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Wednesday, July 22, 1998

A source told me that Mila was poisoned by her bowel-painting of a couple of months back…and put in the hospital, which is probably the source of the false HIV rumors about her.

N. Smith however writes on RAME: "Mila was not poisoned by her painting nor did she go to the hospital. The paint used was a nontoxic water-based paint for use by children. It has a thick/heavy viscosity. She did not dilute the paint because it would not work on canvas diluted. She took 4 gallons, all at once, into her ass, her stomach blew up like she was pregnant, then she s---ted it out onto the canvas. She did this on five occasions. Some of it settled into her colon and she was s---ting purple paint for about three weeks. Again, she did not go to the hospital nor was she poisoned.

"BTW, Mila did a shoot for Leisure Time today (7/23/98). MTV was on the set and did a 30 minute interview with her. When she started to take off her clothes they zipped off the set. She stated, "It was my best double anal ever. The girl that did my hair made me look like Pamela Anderson." She also had an incredible squirting experince on the set as well.

"Anyway, I'm glad that the rumors about Mila's health has been put to rest. Trust me, the woman is healthy, very healthy. Let's pray that she stays that way."

I began my day (7/22/98) at the PAW office at 10:30 AM where I was told that I should leave quickly. Not only were the staff not allowed to talk to me, but there were supposedly various people around who were upset that I had posted that they were under quarantine due to the latest HIV positive case. Matt Zane's girlfriend Kristin aka Lilly Lynn tested PCR/DNA positive for the HIV virus 7/17/98. She does register a low viral load, which means that she does have HIV and that it has probably been detected early.

I arrive at Star World Modeling at 13160 Raymer at 11AM but do not find either Rob or Joe Spallone, because they are out shopping for a new car. Damien Michaels (who had a tooth extracted yesterday) runs the office. His presence signals renewed attempts by the agency to raise its profile. Star World's signing new clients and girls. Joe Spallone is headed to Sacramento to meet some girls set up for him by Mike Ross, and possibly shoot a movie.

Sal Sodano curses in his editing room, in his second month of trying to patch together a bilingual movie from shoddy footage shot by Jim Lane (Powers).

Damien Michaels and Wayne Crews seek girlfriends, f--- buddies and future wives - 818-765-8720.

Jackie O, the plump big breasted 19-year old I interviewed last week after her third sex scene (who looks 12 yo), has totaled her 1971 Mercedes.

I chat with Joe P. Straight who's worked around the fringes of entertainment most of his adult life. He worked as a chauffeur for Betty Davis in a movie shot with Faye Dunaway in Denver, he says. His buddy Cash Markman brought him into porno two years ago as a caterer and production manager. A straight-forward, likeable round middle aged gentleman, he regales me with stories of his experiences with movie and porn stars.

He's written an 85 page script for a slasher porno called Lovers Slain. He thinks that the sex and violence combination will sell well in Europe, and decently in the US as an edited R film. "Lovers lane… Whale watch… Where you watch the cars rock [as lovers fornicate]…

"Larry Flynt should like something like this…"

Someone says Larry was rushed to the hospital last week…

Joe's favorite pornos he's worked on for Cash include Schwingin' In The Rain, Ginger's Island, Palace of Sin...

Joe divides porn stars into three categories: "Those in it for the sex. Those who think they are in it for the money. Then those who are in it for the money… Dancers, who offer a long line of products…"

Creole performer Suave drives up in a Honda. He gets out and takes a few final swigs from a 40-ounce bottle in a brown paper bag which he tosses in the trash can.

"An Old English 8-Ball [English malt liquor]," says Suave, a veteran of a dozen pornos. "I have to have one before breakfast. I'm an alcoholic. I drink all the time."

He uses a PHD philosophical approach with women - "Pump 'em, hump 'em and dump 'em."

He explains the term "cock blocker."

"You're trying to get pussy from a chick, and a guy blocks you…"

If Suave meets a special chick, he switches from PHD to "gin and juice."

"Take Seagram's gin… My aphrodisiac is alcohol… Mix in some orange juice…More gin than juice. I can pump her all night."

Wayne Crews, who prefers dope, says gin and juice "makes you happy."

Suave: "Tony Eveready and Byron Long and them will say that weed is their aphrodisiac.

"To be in this business, you have to be f---ed up in the head… And if I come on the set, I'll be f---ing nervous. So, alcohol cools me down.

"I think about money first of all… Then the piece of pussy… Most of the chicks I f--- they are not all right... A few choice ones... Porno is a job and when the chicks aren't attractive, it makes it more work. I liked working with Lacy, Kitten, my favorite is my buddy's girlfriend…

"Mitch Spinelli is cool. I did my first movie for him, with a condom. The chick was a bitch but we worked around it."

Sal steps outside, still complaining about this bilingual Jim Powers movie. Sal says that to shoot different versions of a porno, hard and soft, you should shoot the whole scene soft, then the whole scene hard. Otherwise the continuity gets screwed up.

At 2PM, I stop by Reb Sawitz's Pretty Girl International Agency. He's pumped by the number of mainstream films he's booked talent for, including Full Moon, Warren Beatty's Town and Country… "Stu Segal just called and I booked two people for his Movie of the Week…"

A sweet innocent blonde, originally from Russia, lays on the couch. A two month industry veteran with white blonde hair to her thin waist, Bethany reclines on the couch with Reb's chihuaha on her lap. For the past year, she's danced at Jetstrip in Hawthorne.

She prefers bad boys. She complains that all the guys she likes are either in jail or in trouble. She's going to Santa Monica Jr. College and plans to major in Biology. Her GPA is 3.6, near A- average. She hopes to transfer to either UCLA or USC. She takes Calculus next year.

Reb's had about 20 new girls sign up with him this week. Reb and I are entranced with Bethany.

With no abusive boyfriend, no tattoos, and no drug habit, Bethany (who lost her virginity at age 16) seems out of place. Reb does attract, however, a better type of porno star. Reb's more selective about his people than his competitors.

Bethany, 21 yo, stands 5'5, and approximately measures 36C-24-36. I can about put my hands around her waist, which I do with great enthusiasm. We then recline on opposite ends of the couch in Reb's office. With her long red fingernails, Bethany hikes her dress up and down her soft pale thighs. She crosses and uncrosses her legs. She licks her lips. She looks at me and smiles. She does anal.

Luke gets a woody.

She didn't sleep last night and acts drowsy. "I like to shoot with younger guys…rather than those over 30…I shot with Rodney Moore, Elegant Angel and with Reb."

Bethany's father and several other relatives live in Victoria, Australia and her mom in LA.

Reb has a new assistant, Kasey, 19 yo, who works the front desk. Adopted, she had a troubled childhood. She was thrown out of her home at age 12. She lived with about 15 other families over the next few years, mainly in California. A former drug addict, the 5'2 muscular brunette did six videos for Reb a year ago.

Then she went to work with Reb's daughter in a job outside the industry. Kasey got laid off. She lost her home. She lost her boyfriend. Desperate, she moved in with Reb and is returning to porn in a threeway with Bethany and the Brit El Cid, who also lives in Reb's seven-room North Hollywood home. Rana from Mike Hott productions books their scene for next week. They will all meet at Reb's at Ten AM next Tuesday, and Bethany will drive her two scene mates to the Valley shoot.

El Cid has yet to be able to get it up on camera. Condoms bother him.

A 5'2" black girl with piled high chocolate hair, Lusty Lia, enters the office and sits down.

Bethany says she insists on condoms, but her determination wavers when various producers over the phone offer her $1000 and more to do condomless scenes.

Reb says that Annabel Chong has graduated from USC and has been shooting porno in New York. Chong lives in LA.

Reb tells a new shooter (Steve Skorpios of Arena Girls) over the phone that guys cost from $250-$500 a scene, and the rates for girls begin at $500.

Bethany, whose family do not know of her new career, shows me her rub-on tan which fades towards her upper thighs and C-cup natural breasts… Mike Hott has chosen her to be Cunt of the Month.

"My dad has always had Playboy magazines around… Sometimes I like posing [nude]… If I got lots of sleep and am in a good mood… Otherwise I just show up… It's work. Let's get it over with.

"I like quantum mechanics. It's really spiritual. You can be in more than one point in time. The future and past intersect…"

Reb says Herschel Savage owes him money.

A recent photo of a muscular Jerry Butler hangs on Reb's wall next to photos of Jerry from ten years previous, when Butler was addicted to cocaine.

James Bond, a veteran of 40 videos and the best actor in the biz according to Reb, says that if I print his real name he will sue me and he will kill me. After his mother dies, I can print his real name. He says he comes from a really good family. He has a college degree in exercise physiology. He works as a personal trainer.

Kris Kramski wants James to work for him. "He treats people like s---," says James. "He yells and screams at people. He offered Herschel $2000 to go to France for two weeks… Herschel said no. Herschel has a lot more street smarts than I do.

"Lasse Braun treats me with respect… I don't know why Marc Davis walked off his set three months ago.

"My best movies? Models and Masseuse 3. AVN has nominated me for Best Actor and says that I'm the greatest thing next to peanut butter.

"I've written a few scripts. I want to produce and direct [porn]. I could be here forever."

Luke: "Are you a drug addict?"

James: "No."

Luke: "Have you done gay porn?"

James: "No. The closest I've come to gay porn is doing a bodybuilder chick. I did one for Mike Hott. Worst f--- in my life. She kept tightening up so we couldn't get in her.

"I don't care about condoms… "

Bond spent three years in the US Army. He has not spent time in jail.

"I was a regular actor. I did a bunch of Playboy stuff. People said, 'have you ever thought about doing porn?' Every guy has [thought of…]. I tried it. I fell on my face. Now I'm hitting home runs.

"Kiss sent me here [Pretty Girl] from the Mike Hott place… They wanted to call me Christopher Reamer [because James looks like Chris Reeves aka Superman]."

I stop by Bill Margold's apartment, "The Cave," at 4PM. MTV was scheduled to shoot several interviews there but they cancelled.

It's my first time in the cave in 18 months. Bill has vacuumed the cumfy dark teddy bear ringed cove filled with porno tapes and sports memorabilia including a personally autographed photo of the owner of the Detroit Lions, signed to Bill.

I answer the phone for Bill as he mails off ads for AVN's weeklong porn vacation package to his 1800 members of FOXE. Seymore Butts phones to talk sports. Bill's favorite baseball team, the Yankees has 71 wins this season and only 25 defeats.

I interviewed Seymore at the first Erotica LA show. He's annoyed that his real name and that of his Tushy girls is up on my web site.

Bill to Seymore: "Everyone complains about him… He's the suckerfish on the shark of X. He's not going to go away, so…

"I'll tell you why Gene Ross and Brandy Alexandre are pissed… Because Luke is now the center of attention… They have to pick on somebody, so it is time to pick on Luke F-rd. A lot of people are jealous because he has become a celebrity, using the industry as a way of climbing a ladder… God knows where he is going to go…

"Well, come on… The real names situation is overblown… Luke is calling attention to something that has to be corrected - second level identification [of performers by such ID as CA Drivers License, etc]… If he becomes the person who is villified because he obtains real names through that method, that has to cease, and Luke becomes a reverse hero… There are people now working to defuse that part of the law.

"I have to defend what Luke does in one sense - he's a journalist. I do not believe that Luke is maliciously revealing real names. Any real name he has obtained, was public domain before he got to it.

"Rights to privacy? We gave up those the day we walked into this business. We became shooting gallery bears…"

I chat briefly with Seymore… I explain that his real name and that of his girls was published in various newspapers…

Bill laughs. "Ford's List instead of Schindler's List."

Margold and Luke have found much common ground.

Bill shows me his weekly movie review column in the latest LA Xpress.

I look at the recently published John Holmes autobiography, which largely reads like a jerk-off book. (Not a criticism, Luke supports and practices moderate jerking off.)

Bill is not sure he wants to read it. "I prefer to keep the King a legend as I prefer to keep Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth… I don't want to know anything about any NFL hero…

"I have known Seymore for 18 years. We've long had a wonderful relationship talking about sports. He identifies with the Arizona Cardinals. I met him in 1980 at Coldwater Canyon park for Saturday flag football. I'm proud of him and Stagliano…

"Marc Wallice called the PAW office last week and talked to me and Mitchell. We told him that we loved him and did not intend to abandon him.

"Hart Williams is coming to the World Pornography Conference. I'm hoping to reestablish something with him. There was a time when Hart and I were very close. In many cases when my relationships end with people, I'm not sure what drives them apart. Maybe because we're both insufferable and pretentious and can't exist in the same room. In 1984, Hart played on a flag football team with me. We shared a lot. He was instrumental in starting XRCO."

Herbie the Dentist: " I am enjoying the Hell out of the whole Luke F-rd thing. I am just a consumer of porn. I have no time or energy to actually follow people in the industry around or ask questions. The fact that this guy comes out of nowhere and digs up so much stuff (some of it true - some of it not so true) is amazing!

He has really changed my view of people in the XXX business and the way the business runs. Previously, I had the impression that the industry was semi-cohesive and that they had a plan and some degree of control (a lot like organized crime a.k.a The Mob). What I am seeing and hearing is a bunch of barely-competent people trying to hold together a way of life that is ready to blow apart.

Why these people give Luke the time of day is bewildering.

They say some incredibly stupid things in front of him, then complain that he prints it. They invite him onto a live radio broadcast and act like a bunch of kindergarteners. They openly misquote and misrepresent him more than he has ever misrepresented the industry. These are the supposed leaders/movers and shakers? These are the people in drivers seat of a mutil-million dollar industry?

I thought that if these people were so powerful and so close to 'The Dark-Side' of the force, they would have dealt with what they term 'the greatest threat to their business' in a much more casual way. Hey Luke, any hitmen show up at your door lately? Don't worry, it doesn't sound like this crew is competent enough to prove any harm to anyone but themselves.