I've heard that Marilyn Chambers has signed with VCA to do an X-rated video for director Jane Hamilton aka Veronica Hart in December. Marilyn feels like she has a home at VCA. She likes Jane and VCA's commitment to safe sex through the use of condoms.
Porn star Caressa Savage gives full service to her fans.
"Whatever they want, if we can negotiate it," says Caressa (picture of her with her pet python snake) with a laugh. "Escorting, whatever... I don't give a s---. Meet me and my girlfriends in person... 310-659-3442."
A source reports: "I met Caressa a few months ago through an ad in the LAXpress, and she certainly did more than simply ESCORT me to dinner and a movie! In addition to f---ing her fans, she also offers a "referral" service: for $500 each, she will put you in touch with any number of other porn stars, each of whom also will perform the same tricks she just did, all for about the same price ($400). In fact, she said that of all her friends that she mentioned, only Felicia would not have sex with a guy, and in fact would only do girl-girl stuff at bachelor parties, no private shows."
Caressa has broken up with her "wife" Jordan Lee. "Jordan has broken up with her husband Jerry," says Caressa, "whom she married under a false name. Jordan Lee has run off with the former boyfriend (six and a half years) of Madelyn Knight and married him. Probably under another fake name.
"Jordan has sold the rights to her web site to her husband Jerry. She was already married when she married him under a fake name. They've been together ten years.
"Jordan is wanted on a felony warrant. She's a deserter from the U.S. Army. She's used twelve different social security numbers. She's a professional con artist. She's a diagnosed schizophrenic. She was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in 1989."
Jordan Lee, I hear, denies much of the above.
Caressa: "I'm no longer with my fiance Bo. We broke up. He's sitting right here. We're separated. We just had sex. It was good. Tell him hi, honey."
Bo, a nice Jewish boy from Russia, comes on the phone. He sounds chipper. They've lived together about six years. He doesn't like her porn career.
"Now that our engagement is off, we're better friends," says Bo.
Caressa still won't do guys on camera. "I've still got an ace in my back pocket if I need it."
She appeared in Wesley Emerson's No Man's Land series two weeks ago.
Caressa Savage is about to take over the operation of her web site (www.caressasavage.com). "Caressa Cam [on her web site] means that I grab a camera and a friend... We may go shopping one day for lingerie. The audience can come into the changing room with us... You'll never know what is going to happen. And most of it will be live. You never know what will happen. I may go to jail and they'll [the audience] will get to go with me.
"I'm staying single and ready to mingle. I'm ready to mingle with my first million [dollars]. I'm staying single until I get my finances taken care of. I have a little boy. He's my priority. I don't worry about no relationships right now."
As reported Update 10/13/98, VCA is considering a harder edged line possibly called VCA Extreme. Rob Black, however, of Extreme Associates, has taken strong exception to VCA's use of the name "Extreme," and has threatened to sue.
Michael Ninn's shooting a big budget video (over $100,000) called Ritual this week. Jim Holliday will shoot three videos at the end of the month, one a feature.
Wesley Emerson has virtually completed his long-awaited documentary of John Holmes which features interviews with most of the persons who played an important role in John's life. Funded by VCA, the final documentary of around two hours length will be released in three versions, including one that will probably play on Showtime or HBO.
Luke's latest interview Lacey Ogden
Teri Weigel and her husband Murrill say they are coming to LA in six weeks. We plan an interview so that she can set me straight on my profile of her. "I've been with my pimp husband for 15 years," Teri writes to me. "Without him I'm nothing."
Will Jarvis writes on RAME: "The BBC will be showing a thirteen part documentary on US and European porn.
"The crew from Douglas Chirnside Productions, the company that produced the series, was here in the US several months ago. They interviewed various porn personalities and spent some time on the set of a Vivid video shoot. They also spent time in Europe doing more porn star interviews. The documentary is also supposed to include clips from various US and European vids including my Positively Pagan series. I am delighted that they have they included me in their series. I don’t often get to do TV interviews, so this was nice.
About a month ago I got a call from one of the associate producers in England. He asked if it would be all right if I was identified as Will Jarvis rather than Taliesin. I said okay, and he said that was good because they’d already done the voice over narration identifying me as Will Jarvis and they really didn’t want to have to re-do it. If you don’t know who I am, look for a short, dumb-looking guy rambling on and on about politics and porn and free speech and the first amendment; that’ll be me.
A few days ago I received the e-mail below from the producer.
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Dear Will
Our series, called Sex and Shopping, begins on Thursday 29th October at 22.50 on Channel 5 and runs weekly for eight weeks. It them comes off air for two weeks foir Christmas and New Year, then resumes for the final five weeks.
Unfortunately for me, there has been a change of personnel at Channel 5 and the Chief Executive of the channel has taken over on this series. He seems to be very anti-porn and anti-discussing it, and has ordered more than 100 cuts in the 13 programmes despite everyone else thinking it is a highly intelligent, breakthrough series for British TV. He has over-ruled everyone, particularly me and his own lawyers - I made the series exactly to contract. He has also refused to confirm that he will show the programmes in the order in which they were designed to be shown.
Your interview appears in three sections, one part in programme 5, one in 9 and one part in Programme 11. However, at this stage it is impossible for me to say that those will be broadcast in the order numbered because if earlier programmes are rescheduled then the dates will change.
It is all very irritating, moreso for me than anyone else, because I have dedicated six months of my life exclusively to producing and directing these programmes and, like all of us creative people, I expect my final product to be treated with respect. I do not believe I have broken any rules or regulations governing the broadcasting or discussion of sex on TV. But as almost all of the censorship experts I met when making the series told me, sex and censorhip are highly subjective things and in the end it can come down to the whims of one individual.
Douglas Chirnside
Series Producer/Director
Pat Riley writes on the rec.arts.movies.erotica newsgroup:
If I'm watching a movie from Mike South or Rodney Moore, I don't expect to see "a movie". I expect a series of sex scenes with maybe some personal info from Mike or a little (sometimes good) set-up for the sex from Rodney. When I hear that Vivid (or Wicked or VCA, wherever you see Vivid presume I'm talking about the three of them) has produced their latest blockbuster--5 days shooting, big budget, high quality--I expect to see a "good movie". That's "movie" as in Hollywood movie with proper characterization, plot, interest, etc...oh, plus explicit sex. I'm invariably disappointed. Not only do they not deliver what they pretend to be selling but they insult me by thinking I'm stupid enough to be conned once again.
Contrary to the belief of the "We don't need no stinkin' plot" crowd, there is a market out there for movies that rise above the mechanical; the number of responses to the "Do you masturbate to mainstream movies" thread proves that some of the components of that market even post to rame <g>. Only the big three have the resources to rise to that demand but they're content to just make some money pretending to produce "movies" and selling them to cable and to non-discriminating people who just want something a little softer. IOW what the videomakers are currently doing is providing an automated centerfold; what they should be doing is rising to the potential of the medium.
You can make movies that might not be "A" level Hollywood but which can provide some level of feeling for the character involved other than that which relies on a new girl with a pretty face and a great body. The movies from the early seventies prove that. Try a movie called Run Jackson Run. It has a plot line of a guy married to a girl who has incurred lots of medical bills which he can't pay from his salary as a real estate salesman. His mistress has given him an ultimatum to join her in Mexico that weekend or lose her but then he's given the opportunity to embezzle lots of cash... How he decides to do the right thing is the interest. You feel what the guy feels and this includes his desire for his mistress, sex with a couple of good time girls on the way, etc.
Nor are such movies beyond the financial resources of the big three (that's the companies above, not the auto makers). Have a look at the mainstream movie, Deceiver, strip out the big names, and do a quick calculation of the cost. The movie hardly moves off one sound stage.
No special effects, no car chases, no gun fights, and plenty of opportunity for explicit sex. The big three could easily finance such a movie. But unfortunately if they did, they'd use the same old faces and bodies you've mentioned, the same talentless hacks as directors and screenwriters, and they'd repeat the same story.
It's not up to me as either a consumer or a critic to set out how to achieve the goal (otherwise I'd be in the movie making business) but I will make some suggestions.
You can't use the same girls more than a couple of times. Forget contract stars except to the extent that you don't want them working for someone else. Same with the guys; get a new crop.
Get rid of the hacks. Although I recognize that some directors (the same applies to screenwriters) can be self-taught and brilliant it doesn't often happen. That's why we have colleges. Today any director worth his salt should have an arts degree from a major institution with a major in Greek classics and/or English lit (to have an in-depth appreciation of plot) and a minor in film. Expecting ex-porno studs to be able to construct a decent movie is like expecting them to find a cure for cancer. The same goes for the "young" guys. They simply don't have enough life experience to do a good job.
If any of the following are foremost in your mind when you plan for the movie get another job: luxury mansions, flash sports cars, special effects, guns, stunt men, comedy (especially Ron Jeremy and Jonathan Morgan), PI's, pizza delivery guys, pool guys, fire trucks, luxury yachts, cheap Hungarians, French studs, phone sex, nudie bars, high-powered executives, the internet, sex therapists, psychiatrists and other psych people,...the list goes on and on.
Peter Ramezap does not watch Vivid because of the:
1- Boring sex
2- Boring girls
3- Boring guys
4- Implant galore
5- Lots of condom use
6- Not enough anal or DP
7- Facials are s---ty
8- Lame plots
9- Recycled girls over and over
10- Every film has only 3 or 4 girls on average. all recycled.
11- Crapy close ups, if any.
Protodorian composed this ode to retired porn star Jenna Jameson:
Oh Jenna, sweet sweet Jenna.
You are better than the rest,
why did you make your first video with Randy West?
Fame is fleeting, watch where you're hopping,
To Marilyn Manson you were just another chance boffing.
He wrote about the night with you in Spin,
You came across as just another late night piece of quim.
Oh, I see you seek acceptance in the WWF.
Have you no sense of decency left?
The moans are more real in the world of porn,
It's like you never left the trailor park where you were born.
With breasts so large and thighs so thin,
You're what every man wants in his girl of sin.
The beautiful blue eyes of your early pictures,
Sadly can't be found in your latest ventures.
Seeing you on top yelping and moaning,
Made our wieners throb with desires of boning.
I'm so glad you only let Armstrong use a vibrator,
Normal guys dream, "I can be the one to take her".
Oh Jenna, sweet sweet Jenna
What can explain my obsession?
You remind me of a girl, I once had within my posession.
"What do people see
in Jenna J?" asks Mr. Owsley on RAME. "Her tits look like they're
gonna explode and she is truly one of the ugliest people I've ever seen
without makeup (and she doesn't look good with makeup either). Almost
any other woman in porn looks better than her. I've never met her, but
I've read and heard several stories that she's stupid as a rock also.
And while I'm bitching, why the hell does E! give so much camera time
to her ugly, big fake-tittied ass?"
