Friday,
July 13th, 2001
Here are some excerpts from the piece:
Sexpert Tristan Taormino, after all, announced last spring in her Village Voice sex column that fisting has gone mainstream. "Fisting is not just for muff-divers anymore," she decreed. There have been other fisting films made since, including Chloe's unmistakably titled "The Fist, the Whole Fist, and Nothing But the Fist," from Elegant Angel.
"You think they'd go to the scene where the nun is raped in the wheelchair and then thrown in the swimming pool," Butts says darkly, referring to a film by a rival producer.
"This is a crackdown," proclaims criminal defense attorney Jeffrey Douglas, who works regularly with the adult-movie industry and sits on the ACLU's Southern California board of directors. As Douglas sees it, the LAPD was just lying in wait for the likes of Ashcroft, hoping that with Bush in office more federal monies will become available for obscenity prosecutions.
The LAPD vice squad, believes Douglas, is hoping extreme porn will lead to easy convictions, resulting in bigger budgets and providing them sought-after respect. "If all you do all day long is watch X-rated movies and search porn Web sites," Douglas says scornfully, "it's harder to get status amongst your colleagues."
Regardless, pornographers pushing the obscenity envelope didn't foresee that this day would come, says Douglas. "I've been at meetings and events where, if you're talking to a 25-year-old porn-maker about federal prosecutions for obscenity, you might as well be talking about the Spanish-Mexican War," he says ruefully.
Erotica LA - Pornographers Wallow In Money While Children Starve
I call Jim DiGiorgio from the Erotica LA convention floor in downtown Los Angeles.
Jim: "It's nice. It's upscale. It looks like everybody's making a lot of money. I'm totally disgusted by the whole thing. I think there are children starving in the world and these people are sitting here with their ritzy booths making lots of money and there are starving kids in the world.
"Luke, you need to lead the opposition to this thing."
Luke: "I think I will come picket."
Jim: "You should get one of those sandwich boards and say that God is going to strike down every person in this convention center.
"Let me ask you this question. When all the Jews in your Jew church give money to the rabbi, they know there are starving children in the world?"
Luke: "Yeah."
Jim: "But they give it to the rabbi rather than the starving children. You don't need to give money to God. God's God. If he wanted money, he'd go poof and make it appear."
Rob says: Sharon Mitchell made a complaint to security about him and they warned him to be on good behavior.
Porners Party While First Amendment Freedoms Burn
Let history note that on Thursday, July 12, 2001, pornographers ate, drank and made merry at the Universal Hilton in Los Angeles while our historic freedoms, for which some of us risked our lives, to make fisting, pissing and s---ting videos were under attack from an overzealous Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney by the name of Deborah L. Sanchez.
While the esteemed leaders of our branch of the entertainment industry delivered rousing speeches about the importance of the First Amendment, the remembrance of our history and the horror of discrimination, many porners spent their time making idle chit chat, drinking beer and ogling young porn starlets.
I'd heard that Seymore Butts, facing obscenity charges, would receive a special mention tonight but no words of encouragement for Mr. Butts dripped into my ears. Instead it seemed that most members of the industry were more interested in themselves.
Many people expect that events like the Free Speech Coalition's 14th annual "Night of the Stars" would be a recreation of the great salons of early 20th Century France. But alas it was not to be. I found most porners more interested in talking about themselves rather than about Ageism. Porners seemed more concerned with 19-year old girls than whether senior citizens could obtain the prescription medicines they needed through Medicare.
Alas, good people, wake up before our treasured freedoms are taken away. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
At last year's Night, I heard much rhetoric about the need to elect Democrats so we wouldn't get a conservative judiciary more likely to convict porners and other sexual deviants. But is there less enthusiasm for the war of ideas tonight among pornographers? Or is this malaise chiefly within myself?
It just seems like Western style liberal democracy has won the political debate. We live at the end of history. We live in the reality of what is and I sense little passion over what ought to be.
Many speakers touched on ideological and philosophical themes but the conversation of most of the porners that I overheard dealt chiefly with alcohol, work and themselves. Contrary to popular opinion, matters of philosophy, culture and religion do not predominate when pornographers gather.
It is not so much the force of kingly reason that holds sway at these events but rather alcohol. There's less philosophical analysis than anal analysis.
I did not hear one discussion about expanding the Western canon of great books to include more female and minority authors. Rather, porners seem more concerned with who can get them work and make them money.
The pioneers of pornography attract less attention than the 19 year old blonde floozy. Gloria Leonard's and John Stagliano's contributions to the pornographic arts are honored more in form than in the hearts of many participants.
Porn's veterans have learned great wisdom from their years in the vaginal trenches and they wish to impart their learning to the next generation. But the next generation does not seem to care much. They'd rather party and make money.
Speaker after speaker imparted ideas and teachings with great passion but many in the audience prefered to gossip. The Judaic teaching that one should sit in the dust of a great teacher and drink in his words does not seem to prevail here.
As the Jewish singer Debbie Friedman points out, "I cannot have a future, until I embrace my past."
I worry that the foul language used at the gathering can not help but besmirch the good name of pornographers.
While First Amendment freedoms and a woman's right to an abortion on demand are threatened by a fascistic Bush administration, our pornography industry posed for pictures and giggled.
JMT writes: More women should shop wherever Keisha does. Fewer men should shop wherever Max Hardcore does.
Tina Tyler writes: "Hey Luke, I was just perusing the pix from last night on your site and thought you'd like to know that the pix you have labelled as Adaija (spelling?) are actually pix of Brittany Andrews. She certainly has changed her look. I didn't recognize her either, until I heard the laugh."
Mike writes: Luke, Surely by now you no that the girl in pink in 316 and 317 is Calli Cox]with Mr. Marcus in the first pic i dont know the others. If you cover Tera,s auction tonight please dont take her pic and put porner she works very hard to get noticed. Thank You; Mike [mr. Calli Cox}
Nyqster writes: luke ....... great shots you took yesterday...... i was surprised and impressed to see sabrina johnson ..... she was looking stunning - more radiant and luminescent than ever .... if anything she has got better looking over the last couple of years since she got into the industry, which is pretty unusual in my experience. does anyone know if she is working at the moment - she seems to come and go
Thursday evening, I parked over a mile away from the Universal Hilton to save on parking and walk up the hill in my black suit into Universal City. I've brought with me the 19th century novel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin.
Near the top of my climb, I see a black Mercedes pull over and honk.
It's Rob Spallone and his wife. I get in and he abuses me for being a cheap Jew.
I walk over the reception area and run into Jim Gilmore and his crew from the PBS show Frontline. They've already interviewed Seymore Butts, Roger Diamond, Deborah Sanchez, Steve Takes---a, and Paul Cambria. So far, everyone's given the predictable answers.
Hilton security keep harassing me for a ticket and when I can't produce one, they tell me I have to leave. Rob Spallone comes to my rescue and secures for me a ticket. Then the apparent head of Hilton security tells me that an adult actress claims that she has a restraining order against me and if she can produce it, he will have to hold me until the police come. I say fine, nobody has a restraining order against me.
Rob: "You think they came over for no reason? Somebody sent them over here.They're not happy you're here. But they can't do nothing because I'm here. It's free speech man, except for me and you."
Several people criticize Rob for getting me into the event.
Rob introduces AVN publisher Paul Fishbein to his wife.
I run into blonde porn star Brittany Andrews who says she broke up Saturday with her boyfriend of the past three years.
I run into noted criminal defense attorney Paul Cambria, who I debated on the radio in the summer of 1999. He's about 5'8", muscular, tanned, fit, confident and ballsy.
With a smile on his face, Paul warns those around, including his attractive female assistant, to be careful about talking to me.
"Everything he prints is lies. No truth telling," says Cambria. "Why would you want to talk to him?"
Video Team owner Christian Mann seems in two minds over whether to say anything to me or not. He lets loose a phrase about my friend Deborah Sanchez and then shuts himself up.
Mann writes Luke Friday morning: "For the first time ever, I'm compelled to write to you with the notion that you might accurately clarify one of your postings. To wit, you state that I "let loose a phrase about my (your) friend Deborah Sanchez". The fact is that I made no statement about Ms. Sanchez personally, as I don't know her. My remark to you and Mr. Cambria is that I've read that Deborah Sanchez is now a reader and correspondent to your site. I was offering a compliment to you for attracting a distinguished contributor. I was attempting to be cordial. It remains my policy NOT to editorialize about government officials. While your posting was technically correct, I appreciate the clarification.
"You were correct in your observation that I was hesitant to speak to you. A clever writer can paraphrase to imply an unintended inference. (Am I inferring that you are a clever writer or that being clever is good?)"
I run into Vivid owner Steve Hirsch, who I've abused terribly over the years. He greets me and shakes my hand.
Later, I'm skulking around Hirsch, Mann, Fishbein and Cambria, and Hirsch organizes everyone into posing for my camera.
Around 7PM, the approximately 400 people on hand sit down for a series of awards and brief speeches. Free Speech Coalition president Scott Tucker of Topco Sales runs the show. Tucker says that the GIA, the General Internet Alliance, is merging with the Free Speech Coalition.
Eddie Wedelstedt gets praised but he is too sick to be here.
I don't see Russell and Betty Hampshire from VCA.
Chris Mann gives Paul Fishbein the "Joel Warner" Good Guy award, named after the father of Western Litho owner Michael Warner. Chris, a friend of Paul's since 1984, says he called Paul's friends and staff to ask for a word on how to describe Paul and everyone said 'neurotic.' Chris praised Fishbein for his contributions to the industry. Chris says that Paul has been the subject of unwarranted attacks over the past year but has surmounted them without losing his own journalistic integrity.
"Paul exemplifies the responsible use of free speech."
Paul Fishbein takes the microphone and says that Rob Spallone offered to kick Christian's ass for him. Paul thanks his wife Kymberly, who sells movies from VCA and other companies to cable TV.
Juliet Anderson aka Aunt Peg gets an award. A woman near 70 years of age, she drops her top and exposes her breasts. She boasts she's never had any liposuction or plastic surgery. "I might just come back [to doing sex on camera] as an old fart and do something for the old folks."
Don Fernando entered porn in 1977, the same year as Anderson.
Homosexual porner Chad Donovan presents a lifetime achievement award to Cole Tucker who makes the most passionate and angry speech of the evening. Tucker, a 45-year old HIV positive man who's done about 30 homo videos, is known for his ability to absorb anal fisting. He seems to believe these traits give him the moral authority to lecture on right and wrong.
He castigates the media for invading his personal life and flinging the news worldwide that he is HIV positive.
"Through a strange set of circumstances, the press got a hold of some of my personal health information and made it public knowledge with lightning speed around the world. Everyone thought my career was over.
"Whatever the outcome, I chose to live and speak the truth."
So first he castigates the press for reporting the truth, and then he praises himself for supposedly doing the same thing.
"Surprisingly, the impact on my career was just the opposite. Thousands of gay men contacted me as a role model and shared how much I had impacted their lives. What a gift. What more could one man ask for?
"I now have a platform. I stand for HIV awareness."
Why people who catch completely and easily preventable sexually transmitted diseases like HIV think that gives them a moral platform astounds me. These homosexual and AIDS activists give me the creeps.
But who could be against such a noble thing as "HIV awareness"? But what this usually means is just another excuse to morally pollute our vocabulary and speech.
"Safe sex on film. Freedom to speek truthfully and accurately about all information concerning HIV and AIDS. And an agressive search to find a cure now."
Col Tucker came tonight with a moral agenda that he laid out in detail.
"Getting truly addicted out of the jails, in recovery, and back as contributing members of our society.
"There is a way out. I know. I have been there. A day at a time, I have been drug and alcohol free for nearly 20 years.
"I stand for fighting ageism. As I get older, I find that limitations are being put upon me only because of the perception of my age. As health and life choices change for the better, an active life can be extended far beyond what was thought possible just ten years ago. We are discarding vital, experienced, contributing members of our society simply because they are too old?"
The contributions that Tucker seems to specifically refer to are getting anally fisted in homosexual porn videos.
"At age five, I should've been informed and protected against childhood abuse and family alcoholism."
Scattered applause.
"At age eleven, I should've had positive gay role models. Role models to show me that I could be gay, happy, have self esteem and have a welcome place in our society.
"At age 17, instead of being arrested and jailed for drug experimentation, I should've been loved and educated in a truthful way and taught where addiction and excess would take me."
So Tucker seems to say the problem wasn't that he lacked moral discipline. No, at age 17 he needed education to know where "addiction and excess would take me." Come on Cole, any moron, even a 17-year old knows where drug addiction will take one. Why don't you take responsibility for being bored and morally dissolute? The same qualities in your teen years that led you into drugs, led you a few years later into contracting the HIV virus. It wasn't Ronald Reagen's fault that you chose to get f---ed in the ass by another man.
"At age 28, if our president at that time, you know the Gipper, Nancy's husband, don't tell me there' s no karma, if that man would've just spoken the word AIDS, funded research programs and helped to remove the silent stigma, how many more seats would've been filled here tonight?"
This is Tucker's big agenda. Remove the stigma from practicing unsafe and deviant sex acts, like male to male anal sex, the best way to catch HIV.
Another pornographer gets an award. My mind blurs but luckily my tape recorder still works.
Gay pornographer Steven Scarborough: "What I love about being in the porn business, is that we've got this group of people who are willing to accept the fact that most of the people in the rest of the world don't respect us. And don't think that we're good people. So we have to deal with that every day in our lives, outside of this group of people. It takes courage to do that."
Attorney Jeffrey Douglas, an assimilated Jew, reads an angry letter he received about Jews in porn. "You are the synagogue of Satan. Only a being that does not respect moral standards, or indeed the offspring of the evil Pharisees who were indeed the children of the Devil... We are recording the names of all those who are participants in this evil profession. It is apparent that animals of your kind have no fear of God."
Douglas: "He ended the letter with a big swastika."
Underlying message of the evening - pro-censorship Christians are really Nazis at heart.
Attorney Randall D.B. Tigue is honored for his 1990 defense of pornographer Ferrell Alexander. We're told that a Christian once shot at Randall and missed.
I wander off from the speeches to a corner of the plaza where dozens are porners are milling around and gossiping. I run into Ruby of Moonlite Bunny Ranch fame. She's accompanied by her brother Tommy Wanna, Rebecca Graft and Franky Friday.
Gloria Leonard, 61 years old next month, receives an award.
I chat with Bob Chin, who started in porn in 1969 with Beaver Girls. He's now made ten porn features for his company New Era Entertainment since his comeback.
I run into Chloe. She asks me how I am. I say ok. She says she's ok too. She's lonely. She keeps hoping that Mr. Right will show up but she doubts he will as long as she is in this business. Chloe now directs features for VCA.
At 9PM, I wander inside to the dinner and walk around. I spot Mark Stone in conversation with Evil Angel's Jeff Marton. I sit next to Mark. Stone and Marton have Jewish fathers and Gentile mothers. By the standards of traditional Judaism, they are not Jewish. By Nazi standards, they're eligible for the ovens.
Jeff hates organized religion and he despises l-keford.com. He claims that I called him in 1999 to ask, 'How do you feel about Rocco having AIDS?' I recall asking him about the rumor that Rocco was HIV positive and I'm positive I did not put the question as Marton remembers. He also remembers a year ago when I called him to check out a rumor that Stagliano had died. Jeff hung up on me.
Jeff places me on a lower rung than the Star and the National Enquirer.
Mark and I talk for half an hour, largely about the morality of pornography and abortion.
Mark: "I feel that I am the best spontaneous shooter there is. I feel like I can walk into a place, size it up in a hurry, get a great look and make something happen."
Porners seems like one big happy family Thursday night as they celebrate their industry and its leaders. I see no fight or heated arguments.
As the industry grows up, it matures. Its members take better care of themselves. There's a diminished criminal element in the industry and pornographers are leading saner, more sustainable lives.
This is an industry only 30 years old. Many other industries, when they began, were probably filled with as much destructiveness and wild experimentation as porn has been. Look at the internet.
As the night wears on, my head starts spinning. I figuratively lay my head on Mark's shoulder.
Shayla LaVeaux and her husband James sit beside us. They heard I'd written that Shayla had been a heroin addict since age 15 but it turned out the gossip about the gossipmonger was untrue.
James says he was almost disappointed when he read my bio on Shayla and found no gossip there.
I don't eat the dinner because it is not kosher, even though my last meal was eight hours before.
Many people I encounter are reluctant to talk to me because they realize they are also talking to l-keford.com. They don't want to be grist for gossip. If I didn't have this site, many people who don't talk to me would talk to me. And many people who do talk to me, would not talk to me.
Many people ask me why I dislike porn. I don't have a simple answer. My approach to this and many other moral questions is too nuanced to be understood by folks with IQs under 120.
At 9:40PM, I take a picture of Kid Vegas and walk to my car racking my brain for something to write about. I've been around this industry too long and it's become normal to me. My antennae have dulled.
It seems like just another persecuted minority, celebrating themselves and their rights against outsider oppression.
It seems like many Jewish dinners I've attended, where I've wandered around seeking out that one friendly face in the crowd. Then clinging to that friend and discussing moral philosophy and the meaning of life.
This year its Mark Stone, last year at the Night of the Stars, it was journalist Marc Medoff I clung to.
Somebody left a beautiful Minolta camera at Dino Bravo's table at the dinner. Call Dino at 310-245-7737.
Friday morning, two journalists from a German news magazine Focus come to my house. They remark how they were with Vivid Video yesterday and how much Vivid seems to hate me. Why? I explained that I had published many thing hurtful to Vivid.
The journalists were at the Dinner Dance Thursday night. They found it a freak show. The photographer complained about how difficult it was to capture candid photos of people. The porn stars were always wanting to pose but she wanted to get real pictures.
Anonymous writes Luke: Sir-- I'm not supposed to tell you this, so don't tell anyone that I've been blabbing. You wrote that at the Night of the Stars that the porners were discussing banal topics, rather than discussing such weighty matters as philosophy or religion. You further alleged that in none of the evening's conversations did you hear any discussion of the expansion of the canon of the great western books.
Actually, you should know that when they see you coming, the porners all change the subject of conversation, directing it toward 19-year-old floozies. As soon as you left, they began discussing Nietzche's Geneology of Morals. Of course, as soon as they saw you coming, they started discussing the large knockers on the blond floozie. But I assure you and as soon as you departed, the discussion reverted to philosophy. So let's have no more slandering of those in the adult industry trade.
And by the way, don't tell anyone I told you this, because otherwise I will be blackballed from next week's discussion on Kant's critique of reason.
AlienX writes: Morning Luke I am curious about something in the business and maybe your forum might be of help. As of late I been reading about some LA tape busts and the like, I guess Seymore comes to mind somewhat. For as long as I can remember the police often raid a store front and take tapes. They make a scene, look at everyone like they are assholes and throw people out of the store. In general scaring off customers. To top it all off they literally steal tapes from the store. Why don't they pay for it themselves before hand? A nice little run to the old shop, incognito and take a gander? It never hurt anyone not to mention we all enjoy a video for different reasons and an undercover cop doing a little recon is just as kinky as making a huge seen to heist some tapes. However the current method is highly intrusive and damaging to the business. I mean we all have our reasons to enjoy adult entertainment. Why not just stroll along like everyone else bring some quarters have a good time then leave with a few hot tapes DOJ wouldn't mind having for "Review" later, maybe even a toy or two if they are to be reviewed over dinner and movie?
By doing an incognito trip to the shop:
A: Would allow them to survey for any position and drugs around the shop and in the shop. Most authorities insist all of that stuff goes on at or near an adult bookstore, they could be bit more easy going about the matter and learn the truth.
( This is a conundrum argument unto itself however as most city zoning laws insist that the pornshops be located in ghetto's only IE where it is already known such things take place. )
B: The whole thing really wouldn't be embarrassing for the officers if a shop is raided by force. The shop owners know the police during the raid as paying customers, what's the big deal? I mean at least this can save face and embarrassment with the officers involved and help keep anonymity between consumer and provider. Not to mention an obvious and complete schizophrenic reversal in behavior of trusted and paying customer. This might make the shop owner a little more apprehensive about letting the agent inside next time he/she decides to come and shop.
Lets say I am a normal guy who buys tapes often from a store, I know the owner etc. We're kinda friends somewhat, and then all of a sudden me and bunch my friends get together in BATMAN outfits (For example) and start stealing s--- and making a scene. This dictates for sure and without a doubt a psychological dysfunction on my part in the eyes of the law. Why is this behavior acceptable for the authorities and looked upon as law enforcement. It harassment and theft plane and simple.
The two things above can help everyone achieve less embarrassment, less violence, and certainly not scare good folks away from an adult bookstore. I mean think about this, my first trip to an adult bookstore and novelty shop occurred when I was 18. I was nervous and there to just pick up a vibrator for my girlfriend for a small plan of ours. Now if cop's raided the place and made a scene... I must admit, it would have scared me for life. I am just getting a vibrator here real quick and bang pow cops everywhere with a vibrator in my hand approaching the counter. Infact I may have gottin shot as the vibrator could have been mistaken for as a weapon! How embarrassing would that have been? I would have been in therapy for years if not dead!
Suggested Titles For Mike South Series
Goddess writes: Since South can't be counted on to come up with a decent name for his new video series, Curious and I have made some suggestions. Please forward these to Gigi, as for some odd reason, South refuses to give up her email addy to me.
Goddess's Choice for Mike South's new vid series:
Chicks With Hicks
Inbred and In Bed
Bubba and His Horny Hicks
Curious's Choices
Antebellum Bukkake
The Mason- Dicks-In Line
The South Shall Rise Again
Southern Comfort
Hee-Haw Ho's
Filthy First Cousins
Davina's Dirty Dixie Debutantes
Torquin' The Trailer Trash Tail Pipes (Anal Line)
Mike South writes: Luke I am appalled that Goddess and Curious would besmirch my fine family heritage. My ancestors arrived in this country on the Mayflower, and settled in Virgina, where we migrated throughout the south.
Why I think these two godless heathen are just jealous because from a stricitly financial standpoint we won that war. Not to mention our year round good climate. ( OK I admit it gets hot during the summer months and insects do tend to grow rather large down here, I mean the State Bird is a Mosquito)
But this is all neither here nor there, as my good friend Mr Lewis Grizzard (God rest his soul) used to say "I'm American by birth and Southern by the grace of God" Amen Brother Lewis
Pamela Anderson - Plastic and Played Out?
From PageSix.com:
"The July issue with Pamela [Anderson] was the worst-selling issue they have had in a while. Playboy readers hated it," said one Playboy insider. "People actually wrote in, called and canceled subscriptions.
"The letters said [Anderson] looked plastic, that all of the girls are starting to look the same, and they all wanted to know what happened to the girl-next-door look. They want real-looking women, not plastic."
"Readers were furious that Hugh Hefner would put one of his girlfriends in" - referring to Brande Roderick's spread as Playmate of the Year.
"Brande and I have been broken up for more than a year," Hefner laughed. "If I was going to pick one of my current girlfriends to be Playmate of the Year, I would have picked Buffy Tyler. We picked Brande because of 'Baywatch Hawaii' and because she handled the media really well. Everyone loves Brande."
The issue was also said to have cost a lot to put out. David LaChappelle, who shot the Anderson photos, is known to charge $500,000 for his edgy pictorials. Playboy sources said the magazine had to fork over $60,000 just to retouch the cover image of Anderson.
But Hefner said LaChappelle did his own retouching - which is characteristic of the photographer's work. "The whole approach he takes is very stylized. The entire pictorial is classic David, and he gave us the finished artwork. That pictorial is not typical of a playmate. We never retouch. We rely on lighting, make-up, and the girls to look beautiful."
Luke Gets Mail
LT writes: Luke, Re: the L.A. Times piece on Viagra in porn. Do you think the thought might have occurred to the writers to check on how all these guys even got these prescriptions in the first place? A lot of Dr. Nick's out there dispensing Viagra (among other pills) to the porn world. And that's not even mentioning the medical fraud.
And please tell Deborah Sanchez (or if she's reading this)...PLEASE don't go after Robert (Zicari) Black until after you've gone after everyone else!...please. Nothing would hurt him worst than being last. He so desperately wants to be a martyr, a media celeb. Other than Channel 13, his mayoral attempt got no TV attention (and they only gave it because they could use it as a tie-in with their wrestling...13 has about four wrestling "themed" stories a night). Oh yeah, there was Comedy Central's "Daily Show", but he hyped the Hell out of that appearance without realizing or acknowledging he was being resoundingly mocked. So, please make him be last. Make him the Maytag Repairman of porn prosecution.
Extreme Director Thomas Zupko Dedicates Nazi Video To Deborah Sanchez
From GeneRossExtreme.com: LA Deputy City Attorney Deborah Sanchez will have a porn video dedicated to her thanks to Extreme director Thomas Zupko. Zupko, fresh from mystical passage in the desert, was all set to shoot a feature called The Attic. That is, until he read some comments from Sanchez on Luke F-rd's website several days ago. That's when Zupko decided to change storylines around and turn The Attic into an anti-censorship polemic. [Sanchez heads up the prosecution in the Alam Glasser obscenity trial scheduled for October.]
Zupko tells Gene Ross: So, it was pointed out to me by a friend of mine that on Luke F-rd's site that Deborah Sanchez was looking at Extreme and said that it was just a matter of time before she went after Extreme. It's amazing, that when you take a look at life in general and all the things around you which really have these detrimental effects, we're spending our hard earned tax dollars because someone's putting a fist in someone's pussy... I came up with this idea since I had an attic built for this other project. It's like the Diary of Anne Frank where there's this girl in the attic, and it starts off with the Bush Administration.
I read a lot about the history of Nazism and tried to get into the minds of Hitler and Goering, just to try and understand how you can take a country to a point where the people blindly believe in it while their main focus was to annihilate a whole race of people. It wasn't the fact that a handful of people could have this idea but that a whole country more or less supported it. What happens in The Attic is like Hitler's inner circle which is our president plotting against, starting with pornography, and ending up with a repressive society with this girl in the attic hiding. For her this is the last refuge of the First Amendment. She was a porn actress. I don't want to give away to much of it except to say that it'll be controversial and powerful and I want people to see it.
Luke F-rd says: This sounds like just the type of powerful statement that we need more of from the porn industry.
Skoonj writes: With all the stuff about Nazis on your site today, let us not forget that there is no such word as Nazi. Nazi is a contraction used to identify the German National SOCIALIST Party, which ruled Germany during the 1930s and part of the 1940s. It is a true Socialist party, not just a bunch of guys calling themselves that because they think it will make them popular. It is simply one of the many socialist parties that have vexed the world since the beginning of the 20th century. They include the National Socialists, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Democratic Socialists, and every other form of socialism. The Nazis, or National Socialists, are a true product of the socialist left.
