Mike Albo and Tabitha
Stevens gang up on Chuck Martino in the 1-98 HEVG, intimating that Chuck
is gay and uses cocaine. Martino found the charges ridiculous. "Tabitha
Stevens is a little crack whore," Chuck told me by phone at 9:40 AM,
11/18.
"She was Charlie Sheen's private prostitute. She was with him in Big
Bear the last time he got arrested. I know because my ex-girlfriend
Sarah was with them.
"Mike Albo is a fat little scumbag. He has nothing better to do with
his life than talk s--- about people. There are many people who are
not happy with him. I can't believe that Hustler employs him."
Chuck passed the phone over to his friend Hunter, the husband of Melanie
Stone, who recently completed her six month three-movie (Sexy Thoughts,
Babes Illustrated (cover of 12/98 AVN), Taboo 19) contract with Metro.
They will now produce her series "Melanie Stone's Butt Lovin' Babes."
The first four version will be all-girl.
"There are couple of companies that want to distribute it but I'm not
sure we want to give it to them. We'll have to look at their numbers.
"Greg Alves [Metro General Manager] and I are best friends," says Hunter.
"He's dating Wendy Knight, Melanie's best friend."
Chuck with a laugh: "We're a bunch of weirdos who trade chicks."
Martino shoots Angel Eyes this weekend in Hollywood starring Jill Kelly,
Julie Meadows, Blair and Stephanie Swift. Michael Raven directs. Then,
two days after Thanksgiving, Chuck and James shoot Skin Flick about
the porn industry.
David Clark has wrapped up shooting his first video for Extreme Associates, Asianatrix, with the possible exception of one scene. An actress flaked on Wednesday's shoot. Now David and Charley must hold their breath to see how their boss Rob Black reacts to the raw footage. Clark speaks highly of LA's new porn talent agency, run by veteran Damien Michaels, a New Yorker of Sicilian ancestry.
David Schlesinger arrived
at Vivid in February to run public relations. He pitched MTV the idea
to run a documentary on porno and he was disgusted by the result. The
26 year old graduate of Michigan State with a degree in human resources
helped Tabitha Soren's crew gather 25 hours of tape at Vivid. Schlesinger
spent days in New York helping MTV "put the finishing touches" on the
90 minute documentary. The upshot for Vivid - a few seconds of coverage.
David succeeded more with Time magazine and its September 7 issue business
article on the mainstreaming of porn. The latest Los Angeles magazine
describes the local porn industry and Schlessinger is again unhappy
with the results.
Vivid girl Kobe Tai aka Carla Carter appears prominently in the new
mainstream film Very Bad Things starring Christian Slater and Cameron
Diaz. Kobe plays a stripper brought back to the hotel where she dies.
Last month's Premiere magazine shredded the movie but praised Kobe's
performance. Thanksgiving's E-Gossip show features a segment on her.
Vivid has signed five new girls for 1999.
David thought the new documentary "Porn - It's A Living" was "one of
the best documentaries I've seen on the business. I served as a point
person for them to get many of the interviews that they needed. It took
Melissa Monet [porn star] and her partner Lisa Perkins, a girl next
door type... And it was neat to see what the two directors came up with.
It did everything that the MTV special could not do.
"I thought the MTV documentary was disgusting. Poorly made, unrepresentative...
They were pushing buttons in the wrong direction."
Schlesinger, who is the part owner of a music production company in
Michigan, worked at Arista Records under the former Hustler editor Lonn
Friend.
David helped Vivid co-sponsor record release parties for the X-Files
soundtrack and for the bands Garbage and Beastie Boys.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A 34-year-old London businessman has become the first person sentenced to prison for putting child pornography on a commercial Internet site, authorities said Wednesday.
A federal judge sentenced Raymond McArthur-Jones last week to 23 months in prison for hiding images of children on his adult-entertainment Web site.
``In 99 percent of the
cases, it's one pedophile trading photos with another,'' Assistant U.S.
Attorney Richard Lambert said. ``In this case, McArthur-Jones was providing
the photos on a commercial site you had to pay to join.''