At 11AM, 9/17, I stopped by Barnes and Noble on La Cienega Blvd near San Vicente and picked up two copies of the 9/21/98 Weekly Standard to read about myself. Then on to Reb Sawitz's office to meet porn girls like Kitten aka Stormy, Autumn and her husband Lee aka Slam Elliot, Reb's assistant Trudy (kissing Reba) and assorted porners like Scott and his fiance. She appeared in lots of porn videos in the early '90s like Dirty Debutantes 11 and 28. Alana and her husband Allen have been swingers for years. They entered porn six months ago.
Danielle aka Stormy aka Kitty (she keeps changing her stage name so she won't get recognized) stands 5'10", and measures 34B-26-36. Hung over, she has a curvy sultry exotic look (French, Italian and Cherokee) with long black hair. She raves about Excessive Productions from San Francisco, where Kitten lives. She works as a secretary and models on the side, both straight and nudie.
Reb chats with busty redhead Autumn, who has puffy frizzy waves of hair cascading down his shoulder to her enhanced breasts. Reb's dog Reba nestles on her lap.
I sit on the couch with Autumn's long-haired husband Lee aka Slam Elliot (named after the actor Sam Elliot who appeared in Road House). He appears (inserting anal beads into his wife's rectum) on the inside of the back page of the 9-98 AVN in an ad for Pleasure Productions New York Taxi Tales.
Reb Sawitz realizes that he needs to cancel a shoot Monday because it is Rosh Hashana, the beginning of the year in the Hebrew calendar.
Born around 1970, Autumn, who's been with Lee for five years, has stripped in clubs for four years and done 22 videos in two years.
Autumn (bisexual) started in a small topless club in Rhode Island, prompted by Lee's sister-in-law. "Curiosity started me. I would drag him out to the clubs. That wasn't his thing. I was the one who pushed to go. I had to know what it took to get up there. I found out quick."
Lee: "Once she started doing it, I got to know more about the business. I've run a couple of business, remodeling kitchens and bathrooms. I've been in theater for 20 years. I saw that the major money is in feature dancing. So we decided to take a year to build credits. I've gotten her in every magazine, movie and TV show that I could."
Lee, 46, manages her career full time. "I design and make most of her costumes. I design her shows."
Autumn mainly dances in the Northeast US. She lives in Massachusetts. Her family knows she "dances" but they do not yet know about her videos. "They suspect some magazines. I've been in Leg Tease, Fetish Erotica, Swank, Cheri, and all the bike magazines like Easy Rider."
Autumn lists her best movies as Girls Affair 16, Strap On Sally 12, New York Uncovered 3 "and I did four scenes which I have not seen yet for Marilyn Star's new series Marilyn Does Miami."
Lee, from Boston, says he steps in front of the camera now and again "if they need an extra body."
Neither like LA smog. ("I miss the blue skies back home," says Autumn.) They say it is a nice place to visit.
"I get star struck," admits Autumn. "When I see a mansion, I wonder who lives there… We've talked about getting a map of the stars.
"I want to become a feature dancer. It will take a year to build up enough credits so that people will know who I am. I hope to get a computer in the next six months and develop my own web site."
Autumn appeared on the Sally Jesse Raphael show, Maury Povich, the Rick Dees show, Talk Soup… For the Sally show, the subject was how appearances change.
Autumn's New England accent makes "appearance" sound like "parents."
She says she was a fat nerd with glasses and greasy unkept hair who wore little makeup and baggy clothes in 6-10th grades. ("If I had to go back to those years, I'd die.) On Sally, she was reunited with friends from those years. "One was a negative reunion with an ex boyfriend. He hadn't seen me in four years. He asked me to marry him. Of course I turned him down. He admitted on national TV that [when Autumn and he were together] he used to go to strip clubs and cheat on me with other dancers. Then, when we stopped seeing each other, I became everything he ever wanted. He sounded awkward and uncomfortable but it was something I had to do to shut the door on my past.
"On Maury, it was with an old girlfriend from high school. She was in the popular crowd, with all the cheerleaders. I had some friends but I was considered geeky. I wanted to be in the in-crowd, and she was always there for me. I'd have her on the phone for hours… I'd get her so depressed. I didn't like myself. I hadn't seen her in eight years. She had no idea that I was dancing.
"It's a sweet story. (Autumn gets teary.) Two weeks before we shot the show, she got in a bad accident. They had to use the Jaws of Life to get her out of it. She broke a couple of ribs, but she still came to the show.
"My high school reunion [tenth] is coming up at the end of the year. I'm hoping that she can come. She says that I will probably be voted most changed."
Lee's sister in law got Autumn stripping.
Autumn got her first breast job (naturally a AA cup) from the infamous Dr. Harline in Ogden, Utah in 3/96. "About six months later we saw a bad write-up on him in People magazine. I have a friend who won a lawsuit against him. He did her nose and it turned out like the letter C."
Lee's sister, a stripper, recommended Autumn to Dr. Harline. "Her breasts are a mess. They're terrible. She's trying to save enough money to get them fixed. She's in a lot of pain. They [her breasts] point in two different directions. There are creases."
The latest breast job was in November of 1997 to fix problems and pump them up bigger.
Lee and Autumn are swingers. "I'm a child of the '70s, of free love," says Lee. "I was brought up in a home of nine kids with one bathroom. So I never knew modesty."
The highest number of guys Autumn has been with in one evening is two.
Luke: "Not 20?"
Autumn. "No, I'm trying though. If someone wants to shoot it, I'll do it. I'll do just about anything."
Lee and Autumn are out here for three weeks "or as long as I keep getting work…"
Tall, slender long-haired Tex walks in with his beautiful blonde girlfriend Cheyenne. I met them a couple of weeks ago outside Jim South's office. Jay Molnar warned them to not to talk to me. Bill Margold is their landlord. They don't want to talk to me.
Stormy aka Kitty says her funnest video of late is Unleashed with Joel Lawrence, a San Francisco stud she adores. "He really turns me on. He's the only one [male performer] I'll work with up there."
Stormy entered porn four years ago and quickly signed up with Jim South and Reb Sawitz. "I didn't know that you couldn't be with two agents. Nobody told me.
"Then I met a real asshole, Chuck Martino. Stay clear of him. He stole all my clothes…
"I hate that guy. He better stay the hell away with me.
"I'd just met him [1994] and he said I could stay with him. Then he started getting really weird. He wanted me to pay for everything. He maxed my credits out. He tried to use me. I'm not a big drug person and he is. He used me to get work. I didn't know. I was a new girl. I didn't realize these kind of things go on.
"Chuck pushed me out of his house naked. He had all my clothes and stuff… He locked me out… Mike Horner, Bill Margold, Sam and Danielle Cheeks helped me out. They had me give an award with Nena Cherry. We did a spanking on stage… [in February 1994 at the XRCO or FOXE?]…
"How could Sin City put a woman beater [Chuck Martino] in charge of production ] at Sin City? He likes to degrade women. I know him. I know how he thinks. He hates women.
"I had a falling out with Johnathan Morgan. He's racist. I don't see colors. I think that's ignorant. "
Stormy loved her 1994 video The Model and Voyeur 2 (a scene with her buddy Melissa Hill and Dan).
"My boyfriend came to town [in 1994] and said, 'I want to marry you. Let's go back up north [SF Bay Area].' He didn't want me to do modeling. I tried it, then I decided that nobody is going to tell me what I can and cannot do, so I got back into modeling. Then I decided to do a few videos. At first just bondage, then four features (Unleashed) for Bob Apple's Excessive Productions (408-744-0399). "LA talent, they're trying to recruit. They pay LA rates. They're good to work for. They care about people. They're like extended family. We particularly need some male talent."
Scott and his fiance (used the porn names Theresa Gunn, Tanya Sicily) meet with Reb to book a photo shoot. They want to accumulate about 650 explicit pictures on a CD and then sell the rights to different web masters (about 30).
Fiance is a stunning black-haired beauty with a wholesome manner and sweet smile. I'm blown away she did porn. She did various gang bangs including Bang Her Eight Times from Raw Talent. "I was a little girl, 18," says Fiance. "My acting was bad."
Alana (natural breasted blonde) and her muscular black husband Allen enter PGI. They've been together seven years and married four. Alana stars in Real Sex Magazine 11, Buttslammers 17, Perverse Addictions, and Playboy's Sex Court. "We did it in a studio in front of 60 people they picked off the street. They give you a story line. You argue it out in Court, then you go down to the Penalty Pen and the judge sentences you to whatever… You have all these people in the crowd cheering you on. He had to shave me and then go down on me in front of screaming, yelling people.
"Allen has an average endowment [penis] but is very thick. I just started doing anal."
Reb: "You don't want to work with Earl Slate. He'll kill you."
Alana: "I've had Sean Michaels in my butt. In my first anal scene, Sean was in my butt and Allen [vagina]…"
Longtime swingers, the San Jose couple likes porn. Alana has danced for years in clubs.
"Meeting the people in the business and working with them was different than I expected. I thought that I'd go all silly. I haven't had any problems with men having attitudes, but there are always women in the business who think they are better than everyone else. The men last a helluva lot longer than we do.
"I won't do White Trash Whore and that type of things. I like things that are fun and nasty, but not where they put you down.
"Condoms don't bother me. When it is someone I know, I don't have a problem not using them.
"A couple of weeks ago, I had a problem with a director who tried to tell me that he only shot non-condom. But the company he works for has a liberal policy…that it is up to the talent. The talent had been changed on me twice. I told him [director] that it had to be condom. And he had a huge problem with that. So I didn't do it.
"I live in San Jose. I have never been late for a scene. Yet I often have to wait two hours for talent that lives half an hour away. That irks me to no end.
"I measure 34b-26-38. I have a big bubble butt."
Reb: "Never tell the truth. 34-24-34."
Alana laughs: "I'm proud of the truth."
Luke: "She cares about the environment and works with crippled children."
Alana says Reb has never molested her nor made her suck his big schlong. But he makes fun of Allen's shaved head.
I schmooze in the waiting room with two white guys (John Janiero and Jason) who look around 30. They work with the Bogas Brothers (Alex Sao Paulo). John's been in porn seven years and worked with Hollywood Video and BB for about five. John's appeared in about 20 videos, including the Annabel Chong and Jasmine St. Clair gangbangs. "Annabel was a lot better. It was more free in what you could do. Jasmine had lots of rules."
John and Jason discovered Krystina St. James. They schtupped her a few times.
John has a girlfriend. "She's pretty open to it. So long as it brings in extra money [she doesn't care where John dips his pecker]."
Both guys have regular jobs.
Reb tells me that Regan Senter's real name is Andrew G. Wadner, born 5/6. "He's done federal time, federal penitentiary for his Bank of Americas [embezzling scam?]. He operated under the name Bank of Americas, embezzling money from old women. I found this out from his old roommate. She says she's got a lot more s--- on him too."
Gloria Leonard writes to me: "Luke (What is the "Saint" bulls---), How could you possibly spell Norman Mailer's name incorrectly - or Candida Royalle's or Annie Sprinkle's? If you can't get a life, get a goddamned dictionary!
"Until you remove the Promise Keepers' link from your site, I no longer will access it and will actively boycott you with everyone else I know."
At 7PM, I meet with photographer Ron Harris and my publicist Dianne Bennett, an articulate busty blonde matchmaker, party girl, former Hollywood Reporter columnist, at LaVeccia's on Main Street in Santa Monica.
Ron's ready to go on talk shows proclaiming that pornography is good. "This will be fun. Let's go for a f---ing ride.
"Women are in total control of everything going on in our society.
"Howard Stern's show is full of sexual freaks. I will explain the mathematics and physics behind it. We should embrace these freaks. You need them to drive society."
Dianne: "CBS is humiliated. The cultural network… How low we've sunk."
Ron: "…War is good. Without chaos, plague and pestilence, nothing would happen. Men represent the unstable part of society. As they get older, if they don't work out, they become like little old ladies. Some woman is going to boss them around."
Luke: "That's me."
Dianne: "He likes bossy women. He dates Jewish girls. And none of them want him to be in the adult internet, even to write about it. So they're critical… And I've told him that I will wring his neck if he lets one of those girls boss him out of the business…"
Ron: "That's exactly right. I don't know how many times I've let that happen to me… My agent, my four wives… I would've been Stephen Spieldberg if I didn't have those people holding me back. And I allowed them to hold me back. He's not going to let that happen."
Dianne: "Oooooooh, I don't know. He's so easily led. He scares me with these girls… You're dick will get you in trouble every time. You have to worry about whose head you put on your pillow."
Ron: "I am."
Dianne: "It's not you I'm worried about. It's Mr. Pizza Face here."
Luke has almost finished consuming an entire vegetarian pizza. "I'm not sleeping with her… I showed her my site about ten days ago. She started crying…"
Ron: "Oh God, Oh God, oh no…don't tell me."
Dianne goes into hysterics.
Luke: "I was really shaken up."
Dianne: "He doesn't produce porno. He doesn't act in it. He's just a reporter."
Luke: "I meet them [single Jewish females] at synagogue. It's so hard to say what I do… I know if I send them to l-keford.com, it'll be over. So I send them to this other site (dennisprager.net) about Judaism."
Dianne did publicity for Legs so we have to make an appearance at its opening night. We drive 45 minutes to Wilmington, turn right on Broad street, and we're there at 10PM. Strippers undulate against the poles. I talk with David Woodrow and he introduces me to his partner Kenny Copeland, and his friend Charlie Mathau (son of actor Walter).
Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are supposed to appear at the club.
David then takes me into the dressing room to meet the star of the night, bubbly blonde feature dancer Randi Rage. She's soft, sweet, chatty and heavily made up with purple eye shadow.
Rage gives me slicks for several of her movies and a free video - Shane's World #8. Randi appears in numerous fetish productions for Bizarre Video including Spiked Heel Diaries 11, Enema X-Treme, The Dresden Diary 19, and Linger Models Spanked. Her other movies include Buttslammers 15, Cunt Hunt, Farrah's Anal Adventure, House of Flesh, and Rural Rage.
Randi grew up in Northern California. She did ballet and jazz dancing "but I didn't stick with it."
After seven years as a house dancer in Northern California ("I used to travel and do foxy boxing and oil wrestling"), Rage entered videos in September of 1996 and has appeared in over 100. Randi started with Jim South as her booking agent but now she gets her own gigs.
She speaks with a raspy voice. Her tongue is pierced and she sports several tattoos.
"I worked at the Pink Poodle in San Jose and whenever we had features, I started my research [about getting into porn]. When I realized that the only difference between me and the features was that they were f---ing [on video] and I'm not…
"I'm a free-spirited sex freak. I like to perform. I like to be naked. I like the attention I get from it.
"I got offered a job one day and decided to take it. I won't say the name of the first video… It's a cute video, The Hunchback of Nasty Dame for Alex Sanders. He was my favorite person to work with… You get bored. There are only about ten good men in this business… For a while, I quit doing guys.
"I was one of the first persons to go condom only (11/97). Nobody wanted to hire me. I lost lots of work.
"I worked with Tricia Devereaux and Marc Wallice about a year before they came out positive. It's very disturbing and distracting [HIV], not only for them, but for yourself and everyone around you. I'm totally a safe player, inside and outside the business. I don't have a boyfriend.
"I have not fully hit the features circuit. I have dogs who keep me at home. I'll go out for a week at a time."
Rage pierced her tongue four years ago. "I have an oral fixation. I used to smoke. Everybody said, 'get your tongue pierced and play with that instead of smoking. I just started eating more pussy, and stopped smoking that way. I like the pain. I like the adrenalin rush. I got my first tattoo at 18. I have three. I'm still working on the one on my neck."
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Every Thursday morning Luke meets with shrink. Fred Buccolini writes about yesterday's session.
The Secret FBI Transcripts of Luke F-rd and his Psychiatrist Rabbi Rabinowitz.
Luke: Good morning, Rabbi. Let's begin, shall we? I walked into Rob Spallone's office today and...
Rabinowitz: He's the pornographer?
Luke: Accht, they're all pornographers! No, he's the agent. The one who thinks he's the original Godfather.
Rabniowitz: Ah yes, the funny man.
Luke: Ya, right. Well, he wasn't in his office today, so I opened a door and...
Rabinowitz: Didn't you knock? You should always knock first.
Luke: No. I didn't knock. I just opened. And what I saw--you'll forgive me if I'm crude--I saw two men having sex under hot lights.
Rabinowitz: How hot were the lights?
Luke: Accht! You make jokes? This is serious. I feel terrible.
Rabinowitz: Don't feel terrible. It wasn't you on the receiving end.
Luke: But, it wasn't just two guys; one of the guys was really a woman. No. What I mean...the woman was really a guy who was incredibly sexy. I mean...big chest, long blond hair, nice behind---but with a man's thing between his legs.
Rabinowitz: So, Luke, maybe you're gay.
Luke: I'm so embarrassed. I need to wash. I could go for a nice Steak Fajita Wrap Supreme.
Rabinowitz: God forbid. Luke. I thought you did not eat meat? And now you tell me you're gay and you've forsaken the 7-Layer Burrito.
Luke: No, no, no. I am not gay. But I feel dirty.
Rabinowitz: Then stop! Do something else for a living. Something honest and rewarding.
Luke: But what?
Rabinowitz: Used cars?
Luke: No!
Rabinowitz: Eyeglass manufacturer?
Luke: No!
Rabinowitz: A dictator of a small foreign country?
Luke: No! Stop with the jokes. I don't know what I'm doing anymore. How long, Rabbi, can I go on like this? I feel like I'm being used and abused.
Rabinowitz: Wait 'till you get my bill.
Luke: Please stop. I need some practical advice. I got into this originally to breakthrough the looking glass; to pull the curtain and reveal the Wizard. But what I've become is an industry mouthpiece. And I'm sick of it! I get phone calls at 4 a.m. from girls in the business who whine and complain about something they've read on my website. I got a knock on my door the other day, and when I opened it, nobody was there; but there was a box on my doormat. I opened it and inside were three dead fishes with a note that read: "Clean-up your website or you will soon sleep with the fishes...and they're not kosher."
Rabinowitz: Ah, a practical joker.
Luke: That's just it: they are all jokers. Nobody is really serious.
Rabinowitz: Please calm yourself.
Luke: I can't help it; I'm a wreck. I got a notice from the health department the other day and they are coming into my apartment on the first of the month to do a routine inspection. Christ! I have boxes and boxes of microcassettes, adult magazines, and adultvideotapes everywhere. I can barely walk from the bathroom to the computer without moving boxes. And to make matters worse, somebody, as a joke, sent me an eighteen inch double-sided rubber dildo. Where am I supposed to hide something like that?
Rabinowitz: Oh, I can think of places, but I am not going to touch that one. But please tell me...who is this mysterious Wizard?
Luke: The Wizard? Oh...he's a bald Jewish man from New York. His name is...
Rabinowitz: Oh, I'm
sorry Luke. Your time is up. See you next week.
