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Friday, January 16, 1999

I hear that Greg Steel and Julie Rage are in the process of moving to Greenville, SC.

Pat Riley discussed turnover with his local video store manager who said the leading groups were:

A hundred or so Jamaican or West Indian locally produced amateur.
A&B Amateur (he just got in about 50 more in response to the demand
but these are all five or so years old)
Eye on You (amateur--he seems to have bought their entire output)
Other Amateur (he's just opened an all amateur room)

Ed movies
Randy West Movies
Black Cheerleader Search (he has a separate section) but not Black
Snatch, Black Street Hookers, nor the Video Team Products.

Evil Angel (still a solid renter)
Elegant Angel (but going down)
Seymore Butts (although no one has mentioned the fisting and his
copies of Tampa Tushy Fest do contain it)
Rodney Moore movies
Real Sex Magazine (going up)
Freshman Fantasies and the A-Hole line (going up--he wishes there were
more)
Other "young" titles like University Co-eds (going up)

Private (but going down)
Pick Up Lines and Peeping Tom (but going down)
Cherry Poppers (but going down)
Vivid compilations (going up, he's buying more--groan)
Extreme (hasn't really taken off)
Anabolic but not the gangbang girl line.
Empire Presents (a surprising success)
Max movies (but going down)
The different BJ movies (but a big drop in the last couple of months
so he's cutting back. He thinks people have got sick of them.)
Oldies movies (over 40 etc--solid but unspectacular renters)

Vivid, Wicked, VCA features (he says he buys one copy if not too
expensive for the "couples" market however I've yet to see a couple in
the porno rooms)
Japanese tapes like AVE and Ahso Hashimoto (he's basically stopped
buying these--pity)
Non-Private Euro movies like Xcell and Passport 69
Pregnant
All Girl
B&D
Gay (he only has about 50)

IEG movies like Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson and Janine's b/g tape
(big mistake to ask. He bought six copies of each and says he lost
money.)
The monster gangbang movies. He's not sure he'll even buy the Houston
500 if it ever comes off.
Candida Royale and Adam & Eve movies (e.g. Nina Hartley's guide to
giving a BJ).

The big surprise is the amateur which he says has really taken off in
the last six months but he doesn't know why. He thinks maybe people
are just sick of the sameness of the others.

The clientele are a diverse group including old Jewish guys, retirees,
about 30% middle aged blacks who are probably responsible for the
Jamaican and Black Cheerleader rentals, some guys in suits around 6pm,
lots of public service employees (bus drivers, utility workers, etc).
No college kids. The "No Ma'am" and "King Of The Hill" group.

***

Jasmine St. Clair left this message on Kendra Jade's answering machine Thursday: "I seriously suggest you stop talking about me cunt. Your days are numbered."

Kendra: "Back up your words bitch. Meet me any time or place. There's a wrestling ring in the room across from me [at Cream]. We just did a wrestling movie [starring Jenny Lee McKenzie]. If you won't come to me, I'll come to you. I know where you live."

Zoe to Charley Frey: "Be a man. Take up your battle with John man to man and leave us girls out of it."

Charley Frey writes to Luke: "I thought you were a legitimate guy. But, obviously you're much farther up John Bowen's ass than I thought.

"That's ok, as he continues to sink, signing Cassidy as a contract girl; what a joke. There is not one legitimate company in the business that offered her any type of deal. Bowen is desperate. Zoe is a joke. Her movies don't sell for s---. The feature circuit thinks she sucks. And what happened to Kendra; Bowen's girlfriend? She's taking bookings for 1200.00 cause her 5 minutes of fame are already over. Let's see; Bowen can't sell s---; his "contract" girls are leftovers no-one wants; and there is not one person in this industry that he has not bounced a check on; screwed over, or f---ed (literally, if he got the chance); and you must be on his payroll; that is what
Kendra said. She also told me that Gene Ross also receives checks from him. Funny, that you have not got the balls to be honest. When Bowen takes his final fall; you'll be right there behind him. Hope it was worth it.

"FYI, I've been sending copies of everything I send you to a good friend at AVN and to other publications; everytime you don't print what I write; or print lies; real members of the industry know it. It is a shame that you have let Bowen's money influence you."

AVN's Gene Ross phoned Friday afternoon to recommend an investment specialist. I was at a loss with what to do with the thousands of dollars John Bone funnels my way every week. Gene and I then compared notes on which porn girls have given us the best BJs.

One of Luke's harshest critics, FSC Insurance coordinator Greg Zeboray, writes: "At the suggestion of someone within the industry, I have read your site for the past couple weeks, and must commend you on the improvements.

"There have only been two reasons that I opposed your site, with the primary one being the posting of unsubstantiated information. The Gina Ryder situation was a classic example, and it is my hope that you used it as a reason to change your way of doing things. Let me stress my belief that an online "National Inquirer" of porn is actually a good thing, provided no one gets hurt by it. I think the fans do need a
source for some form of "inside" information - it will help keep them interested. It will even be better yet, if that source maintains a position of non partisanship.

"The real name issue is obviously the other. Luke, the negative publicity it generated was great for your site, but you don't need the publicity any longer. Purely from a humanitarian standpoint, I ask that you remove that page from your site. Most of the performers listed on your site do not like it, and I'm sure you will acknowledge that a "need to know" scenario does not exist here. So gain Luke, please remove them."

Steve Austin left World Modeling in June, 1997. He’s been doing blow-job scenes and assisting Director Cash Markman.

Steve called me Wednesday night, 1/13. "World Modeling has bad-mouthed me to many directors. I’ve not been a saint in this industry. I’ve made my mistakes. I originally did not want to give an interview about World Modeling when I left there in the summer of 1997. But I’m not going to sit back and be bad rapped by a company that I gave 100% loyalty. If the statements by Jim South do not cease and desist immediately, I will give you a complete lowdown on World Modeling and all the antics that go on there. If they want to have a war, we can have a war. I might lose but both sides are going to get hurt. I’m being accused of taking things from World Modeling… Agency fees. I do not want to get into every director’s agreement with World Modeling about appropriate agency fees. Even to this day, I do not bad mouth World Modeling but that will completely change… I have just as many clients as Jim does. I don’t want to go this route but if I am forced to, I will. Jim South has done more for me in this industry than anyone else but in return I was a friend and the best employee he ever had (which Jim has stated many times). I was willing to piss off producers and directors just to make sure that Jim got his agency fee, putting my acting career second. I’m disappointed that since I left World Modeling, Jim hasn’t shown the same loyalty towards me that I’ve shown towards him. Make no mistake about it, Jim was limited by the amount of work he could get me because of the type of scenes I did – BJs. So I understand my phone not ringing off the hook with Jim saying he’s got work… But I should’ve gotten a call now and then. I don’t want to affect his business. Jim, please don’t affect mine. To this day, I have not bad rapped World Modeling to a single person. I just wish they would show me the same courtesy."

Butchie Peraino returns to LA Friday. Chuck Martino and Shay Sweet are engaged to be married February 3.

The Harold Hecuba character in the 9/98 Premiere magazine on the AVN Awards is Evan Wright of IEG. The Dick Filth character is patterned on Premiere editor Glenn Kenny. David Foster Wallice tried several times to get through to AVN about his piece but his calls, I hear, were effectively blocked by Paul Fishbein's overly protective ex-assistant Susan Block. Wallice reportedly regarded AVN's attitude towards him as "snooty." One source says he definitely heard Ellen Thompson say the words attributed to her in the Premiere article, that the AVN reviewers vote more than once under different names. She may have been kidding. Fishbein's paperwork on the awards totally backs up his claim that reviewers only get to vote once.

2Sedentary writes on RAME: "In the most recent Nasty Amateur Home Videos release from VCA (sub-titled "Couples"), Nici Sterling and Williamson Howe introduce the first video as one they received from a couple in Texas. It's a MFF scene featuring none other than -- [the late] Alex Jordan. Guess it's time to start believing in miracles again.

"Other jewels of supposedly "just-received" videos include a Rodney Moore directed Asian female/black male scene which was included in one of Odyssey's amateur series a few years ago (and the only thing which made "Couples" not a total waste as that's one of my kinks, and I missed the original because it was released during a three-year period when I was taking a hiatus from porn, and despite the fact it was very heavily edited down to just a few minutes); a Jake Steed scene with a woman whom I did not recognize; and a VERY old Homegrown Video piece with their logo still showing in the lower right corner of the screen. As regards this video: VCA, thy name is SCAM."

The FSC announced its new board Friday. Elected to new terms -
Phil Berman, Jeffrey Douglas, Mara Epstein, Jane Hamilton, Nina Hartley
Steve Hirsch, Mark Kernes, Christian Mann, Steve Orenstein. They join current board members Russ Hampshire, Gloria Leonard, William Margold and Jim South

I hear that JB is suing Sin City after getting knocked around on the Michael Raven White Rabbit set.

I hear that Buck Adams sold his porn name to Jim Lane for some figure between $1000-$25,000 cash. Now Lane can make Babewatches etc under the Buck Adams name.

Rz8474 [an ex-girlfriend of Rob Black?]: "Is it just me or has the infamous Rob Black finally taken the steps of his "father" Patrick Collins and thrown everything away via Coke?

"I find it quite amusing how Rob always talked down about Patrick and called him a junkie and yet now that is exactly what he has become. If you look closely at both of their lives they resemble each other to the T!

"They both started with nothing, they both HAD great women in their lives, they both have and had great success and now Patrick has cleaned up his act and Rob.......well we all know where he's headed. Rob has consumed himself with pointing fingers at people, striking out at women (Mrs. J Bone and from what I've heard, past girlfriends) and basically running around crying about the AVN award show.

"Rob, we've all known the rise was going to happen and we all know the fall is coming soon. I had heard you were "clean" and yet at CES you were baked! Dude, does your daddy know you're snorting his money or does that run in the blood family too?

"P.S. Rob, lose the fat blonde chick [Lizzy Borden?] you have, she doesn't even do YOU justice! Tricia was so much hotter and the other girl too! Just another example of you going down the toilet."

Rob's ex-girlfriend Nikki writes: "I just read in your posting from the "psycho crazed" rzwhatever and then beside it you posted Rob Blacks ex-girlfriend? I have posted on the newsgroup and I'll post on your site as well, it is not me!

"I recently spoke with Rob and from our last conversation there wasn't anything mean said and quite frankly the conversation made me feel better because it meant Rob and I can bury harsh feelings.

"I think the RZ character is someone who is a coward and can't reveal who they are. In every posting, I have always stated who I was. I won't lie and say that I wish things between Rob and I had worked out differently but that's for me to deal with and not for everyone to shove in my face. I have bowed out of the race and I only hope that Rob is happy.

"I would greatly appreciate it if you would stop ACCUSING me of being this person. I care very much for Rob and his family and I've worked very hard to start a friendly relationship with them. Please do the investigative work before you wrongly accuse someone. It is very painful to me and I wish to have nothing to do with this whole subject matter."

Wrestler Imlikgod writes: "Sorry I did not get the opportunity to meet you [Luke] at CES. After being surrounded by an industry more sleazy than my own for 4 days I had an epiphany of sorts. I want you to know that what you provide to those of us on the outside looking in is nothing less than REVOLUTIONARY. All other things printed on the "industry" are slanted and usually have no basis in fact. You provide a peek behind the curtain of what really occurs in this business, and don't try to clean it up for the masses. It doesn't matter if its not always absolute truth, those with a brain can see the reality through all the BS smokescreen that your detractors put up.

"As far as real names go, don't let others intimidate you. I work in a business where people on a nightly basis cuss, spit, throw stuff, and threaten you, and everybody knows our real names. To those whiny "stars" ha ha ha, who hassle you, tell them they should consider themselves lucky anyone cares what their name is. If they are so worried , buy a gun and make an example of the next guy who trespasses on their property. (As if that ever happens anyway.) Their real name is public domain, and if you back away from this you will lose your credibility. Don't sell out Luke, a lot of people enjoy a chance to see the reality of this business."