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Saturday, January 6, 1999

Reb Sawitz of Pretty Girl International is tired after years of battling cancer and he may sell PGI to Rob Spallone for $50,000.

Please pray for Luke F-rd. He's driving to CES Thursday morning with wild men Spallone and James DiGiorgio. During the convention, Luke will fall under the protection of the Joe Spallone led Calimari Family.

Various porners fear violence at CES. Two men to watch - Spallone and Rob Black.

I hear from various sources (largely competitors with an anti-Jim South agenda) that leading talent agent Jim South of World Modeling has excellent relations with key cops, some in the Van Nuys Police Department and some in the LAPD's Organized Crime unit, who he's able to enlist to create trouble for such rivals as Reb Sawitz, Rob Spallone and Damien Michaels. And South's long porn career has been remarkably free of jail time, probably because of his peddling of information to the police, say these sources.

Jim South phoned 1/6/98 at 3:30PM: "It's like the animal has awoken again [Luke who's always writing nasty things about Jim South]. Number one, this is not true. Number two, if you did your home work you would know that back when the business was illegal (in the 1970s and 1980s) all the agents had trouble with the police."

Competing talent agent Reb Sawitz remembers times when he was arrested and held in jail while Jim South, according to Reb, was booked politely and released. Reb believes that South received preferential treatment from the police.

I've heard from Jim's competitors that Mr. South called the cops on rival agent Damien Michaels this summer, and about three years ago on Rob Spallone who supposedly wrecked the office of Peter Kinsler when Kinsler was late paying a bill.

Tabitha Stevens is the new "publisher" of New Rave. Rodger Jacobs edits the magazine. He bought an interview with Stryc9 aka Cherry from Roger Pipe for the April issue.

Jacobs: "He did it a month ago while she was still an Extreme contract girl [before they fired her]. She promotes the hell out of the movies she did with them like Planet of the Gapes 2 and Slap Her in the Crapper. I call Extreme and talk to David Clark who does their PR. I ask him for some chromes and he says, 'I'm under orders not to release any chromes on her because she's no longer with the company.'

"What kind of sound business practice is this? When someone has a product to promote, there's no time for that kind of enmity. Can you imagine Warner Brothers canning Mel Gibson from a movie but they are not going to release any pictures of Mel Gibson. This makes no sense."

Rob Black 1/5 at 4PM: "She's with Max Hardcore. If they want chromes, get them from Max... I don't care... She could've left here on a good note but she didn't... She wanted to badmouth me and make enemies so f--- her."

Luke: "Doesn't that hurt your own business?"

Black: "Who gives a f---? She was a nobody who I made a player. I've got enough players in this company. Is she going to hurt my video sales? She was bitching about us and now she's with that drunk Paul Little...putting speculums up her ass."

Jacobs: "At the time of Roger's interview with her she spoke glowingly of Extreme Associates and, in particular, of Tommy Byron and Van Dammage. When I phoned her on Tuesday to ask her to send chromes to accompany the interview for NEW RAVE she was very accomodating and never once uttered a harsh word to me about Extreme or Rob Black. Mister Black's plaintive "I made her a star" screechings sounds like sour grapes to me."

Starworld talent agent Rob Spallone has relocated to a sumptious home in the Encino Hills. I paid my respects Tuesday morning. Rob ranted about Sharon Mitchell: "She insisted that the industry switch to the PCR DNA. Now she's giving ELISA tests [to porners]. Why?"

Rob showed me copies of two ELISA tests taken by porners at AIM. I believe that Mitchell still recommends the PCR DNA as the best test even though her clinic, like other clinics, will still administer ELISA tests.

"I accept the ELISA test," said Rob. "If you don't have a test, it don't matter to me. It's up to the guy and girl working with each other. When I shoot for a company [like VCA] that insists on a PCR, then I insist on a PCR..."

Spallone and James DiGiorgio are shooting their second gonzo (five anal scenes) for VCA Explicit which mandates condoms and forbids facials. Today's two scenes matched Eric Price with Johnny Black (who says the performers guild is on hold because it has not attracted enough support), and Alec Metro with Phyllisha Anne. At one point I fall asleep in Rob's office and dream that he receives a call from John Gotti.

"Eli [Richardson] from All Good Video shot 16 blowjobs (in five hours) here [Rob's new studio 4330 Grimes Pl, 818-996-6543) Monday," said a source. "They didn't spend sh-t. They had no PA, and no gaffer. They shot two scenes at a time. They paid each girl $200 and each guy $100. So, it cost him $6000 to make a movie. And his stuff sells.

"Blowjobs sell right now. I spoke to a store owner. He buys for 38 stores. He can't even sell the Sin City stuff. Pretty boxes do not sell right now. Sin City has some of the best boxes in the business. What customers want now is a chick's face looking straight at the camera with cum dripping off her face. Everyone's shooting gonzo and blowjob movies now."

James DiGiorgio: "Let me tell you what I shot in ten hours [for the Japanese porn company Typhoon which does the pixilation in Japan to cover up the genitals]. Two boy-girls, two boy-boy-girls, a blow job and a masturbation scene [all with the same Japanese girl and low end male talent]. Sixteen BJs in one day, you kidding me? You wouldn't even have to wake me up."

Next source: "We're going to be shooting four movies in two days. In between every sex scene, we're going to do a blowjob."

Source: "That's what you have to do to make money these days. Russ has been shooting gonzos for a few months and will start releasing them in February."

The husband (since 1989) of porn star Rayne, gaffer Keith Harrison entered porn as talent in 1989. Working under the names Rod Ryker and Buster Cherry, he appeared in about 40 videos.

"There are few industries where you can come up as quickly as you can in this business," says Keith. "In porn you have to understand many things - lighting, camera, sound... On a real movie set, you're either grip, or camera..."

On Monday, Alec Metro and Charley's boyfriend squared off and almost came to blows before Rob Spallone broke it up.

"Scott from AGV came running in... 'Rob, you've got to come. There's a fight...' Rob gets off the phone and goes in the backyard. Have you ever heard of a fight where the guys take off their shirts? So Rob says, 'this ain't happening here,' and they put their shirts back on and look relieved. And Alec tells him, 'you're lucky you didn't fight me or you wouldn't have been able to do your scene.'"

Ron Sullivan was scheduled to shoot an old lady having sex in the afternoon.

Rob: "If I see anything with my name on it tonight [on l-keford.com], you will be coming with us to Las Vegas to die in the desert. [Luke's driving to Vegas Thursday morning with DiGiorgio and Spallone.]"

Jim: "You see the movie Casino?

"I read on Luke F-rd's site about Rob Spallone taking credit for his production passing QC (Quality Control) on the first time..."

Rob: "You're an asshole, Jim."

DiGiorgio's Shooting Sex appears 1/20 from Sin City.

Rob: "I wrote that movie [Shooting Sex]."

Sex had no script. It runs 85 minutes, 48 of which are non-sex.

Internet DeTorquemada Scoop Luke grievously wounded the feelings of AVN Vice President Darren Roberts yesterday by printing this widely known information [1/8 update - Luke talked to Russ Hampshire and Walter Gernert and toned down his remarks]: "Darren Roberts is married to former porn star Brooke Fields who did about 30 pornos in the early '80s. Her real name is Allison Shandebol. On a Bobby Hollander shoot, she says she was raped in the ass by Jamie Gillis. Allison lived for years with VCA founder and longtime bad boy Walter Gernert, who now operates a porn company in Brazil that licenses VCA product there."

Deeply upset, Roberts called Paul Fishbein in Las Vegas who called Gene Ross who left a message on my answering machine asking me to take the information down. Sorry, no. While Luke will generally not run anonymous accusations unbacked by evidence about porners private life, the info about Roberts has importance in that it shows the close personal ties between AVN and VCA.

The porn industry resembles a good ol' boys club, says Deep Throat, filled with interlocking personal and business relationships. One of Russ Hampshire's ex-wives, for instance, works as a secretary for Michael Esposito, an associate of the Lucchese Mafia family. (Russ's present wife Betty started out as a secretary at VCA.) Hampshire and Esposito have been good friends for years. Russ is also close with Metro's Kenny Guarino, who recently got out of jail after pleading guilty to working with the Mafia family, the Richichis. Russ describes Guarino, an admitted Mafia associate, as a "family man." On Monday Hampshire called former mob enforcer Anthony Fiato, who provided essential evidence that led to the conviction of over 50 Mafia thugs, a "rat."

Are the Porn Merchants organized porn or organized crime?

Free Speech Coalition President Gloria Leonard writes: "Why the f--- do you persist in posting these sleazy, slimy slices of books no one gives a s--- about - "Porn Merchants" alleges that the industry engages in bombings of retail stores. What is the evidence for this? The only bombings that I know of against retailers have been at the hands of the religious right, which this author reeks of. How about some interesting, upbeat, positive stories once in a while or are you so bedeviled by the so-called "dark side" that you cannot see the sunlight?

"Please explain the headline with Hyapatia Lee and Radley Metzger merging into Max Hardcore, whose sub-cerebral persona actually deserves the sub-basement.

"As for your "Deep Throat" source, get a grip, Luke. Hirsch and Hampshire are AVN's biggest advertisers 'cause they own THE BIGGEST COMPANIES, you insipid yutz. That's how the real world works - Sony spends more on advertising than DAEWOO, Pepsi spends more than YooHoo, etc. Does that process ring a bell?

"And frankly, calling Walter Gernet a "junkie, coke head dealer" is treading thin ice. I daresay there barely breathes a soul over 35 in this (and most other businesses) who didn't f--- around with some form of drugs in the 80s so in truth, you should compile a list of thousands who would meet that criteria. I don't understand your venomous hard-on for those who have achieved success in the adult video industry. As for your attempt at trying to write the "history" of this business, you don't know s---, kiddo. The jack-offs cum lately don't even qualify as journeymen and have absolutely no sense of what came before them, nor are they interested in those who paved the way.

"Journalism is supposed to be fair. You, on the other hand, represent the trashiest element imaginable - you actually make the tabloids read like The New Yorker."

Leonard thinks little of Luke's recommendation (lots of porners have bought and read it) of the new book THE ANIMAL IN HOLLYWOOD: Anthony Fiato's Life in the Mafia by John L. Smith, a reporter for the Las Vegas Review Journal. Gloria writes: "As poorly as your Fiato book excerpts read (grammar, language, spelling, etc)., it is hard to believe that anyone actually published it. And so many of the incidents described are such bulls---, would this publisher let itself be so wide open to potential lawsuits? Although I've tried to warn you before, you need to be much more careful about what you post and about whom. Perhaps being hacked will temper your temptation to shoot from the hip. Happy f---ing New Year."

Porn star Heaven Leigh: "The President Of The Free Speech Coalition is coming down hard on a book called "Porn Merchants" and she is here to support the rights of Americans to say or write or view what they wish. How did she say it, "sleazy,slimy slices of books no one gives a s--- about." How do you know lady, who made you "GOD" to speak for me or any others who may want to read this book? I thought free speech was just that anyone has the right to print or write or even have a small web page to voice a thought a idea or even a opinion, but I am seeing with the porn business its only ok if they who run the show are allowed to do so. Every day I see someone bitching and yelling about what Luke writes and guess what? He has all rights to do that, this is America and we do have that thing called "FREE SPEECH" and he is doing just that. If you want this man to go away (which I don't think anybody does ) all you have to do is stop talking to him,but being human as we all are we can not do that. We need him to keep our lives in an uproar. The more he stirs
the more we as readers want to know about all the dirt in the business.

"I never knew about this site until five months ago on a set everyone was talking about this guy named Luke F-rd.You see he has already won, he got us all to talk about him and then he got people to tell him about things in the businees.We made Luke F-rd why because we like the fact of the uproar he has done to us all. My whole day starts on what Luke has to say or what someone has told him,and from what I have read a lot of other companies are doing the same. So Ms. Leonard, if you want him to go away, stop posting to him and everyone else that wants him to go away, stop talking to him don't allow him on your sets stop the fuel and the fire will go out, but then again, many of us need to know what is out there and who is f---ing who!"

Ex-porn star Brandy Alexandre believes that my posting of real names is primarily an effort to find more to write about, such as "the rape and murder of porn stars, not just who they f---ed in what movie. I was thinking about going to CES and all of a sudden I realized that thank to the losers of the world like Luke, I can't get a hotel room in either name, or I can't tell anyone where I'm staying. I have a right to a bit of privacy, something of my own if only to protect myself from the psychos of the world. Anyone who was hoping to see me CES, as I have been queried about dozens of times, can thank Luke F-rd, and every other bozo no-dick lowlife who thought they could win idiotic cyber arguments by harassing someone in real life." (alt.cult_movies.erotica)

RAME moderator Brad Williams: "I have a problem with it [posting real names] simply because it's just pissing people off in the name of "freedom" and could possibly become an issue with some of the people listed. I'm all for legalized drugs, gambling, prostitution, etc. but it's not because I practice them or have any desire to. Just because something is "legal" doesn't mean it has to be "necessary," which is why a lot of laws right now are based on the morality of the issue instead
of simply being "it's legal, but that doesn't make it right."

"Anything that cuts-down on the potential talent-pool in porn I'm personally against. No, that doesn't mean I'm for making it on a "need to know" basis, but I don't see what a real names list accomplishes besides National Enquirer-like "see what I know" sensationalism.

"Honestly, I think Luke F-rd has enough interesting things to write on or give opinions about than to resort to cheap s---. His credibility or lack thereof was long ago decided, and he has avenues into porn and people are willing to talk, so I think the whole deal with real names and the stench it causes is completely unecessary."

Oliver44: "If Luke's gonna report on celebrities it _is_ necessary. Either treat them like all the other celebrities or dont report nothing on them. Don't tell me that people are not interested in real names and other personal things about people with celebrity status.

"All the other celrbrities get their real name printed. Why is it "sensationalist" for a porno star, but not a Hollywood star or a pro "rassler". Ya admit porn is in the gutter? Everybody is ashamed
to be associated with it. Can ya prove that a real name list causes the "talent" <brainless bimbos> to leave? The Aids scare has 100 times more to do with it.

"Don't give me no stalker argument. Dont need a real name if somebody wanted to stalk em. Jenna Jameson is coming to my town in a couple of weeks. She will be in a strip club. Think a stalker
needs her real name to do harm to a broad dancin naked on a stage?

"One reason I don't like Luke F-rd is cause his loyality is divided between the porn stars and his readers. He's just a shill and he knows it.    If he wants credibility, he better stop being so wishy-washey and report the facts _and_ stick to his guns. Luke poop-scoop is a fool and yer a fool if ya think he has credibility. A _real_ stench would be caused by _not_ printing real names. He would be an even bigger shill." (alt.cult_movies.erotica)

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In college in 1987, Brett Ryan hosted a debate about pornography between Al Goldstein and Page Mellish (President of Feminists Fighting Pornography.) "It was the liveliest, funniest debate I have ever witnessed. I took Al Goldstein out to dinner before the debate (Page refused to come with us) and Al was just the nicest, warmest person. He said one thing that was fascinating. He said that all of the women in porn are(were) Catholic, and all of the men are (were) Jewish. I was startled by
that. I asked him why, and he quipped, "eh, it's the only way Jewish guys can get any pussy.""

Pat Riley: "I'd say he's probably right for the seventies and eighties. Today however there are quite a few Jewish women in the business and the number of non-Jewish males has increased in my perception.

"It seems to me this is a defensive attempt by a segment of the population to show how good (?) they are. One writer actually said the reason for the high proportion of Jewish males was that they were much better lovers. Given the way most porno movies are made I hardly think that's a valid reason. Nor do I think Al's ideas are valid (only way they can get laid) but perhaps in personal case it's true <g>.

"The real reason is IMO more along the lines of the following. Probably due to the European pogroms of the past and the diaspora generally Jews historically cluster in industries which require little capital or where the capital can be easily transported such as the diamond business. The entertainment industry and by extension the porno industry is also such a business. Jewish women however tended in the past to be more family orientated and less likely to rock the boat by
appearing in pornos, a characteristic not shared by lots of their gentile sisters, so more gentile females took to porn. You also have a question of looks. The prettiest and most attractive girls as typified by the supermodels all tend to be gentile and since the porno industry is highly looks orientated, more gentile females will have success."