody writes on Netpond: Fluke Lord isn't a journalist? Do you have him on record saying that? I know several prominent adult entertainment attorneys who would LOVE to get Flukey on record stating that.

Fluke Lord was nothing but a rather sad, agoraphobic clinical depressive with a major fascist bent, who loved to rip into the very realm in which he (for quite awhile) made his living.

I know the journalist who did the big online interview with him. Flukey made a BIG point of saying he *runs* porn sites. At first, he claimed to have made millions from them. He also called himself "porn's Matt Drudge". Yeah, right, okay. Matt and he can have each other.

Serge Birbrair writes on Netpond: JR, I hate to disagree with you, but even though Luke published s---load of horse s--- about me, I don't have ANY animocity against him, wouldn't have a problem picking up the phone and chat with my buddy Luke! (Luke, my Eudora crashed, please send me your phone again ;-)

If this shall alienate myself from EVERYONE in this business, than f--- THE BUSINESS and EVERYONE IN IT, but this rare quality is more atributable to russians as you probably know by now, we do not correlate our relations with Gallop polls or other popularity contests.

Deluded Vince Voyeur

Eergi writes: Luke, I was reading on stunning curves that Vince Voyeur is now with elegant Angel. According Kevin Moore's post: Vince believes he knows what sells and what people want to watch.

He goes: "....I've been paying attention." Well Vince, let me try to understand you: Would that be the countless girls in your Diabolic Videos who were the verge of tears while you continued your anals, DP's etc? Would you be refferring to the conspicous inability of any woman you have had on camera to have an orgasm? Usually your women don't even appear connected to their bodies when you are pounding away.

Vince you need to ask Randy West why his 'Up and Cummers' series is selling like wildfire: let Randy teach you what you do not know. Ask Chris Cannon or Jay Ashley how they manage to walk into a room with a strange woman inside, and proceed to coax one orgasm after the other out of the female - and while you're at it bring Lexington Steele and your posse at Diabolic so they also can learn.

Madelyn Night's Mythical Cyber Whorehouse

Madelyn Night says the following is completely false.

XXX writes: Madelyn Knight has operated a cyber whorehouse in New York for about four years. She says she became engaged this year to get married and needed to get out of the escort game before her fiance found out about her work. But she's still a hooker all over the internet.

NiciGirls.com and AdultStarFantasy wasted their money in buying Madelyn's book of clients. Because it turns out they all hate her. She owes them money. The hookers complain that Madelyn's been bouncing checks. Madelyn (she used the name Lee) left Nici and ASF a money pit. When ASF and Nici called her clients, they'd hang up...

She'd answer the phone, "Hi, this is Lee."

"Who do you have working tonight?"

"Oh, we have Madelyn Knight working tonight."

Her house is like a rathole. It is about 15 feet wide and 50 feet long. Half the walls have been worn down so that you can see the interior beams. She blames her exboyfriend, a crackhead, who used to live there. He'd smoke crack at night and freak out and tear down the walls.

She has a shower curtain as a bathroom door. And the bathroom leads into the kitchen. She has a walk-in closet with another shower curtain. It's amazing how disgusting this place is.

She lives with an anally retentive little dog who keeps losing his fur and a rottweiler that looks like he's been through a fire. Burned by the crackhead?

Why she quit as a madam? Probably because she owed so many people money that she wanted to get out before somebody did something to her.

Madelyn Knight responds: "i actually read what was posted and all i can say is that a lot of rumours get spread around w/out information based on facts .Then again ,i forget that we are still in a "mickey mouse" type news operation,just like the Daily Show is where I get my news;in case i need to explain for some people,I was being sarcastic."

Luke replies: "So what is true and what is false? You are reputed to have run one of New York's biggest porn star escort operations for the past three years? You are reputed to have said that you are getting married and leaving the business?"

Madelyn responds: "all not true,whoever said that was mistaken and they do not really know me or anything about me. Also please spell my name correctly it is Madelyn Night ,thank you .

"i would appreciate it if you would at least tell people that the stuff that you noted is not true and have no biz in that area ."

Brittany Andrews Mom Booking Her Tricks?

Lazar921 wrote on RAME a few days ago: "Britt Andrews- spoke to her rep/mother and they also flaked on an appt, I was to see her one afternoon before she was going to dance, I must have made 20 calls to them..call me back, call me back they would say..then they would call back and postpone..I never understood, she is on the road in a podunk town at a hotel, what is so hard about..show up at my room at 2 pm tomorrow..end of story. I don't get it..an if they can't/dont want to, just say so from the start."

Andrews is well known for doing escort work. And I knew that her mom worked closely with her on her fan club, but from this report, it appears that Brittany's mom is also booking her prostitution work.

Lazar921 writes: Luke- yes, it's true. spoke to her last may (2000) she danced in NC at a dump on a trucking rte headed for atlanta. spoke to her mom named Eileen. they were crazy. seemed very nice and interested but then couldn't get together for an appt. I called them, her Mom gave me britts # and I also had the moms #...spoke to them ALL day it seemed and then never heard back from them./ I was there waiting w the $$ and they knew it. She was staying at the hotel 1 mile down the road. when I called back a few weeks later, somehwta disgusted, Eileen said Britt was no longer dancing and I had actually caught her last gig, she also said Britt wasn't doing escort work any more. Now I see her advertised still (the first I have sen her advertised since this) she even has a site message on her site.."sorry i will no longer be able to do private shows I am pursuing much more important things in my career" I am not sure I am interested now that her feet have ben unloaded on in her foot gang bang. btw...a look a like I have not seen mentioned.

Luke F-rd and Ed Hall (the emcee on the Leno show) : ) enjoy your book. keep up the good work would be interested in more personal dirt on the stars and less of the biz bickering, I would be interested in stuff like.....what Nikki Dial is ACTUALLY doing..is she in school or not? does she have a drug prob or not? the circle of people must be so small someone could easily get reliable info. come on scoop!! help us out.

Ask The Bunny Ranch

I'm going to interview Dennis Hof at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch and I want suggested questions.

Chaim Amalek writes: Well, my question is most appropriate, given the politically charged fat=lesbian=feminist debate that you have been sponsoring on your web site. Where does he get off refusing me service just because I am a bit heavier than average? I was there not too long ago, and not a single one of the sexually desirable women who work there (the skanks don't count) would have sex with me, even though I offered to pay them in U.S. currency. I was not born yesterday - I know antisemitism when I smell it, and he will be hearing both from my attorneys and from the AntiDefamation League soon enough!!!!!!!

Fred writes:

1. What are the economics of prostitution? How much per party; how many parties does a typical girl have per day; what is the house's cut?

2. What are the economics of prostitution for typical porn stars who come to the Bunny Ranch?

3. Are there really bunnies at the Bunny Ranch? (My friend, Elmer Fudd, is into rabbits.)

4. How long does a typical girl stay at a brothel (i.e. starting at age XXX and quitting the trade at age YYY)? Is this a 10 year career? A 20 year career?

5. What percentage of the girls are lesbian? Bi? In a relation with another man? In a relation with another woman? Raising a kid? Former or current swinger?

6. Do good looking guys get a cheaper price than homely guys?

7. If I wanted to start a brothel, e.g. the Luke F-rd ranch, what would I have to do?

8. Did Hoff start the Bunny Ranch? Or did he buy it as an on-going business? If he started it, how did he do so?

9. What sort of training/indoctrination does Hoff give a new employee?

10. What percentage of the employees coming to Hoff have hooked before?

11. What percentage of them are college grads? What percentage are putting themselves through school?

12. How often does Hoff have to bounce someone for being a flake?

13. How often does Hoff run into legal problems (e.g. with a customer, one of the girls, etc.)

14. Does Hoff think his employees are normal typical women, or does he think they are different somehow? If so, how are they different?

15. How did Hoff first start getting porn stars to ply their trade at his brothel?

Skoonj writes: Denis Hof can be asked, for instance why Chloe Jones has never been to the MLBR. I once asked him, on the GPPAYS board, if he ever invited her. He said he didn't know who she is. Well, Luke, you can show him a photo. I would be curious if there are some new porn actresses he's invited, or failed to. Aria Giovanni, for instance would be a real hit I think, if she is willing to go. If you need photos of these two, and don't have a ready source (I think you do on Chloe Jones), try Suze Randall's site.

PornOracle writes: Hi Luke. There is really only one question I'd like you to ask Hof, although I suspect he may not give a sensible answer. I would understand this, he's trying to make money and won't want to confront hard reality if he can avoid it. Anyway, here goes.

I've been following the history of porn star appearances at the MLB from the beginning when Sunset Thomas made the initial public breakthrough by being the first major A-list porn start to appear at the MLB. She made a lot of money, allegedly $50,000 in three weeks. She was, understandably, quickly followed by Teri Weigel, Anita Blonde, Porsche Lynn, Jeannie Pepper, Bianca Trump and others.

However, in the past year or so, I've noticed that the number and quality of porn stars appearing at the MLB has dropped dramatically. What is even more interesting is that Sunset Thomas, after a couple of more appearances at the MLB, last appeared at a brothel outside of Las Vegas, *not* at the MLB.

What is even more interesting is that when questioned on their web pages, a couple of porn stars, when asked if they'd be appearing at the MLB again, would answer by saying "NO!" or "NO NO NO!" or with other, similar answers.

It appears that A-list porn stars no longer appear at the MLB, in fact, the porn stars who are there now can barely be regarded as porn stars, they'd be reasonably classified as minor porn stars only by virtue of having appeared in amateur hardcore videos.

Why would this be the case? The obvious answer is that the women aren't making enough money to make an appearance worthwhile. If they were making a pile of money, they'd put up with the inconvenience of being at a brothel. Here are some of my speculations:

a) Brothel rules require the sex workers to stay at the brothel 24 hours a day for their entire two or three week working time. I suspect porn stars, normally used to a great deal of freedom, would quickly find that rule very irritating very quickly.

b) The number of men who can afford to spend $1,000 to $2000 for a session with a porn star is smaller than anyone may have thought. When you think about it, anyone with that kind of discretionary money to spend and the time and schedule flexibility to fly out to Nevada *and* isn't able to meet and have sex with equivalently beautiful woman locally must be very small. That's a lot of requirements stacked up one on top of another before a porn star customer can be produced out of the general population.

c) The porn star outcall agencies have a better system. The cut is only 40%, the women fly out to the home city of the customers and the women aren't effectively held hostage while they're working. This system solves one of the major problems for a porn star (being holed up for weeks on end) and solves two of the problems for the clients, the total fees are lower and the customers save time because the porn stars come to them.

So, I'd like to get Hof's reactions to those speculative thoughts. My conclusion is that the Nevada porn star brothel system isn't working anymore and I'd be curious to hear if Hof agrees with that idea, and if he does, what he thinks he'll do to solve those problems. The obvious solution is to give the porn stars a larger cut of each fee, but I suspect that would cause major problems with the other brothel sex workers.

Farrell Timlake from HomegrownVideo.com writes: Here are some more suggestions for your interview with Dennis Hof.

1. If Ron Jeremy shows up and has sex with a brothel service representative, and says "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a fanny burger today" What do you do?

2. When Ruby gets one of her screaming orgasms where her eyes roll back in her head and her pussy starts talking like it is demonically possessed, does it scare the other girls?

3. Do any of the porn stars need a director present to tell them to get in position for the up and over shot?

4. Can Homegrownvideo.com purchase advertising on the ceilings of the establishment?

5. If a car is speeding to the ranch at 82 miles an hour with four drunk Texans on winning streak, and they get lost in the desert for three hours before they call a cab which they spend five hundred to get them to the ranch, how many girls will it take to service them and how many orgasms will they be able to afford before they have to drive back to their inebriated wives who spent the night losing at Pai Gow?

6. Do the porn stars have Prima Donna attitudes and do they demand special requests like gold foil condoms and their personal stylist to be present during the action?

7. How many woodchucks could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

8. If a client dies while in the throes of ecstacy with a porn star, is there a special double indemnity insurance clause that pays triple to the starlet?

9. If a client wants to recreate a puke f--- scene from an Extreme video, does the establishment provide a toxic waste clean up crew?

10. Do many clients imagine they are making a Homegrown Video while they are having sex with Porn Stars?

John writes: In regards to PornOracles questions about the fall off in quality. I, too, was researching this. I emailed Teri Weigel and Kimberly Kupps and asked when they would be appearing at the Ranch. Both emailed back that they wold never go there again. Along with interviewing the pimp at the Bunny Ranch maybe you could interview girls like Teri and Kimberly. You wouldn"t get much out of the pimp.

Rod Fontana Axed From Mancow Show

I and numerous other porners have had horrible experiences with the nationally syndicated Mancow Show. Anyone who does this show is a masochist.

On GeneRossExtreme.com, you can get the latest details on how Rod Fontana was treated.

Dave Hardman's Mom Does Hardcore

I found some interesting items on InsideAdult.com aka Tod-Hunter.com, including this report that David Hardman's 71-year old mom Davina will star in Mature Kink with Fritz the Cat:

...[S]he's busting her porn cherry wide open on the set of what will end up in a volume of X-Traordinary Pictures' Mature Kink. And no, Dave doesn't watch.

"At first, David was negative about my doing this," Davina confesses. "He was very against it."

[Jim] Powers laughs, remembering. "We were shooting one day and Gabor [from Heatwave] was there. [Production Manager] Johnny Packwood asked Davina if she wanted to try a scene. And Gabor went nuts. He loved it. But Dave was pissed off. He came running over to me, yelling 'My mother has a heart condition!' He was really upset, you know, screaming about how we were all animals."

"Oh, yeah. At one time I did have a heart attack. But that was two years ago. I'm fine now." Davina says, arranging her lavender nightgown and pearls.

Paul Fishbein Shocked By Rape Me

I found this interesting item on InsideAdult.com.

AVN publisher Paul Fishbein writes:

LOS ANGELES- Every time a mainstream film is depicted as sexually explicit, whether it delves into the world of porn or is just using sex to be marketed, I feel it is my obligation to go to the theatre and see it. Frankly, I'm often bored (Basic Instinct, Center of the World, Striptease), and sometimes mildly surprised (Lars von Trier's Idiots). In the case of Le Pornographe, I'd been warned, though the explicit sex proved numbing.

But I wasn't prepared for Baise Moi, the controversial French film, directed by two women, which was supposedly banned in its home country. This is a film that played a week at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles (part of the Landmark Theatre chain), the number one art theatre on the West Coast and is held over at the NuWilshire, another top art theatre here. But not one adult company would release this movie on tape. I have never seen sex and violence displayed in such shocking manner.

Baise Moi has been translated as Rape Me, and sure enough, the rape scenes that open the film are so violent and so explicit that I sat with my mouth agape. I've seen rape depicted in film before, but not this brutally. And not with hard core penetration (with close ups). We're talking explicit, hard-core penetration.

Earl Slate In Jail

I hear that Earl Slate (Anthony Stearns) is being held on $250,000 bail for armed robbery in Los Angeles County's Twin Towers jail.

Farrell Timlake, Gregory Bowman Shake Hands Online

Gregory Bowman writes: Let it said to all that Farrell Timlake and I, over a lengthy dialog, have agreed that we both share common values and believe in much the same thing-we may butt heads but thats who we are; and for that I do respect him for standing his ground and punching it out with me. And for that, we are no longer at odds. Many times both parties want to be heard and forget that listening is a valued asset; for that Farrell has taught me that I should be more open minded and I thank him for teaching me to listen and thus bettering myself.

John Ashcroft's Hard Line On Hardcore

Jason Tucker writes: Well gang, the Republicans are definately back in office and up to their old s--- again. This is a Wired story about John Ashcroft, one of the many who are in need of a blow job and a lap dance or two. Somehow they once again are fusing the words porn and children in an effort to steer the public into believing that our industry targets kids. I don't know about you but the returns I see are from adults and not kids. Unfortunately we as a whole are a society who has become accustomed to having decisions made for us. We are an easy target and have less of a defense than TV and Movie companies so we are THE target. Stand fast and do something. Post, write your politicians, join the Free Speech Coalition and don't wait till they come knocking. Nuf said. It just pisses me off!!!

Newsthinking.com

I just scanned this excellent journalism resource by Los Angeles Times editor Bob Baker.

I sent him this email:

Dear Mr. Baker: I enjoyed your list of cliches to avoid like the plague. (Linked from Romenesko...)

I am one of the few journalists who makes his living from his personal web site. Mine is l-keford.com and my beat is pornography.

I think your suggestions of how to write better are superb, but I've got to tell you from the trenches, from someone whose livelihood is precarious and depends on garnering as many readers as possible each day, that content is king. Not the prose packaging. Meaning, it is not the beauty of my prose which attracts readers but the quality of my information, news, gossip, pictures and opinions.

Matt Drudge is probably the most famous and affluent internet journalist, and probably the most read. Again, no beautiful prose.

Bob Baker responds: i totally agree with you. the site is intended for folks who have already bought into the idea of content and want to improve the way they express their ideas. if you look in the archives i think you'll see a lot of examples of how higher writing goals prod reporters to improve the quality of their reporting.