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Sunday, January 31, 1999

VCA contract girl Stacey Valentine appears on Monday's Entertainment Tonight. "The narration said 'the rise and fall of a pornstar' and we see a clip of Stacy laying out on a hospital bed about to have surgery performed on her." (RAME)

Canterbry1 spoke "for a couple of minutes with Stacy Valentine... in Dallas... A great girl and a real sweetheart. I asked her about the documentary about her, entitled the 'Girl Next Door' . The first words out of her mouth was "going mainstream!" I noted that the documentary may not have very positive about the porn industry.  She said it was an "open and honest" protrayal about what goes on in the business. We also talked a little about her being on Entertainment Tonight and she said she was interviewed for the story. She seemed to be excited and proud of both the documentary and the story on E.T."

Investcorp: "I just saw Lecher 2 [Evil Angel] and I must say the once Greatest Director in porn is no more. Right off the bat I noticed the lighting was among the worst I've seen in porn. He shoots from the opposite side of whatever lighting there is so ALL of the sex is in the shadows. Imagine someone standing with their back to the sun and you try to take pictures of them. What you end up with is a shadowy image. I don't know if he used some sort of filter on the camera lenses but everything had a yellow tint to it. It was worst that those grainy Playboy videos. The camera angles were even worst. It seems like the the guy with the camera just runs around in circles. The performers are in the middle and the cameraman just keeps circling them. He never stops to capture a quality wide angle penetration shot. John Leslie used to be the best director in porn now that throne has gone to Tom Byron and Joey Silvera. It seems like John Leslie has decided to go the way of Andrew Blake. Maybe someone else is directing and John is just slapping his name on the product." (RAME)

Rob Black phoned late Saturday night to put to rest the latest stupid rumor that Duped Luke had run.

Luke ran: "Rob Black’s rumored intention to bring promising young male performers back from his junket to Brazil has raised some poignant questions among the industry’s women. Although the idea of new working men is heralded as a refreshing notion, there is concern over the safety of their induction into the US talent pool. One young starlet believes women should be prepared to enforce their own comfort level quarantines on the newcomers. "I don’t know anything about Brazilian testing procedures, and I don’t have a lot of faith in South American medical procedures," she stated, adding that there is more than just the HIV issue to consider. "Rob may very well have a plan," she explained, "but it’s ultimately up to me to take care of myself.""

Rob said the rumor was ridiculous. "Why would I want to bring Brazilian guys back here?" Rob is not using any Brazilian male talent with his two Extreme contract girls who made the trip - Lizzy Borden and Jasmin St. Claire.

"We're shooting Brazilian girls," said Rob. "It will be Extreme Associates first 'safe sex' movie. Everything you'll see with them will have condoms in it. Perhaps we'll win a Safe Sex award from AVN. And Jasmine's doing a couple of scenes on the beach with Tommy Byron.

"Lizzy [Rob's girlfriend] doesn't do scenes anymore. She's becoming a director. Just like I did some scenes in my youth... She doesn't want to compromise herself by doing scenes and s--- like that.

"We've already finished one movie. We met with Brazil's top porn distributor (Clayton Fernandez's) Video Lips, and we have a deal in place with them. We go to Rio Sunday.

"We'll back to Los Angeles this week. I'm not going to do any Brazilian transsexuals. Nothing filthy like that. Totally protected safe sex."

Max Hardcore: "Luke, I thought you dealt with straight porn. So why would you report on somebody going to Brazil to pick up "promising male talent?" Is this some change of direction? I'll be on Copacabana Beach in a couple of weeks, with Rocco and his crew, and the last thing we want to see is any "promising go-go boys!""

Brad Williams writes on RAME: "It's funny how over-regulated adult/porn content is, and how totally unregulated by itself the business is. It's like a total anarchy except for a few major players at the top who have a hand out any and everywhere money or product changes hands. While that is identical to the Mafia business model, I don't see Mafia. I see just a bunch of schmucks getting taken advantage of by the few that know what the hell they are doing and being large enough to control what happens.

"I can see why even popular amateur porn producers/performers stick to purely mail-order or sometimes websites too. It's about the only way to get full value for your product without playing loads of games and being affected by the fact that the over-production and total glut of new releases is killing this business. Either some of the smaller-to-mid sized companies are going to consolidate or a lot will go under and leave only the Vivid's and VCA's left.

"I know what a nice guy Russ Hampshire is considered to be and all, but the guy (and good 'ol Walter Dark/Geroni) got started by pirating Hollywood movies and did time over it. That shows what his ethics are right there, and it would be foolish to think he's totally changed from that kind of shortcut (and illegal) mentality. Walter's ex-partner and VCA's ex-superstar director Gregory Dark did time for pimping. Who really expects a crowd like this to be thinking of anything besides getting their money and f--- the consequences? I won't even go into Jim South and the rest because it's been done to death plenty of times.

"Considering how the porn theater was killed by the VCR and political/legal fights and what is happening with bookstore/video chains, I wouldn't be suprised to see more movies sold new over the Internet and bypass all the hassles with the distribution chain and getting slaughtered on wholesale margins."

Luke F-rd appeared on the Wayne Resnick show Saturday night 11PM - midnight PST on AM 640 KFI in Los Angeles. Reporter Andy Patrizio and accountant Mike Daniels, a partner in Tom Byron Productions, joined in the lively discussion. Wayne thinks porn is increasingly in the toilet. He preferred the golden age ('72-84). He hates the use of condoms in porn.

Pat Riley says the porn industry has hit a new low. "No, it's not Rocco sticking some girl's head in the toilet or the bottom of the genetic cesspool gang banging some drug addicted skank or even the Marc "the plague" Wallice affair. (Did anyone note that the boxes for recent Vivid releases in which he appears don't credit him? Co-incidence?) None of those things. I refer instead to the use of handicapped girls as performers.

""I don't mind physical handicaps as long as it doesn't impact the ability to give consent. No objection to Long Jean Silver for example. I object to mentally handicapped where I don't believe the girl has the wherewithal to make a competent decision. In this case the deafness regardless of her mental ability reduces her ability to clearly understand and communicate her consent.

"I'm also dubious that the deafness is all that's wrong. I suppose she [McKenna] could have become deaf due to a disease but then wouldn't she have some speech ability stemming from her pre-deaf state? More likely it's from birth and is probably accompanied by some degree of mental retardation. Even if this is not true the burden of proof in my view shifts to the producer/video company which they won't be able to demonstrate on a tape. That is, they might escape legally but I will see it as exploitation--much more so that with a full capacity girl.

"A case in instance is McKenna, who seems to be totally deaf, and her use in Y A #12. Ron Jeremy pretends to be a professor at a college who has been assigned McKenna as a secretary and who upon realizing she's deaf and can't tell anyone (he ignores the probability that she could
write out a complaint) sexually harasses her and screws her including an anal. During the anal part he has to push her into the different positions and all the time she screws up her face and makes sounds like she's in pain. You can't help feeling that she's naive and has been cajoled into doing something she wouldn't do if she was able to make her wishes known easily and converse normally with the others in the industry.

"A similar thing occurred in Kelly The Co-ed #2 where both the Rabbi Stiffkugel and myself commented on her paddling by David Hardman after which she clearly had masses of broken capillaries in her butt (there's a medical term for this--pettuch...or something).

"Her other appearance was with Max in Hollywood Hardcore #3 which somehow didn't seem quite so bad probably due to the expectation that Max is going to abuse the women anyway. If your thing is pre-pubertal 8 year olds, you might want to check out Y A #12 where we also have Mikayla Shore who looks about...well, eight years old with tiny tits, very petite body, and a little girl face. I could help thinking that this must be what it would be like to screw Jon-Benet Ramsey (the little girl who was murdered in Colorado a couple of years ago) but her presumptive boyfriend Roy has no difficulty. They also appear in Hollywood Hardcore #3 where he acts like a far more threatening Max and abuses her before analing her. The only redemptive thing about Mikayla is that she has a couple of tattoos, a nose ring, and an eyebrow ring. I never thought I'd actually approve of tattoos and piercings.

"Sorry guys. f---ing the handicapped is not just a "choice". I stand with the religious right here. And if you get your rocks off on imagining a pre-pubertal girl, that's not just a "choice" either. (I
have nothing against and in fact approve of screwing the 15/16 year olds.)" (RAME)

CJH: "Naive and cajoled are qualities assignable to MOST female porn performers! Cajoled by cash pittances, they must be naive to believe that the road to success and fame is paved with butt-f---s, gangbangs and facials!"

Director James DiGiorgio: "When did Pat Riley become the adult industry's conscience? C'mon, Pat, you really believe this hearing impaired girl was persuaded to perform sex in front of the camera because of some inability to communicate? And, by the way, she's not the only hearing-impaired porn kitten this industry has: try Ashley Shye. And trust me, Ashley has no problem whatsoever communicating her gripes and bitches, nor saying "no" when she decides she ain't going wherever you want her to go. I guess Pat sees us as something akin to white slavers: luring innocent, young waifs into sordid lives, with little or no chance to escape. Get real dude. Women come into this biz for one basic reason: money. and just because one of them grimaces when taking it up the keester (don't you when you do?), doesn't mean they've been forced, cajoled, unfairly persuaded, blackmailed, or shanghaied into doing so."

Pv107: "While we adopt the idea that society needs to set some limits in protecting the weak and helpless - otherwise we are reduced to a Hobbesian state of of existance - there is an element within the handicapped community that questions our assumptions.

"Their point is that our desire to protect, our paternalism reduces the objects of our protection to less than adult status. Just because someone may be physically (obviously, mental handicaps where, arguably, the person can not be concious of the consequences of their decisions are another ball game) handicapped in some respect does not mean they are not capable of functioning both mentally and sexually as an adult. They would tell us that if we feel disgust at the trealment of the woman involved, we need to examine the cause. Do we object to any and all women being treated this way? Fine, we have case. Is it because she is handicapped? We're being paternalistic again - if it's OK for a sound bodied woman, why not for a handicapped one? If she is of sound mind, why can't a woman choose to involve herself either in a loving relationship or jumping from bed to bed as her fancy dictates?

"There are thousands of happy couples in this land where one partner is handicapped, so such blanket prohibitions are nonsense. Would you object to a porn video where a deaf-mute found a partner that satisfied her sexually and emotionally?" (RAME)

Rodney Moore hopes that AVN has a sense of humor. He says, "In a recent scene opening with Czech girl Nicol, I had her sitting on an abandoned toilet I had discovered in an alley. She's reading the AVN. I proposition her, and as she gets up, I take the mag from her and toss it in the bowl, and hit the flusher. When I edit this scene, I'll be overdubbing a cute flushing sound. This scene will open up Creme de la Face 30, so whoever reviews it for AVN will be sure not to miss it. On the other hand, that assumes whoever is "assigned" to review my movie actually does watch it. Sometimes I wonder.

"Now why would I knock the AVN? Could it be that I'm tired of 2 sentence reviews of my movies? A few years back, I was getting incredible reviews, the AVN once said I was a "True Pioneer" and my shooting style was leaving Buttman and Ed Powers in the dust. The AVN was my friend. Now even though I have continually improved and advanced, I get two sentences, usually, "Stock this if Rodney does well for you". Gee, what insight! A year ago, I ran into Tom Byron, who I'd never met. He said someone told him he should check out my movies, they're funny and creative. He said he couldn't shoot like that, he just points the camera at the sex. But he gets the Editors' Choice every other month and I get two sentences. Now most of my movies have never been advertised much in the AVN, but Byron was with Elegant Angel at the time, a major advertiser. Hmmmm. The AVN is not my friend.

"I boycotted the awards show again this year. But I did know someone who needed a ticket, and when I saw [AVN's] Jay S. and Gene Ross giving free tickets to Don Fernando and a new actress (Talent get free tickets), I figured I'd get one to give to this person (talent) or just in case I should at the last minute decide to be bored for 4 hours. Well, I was told that I fell under the "Max Hardcore Rule", that is no tickets to talent that are also producers and make too much money to get a free ticket. Hmm, I wonder if Jenna Jameson and Danni Ashe fall under that rule too? The AVN is not my friend.

"I was nominated in the Best Pro-am category. Randy West won. In a recent poll on my website www.rodneymoore.com, I asked the question, whose movies do you watch the most. It was multiple choice with 5 different nominees, including Max Hardcore (who came in first), Ben Dover, Seymour Butts, Ed Powers and Randy West. Randy got the least amount of votes. Now I like the guy, but this was the result of the poll. So it's interesting that the AVN award selection is opposite the result of the poll. Randy is distributed by Evil Angel.

"I've been advertising in the AVN myself in the last few months out of my own pocket. I bought two pages promoting my new series "I SWALLOW" last month. Odyssey bought three pages for me this month. Maybe after awhile the AVN will be my friend again."

Talk attributed to Bianca Trump on the Internet Relay Chat "Porn Star Trading" (dalnet, #!!!!!!pornstar-trading) claimed that porn star Alicia Rio had died of a heroin overdose. The rumor is FALSE. Rio called me Thursday evening from Corpus Christi, Texas. She is alive and well.

"We are dancing at Sunset Thomas's brand new club through Saturday," said Rio by phone Thursday night. "Bianca Trump, Serenity and I... And I'm going to be doing a video with Sunset Thomas. I've never even done heroin. My trouble was only with alcohol... I love this business. All the rumors... If this is what I have to do to get publicity... [Rio laughs.] Bianca says she never said anything."

A source: "A girl from Tampa who had been recruited by Regan Senter during a recent show was getting ready to go to LA. She checked around and decided that maybe Mr Senter wasn't such a good guy. She called him and relieved him of any duties he might presume he has as her agent. Senter supposedly hit the ceiling and told her "You can't do that, I own this town" and that "everyone is just jealous of my sex life." I hear that he told her he was going to "start supplying bad talent to people I doesn't like so that it will screw up their shoots."

"One of Mike South's discoveries Giana, who now goes by the name Katie June, has been all but shacking up with Randy West lately and word has it that he is taking her to fantasy baseball camp in Arizona with him next week. Katie's mom, meanwhile is scheduled out in LA soon for a still shoot with her daughter. Mike South is very close to breaking ranks with LBO. Seems he has been getting paid in rubber checks."

What is the real name of the LBO owner Bobby Genova?

I've heard that two beautiful girls from out of state were allowed to work earlier this month in Los Angeles porno without HIV tests. The producer denies these allegations. My source claims: "Luke, this came from the girls mouth, ok? V. and her cousin! They were in an agent's office and the place was livid! They had just gotten here from Texas and the results from there test weren't here yet, and the producer let them work! THE OFFICE FREAKED OUT ABOUT IT. XXX IS A FLAT OUT LIAR! I HATE THE FACT THAT THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO COVER UP THEIR f----UPS! He might have tests for everyone, BUT did he get them AT the shoot? Did the other talent get the chance to see them? NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

I hear that Sharon Mitchell's AIM has changed the name of its "couples counseling" of porners to "partner counseling" because so many porners are in threesomes.

LAS VEGAS, and STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Private Media Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PRVT) announced today that its application for listing its common stock for trading on the Nasdaq National Market (NNM) had been approved and that its shares will begin trading on the NNM on Monday, February 1, 1999 under the symbol "PRVT."

Director and principal shareholder of the Company Berth Milton stated:
"We are so pleased to have our listing approved and to become a listed
security on the premier stock market in the United States. We believe
that our acceptance, as the first adult entertainment company to be
listed on the NASDAQ National Market, reflects not only our financial
stability and size, but also that our industry is a viable long term
industry. We look forward to the benefits that we will derive from
this listing, including much greater exposure of our Company to the
investing public and financial press, greater liquidity for our
shareholders, and additional growth opportunities."

The Company, the operations of which were established in Sweden in
1965 as a publisher of adult entertainment magazines, is engaged in
publishing and distribution of adult entertainment products, including
magazines, films, home videos, books, DVDs, and CD-Roms. The Company has also recently diversified its lines of business to include energy drinks and apparel.

The fastest growing division of the Company is its Internet division.
The Company believes that the Internet is an ideal vehicle for the
distribution of its products, which supplements its existing
conventional distribution channels in more than 30 countries. The
Company intends to concentrate on expanding its Internet presence
through internal growth, acquisitions, strategic alliances and
licensing agreements.

An observer: "If Mark (Kernes) and AVN are doing a true expose on the Marc Wallice situation, I applaud them. But only if they name ALL names involved in Wallice being allowed to continue working [while HIV positive]. It ain't all Marc. My feeling is that if AVN is now ready to lay it all at Marc Wallice's doorstep, that it's to cover Jim South's involvement [Luke has no evidence that Marc Wallice's talent agent, Jim South of World Modeling, covered up for Wallice]. But if it's AVN we ain't gonna hear that. Not about the tough but kind, caring, sensitive Mr. South.

"While many of the comments posted to your website had good points, Marc Wallice could still have infected any of these women, even Barbara Doll. Does anyone remember late 1989/early 1990 when Wallice looked really sick? [He was doing IV drugs at the time with his friends Sharon Mitchell and Aja who have been clean for years now.] Strange that during that time he often wore a condom, even though they were virtually unused at the time. He took some time off, and came back looking buffed and tanned. Don't believe me, go back and check some tapes out at that time. Especially look at him in a vid from the time with Tracey Adams. Dude looks like death warmed over.

"As far as retalliation from Wallice, just keep him away from your house/car/possessions while he's trying to light up his bong or crack pipe, otherwise he'll "accidentally" set fire to them while trying to toke.

"Hard Copy just interviewed Brooke Ashley and Kimberly Jade. Yeah, yeah, yeah...we've heard all this before. Didn't they interview at least Brooke once before?. Of course, with February "sweeps" coming up, it's a possibility. But when did this all break? April. Way to get on a story Hard Copy. Can the folks at HC find their asses with a flashlight and both hands? Or does it take a press release for them to?

"Spallone, if you're doing this just to bust Jim South's balls, I like it even more!

A porner on Luke's New Times cover story: "It's funny how you were relieved. Did you think he was going to print something untrue? Damaging? Gossip without attribution. Ironic, huh?"

Another porner: "Now you know first hand how it feels to be the helpless subject of a written piece widely distributed over the internet."

An observer: "Luke, don't delude yourself that if you go with [AVN Publisher Paul] Fishbein, you'll be able to do anything but toe the party line. When it comes to the crunch, are you really going to be able to disclose items that are very painful to the industry on your own website or in the column? I don't think so. The lure of that steady paycheck and the health insurance would be too much.

"For example the selling practices involving product swap that you disclosed on your website seem to warrant further investigation. Apart from Zane's ownership of a nudie bar/adult bookstore in upstate NY, I wasn't aware that the other companies owned video stores. What sort of video stores? The peepshow kind? Or the general rental kind? This starts to explain why VCA, AVN etc are so interested in the zoning problems of adult businesses and may explain the whining of people like the Spinellis that they can't make money.

"It goes like this (pure speculation): Sin City etc do product swap with Vivid and force the product down to their video stores crowding out the independent producer at the retail level. Because there's a limit on the number of videos a store will carry, the main thing that you
will see at the retail level are Vivid and Sin City videos. Since the average customer doesn't know any other videos exist he has to rent/buy Vivid/Sin City videos and since the price is artificially low, those stores can drive their competitors out of business. Is this restraint of trade in a legal sense? Wasn't this the big argument when the movie studios were forced to divest their interest in the cinemas?

"Depending on how big this is it would seem to make mincemeat of the sales statistics. I'll bet too that the studios don't account for the swap profit on a studio level but rather at the store making the movie seem much less profitable than it really is. It's akin to the seventies situation with the money not going back to the producer but rather remaining with the enforcer/capo/family who of course are not interested in using it to make a better next movie."

An observer: "I hear that Chloe may become a VCA contract girl. Does that mean, "Chloe, get a boob job". Get ready to have your breasts sliced open by some Ear, Nose & Throat doctor and implants stuffed in Chloe dear! It'll come to either that or the line will stop and then the work will stop.

"Here is a gal who has been a great spokeswoman for the industry and she's still getting the boob job squeeze play. Someone must have looked around and noticed how long she'd been around working with her natural breasts...gotta take care of that. She's becoming a bad role model, showing girls that they don't have to get implants...can't have that. Remember when Jeanna Fine at the AVN Awards thanked Russ Hampshire [VCA owner] for buying her tits and nose?"