Rob Spallone resides in Las Vegas, recovering from surgery to remove his appendix.
On Tuesday, July 14, 1998, John Bone and Cream Entertainment released this:
Prima Donna Goner
Jasmin St. Claire has decided to follow in the footsteps of Israel Gonzarlex and Trisha Devereaux and join Rob Black (curious name for a racist) on his new Excrement label. Distressed at the recent media frenzy surrounding Kendra Jade, Jasmin had said, "it's a good job I don't have an ego, any lesser star would have turned to drugs." Weighing around 95 lbs., Jasmin will surely find a kinder and more nurturing atmosphere with the famed director of "Misogynists."
Our best wishes go with her.
A big man in the business
David Aaron Clark has been directing movies for us for the last month and the results are truly masterful. It's a no brainer to hand creative control of all future CREAM productions to him, leaving me more time to deal with distribution, packaging and banging the new talent.
Hustler honors John T. Bone
Hustler magazine officially announced Tuesday that the first recipient of their newly created award for excellence, 'The Golden Beaver Award,' would be John T. Bone. In an earnest desire to recognize John's long history of dedication to his craft and as a cheap way of filling editorial space we have cretaed this prestigious award said a spokesperson for the magazine. In a tearful acceptance speech at the International House of Pancakes, Bone said "this is the crowning achievement of my career, nothing can compare with the pride I feel tonight." He then groped a waitress and was escorted from the restaurant by the management.
Etc
A recent production agreement with Sunshine Films degenerated into an orgy of bad checks causing some extremely embarrassing problems with talent.
Ron Jeremy failed once again to register for the International Hot-dog Eating Championship at Nathan Coney Island this year.
Contrary to an article in the National Enquirer, Kendra Jade is not pregnant with Jerry Springer's offspring.
Luke arrived at Star World Modeling just after noon on Tuesday. He sat in Rob Spallone's office, now run by Damien Michaels, and ate his first meal of the day - three Taco Bell seven layer burritos. Then I met Charles, Cream Entertainment's cameraman.
A 6' handsome, clean-shaven brunette, Charles was a colleague of Cream director David Aaron Clark at Screw magazine in New York in 1990-92. "It seemed like so much longer. I started at Midnight Blue [Al Goldstein's cable TV show]. I shot and edited. For Screw, I was the advertising production manager. It was pre-computer, so I pasted up all the transvestite ads and whatever… I was an office away from Dave."
Dave served as the Best Man at Charles' ill-fated wedding. The marriage lasted three painful years.
"She was a psycho-stripper bitch," says Clark. "Even worse, a rich girl who didn't have to strip. She just liked to show off."
Charles: "Rich girl, ex-junkie, psycho-stripper bitch."
Luke: "Do you guys attract these types?"
David: "Yes."
Charles: "There was a vent between our offices. And he always fell for this. I don't know why. 'This is your conscience, Dave' [Charles calls out]."
David: "Because I had so much to be guilty for."
Luke to Charles: "Did you punish him [for his sins]?"
David: "Yes he did punish me. He said, 'Come out to San Francisco, it's wonderful.'"
Charles: "So now he's dragged me to this cesspool [Los Angeles]."
David: "Yeah, I got him back really good."
Lots of jocularity.
They do not live together. Charles: "He has cats and I'm allergic."
Luke: "Did she knife you?"
Charles: "No physical violence."
In San Francisco, Charles mainly worked on low budget independent horror movies as a writer, director and actor. "If I have any fame at all, it is as a super lower budget scumbag video maker. Best known for Red Spirit Lake in the Something Weird catalogue. Stars Richard Kern."
David: "He's the grandfather of the scummy, underground New York punk filmmakers. He f---ed both our girlfriends behind our backs…
"Charles talked me into playing a naked 50-foot zombie Jesus. I had to stand for eight hours under these hot lights with all this karo syrup [fake blood] hardening in my body hair. It took that long because he and his soon-to-be-ex-wife were arguing and sniping with each other about whether he said please when he asked for a prop. I prefer to only work with people I deeply hate." (laugh)
Charles and David say they are not swingers.
David Clark is not wearing his blowjob Jesus crucifix today but he is dressed in black as usually and wears a ring of skulls around his neck. His left pinkie is painted black. He shows me his many tattoos, including a long pattern of Celtic birds down his arms and across his shoulders. "I got the first one when I gave up hard drugs in 1989. In Celtic mythology, birds rising signify rising above the complications of life.
"Today we're shooting a show called Zoe starring Zoe. We're recreating her dance club act. She does about eight numbers - fire, wading pool, hot wax… We're going to shoot that as glamorously as possible. That's going to be the framing sequence for the hardcore in the show."
Luke: "Is it worth it for you to do all this fancy stuff for the puller at home?"
David: "I don't know. Yes, I am that puller at home. I'm new in town. I hate it when I throw on, say, Blow It Out Your Ass, or World Class Ass…"
David speaks with a smile, referring to two recent John Bone creations that starred Zoe, who stands beside us with Kendra Jade.
"And there's no production values and it's shot diffidently. And there's no tease or build up."
David Clark says that Charles will quickly become known as the best cameraman in the business.
Charles says he has not had sex with one porn girl. "I haven't tried either. I figure it keeps me mysterious in their eyes. The guy they can't get."
David giggles with the girls. "As opposed to John, when they start crying when they are being f---ed up the ass, I allow them to stop."
Kendra: "David is so creative and we're really impressed. We're even getting storylines. Dialogue."
David: "She played Lucifer in my last show and will soon play Lilith."
Kendra: "I suck the sperm right out of people."
Luke: "You must be an incredible actress."
David: "I did research on the conflicting mythologies of Lilith. I write most of my scripts. We start shooting Lilith next week and we'll probably be done by the end of the summer. We're doing a nice landscape of hell at the [Cream] studio."
Kendra: "Come to the set and watch me suck the sperm out of everyone."
David: "Lilith was the first wife of Adam who couldn't stand being f---ed in the Missionary position all the time. So she fled the Garden of Eden and spent 100 years on the banks of the Red Sea f---ing demons. And that's how all the dark races were born."
Kendra burps. "Couldn't she appear in a trailer park or something?"
Over the next few hours, Kendra burps loudly about 30 times.
David: "In legend, when a woman looks in a mirror vainly, she's possessed by the spirit of Lilith."
Luke asks if there will be interracial sex in the Lilith feature, but it does not appear so. Kendra says she did blacks in the gangbang…
Zoe: "I haven't yet done interracial but it's always hard to tell what I am going to do."
At about age 26-27, Zoe appears intelligent and grounded.
David: "Zoe is very picky about which guys she works with, but she doesn't base that on race, creed or national origin. Are they well-showered, polite, and whether she can kick their ass."
Zoe: "Or lick my shoes."
David: "I've just finished Sexhibition 666 where Zoe plays Lucifer. Charles is editing that now. We went out to the ranch and got her naked in nature."
Luke: "Did people f--- her really hard?"
David: "Not out there. We did that at the [Cream] studio. She got f---ed in an ice cavern. Stalactites, fake snow… A guy (Dave Hardman) pursues her because he knows that she is the return of Lucifer. She finally seduces him in this Indian cavern but she f---s with her head so that he thinks it is in an ice cavern. She f---s him silly then leaves him to die of exposure, even though he is out in the heat."
Zoe: "I like to work with Dave because he is such a gentleman. He's my favorite. I've done about six videos now. Three are out - World Class Ass and Blow It Out Your Ass [though Zoe does not shoot fire out her ass]."
David: "Nothing she has done compares to what she is doing with me now."
Kendra shows Luke her tongue ring.
Luke: "Hasn't Jasmin St. Clair signed with Extreme?"
Kendra: "Poor, poor Jasmin."
I learn that Zoe and Kendra grew tired of Jasmin's "prima donna attitude" and encouraged her to leave Cream Entertainment. I've heard tales from various people about her use of diet pills. Some wondered whether she was bolemic.
I hear that Florida dance agent Charley Frey has a fetish for skinny, and encourages most of his dancers to take diet pills. He supposedly sends many of them literature on diet pills, and gives their addresses to drug companies. He supposedly got Jasmin a prescription for Phen Phen after it was taken off the market for being unsafe.
Charley denies all these accusations.
Cream seems glad to be rid of Jasmin St. Clair and Charley Frey.
I hear that Jasmin, who has long proclaimed that she does not do girls, turned in a girl-girl scene with Shyla Foxxx three years ago that Charley Fox plans to release soon.
The Lee Network now books strip clubs for Zoe, who's received more hype than any other porn star just entering the business. She appears in all the industry magazines. "Since last December, I've appeared in every AVN issue.
"I want to become a legend. Kendra and I will end up running the company [Cream]. I don't want to be doing this [sex scenes] when I am 50. We have big business plans.
"I'm a nerd. I graduated from high school when I was 16. I graduated from college at 18 [AA degree]. Then I started dancing. I couldn't deal with Child Psychology. I wanted to beat up the parents. I got too emotional. I'm a computer nerd right now. I own half a construction company on the East Coast. I know that my looks are not going to last. You have to do something with your life.
"I make up my own credit sheets and contracts for my construction business. I basically keep the books. I've taken a class and am an authorized dealer for a product called Perma-Creete.
"My family knows that I dance but they don't know about this [porn]. My whole family is in the military. I would've been like Private Benjamin if I had entered the military. I have one younger brother, five years. As soon as he gets out of boot camp, I'm taking him to a strip club to celebrate.
"I'm on all my boxcovers, so I hope that he will see that and not rent them."
Zoe stands 5'7, weighs 120 lbs, and measures 36E-24-34. Last November, Dr. Trevor Sani in Florida installed implants in Zoe's breasts, moving her up from a D to an E. "He went through the nipple. I was big when I went in. But gravity was doing its work. I wanted to get a lift but there's too much scaring. They have to cut off the nipple and move it. I'd rather have a bag [of saline] in me. 525 ccs.
"I was self conscious about my chest. It was sagging. When I bent over, I saw cow udders. Everybody else loved them but I didn't do it for everybody else. I did it for me.
"I have one daughter.
"Porn is what I expected. I did not expect that it would be this big glamorous movie style thing all the time. It's like any other blue collar job. You work at the factory, then you have your end product. Then you go out to promote your product.
"Dancing and everything helps my view of men. They are not as bad as I thought before hand. I love performing for them. Many girls take the fans for granted and think of them as pigs."
Zoe watches little porno. "I watch my own scenes to see how I could do better. I watch other girls to see how I'm comparing. Other than that, I don't. I'd rather live things."
Kendra acts like trailer park trash. She giggles.
"We were talking about theme shows for feature dancing."
Kendra: "Zoe has been very helpful. Certain other people [Jasmin?] had too much of an ego to help somebody new. Zoe has taken me under her wing."
Zoe says she is bisexual though she has not yet done a girl on film. "I'm going to be pickier about the women… I haven't found a girl yet that I want to… That will come next year."
Luke wonders if Zoe has shown Kendra a few tricks. Kendra says she has never woken up in the morning to find Zoe on her face.
Luke: "Do you guys all sleep with John Bone?"
They laugh. "He has too much respect for us," says Zoe. "I don't know how he is with other girls, but he's not like that with us."
Kendra: "The reason that we are so loyal to John is how he treats us with respect. We have so much input into our own careers. John does a lot of stuff outside of business for his contract girls. I didn't have dog food yesterday, so he bought dog food for my [German Shepherd] puppies."
Luke: "He has a reputation for being a satan."
Zoe: "He does and I have never seen it."
Kendra: "When I first came out here, everyone was horrified that I worked for John Bone."
Both girls felt pleased with the amount of publicity that John Bone arranged for them.
John arrived on the set around 2PM with the British journalist who broke the Kendra Jade - Jerry Spring story, Peter Bond. I hear that there will be a full explanation of the videotaped affair in a few weeks. I hear that Jerry was perfectly aware that he was being videotaped having sex with Kendra and her step-mom Kelly.
Luke to Kendra: "Charley Frey says that John is schtupping you constantly."
Kendra: "Charley Frey says a lot of things. Charley Frey says he is going to send the Israeli Mafia after us to break our knees."
Zoe says Charley is projecting his fantasies on to John.
Kendra: "In the last AVN, Charley said I have no class. I think I have plenty of class. That's why I didn't sleep with him. Though on the night before his wedding, Charley came into my hotel room and forced me to give him a blowjob."
Zoe: "He does that to a lot of girls."
Kendra: "I was scared of him at the time. The roof over my head was being paid for by Charley."
Zoe: "Girls are starting to come forward with stories about how he had somebody break their jaw, arms… He feels that if you don't dance for him, he will break your knees so that you can never dance again."
Kendra: "There was a girl (Camille…) who decided to not do the gangbang. Charley got into a panic because he did not have time to find a replacement. Nobody ever heard from her again, until recently. She had her jaw busted, thanks to Charley Frey."
Zoe and Kendra say that they wish that more girls would come forward with their stories about Charley Frey. Frey denies the charges.
Jade made her debut in Buttsex 3 where she does a brief anal scene with a guy who has wood problems. When the Jerry Springer show played the tape of the scene to Kendra's mom, she punched Kendra in the face, knocking out a tooth.
"It was a love tap. We get along well. She enhanced my career. She was willing to make a fool out of herself on the Springer Show for me."
Cream has released two Kendra tapes - Too Hot For Porno (Brandon Iron) and Who Shot Jerry (Herschel Savage)?.
Kendra says she called the Inquirer to deny their story that she is having Jerry's baby. "I told them, 'who the hell do you people think you are, printing this kind of trash? You never called me to confirm.' Supposedly a long time friend of mine told them (a dancer on the East Coast). It's BS. I am not pregnant.
"I was doing this good looking guy in Buttsex 3 who was intimidated. He couldn't keep his dick hard. My step mother Kelly pulled him off to the side and told him something. I don't know what. He came back with a hard-on, then two minutes later he popped. I had to finish myself off.
"Kelly married my father when I was ten. Yeah, she was a good mother. To some extent. She did not fit the motherly role. I don't know how many mothers have done guys with their daughter. She's in Too Hot For Porno.
"I lost my virginity shortly before my 13th birthday.
"I found John Bone on the Jerry Springer show. I wanted to beat Jasmin's gangbang record. Now Houston is going to do that, so I don't have to."
Kendra: "There is no room in our company for egos. We don't promote alcohol or diet pills."
Zoe: "A company can't progress if someone is stabbing other people in the back. Jasmin would not show up for photo shoots to show how important she was. She'd cost the company $2000… "
Kendra: "I talked with Jasmin the other night. She told me, 'when you reach my status, you'll understand why I had to move on.' I only hope that I can reach such status.
"I did that 80-man gangbang, including 34 up my ass. They were all tested. I put my life in John's hands."
Zoe: "We asked that each man present two previous DNA tests."
Kendra: "We're not going condoms yet. We're picky about who we work with. We look at the tests ourselves."
Zoe: "John said that if we wanted to, we could use condoms."
Kendra: "I made Thrillsex. Steve Feschy directed. I have sex in a grocery store. I was disappointed. They didn't show that much anal. And when you take a dick in the ass, you want all that shown. Include every second."
Luke: "What's it like having a dick in your ass?"
Zoe: "Imagine taking your bottom lip and pulling it over the top of your head. You get used to it but it does hurt. And the guys in the business are monsters. I call Earl Slate 'the red oak,' because not only is he long, he is also wide. I had a hard time getting him in my mouth. I did him in World Class Ass 1 & 2. Anally as well. I was not that sore the next day. It just hurts during it."
Kendra: "I hated anal sex at first. When he told me that my first movie was anal, I started crying. It was my first anal in my life [Buttsex3?]. Dave Hardman is such a gentleman."
Zoe: "When you feel like you are losing it, and they will have to peel you off the ceiling, he will whisper in your ear…'It's all right…'"
Kendra was on the set today to "give moral support to Zoe." Jade does not appear in the feature though she did videotape behind the scenes stuff for her coming gonzo series - Candid Kendra.
Zoe said there was no anal in her Zoe feature. "There does not have to be anal to be sexy. A lot of companies are falling into formula… Five scenes. One anal, one DP… The fans are ready for something different."
David: "No assembly line product here."
Kendra shows me her two tattoos - a rose on her upper shoulder with the initials of her ex-boyfriend. And a heart on her groin. Jade says she is not married, has no children and won't say whether she's ever been arrested. Zoe has no tattoos.
David: "I hear that Jerry Springer has sex with most of the guests on his show."
Veteran photographer David Story does the stills. David looks like John Bone. From Kentucky, he entered porno in 1964, shooting for Milton Luros' Parliament News in Los Angeles.
"I came out from Kentucky and met Rene Bond (18yo?) in 1964. I met her on Hollywood Blvd at the Magic Shop. Followed her in there. She introduced me to Milt Luros. I started shooting for him. All we did was topless at that time, no pubic hair.
"Rene was at the 1/98 CES. I think she lives in Vegas. She's married with children. Still an attractive woman.
"She was one of the nicest persons I've ever met. She was always sweet, always on time. She didn't do drugs. There was a group then of Cindy Summers, Ric Lutze, Sandy Dempsey, Sandy Carey…
"I've shot for every magazine but Playboy. It is too political. I've shot some for Penthouse and Hustler. Gentleman's Companion, Swank, Club…
Story: "I wouldn't f--- Jasmin with your [Luke] dick."
Clark: "I understand Jasmin… When your loser boyfriend [Earl Slate] is borrowing more and more money every week, you have to go where the money is. There's money at Cream but not enough to support a legion of ex-porn star boyfriends. Suitcase pimps."
I ask everyone if John Bone bounces checks to them and they say no. I mention that Bone bounced checks to talent over the past few weeks, such as Herschel Savage.
Clark: "I threw Herschel Savage off my set."
Story: "Herschel is a nice guy when he wants to be, but he can be a whiner."
Kendra, who got her tongue ring on her 18th birthday, has been transformed by plastic surgery in mid June. Her breasts moved from Bs to Ds, and her nose was shaved and straightened.
Kendra gives her Miss America speech. "I just want to make my country proud… That's what I said the day of the gang bang."
Zoe asks Luke if he wants to receive her strap-on up his ass. Luke declines. I suggest Tom Byron, a favorite of Zoe's. "He's a good actor…"
Kendra: "I wanted to work with Herschel Savage… He's a really nice guy… But he shows up late and expects the world to revolve around him."
Story: "He's a prima dona. He bitched at me because I made him f--- on rocks with a fire behind him. The toxic smell, smoke… He likes beds and couches…"
Kendra and Zoe attended church as children but it did not mean much to them. Zoe was not molested as a child, but Kendra was. "It made me the person I am. I'm thankful I can be in an industry that makes women so powerful.
"Pornography makes women powerful. Women make more money than men. We can dance on the road."
Zoe: "Look at the secretaries who are exploited. Nobody forces us to do anything. We enjoy our work."
Kendra and Zoe talk about how much they like being naked. How much they like to perform. They both say they are not nymphomaniacs.
Kendra: "That's a common misconception, that girls in this industry like to have sex six times a day. When I do it in a movie, it's business. In real life, it's because I like you.
"I used to keep a list of guys [that Kendra had sex with]. I put stars beside the ones who were good and Xs by those who were bad.
"Before I entered this industry, I was in stretch pants and long sweaters all the time. I lived with a cop for about three years. He had children from his previous marriage."
Luke feels comfortable kidding and schmoozing with Kendra, Zoe, David Aaron Clark, Charles, David Story, John Bone and the folks at Star World Modeling. I hung out for eight hours.
Kendra: "My new gonzo series Candid Kendra is behind the scenes stuff, my family and friends… When I go to nightclubs. My mom will be in it, stating how much she doesn't like what I do. It's good to stay real, and get real opinions from real people. I carry my camcorder with me everywhere I go… But I don't hide it anywhere, if that's what you're thinking.
"John doesn't like me going to nightclubs… Other girls have done that and formed addictions. But I am totally against drugs. I don't act like a cheap whore.
"I decided that I did not want to be the gangbang girl. I want to make good movies, with good dialogue and good plot. David Clark writes stories where the sex fits into the plot.
"I'm dying for the truth to be known [about her tryst with Jerry Springer]. So many false stories have been printed. So many people drew their own conclusions, became judge and jury. I heard that you wrote something bad about me on your web site.
"I'm a real person. I like to make faces on camera and belch… So when people believe false things about me, it is hard. Legal stuff stops me from speaking but I think it will be cleared up soon. We have a team of lawyers working on this night and day. A lot of people have offered to buy the rights to the tape."
Team got sets from a failed TV pilot called Martian Law. "A cowboy western on Mars,' says Kendra.
Clark: "Rae Dawn Chong's Martian dominatrix outfit."
Kendra, who earlier, for fun, punched a sleeping Charles in the stomach (to his distress), says: "I have a lot of aggression and I like to take it out on men."
John Bone: "I love Earl Slate and always have. If he needs money, he should call me and I'll take care of him. He's a good guy and great worker.
"My liquidity is about to become wonderful…next week.
"We've culled the herd. The girls are happier now than a week ago. We are more unified. Jasmin has helped the company by leaving. I just found out last Sunday. These girls [Kendra and Zoe] saw what was going on… Rather than argue with me, they saw the problem and fixed it. I wouldn't say Jasmin was ridden out of town on a rail…
"When Jasmin would not show up to shoots, we wasted a lot of money…"
Zoe: "I'm just glad that I can get my thighs in the door [referring to a comment by Jasmine]."
John: "Jasmin didn't leave any friends behind. She's made many unkind remarks about the other girls."
Kendra: "According to her, I have great potential, that one day I could reach her status."
John: "Kendra books out as a dancer for 50% more than Jasmin.
"This is an exciting day for me because it is the first day in 15 years that I've had a shoot, and I could go out to lunch with a friend. I don't have to be here [on the set] anymore.
"Kendra went home to Connecticut to see her family and friends to tell them the truth of what happened. For the past six weeks, she's either been locked in my house or in a hotel [away from the media]. "
Luke: "So what happened with Jerry Springer?"
John: "We weren't there. It was all a big mistake."
Luke: "Where's the tape? Is it between Zoe's breasts?"
Zoe grabs Luke's face and rubs it in her breasts.
John: "That's not what people say about you, Luke."
Kendra: "And he's smiling contently."
John: "I believe that the tape will never surface. Kendra has never seen it."
Luke: "Did Kendra set up Jerry?"
John: "No. Does she seem like that kind of girl to you?
"There's a whole school out there who believes that Jerry set the thing up for the publicity. He certainly hasn't suffered by it, has it?
"Peter Bond is a real journalist…"
Peter won't talk to me about Springer.
John: "Luke, it looks like you've become good friends with a lot of folks? Have you mellowed or are we just dumb?"
Luke: "I've mellowed."
Kendra's uncle Donny flew in from Massachusetts to work as a Production Assistant for Cream. He plans to move to Los Angeles. He says that Kendra was a tomboy as a girl. She liked to climb trees and play with snakes and frogs. A long hair, Donny plays in a rock band.
I talk with Barbara Spallone about her sick son Rob who still languishes in Las Vegas. She tells me that Dr. Benora [part owner of the North Hollywood clinic that Rob supports] has blisters on his feet from walking around the VSDA show looking for the Spallones. They were in the hospital looking after Rob.
Star World is filled with blacks here for a Porno Mike shoot in a trailer home in the parking lot. I talk with a young black male performer Lindsey aka Lin Dog, recently out of four months of prison in Atlanta.
Lin, who has a sister about 20 yo, started with Randy Detroit. "God, I hate to say that."
Luke: "Did he pick you up in South Central?"
Laughter all round. The answer is no. The blacks tell me that not everyone black comes from South Central or Africa.
A four year veteran of about 200 videos, Lin says he's done his best stuff for Notorious Productions, many of them shot by Sal Soldano.
Sal just got out of the hospital for chest pains. A single 61-year old man, he smokes too much and doesn't eat right.
Lin's best work comes in Bow Down Black Street, "an all black gangster movie."
Luke: "Aren't you afraid that might perpetuate negative stereotypes?"
Lin: "You guys do that anyway. You know we [black performers] don't make no money… There's a guy who always puts watermelons and fried chicken in black movies…"
Luke: "Is it true that men of color have bigger penises?"
Lin: "I don't know."
Another black man: "Only if you kiss it."
More laughter from Lin's friends, including a couple who've come to watch the shoot.
Luke: "Do black guys take longer to get it up?"
Lin: "It's the ugly bitches that we have to f---. You give us some fine woman like this over here [Kendra and Zoe] and pay us some f---ing money, my dick will be hard all day. Don't give us no hood rats, s---. That's what I'm talking about, right there [Zoe]."
Luke: "Do you prefer to have sex with white women or black women?"
Lin: "I don't discriminate against no pussy. It's all the same color."
Another black man (ABM): "It's all pink inside."
Lin: "The adult industry is cool. Where else can you get paid to get some pussy.
"AVN is assholes. You know what they do to black people in AVN. Give them their own section."
ABM: "Long Dong Silver used my dick on his body."
Laughter.
Luke: "Do you do gay movies?"
Lin: "f--- no man, no."
Luke: "What if they paid you a lot of money?"
Lin: "There ain't enough money in Fort Knox. f--- that s---. Don't ask me questions like that."
Laughter.
Luke: "What do you think about black pornography?"
Lin: "It could be better. If they'd put more money on to the black sets, like they do with white sets. Have a girl on a Ferrari instead of a raggedy ass Regal."
Luke: "So where are you going in your career?"
Lin busts up laughing. "Nowhere. I'm just here for the ride."
Luke: "So how big is your penis when it is fully erect?"
ABM: "Open your mouth and measure it."
Lin: "Nine inches."
Luke: "Do you worry about HIV infection?"
Lin: "Yes."
Luke: "Do you do drugs?"
Lin: "Yep, plenty of them. But I don't shoot up."
Luke: "So what's it like being in jail?"
Lin: "That's enough."
He walks off.
Kendra shows me her new D-cup breasts. I inspect them carefully, seeking scars. There are small ones by the nipple. "I had the best f---ing doctor in Beverly Hills, Dr. Randall Hayworth. I brought him some movies and I got a good deal.
"I didn't f--- him. He did make me go under [surgery in mid-June], so I don't know what happened."
Luke: "Did you feel sticky afterwards?"
Kendra: "I woke up and all I saw were big swollen tits. He also fixed my nose. It used to hang down lower, a Cuban nose. Took a bump out.
"Houston set me up with him. I felt insecure with only B cup breasts.
"John did not want me to get implants. I did it to make myself happy."
David Clark: "Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what every girl says."
Kendra: "I'm somebody who changes all the time. Changes my hair, my eyes [contacts]… Change my makeup, hair length… "
Kendra sits in a wheelchair. Luke tips it back to make her vulnerable. "The most obnoxious porn actress and the most obnoxious journalist," notes David Clark. "A match made in heaven."
"Whaddya mean obnoxious?" burps Kendra. She goes into a fake epileptic fit.
Kendra to Luke: "I'm going to take you home and make you write wonderful nice things about me. How feminine, attractive, sweet, innocent, vulnerable, sensuous…and totally uncalculating. After a year of rave reviews, I'll kick your ass out…"
Clark: "John Bone and I were arguing the other day about gangbangs. I insisted that there is definitely something crypto-homosexual about a gangbang. He was appalled. 'No way.'
"You get all the guys in there. Think of the dick to pussy ratio. The bangoff. Most of the guys were rubbing dicks against dicks more than against pussy. Yet they managed to keep excited and keep their erections. John claims it's the pack mentality and they don't notice the other dicks. I say impossible. It makes it normal for them to be excited around other naked men."
Luke rests his tape recorder between Kendra's clenching moist thighs. She says she's been playing piano since age three. Ode to Joy, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is one of her favorites.
Jade says she writes music with notes and lyrics.
Zoe goes through her different outfits, as she performs different shows.
David Clark: "She played a showgirl, All American Girl in a Bikini, dominatrix, water show…"
Zoe puts on an erotic water show. Sitting in a plastic tub on stage with a shooting (plastic) fountain, she squeezes a green lotion all over her breasts and rubs it in to background music that moans about "heavenly showers." One of her 35 theme shows. The shooting water a not so subtle phallic symbol that gave Luke a woody.
David Clark and Charles, with separate cameras, catch the action from many angles. I stand in the back with Damien Michaels and watch. Zoe appears a hard working and talented performer. She keeps joking about Charley Frey's remark that her routines "suck."
Zoe has a strong muscular body with a flat stomach, and large breasts and thighs. Her face but not her attitude resembles the late Savannah.
David: "Unlike those porn stars who go out on the circuit and do nothing but walk on stage and throw slicks at the audience [Jasmin?], and say 'hi,' this is a performer here."
Zoe: "They're paying to see you, you should put on a show. They are not only coming to see a porn star with big tits. You should respect the guys enough to entertain them. You can only skip so much.
"I've danced for eight years… I've only seen a couple of girls who did good dance shows. I was a 36C when I was 13 yo.
"I've thought about doing [adult] for years… It was the next level. I was a house girl who danced three days a week. The last couple of years, I started doing small theme shows on stage and the other girls got pissed. The owners made me stop. The other girls did not want to put the time and effort into it. They wanted to buy a $40 dress and wear that all night long.
I see one of Lin Dog's movies - Black Orgies - Party 23 from AFVC, part of Gourmet. The box reads: "Get down with the action faction, the hip hoppin, heart stopping, party pumpin orgy crew. Everybody's jumpin, humpin and bumpin. The people in the hood, they're all getting' something. When the folks get hot on our neighborhood set, their dicks get hard and their pussies get wet."
Luke is disappointed that the box does not feature the names of the performers. He's convinced that it is racial discrimination.
Lin: "When I was doing magazines… My mom was at a picnic and they were looking at magazines. And she saw me. She called me right then. She was embarrassed. A week later, she asked me to send her some tapes for a friend."
Luke: "How does your dad feel?"
Lin: "My dad [not in the industry] is one of my biggest fans."
Lin's friend, a black lady, tells me that she does not do movies. She introduces me to her husband, who "watches porno whenever I leave the house." His favorite is anal because he does not get that at home.
Luke finds out that the man Rob Spallone introduced to him two months ago as his legal counsel Milton Grossman is really Mark Spiegler, a short dumpy intelligent witty Jew with a scraggly beard and hair cut who's produced about 20 pornos over two years.
Mark: "I defy you to find one porno girl who will say that I've made her suck my dick. I never f--- around with the talent."
Spiegler says he's in porno for the money. "My movie Wish Of A Porn Star is playing on cable now, starring Nici Sterling, and Lexi Erickson. A girl wishes that everyone in porno would tell the truth for one day. Kyle Stone was nominated by AVN for best male performer. He plays a producer. Movie written by Gale Wynand, a guy."
A girl who looks 12-years old flitters in and out. A big breasted short girl with an innocent dimpled face, Jackie's about to perform in her third scene in the industry. She debuted with Rod Fontana.
Her friends told her, "you f--- so much, you ought to get paid for it."
From a rich family in Pasadena, she drives a 1971 Mercedes. A boy who looks 14, waits around in a car outside the studio.
6PM: I schmooze with a naked Zoe and company. Kendra sits in a wheelchair and I driver her around. I tilt the chair down so that her face must rest against my crotch.
Zoe does her fire show. She pours shaving cream (?) on her hands and sets it a light. The flames dance on her hands for about five seconds. "It hurts like a bitch," she says. David and Charles have her repeat the painful routine several times. Later she drips hot wax on her breasts and pussy while wearing long black boots. Her skin later appears red and angry from the wax.
Luke remembers the time in 1992? That Paula Price severely burned herself while playing with fire in a strip show.
I wander outside to observer the Trailer home interracial shoot. Tall Puerto Rican performer Kira, a seven year veteran of about 300 videos, yells loudly on the phone. "I'm calling the cops to have him put in jail. Don't f---ing cross me… Cross me one more time, I'll throw his ass in jail. If he can't be nice on the phone… I was not calling for his ass…"
Many people drink Miller beer. Someone tries to throw a beer bottle in the trash but miss, and it splinters on the tarmac.
Kira started in porn as an editor. She's also directed for Filmco. She debuted as a performer in 1992 with Ron Hightower in his Dark Alleys series.
Her favorite movies were for VCA - Byron Long At Large and Lips. "I had good actors to work with. I haven't had the opportunity to do many features because people haven't seen my real talent. I've done two bit parts in mainstream independent films - Thicker Than Water and The Longest Shadow.
"Everybody thinks I'm black. I just go with the flow and let them think that.
"That Action Jackson writer for Black Illustrated: He can go f--- himself. He thinks that I eat chicken. He called me a fatso in one of his reviews. He says, 'stop eating that fried chicken, Kira.' He doesn't now my diet. I don't eat chicken every day. I had a weight problem. I was 145 pounds, ten pounds heavier than I am now. I have a child - a 12-year old son. But I'm in shape now.
"Action Jackson needs to watch what he writes about his artists, because we're the ones who make the industry. He's just a measly writer. f--- him. f--- Action Jackson…
"He stereotypes me as black because black people eat chicken… It offended me. I have all my friends and peers laughing at me… It's racist…"
Wayne Crews offers Kira a Miller beer.
Kira: "This industry is so stereotypical and racist. I'm a worker [oppressed by the bourgeois]. I have no editing work at the moment. I dance on the road."
Luke: "Is it difficult for a performer of color in strip clubs?"
Kira: "Not at all. I went all the way to Japan. Certain clubs there do not accept black people. Even though they found me strange, they accepted me.
"This industry needs a lot of work. It's unorganized. This industry needs a union. Talent has to come together. Look at Screen Actors Guild. We're going to do pornos until we're wasted and old. And they're tired of us. Then we're history. We get no royalties. We get nothing at all, except that we've lost some of our dignity.
"I use the business to do other things, to get into mainstream. I was able to direct and edit… "
Kira, who's single, says there is no difference between working on black sets and white sets. "I don't know if my son knows what I do. He has his own problems. He lives in New York. I don't burden him with this stuff… My parents don't like what I do. We don't talk about it. They're glad that I get limelight.
'I earn from $300-$500 a scene and up. Working on a low budget minority movie, you're going to make s--- money.
"It's been years since I've worked on a big budget set… Café Flesh 2 by Antonio Passolino was the biggest budget production I've been on. It was an honor to work next to Jeanna Fine and people who've been in the business for a long time. Those are the people I like to be around. The real actors. I feel that I can act. But nobody has been able to see it. The past three years, it's been all gonzo. And that's sickening. I want to work on some decent productions. People like John Bone and Freddy Lincoln… It's too much, you have to have the Dominique Simone body. What about the acting? I wish we were back in the '70s when we had acting, and script and s--- like that."
Kira stands 5'7, weighs 130 pounds and measures 36DD-28-37.
A group of blacks and whites sit around the motor home for a movie that could receive such titles as Trailer Trash White Whores. White girls (Regan, Jackie) do black guys.
7 PM: I sit outside with Sal Sodano who remembers when Al Goldstein in the late '60s started Screw magazine.
Sal: "The first time that paper came out I was on the front page underneath the headline, "See New York for $10 a day."
"At the Whirlisher [organ] (sp.?) building on 42nd Street… We had live sex shows. We charged them $10 to watch the show and we shot it live. The next day they paid for it in the peep show. I'm holding the camera while Tina and Jason Russell do it."
Sal remembers getting busted that day but the DA did not press charges.
"Boyce Stone was the first New York porno agency. Linda Boyce and Hal Stone.
"Jason Russell learned the camera from me. For a while we let him live in the studio. Every day he practiced with out 16mm camera. I made my first movie [hardcore] with Jason and Tina."
Sal says Jason was a minister's son out of Pennsylvania.
In 1994, Sal put up a computer bulletin board for Tommy Sinopoli at Visual Images.
Sal remembers this whore house where you could have all the sex you could handle for 24 hours for $30 on Broadway and 47th. Carol Maller and Murray Hoffner owned the Hollywood Twins [hotel?] in New York, and various massage parlors.
During the '70s and early '80s, Sal lived in San Francisco but flew back to New York every month to shoot $40,000 picture for Avon. Sal made The Taming of Rebecca, Angel in Distress…
"We shot for six hours, one scene a day… Taming sold over 300,000 videos…"
Jackie yelps in the background, in the trailer, as she gets porked by well hung Creole Suave. He pops on her face and she yelps louder from the sting of the semen.
I talk to an attractive black woman.
"Hi, I'm superstar Tina Burner and I am an international porno star. Right now we are at Star World Productions. I love sex. I love sucking cock. I love anal. I love turning guys on. My favorite position is double penetration.
"I've done about 30 videos in seven months. My favorite video was Black Cherries 4. That's enough."
Suave stands 5'10 and weighs 200 pounds. With long black hair and numerous tattoos, he entered porno in January of 1998 and has done about a dozen videos. He boasts a nine inch cock. He strips on the internet for a subsidiary of Déjà Vu. His right nipple is pierced and beside it is a tattoo of his daughter Krista. He also has a tongue ring. "Pussy eating is my specialty. And the pop shot. Wadzilla is what they call me."
Producer Porno Mike Barbella says the title for the video is Trailer Park Whores. "All black guys on pretty white girls."
Porno Mike is a buffed short-haired ten year porno veteran who appears competent, organized and straight forward. He's yet to sell the video.
He's setting up a new porno company with Jimmy Marzulla? - Sunset Entertainment International, a break away from Excitement. Sunset supposedly gets all the film's from Excitement's catalogue. Excitement owner Reuben Gottesman is not a part of Sunset. "We'll be releasing Porno Mike's Black Ass Busters (all black anal), Inner City Sluts and things along that theme.
"I started with Douglas Video which became Intropics. Then I went to Zane, Homegrown (I helped Tim Lake for the first two years). I did the Skin movies for Astral Ocean Cinema. I did the My Ass series for Notorious. "
A group of six guys stand in Sal's editing room watching footage from the Jackie - Suave scene.
"Blacks are more messy," jokes Mike, surrounded by big hunking black guys. "There's no difference between black and white. It's all sexuality. Having fun. I believe sexuality is to be expressed, not to be hidden in a closet. We all enjoy what we're doing. Sex sells. The day guys stop jerking off is the day I go back to college."
Luke wanders outside to find a bunch of porners smoking marijuana and drinking beer. I sit beside Jackie, an honors student in high school who sports a tongue ring. She makes me promise that I won't tell her parents about her new job.
Jackie: "My friends were telling me, 'you f--- so much, you might as well f--- for money.'
"I lost my virginity at age 16. Now I've done 54 guys, four black. My first scene was with Rod Fontana who's older than my dad.
"I just want to make lots of money so that I can go far away.
"I'm a rebel. I just
took off for the weekend with bikers. Didn't tell anyone where I was.
Bad ass party. There were so many beer cans that when I woke up the
next morning it looked like they used their beer cans as confetti."