The director of the Free Speech Coalition, Jeffrey Douglas, arranged Tuesday, 6/30, for Kimberly Jade's release Wednesday, 7/1. A clerk in the Hollywood Court confused Kimberly's sentence, mistaking "concurrent" for "consecutive."
Jade is now (7/2) confined to house arrest, meaning that she can't leave the house.
HIV positive Jade languished for several weeks in the maximum security section of a psychiatric ward-jail, according to talent agent Rob Spallone. She was due to spend over three months there. She finds it hell. Her crime - driving without a license, skipping out on community service requirements... and other traffic violations.
Because Jade is HIV positive, and jail apparently does not discriminate between physical and mental disease, she is stuck in this psycho ward....
***
An industry observer told me:
"Russell Hampshire is trying to keep his industry from disappearing. He's dropped his prices dramatically to drive out his competitors. According to Gourmet's Joe Spallone, VCA's selling videos at 25c above cost [around $1:50 each]. The four-five leading companies pushing this condom mandate are selling at rock bottom to drive out the competition. They want to put everybody out of business. No one can sell at these prices, except for VCA, Vivid and company because they have huge archives. They don't have to worry about new production costs. But what they're doing is an anti-trust violation.
"Russ's legal representation is fu--ing him left and right. I have no idea what FSC administrator Jeffrey Douglas has on Russell Hampshire. But Jeffrey has something."
Russ Hampshire and others say these charges are nonsense. Hampshire says he maintains his prices for new releases at around $15 a video. He does make specials on his older titles every 18 months. Russ points out that other people put out tapes for $1 each.
Screenwriter Martin Brimmer: "Re your insider's remarks that majors like VCA and Vivid are attempting to drive out the competition by lowering their prices: a good percentage of my income is derived from writing mail order flyers and catalogs, notably for Voyages Catalog Group and Blue Ribbon Entertainment. The product I have been receiving for flyers and catalogs represents a vast array of labels: Zane, Seduction, SB Sales, LBO, TTV, Sin City, West Coast Video, Pleasure, Leisure Time, and K-Beech, to name a few. If this oft-repeated tale of "conspiracy" and anti-trust violation is true I would certainly expect to see a shift in product placement but I never have."
Porn companies who mandate the use of condoms in their shoot include: Vivid Video, VCA, Wicked, Snatch, Dave Cummings, Fallen Angel, Ed Powers, Tight Ends, Vidkisco, Astral Ocean Cinema, Bruce Seven, Zane, Prime Ent. (formerly Plush), Shane's World, Totally Tasteless Video, Stage Prod., Metro, Video Team, Vouyer Video.
6/29/98
Lots of talk about TT Boy and an incident at VCA about nine months ago. TT is suspected of forcing a VCA employee to have sex with him in the bathroom of a VCA set. VCA supposedly will no longer use TT Boy in their shoots. The truth in this matter may be impossible to establish if it is his word against hers... VCA owner Russ Hampshire denies the above stories.
I began my day at Reb Sawitz's Pretty Girl International. I watch Reb tell a couple that they had blown it. How? They turned down work for her, because the husband was not going to be allowed on the set. She could've earned $400 a day for several days, only working 2-4 hours a day.
I walked into the PAW office Monday afternoon 6/29. Bill Margold told me he had just taken his first AIDS test (a PCR DNA) and challenged me to take one. I was stunned, non-plussed, but then, when I heard that it would be a complimentary test, and that the sweet gentle Jewish babe Stephanie would administer it, I agreed. So Margold and I will probably get our test results back Thursday.
Talent agent Regan Senter and his Beautiful Models International were denied American Express Card Service. The rejection letter read: "American Express does not issue a contract for Service Establishments in your industry [porn?]."
Last week Rob Spallone set up porn girls to do bachelor parties for the LA Kings hockey team. Among those supposedly in attendance, Wayne Gretzky.
Talent agent Rob Spallone has a court date of July 6th to face charges of supposedly beating pornographer "Duke" aka Philip Glassman.
Herschel Savage, Viagra Falls and numerous other porn talent are still owed money by John Bone's Cream Entertainment.
I overheard these pay scale claims - Marc Davis - $650 a scene. Vince Voyeur $600.
A Russian couple are working all over town. His name is Uri. Muscular, short. Ilana is tiny and blonde. She normally gets $1200 for a DP.
Rob is amused by a 19-year old girl who applied to him for porno work. "I double ID'd her. She came in in her school uniform. She looks twelve years old. She drove her mother's car, a Mercedes. She lives at home in good neighborhood. She says she's had sex with 34 guys.
Rob shows me a picture of a 70-year old who's applied for work.
Sal Sodano returns from San Francisco with a new hard drive. He says he made the trip in four hours by driving 100 mph on average. He's upgrading Gourmet Video's Avid Editing system, and preparing them to broadcast live strip shows from the Star World Modeling studio. S.W. plans to go 50-50 with ifriends.com on the deal.
Sin City Director James DiGiorgio has just completed the first day of a two day shoot - Hot Tub Swingers...at his home in the Valley. Jim's sets are fun places to hang out, which I did for about eight hours today... Cheyenne Silver is a 19-year old gorgeous babe...who looks like the younger sister of the star, 5'10 brunette beauty Temptress.
For pics of the shoot, go here:
http://www.avalon.net/~jrsbabes/
Jim South's trying to sabotage the shoot. "Jim's telling people to not show up," says Rob Spallone, "because Jim no longer deals with him [DiGiorgio]."
Rob says he hosted shoots at his Star World Studio every day last week, and they prevented him from getting home until midnight of later. Rob says he did not get to see his kids once last week. Rob's wife leaves tomorrow with their two boys for seven weeks in New York.
Today Rob hosted a shoot by Puritan, out from Philadelphia for the occasion. Viagra Falls, a tall natural breasted blonde new to the industry is the star. Shortly after they begin shooting with Kyle Stone on top of Rob's roof, Viagra experiences the onset of her period, and bleeds copiously. Shooting stops and the towels come out. Viagra cleans up and inserts a sponge into her vagina to soak up the blood. An hour or so later, the shooting resumes.
Rob, who pulled the permit for DiGiorgio's shoot, drives me in his little red Corvette over to James' shoot. Rob's new dog BJ nestles in my lap. Every time we enter an underpass, Rob yells 'Princess Diana,' speeds up and starts driving crazy. Rob tells me about the time in Pasadena that two punks threatened him outside a convenience store. So Rob beat them to a pulp.
We arrive at James' set. The house hosts six fluffy white dogs, five of them are American Eskimos. BJ plays with them.
I talk to James DiGiorgio at 12:30 PM, Monday, 6/29/98, on the set of his latest video. James stands about 5'10, and weighs about 210 pounds. About 50 years old, the hippie has long hair down his back. "We couldn't decide whether to do a movie about swingers or a movie about hot tubs. So in typical porno fashion, I came in with the flash of brilliance, 'how about Hot Tub Swingers.' Everyone's jaw dropped, and they started bowing at me, saying 'You're the man.'"
James proudly displays two fluorescent pink blow-up plastic couches on the lawn next to the hot tub which host much of the sex over the next two days. The owner of the home works fulltime as an interior landscaper, and she's arranged colorful flowers around the couches and hot tubs, including two pink flowering rose bushes in sturdy wooden boxes.
James shows me the guest house he lives in and some S-M toys for Tuesday's shoot. "We can't do penetration while she's restrained, but we can do a lot of stuff before that."
Luke: Does this movie have a script?
James: Sure, in my head. It has an outline. We'll improvise it. This is not a story-driven show. It's a sex driven show. It stars Temptress, and Nina Whett, Cheyenne Silver aka Wild Cat, Tracy Love… We have a number of group scenes."
I spot James' computer from which he posts to RAME. A Compaq Presario 140. "Temptress will get on the computer and start fantasizing. Then her cyber lover will mysteriously appear."
Luke to James: I hear Jim South is sabotaging your shoot.
James is reluctant to answer. The make-up actress and Rob get involved. Rob yells, 'Are you kissing South's ass now, Jim?'
James: No, no. He's making it difficult. He tried to do some bad stuff to her [Melody, the make-up artist], because of her association with me. Some girl took my card from her, and Jim South now tells people not to use Melody as a make-up artist anymore.
Melody: He told a shooter [Bill Woodroth?] not to use me. Bill wouldn't use me.
Rob: You tell Jim South that if he does that to you again he'll have to deal with me. That's against the law. I'm the f---ing law. He's a cunt. He's trying to take work away from the girl. I'll f---ing rip his head off. And everyone in his office.
Melody: This girl was sitting in my chair crying that Jim South never got her work. That was her only job she ever got from him. So I told her some people to talk to, and told her that I had James DiGiorgio's card, which she took from me.
Rob bellows at Melody: Jim South's a cunt. Admit it.
Melody: No, I am not going to say that.
James: Luke, there's a rumor going around about you. That you are changing your last name to Brasco [after the FBI agent who penetrated the Mafia]. Donnie Ford.
Rob: He's not FBI. If he is, I'm f---ed.
Melody starts feeling me out for a hidden microphone. Luke pushes her hands down his stomach, while murmuring, 'lower, lower.'
Later, James DiGiorgio introduces me to a young man in a wheelchair who has the web site I've listed above. Victor is a porn fan that James met on the internet and has invited to several shoots.
JD: "He asked this porn girl if he could stick his finger up her ass. She said, 'only if I can stick mine up yours.' He pops a wheelie on his wheelchair, bends over, and says 'ok.' She wouldn't do it.
Vic boasts an $800 Sony digital camera.
JD: "He's collecting pictures of porn stars sitting on his lap. We met at Bob's Classy Lady [strip club in Van Nuys]. I figured I'd make the night memorable for him. I know a bunch of the girls. Tabatha Stevens. But these weren't just pictures. The guy had his fingers up there. They were Whett."
Vic assures me that his fingers were Whett from probing Tabatha's pussy.
JD: There was another girl who came over and gave him the lap dance of his life.
Vic: That was a great lap dance.
JD: The day you die, you will remember that lap dance.
I almost got thrown out of Bob's Classy Lady the other night. The bouncer accused me of getting too friendly with my hands. She was fine with it. The bouncers have no sense of humor. He said to me, 'Watch your hands, man.' I said, 'You watch my hands. They are doing just fine.'
I've been talking with Joe Spallone, and we've decided that all the guineas [Italians] in the business have to band together. The Jews stick together, but the guineas spread out. We're going to join together.
Luke: The Italian Anti-Defamation League.
Back at Star World, Dave Hardman blows in, carrying a copy of the August 1998 issue of Hustler Erotic Video Guide which features a four page interview with Dave, and pictures of Dave with such porn babes as Racquel Divine, Rebecca Wilde, Jessica Rabbit, Lisa Lennox, Melody Stone.
Dave is antsy because he's double-booked himself this afternoon. A Puritan shoot and a VCA shoot.
Dave did one edition of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPER DAVE for Zane, and one edition of a line for Vivid, pictures from which appear in HEVG. "Having with fun with hot women in outside settings," says Dave. "Wild action. Adventure. Mountains. Water skiing. We did a scene in a dump truck. That mattress is now in my van. We did a scene in a teepee. This scene [Dave points to a picture in HEVG] Uzzis, Floozies and Jacuzzis with Racquel Divine and Jessica Rabbit.
"I want do a line that tops Ed Powers, Paul Little and all those guys. I want do a line that is going to be really good and make a lot of money."
Rob Spallone: What's going to be different about it?
Dave pauses. "Whatever I want to do… "
Rob: What makes you think that something is going to sell more than something else?
Dave has a hard time answering. "It's not really the movie, it's the company you go through. Anything Elegant Angel puts out is going to sell 4000 copies."
Rob: I doubt it. 2500 maybe.
Dave: Ok, who sells 4000?
Rob: Nobody. They may trade that many, but they don't sell 4000.
Dave: So if they sold 1800 of Super Dave, that's pretty good.
Rob: That's excellent.
Dave: Zane wasn't satisfied. They wanted to sell 3000. They're too busy shooting their features.
Rob: Get them to give you $8,000.
Dave: I'd probably need $10-15,000 to make it decent.
Rob: Why? Five scenes with you f---ing all five girls.
Dave: I'm not scrimping on this. I want to get girls who cost $1500.
Rob: Which girls cost $1500. Very few.
Dave: To get Editor's Choice [AVN category] everything has to be perfect. Editing, camerawork, and the f---ing. And it has to be good movie with a good story. It can be gonzo. Look at Tom Byron's Cumback Pussy. Every week he was getting Editor's Choice. What was he doing?
Rob: Who reads AVN? Half the stores don't read it. The people renting these movies don't read AVN. AVN is for talent and shooters.
Dave: Why do their reviews say, 'stock this tape accordingly.' They act like it is for store owners. I think more of those people read it than the talent.
Rob: Go ask my salesmen to ask the people they call up, if they know what AVN is. I bet half the people don't. AVN don't mean s---, Dave. You wanna get a good review in AVN? Advertise in there.
Dave: Well, I'll do that too. But I want to make a good movie.
Rob: That's because you're one of the few guys who cares. Most people just care about the money.
At 2:30 PM, I drove over to PAW and said hello to a happy Sharon Mitchell, dressed in a miniskirt and a minimum top, who told me: "We've got all incorporation filing for non-profit status. I'm looking at locations now [for AIM]. The Board of Health [a state government agency] came by Friday. He helped me with the future licensing that I will need for the new place. We're [PAW] all certified and licensed properly. We follow procedure and always have. We have our own manual for operations.
"The city stuff is building and code zoning which I'm working on today. Everything's progressing."
Mitchell sympathized with my swollen wrist, my surgery and my enormous hospital bill (about $9,000 before insurance, about $2700 after).
Bill Margold, wearing sweat pants and a T shirt, walks in and challenges me to take a PCR/DNA HIV test. He told me that he had just tested.
"I realized that I have to marginally grow up and accept the responsibility of being in this industry. If Papa Bear can't do it [HIV testing], why should the cubs? Now I'm sure that my enemies are praying that I'm positive. Now we want you to take one, courtesy of us."
Luke: "Ok, Bill, we'll lose our virginity together. I've never taken a PCR/DNA."
Bill: "You said in our last interview that we have a lot in common. We're both journalists."
Luke just got the cast on his arm off, and he shows everybody his wounds from surgery. Luke's wrist remains swollen. Bill tells me to soak it in Epsom Salts and keep it elevated.
Luke: "What's this about TT Boy raping some VCA girl?"
Bill: "Rape is a dangerous term to use. To bandy about accusations of rape, or HIV positive is dangerous… For the next four days, you and I are linked by the HIV positive scandal. Why did both of us test on the same day unless we had something going on? An unusual bonding, like a testing of father and son. I also figured that I might be able to start working again [sex in front of the camera]."
Luke, Bill and Sharon (and Jeffrey Douglas via Sharon's telephone call) laugh about Luke and Bill taking their first PCR HIV test.
Luke: I think it is time Bill and I came out of the closet.
Bill: I'll come out and lock you back in it.
Bill was the first person to test Monday, and Luke #11.
Bill: "It's a reality check. I can't prescribe this to others and blithely say, 'I am not going to acquiesce to fear.' I haven't acquiesced to fear. I've acquiesced to common sense. "
Luke: "You're writing for AVN [a former arch-enemy of Bill's]. You've taken an HIV test. Bill, you're mellowing."
Bill thinks. "I'm settling into my golden years. I've earned the right to do all this. I'll be happy to show around my negative test and it will give me a peace of mind. It fulfills a certain Juvenile Hall mentality. From 1969-71, I worked in Juvenile Hall. And the kids would say to me, 'how the hell do you know what it's like here? You've never lived here.' But I had lived in Juvenile Hall (1956). So now, I've been tested too."
A fuse in the building has burned out. The lights, computers etc shut down. It feels like the first day of summer. About 95 degrees outside. Jim South confers with Sharon and Bill about minimizing electrical use so he can maintain his World Modeling operations.
Sharon walks in excited. Jim South has decided to close his office on Friday, July 3rd, which means that PAW will close as well. Everyone gets a day off.
Bill plans to be at the VSDA (Video Software Dealers of America) show in Las Vegas July 8-11 to fundraise for the FSC and Bill's FOXE organization. The FSC pays Bill a stipend for his work.
Around 3:30 PM, TJ Hart walked in with Ryan Idol to take PCR/DNA HIV tests. Hart is about to spend six weeks shooting in Europe for Private. She says the Europeans require both a PCR and an Eliza test.
Hart is a tall healthy looking blonde wearing a white miniskirt and a white halter top over her enhanced c-D cup breasts. She appears in the 6/98 AVN. Ryan Idol, a wounded young god of homosexual porn, looks dapper. He appears to have recovered from jumping out a window in New York City several months ago. The adult industry held a fundraiser (for his extensive hospital bills) in West Hollywood Sunday night.
I walk outside of PAW into the sunshine to talk to Hart.
TJ: "I just shot with Private before, with Bill Wright, in the French Pyrenes Mountains. I'll be showing several movies for Private, for at least two directors. One will be in Spain.
"I've done about twelve videos. I'm selective and new. People don't know me yet."
From a small town outside of Chicago, TJ, a former ballet dancer, stands 5'8, weighs 115 pounds, and measures 36C-24-26. Her first performance, Bathroom Babes for Sunshine Films, got miscredited. A member of the 1988 US Olympic swim team (butterfly and back sprint 100 meter), she graduated from the University of Colorado with "a triple major in psychology, sociology and art, with a minor in early childhood education."
For Sin City, she starred in Erotic Confessions of the Rich and Shameless where she had sex with Colt Steele on a wooden bridge in rainy, windy 50-degree weather. (AVN 6/98)
TJ says she entered porn to make money, "to experience things that I had not done before, and to please other people. I was raised in a very Christian [Methodist] home. I was a Sunday School teacher until December.
"I haven't stripped yet. I can't imagine taking off my clothes in front of strangers. I go-go danced at Mardi Gras."
TJ, who has an older brother and a younger sister, says her family do not yet know about her new career. She tells them she works in "public relations. This is a form of public relations.
"Ryan Idol is a buddy of mine. I've known of him for seven years. I have several gay friends. I thought he would be interesting to meet. I can get things out of people's eyes. Then, after his…uhh…"
Luke: his fall…
TJ: "His fall, I guess you should say. It's really nice to be with him now. I met him in January and I couldn't talk to him. Now he's cleaned up and made a new start on life. It's great to meet someone who has turned his life around. He's trying to put into life what he almost took out."
Luke: Do you do drugs?
TJ: "No. I'm not totally against them. Everything in moderation. Alcohol is a drug too and I do that in moderation. Some drugs should not be legal.
"I did this great campfire scene in El Nino with Roxanne Hall and John Decker for director Teri Diver. I did this scene with Steve Hatcher in January at night, butt naked and freezing cold. And there were lights from two police helicopters shining on us. But we had a permit so they couldn't do anything.
"I've just started doing anal [with Brandon Steel]. I'm very selective. I would like to become a contract girl. I'd like to be secure. That way I can put all my energy in one place.
"I've been volunteering for Big Sister Big Brother programs. They don't know about [TJ's porn work]. My mom needs bone marrow every few months. So I donate my bone barrow.
"Working with girls is new to me. I'm submissive. I feel more secure with boys because I've always been with boys and I know what they like. I feel nervous with girls. I was told to do to them [girls] what I like. Well, I like it rough, and they may not like that."
Formerly flat chested, TJ got a breast enhancement in June of 1997. "I did it for me first. I used to be all muscle, and with my short hair, people thought I was a dyke. I didn't even wear a bra. I wanted to feel more like a girl, more feminine. I'm sick of being an athlete."
A three-year porn veteran phones Bill to ask how to become a contract girl. Bill tells her: "That usually for girls who've been in magazines like Playboy or Penthouse, who companies want to develop into something. Because you've been in the industry for three years, it will be difficult to get a contract. Perhaps if you went off to the fetish end of things… The mainstream companies prefer to create from the ground up and you've already gotten off the ground…
"Not everybody gets boxcovers and starring roles. There are an awful lot of linemen in the business. You have to look at this as a team. Better to be a lineman than to not play at all."
I talk to Bill about the FSC's lobbying trip to Sacramento. Bill loathes politicians, particularly those who pontificate about the evils of pornography. "We're a multi-billion dollar business that provides lots of tax. If they succeed in driving us underground, we won't have to pay our taxes. By leaving us alone, and simply poking pins in us on occasion, they make sure that we bleed green when we are supposed to.
"I offered the Meese Commission the opportunity to raise the age of entrance into this business to 21. They said no. I would love for people to be blessed for doing this [porn]. But they're not. There is still social stigma. I thrive on the damnation, but many persons don't."
Luke: "Did you serve your country in Vietnam?"
Bill: "In 1960, on my 17th birthday, I begged the Marines to take me and they said no. On my 18th birthday, the Navy said no. I had an incorrigibility record in Juvenile Hall. They said I wouldn't fit in. I also had a weak eye. 2100 vision. So, I tried twice.
"I wanted to be made a man of by the Marines or even the Navy. I loved the book Battle Cry. I wanted to be the next Leon Uris. Go into the service, go to college and write a book.
"I'm serving my country now by preserving the letter X in the entertainment alphabet."
Luke: "How's Ryan Idol?"
Bill: "He's fine. We had an event to raise money for his hospital bills. He's the Treat Williams of X. That's a whole genre I know nothing about.
"I didn't even know about homosexuality while I was growing up in the '50s. I worked at the Riviera Country Club. One of the caddies invited me home to show me his books. He started groping me. I decided that I didn't like it. They eventually banished him from the club.
"That locked me up in my closet where I've been contented since sexuality reared its head. In 1971, I was rolling around with a girl. She said, 'you have a big dick.' I said that I didn't realize that. She said, 'haven't you ever looked at other guys dicks?' I said, 'is this what other guys do?' She said, 'yes, in the showers…'
"Well, in high school, I'd put my glasses in the locker and try to find the water. I wasn't concerned about other guys' dicks. I'm too old to learn new sexual tricks."
Bill says that members of FOXE (Fans of X-Rated Entertainment) will be choosing the other 24 stars for FOXE's 50 Legends of Erotica. Bill chose and inducted the first 26 legends at the FSC Dinner Dance in August, 1997.
Jim Holliday's shooting regularly, says Bill. Jim will select the all time top 25 pornos (15 films and ten videos) for the August FSC Dinner.
I drove back to DiGiorgio's set around 4 PM, and sat in the shade drinking cold drinks while watching lithe young bodies (almost all of them entered the biz this year) f--- around a hot tub. Sitting in the tub were two beauties - blonde newcomer Nina Whett, totally nude, and Temptress, wearing a blue bikini bottom. Behind them on the inflatable pink couches sat the extras. Fiero, a tall 6' strawberry blonde who sucked off Chris Cannon to a frothy finish all over her face and shoulder. Rebecca, a pale redhead, who recently retired, wore black lingerie. Janice Jones got her mouth all over Brandon Steel's hard one.
"These girls are just extras," James DiGiorgio points out to me. "They don't have to do that."
Jim's sets are frequently home to lots of extracurricular f---ing and sucking.
Chris Cannon, from Boston, served in the Marines from age 18-24. He first entered the porn industry at the swingers Lifestyles convention last fall. A veteran of 70 shoots, he says he had 13 cum shots one day, until his gonads would ejaculate no more. Chris and Brandon along with Temptress and Cheyenne Silver are represented by agent Jim South.
I sit next to veteran photographer Ron Miller, not to be confused with the lawyer who runs the Erotica LA shows. Both Ron Millers, however, are Jewish.
The Ron Miller I talked with Monday, 6/29, entered porno as a still photographer in 1968. Ron first worked for Milton Luros who owned Parliament News. Reuben Sturman bought Parliament in 1974 and copied much of his corporate web structure from Luros.
Ron says the Israelis ruined the business, when they entered around 1985 and drove prices down from $65 a video to $20 and below. A guy name Ari who now works as a duplicator at Sin City.
Nineteen year-old Cheyenne, wearing a red bathing suit, sucks on the schlong of Chris Canon. Nina and Temptress suck on Alec Metro. Nina, in her fifth video ever, gives a mean blow job, sucking like a vacuum cleaner.
Break time. I schmooze with Jim and Nena. They met in a fetish club. Nina put a dog collar on Jim and led him around on a leash. Jim barked like a dog.
Then they went to someone's home. Nina rubbed baby oil all over him. "I got hot with that," says Whett. "That ranks up there with putting on a strap-on and doing a guy up the ass. Jim wouldn't let me do that to him. This chick had a water bed. We stripped off all the sheets. We slipped and slid all over it. Then he said, 'Do you wanna see it?' I said, 'oh yeah baby.' Then he pulled out. Five inches. Jim looked very naughty so I had to start whipping him.
Jim: It was a fantasy, that I be her dog. Then I got rabies, and I got rabid.
Nina: Then he treated me like a fire hydrant. But he didn't pee on me. That's where I draw the line. He peed on the wall.
Jim: What she loved was when I face-f---ed her.
Luke: She gives a mean blow job.
Jim: She didn't give me a blow job. I f---ed her face.
Nina: He shagged me rotten.
Luke: Did that shut her up?
Jim: Shut her up completely.
Luke: Cut off that feminist stuff she was babbling.
So Nena, how did a nice wife like you get into this business?
Nena: I had a few photos on the internet and Regan Senter emailed me. I've been dancing since 1990. I did oil wrestling for years, including at the Tropicana.
Jim moves his lascivious hands all over Nina's D-cup breasts. Her nipples harden and thrust through the grey fabric.
Jim: She goes down on me once a week. You may see an over 40, overweight ex-hippie, but I'm a real animal.
Nina sits on Jim's lap.
Luke to Nina: How was your demo tape with Regan?
Nina laughs. "Excuse me, I did not do a demo tape with Regan."
Luke: You haven't felt Regan's four inch penis moving inside of you?
Nina: "I didn't say he didn't f--- me. I said no to his demo. We got into a raging argument. I left town. Regan said to me: 'Honey, you must run from the business if you can't stand boy-girl sex.' I said, 'I can stand boy-girl sex. I just can't stand you.' I went home, then I got approached by Extreme Video to do a commercial video and get paid to do the demo [with Regan] for a documentary. For John Keeler [Jane Waters]. So yes, I f---ed Regan. Barely. Poquito.
"Regan talks about you [Luke F-rd] all the time.
"I am not his girl. Nor have we slept together again. That video is going to be everywhere and you'll all be laughing at me.
"My husband is in town but he is not on the set. I told him that I was going over to a friends' house to give her a back rub for $25."
Nina laughs. "Of course he knows what I do, and he's totally into it because he's a connoisseur of pornography. We don't swing.
"I've also done a scene with Van Damage."
Nena Whett was not sexually abused as a child nor did she attend a Roman Catholic day school. She is not an ex-drug addict but says, "I may be an alcoholic."
Luke: Are you a nymphomaniac?
Nina: I hear that as a derogatory word. I enjoy sex.
Luke: What do you want to do with your career?
Nina: Make money. I want to feature dance.
Nina does not yet do on-camera anal, nor has she taken Jim's big wanger up her hershey highway.
Luke: Do you do your husband with a strap-on?
Nina bursts out laughing. "Hell no. I would never marry a guy who takes it up the ass."
Luke: How does your family feel about your new career?
Nina. Ahh. Next question.
Luke: Where did you get those tits?
Jim: At the flea market.
Nina: They're mine. How do you know they're implants? You're a real reporter.
Luke walks over to Nina and starts feeling her tits. He suspects she has implants. Luke keeps feeling Nina's big beautiful firm breasts.
Cheyenne moans that she is all natural.
Nina makes me shut off my tape recorder before telling me about her implants, which I can't mention.
Jim suggests that we do a blindfold tests of different porn stars' breasts.
Nina measures 39C-25-36.
Jim: My sets are so sexually charged.
Luke stands next to Alec Metro who's getting blown by Fiero, a bonus no-camera blow. Luke stares.
Luke: Jesus, how many inches is that?
Alex: Seven.
Luke: How is she doing?
Alec: Excellent.
Fiero takes every inch in her mouth. Alec moans in my tape recorder. Luke gets a woody.
Luke: You humped for a long time today, about two hours. Do you get time-and-a-half after two hours of humping?
Alec with difficulty: I wish. I wish porno was union.
Jim: Luke, you've got to get the camera man's angle. You've got to get right down there.
Luke fears that if he gets any close to Alex's dick, he'll start sucking on it.
Jim: You keep watching this for a few minutes, and you'll be able to suck dick.
Luke: Thanks Jim.
Fiero does the Indianapolis 500 on Alec's cock. The veins in his penis pop out.
Luke: How many videos have you done now?
Alec: About 1000. When I started, I shot every day. I've done lots of films. I'll be on cable and Spice for a long time. Some of the stuff I first shot [three years ago], is still on there.
I took six months off, and came back in 1997 strong. Once again, I went after the best projects in the business.
I entered the business by doing a layout for Earl Miller of Penthouse. Then Playgirl.
Luke: Fiero, did you have to suck Jim's cock to get this job?
Alec: No, Alec stunted for me.
Fiero has her mouth too full to answer.
Alec: After I did Penthouse, my best friend talked me into doing porno. The company I worked for was folding. My boss was floating checks. So, I got $1000 for the Penthouse layout. I thought, 'this isn't too rough. Eating good food. Sitting around with pretty girls. So I got an appointment with Jim South and got a job within two hours. I was sent to Palm Springs for the weekend to shoot for Roy Bruington where I f---ed superstar Jordan Lee. And Jordan Lee launched my whole career. She got on the phone and told everybody.
Jim: Jordan's good that way.
Alec: Yeah, and Helen DuValle did the same thing. My phone didn't stop ringing. When I showed up on the set, I met another actress who told me, 'you need to call this director. I'm working on Thursday and I want to do it with you.' Next thing, I didn't even know who Jim South was.
Luke: Why did Jordan Lee like you so much? Did you also have a swastika tattoo'd on your ankle?
Boos all round.
Alec: The girls like me because I do a good job with them. The key to being a successful porn actor is to get along with all the females in the business, so they ask to work with you. The sex looks good when you try to push their buttons. Each actress is different, and they have personalities which make them difficult to get off. It's a challenge to get a porno actress off. I've had women tell me, 'I've never cum before on video.' That's flattering.
8PM: James DiGiorgio, wearing nothing but black shorts, clambers into the hot tub with the 3-chip Sony Camera on his shoulder. His new friend, songwriter Andy Cahan, handles the other three-chip camera. One guy will frequently shoot softcore (without penetration) and the other hardcore.
Brandon Steel, a 5'6 blonde Canadian, sucks on the tits of Temptress. Chris Canon works on Cheyenne while dry ice blows over all four of them. The lights come on as the sun goes down.
Brandon pumps Temptress until Jim calls for a break. Temptress squeals and runs around frustrated that she was about to orgasm. Cheyenne exclaims that she came hard. Her 20th birthday is July 14. Brandon's birthday is July 8th. Chris Cannon pops on the breasts of Cheyenne, followed a few minutes later by Brandon popping a thick creamy spew on the bottom of Temptress.
It's 10:30 PM and the day's shoot is over.
Cheyenne Silver, formerly Wildcat, has tired of sucking cock, and now smokes a cigarette. She giggles when I maneuver the tape recorder towards her pert mouth. "You're not going to get any crazy stuff out of my mouth," she laughs.
She's appeared in about 30 videos in her five months in porn. "I was horny. Throughout high school I got increasingly sexual. After I graduated, I had to have some interesting fun. And I enjoy getting paid for it. What could be better?
"I had a friend who knew about the porn industry. I want to own my own horse ranch one day. My friend told me, 'The way you f---, you should be in films. If you like it, do it for a few years. If you don't like it, no one will know.' It's not a problem for me.
"I came hard tonight. I got crazy. Went kind of deaf because of it. When I have intense orgasms, I go deaf for several minutes.
"I want my own horse ranch. I want to train and ride. It's what I was born to do. Riding a horse can be sexual. I've done a few things on horseback, but the main attraction is the life experience. Getting out there and letting her [the horse?] go.
"I lost my virginity at age 13, on my mom's birthday. She doesn't ask me questions about my new career. My dad would freak. He's almost a pastor of a church. First my mom was deep into Christianity. Then my dad. She's looser. She smokes out with me.
"My religion is Native American. I go into the mountains… That will be another part of my ranch. Doing ceremonies. Teaching people how to become one with the earth. I've known a few Sharman. It's me. I believe in past lives. I was a Native American warrior. I'm a quarter Cherokee and a quarter Chochta.
"I did an edition of No Man's Land that was hot. It was my first boxcover. And Real Sex Magazine. I figure that the ones that I had the most fun on, and came the hardest, were the best ones. It's becoming easier for me to orgasm on camera. I often hold back because I don't want to…
"My first time with a woman came on video. Paul Thomas's The Second Coming, and Party Favors (Vivid). I had three scenes.
"I danced in Las Vegas at Cheetahs for seven months. Then once I started the films, I said, 'no more crazy weirdos all over me.' Here I have people on me that I know. That's fine. I haven't met any weirdos in this business. Everyone is really nice. How can you not be nice when this [sex] is what you do?
"Marc Davis is nice to work with. He did my first (all time and on camera) anal. He's good. He knows what he's doing. For Vince Voyeur's series. I do anal in about half of my videos. I'm saving my first double penetration. I did do a DP with a dick and a dildo, but that was not on camera.
"At the XRCO, Max Hardcore walked up to me. I told him, 'I know who you are. Sorry, I want nothing to do with you.' He stood there stunned. I did TT Boy on a '60s green Chevy for Shane's World. He was quiet. He's known for being rough?Really. He was nice to me.
"I was scared at first [entering porno]. I knew that I would soon be sleeping with more guys than I've been with in my whole life. I let go of that fear quickly.
"My friends didn't know until I told my best friend. She said she wouldn't say, but everyone found out. I'm from a small town in the San Diego mountains. So, one day, we all got stoned and watched one of my videos. All the guys came up and shook my hand and said, 'we're proud of you.' They love it.
"I don't get recognized by strangers yet. I've received one fan letter. I was blown away. It was cool. I wrote the guy back. I haven't heard from him."
Sin City editor Weasel recalls the time at a junkyard a bunch of people recognized him from a documentary on the Playboy cable TV channel.
"I live with Stephanie Swift and her husband Reuben (five months). She gets recognized all the time. Stephanie's my girlfriend and he's my toy."
Luke: Are you a swinger?
Cheyenne: What does that mean?
Luke: Do you swap partners?
Cheyenne: I never had before, until they brought me into their lives.
"I become condoms-only when the HIV scare hit (Spring). Stephanie and Ruben brought me into their house and taught me how to be safe…"
An explosion of laughter. James DiGiorgio relates a great title for a porno that he learned on the internet. "Ali Baba and her 40 Ds."
Jim talks about taking a group in her motor home to Arizona for a few days to shoot a porno. Cheyenne tells how much she loves to water ski.
Brandon talked to me about the pressure to ejaculate on cue. "At first it was tough. Now I don't care anymore. I realize that everyone wants to go home. They're not looking at me. So I just stared at her butt, and how good it is going to feel, and then boom…"
Luke: You delivered a nice pop. Rich and creamy.
Brandon: I've worked with her before. We get along well.
Luke: You were driving her into oblivion.
Brandon: She's 5'10 and I'm only 5'6.
Brandon speaks in a gentle slow Canadian accent.
"She got me a job in Seattle a week and a half ago. She got to pick any guy and she chose me. I got a paid vacation to Seattle thanks to Temptress. K@A Entertainment were making their first feature. They must have lots of money because they don't have a distribution deal yet. Director Ray Lucerno. I hope they make a mint off it. I'd think that on your first time you'd do it cheap and see if you could move it."
Luke: Maybe they're laundering money.
How come you get along so well with Temptress?
Brandon: "She's easy to get along with. She has no attitude. If you don't clique the first time with a girl, there's not going to be a second time. Temptress helps you when you have problems. She asks, 'what do you want me to do?' Other girls will ignore you. Let you jack off. Temptress is there to get things done quickly.
"TJ Hart is another favorite. She got me a lot of work. She recently started doing anal. I worked well her once. Then I got to f--- her in the ass. That's an intimate thing. It was sweet. I don't like to hurt, 'because that's painful. I work with her tomorrow. The company forgot to hire a still photographer. So they have video on our scene but they don't have stills. So tomorrow we'll recreate our shoot.
"PussyBeat 2 was filmed 20 feet from here with Anita Blonde, for Jim Powers. I knew who she was. I saw her in Rockn'Roll Rocco, parts one and two. I save her from a 200 pound rubber snake."
Jim: I shot two shows together - Lapdance, and Nightshift 3 - Gothic. I rented this strip club where we shot scenes for both shows. I had 30 extras. All of a sudden, wildfires of sex broke out everywhere. I was walking around laughing. I was stoned. Then I realized that things were out of hand. We weren't going to have any glue between the scenes. It got to the crew. The porno girls started blowing the gaffer. I suddenly realized that I, the director, was the only person in the room who was not getting his dick sucked.
6/30 10:46 AM.
I call Russ Hampshire. He denies any knowledge of TT Boy forcing a VCA employee to have sex with him, TT, in a bathroom on a VCA set. Russ says there is no VCA prohibition against using TT Boy. Russ says he does not tell directors who shoot for VCA who to use (aside from pushing the use of VCA's contract girls).
Russ Hampshire is tired of Michael Ross bad-mouthing VCA and the Free Speech Coalition. Russ feels it is unprofessional and does not further the aims of the adult video industry. Russ told me that he had offered to fund some of Ross's programs after the FSC decided to not renew Ross's contract as a FSC lobbyist. The FSC went instead (at the end of 1997) with Kat Sunlove.
Hampshire says that Ross's sniping at the FSC damages the industry in the eyes of the politicians and the industry's opponents, who believe in the traditional philosophy of "divide and conquer."
Russ points out that the FSC has not spoken ill of Mike Ross, and that he Russ has not spoken ill of Ross, even though Hampshire's been questioned about Mike. Russ feels annoyed with Ross's criticisms and is considering talking to a lawyer about pursuing charges of libel against Ross. Ross supposedly has said that VCA funds the FSC, when in reality VCA probably provides fewer than 10% of the FSC's funds.
[Full disclosure: Mike Ross is a friend of Luke F-rd. We've talked regularly for months and share many values.]
It appears that the long simmering rivalry between Ross and the FSC could blow up into full scale war. Hampshire is furious with the following fax that Michael sent to members of the adult industry Monday night. Mike's fax, in part, seeks to highlight his effectiveness over FSC lobbyist Kat Sunlove. Ross writes:
http://www.xxxadvocate.com
This legislative session we took positions on over 45 issues that affect the operations of the adult entertainment industry. In total, we believe that we saved you over $75,000,000 (not to mention headaches), while promoting free speech causes, protecting copyrights and trademarks, and making our clients feel good… Can the FSC top that?
…We worked hard to provide the community with the following services:
* Held 12 seminars and educated and certified over 150 "grass roots advocates" including FSC's Kat Sunlove and Jeffrey Douglas [3x each];
· Participated in the passage or death of over 175 bills while FSC was involved in about 10 to 12;
· Created original representation programs that were continually copied by the FSC (Where did the Whitepaper Report come from?) [Mike Ross]
· Raised over $40,000 in pledges while VCA paid for FSC to operate;
· Did over 180 media interviews while FSC paid a PR firm to garner theirs…
Mike Ross says:
"The FSC have told me that legislators hate me, that they hate me, that they will never talk to me again. Jeffrey thought I was just a hired gun. He would hire me. Learn everything he could from me, then fire me. I said to him, 'I put my balls on the line. You think I am going to walk away?' Jeffrey laughed. He said, 'your image is terrible. Nobody likes you in the capitol.'
"I have had Kat Sunlove tell a legislator that [that everyone hated Mike Ross]. He called me and invited me into his office. She said it again in front of me. I said to Kat, 'look at my campaign statements.' I am getting money from people [to lobby].
"A company from back east was trying to negotiate a settlement between FSC and me. They said, 'Mike, you have done more to this industry in two years than Jerry Falwell in ten. Because no one has taken on the porno industry and won. How do you do it?'
"The FSC flies Kat Sunlove all around the country. She's missing votes at home in Sacramento. She was not in the capitol today to talk about bills that affect this industry. She's missed four important votes in the last two days. She's lying to her constituency.
"Kat's friendly with a consultant on a committee. He is not noting my letters of opposition. Tomorrow, the senator in charge of the committee an official complaint that this guy is siding with the porno industry, and is not doing his job. His job is not to take sides."
Mike Ross says that the FSC jacked him around, made him think that he was getting a raise while Jeffrey Douglas maneuvered to fire him.
"They ain't no competition. Today (6/30), I sat there in the committee when they were talking about adult email, stalking people online, insurance and abortion rates… When they're changing these laws, and the FSC is not involved, there's a problem. Why is the FSC not there? Because the FSC do not give a damn about the talent. Russell is concerned about workers compensation. I've already been approached about writing a workers compensation for porno stars bill. If that passes, the industry [in CA] is dead. Could you imagine giving a porno star compensation for when she can't work anymore? The model for this bill comes from the professional boxers association in CA.
"Negotiation breeds legitimacy which breeds contentment. Kat Sunlove and the FSC keep calling bills unconstitutional. They won't negotiate with anybody. Legislators don't give a damn about constutionality. Legislators care about making public policy and getting re-elected. By my being able to work with them, I do several things that FSC can't. I make the industry mainstream. By Kat being a porno star turned obscenity publisher (Supreme Court ruling on CA's news rack law) turned Mistress Kat, she can't expect to come to the legislature and be accepted as legitimate."
Luke: Porno companies want to believe that porn performers are independent contractors. But I hear that they are on shaky legal ground. Pornographers are concerned about workers compensation. Next legislative year in Sacramento, there may be a workers compensation for porno stars bill. If that passes, the industry in CA is in big trouble. Could you imagine giving a porno star compensation for when she can't work anymore? The model for this bill comes from the professional boxers association in CA.
The Free Speech Coalition held a meeting last night 6/30. Competing lobbyist Mike Ross was a large item of discussion.
On 7/1/98, Mike told me:
"The FSC need to aggressively protect their members copyrights on the internet and they are not doing it. They are three years behind the times.
"Russell Hampshire is upset because I beat his organization to the punch. FSC is not taking positions on important bills before the California legislature."
Mike represents strip clubs, web sites, consumers and some video owners.
I talked to Russ 7/1/98 at 2:45 PM. He'd just gotten off the phone from a productive discussion with Mike Ross. It appears that a deal is going down, and compromises may be reached. Hampshire appeared pleased with last night's FSC meeting. He did not appear worried about workers compensation for porn stars. Russ pointed out that he's been subtracting taxes from performers' pay checks for over ten years. He does not follow the practice of many of his peers who simply treat performers as independent contractors.
LC Salinas writes on RAME: "The notion of an "independent contractor" has been coming under lots of fire recently. The government is starting to look at it as a dodge for employers to not take responsibility for their "employees." Courts in NJ have ruled that temporary employees can be considered your employees for certain purposes, so you can't claim to have no one on the payroll and yet be fully staffed with temps.
"The strip-club scene has also seen the IC status come to a halt; see www.dejanews.com for archives in alt.sex.strip-clubs about it, some clubs have actually had to hire their dancers which creates all sorts of interesting employer/employee relationships.
I wonder about the contract girls -- are they considered "employees?" If so, if Jenna J. catches the clap while working for Wicked, can she get worker's comp and/or disability?
"And what does this mean for mainstream Hollywood? Are the days of the "free agent" on the way out? Is the studio system coming back (and I wish it would)?
Interesting to see where this goes. Nowadays it's the business end I am finding more interesting than seeing who the latest girl to get her knees behind her ears is....