Monday,
July 16th, 2001
In the third hour of his nationally syndicated radio show, Dennis Prager said Britney Spears, and other famous people, are role models whether they like it or not. They can't opt out. And that Britney is a bad role model. DP prefers that Spears were promiscuous in her private life and present a modest public image.
Spears often notes that she's a virgin.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Britney Spears wants everyone to know she's not a little girl anymore. That's the message in her third album, due out Nov. 6, and her live concert special from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas airing Nov. 18 on HBO.
``I really want this to be shocking and edgier,'' Spears said Friday at the Television Critics Association summer gathering. ``This show will be an event. It's going to be to the next level as far as stunts.''
``I want to do things that people have never seen before,'' said Spears, 19, wearing a clingy purple mini dress. ``I don't want to be considered a role model.''
DP says: This is good old contemporary narcissism. I am preoccupied with me and I owe the public zilch. It's tough that you don't want to be considered a role model. You are a role model. You have no choice. We do not choose whether or not to be role models. Whether you are famous or not famous, it is not your choice to be a role model.
Britney Spears has chosen to be one of the most publicly identifiable figures in the world. Hollywood types can't ask for our attention and money but no responsibility. I want you to look at me but not take me seriously. How Britney Spears dresses affects millions of girls.
Nobody is saying to Spears or Hollywood or sports, that we are going to check all of your private behaviors. But what you do in public, and what becomes known, becomes the business of the public. When Britney Spears goes on MTV and does an R-rated striptease, how can she say I don't want to be a role model. Of course she's a role model. A woman called my radio show and said her first grade daughter had been invited to a Friday night "Dress Up As Britney Spears" party.
Birtney claims to be a virgin, as if that matters. It is not her private sexual behavior that influences young girls, it is her public sexual behavior.
To say that I do not wish to be a role model means you wish to be a bad role model.
I don't wish to be a role model but I am. And this affects the way I have to comport myself in public.
We are all role models. When little kids see you, you are a role model. You can not opt out. That's why people watch their language around kids.
Every older brother, sister, aunt, uncle, stranger is a role model.
Luke says: Whether porn stars like it or not, they are role models. They effect other people. They shape the nation's sexual agenda. They influence how people conduct their private sex lives.
Horny Bastard writes: I totally agree with Prager, how the f--- can Britney Spears whom became famous by millions of little girls and older men just say, "I don’t want to be a role model". That is so f---ing stupid Shaquiel O’Neil talks the same bulls---, yet millions of teens and young adults emulate his aggressive actions he displays on the basketball court. Clothes shops all over this country are selling clothes that resemble what that slut, Spears is wearing! That nymphet is a role model! She has fully been inducted into Hollywood’s Slut Factory. Just like Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Cristina Aguilera, and Jessica Simpson! This bitch is no different then a f---ing porn-whore! She shows her little ass and perky tits so men can buy albums and concert tickets. The girls are fixated on her clothing and songs because she is trying to express herself and emit "independence".
I am so f---ing sick and tired of whores and sluts who won’t admit to what they are!! That blond cunt, Lizzy Borden is absolutely right: Anyone woman who gets f---ed up the ass for a living is a mother-f---in’ whore! Too bad the former f--- slut didn’t call herself one because she did porn to! But she now produces and directs which makes her worse then a whore and a pimp together!
Anyway, I have kids and they watch that cunt’s music videos, magazines, and posters! Even though I can prevent them from watching that Hollywood Slut on tv in my presence. I can’t watch them every second of the day! That tramp is what helps our American girls to get pregnant! Girls do their best to copy that slut’s attire! Boys get horny seeing girls with see-through clothes, short skirts, and tight t-shirts that shows their nipples. How the f--- can a young man whom is horny to core because of their hormones, ignore a girl who by dress like a f---ing tramp?! Spears used to be apart of the f---ing Mickey Mouse Club! The Disney Channel already denied some of Spears music and concert videos because her whorish acts! Now Hollywood’s tramp wants to make herself even more sluttier. But that bitch won’t find any luck. Any woman who dresses like a tramp, acts like a whore, and refuse to embrace the traditional values of the American woman will never find the right man.
Almost every guy in this country want to f--- the s--- out of her mouth, cunt, and ass but no good man will ever want to marry a slut. Those that do are just looking for a free f--- every night. Then when the pussy get old and used they’ll just move on to the next slut. Just like a porn-whore. Inari Vachs and Julie Ashton are just trying to be politically correct whores! They are all whores like Borden said and Robert Black said! They suck dick, get f---ed in the cunt and ass for a living. Whores! All of them!! Lopez, Aguilera, Carey, and Spears are just like a three-year porn-whore. Once their looks and cunts get dried out and old they will all be long gone and forgotten.
Years down the road, Spears and rest of the Slut Factory will be sucking guys’ dicks and allow themselves to get f---ed in the ass just to keep a man in the house. The only thing that is so f---ing sad is that those bitches will be dragging down are American daughters. Perhaps if we had raised them right when they 4 and up to ways of the church we would not have to battle with them with what is right way to dress and act when walking around in public and catching a guy. f---!!!
Jeremy Steele Decries Misunderstanding Of Karl Marx's Theory Of Man
Jeremy Steele writes: Just a quote for the day, nothing more: "It is one of the peculiar ironies of history that there are no limits to the misunderstanding and distortion of theories, even in an age when there is unlimited access to sources" - Erich Fromm, 1961 (Marx's Concept of Man)
Lovebytes Producer Turns Down Chaim Amalek
I forwarded proposals of love and affection to former Bob Berkowitz Lovebytes producer Jamye Waxman. She replies: "Just got a chance to check my eyada mailbox.. Tell "Chaim" thanks for the offer but i have to pass. 450 pounds is a bit excessive for me, and besides he sounds really neurotic."
A heartbroken Chaim writes Luke: "Luke, when will this sort of baseless hatred of other human beings on account of their physical attributes (race, ethnicity, etc.) come to an end?"
Luke emails Jamye: "A lot of my friends have crushes on you based on the Bob Berkowitz show and your chaunce harden pictres... Some of my friends prefer to create imaginary characters, like Chaim Amalek, it makes it easier for them to relate to real women like you."
Chaim replies: "Tell this woman if she gets together with me, the crush she feels will certainly not be imaginary.
"Why did you choose to humiliate me in public by telling the whole world that Jamye Waxman won't date me? And what sort of a moniker is "Jamye" anyway? She is not a trannie or transgendered, is she, because in turning me down and in working where she does, clearly she evinces dykish tendencies. Anyway, let's look forward. I checked out that web page http://www.chauncehayden.com/girlsofshow.htm and see lots of better looking women than that Jamye person. Please ask EACH of these women if they want to get together with me. I don't know any of them, but with gravity being what it is, I am certain that I could develop a crush on any one of them in no time."
Zupko, Extreme Associates Desecrate American Flag
From GeneRossExtreme.com: Before the shoot got underway, [Thomas] Zupko engaged in a colorful exchange of philosophical ideas with [Anthony] Crane, a Marine vet, about Zupko's use of the American flag in a scene shot last Friday. To say Crane wasn't exactly ecstatic over his participation in a scenario featuring Veronica Caine as the object of some recreational uses of the American Flag not found in the Boy Scout manual, is putting it rather mildly. "I'll be walking the streets f---in' girls while you're behind bars with Bubba yelling Free Speech," Crane goaded Zupko. On the other hand, Zupko's reasoning is that the more disturbing you make a movie, the more it involves the audience and makes it think. That being the case, Zupko's audience should walk away Phi Betta Kappas cured of Attention Deficit Disorder after The Attic. However, in the art of debate, Zupko drew to an inside straight when his P.A., Smeye-LAY came across an old Erotic Hustler Video Guide featuring a full-page picture of Jewel Valmont having an American flag crammed up her ass during a sapphic gangbang. [The Violation of Jewel Valmont from JM Productions.] Zupko showed Crane the picture. Case closed.
Sabbath Laws Interfere With Bachelor Party
Meni69: luke, I booked a bachelor party for 8 pm next saturday, the customer emailed me today, 8 pm may be a problem because...The problem with the 8pm start is actually a religious one. We have some observant Jews in our bunch, and the Sabbath doesn't end until 9pm. (Its mostly an issue of tipping. They're not really allowed to handle money on the sabbath.)
Meni69: i suggested the jews give their tip money before the sabbath to a non jew
MHJ provides this non-Orthodox interpretation: It's all in interpretation. I was never given to understand that handling money on Shabbat was wrong -- just spending it for goods or services. Tipping could be considered Tzedakah (charitable contributions), which would be a mitzvah, not a sin. Tipping a stripper or whomever at a bachelor party would not be wrong since the host is paying for their services and the orthodox party doing the tipping is merely distributing alms, as it were, to a person in need of cash.
Turkish Model Seeks Porno Work
Eda Dikkaya (edadikkaya@gmx.net) writes: Hello Luke, I am a professional turkish model from germany. I am working by a german model agency, and I have now only a contract for eight months. Please find some photos of me.
Here some details of me: My height is 5'9, 32 ½ - 24 - 36, hair colour is lightbrown and eyes are hazel. And I am very interested to transfer from my agency to the adult industry to play in hardcore and gangbang movies. But first next year.
I am 22 years old, and Eda Gönül Dikkaya is my complete name. My date of birth is the 26.09.1979 and Istanbul, Turkey, is my birth place. I was for two years married (1997-1999) and we separated then, therefore my marital status is separated (legally divorced). But in Turkey I live still with my former husband.
I believe that you can help me as a very much-experienced porn actor on the way to a porn actress with your experiences and contacts in the adult industry. Can you help me on that on the way to a porn actress in the adult industry? Please let me know this is possible or not.
Marc writes: That Eda girl from turkey ... when she gets off the plane at LAX take her to a mikvah, not a gangbang. please. this much you owe in the category of tikkun olam [repairing the world].
JRob writes Luke: Eda is far better looking than your last protege, Logan Skylar (LaBrent). Pretty soon you'll be giving World Modeling a run for its money.
Mike South writes on RAME: In browsing a previous thread I noticed that the focus of the seymore trial seems to be the fisting and it is likely that is what propmpted the prosecution to select him in the first place, if he goes down for it taking down some lesser but louder porners will be a cakewalk.
One thing to remember though, they can't JUST defend the fisting. In order to be deemed obscene the movie must be viewed as a "whole" by the jury. That means every minute of the movie will be watched. The prosecution is not going to single out the act oif fisting although they obviously hope that will be the one thing that a jury finds objectionable. The jury could decided that ANY act in the movie is obscene they could even find the fisting to be perfectly acceptable and the rest to be obscene. Ignoring this fact wouldn't be wise for the defense.
Obscenity prosecutions are extremely difficult to defend because there is nothing that says exactly what is obscene, just some vague test about literary, social and artistic value and community standards. As such the defense must defend the movie and everything in it.
Additionally what happens in Los Angeles is of no bearing whatsoever for the rest of the United States so no it would not open the door for fisting movies anyplace except Los Angeles and even at that it wouldn't really open the door because Glasser could once again be tried for another release, technically they could bust him (or anyone else) for every movie he releases, one at a time.
Ken the Heretic writes: Do either you or your Kehilla think that if Seymour Butts gets convicted that his videos will disappear like those of Traci Lords?
Luke says: Not a chance. Though the fisting scene will be edited.
Gonzo vs Features
Voyager7 writes on RAME: The porn I am leaning towards now is the well done "short story" single scene. Best examples are the wide variety from Dane Productions, Hustler's Barely Legal series (there are some diamonds in the rough in their Jail Babe's series, but you get real dirty when digging to find them), and scenes where Rodney Moore does one of his "skits" (i.e. breaking in a new UPS shipping clerk, or acting as the beach pubic patrol officer, giving "citations" to women showing too much pubic hair while sunbathing). I wish he would resurrect his Fantasy Flings series. We day dream believers enjoy scenes like the first one with Melissa Hill and the second with Marilyn Martin...
These scenes can be shown in 15 to 30 minutes+, (though I suspect, they take considerably longer than this to record) and includes both give-and-take interaction between the participants and of course the necessary sports sex. Until porn can afford the writers of the caliber of say the Sopranos, 6 Feet Under, and the Simpsons, (which will be never), there is no need for them to churn out "plotted features".
Michael Raven from Sin City writes on RAME: I don't necessarily think one is "better" than the other, as it all depends on your intent. If you are only wanting to get off, then perhaps a Rocco title or some other worthy "gonzo" is preferable. If your aim is simply erotic entertainment, then I would prefer a feature of some quality.
PforChat writes: I much prefer Gonzo I think that it is much more exciting to see real people having sex rather than actresses pretending for the sake of a plot that a scriptwriter has devised. EG which would be more real, a car crashing on the highway, or a stuntman crashing a car to order?
Nick Adams writes on RAME: But that's not what you get in gonzo, either. Half the time these real people/video virgin/never been f--- on film before types shot half a dozen other movies that month and will be all over the place in three months. And in six they'll have disappeared. One week I got four different videos and in each one the same girl was doing her first-ever scene. They're not more real, they've just had less exposure. Good plot and good acting is better. Agreed there's not a lot of that our there, but I still appreciate the ones who are willing to try.
Pat Riley writes on RAME: About a month ago Luke F-rd put out a URL of a master list of sites of police departments who were publishing the names and addresses and photos of the sex offenders pursuant to Megan's law (or each state's variant). Anyone check these out? I just looked at a few counties of Alabama. What a hoot! If you exclude the young guys who were obviously caught f---ing their 12 year old girlfriends and the really old guys who must have been doing it from memory, the rest look just like the bukkake crowd. (Hopefully I don't have to spell out the connection...)
Jake [Steed] has similar tastes in girls to me. He likes them young with nice tight waists, narrow hips, and small rounded firm butts. Despite the type of series (rap) and the idea that many of his girls are one time only prostitutes off the streets he seems to develop a good rapport with them and as a result the sex is at least friendly if not passionate. It's purely a guess but I'd say that if he didn't have the pressure of the raincoater market, he'd be screwing them with lots of kissing, fondling, and an internal ending. Already he goes half way.
Witrock's an asshole but he gets the new girls and has them well made up which can make a major difference. Also some of them never appear elsewhere. Same with the great white whale who I'm getting to loathe but I can't stop watching because it's the only place you see some of the new cutie pies.
April Flowers Update
Michael Raven writes on RAME: April is still very active in the biz. She was just featured in a starring role in Wicked Pictures "Euphoria" and was on set today filming a scene for Jill Kelly's SexGames.
Recycled Extreme
Bryen193 writes on RAME: It seems Extreme Assoc. is putting out tapes of Euro anal stuff from the likes of LeCastel with some hot babes under the names German Whorefare and some others. What could be wrong, right? Except that somebody came up with the stupidest idea in the history of porn: To have some moronic, unfunny guys "interpret" and talk loudly over the scene, talking over the actual sounds from the scene, which are played in the background. This is ok for the first few minute until you realize that they are going to continue to talk through the WHOLE MOVIE...even pretending to be the girls and making sophomoric fake orgasm imitations...These morons ruin every scene. Sometimes I just can't understand what would be going through the mind of a company whose success depends on arousing the customer.
Nick Adams writes on RAME: Sounds like the dubbing was a bad parody of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. It's a pretty funny concept when done well with bad sci-fi movies ... unless, of course you really are interested in th movie. It could work for porn flicks designed to be shown at frat parties or hunting camps where people are watching them in groups and drinking lots of beer. A lot of porn (possibly even most porn) is watched in that kind of setting rather than being used as a sexual aid during solo masturbation sessions.
Dick Black writes on RAME: Yes, my friend. This is indeed horrible. The name of the film is "Maniac", and I too was a victim of this unscrupulous attempt at humor. Immediately after hearing the stupid, moronic, dubbed-over voices coming from those two idiots, I prayed that it was only temporary, or just a short gag, but it wasn't. It continued throughout the ENTIRE film.
Another thing that pissed me off royally about Extreme: Recently, I rented a film that had two or three recycled scenes from earlier films that I saw. This film was not labled as a compilation either. One scene paired Amber Lynn up with Luciano and Hanz... Amber is wearing a yellow Bikini, and both dudes are dressed as burglars. It was a GREAT scene, but I have already seen it! They had it in an earlier movie!
Another recycled scene in the same film was from a release titled "Leg Show", I believe. This one wasn't even released by Extreme, so I don't know why in the hell it had this particular scene in it. It featured Tawny Ocean along with Dave Hardman and some other dude, and included a DP with Dave in her ass (of course) as well as a double facial. She was supposed to be a model or something (suprise) posing for some perverted cameramen.
It really pissed me off that Extreme did this, and TWICE in the same film! I will honestly think twice before I rent another one of their movies. The way I see it, if they're gonna stoop to this level, I really have no choice.
Luke Gets Mail
Johnny Castano writes: IT WAS GOOD TO SEE A PICTURE OF JULIO TONY Montana .. HE LOOKS GOOD . BOY WE HAD GREAT TIMES SHOOTING AND PARTYING AT MY HOUSE ON HART STREET MUST HAVE SHOT HIM 50 TIMES IN THAT HOUSE AND POOL 16 YEARS AGO
Ian Phlegming writes: Luke did Gloria Leonard know you were snapping that picture of her ? She's prone to flipping you the bird. She looked pretty good to me, Mr.Goodman .Luke, you could have given us a leg shot of her.
Rachel writes: I just read your assessment of Erotica L.A. and took a look at your pictures. I'm sure Sydnee Steele would want her name spelled correctly. So, you're getting bored by all the events. I think that one of the problems is that L.A. is very restrictive as to what is acceptable behavior at these events, so it's pretty tame (perhaps you like a bit more excitement).
One celeb got "talked to" about the fact that when she posed with a fan, she let him put his hands on her tits. That was a big no-no. No inappropriate touching; no flashing. But, all-in-all, even though there weren't as many booths, there seemed to be lots of pornstars everywhere, and the fans appeared to be having a very good time. It seemed like there were a lot of first-timers there who were very excited about getting some autographs and photos of their fantasy girls.
I attended on Saturday and had a good time. I've got lots of fantastic, high-quality photos on my site. Check them out at http://www.worth-a-million.com (please hyperlink to the site). I think I need to give you some photography lessons, Luke, and perhaps throw in some lessons in how to be happy in life. One of these days I'm sure we'll cross paths (we would have, if you'd come on the yacht for Sopornos 3).
Ian writes: Hi Luke, You're always moaning about your life, but actually you're an odd-shaped peg who has happened to find a hole of just the right dimensions. I believe you're sincere about Judaism, but also that you'd have been just as sincere about Zoroastrianism if that had come up at the right moment. Your almost inevitable exclusion from a shul which attracted you because of its austerity and fundamentalism (which implied shunning what you stood for) may satisfy some desire in you for martyrdom - you can say you were willing to suffer all kinds of indignities for your faith. Yet you actually exult in the fact that you get to photograph large numbers of desirable women, and equate it with f---ing them (what would your rabbi think of that sentiment? Do you think it would make him regret having defenestrated you?) You also point out that all the porn stars you meet are avid readers of your site. Though you complain you make no money from your 'job', I think you'd agree that fame, honestly earned, is its own reward. If, by some mischance, all these porn stars lost their occupations, and there was no porn industry for you to publicize while purporting to abhor it, I think you'd be devastated.
Luke helps get Platinum Spice Channel banned in Canada
David writes: Playboy Enterprises had been attempting to get Spice Platinum channels approved in Canada. The CRTC (Canada's FCC) ruled on Friday that due to petitions received (by Canada's religious right) Spice Channels would not be allowed into Canada. It should be pointed out just a couple of months ago Luke appeared on Canadian television warning of the evils of Hardcore pornography and embarrassed the CRTC. http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Notices/2001/PB2001-82.htm
Sohe writes: In LongIsland New York, channel 70, a public access channel provided by Cablevision, airs adds for various escorts and porn companies from 12:30AM-3:30Am Monday through Saturday. It's basically a block of continually rotated adds featuring full nudity(breasts, asses, vaginal lips and hair) as well as explicit language. After each block of adds is shown bits of a porno flick are shown. You can see the guy f---in the girls, getting head, givin' head and the like. All is shown except actual penetration and male genitalia(basically SpiceChannel). Anybody with basic cable gets this and it's brought to you by the cable company itself(the same one that doesn't air Ultimate Fighting). I wish there was a way I could help get it off, but it's probably useless.
What Happens To Porn Stars When They Retire?
Here's an excerpt from Asia Carrera's Bulletin page from her excellent site AsiaCarrera.com. She's 27 years of age and wondering about what she will do when she leaves porn:
Y'know, one of the questions that I get asked a lot by fans and reporters alike, is "what happens to pornstars once they've retired from porn?". That's a damn good question, because after 8 years in this business, I still don't know the answer! Some say the girls get married and go on to lead quiet lives as housewives and/or mommies... others suspect the girls just keep moving down the ladder of seedy sex-related occupations as they advance in age...
Thinking about retirement scares me, because one thing about this business - it does give the girls extremely unrealistic expectations from life, because we get so spoiled here!
What's really scary is how quickly some of the girls start believing their own hype, and acting like the 'superstars' they think they are - throwing tantrums, making outrageous demands, and just being bitchy divas on the set and on the road...
While I'm confident that my geek powers will keep me gainfully employed post-pornoland in one way or another, the stock market's abrupt decimation of my retirement portfolio in recent months has caused me more sleepless nights than I'd like to admit!
Brandy Alexandre writes: Asia Carrera has a little stream of consciousness blurb on her bulletins page about what happens when pornstars retire. She has an excellent grasp of one of the facets--understanding that you're nobody outside of porn and learning a little humility. But even if you're successful you still have another battle on your hands which is nosy, angry, clueless and lifeless fans and anti-fans. If I had her email address I'd point her to my newly reinstated Forest Lawn page for and idea of what can happen in corporate American, per her query. No matter how capable one is, there's always some jealous psychotic looking to knock you down so they can look you in the eye and pretend they're on the same level.
Asia Carrera writes Luke: hey don't be a felcher - i don't mind you plagiarizing my writings, but at least put a link back to my site when you do it! whenever you mention ANYONE's website, you should make the site name a clickable hyperlink, as a courtesy to both the webmasters' intelllectual property, and to surfers who might like to see more of said website. don't MAKE me have to come to your hovel to teach you some cyber-manners in person!! (especially since i hate getting into my dictator getup in this hot weather... LOL!!)
Heather Barron writes: I hesitated to write this when I saw your post yesterday because I certainly don't want to be labeled a basher. Asia Carrera is drop dead gorgeous and her fame is well deserved but I hate it when women lie about their ages. Why can't people just be real and self loving? Men love women of all ages.
My guess is Asia is in her early to mid 30's. I'm expecting some harsh comment but I'll take the heat. Asia should worry less about what she'll do when she retires and more about why she feels she needs to life about her age. Luv, Heather, turning 33 this November
Quality Original Programming From Playboy TV
From BlurofInsanity.com: As we watched we suddenly discovered something. Playboy TV is absolutely, and without a doubt, the lamest TV channel on cable! Quite the accomplishment! Somehow Playboy TV has actually made sex dull! And we mean really dull. Amazing but true. We would have figured this to be an unlikely thing to be able to pull off. Sex dull? Not possible! But Playboy TV has done it! Sex has finally been pushed down to the ground and any inherent eroticism has been wrung out of it.
Night Calls.
This show is stupidity on roofies. The hosts are dumb, ex-porn queens who sit on a couch talking to men who are apparently sitting at home with their pants around their ankles wanking it in front of their TV. That’s about it. It is like a live feed from the waiting room of breast enlargement clinic – actually, that's a show we might like to see! The main thing we noticed was the hostesses ability to make sex feel creepy and disturbing. Again, this is a strange magic ability that the show has to take something that can be so fantastic and make it so useless!
The main star is named 'Julie-something' and she sits next to a redhead who acts like she's taken a few hits of ketamine. We’re pretty sure the ‘Julie robot’ was once a porn star; it is anyone’s guess what the redhead was doing there.
Then came Sex Court. Wow! We have actually run out of adjectives to describe ‘bad’ or ‘stupid ’ or ‘pathetic.’ Just awful in every possible way. Julie (are they all named Julie?) Strain is looking pretty damn old, like an old leather baseball mitt that sat out all winter. Plus the acting (they try to make you think these are real people, not actors... yeah, right) is at a lower level than porn acting – if that is at all possible! You know, why bother? That show was so bad we refuse to even waste another word on it. f--- you Playboy TV! We want our money back!
One thing we did really notice in every show was how desperately these people are trying to justify their sleazy, sordid, and sad little lives. They talk about how free they are as porn people, and how repressed the rest of us are, blah, blah, blah... Shut up Playboy, you’re pornographers, you make a product that is about as complicated as a rock. And quit telling us what to think! We really don’t want our porn giving us a lessons in philosophy. Just pork each other and keep the dialogue to a minimum. If we wanted an education we'd be watching the discovery channel! All your job is is to videotape an act that a monkey can do.
Erotica LA Wrapup
I arrived at the South Hall Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles before 11AM Sunday and within five minutes, I'd walked around the show.
I stayed on for another mind numbing three hours before fleeing from boredom at 2PM.
I used to think that if I had a sufficiently long lever (the internet) and a decent fulcrum (l-keford.com) that I could move the world. Alas, this seems not to be the case, at least with this fulcrum. In fact, between porn and the race angle, I am getting pretty bored with all of this. I am getting repetitious. And the fact that no benefits accrue to me for my prodigious efforts on behalf of humanity here does not help matters any.
Attendance was down Sunday and it seemed there were fewer booths than any other year of the show. On the positive side, the overall attendance for the show has never been higher, and we probably had proportionately more women this year than ever. A woman I saw in synagogue Friday night said she wanted to go.
I checked in with a nice lady at the media section who gave me my pass. She said the show's going great and without incident. It is not as hardcore as some would but that would provoke crackdowns from the many undercover cops walking around.
I walk into the show and into the arms of Adella, Digital Playground's loving publicist.
Tony Montana, HIV positive hispanic porn star and husband to Laurie Holmes, walks over and gives me some paperwork about the December 9th AIDS marathon in Honululu (AIDSMarathon.com). Tony is Runner Number 0001 if you care to donate.
Tony parrots Cole Tucker's line that he's trying to be a gracious host to the HIV virus. Montana, who runs eight miles a day, says he will outlive me.
"Keep up the gossip, Luke," says Montana. "Everybody's gotta make a living."
I hear that Jay Shanahan aka Jim Enright divorced his wife Tiffany, an ex-porn star. Jay's now taken up with a redheaded porn star and Tiffany's marrying a man in porn.
I find VCA's corner in the Goalie Entertainment section. Vivid also took a corner. Their tall blonde contract girl Dascha signs. Julie Meadows and Shelby Myne sign for VCA. Neither VCA or Vivid gets anything out of the show as they don't sell to the public. But they're taking space as a favor to AVN, which runs the show.
I sit and schmooze with VCA's Marty Turkel and Ed Kaile. There's been lots of theft at the Goalie booth. Fans walking off with DVDs and tapes.
Rob Spallone arrives with his beautiful wife of 14 years Elaina, who says that in her 20s, she could've wiped the floor with the porn girls. Elaina feels bad that she and Rob missed church this morning. They keep going to different churches so they don't get too well known and thrown out.
Saturday Rob Spallone disrupted a KCBS TV interview of folks at AIM Healthcare. Rob went off on a tirade about how crappy AIM is. Mainstream media assume that AIM is the key adult industry health clinic and they never question their assumption. When Rob tells them things they don't want to hear, they try to avoid him.
"The cameraman ended up getting mad at me," says Rob.
Luke: "Why? Because you ruined his interview?"
Rob: "Yeah. I ruin everybody's interview."
Spallone collars Theresa Flynt, who hosted a fundraiser at Hustler Hollywood for AIM Friday night and raised $10,000, and tells her many bad things about Sharon Mitchell and AIM. Rob says Theresa told him that she'd never heard criticisms of AIM before. He tells her, 'Don't you read l-keford.com?" She says no.
Juliet Cariaga signs for AVNOnline.com.
The different company booths reflect the personalities of their owners. Steve Hirsch's Vivid Video literally puts their girls on a pedestal (though not at Erotica LA). They usually sign from booths elavated several feet above the ground in front of displays featuring the classiest display advertising.
Wicked puts their girls on ground level. Wicked Pictures is more accessible because its owner Steve Orenstein is accessible. I don't know anyone who has a bad word to say about low key Steve and few persons have negative comments for his formidable PR director Joy King. Wicked girls tend to show up on time and are always polite and professional and fan friendly. I never recall a loud confrontation at a Wicked booth or even harsh words. Wicked always feels like a safe place for Luke.
A few weeks ago, I incorrectly reported Serenity was leaving Wicked. Not true.
A preacher's kid, Wicked contract girl Devinn Lane seems like a woman I could bring home to momma.
The show's longest lines are for slinkly slender Digital Playground contract girl Tera Patrick. A man donated $4000 to Sharon Mitchell's AIM Friday night at Hustler Hollywood for a date with Tera.
A large crowd gathers around LoversCaughtontape.com. It features outrageous video of people unsuspectingly caught having sex. I watch a memorable snippet of what looked like a security camera capturing a secretary giving a blowjob to an executive in the elevator. Other segments show couples having sex at a baseball game.
I was surprised that a number of booths showed explicit hardcore video.
Elliot Segal, who owned Western Visuals, was known by many of his peers as a drug using creep. Then he got religion and became Orthodox. Except his bad behavior didn't really change. He just hid it better. He became an Orthodox Jewish pornographer who frequently acted like a drug abusing creep. He's suspected of burning down his own Western Visuals building in 1998. Segal now lives in North Carolina where he works in a car wash owned by his wife's parents.
I chat with Calli Cox who's appeared in 51 movies in five months. Her boyfriend lives in Illinois.
I chat with solidly built black girls Kitten, who's appeared in over 200 movies during her five years in porn, and Dianna DeVoe at the Video Team booth and try to bait them into saying something controversial.
Dianna says reading l-keford.com is a guilty pleasure. "I'm always reading gossip on your site about people I don't know like Kendra Jade."
Kitten's frustrated with only doing black movies. "I'd like to do more white movies. I'd like to f--- people I'm f---ing on the side personally. If you really want to see the true essence of me coming out on video, give me what I like - white boys."
I saw Kitten with white stud Mark Davis at the Free Speech Coalition dinner Thursday night.
Luke: "Why do you prefer white boys?"
Kitten: "Because of their respect. What's been good for me has been white boys. They eat pussy all night long."
Luke: "Black men don't like to eat pussy?"
Kitten: "Most of them don't."
Luke: "I'm like most black men."
Kitten: "Why?"
Fan: "If you won't lick it, you can't stick it."
Luke: "I'm squeamish."
Kitten: "But you want me to suck your dick, right?"
Luke: "Yeah."
Kitten: "I'd never date you."
Luke: "I could make you a star."
Kitten: "You know how many times I've heard that, from every producer and director. 'Hey Kitten, I'll make you a star. Do you want to come over later?' One thing I don't do. I don't f--- to f---. I really hate it when people assume that I will.
"I know people in the business who want to hang out with me and they want to f--- me, but they don't want to put me in their movies."
Luke: "You want to come make a home movie with me?"
Kitten: "I've never made a home movie in my life."
Luke: "Do you feel that this business has tarnished your soul?"
Kitten: "My soul was already tarnished before I got into this business. I've been in the sex field for over seven years. I was a dancer and other things for two years before I got into porn."
Kitten lost her virginity at age 13. "It was horrible. I wanted to cry. Then I got better at it."
Luke: "Why did you get into porn?"
Kitten: "For the money. I got tired of dancing. I like feature dancing but I hate dancing as a house girl."
Luke: "Is pornography a great way to meet quality men?"
Kitten: "Hell no."
Luke: "It seems that most of the male performers in this business are always in and out of jail."
Kitten: "Not that I know of. But then I only deal with quality men. Who did you see me with Thursday night?"
Luke: "Mark Davis."
Kitten's signing generic Video Team flyers which don't even feature her picture.
Kitten: "I was late of course because I am like a star and I'm always late. I was up till 7AM. And I get here and I've got nothing to sign."
We glare over at the white girl running the Video Team booth.
Luke to Kitten: "Do you think that's because you're black?"
Kitten giggles: "It is because I am black, dude. I am outraged."
Luke: "If you were white, they'd have things here for you to sign. But they don't treat you with respect because you're black."
Kitten: "Because they don't like us darkies."
The white girl is cracking up because white guy Chris Mann's Video Team is known for its many black lines and its good treatment of black performers.
Luke starts making up incendiary comments and attributing them to Chris Mann to try to bait Kitten.
Luke: "That's just what Chris Mann tells me. 'I don't like those little darkies.'"
Kitten: "If this comes up, just tell him [Chris] I was joking."
Luke: "He says, 'They're good for picking my cotton.'"
Kitten and the white girl are stunned.
Kitten: "Oh he is so going there right now. Look out. Unless he likes to have dick picked, but that's something different."
White girl moves away. "I'm not hearing any of this."
Kitten: "No, it was a mixup in ordering. They ordered My Baby Got Back 25 and I'm number 24."
Luke: "That's because you're a colored girl."
Kitten: "Colored? I thought I was black."
Luke: "What are you supposed to call them?"
Kitten: "Ohmigod. Call me Kitten. Put me in some white satin sheets and f--- me the right way and my color comes right off."
Kitten says she's never shot for VCA. She also wants to work for Wicked. With white guys.
I see Melissa Hill, who I met when I first entered the industry in the Spring of 1996. Her boyfriend Ward@NetVideogirls.com licenses content. She introduces me to the owner Anthony who says the site boasts over 12,000 members.
Anthony: "We keep our noses clean. We're in LA and Orange County. We offer streaming video on our site and we give people the ability to download clips. We create storylines. Its shot point of view. Everybody tests at AIM. We do our own casting. We work with very few porn stars.
"We place ads in the LA Weekly and we pay well, about $1200 for a one hour scene. The traditional agents tell me that I don't know what I'm doing. That I shouldn't pay so much.
"I can shoot and post it and get reactions that same day."
Anthony is the male talent in his shoots. So far he's done on video over 100 girls.
"We're like a little Disney. We shoot our own content. We've got our own content. We control everything. We've got nine employees."
Anthony introduces me to Felony, a brunette who appears in the September Hustler. She's all over me, trying to make a sale. Her hands caress almost all my erogenous zones as she presses tight against me and rubs her pliant thighs against mine. She lightly twists my nipples and breathes into my ear that I really want to buy an autographed photo for $10. I'm embarrassed. This goes on for what seems like several minutes until we disengage. I protest that I am a disinterested journalist who's uninterested in pornography.
Felony does a five man gangbang in Tales from the Clit 2.
Felony: "I fired my old agent Rio aka Lisa of PYT. She's the worst agent/manager you could ever have. She not only tries to get you to do things you don't want, but she threatens you if you don't go along. When I fired her, she threatened to take my kids away from me.
"If you want to do your own thing, you should self represent and not go with any agents.
"Derek King. I worked for him for two days and fired his ass the next day. Our agreement was that he would not try to screw me literally in any of my scenes because I did not think that was professional. I didn't think that was appropriate for a business relationship.
"The first four movies he lined up for me were with him. He conned me into doing one movie with him for David Lace. He said it was for Private magazine and he got me all confused.
"David Lace is a wonderful guy."
In her three years in porn, Felony's appeared in over 150 videos.
"Extreme Associates prepare you for what they do. They tell you upfront how they do things and if you can't handle it, then don't do it. I did very hardcore stuff for them but I was able to handle it. They didn't force me to do anything."
Luke: "How do you think the industry has the affected you?"
Felony: "I quit. I only do pretty girls [nude photography] and I only work for Hustler now. Being in the industry for three years has affected me to the point where it gives me problems with my own fiance. I don't belief that if you have a partner, that you should go out and be with other people. Once I met him, that started messing with my head. And so I had to get out of the industry.
"I'm glad that I've done the porn and become known. I had a wonderful experience and I don't regret any of it. But I'm glad I'm out. You can only take it to a limit."
Actress Carrie Fisher and pimp Dennis Hof stop by Digital Playground to say hello to Adella O'Neal.
Kevin Moore from StunningCurves.com says: "I don't get it. Steve Hirsch actually shook your hand Thursday night. Why? And posed for pictures. Is the porn world mellowing out on you? I would never shake your hand if I were Steve Hirsch."
I introduce myself to several porn stars and everyone, including Violet at Dane Productions, reads my web site regularly.
Gabor at Heatwave says: "Brigitte Kerkove was supposed to sign for me. But they called me Friday morning. They had to take her to the hospital. Her face was swollen from an infection.
"That's Caramel [black girl wearing a silver dress] who's signing for me. She got her new boobies a few months ago and now she's a star and everybody wants to shoot her."
I run into a TV cameraman who finds the show "dull, dull, dull. I've been to livelier shivas [Jewish mourning]."
I leave and drive home. I realize this is crass...but photographing beautiful women, and yes I think many women in porn are beautiful, gives me a feeling of accomplishment. Taking a few good photos of a woman gives me an internal sensation akin to having f---ed her. I feel now like I've just returned from a day where I f---ed a dozen beautiful women. I'm sorry if your day has not been as satisfying.
Amused writes: I had to laugh at the new photo of you with Tony Montana. Gee, it seems like just yesterday Tony was serving you a summons at CES 2000 for the now dismissed Laurie Holmes defamation suit. What a difference a year makes. *sigh*
Luke says: Just because we sue each other doesn't mean that we don't love each other.
Marriage To HIV + Porn Queen Nena Cherry
A few days ago, I told the story of Brian Lankford's month long marriage to HIV positive porn star Nena Cherry aka Dawn Anderson. Today I present some more of Brian's emails about the experience:
Brian writes: Well I talked to Dawn this morning, I told her I was HIV + just to see what she said.... She said oh well you knew about it!!
Luke writes: How did you find out Dawn was married to another man?
Brian replies: Phone Bills! I started questioning and she would get pissed and try to deny everything!....Thats how you know she is lying! You know her ,she is never wrong and its always someone else's fault!
Hell I thought about putting a book out..." I married a pornstar"..lol. It was a hell of a ride!
I have seen her shoot valium in her veins. So I know she has shot drugs!!
I was just reading your web site. Hell she will deny everything. But I don't care. First a little about me, Im 36 years old. I have a 16 year old daughter, my first marriage was for 17 years. I live in Alabama, you know how us southern folks are ( you don't mess with family!)
Well here goes. Last July the company I worked for had a big contract in Texas. They sent me and 7 others out to Houston. In August I had come in from work about 2am and noticed two people arguing, a taxi driver and a girl, the girl was getting loud so I asked if everything was alright, and the guy got into his taxi and left. So I thought no more of it and went into the hotel. About an hour or so later I was checking my e-mail in the lobby and heard someone knocking on the office door. I looked around and see the same girl who was arguing with that taxi driver. The first thing you notice on her is she has huge tits (I do not like big tits). But she had a nice ass (I love a nice ass) and I thought what the hell?
So I open the door and she ask could I help her? yes she said I need help with my contact. She had Ice blue contacts in. She was drunk off her ass. And then she starts flexing her muscles and posing. I asked her what was wrong? and she said she was going to die and starts crying. I try to calm her down and ask if there is anything I can do. She says do you have any smoke? I tell yes up in my room and ask her if she wants to go up, and she says yes. We get to the room and I have friends over (always a party)she starts flexing again and talking about how much she works out. next thing I know she starts stripping, and we all (the guys) look at each other. She starts a type of lap dancing and tells us she has "killer" pussy. She then looks at me and tells me she has HIV. I said OK! do I suppose to run?(i wish I had). We all have a blast,friends start leaving and it come down to her and me. We start talking and she tells me how she contracted HIV, and we talk more and more.
