Shock, horror and disbelief rippled across pornville today as readers of this site struggled to deal with their disappointment that on Update 10/13/98 Luke F-rd ran a piece of unchecked gossip as though it were gospel truth.
The internet's DeTorquemada (AVN 10/98) published this paragraph from an anonymous source: "Tony (Shuddup Bitch) Martino has been placed in charge of production at Sin City. One of his first official acts was to verbally abuse PR person Lysa Stone on the floor of the ECVS show. Several people heard the incident and say that Martino actually threatened Lysa's life. Not too smart for a guy on probation for domestic violence."
While this news has a poetic beauty given the way Luke and AVN have ruthlessly flogged Tony Martino over the past year, it's hilarity is marred by an apparent lack of truth.
Chuck Martino, Shay Sweet and Nicki Lynn who were all present at this supposed confrontation say that it did not happen as my source presents it. They say that Chuck did not verbally abuse Lysa and certainly did not threaten her life. And Martino has been off probation for six months.
Returning from psycho-therapy Thursday morning, Luke received bracing spiritual advice from his godfather Rob Spallone. "Call up Chuck," Rob ordered, "and get his side of the story. Chuck's turned his life around and he's a stand up guy."
So Luke took the radical step of checking his facts. I talked with Martino for 30 minutes over the phone. He was polite, direct and understandably annoyed by my lazy and inaccurate "reporting."
I first met Chuck in the fall of 1995 when I pitched Yosef at Factory Home Video an idea for a porno which eventually turned into What Women Want starring Kimberly Kummings. Martino and I didn't talk much. I asked him for an interview but it never came off. Over the years I've read about him and his exploits with women in the gossip pages of AVN. In May of 1998 I saw him a couple of times with his girlfriend Shay Sweet at Jim South's office.
In August I got Jack Hammer to make some off-the-cuff remarks about his friend Chuck which Martino today clarified. "What Jack said wasn't exactly the truth but it was close enough... I didn't call you and bust your balls for that but this latest report is not at all true.
"I never said a word to Lysa," responds Chuck to my 10/13 item. "It was just two little girls, Nicki Lynn and Shay Sweet, bickering over something stupid. They are best buddies now. It was all a stupid misunderstanding. Shay and I had a little tiff, a couple of words were said and that was it."
Luke: "Let's develop a civil relationship. To be honest, I was scared to call you."
Chuck: "Two years ago I would've screamed at you, but I've grown up. I just want to do a good job here at Sin City for David [Sturman]. We have enough problems in this business with outsiders. Why do we have to f--- with ourselves [through needless gossip and hatred]? I've read lots of hilarious stuff on your web site that is true..."
Chuck transferred me to Shay Sweet. "Nikki Lynn showed up late [to the ECVS] which I didn't think was fair," Shay told me. "I asked Lysa Stone, our PR director. She snapped at me, 'I don't know where she's at.'
"Nikki finally shows up. I guess Lysa had talked to her because Nikki said to me, 'I hear that you threw a hissy fit.' I replied, 'It wasn't a hissy fit. It's just not fair for me to show up and you not be here. It's the second day it's happened.'
"Chuck did not yell at anybody. We all made up."
Luke: "There was a page about you, Chuck and Farrah in the 12/97 AVN."
Shay: "That was bulls---. We're not getting into that. That was all a lie."
Chuck: "That issue was hilarious. I went to Gene Ross and Paul Fishbein. Paul said, 'Chuck, Mark Kulkis no longer works here. I don't know what happened with that story... I thought you guys were friends.'
"As it turned out, Mark had no proof. It was hearsay. He took quotes out of context.
"Luke, I believe that so long as you do the right thing every day to everyone you deal with, you can never have bad karma. I try to be nice to everybody. I'm Italian. I tend to have a hot temper.
"Shay Sweet and I have been together for 18 months. We've had only one argument. This is the first honest happy relationship I've had. We work for everybody. We do great scenes. I made a stupid mistake when I tried to get back with Farrah [fall of 1997].
"Ask people how we treat each other? She is a good person. You could never fight with her. I've never hit her. I never knocked Farrah down the stairs. I didn't beat the s--- out of her. I never threw Frankie out of a truck. Those charges are not true."
Luke: "I heard that Shay showed up to the set last year with bruises."
Chuck: "They were bruises on the inside of her legs. They were thumb prints. Have you ever had sex with a girl, Luke?"
Luke: "Uhh, yeah."
Chuck: "Have you ever grabbed her legs and f---ed her?"
Luke: "Uhh, yeah."
Chuck: "You ever see what happens to a girl's legs when you do that? Look at the legs on all porno girls. They have thumb prints around their knees and the backs of their legs. There were no bruises on her face or arms [Shay's]. This came from Jim Lane. We were mad at each other.
"I did get in an altercation with Farrah three years ago. I did not throw her down the stairs."
The 9/98 AVN quotes Chuck threatening Mark Kulkis. Chuck says he was misquoted.
Chuck served 18 months of summary probation after his "altercation" with Farrah who other porners have called drug addicted trouble. "I was never convicted of anything. The judge looked at my record and saw that I did not even have a traffic ticket until I got into an argument with Farrah. 'Go have a nice life.'
"Our system is trying to send the message - 'Don't argue with women.' And it is correct. Women should not be talked to in a disrespectful manner. I say, try to get along.
"I'm not saint. I've yelled at people. But I've only gotten into two fights in my whole life."
Luke: "Jack Hammer said that 'Chuck beat the s--- out of Frankie Lane. He threw her out of a truck at Northridge Mall.'"
Chuck: "I said to Jack, 'how could you say that? It's not true.' It was something that Jack had heard... This is absurd. I've never thrown anyone out of a truck. Have you ever tried to throw someone out of a Four-Runner, Luke?"
Luke: "No."
Chuck: "It's impossible. I could never open up a door on the other side of her and push her out of the car. It doesn't happen."
Please Email Luke F-rd if you ever catch an untruth, mistake, innacuracy or lie on this site. Luke did E-mail and phone Lysa Stone on this story but I did not hear back.
Luke F-rd has had a miserable cold since Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement in Judaism) 9/30 which may be a divine sign that Luke did not properly repent for his many sins, chief among them being sloth.
Realizing he needs help, Luke meets regularly with a psychiatrist, a therapist, a rabbi, a medical doctor and a Russ Hampshire (the only non-Jew). Through their sensitive suggestions, Luke has learned that it is more healthy and constructive for him to meditate on his lack of self worth and social acceptance rather than lashing out at others on his web sites in high falutin rationalizations for raw emotions.
Luke interviewed Lacey Ogden, a porn newcomer, on Tuesday and proceeded to write it up in his typically sloppy and incoherent manner. Luckily for you, dear reader, Luke emailed his mess to Lacey's husband Mark Webb who, after diagnosing and fixing Luke's computer problems over the phone, turned Luke's lunacy into this coherent article:
Porn Star manager Lucky Smith has added a new girl - blonde "Lacey Ogden." She lives in Southern California with her husband Mark Webb, who played pro baseball for nine years, including a stint with the 1987 champion Minnesota Twins.
The couple own the strip-tease company Allure Entertainment (www.allure-la.com). "I wanted to start my own company after working with other Southern California agencies for two years that were dishonest and deceitful to the dancers and customers," Ogden told me via a telephone interview from her home in Lake Castaic on October 14, 1998. In April of 1998, she left her full time job as a reservations supervisor for Trans World Airlines to open Allure which employs fellow porn stars "Lauren Montgomery," "Johnni Black" and "Tony Tedeschi" for performances at Bachelor parties, or any event where you want a stripper. (805-294-1115)
Lacey says "Allure is NOT A FRONT for an escort service… This is only entertainment, of which there are three parts to an Allure Show. The first part is Lap Dances for the guest of honor and invited guests. The second part is a Love Act , either girl-girl, toys or solo masturbation... The third part is the party games, "Tequila Body Shots", "Whip Cream Body Shots" and the infamous "Feed the Kitty" in which a guest lies on the floor holding a lollipop in his teeth and the girls will ride the lollipop with their pussy. We get people who ask 'How much to blow the bachelor?' Or, 'How much to take him in the back room?' The reality is Allure offers Entertainment only. The girls always bring a security person (Lacey uses her brother) and his job is to explain all the rules.
"I've been doing this for three years now and getting propositioned is part of it but not as often as you'd think. Most of our clients are clean cut college and business types just throwing a bash for their friends who are getting married, not these sleazy guys looking for one last f---."
Born in Superior, Wisconsin; Lacey moved at age four with her two older brothers and parents to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia where her father worked for Aramco Oil. She lived there for the next tens years. She moved back to the United States and relocated in Scottsdale, Arizona where she attended Horizon High School. She gained fame in 1989 as the first female high school football player in the state (wide receiver and safety). Appearing in only two of nine games that year, she says she would've played more except for a two game suspension for using "bad language" on the practice field.
Her parents fought the school board for equal rights for their daughter. "My house was egged on weekends by people and teammates who didn't want me to play because they were teased by other schools ... They were called pussies...
"They did everything they could to get me off the team" which included vicious hits in practice which led to a ruptured blood vessel in her breast. She eventually took kneepads and the team trainer sewed them into her shoulder pads for extra protection. Even the girls in her high school class got into the act by picking fights with her. Her biggest play all season was to take the team center to the high school homecoming dance. At the end-of-the-season banquet she received the "Most Whistled At" award.
At age 16, Lacey moved to New York City and signed a six-month contract with Exquisite Models. But homesick and scared after only four months in the Big Apple, she returned to Arizona. Ogden then began making monthly trips to Southern California to pursue a mainstream film career. After landing several "bit" parts, she got her Screen Actors Guild card.
Lacey met her future husband (April 2, 1991), Mark Webb, while shooting pool at the Hollywood Athletic Club. Mark says, "I thought she was someone I had dated so I approached her. She told me she was 24. She had a drink in her hand and a great ass, who was I to call her a liar?" They went out the next night and she moved in with him two days later.
In 1992, Mark, who commits himself to fulfilling Lacey's fantasies, arranged for her first experience with a woman. "He knew that I wanted to do it but that I didn't know how to get it done," says Ogden. "I was dancing at a bikini bar in the valley, we all got drunk, Mark did the dare thing and the next thing I know I'm doing a girl." The fun was short lived. On Christmas Eve, 1993, Lacey gave birth.
"After our son was born, nobody could get near me" says Lacey,."I was a mess." She went from a "B" cup to "FF" cup while nursing before stabilizing at a saggy C cup. "I felt I was too young to have saggy boobs. So I chose to get implants to fill them back up. Now I'm 34D-25-35, 5'7" and 122lbs. I love to work out."
On May 19, 1995, Mark and Lacey married.
During a family trip to Hawaii in 1996, while walking among the beautiful hookers on Lewers Street, Lacey turned to Mark. "I want to watch you f--- another woman." He was shocked. "I had never discussed this with him" she says, "but I felt that this was the perfect opportunity." They spoke to one hooker about the proposition until Mark finally chimed in, "I've never paid for pussy in my life and I'm not going to start now."
Three weeks after returning home, Mark heard on the Mark and Brian show on FM 95.5 KLOS about a swing club called Freedom Acres. They checked it out but it wasn't their scene. "It was hardcore swinging with beds and Jacuzzi's and lots of sex," says Lacey. "There were even girls that were getting f---ed from behind and who would turn around and say 'who's that'?
"We're not hardcore swingers, we don't swap partners. We like to become friends first and actually get to know a couple outside the bedroom before inside. We like amusement parks, comedy clubs, we have our own boat… Let's find out if we are compatible before we play.
"I am not one to screw somebody a half hour after we meet them" says Lacey. "I've had sexual intercourse with one guy aside from Mark in the last 7 ½ years and had oral sex with 6 guys; I'm very picky" she laughs. But she's watched Mark f--- three girls and says, "I love watching him. Doing the swing scene makes it easier to find attractive women who are also into girls."
On the Internet, Mark and Lacey heard about an organization called "After Midnight", which caters to swinging couples. "It's kind of like an adult high school prom," says Lacey. At the New Years Eve Party in 1996, she met Lauren Montgomery and they hit it off. "I got Lauren to start performing at Bachelor Parties.
"In April, Lauren called me and asked me to do a girl/girl scene with her in a movie directed by Nic Cramer, she felt she was lacking a good g/g scene in the industry and I did it as a favor to her," recalls Lacey. After that Lacey didn't seek any work until the review for "Shattered Vows" (Pleasure Productions) came out. "In the August issue of AVN, the review said it was a "terrific girl/girl scene." It was a spotlight pick. I got very excited and called Pleasure Productions to purchase some copies. They told me about a XXX Mexico Trip that they were sponsoring and put me in touch with Jim Enright. He cast me in two VCA features, including "Hard Driven" where a computer game tester (Rayveness) who falls into her screen.
"I have a scene with Rayveness where we are sitting at a bar, we're cartoonish, wearing brightly colored wigs and Jim tells me to bring the dildos out. I asked Jim, "Are you supposed to hand them to me?" He said "this is porn…" So I stuck one in a champagne glass and as soon as Jim yelled action, I handed the glass to Rayveness and said "Would you like a cocktail?
"I met Lucky Smith on this set. Jim Enright set us up. Lucky and I talked for three weeks until I signed with him. When Jim Enright pulled out of the Mexico trip, Lucky decided that it would be better if I didn't go either."
Lacey appears in seven videos. She only works with women. "I feel if I give it away too soon (boy-girl sex), than what will I have to offer the industry different than any other girls in the business?"
Her released titles are "Shattered Vows" from Pleasure Productions and "A Girls Affair 23" from Fat Dog Productions, which she received her first boxcover. Her other projects include "Peeper", "Devil in Miss Jones 666", "Low Down Dirty Dames", and "White Panty Chronicles".
This weekend she will perform in Michael Ninn's "Ritual" which was written two years ago for Vicca whom he discovered in Russia. Lacey resembles Michael's wife Q . The VCA director told her "You're so beautiful, how can you be in this business?" Lacey laughs and says she should have told him "I like girls and I thought this would be a good place to find them."
"My family is fine with my new career choice, there is nothing I've done in my entire life that my parents have not supported, in fact my mom just bought 10 copies of one of my movies" says Lacey. "Mark supports me 100% and has been there for me the whole way. He knows that I want to be a star" to which Mark replies, " She is a star at home. I don't look at her as an porn star. I look at her as my wife, the mother of our child, my playmate, my friend, my lover… I played nine years of baseball. I had my fun years ago.
"I've read some interviews in which the female stars didn't have much input ...other people talk for them" Mark says. "I don't want to be like that, that's not me…I'll just stand here in the background and keep my own identity. I don't want to be known as Mr. Lacey Ogden or Lacey's husband. I've heard a lot of bad things about boyfriends and husbands (of female stars) being on the set and disrupting things. I don't want to be on a set unless I am invited by the director or Lacey feels she needs me there. She doesn't go to my work, why should I go to hers?"
As for Lacey working with guys on camera, Mark says, "Why rush a guy/girl scene in the beginning of her career? If she can build a base of fans based on performing certain scenes and create a desire to see her do a guy/girl scene, than let's make it special... With a 5" tongue, I'm sure she can entertain the fans with that for a while… You should see what she can do with that thing!
"I used to hang out with Sam Kinison, Billy Idol and Ron Jeremy and I really lost respect for the porn industry based on what I heard in that circle of friends" recalls Mark. In April, "Lauren Montgomery, approached my wife, without my knowledge, and asked her to do a scene in a porn movie. I was livid!
"Not because Lacey was interested in doing it, but because I was left out of the process by both of them…After Lacey and I discussed it, we agreed it was okay this once." Mark was invited to the set by Nic Cramer and admits "After spending the day with Nic and his crew from "Shattered Vows", I felt the need to apologize to Lauren for doubting her and all my misconceptions and assumptions with regards to the Adult Film Business…. They were unbelievably professional.
"Everyone has treated her with the utmost respect and people like Lucky Smith, Jim Enright and his crew, Nic Cramer and his crew, Juli Ashton, Shayla LaVeaux, Vicca, Nikita, Rayveness, Jim Holliday, Stephanie Ross and Jane Hamilton and the VCA gang, Mitch Spinelli, and Larry and Dexter over at Fat Dog Productions have really changed my opinion of the business [for the positive]."
As of 10/98, Luck Smith manages Nikita, Vicca and Juli Ashton (All VCA contract girls) and Shayla LaVeaux, Rayveness and Lacey Ogden.
***
Luke, who firmly believes in writing nothing about porn unless he can write something nasty, received this fan letter: "I can't believe how self-absorbed you are. You rant everyday about what's wrong with the porn industry. It seems to be paying your bills ok. Let me tell you something,I've been watching porn for many years. Longer than I haven't. And the only thing I see is porn getting better and better everytime I rent a tape. Back in the 70's and 80's you had to watch 10 movies to see one good facial. Now, there are many movies devoted exclusively to this. I call that giving the consumers what they want. I consider porn the safe-sex of the 90's. And my hats off to the many performers that I have enjoyed watching throughout the years. The only problem with porn is; There are far too many HACK writers/reviewers out there, sucking off the teet of the industry. You are the worst type of parasite journalist. Unable to get a job in "the real world", you choose the one industry, that obviously gives you the most pleasure, and rip it apart. You're doing a hell of a job...NOT."
Pat M. writes on the rec.arts.movies.erotica newsgroup about his time at the East Coast Video Show (ECVS): "People were giving out these flyers advertising this massive porn star party at a local club. So, me and my friends were all geared up and ready to go. We get to the place and notice it looks BEAT. We're hanging outside killing some time and up walks Jenna Jameson and Jill Kelly (and a couple dudes). We watch them go to the door and minutes later they're walking away (back to the car). I ask, "Was it beat?" Jenna resonds that they didn't let her in because she wasn't old enough. It turns out that she didn't have her ID on her and she got turned away at the door. Imagine the irony. Throwing a pornstar party and turning away the most popular pornstar of our time."
Earlier this week, critic Pat Riley wrote on RAME about the lack of artistic talent in porn: "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."
To which Sin City Director James DiGiorgio (you still direct for David Sturman's company, right Jim?) replied with this touching story:
A young man, dressed in preppy attire, bursts through the front door of an upper middle-class home, darts into the kitchen, and nearly stumbles over his parents who are sitting on the floor trying to decided whether to go with terra cotta tile or vinyl for the remodel.
YOUNG MAN
Mom...Dad...guess what? Iv'e been accepted to Stanford!
His parents look up.
FATHER
That's great son.
MOTHER
We're so proud of you, dear.
FATHER
Have you decided on a major yet, son?
YOUNG MAN
I sure have, Dad.
FATHER
Well son, what's it going to be?
YOUNG MAN
I've decided on classic literature...probably the Greeks.
MOTHER
We're so proud of you, dear.
FATHER
Excellent son, you know how fond I am of Euripides.
MOTHER
We're so proud of you, dear.
FATHER
Have you given any thought to what you'd like to do after college...when your ready to enter the career world, son?
YOUNG MAN
I sure have, Dad. I'm going to be...a pornographer!
FATHER
Excellent, son. There's no better foundation for a career in the jiz biz than the classics.
MOTHER
We're so proud of you, dear.
YOUNG MAN
(Beaming with pleasure)
Thanks. Your the best parents anyone could ask for.
They all embrace as the CAMERA slowly MOVES IN, TILTS UP, and RACKS OUT of focus.
Porn fan Voyager7 replied: "I had a similar idea, and was going to respond, my response had a slight "greek-tunnel" bent to it.... But I'm running late and my work-release bracelet around my ankle is buzzing right now, gotta get on the phone with my parole officer and see where he wants me to break rocks today!"
Pat Riley replied on RAME: "Like the reaction of the current porn studs to the concept of new male performers, I expect current porn directors to see any change as a threat. And they're right, it is.
"Just in case readers don't see the fallacy in Mr. DiGiorgio's argument, let me drive it in with a sledgehammer.
"I doubt anyone, in the past or under my proposed change, actually graduates HS and for a career choice says "I want to be a pornographer". Did you, Mr. DiGiorgio? A far more likely scenario is the "preppie" going to Stanford, getting all the requisite degrees, trying his hand at writing, normal filmaking, or something similar and finding that he can make a few bucks on the side directing some pornos. There are plenty of young guys available with these sort of qualifications. The problem is to tempt them over to an anonymous stint in the porn industry and the solution is twofold: money and artistic freedom."
Sneece1234@aol.com writes to Luke: "Have read your postings with much interest. It seems you have difficulty reconciling your porn cravings with your religious bent. This seems to be common. Did you,or anybody from the religious right,stop to think that porn today is a reflection of the Judaeo-Christian hatred of women, sex and homosexuality? It is also the Christian hatred of any form of intelligence or intillectuality. They're stupid and proud of it. It has been said that porn is half Jewish mysogyny (actors, directors, producers, owners) and Catholic Guilt (female performers). However secular the Jews in the industry may be, somewhere along the line they picked up on the Jewish prayer that goes "I thank god every day that he did not make me a woman."
"Porn has has the choice of showing people what is best in sex and what is worst. They have chosen the latter path.was it natural instinct or just the feeling that there was more money to be made? I don't know. I do know they had the choice of showing sex at its best, most erotic, orgasmic, loving, giving, ecstatic, accepting,of breaking down the repressive sexual myths of the past, of promoting sexual equality, of showing ways that the viewer could enjoy sex in the REAL world. To my mind the industry has failed on all counts.
"Possibly the most frightening think to me is the number of religious people INSIDE the industry.You have Mike Albo at HEVG whose hatred of women, sex and gays is very much in tune with his professed Catholicism. Jasmin St. Claire by her own admission comes from the same poisonous well. Her hatred of sex is obvious in her videos and she obviously hates gays passionately and most women. Ironically, most of the men she takes up with turn out to be gay according to her. I have often thought many men watch porn to prove they are straight but the biggest thing is porn is the male cumshot? Why should this matter to a straight male? The anal craze is a combo of repressed gayness and a desire to hurt women. The more painful the more the viewers like it. They also hope the performers will catch AIDS thus they hate condoms. If Brooke Ashley & Kimberly Jade had put their trust in condoms rather than divine providence they would likely be HIV- today. How many crucifixes have dangled from the necks of performers past and present? Could one of the perks of St. Claires gangbangs (to her) have been the thought she was sending great numbers of men to burn in hell according to traditional Catholic theology. She probably figures to save herself by last minute deathbed repentance.
"If you include those that are devotees of non western religions I bet the number of females performers professing belief in some supernatural power may be a majority. Are those with Judaeo Christian beliefs in the industry to punish themselves out of feelings of guilt? Are those in the goddess religions and other forms of non Christian beliefs looking for acceptance of what they do? For divine acceptance? The most positive ,caring and loving views on sex are expressed by professed atheists such as Nina Hartley and Asia Carrera.
"Sooner or later some performer is going to do a religious flipout and the religious right will use them to paint a very dark picture of the industry. By having to glorify the worst traits in sexuality they will have brought it upon themselves.We will suffer for the greed of the industry."
A source: "I had half an hour to kill downtown this morning so I made the first visit in three months to the 24 channel per booth adult video arcade. In order to keep lockable booths they run a clean operation with no "cruising". They also are good at having the latest releases. In flipping channels I noted that the use of condoms during intercourse seem to have increased from around 15% to almost 50% from my sampling.
"As for "Rocco Never
Dies," the box cover claims "a cast of 50" but more than half-seem nonsexual.
Sex seemed late classic Rocco, virtually all non-condom anal and a substantial
amount with European looking (you can tell by the facial expressions)
models a lot more sex than your average video but no quantum leaps.
The "plot" seemed to be about a Rambo type character who has sex, gets
nearly killed and is revived to fight and screw again. There was one
operating room scene where a nurse is "servicing" the unconcious Rocco
and it switches to a "dream" scene of a nude blond on a flower garlanded
swing in the woods. Some scenes are elaborate and others seem patched
together. There is a definite lack of continuity. It reminded me of
those old Grade-B/Drive-In movies where the money ran out halfway through
the movie and they patched the movie together with footage they had.
In summation a better-than-average adult rental but the VCR fast-forward
will get a workout."
