Secular Jew Roy Karch grew up in Queens, New York, with Howie Wasserman and Joe Spallone (future owners of Gourmet Video) and other future pornographers.
Roy worked his way through college performing simulated sex acts in clubs on 42nd Street. After completing his Masters in Education, he worked on his Ph.D. at City College of New York. During the day he taught gym class. One day in 1971, he was connected with pornographer Bob Wolfe aka Lawrence T. Cole who filmed several loops of Roy performing sex with his girlfriend. Around 1974, Karch started up the first X-rated cable TV show, The Underground Tonight Show, taking advantage of the censorship free public access domain. Karch produced the show which preceded Al Goldstein's Midnight Blue and the Ugly George show.
Roy's show concentrated on the music and sex scene. Featured guests included Gerry Damiano and Linda Lovelace, and Jason and Tina Russell.
In 1975, Roy produced New York's Eros Festival. In 1978, Roy moved to Los Angeles. He helped produce a couple of X-rated movies (including Dracula Sucks) with Bill Margold, and is widely credited with shooting the first shot-on-video porno.
"I shot for Gourmet from 1980-84, with budgets around $6,000 each. They did the editing. I used their equipment. They would find me locations. Typical shoot would take 12 hours. We would only do a hard version.
"In 1984 I went out on my own and started shooting for different companies. I shot for Adam Home Video, VCX, Las Vegas Video…
"In 1990, I went to work for Elliot Segal's Western Visuals as their sales manager. Elliot did not want me to shoot. I made some movies for them. It was a very oppressive place to work. I think they are collapsing. Elliot does not do business fairly.
"In 1992, I got a call from Howie Wasserman at Gourmet. They had faltered. They no longer made features. I helped Howie and Joe Spallone build the studio in the back. I sold for them over the telephone and I made movies. Over 20 months, from May of 1992, I made 84 movies, that is more than one a week. Two movies got nominated by AVN. One for Best Continuing Video Series, the Bad Girls series, and another for Best Sex Scenes.
"Then Joe's son Robert came out and he took over their productions. I had recovered from my time at Western Visuals, where as a sales manager, I had brought him a ton of money. He tried to keep me from shooting. Then after my 20 months with Gourmet, I had my eye again.
"Gourmet was hooked in with the magazines and they always had the newest girls. Everyone knew to call Roy to shoot. So, in 1994, I went out on my own again.
"I now shoot for Sin City once a month, as well as shoot one movie on my own which I then sell to people. "I have a great 21-year relationship with Jim South. And I have a great relationship with the Spallones. There are the standard complaints about Jim, but he has always worked well with me.
"Yes, he complains when I also work with Star World. I handle this gingerly. I walk a tightrope between the two. I hope they both understand. I don't really use the agent to get me the talent because I know all the talent.
"On my release forms, I have the talent tell me who their agent is. Then I pay whoever they put. I know Jim and Star World have a feud, and that's a drag for me. I don't want to get in the middle."
Roy says he once had his life threatened. "One guy [Duke?] used to back me. Then two years ago, we split. But he kept telling girls that he was my partner, so that he could get the good prices that I get. Talent know that I pay cash, and that I shoot a lot…So they give me a good rate.
"He told me, 'If you talk about me to anyone else, I am going to kill you.' And he came over to Gourmet Video two years ago, with a guy. And he said, 'this is the guy who is going to kill you, if you talk about me.'"
Roy would not say who the man was. I found out later form another source that it was probably Duke aka Sydney Glassman or Mark Spiegler.
"I have managed to skate away from all of the ruffians. I don't lead a porno life. I lead a conservative life. I shoot and I come home. I don't socialize with the porno crowd. Perhaps that is why I have not gone further in the business, because I don't schmooze with everyone."
Roy has never shot gay porn.
Roy would not name the porno girls he's slept with, though he says there "have been some great ones. But I don't kiss and tell." Roy could not estimate the number of women he's slept with in his life, though it probably runs into the hundreds, mainly from his youth.
Karch prefers to masturbate to gonzo videos. "I like straight, raunchy, hot, sick, filthy, nasty sex. I like Ed Powers, Buttman, Max Hardcore. In my personal life, that is not what I like. I almost never do anal sex in my personal life.
"In a normal movie, the sex ends at a certain point. You don't see the hardcore sex. I try to make sex an extension of the scene and keep it going. For instance, in The Postman Always Rings Twice, where Jack Nicholson throws Jessica Lange on the butcher block, you don't get to see them have sex. In my movie, I would extend the scenes.
"I'm a student of film. I use a lot of different elements. I've been to film school. Film workshops at NYU, etc. I know how to make a movie.
"I've been working with the Susan Block show. I was flipping my dial two years ago, and I see on a Saturday night, this beautiful blonde in her bed doing a cable sex show. And out here in Los Angeles, no one (until recently) was doing this. Susan's show is not hardcore but it is sexy. I love what she does. Every Saturday night we tape the show. I co-produce. And out of their 8-900 hours of shows, I've developed a line of videos called Dr. Susan Block's encyclopedia of sex and fetish. Now we're at seven volumes. We're in at Tower Video and trying to close a deal with Goalie Entertainment and other folks.
"Susan and Max do two HBO specials a year. It is a great outlet for me. It is R-rated erotica. Very different from X-rated videos. They do great art. And we have great parties after the show. When you have a bunch of sexy people around, people who work in the sex business, you're going to have sex. But we don't put out any hardcore."
At 2PM, I drove over to Star World Modeling where Rob was cooking hamburgers. "I chopped up a few people that we're barbacuing today," said Rob with a grin.
Rob proclaimed that he was the man responsible for lowering the PCR/DNA test price from $250 to $85. "And I hope it will go lower."
Rob's new puppy BJ urinated several times in the Gourmet and Star World offices, much to Rob's disgust.
He says his phone hasn't stopped ringing the last couple of days because of ads Star World placed soliciting sex performers.
"Business is very good this week. Next week there is a lot of shooting.
"Reb started a lot of trouble saying that Jim South's people tried to seduce his daughter. That's the talk of the town. I tell them to go to l-keford.com for the latest. I wouldn't doubt if Reb tried to seduce his own daughter.
"Leanna Hart just called me. Reb hasn't been getting her enough work."
Luke: Have you always been faithful to your wife?
Rob: Yes.
Matt Jade: That's only because a good opportunity has yet to present itself.
Terminally depressed and cynical Matt is considering jumping out of an airplane next week.
I hear talk that Charley Frey robbed John Bone, which is why they split.
Rob says that he has to shoot ten sex scenes in the next eight days. We walk around Star World. Rob tells me that several scenes from the mainstream movie Boogie Nights were shot at Star World.
Rob drives a 1984 red Corvette. He says that he sold his Porsche to Greg Steel. Rob plans to get a 1968 Corvette on Monday.
"We work hard around here, Luke. We don't just sit on our ass like Jim South and Reb. They're crying and Spallone is making the money."
Wayne Crews tells me that Amber Lynn was abducted by aliens.
Luke to Rob: Has John Gotti called again?
Rob: Who's John Gotti?
Luke: A shooter in New York.
Rob: Porno?
Luke: Ahh, more like snuff films.
Rob: What does he shoot with? A Sony digital camera.
Luke: A 357.
Rob: Duke is broke and living with his daughter. He's calling everyone trying to get them to testify against me. If Duke gets thirty cents from me, Luke, I will give you $50,000.
"We need to put on the internet that you came to my office today and saw me beat the s--- out of Roy Karch in front of you. Because him and Roy don't talk. That will make him call Roy to testify against me. And Roy will tell him to f--- himself. Who else did I beat up today? Sal Sodano."
Laughter all round.
Rob says that Kimberly Jade has been in the slammer for two weeks already. Rob's mom Barbara visited her yesterday.
Luke: Has David Sturman [Reuben's son, married to a Catholic woman, several kids] ever threatened to break your legs?
Rob: "David Sturman is a businessman. A very nice guy.
"Steve Austin has been calling me up, asking to work here… I don't know if I am hiring him."
Rob has cirriasis and various skin problems including a load of bright red spots on his back. Rob drives me in his Red Corvette to visit the North Hollywood clinic. Rob parks on the sidewalk and we barge into the clinic. A doctor there looks Rob over. Tells him to relax. They discuss their race horse. Doctor is freaked that I am tape recording their talk but I assure the doc that I won't quote him. Only Rob.
Later in the afternoon, I schmooze with Rob and Joe Spallone, and Barbara and company. A woman phones with a foreign accent. She tries to sell Rob VHS videotapes for a $1:12 each.
Rob bellows into the phone "Blow me," and hangs up on her.
She phones back. Rob has her on speakerphone. "We got disconnected," she says.
Rob: Do you know what business I am in.
Lady: No.
Rob: Adult. X-rated videos.
Lady: I don't care. We have some sturdy boxcovers for 20c each.
Rob blows her off.
Barbara assures me that her other boys are not as profane as Rob.
Rob talks to a dog trainer. It would cost $1400 to have BJ trained to stop urinating inside. Luke suggests that not only BJ should be sent to the kennel for a month to get trained, but Rob too.
At 8 PM, I arrive at Randy DeTroit's million-dollar house in the San Fernando Valley. His big van is parked in the driveway and his 1989 dark grey Mercedes by the side of the road. The license plate reads "Detroit."
As I wait for Randy to answer the door, I feel comforted by the Mezzuzah [parchment of Torah scroll on the doorpost]. Randy is a nice Jewish boy from Chicago. His mother lives downstairs.
Randy invites me into his luxurious, clean spacious million-dollar home. I feel comforted by the stacks of books. It's a nice Jewish home, excerpt for the rooms full of obscene videotapes of overweight black pregnant women f---ing Randy.
Randy stands 5'11, weighs 185 muscular pounds. He is straight, direct and plain looking. He rarely rents his home out to porn shooters anymore.
"For many reasons, but the main one was that [porn] people did not respect my house. This is a home not a studio in an industrial area. I have neighbors. My mother lives downstairs. People come in here and smoke cigarettes, when I tell them that there is no smoking. People like Karl Dancer try to hide their cigarettes. Nobody handed me anything. I've had to work for everything I've got. I get no respect from people in this business which is good. I don't need them.
"They abuse the house on every level. I've had pigs like Ron Jeremy come in. He'll stick his greasy meaty fingers in a jar of pickles or something in the refrigerator to a point where I had to lock the refrigerator up. It's depressing to have these [porn] people around who think they can just do anything they want. These 'companies' don't have their meal program together. They're asking me for juice and food. That's not my job.
"Many of these people don't have their own generators, so they blow my fuses. Idiots like Dave Hardman and Karl Dancer… I've had people walk outside naked. My neighbors used to call the police constantly. I have a school across the street.
"Regan Senter was here for about nine months. I gave him an office for free upstairs. He brought girls in and then we could shoot him together. He's done the Hollywood Starlets, Harlem Hookers and Nookie Professor with me. But he'd bring in girls who wouldn't want to shoot with me. They'd be a front. He'd be talking to people on the phone like a big man, trying to impress them with his status in the business. He brought in girls who had no reason to be here. Some of them were drunk. They'd urinate on the floor. They frightened my mother.
"I moved in here the July of 1995. I've got a lesbian couple on one side and on the other side guys who are jealous of my house. I suspect they don't like Jews. I put up a fence and they wouldn't split the cost with me. My ultimate reason for moving in here is to shoot. The film people like the high celings and the white walls. The porno people like the jacuzzi, the room… It's secluded.
"I had some Israelis here shooting their first video. These were upstanding citizens. They were not drug addicts like most of the people in the porno industry. They were not pimps or whores or drug addicts, drug users, drug sellers. They were just normal people with jobs. They were artists. This guy mainly did weddings. The cops come to the door and the Israelis panic and run out. The cops said that they had a call that somebody was streaking across my front lawn naked. Ridiculous. I told the police that I was shooting a cooking show for public access TV.
"When you get porno people in here, they tear the place up. They live in gutters, so how do you expect them to act when they walk in? They've never been in a nice house before. Notorious did gang bangs here in the front room on the bare wood floors. And these people are dragging heavy tables and chairs across the floors, gouging the wood.
"I was originally in the music business. I was a lead guitarist. I had records and my own label. I was in 30 different groups such as Brand Spankin'. I got bored with that. Then I started learning how to use a camera. I started shooting music videos. The adult industry stopped coming to Chicago in the early '80s for the Consumer Electronics Show because they were fagged out by the feds [federal police]. I've always aspired to be in porn because I am a very sexual person.
"Before I entered porn, I ran massage parlors in the North Side of Chicago. I've always run stuff out of my house. The cops broke down my door on many an occasion. I had patrollmen who walked in to get a massage, but when they needed a bust, the dicks would come in.
"I'd have six to eight girls on the site all the time, around the clock. Then I got a camera and started shooting when there were lulls in the business. We were always using our own stash, always f---ing women. We wanted to think of a way to stop getting busted and start merchandising. So in 1986, we shot a few videos and took out ads in swinger magazines marketing videos. I sold about 25 tapes to Rex Swain at Homegrown. Eventually the cops moved in and stole my equipment.
"In 1990 I moved to Los Angeles, where my family already lived.
"I've been in SAG since 1973. And AFTRA [TV and radio] and EQUITY [stage]. I did many commercials in Chicago such as Where's The Beef? with Clara Peller.
"My real name is Cliff Randy Rubin. I was born 6/1/51. I don't smoke and I don't drink and I don't associate with porno people unless they are real people.
"There's a lot of jealousy in this business. If you don't need them, they are not interested in you. They say no man is an island. Well, I've learned to shoot, to edit, to design the box, hire the talent… I shoot myself in the video while I hold the camera. Everybody's copying me. They're copying the Headmaster, where the girls gives you head, and I hold the camera right on her.
"I started manufacturing in 1995. I was taking product to people and getting turned down because it wasn't exactly what they wanted. I knew the market place needed my product. So I stopped running around trying to please people and started shooting for Randy. I've got over 200 titles of my own. We move thousands of tapes a week. I one-stop everyone's product within twenty five miles. We have regular customers who are used to dealing with us. So if they want a title, we will get it. Many times we will turn them down because the profit margin is too slight for me. Stores and distributors in New York buy from me.
"Anybody who shows up, I will shoot - skinny, fat, white, black… I've shot hundreds of titles for K-Beech, Western Visuals, Baccus, Filmco… "
Randy's working on a couple of books which contain excerpts from letters to his girls. "How they were living in the closet. How they had always wanted to make love to a black girl. They couldn't tell their aunts, uncles, sisters…
"One book will just be guys writing from prison. The real poets of the world are prisoners because they have a lot of time on their hands and they are motivated. If they think have an audience, especially if it is a woman who might write back… These guys have a libido to the clouds, and they are unbelievably creative.
"I have to do a lot of editing because they talk stupid. Not just black guys, but white guys too. It's really hilarious. These guys are on such chauvinistic ego trips. They think that anything they tell a woman, she'll suck it in. And the women don't even get these letters. I handle them. And I split the profits from orders for merchandise with the women. There is no reason for them to respond to the letters. So I just make up a form letter and send it back. If I think they have a spark of creativity, I write them back. That's how the book is structured: The letter, the response, the next letter…"
Luke: Have you had many death threats?
Randy: No. I've had people from time to time be mad about one thing or another, but I've never had more than a few threats. No one has ever done anything. Because I have never forced anyone into anything. I've never done anything illegal or immoral.
Luke: Some people think that some of your stuff is degrading to blacks.
Randy: How so? You're asking me a question that is being paraphrased from somebody else and I want you to ask the question in a way that is coming from you. Am I doing anything differently from anybody else and have you asked them the same question? My stuff may be degrading to women in general but I don't see how it is degrading to blacks in general.
Luke: Yes, I've asked others similar questions.
Luke struggles to form a question. What are some of your black titles?
Randy: Tales From the Crib. f---ing Pregnant Babes. Harlem Harlots. The nature of our business is not to put a woman on a pedastal and make her a princess but to make her a sex object. But the guy too, if he's in the thing.
Luke: Many of the people in your productions seem stupid.
Randy: How do you know? I can't address that. I've met more stupid white people…many with college educations…
Luke: Do you think there are different levels of intelligence between the races?
Randy: No.
Luke: Do you think people in porn tend to be more stupid?
Randy: I wouldn't use the word stupid. I would say that they are risk-takers. They have a desperation and self-destruction, self-annihilation, including me… I don't know to what extent. I don't think about it. I just do it. I just do what feels right.
The adult industry as a whole is a wild bunch. They've given themselves that name. You're dealing with a lot of insecure people who couldn't function in the real world. They come in from the cold and find that it is now warmer inside, just less to deal with…
There are a lot of cliques, but I don't subscribe to any of them. I've even stopped going to Las Vegas [for the CES show]. I don't give a f--- who is working with who or who is coming out with what.
Luke: Have you ever won any AVN Awards?
Randy laughs. I don't think so.
Luke: Do you lose sleep at night wondering when you will win an AVN award?
Randy: I don't lose sleep worrying about awards. I gear myself to being recognized by my banker from deposits I make… I used to go to a sperm bank too.
Luke: Do you have any children that you know of?
Randy: None.
Regan Senter has the best rap in the business. He can lay a chick within hours. He can pick her up anywhere. If he gets rejected, he just moves on. He can get a chick believing she'll be a big star, making hundreds of thousands of dollars after her run in with Regan. He's a gutsy guy. He knows no fear. People are jealous of him, particularly people with small dicks like Reb Sawitz who probably has a small mind.
Regan meets girls through ads or on the street, or guys bring him girls, or now he does it on the web. Many people come to him, 'Regan, we're going to shoot you. We're going to do this with you…' Visual Images were going to do a production built around Regan. I told him, 'Regan, these people are bulls---. They are not going to do anything.' And they didn't. But he didn't listen. He was so immersed… His head was so far in the clouds…
I told him [with Randy's productions like Hollywood Starlets]: 'Regan, you are not going to get rich off this, but you will be on the box.' I paid him $50 - $75 [a scene]. But I was paying him for his size [of penis]. I was paying by the inch.
Luke: So, are you really rich?
Randy: I'm not rich, just well-to-do.
Luke: Have you met a lot of gangsters and mafiosi in this industry?
Randy: Absolutely. I know several. And they are very nice guys. They are men of their word. They say what they are going to do and they do what they say. I've done business with them. It's not that I am doing business with the mob, I do business with individuals associated with the mob.
I don't defend myself to anybody. I don't have to. Only to myself and to God.
Luke: How does God feel about your work?
Randy: Umm, I think God helps those who help themselves. I don't feel like I am sinning. I am not married and doing this. It's basically a business, a business that has gone on since the beginning of time. It is glamorfied prostitution. It has become more sophisticated. People get implanted. There's acting, props, make-up, hair, location…but all it boils down to the same thing - f---ing.
My following appreciates me for what I am, and for my selection of girls. You are going off a few industry people who are jealous. Ask anybody if I have bounced a check? Everything is negotiable.
When I try to sell my videos, they [the talent] are gone. They've got their piece of change. They've bought their kids some food. They've bought some drugs, put some stuff up their nose and I have to try to collect for something I fronted them money for doing… Maybe what they were doing is worth more? Maybe it is worth less? Who is to say?
There is no pay scale.
I think that I am more of a Republican these days. I enjoy Rush Limbaugh though I have not voted for 20 years. Dennis Prager is also very cool.
Luke identifies himself as a Republican.
Rush is funny and he is right. Even though he is prejudiced against blacks. He talks about Farrakhan and the Muslims.
Luke: Farrakhan is a schmuck. So is Jesse Jackson.
Randy: Jesse I like.
Luke: Keep hope alive.
Randy: He's antisemitic, they all are. All the blacks are antisemitic. You know why? Because the Jews are the closest people to them. We've very similar. They can't get to the f---ing WASPS, so they attack the Jews. They don't understand who is really f---ing them around. Jews have done a lot to help blacks.
I feel that a lot of blacks are not stupid people. What they are is that they do not have the same exposure to things and resources. Either they don't know or they are just too pissed off to go put on whitey clothes and play a whitey game to get what whitey has. They just withdraw.
I talk to many intelligent blacks, who are astute, writers, directors, in finance… I've seen lots of trashy white people. I've done a lot of business…and I find that I have to watch my back less with a black person than with a white person.
When I go into South Central [Los Angeles], it is not at night. It is escorted with someone who lives there. I don't just walk around asking, 'can I have sex with your girlfriend?' When I go in, I go in the inner circle, in the crowd. I like to use new girls. They either have big butts, or big tits or they are fat… A lot of the girls, I don't like them to wear make-up.
"Is Blubber Tubbies a derogatory title? All I am doing is calling a spade a spade. It's a fat girl… I've got JUNGLE WOGS, CHUBBY DECKER, SWELL MAMMIE'S BISCUITS, BLACK MAMMOTH MAMMIES… Are these derogatory titles? I don't think so. They are not GET YOUR ASS ON THE BUS like Heatwave does. Or THIS WHORE…or THAT WHORE… My titles are just funny, not derogatory.
"I would like to get into a debate with someone who thought this or that. All I get is stuff filtered down, watered down, like when you asked me if my stuff was derogatory to blacks… That's why it was such a thrill to be in court (1990) with Michael Jackson [the black singer] and Quincy Jones…
"We had black lawyers representing us. And the son of one of the lawyers, heard the name "Randy Detroit" in one of the depositions, and later asked me, "Are you the Randy Detroit?" And I said, yes. He had no problem. His father may have.
"I give people work. I use people who wouldn't normally have an opportunity in this type of market. It's good for me and it's good for them. They get cash in their pocket. They leave here with the tits and pussy they came in with. They're better off for the experience.
"I will use girls whether I need them or not. If a girl calls me up, needing money, I will use her. So she can pay a bill. The [adult] industry doesn't hear that part of it. They love the negative part - that I don't pay much. But in the neighborhood [South-Central Los Angeles], they know the truth. You [Luke] are getting responses from self-conscious white people who worry about how blacks are portrayed.
"I separate my stuff by race. People rarely want a black and a white girl together. So, I have tapes with all black girls or all asian girls, pregnant girls, my Taco Belles line is all Spanish people…
"Copyright infringement. In the early '70s, I met up with two black writers in Gary Indiana. They answered an ad I had placed. I arranged music for rock and jazz groups. I have a degree in music from Columbia College in Chicago. They were hooked up with the Jacksons. We drove out to Los Angeles to share with the whole family, Michael Jackson, the father, the son and the holy ghost… some of our music. These guys trusted the Jacksons.
"We feel that Michael took our tape and copied it. We launched a major RICO lawsuit that took 12 years to get to federal court. Against Michael Jackson, Rod Temperton who says he wrote THRILLER, Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie for songs that we wrote… They picked apart pieces and used in such songs as WE ARE THE WORLD, ANOTHER PART OF ME, THIS GIRL IS MINE, and THRILLER. We were in federal court in 1990, another reason I came out here. We lost. The judge created this special verdict form… We feel that the judge was paid off.
"AVN and the other producers bad rap me, but look where I live. I must be doing something right.
"The good thing about the X-rated industry is that you don't have to bribe anyone to get your record played. If you create good product in your basement, you will get buyers. I've never had any gangsters approach me. I feel that I am as good an actor as anybody, but I don't know anybody… I got tired of standing in line. With porno, you're in business overnight. A lot of people like the odd stuff, and I'm the odd man out. You say they are ugly, but they are real. Who am I to judge what should turn someone on?
"These guys [VCA, Vivid] get too enamored with their own self-importance. The public seems to like my fat girls better than anybody."
Luke: How do you get wood for some of your girls?
Randy: They just attract me. I don't know why. It's easier for me to get it up for someone heavier or odd looking. That is what I like.
I've always been attracted to black girls. My brothers disdained them. I couldn't admit to anybody when I was young… Then I finally got to Columbia College… I fell in with some creative people. Did my first black girl. I met a lot of liberal women in college who were into free love.
"I have two brothers and a sister. I'm the oldest. Both of my parents are Jewish. We were raised in Reform Judaism.
"I lost my virginity in high school at age 18 to a girlfriend taller than me. I was a rebel in high school. I smoked pot until the early '80s.
"I've slept with over one thousand women in my life. About 75% have been black. They smell different, taste different, act different. White women generally don't turn me on. They don't know how to treat a man. I've always been an outcast, a black sheep.
I like to work. I'm a workaholic. I crank out titles.
I've had gonorrhea like the next guy. I've never had syphilis or anything else. We weren't even getting HIV tests until 1994… I don't pick up girls off the street, or use crack whores… Now, everyone I use gets tested for HIV. Just because they live in South Central LA does not mean that they have a disease or are promiscuous. The pregnant women get tested regularly.
I have a problem dating Jewish women, because I never ask them out… Chuckle. I have a problem dating straight women generally, because they think that guys in the industry are abusive to women.
I try to do a scene that is real, and commercially viable to the masses, that has good angles, good exposure, good projection… That the people are into the sex. I do lots of closeups. I stay away from the storyline as much as possible.
I don't do any urination or anything illegal.
I like Max Hardcore. I could never be him, but I respect him.
I tell strangers, if I don't think they will care, that I am in the adult industry. Or just say the video business.
I was dating this Jewish woman who talked a lot. Got on my nerves. Went to her home for Thanksgiving and I became a photographer of family portraits. I can say what I want, who is going to check on me? I just stayed in that mode all night.
I was last in synagogue at Passover, a couple of months ago. I can read Hebrew fluently. I went to a Reform Judaism school after [secular public] school. I don't belong [don't pay dues] to any synagogue.
Because I am in this industry, I am more promiscuous. I tend to get bored with just one woman unless she is super special.
I had a two year (1991-92) relationship with the black girl Lady Paree, who's since got two breast jobs. She was a great cook, a Suzie Homemaker. At first she didn't do an X-rated. She would see me doing it, and I was going to stop doing it in front of the camera and just direct because of what we had together. Then, one day on the set, she was doing makeup. She just started sucking this guy's dick. I was hurt, but I videotaped the whole thing. Her first of many more scenes. Dance tours, box covers… Magazine spreads.
She had this animosity towards me because of all these tapes I had done in the past. She'd come home froma hard day's work [f---ing and sucking], and she wouldn't want to f--- me. She had this she-male move in with us. Lady Paree would have more communication with this person than with me.
Lady Paree is not the type of person who can be in a normal relationship. She's just a user, a witch… A great girl. I like her a lot. She's thief too. Every time I came back into the house there would be things missing. One day she came to the front door and I wouldn't let her in.
Lady Paree always seemed to be performing, even when we were in our bedroom behind closed doors. She could never be herself. She was always on stage. She craved attention. I would like that if I were in a straight movie, but as far as porno, I don't take it seriously. I don't think I've contributed to acting or producing…
Many people in the industry can't do anything else. I can. I've had a career as a musician, as a writer, arranger, composer, lead guitarist… I'm not going to put music on pornos? Why? What does it matter? You don't rent a porno to listen to a song.
I don't hire myself out as a performer. I'm really not a part of the industry. There are too many phoneys out here. They've got too many people doing the work of a few people. They're over-staffed… I shoot the whole thing myself. I'm missing shots, I'm sure, because I can't be objective. They go overboard the other way. I don't have anybody doing lights or camera though once in a while I'll train an actor to handle the camera.
I've shot and sold gay stuff. I've never performed in it though I did do a couple of bi-scenes for Totally Tasteless Video. The guy went down on me. When I did the guy anally, it was with a rubber. I got paid well to do it. It is not something that I aspire to do. I was only able to do it because there was a girl in the scene. I concentrated on her.
Luke: The new PCR/DNA test?
Randy: It's not the expense. I don't feel that these people who come from the neighborhoods, who are not aspiring to do this as a career [need the PCR/DNA test]. I have not taken a PCR yet. I will. I don't feel that the women I work with are going to demand that I have one or that they want to have one, or can afford one. [Randy and company only take Eliza HIV tests]. I don't think the PCR is necessary. I don't fall into the risk categories for HIV. The people who get do a lot of [gay] anal sex, drugs… Their resistance is low.
Marc Wallice should be hung.
I can't perform with a rubber. I do little anal, because my dick is so wide.
6/15
Reb Sawitz shows me a copy of a Randy Detroit production HOLLYWOOD STARLETS: Adventures #1, starring Regan Senter. Reb feels that the girls in the tape were tricked into performing. They were supposedly told that it was only for a demo tape, not for sale. Reb says the girls were not paid.
Regan Senter totally denies this charge.
Randy Detroit: What amazes me about Reb Sawitz - Who asked this fat f--- for his advice? He acts like Queen Tut of the X-rated business. I can respect a Jim South. He has a real office and consistency. What rock did Reb Sawitz climb out of?
He's attacking people because he's insecure. We didn't confront this guy. Reb came over to my house one day and physically pulled a girl out of my house. Because there was a school across the street. There's a school on every block in America. That is a good thing. And what they don't know won't hurt them. I have a permit to shoot. I am a licensed businessman.
He doesn't like Regan because he can't do what Regan does. Regan is the slickest, smoothest talking Mohair-Sam that I have ever met.
I met Regan four years ago in Las Vegas. He impressed more than any of these cock-sucking, dick-sling overrated flab-heads. Regan has more intelligence than necessary to be in this business. He carries a briefcase. He hands me his card.
I decided that we should harness his talent, which is what we did with Harlem Hookers, Nookie Professor and Hollywood Beauties.
I am an amateur producer. I like to shoot things that are real. I hate stages. I hate dialogue. I like spontaneity. That is what bore Hollywood Starlets.
We developed a relationship. When he explained to me about his demo tapes, I told him that we need to do that legitimately. Pay all the actresses, get them to sign releases, get I.D.s… Just like I have been doing since 1986.
This cat isn't interested in Shakespeare and artistic merit. He's interested in getting more girls into his bedroom.
He came to me many times to say: Randy, I have mountains of these demo tapes. I said, 'Regan, do you have signed releases?' He says, "well…" Did you pay them? "No, it's a demo…"
We did twelve volumes together before the theme played out.
I can show you cancelled checks from everybody who was in those videos. What does Reb expect to accomplish by threatening Regan?
Regan gets more pussy than Don Juan. I respect the guy. He lives his convictions.
I defend this guy like I defend Lady Paree. People say she's a man. That's hearsay. I've lived with the woman for two years. She is not a man.
The biggest witch hunters are the people in the adult industry. People tell me that I don't pay enough. Who sets the standards for who is supposed to pay what? There is no law.
I'm a businessman. I buy low and sell high.
I work with lots of brand new people. About 35% walk out without even doing a scene. They are scared, hurt…nervous. They fear what will happen. Once they are smacked in the face with the reality of the camera, they start to think about the future. They don't think any more about rent money. They think about five years down the line. They're shy, reserved. Some don't like to suck dick.
I have to deal with this and decipher what I can get out of these people. So I give them as little as possible because I don't know if I can get a scene I can use.
I give them $75-$100 a scene to start with. If they come back, I raise them up to $150 an hour. Sometimes they will earn up to $300 a sitting. Most of these girls are homely. They don't know how to put on makeup. I cut my teeth on this. I've made my niche finding the girl next door. Some of the other schmucks claim this: But their girls are too cute. She's been in seven or eight videos already. She knows how to put on makeup. She's almost a Miss America. I literally use the girl next door. Not here in the Valley, but I go door knocking in South Central sometimes.
I go into the projects with someone I know who knows the area, and we go door-to-door. That's where I find a lot of my pregnant girls. They are more than happy to come down for $125 an hour. They feed their babies.
And the good thing about the pregnant girls is that they don't have any HIV because they're tested twenty times during their pregnancy.
Reb has a tiny little dick. I don't know, I'm just going by what he says and the way he says it, and the people he's attacking. Regan. Why attack Regan? Go f--- with someone your own size, bitch.
That's the problem with
this business. Everyone in it is so insecure that they attack the people
right next to them. They won't attack anyone of substance because they
are afraid of getting their ass kicked and name slandered. I am not
afraid. I don't play these games. I'm Randy Detroit. Check out my site.
The proof is in the pudding. www.detroitsharem.com