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Tuesday, November 3, 1998

Joey Markham summarizes last night's TV show:

Last night (Monday Nov.2, 1998) on Entertainment Tonight, their cover-story was on porn [it's sweeps, so expect lots of TV coverage].

The featured starlets were Alisha Klass, Lexus (Locklear), and Brittany Andrews.

They just talked about these girls' successes and how, according to Joel Stein of Time Magazine, the porn industry brings in a little more than four billion dollars a year.

Alisha, who grew up in the suburbs of L.A., said she has a degree in fashion design and that her mother's not too thrilled about her involvement in the porn biz (wishing Alisha'd put her degree to use). On the mainstream side of entertainment, they say Alisha appeared in some commercials (didn't say which ones), and does some background work on Melrose Place and BH90210. She also recently shot a scene with actor Ryan Filippi (sp?) for his new movie "Cruel Intentions". Klass told E.T. that if she has enough talent to do both porn and mainstream, who's to say she can't.

Lexus, who was raised on a farm in Tennessee, has left the biz and hosts programs on the Playboy channel (and wouldn't mind working on MTV). They also showed some clips of Lexus as a cheerleader in "Debbie Does Dallas : The Next Generation".

Finally, Brittany Andrews is shown dressed up like Fran Dresher of The Nanny (then we see the box cover for the porn flick "The Fanny"). They said Andrews is happy to stay in porn and started her own video company (no name given), cashing in on the booming business.

The segment concludes with the remark, "1/4th of the home video industry's revenues come from X-rated films."

Frm the grapevine: "Did you know that Joey Silvera is illiterate, that's right he cannot read a wink. He needs others to read his contracts and the only thing he knows how to do is sign his name. How do I know this you ask. He frequents a video store that my friend manages, and when he was given a pen to sign his video membership, he grabbed the pen as if it were a cock and scribbled his name. Other then that he is dope-dumb."

Other sources, including Gloria Leonard and Ron Jeremy, say the above assertion is completely untrue. They have worked with Joey on movies that used scripts and saw Joey reading the scripts.

A source: "On Trinity Loren's death: Where the Hell is PAW and the FSC? They can't even pop for funeral costs for a woman that made them how much money? Or does all that money go to defend big shots busted by the feds and cops and keep their asses out of jail?"

FSC President Gloria Leonard: "Although all of us in the industry mourn the loss of Trinity Loren, please keep a perspective here - she did not make "all that money" for FSC or PAW - the FREE SPEECH COALITION is a non-profit organization. She did make money for which ever companies produced her videos, who may or may not be members of FREE SPEECH.
"Furthermore, we have contributed funeral costs to families in the past and in fact, did ante up for Trinity's as well. So as usual, you haven't spoken the truth or made any attempt to know the truth.
Secondly, I have worked on numerous sets with Joey Silvera, back in the days when there were actually scripts to learn and I personally have read lines with Joey so your accusation about him being illiterate is bulls---.  His favorite reading used to be the Racing Form. It's entirely possible that as he's matured, his eyesight ain't what it once was - I too need glasses on occasion. Please correct these mean-spirited innuendos!"

Bianca Trump has emerged ok from surgery to remove infected breast implants.

The two leading forces for industry unity are also the two most respected persons in the biz - VCA's Russ Hampshire and AVN's Paul Fishbein. They've calmed, for the moment, the fiery Rob Spallone.

Brandon Irons says he never mentioned Jasmine St. Clair as the source of rumors about Kendra Jade's health.

Speaking to me by phone at 9:30 AM, Brandon said: "I'm on good terms with Jasmine. The thing is over and done with as far as I am concerned. I apologized to John for not showing up [Sunday].

"I've had bad experiences before with he said, she said arguments. I figured why take the risk [of working with Kendra after various folks told Brandon that she had STDs]. I don't make that much from him [John Bone] anyway. Kendra is really nice. I'm sorry that I let her down too.

"When I called him on Friday [with concerns], I was hoping that he would say that she had clean tests. I work with lots of girls who keep their STDs [tests] current... If the name keeps coming up, you'd think that you'd do everything to prevent the rumors. Instead, he [Bone] he started going off about Jasmine. And that was not what I wanted to hear... One of them was lying... Who do you believe? I find it difficult to talk with John sometimes and I thought that he'd replace me easily. We had a harsh conversation last night [Monday].

"Now I'm on the set of a New Sensations production and the girl has not show up. I recently worked with Amber Michaels, a hot new girl around since July [on a Tom Sawyer shoot]."

Brandon says Chris McNeil of DMK Pictures plans a trip to Russia.

John Bone: "Read your page today, first when Brandon called me on friday he started out by asking me if Kendra had health problems, I asked him if he had been talking to Jasmin and he replied " well yes, but I don't want to get into anything between you two." My big issue with him is that he told me he understood our problems with Jasmin and confirmed that he would show up for work on Sunday and then just whimped out.

"He suggests Kendra's name keeps coming up with reference to STD's. Has anybody ever said anything derogatory about any of our contract girls other than Jasmin, I think not.

"He says one of us was lying who should he believe well Brandon it's not a hard choice, it's either a guy who has proved his concern over health matters every time you have worked for him or a psychotic bitch who ruined her boyfriends career with exactly the same lies. Try thinking with the large head once in a while.

"Kendra has asked me, to inform you that should this problem continue or there should be any doubts that Jasmin is lying she is more than willing to show you all of her results dating back to the time she entered the business, as they are all 100% CLEAN....please feel free to drop by and see them any time."

To settle this dispute once and for all, Luke F-rd is going to stop by Cream and f--- Kendra Jade (if she'll have me). If Luke drops dead or gets the clap... If not...

Kendra replies: "I told ya I'd f--- ya if you weren't such a snake Luke. Let's see how nice you can be....After all, you are kinda cute and cuddly...."

From his sick bed, John Bone dictated to Kendra: "While I admire your [Luke] tenacity and dedication to the pursuit of truth I'm not sure if Kendra is ready for a man of your calibur. However, the greater issue here is you could service the producers and directors of the industry by publishing a weekly flake list of the arrogant assholes who feel no obligation to show up for work that they are booked for.We can start the list with Brandon Iron and Jennifer Leigh. Both were no-shows on the shoot this weekend. And neither had the good manners to call. One could question where their agents [Rob Spallone?] responsibility lies when our shoots are devastated by the irresponsible actions of these over pampered LOSERS.....

"P.S.- if you have the courage to f--- Jasmin we'll reconsider your offer....."  

Mike South writes on RAME about Greg Steel's Thunderpussy:

First, to call this "Gonzo" is either a disservice to Greg or a downright condemnation of most of the "gonzo" that has come before it. Let's start by saying that whatever idiot came up with the idea for calling any video genre "gonzo" should be forced to spend a week, no make that a month, in the constant company of Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan attorney. Gonzo is a style of writing credited to Hunter S. Thompson, if you don't understand the terminology read his book "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas." Gonzo is characterized by first person narration that uses borderline psychotic behavior as both commentary and metaphor.

What Greg Steel has done is to make a video that parodies itself here. The musc and the editing are very well done indeed, light years ahead of most similar productions. The movies is entertaining as well for it's inside jokes and overall commentary about the genre itself. It plays a lot like a music video combined with elements of MTV's "House of Style."

To even put this in the same category of entertainment with "Planet of the Gapes" or "Sodomania" is ludicrous. It is like putting "This is Spinal Tap" in the same category with "Titanic" One is a mindless waste of film and the other is a cutting edge documentary, you figure out which is which.

Anyone else noticing that there is nothing amateur about most amateur videos anymore? Take Odyessy Group's 100% Amateur Line for example, since when are girls like Kelly Jean, Brooke Ashley and Careena Collins amateurs? this series is full of pro porn performers. So what makes it amateur? The Camerawork....anyone seen anything by David Christopher lately? Now that's amateur camerawork.

Lets rehash this condom issue again, but from a different angle. I recently watched a couple of volumes of Hustler's Beaver Hunt, ptu out by Vivid Video. Why the f--- Larry Flynt would put his name on this s--- is beyond me. This is some of the most poorly shot, sloppily edited junk I have seen in a long time. Being a Vivid release it is also under Vivid's condom only mandate, so all scenes are condom scenes despite the fact that most of the girls are working with a significant other (boyfriend or hubby) now why the f--- should that be mandated to be a condom only scene? The pro condom crowd says we must set a good example... For whom? Our audience is not children. We do not set examples, we entertain. If a couple in a commited relationship shoots the worlds best f--- scene without a condom Vivid will turn it down. Is this ludicrous or what? And Vivid isn't the only guilty party here, there's Odyessy Group, Wicked, VCA, Fallen Angel, Metro and Video Team too.

But how commited are they? Russ Hampshire says VCA will be all condom from now on AND no facials. Is Ben Dover going to have to comply with these rules? Odyssey Group distributes the Private video lines in the US. Does this mean that Berth Milton is now going to mandate that all Private Features will be condom only from now on, just to satisfy his American Distributors. Video Team distributes the Puaka Vision line of German produced hardcore, is Puaka gonna go all condom because Christopher Mnn says it is the PC thing to do? I have yet to see any of these things happening. Someone from these companies wanna chime in here? Gloria?

I have said it before and I will say it again my job is not to set a good example, my job is to make videos that make you horny. If you need a good example join your local religious establishment.

Has it occurred to anyone that the supposed danger that these companies are trying eradicate didn't even really exist in the first place. What I mean by this is that it is not what the performers are
doing on the set that endangers them and thier co-workers, it is what they are doing OFF the sets in thier private lives that poses the danger. Accountability and responsibility are the important issues here.Case in point. How many of you men would wear a condom and knowingly have sex with an HIV infected female? More importantly how many of you females would have anal sex with an HIV infected male who was wearing a condom?

So when I was at Fallen Angel I was told that I should start shooting everything with condoms, and to prevent condom use from being a problem from a marketing standpoint Vivid, VCA and others were going to help in distribution, get us in stores we were never in before...OK lets see my 2 Elegant Angel titles sold over 6000 copies each. With all this help my Fallen Angel title (which was NOT condom only) has yet to even sell 1500....Gee with friends like that who needs enemies.

In the meantime I have people writing me everyday wondering why their video store doesn't have Peaches & Cream... huh?

I have to concur with others in this business who are quick to point out that if these people REALLY want to help us they will stop flooding the market with cheap catalog product and s---ty comps. they don't want to help, they want to put us out of business. These guys have cable TV deals that make them money anything sales they see from hardcore are pure profit and with so much competition coming from the guys who shoot solely for the hardcore market, they see this as a good opportunity to thin out the competition, keep the margins low, and eventually run out of business the guys who can't keep up because they don't have the cable TV deals. This strategy may come home to roost though as cable TV channels are getting harder and harder and the
internet and satellite technologies are making hardcore more and more in demand.

In a Luke F-rd Interview Rob Black states that his company is third largest in hardcore sales, behind Evil Angel and Anabolic....hmmmm I would bet that would be news to Berth Milton that his Private Media Group is, saleswise, somewhere behind Extreme Associates. Gloria?

Greg Savitt writes to Luke:

Damn, dude - you got a comprehensive site. I especially like the Jewish tangent, where you talk about sluts and studs of the tribe. It always seemed to me that the orientation of every lasting society has been superintended (some would say infested) by its Hebrew portion - be it in communications, finance, etc. - so I find it within the norm that Jesus' relatives should be in the cockpit of anal-bead debauchery. Now 'fess up - you're a convert, so you probably have comparisons - Jewish girls dent the bed, don't they. Hell, a tight-twat, bad-girl Jewess like J.R. Carrington beats some pasty, gingham-apron Baptist any day. There's got to be some greedy son of Abraham out there who's willing to help me propel my secret, fervent dream into 3-day rental reality: get this, Luke, an all-Jew-cast XXX series. Yeah, Ron Jeremy, J.R., eveyone who's willing to reveal their heritages and their asses (not in that order). Tell me this wouldn't be the most popular video franchise in GrindLand . Do you think it's viable? If I run out of Hannukah 'hos, I'll bring the old ones out of retirement, run ads in the Valley, South Florida and Brooklyn. And you know what? Gentiles are gonna lick these things up like ham juice. I mean, who do you think buys
all those black videos and asian flicks... blacks and Asians? No way. It's Joe Johnson who wants to see how people outside of Idaho and Iowa f---.

Also, triple-eXthnics serve his teenage geisha/concentration camp commandant/border patrol/plantation owner fantasies. JewiX actors are the best, anyway. All the others are damaged individuals and psychos who were molested when they fourteen or have a crack hobby. Most Jews are f---ing talented, or are from well-to-do backgrounds - they're in it because they wanna be nasty as hell, take it in the ass, and walk off with something time-honored in their culture - money. Ugly, stinkin' cash. And, as you've pointed out, the check-writers are among their own - even better. The cycle is intact.

Let me know if I'm onto something here. Your site kicks ass because you're not afraid of the truth, and the truth usually involves sex, violence, drug-use, and an ocassional funny moment. Luke, you rock, man.  You were right to convert, and you're right to pervert. I'm gonna learn website design, crash-course style, and link to yours. I envision my site totally dedicated to the jizz biz, but not just about Vivid dolls - I want swingers, pro-am, small-town dancers, Hollywood runaways, Rodeo gigolos and everybody who's got an ass to plug. If I sound excited, hell, I am. Tell me what I gotta do, Luke. I can't stand the hypocrisy - the Pres. Clintons, the Dr. Lauras (notice they all have society's smug little titles). When I chanced upon your site, sunlight hit me in the face. I mean, here's a mature, but fierce accounting of America's sexual underpinnings, as embodied in the XXX diorama. This is what we're about - golden showers, stalking and peeping, pigtails on 30-year-old women, and huge mafia tape warehouses in Jersey. This is what I want to take a long, bone-hard look at, as you have.
And I want my site to be free - a clearinghouse of gutter-stained information and insights. None of this NetNanny, quasi-i.d. verification s---. I'll make my money somewhere else. I want my site to be like yours, a lascivious Lycaeum, dedicated to people's TRUE interests - let's not pretend anymore, shall we.
Give me some feedback, Luke. I bet you're alot like me - I want respect like the next person, but if I offend some people while doing what I believe in, then guess what... they're going to be offended. I like Jews, I like AVN. I like art galleries and boardwalk cunts-for-hire. People are going to relate to this. If I got you pegged right, Luke, you didn't put up your site as a vanity production - you did it because you want to educate people about their fantasies. You want to show off the worst of people, but the best sex they have to offer. I with you, bro'.

Write me sometime. And tell me more about J.R., if you know her personally. Holy Christ is she fine! I downloaded some pics of her and TT Boy, and the thought of that monster in her s----slit got me red with anger - bastard's probably uncircumcised, too, like all those sunday-sabbath oafs. Thanks for reading, Luke. Kickin' site! Full of f---ed-up values! I love it!!

More Email: "I saw this game show this morning called Change Of Heart. The show is about a couple having problems in their relationship and they come on the show and each person agrees to go on a blind date. At the end of the show, each person decides whether they want to continue in the relationship or not. The supposed couple on today's show were porn actors Arnold Shwartzenpecker and Brooke (from John Leslie's Fresh Meat 3, Tight End Videos' Hosed, Face f---ed 2, and some Al Borda videos). He wanted to stay together but she wanted to break up (i.e. she had a change of heart). It is a good thing they do pornos, because their acting ability on this show was absolutely brutal. They would both be starving if they tried to make it as real actors! But then again, who cares? Brooke is gorgeous! The porn industry needs more fashion model types like her."

Charley Frey writes about Metro's Houston 500 party: "The Friday Night of CES, starting at 9pm - this upcoming January in Las Vegas. If you remember the Nymphomaniacs Ball last year...it was a grand success. This year it is at the same place, Club Utopia... This year it will be even more wild... Industry female entertainers are invited to contact me or Metro if they would like to be involved. There will be massive press coverage, both inside and outside the industry."