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Wednesday, February 10, 1999

Police came to agent Reb Sawitz's house looking for Colt Steel, wanting to serve him with a warrant for traffic violations. Michael J. Cox marries non-porn model Shelly Carver on Tuesday. A leading contract girl is missing shoots because she's had another abortion.

According to Hoover's Company Capsules, Vivid Video recorded sales of $40 million last year, tops in the US industry.

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Former Australian censor David Haines, 56, appears in his second porno, Revenge Aussie Style. According to the Age of Melbourne, one of Australia's top newspapers, the X-rated version of Revenge has sold more than 1000 mail order copies in Australia - significant, Haines says, in an industry where sales of 500 are regarded as exceptional.

Haines's first venture into X, last year's Buffy Down Under, sold 12,000, a
result sufficiently inspiring for Haines to produce, direct and "star" in the follow-up.

"I know it sounds odd, but after 14 years in the censorship office, I knew the industry," he says.

Haines spent $25,000 on two-and-a-half days' shooting for Revenge. He expects the film to more than pay for itself... Already there is interest
from Europe and America, where the combination of laconic
Aussies and raunchy sex is said to be appealing. (The Age of Melbourne)

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Matt writes on RAME: "Classic Adult Cinema- http://www.classicadultcinema.com is no more. They don't give an explanation and I wonder what it could be: bootlegging tapes that are available in the U.S. mostly the foreign side though and the U.S. sellers threatening them, or people complaining about quality too much that it wasn't worth it anymore, or maybe just the taboo tapes causing some legal hassle?

"I am sorry to see them go though, because their price was good, they had
a lot of hard to get tapes, and they shipped fast (at least to me they
did). Any quality of an out of print movie is better than not having the movie at all. As Patrick Riley mentioned in another thread this week, you better buy what you want now before the companies find reason to withdraw them from the market as in Alpha Blue Archives and Something Weird Video videos."

Former AVN reviewer J.L. Watt responds to AVN publisher Paul Fishbein and AVN Editorial VP Gene Ross about the Careless Chronicles:

Paul and Gene should re-read what they were commenting on, as they
have made several factual errors.
However, to start at the beginning:
I have never denied that I had a substance abuse problem. I have
never denied getting fired from AVN for missing deadlines.
HOWEVER...I have NEVER been fired from a production job. Period. I
have quit on two separate occasions over the course of six years of
doing production work.
That being said...Gene's on the set piece gave the reader the
distinct impression that he was actaully on the set. Not once did
the article indicate that it was done via telephone.
The movie I specifically referred to as "having been passed
around..." was "Immortal Desires" from Vivid (info you printed, and
they obviously didn't read).
As to the chiding regarding my voting for something...I am not, nor
shall ever be, a moron. It goes without saying that if only one
reviewer votes for something it's not getting nominated...No s---,
Sherlock! And as for lumping me in with Bill Caits...I take extreme
umbrage. Unlike Bill I actually DID watch the movies. Regarding Mark
Kernes not remembering the events in question...did THEY ask him, or
did you? Hmmmn.
In Re: Paul and Gene's inference that I am a bad writer...they are
certainly entitled to their opinion. As is everyone else. Whether
or not they feel I have talent matters very little to me. I don't
write to please them, or anyone else . I write because I write. I
think therefore I am...blah, blah, blah.
Considering I was the one with the substance abuse problem, I'm
surprised that I can remember what happened and they can't.
One more thing. Yes, I certainly did have a burning desire to write
the review. I really liked the damned movie!

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Investcorp: "I just foolishly bought Size Matters #3. I looked at the box carefully and saw NO evidence of condom usage yet every scene in the moviewas condoms only. It seems like they air brushed the condoms out of the hardcore shots on the box cover. If these companies want to go the all condoms route fine. Just don't try to trick people with deceptive box covers. The other major problem I had with that video was the METRO logo that was always present in the right corner of the screen. Who the hell wants a logo always present on screen while trying to watch a movie? The logo in this case just served to remind me never to buy anything with the name METRO ever again. Why would any company put their logo on a deceptive product is beyond me. All the logo serves to do is remind the customer who to be angry with. TOXXIC ENTERTAINMENT got me this time but never
again." (RAME)

Mike South says he received the following from a guy in Austin, Texas:

"On Friday night, February 5, about 10:30 p.m., at a nude bar in Austin,
Texas, a female friend introduced me to her friend, a young, beautiful
blonde woman in her early twenties. She sat down on my lap and, since
she was there at my table to talk about how she could enter the adult
film business, she told me about her recent experience with a company
she referred to as "Reb's International". With her soft, sweet voice
she said that she sent "Reb's International" nude pictures of herself,
and that shortly thereafter she received a call from someone from "Reb's
International" named "Jordan". After seeing her pictures Jordan was
very interested in hiring her to do an anal scene for $600, but first,
Jordan told her, it was important to find out first hand if she could
perform on film, and that it was necessary for Jordan to fly to Austin,
Texas, meet her, and then f--- her, saying "I have to make sure that
you're not a dead f---." She would not be paid for her anal audition,
and only after Jordan was satisfied with her performance abilities,
could "Reb's International" confidently book her to do the anal scene
shooting in Los Angeles.
    "I asked the beautiful young blonde sitting on my lap how she replied to
Jordan's request. Apparently, at the time she did not know what to say,
and not wanting to burn any bridges, told Jordan only that she was
interested in getting into adult films and would be in touch. However,
she told me, after she hang up the phone and a few days had passed, she
became disgusted with Jordan and Reb's International, and never returned
Jordan's future calls. I told her that auditions like the one proposed by Jordan were unethical and that was not what women are _required_ to do to enter the adult film business."

Reb Sawitz says his talent agency employs nobody by the name of Jordan. Perhaps the guy stole the number from off of Reb's desk.

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Luke arrived at Rob Spallone's studio-house in Encino Hills around noon Monday. Director James DiGiorgio was shooting an "all-girl f--- fest with pissing" for the Australian web sites www.les-pics.com and www.ppgirls.com. My friend from the National Film Board of Canada, Paul Cowan, stopped by with his sound man Kent. They'd spent the morning on Jane Hamilton's set for VCA shooting Marilyn Chambers jerking off as well as some Chambers' promos for cable TV.

I walk in on two blondes going at it - Nena Whett and Nikki Steel. "If you spank each other," Jim directs the girls, "you have to be laughing and sounding like you're having fun. Stupid Australian censorship laws."

Former AVN reviewer Jackie Watt serves as production manager on almost of all of DiGiorgio's shoots.

I talk at length with performer "Heaven Leigh" and her hubby "Brock."

She remembered the time she had dinner in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with a friend from high school who suggested, "why don't we stop off at the club and see what XXX is doing. It turned out to be my audition night. I got hired. I danced for a few weeks then went to college at Northwestern in Chicago. I danced sometimes during college when I need money. Then I had to drop out of school to take care of my mom in Ohio who was dying. She had a tumor and a bone marrow transplant but she didn't make it. She died 10/98. We went back for the funeral but haven't been back East since. The rest of my family is in Phoenix and Arizona.

"Yes, my [green] eyes are real. I do not wear contact lenses. That is usually the first question people ask me.

"I never watched porn until I met Brock [31 years old]. He corrupted me. I'd never even done a threesome before. But after we got married [6/96], three days after his [third] divorce, I was doing them.

"The first time I met him [2/96], he was smashed. He whispered in my ear, 'I bet I can make you come within 15 minutes, with my tongue.' We dated for almost six weeks before we slept with each other [and moved in]. She didn't give blowjobs until two years ago."

Heaven: "I'd given them to other boyfriends once or twice but wasn't sure if it was for me or not. So I stopped giving them."

Brock: "My first wife got an annulment from the Pope."

Heaven, 22 yo, is on her first marriage. "We talked about it [Heaven doing porn]. He said that if I wanted to, we could give it a shot. And if I didn't like it, we could move back to Tennesse [where Brock owns 1000 acres of farm land]. So we flew out here in June of 1997 and on my first day I did two scenes for Rodney Moore. Then at the end of the month, we flew back. We discussed it, and moved out here at the end of 1997. This is a better life sitting around doing nothing and making no money.

"Ok, we were making money but not as much as we are making now. After a few years, we'll move back to Tennessee. This is the last place [Los Angeles] where I'd like to raise kids."

Brock: "People are weird out here."

Heaven: "Yeah, right. When we first moved out here, we were nice and normal with no tattoos and no nothing. Now he's got blond hair, two eye piercings and seven tattoos. [Heaven has three tattoos.] My dad [Italian ancestry] has never liked anyone I've dated but he likes Brock. He knows what I do [porn]. You can't lie to my father."

In Tennesse, Brock worked as an assistant manager in Kroeger's grocery store.

Brock: "When you were on that [KFI radio] talkshow with that piece of s--- Wayne Resnick, you let him down all the girls, call them whores. Why didn't you kick his ass?"

Luke: "I never kick anyone's ass. Almost never. I don't fight back. I think he reflected how many people think about porn girls and girls before they enter porn should know how many people will think of them."

Brock: "If a guy goes out and does the same thing [performs sex on camera], he's cast as a stud. I've never heard anyone criticize the men in this business. It's always the women who take a beating."

Luke: "Women's sexuality is different. Society must treat female sexuality differently. Women are the ones who give birth, and for a society to survive, we must know who the father is. We know that men are hound dogs but it is women who must say yes or no."

Brock: "I think it is taught [differences in male - female sexuality]. This guy [Wayne Resnick] was talking like a high school kid. If a girl in high school had sex with a bunch of guys, she'd be called a whore or slut. And you shouldn't bring home such a girl to your mother. Everyone has sex. The difference is that these [porn] girls get paid. Heaven did a gangbang [Gangbang Girl 23 for Annabolic with ten guys] and she was not high or drunk. I was in it, just one of three times when you could see me. Otherwise I just do blowjob scenes where you can't see my face.

"Heaven chose to be here [in porn]. That was her decision and I stuck behind her. I gave up my career at Kroeger's [grocery store chain]..."

Heaven: "I was a nurse at a nursing home. I was working at a shortstop. I was [assistant manager] at a store for kids clothes. Then I got a job offer [assistant manager] at a dish company. I was not ringing up gas."

Brock: "Look at Nina Hartley. She was a nurse... It's the flakes who give everyone else a bad name... Those who drink and get high... They come and go."

Heaven: "People think that we don't have brains and can't do anything else but porn. But when you have a college education, there's obviously more that you can do... I obviously choose to be here and he is not making me... I probably would've done porn with or without him. This is who I am. If you want to put me down, then you just wish that you could do what I do, but you're just too scared to try. You don't have the guts to say 'this is me and if you don't like it, eat s---.'"

Luke to Heaven: "Were you sexually molested as a child?"

Heaven: "No. I had a good childhood with a mom and a dad."

Luke to Brock: "What was it like watching ten guys gangbang your wife?"

Brock: "I didn't go on any sets when we first got into the business. I didn't want to make her nervous... Then we got mixed up with Regan Senter."

Heaven: "After that [her audition tape to test compliance], I called him [Senter] up and fired him. I had called a bunch of producers and asked them if they ever looked at Reagen's audition tapes. They said no."

Brock: "Regan thinks that if a girl ever signs with him, it is for life."

Luke to Heaven: "Have any producers asked you to suck them off to get a job?"

Heaven: "No, because they know where I stand on that. You ask me that and you might get kicked in your balls."

Brock: "She's not a typical porn chick. You can't touch her unless it is on camera."

Heaven: "I don't do guys off camera, aside from my husband."

Heaven does not drink or do drugs, not even marijuana. "We don't party with the industry. We go to work and we go home."

Heaven and Brock host two of Reb's [Pretty Girl International] ex-girls - Timer and Trudy.

Heaven feels that she's lost her hubby to his computer. "I'd like him to spend some time with me," she says to me. "Take a day and don't post anything. Every time he gets up in the morning, the first thing he does is go to the computer and check out your site. He's in the chat rooms. His computer is his best friend in the world. We can't sit at home and watch a movie. He wants to know if he has email."

Brock smiles guiltily.

Brock: "I've got a [four y.o.] son that I'm trying to get custody of, so I keep my face off camera [in porn]. The judge said that pornographers were drug-using child molestors... I didn't want to let the system beat me up that way, but my son is worth it. And when we get enough money, we'll go back to court to try to get him back.

"It's silly to judge anybody. His [son] mother is a drug addict who lives with a drug dealer."

Heaven: "They've been in jail for domestic violence against each other. They threw beer bottles at each other. They have no right to put us on."

Brock: "This country treats sex as a sin."

Heaven: "Especially back East. You go to a judge here and he will say, 'just because she does porn does not mean that you can say that he can't have custody of his kids.' But back East, forget it. In the county that we live in, in Ohio, you can't even rent a porno or buy a Hustler or Playboy [magazine].

"We were thinking about quitting when we realized we couldn't get his kid back. But we talked about it and decided that we can't allow that. They want us to move back to Ohio and get a regular job. But if we do that, we'll be lying to our son. I won't let them beat me, let them tell me what I can do with my life. It's important to me to make them realize that it doesn't matter what I do, I'm still a good person no matter what. Just because I do porn, that doesn't make me a maniac drug addicted whore who runs around screwing everyone."

Brock: "What about all the parents who go to swing clubs or go to bars and pick up people?"

Heaven: "If you walked into my house, you would say 'whoa, this isn't a porn house.' I don't have pictures all over my walls. My apartment is neat and clean."

Brock: "My kid is four. We're not going to tell him what we do. We just go to work. This is a legal business."

Heaven: "His mother doesn't tell him everytime she runs out to score drugs."

Rob Spallone interrupts me while I'm interviewing Nancy Vee. "Luke," says Rob, "I've got scoop that's going to rock the industry. But all you can say now is that the North Hollywood clinic is still open. It's testing half the performers in the biz... 818-760-4500. [AIM - 818-981-5681. Venice 10-Minute Clinic - 310-839-1439.] At $75, it is cheaper than anywhere else."

Spallone: "I have no problem with [World Modeling agent] Jim South because he was man enough not to deny anything said in the 2/99 issue of AVN. I feel that all these companies like VCA, Legend and Vivid that donate money [$150 a month to monitor HIV tests] to Sharon Mitchell's AIM should find out what she's doing with the money because she hasn't paid her blood lab bill in several months. She's tried to scam the lab by switching the billing party from Dr. York to AIM. What happened to the money Sharon received to pay off the bill? Her loans and grants?"

Dr. Jim Bonura, operator of the North Hollywood clinic, writes: "I'm growing tired of all this political bulls---. Please emphasize that the North Hollywood Clinic never closed. Rumors spread by Sharon Mitchell."

FSC Insurance Coordinator Greg Zeboray writes: "I read Sharon's remarks on your Update 2/8/99 page, and I would like to address a gross misstatement made by her.

"There is NO letter from me addressing my desire to launch an "Anti-AIM
smear campaign", and request that Sharon rescind such a statement. All
of my letters to AIM (and Sharon) simply state that I can no longer
support AIM in any manner. Period. When Sharon decided to offer medical
insurance through AIM, I was not even consulted. When I found out, she
attempted to say that the solicitation would occur only "outside" the
porn world. This after, having faxed announcements to (among others) Jim
South. I ask, does Jim have business clients outside porn? No. Listen, I
have my commercial interest to consider, and I have an obligation to
those who expect money from me. This, coupled with a group medical
insurance plan (for talent) which is already teetering on the edge, has
forced me to treat AIM like any competitor, and the best way to deal
with competition is to eliminate it.

"Regarding the contract with Nichols Institute, I would be happy to
provide written proof that I solicited and received a preliminary
contract prior to Sharon ever knowing about it, thanks to a friendship
with my neighbor, who is employed by Nichols.

"Lastly, please make it clear that any sources who provide you with
information is someone other than me. I have no personal desire to trash
Sharon or AIM. In fact, I have repeatedly said that I prefer not to drag
this through the dirt, and will only do so if Sharon does it first."

Luke talked to Sharon Mitchell 2/11/99 about the letter she received from Zeboray: "It stated that he was miffed [that AIM now provides health insurance through Blue Cross]... His nose is out of joint, and justifiably so. He wasn't consulted in the beginning, and I had my reasons for that. We're a separate business. We're no longer funded by the FSC, so I am entitled to do whatever I want to do."

Mitch denies rumors that AIM owes Nichols Laboratory thousands of dollars.

"On Friday afternoon," says Mitch, "in addition to our insurance consultant, we now offer a financial consultant. So if girls want to learn about how to put a few dollars away... So many of us don't know how to manage our money well. AIM does not make a percentage from either of these [insurance and financial] services. And we get a lot of alternative lifestyle people and sex workers wanting our insurance who do not work in the adult industry and would not be eligible for the FSC plan.

"The PCR DNA test is still the industry standard. I now call it [couples counseling] "Relationships in X" because not everybody is a couple. We've got threesomes. Or one partner may be on the road but he still wants to partake in the group. It's any kind of a relationship... You can come and take advantage of the feedback from some of the veterans in the group.

"I don't operate the group because I am not certified. I don't have my Masters degree yet. I'm overseen by a psychiatrist. This group meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month at 8:30 PM at AIM."

Monday afternoon, 2/8: Rob gets off a phone call beaming. Another porner: "That's the beginning of the end for South."

Not only is Spallone on the warpath against against AIM, but Mike Ross is faxing out confrontational newsletters downing the FSC (the Free Speech Coalition, the trade group of the porn establishment).

FSC President Gloria Leonard: "Mike Ross wouldn't recognize free speech if it smacked him upside his empty head! He is a colossal blow-hard who is totally clueless. He puts on a brash, bold front but he doesn't know his ass from his elbow. A sore loser to boot, he was booted from his job as so-called lobbyist for the Free Speech Coalition when it became clear that he couldn't get the job done hence, he continually disses the FSC 'cause he was dumped. Consider the source!

"I saw the PW review of your book and though I haven't read your book, (and frankly, don't intend to) it sums up precisely what I thought...the truth is you haven't been around long enough or done enough research to attempt so ambitious a project. Stay with what you know....and you STILL don't know porn. Hanging with newcomers such as Spallone can only give you a very narrow perspective, particularly if HISTORY is your topic. And I remain curious as to why, if you so dislike porn, have you chosen this world as your own? While I'm convinced that you are a self-loathing Jew, you are also a porn-loathing Jew. And for your further information, this business is NOT dominated by Jews - Russ Hampshire, Bob Tremont, Chuck Zane, Christian Mann, John Stagliano, Rob Black, Patrick Collins, ad nauseum, NOT Jewish! The distribution system is even less populated by Jews. Do some homework next time, kiddo."

Rob shows the Canadian film crew our movie Shooting Sex. The picture is green. Several of us yell about the poor quality of Sin City duplication, how they did not promote the movie, how their boxcover and slicks for the movie suck, they're misspelled ... Then someone adjusts the color on the TV set and everything looks fine.

Rob's son calls: "I saw this short guy shopping."

Rob: "Did you yell at him?"

Liza Harper's boyfriend Rod Fontana hobbles around. A bullet went through his left knee 27 years ago in Vietnam. Then a few weeks ago, while walking down the driveway, his knee completely collapsed and they cut his leg off from above the knee and replaced it with artificial joints. He's still able to pump on camera. Liza looks happier than I have seen her in months. A performer for five years in American porn, she says she will never get implants.

Phyllisha Anne, 26, was a house dancer in Oregon for five years. Now she's moved to LA to do porn. She's appeared in 60 videos and begins her new career as a feature dancer in a few weeks. "You get to sell your movies and T-shirts and posters. Don't print any rumors about me, Luke. Truth is ok."

Dan Beck, who produced The World's Biggest Anal Gangbang (where Brooke Ashley most likely caught HIV), wants to produce another porno. He phones Rob from New York. I hear that Beck's investors may be pulling out.

Brunette Angela D'Angelo's breasts now measure 36D after an enhancement. She'd like to give critic Pat Riley a piece of her mind for writing that she has a flat ass. "He doesn't even know me," says the tall exotic brunette. "That's not nice."

Email: "This whole "feud" between "Doctors" (and I put that in quotes for a
reason) Boris and York is hilarious. Fer christ's sakes, these guys are
cosmetic surgeons...what the hell business do they have doing hematology
or phlebotomy work?. Of course, they probably aren't even remotely
qualified even to do the cosmetic procedures they've done. And how nice
of Sharon Mitchell to provide a "breast implant innovator" for a "breast
implant symposium". Has even the slightest effort been made in trying to
persuade women from having to get boob jobs to get work in this
business?. What about looking out for talent's "health and well being"?.
"Breast implant innovator"...gee, do you suppose that means "no scars
and painless". Hah!, every other hack quack makes the same bogus claims.
Maybe he's "discovered" another aperture to install them via.

"Someone still needs to clue these porn starlets in to this whole scam
about the boob jobs and especially the procedure being "scarless", so
there won't have to be any more women found sobbing hysterically on a
bathroom floor when they finally come out of denial and realize they
have horrible scars."

Performer Katie June's 45-year old mother came to town Friday and went to a porn set with her daughter. On Saturday she participated with Katie in a hardcore still shooting photographed by Marc Medoff and starring, among others, Bill Margold.

Luke F-rd appeared on Monday's Entertainment Tonight cover story on the porn industry. Peter Ramezap: "What is it with E.T. these days? They have been having porn stars and stories on their show frequently lately [an ET employee told me that it was because of sweeps]. Not that I am complaining. This time they featured three girls, Coral Sands, Shyla Foxxx, Devon.

"Devon seemed to be new to the business and she was actually pretty cute,
let's hope she does not do crappy porn for Vivid or Wicked. She said
that she wants to be the biggest porn star ever. Good, I look forward to
seeing this cute blonde get ass f---ed.

"Coral Sands said that she wants to become a singer eventually. Shayla Foxx said that she is in college, or wants to go to college, to become an attorney. Good luck. LOL. An attorney who used to get f---ed
on camera for a living, that should be interesting.

"And last but not least, Luke F-rd was on the show as well, saying a few
words about how much money the girls make and how tough the business is.
E.T. did a plug-in for Luke's book at the end of the segment."

AJB: "Shyla Foxxx said she is planning on giving up porn in a couple years and becoming a lawyer. Her big dream, she continued, was to become a judge. Hmmm....

"Can she really be that incredibly stupid to think that some future
politician in puritan American will ever appoint her? But forgive me: I'm
not from the U.S. so I don't know how judges get their jobs. Is it the usual
thing for U.S. judges to get where they are by cock-sucking and dodging
splooge loads? It doesn't sound that far fetched given the apparent state of
American jurisprudence. (I mean, judge Ito must have had a crusty, dry load
jammed in his eye balls during the O.J. trial...)

"I imagine (maybe too generously) that Shyla knows she doesn't have a chance at being a judge but she is trying to project a positive can-do-anything mantra for the sake of inspiring and educating the young ones. Or maybe she projects a future American transformed into a modern day Babylon: cops are pimps, judges are hookers, firemen are golden showers fans and all doctors are proctologists." (RAME)

An ex-girlfriend of Luke's writes: "I just heard from my mother the Yente that you made it to Entertainment Tonight...although SHOCKED and SADDENED...I have to congratulate you on your 15 seconds of fame."

Rumors about Chuck Martino's departure from Sin City are FALSE [though it appears he will no longer shoot for Dane Productions]. An informed source at Sin City writes: "Reports of Chuck's dismissal have been greatly exaggerated. He is vacationing in Cabo [Mexico] with his bride to be, Shay Sweet, looking for a Justice of the Peace to marry them, having some trouble with the seven day waiting period. Ain't love grand.

"Upon his return, his duties will continue as the in-house producer for Sin
City, and will now include the production and development for DVD, which
will be released next month.

"Sin City has also hired a new promotion director, Jeff Wozniak, a writer
published in the AVN and other adult publications.

"Things are going very well at Sin City lately. Michael Raven's productions
are unrivaled, sales were never better with international and cable/satellite sales the highest it has ever been. We are looking for a new building because the current site is not large enough to accommodate all the new titles and the new personnel that has been added, including a re-touch artist and sales staff."

Mike South: "I went to Asia's chat tonight and was a total ass...I bagged on her, I bagged on MENSA, I bagged on her other chat guests, I even bagged on me2 and they still wouldn't kick me. My guess is they are pretty lenient....they were with me. What I'll go through in the name of research for Luke's site."

Temptress is not under contract and is available for work. Her friend Devan has quit Zane Entertainment. He writes: "I am now Jonathan Morgan's production manager over at WICKED. I also freelance and am looking forward to working with Sean Michaels, Mr. Marcus and Shan Ricks. I am available to PM or write scripts for them."

New porn performer Kid Vegas, who looks like Kid Sparkle, writes: "Did you hear that the romance between Kid Sparkle and Chandler is over? The way I heard it, things came to a head at 2 a.m. about a week ago. A hyped-up (on what substance I don't know) Kid Sparkle literally threw Chandler out into the street, then proceeded to throw her clothes and other belongings out after her. At one point he hurled her make-up kit at her and shouted, "And I don't need to borrow your make-up any more! I don't use the make-up of WHORES!" The sobbing Chandler eventually made her way to Tiffany Mynx, who put her up while Rob and the gang were in Brazil. What's happened since then I don't know. Maybe you should ask Sparkle. And while you're at it, ask him about the gun he allegedly waved in Chandler's face that night."

I hear that busty blonde porn star Nena Whett fought with her now ex-boyfriend Johnny Toxic at the Dragonfly club in Hollywood last Wednesday night, 2/3/99. Supposedly Nena was picking up more girls than Johnny. Nena knocked over tables and threw a beer bottle at a female employee of the Hustler club on Sunset Blvd who was making out with Johnny, cutting her just below the eye. The woman and Nena are now friends. Nena and Johnny have broken up but they are still living together.

"Johnny had tossed beer over me and slammed me with his leather jacket with spikes on it," Nena told me Monday. "Kid Vegas had me him this cool punk jacket. Kid Vegas looks like Kid Sparkle, another wanna be. Vegas tried to take me home.

"My relationship with Johnny is totally dysfunctional. It's insane. He's totally insane and I'm totally insane. So I need to get on. We're going to tour www.porntorock.com  together and we'll probably room together. We're best friends but we'll do our own thing."

Gossip from Troublemaker (Bianca Trump?): "#1 I personally heard from her that Terri (drug addict) Star and her husband John (drug addict) West where indeed f---ing Terri's sister at CES. She stated that this (her sleeping with her sister) has been going on for an excess of 5 years now.

"#2 Alicia Rio was almost arrested in Corpus Cristi Texas at the airport
when flight attendants called ahead to the airport police because she
was intoxicated and vomiting in the isle of the plane."

Alicia Rio totally denies this story. Rio suspects that fellow porn star Bianca Trump is behind this malicious gossip. Trump on IRC chat a couple of weeks ago said that Rio had died of a heroin overdose. Then several days ago she repeated on IRC chat at Porn Star Trading this story about Rio's drinking.

Troublemaker: "Zack Adam aided in her [Rio] rescue along with Sunset Thomas and Bionca Trump. They assumed responsibility for her. Upon arriving at the hotel she annoyed the front desk so badly that they threatened to throw all the features out. Incidentally her phone had to be removed from her room.

"After that didn't resolve the problem she was taken from the hotel to a unknown location to "sober up" .When Alicia went to feature at the club she apparently had customers ordering her drinks because Sunset and Zack had told their bartenders not to serve her.While the owner Sunset Thomas herself was on stage Alicia was so intoxicated she was on a customers lap masturbating herself during Sunsets show.(Which is way illegal in the "no touch, only topless, Texas.") She was apparently immediately escorted while kicking and crying through the crowd and out the door in her dance getup still and taken back to the hotel per Zack Adams. The
features spent the rest of the night apologizing to all that saw the incident. Zack said she was seen leaving the hotel several hours later with a "customer" who had bought her drinks all night with all her belongings.

"#3 I saw on Bianca's web site update www.biancatrump.com that she was having some major problems with a partner of some sort (in the business?) Seems she has officially taken over 100%.In her chat tonight she mentioned being in negotiation wars with two companies for her first anal."

Recovering alcoholic porner Alicia Rio totally denies this story that she, Rio, was drunk and disorderly at a stripping gig in Corpus Christi, Texas, two weeks ago.

Another source: "Alicia Rio wants to jump start her career again in 1999, but she first must address the 2 DUI's from 1998. The second one, in late October, will put her in jail for about 6 months - and she goes to court next week for the first DUI and she hasn't come close to finishing her community service time for that offense. Plus she has big fines to pay on both. Jail time might be the best thing for her now before she self-destructs."

A friend writes to me about the CARNAL - SPIRITUAL conflict. "One reason you took to Judaism is that the Old Testament is very free about relating the physical and spiritual. There is no hint of the Greek duality. It's good to rejoice before Yahweh with a big feast. It's good to "know" your wife and have lots of children. It's good to enjoy the beauty of the earth and the sensuality of it. And all of that is totally spiritual. You read The Song of Solomon and you get the idea of how God drenches the senses as a way of touching his Infinite Being.

"Well, along came the Greeks with their duality. The Western world is sure, in its inner collective thought, that though God may have created sex, it was probably one of His great blunders. This isn't said openly, because it would be blasphemous. But the monasticism of the fourth century, and its legacy of celibacy (one of the truly great disasters of history), its misinterpretation of the sexual laws of the Old Testament (which in turn has been fed back into Judaism) all speak of the splitting of PHYSICAL and SPIRITUAL. Your determination to somehow be devoutly Jewish and devoutly a porn expert is a real fight to somehow get these opposites back into relationship to each other.

"Don't go down the road of sensuality not being related to Jewish ethics. CARNAL and SPIRITUAL have to go together or disaster strikes. Now we come to another dictum about opposites, and Luke, this is VERY important:

WHEN FACED WITH A SET OF OPPOSITES THAT ARE UNRESOLVED, WE TEND TO GO TOWARD ONE AND ANNIHALATE THE OTHER.

"In like manner, the opposites SPIRITUAL and CARNAL suffer from the tendency to go toward one and annihalate the other. (This clinging to one side of the opposites while annihalating the other is our false solution to the everlasting problem of the opposites. The correct solution is to work on getting the opposites together in ourselves.) So you see the spiritual types trying to swear off the sensual, whether
it be food or sex or whatever. Celibacy, abstinence, on and on.

"On the other side we can use the porn industry as an example. Plenty
of sex, drugs, and whatever else is sensual. Fat slobs as porn masters. No self control in matters of sex, drugs, food or anything. Totally spiritually impoverished. And it's not that they don't have a spiritual side, rather that they are trying to annihalate it in favor of their carnal side. In a truly odd way the pope and the porn master have gone down the same road. Just chose a different side of the opposites to cling to and the other to annihalate.

"The Jewish porn expert Luke F-rd, who so puzzles people (!) on the issue of why he would choose to be a devout Jew porn expert, is really off on his solo attempt to resolve the opposites of SPIRITUAL and CARNAL. As you work in the porn industry and think about your Judaism, take notes (written I mean) on how well you're doing at making one of the opposites CARNAL and SPIRITUAL. Remember that when you're with them you're surrounded by a whole group of people who've failed at this worse than any other group.You might as well be in a monastery and flagellate yourself for sexual thoughts--it would be the same issue on the other side."