I hear that AIM's new blood processing lab is Consolidated Labs in Van Nuys. If true, I hear that Consolidated is currently under a OIG (Office of Internal Government) federal investigation.
Rob Spallone, who's long taken exception to Sharon Mitchell, says: "No lab can process PCR-DNA in 24 hours. It takes 24 hours just to extract the DNA before the test can be done.
"Sharon Mitchell has been counseling Stephanie Swift, yet last week Mitchell shot a sex scene with Swift for Wicked. That's against the law for a professional talker, uhh counselor, to have sex with someone you counsel. Go read your law book. They're filing with the state and everybody. I will give you the papers tomorrow, but you have to run the story NOW. I would never have you print anything that was not true, Lukey. You're not getting that big scoop tomorrow if this story ain't up there. Print everything I just told you and call me back."
Sharon Mitchell says: "Luke, I read your site. Do any of these charges concern me? No. If you want to see our filings for non-profit status, they are here. As far as Rob Spallone being the expert on PCR DNA, I suggest he call and talk to his sales people at Quest to find out exactly how long that test does take to incubate and to run, because it is six to eight hours. I know nothing about the investigations into Consolidated. AIM hosts a big fundraiser at the Dragonfly March 30. We're having our NA (Narcotics Anonymous) meeting at Hollywood Community Hospital tonight... [AIM may relocate there.]"
Porner Randee Lee writes: "Hi Luke. I wanted to correct somethings about what you wrote. First of all, I said 'Shelbee-Myne-for-$20,' sort of a pun on her name/character. You know, like a street hooker. She doesn't owe me $20 at all. She owes me far more. She owes me her career that I helped her begin. She gives credit in AVN this month to Lisa Ann for that. I know her husband used to know her, but I doubt Shelbee knows her at all. But it's funny how she has rewritten her past and beginnings now that she's getting better known in the business. I don't even count her as a porn star because she slams the girls who do anals. That is a shame.
"The Myne duo is really screwing up with alot of people in this biz because of their ruthless business practices and lack of loyalty to those who helped them. Just ask Shane about her new contract girl. I hear she's banned the both of them. I would just like to be able to get made up by my favorite make up chick without having to hear more b.s. being slammed around by Shelbee. She needs to shut up."
Porner Kid Sparkle: "A WORD FROM THE
REAL KID SPARKLE: I finally gave in to the bulls--- stories that go
down on this site. I first want to say that this KID VEGAS is really
starting to piss me off. This little faget ass wanna be has more stories
than a f---ing fairytale book. f--- HIM. He is now on my s--- list.
SECONDLY, I dumped Chandler because I was tired of babysitting and supporting
a child. No gun play was involved. Thirdly, I did leave Leisure Time
Entertainment because if any of you people knew I ran the Art department
and was tired of idiocy in the way of my creativity. Mark nor the company
was the problem. It was an internal problem with another employee. I
am very availible to shoot video, stills, create phat box art and more.
To the rest of us pornographers I can only say that this industry is
so hyped up and I will tell you why. It's like high school, Whoever
has the most money and the most bitches wins. We as an industry would
not have the negative energy and vibe that we do if we could surpass
all the lame bulls---. That's exactly why Mark Carriere is unseen, uninvolved,
and could probably care less about all you people. That's also why he
is making -more money than anyone else. So hasta luego, my fellow pornographers
and you can leave me a voice mail message at 818-315-3534 if you need
me. Sorry Toxxic but you're boy Kid Vegas won't last in this buisiness
long enough to write about me, Zane or anyone else in 6 months...."
Kid Vegas replies: "It's sad when someone is so desperate for work that he has to list his phone number like a "situations wanted" ad. If he's that poor, I'll offer Sparkle a job cleaning the toilets in my impossibly large mansion.
"I know Sparkle is mad because his deal with Al Borda fell through.
It seems that Borda was going to create a new company called "Gen-X."
He was going to try to sign Sparkle, Johnny Toxxic, and maybe even Matt
Zane, because the word is that Matt doesn't like working for his dad.
(Chuck "inhibits his creativity") What do you think Borda's ad in the
Feb. issue of AVN was all about: "It's good to be king?" Borda wanted
to be king of the Gen-X directors, a title I have now stolen away from
him. It was my leaking of the Sparkle signing that got Borda
worried about the repercussions from IVD, and made him call the whole
thing off. Sorry guys.
"By the way, I have now wrapped THE WHOREMASTER. I have an offer on the table from one distributor, but I want to see who else might be interested in it. Let's just say that it's for sale to the highest bidder, and anyone who wants it can contact me at kidvegas@hotmail.com."
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Doom writes on RAME these riffs off my site: 1) Temptress is g/g only since entering into a serious relationship with her boyfriend. Another starlet who is now on my 'never rent' list. What is this conditional crap? Condom only, girl only, no facials. Do they expect anyone to believe the "I'm in porn b/c I love sex" bulls---?
2) A special casting call was held for John Leslie, IIRC. Fifty of porn's best-looking women (Luke's description) and most are condom only. Thanks a lot Hirsch, Hampshire, and Orenstein. At least I can still see beautiful women with natural breasts in condom-free scenes in Euro productions.
3) The fascinating Martino, DiGiorgio feud. Jim, are you sure it's a good idea to challenge Chuck? He looks like he could beat the hell out of you.
4) The Vivid "lawsuit threat" to Luke. [Vivid phoned Luke Monday to apologize for the mistake by a new employee.] What a joke. I personally believe the e-mail is a hoax. I'm sure a company as profitable as Vivid can afford to hire an attorney to send a legit "cease and desist" letter by snail mail. This is, of course, in no way implying the allegations are true/meritorious. Besides, the hoaxer did a horrible job spoofing a legal document, as no lawyer would ever send correspondence that is so easily read by laymen.
Bunnyranch update in Carson City for sex with porn stars - Kristina St James is there now. Sunset Thomas will be there March 9-15. Christina Angel and Kathy Willets will be there again - March 15-31.
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James Kerrigan: "Angela Summers was at the Marina Studios yesterday for a photo shoot and I just wanted to report that this young lady looks as good as I've ever seen her, if not better. Wow! I was totally impressed with her sleek body which must be the result of a good diet and exercise regimen. Obviously, Angela has been taking care of herself. It looks as though she has had a bit of facial surgery ( eyelids and maybe some rhinoplasty) as I couldn't believe it was her when I saw her. Her smile qualifies for any whitening toothpaste add...flawless.
"Angela Summers definitely isn't down and out. She is in top form which could lead one to speculate as to a comeback. At the shoot, she took 15 minute breaks during which fans could view her display booth. I got a great Polaroid w/ her and will definitely be checking her shows out in both Oxnard and Upland. Surprisingly, not too many were in attendance."
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Luke met writer Fred Buccolini for the first time Sunday at an all-anal VCA shoot at Rob Spallone's shooting home in Woodland Hills that used to be rented by Van Damage.
Wayne "Wright" collars me to ask that I remove his real name from my site. A girl in Spanish class at a local Junior College recognized him from my site (the picture was of Wayne getting head from Phylisha Anne).
Dominique DeWitt, a veteran of 25 movies and three magazines, tells me that contrary to what photographer Johnny Castano and JR Wolfe told me weeks ago, she's a responsible woman who shows up on time, which is more than you could say for her partner this morning, Bruno, who appeared two hours later than had trouble keeping wood. The scene which was supposed to be done by 11AM took until 2PM.
Dominique names her best movies as Young and Anal for Jim Powers and Freshman Fantasies 15 for All Good Video.
Denver stripper agent JR Wolfe replies: "I found the statement by Ms DeWitt in your March 1 column interesting to say the least. I have not seen her since the gentlemens Club Expo last sept, and I haven't spoken to her since she asked for money to return home, after she gambled what she had away at the Blackjack tables. To her credit I will admit that she was rarely late for work in Denver (although if she was honest, she would admit she was a few times). The problem in Vegas between us had to do with the fact that she couldn't resist the tables on that trip, Johnny, Diamond LaRocce, and Ernie Flores can attest to that fact. I've always told budding talent here in Denver that if they want to make it in porno, move to LA. Those of us who knew Ms DeWitt well in Denver, are happy with the fact she is in LA, I find it very amusing that she still brings my name up after all these months, can't imagine what she has to gain by putting Johnny and me down."
Dominique replies: "Hey Luke, the reason I keep bringing up Johnny and Jr is because it really upsets me that people have to lie and stretch truths to make themselves feel better and cover up the fact that they were wrong. This is the last I am going to say about and then I am over it.
"To set the record straight, I did not gamble away money in Vegas.
I did play Blackjack but did not lose more than 50 bucks if that. I
do not know how there would be wittnesses to anything different since
I was in a hotel at the opposite end of the strip from everyone else.
For the record I never asked j.r. for any money. Only for the work that
he had promised. I also never asked him for my job back. Why would I
want to work for someone that only wants to lie and talk bad about me.
I will say that as a agent for girls who do parties he is excellent
but not as an adult agent. I was also told that I could have copies
of all the pictures that were taken of me and now he is saying I need
to pay for them which is not a problem but I am not going to send money
and then possibly never receive the pictures. I have no problem with
Diamond Larocce. She is a wonderful lady and good at what she does.
I would really like to get through this crap with j.r. and get to a
point where both of us can not talk about the other and just forget
this
s--- happened. I know that I did nothing wrong. I am responsible and
a hard worker and people out here can form their own opinions of me."
JR Wolfe: "Amazing, I would like to know what pictures Dominique is referring to. I took pictures of her at a beauty pagent, and gave them to her for free. (She lost them.) I took pictures of her at the Gentlemens Club Expo, that were printed in Exotic Dancer, and the Rocky Mountain Oyster. That's it. As far as promising her work, again, the gentlemens Club expo was for strip clubs, not adult filmmakers, again I don't understand what "promised work' she is talking about. Again, I haven't seen her, nor has she called me since September."
James DiGiorgio and Rob Spallone are shooting two all-anal gonzos for VCA in two days.
Rob's mother-in-law has been staying with him. While looking at the Spice Channel, she recognized Rob in the Gourmet video Sweat Shop.
We gossip about the predilections of 400-pound Director Thomas Paine for getting blow jobs from talent. I hear that's why he was booted from Sin City a few years ago. Julie Rage told me months ago that Paine asked her for a free BJ and that she turned him down.
James DiGiorgio confesses to Julian, a contract boy for VCA and Vivid: "I remember one of the first pictures of you that Metro put in AVN. I looked at it and thought, this guy is a fag."
Julian, tall and handsome, is soft spoken and polite like a Boy Scout. He spent over six years in the Marines and the discipline he picked up there still shows through.
Spallone: "Girls sell the movies but guys do all the work. Most of the guys are pieces of s--- that the pretty girls won't work with..."
Jim: "Rocco sells movies."
Julian, born 10/70, entered porn in late 1996, and signed a contract with Metro in March of 1997. He signed a one-year contract with VCA & Vivid in July, 1998.
Jim to Luke: "You get all caught up with these RAME guys who are raincoaters. If you listened to those guys, you'd think that nothing was important except porno that has spitting and slapping and gobs of facials... But there's this huge silent majority (moral majority?) who are into mainstream middle-of-the-road sex because they want to sit there with their wife or girlfriend and watch it."
Julian: "Guys should get paid as much as the women in this industry. Girls can lie there and fake an orgasm. Guys can not fake a hard-on. That's always been my biggest bitch with this industry... Guys do all the work... The top guys get closer to what the women make, but there are guys in the trenches who only make $200 a scene or less... But a girl can do anal and make a $1000 per scene or take on two guys and get more. A guy doesn't get more for doing an anal."
Luke: "If you took it up the ass, I'm sure you could get more money."
Julian laughs: "No thanks... I don't like doing DPs. I won't do a double anal or double vaginal... I don't feel two dicks should fit into a pussy.
"I'm not into spitting on women. If she likes it, I'll grab a girl by the throat or pull her by the back of the hair, but I've never had a girl ask me to beat her."
Luke: "Why do so many porn girls like abusive boyfriends?"
Julian: "I wish I knew. I might have better luck with the girlfriends."
Julian dated VCA contract girl Stacey Valentine during 1997, and Vivid Girl Julia Ann during the last six months of 1998.
"I'm having a better time with dialogue and acting. I just got off a VCA set yesterday where I was the lead male (a private detective)... Peepers for Wesley Emerson with Kylie Ireland."
Luke: "How was it buffing Marilyn Chambers (Still Insatiable shot 12/98)?"
Julian blushes and stammers. "It was good. Everything worked out fine."
Julian is obligated to do five scenes a month per company. His favorite movie so far came for Paul Thomas - With Friends Like These. "My best scenes came with Sydney Steele and with Julia Ann in Blondage 2. Janine was in the background. Julia and I met on that movie.
"Stacey and I are becoming friends again and I hope that I can be friends again with Julia Ann."
Luke: "Do you expect to make a lasting relationship in this business?"
Julian: "It's nice to think that you can but it is tough. Someone you love is going off to have sex with someone else and you're doing the same thing. With both girls, we had a normal relationship outside of what we did for a living. We weren't swingers. We didn't invite other people into our sex lives. We didn't go out much. But when it came time to go to work, we were having sex with others... We tried not to talk about it, but 'how was your day'... [Rueful laughter.]
"It seems like the only relationships [in porn] that seem to work are when the people are open in their sexual relationship [swingers].
"My family supports me. My grandparents joke about it. I was home in Seattle at Christmas. Grandpa says, 'we've been to every adult store in town and we can't find your movies. Give us some of the titles?' I said no. My mom, her friends, my sister joke with me.
"When I was in high school, I watched porn. And now the people I watched then, Nina Hartley, Peter North, Marilyn Chambers, I know these people. My mom says 'my son is a porn star.' I didn't lie to them [family]. If I was ashamed of what I did, I would've done something else.
"When I was still in the Marine Corps, a buddy and I answered an ad for nude modeling. We posed separately and the photos ended up in gay magazines. When I first got into the industry, there were rumors circulating that I did gay stuff. But all I ever did was pose for magazines and some solo-masturbation videos, as well as one scene with Brittany Andrews in a bisexual movie. I have nothing to hide. I did nothing wrong.
"I thought that the talent would be more professional. A lot of people feel that because it is porn, they don't have to be on time. It becomes irritating when people who've been doing this for years show up on a set without a [HIV] test. If I return to directing, I won't deal with talent who are late. For every person booked, you should have someone on back-up.
"Some days I feel like walking away from this industry and other days I think that I'm having a good time. I don't see myself working in front of the camera for more than three years.
"I just got a townhome in Canoga Park and I told the owner straight up, this is what I do. I got the place.
"I'm getting recognized [in public by strangers] more. I get people coming up to me in the gym saying they saw me on TV or in magazines."
Jim DiGiorgio directs Heaven Leigh in her scene with Julian: "Like a bitch dog in heat, I want your butt to rise up to the occasion... There, that looks pretty f---ing good."
Ahso Hashimoto, owner of Typhoon Pictures (perhaps the leading Asian porn company), began his porn career walking around the 1997 VSDA show in Las Vegas and talking to porners. He started producing Japanese porn in March of 1998 which is distributed by Mickey Blank. To understand the business better, Ahso works today as Jim's production assistant. He's also been hanging out at Jim's editing studio.
Luke chats outside in the sun with Buccolini. Jim comes out smoke a cigarette. "We're about to do the pop [cum shot]," he says.
Julian: "Where do you want it?"
Jim: "On her tits, seeing we came out of a mish [missionary position]."
About 20 feet are other homes, and you can hear the sounds of children playing.
I run into Jeff aka Pete Welsh, the husband of 30-year old performer Randee Lee. About two weeks ago, Jeff, a former cop, beat up shooter Bryan Williams of Elegant Angel.
Jeff: "I'd been listening all night to this guy being a prick. He didn't even like that I was there. I went with Harley because she did not want to g by herself. She seemed creeped out by his attitude over the phone. He wanted somebody to pick her up and bring her to the set. But she drives her own car down to Laguna Beach.
"She gets to the set and right away Bryan sneaks in a girl who only has an ELISA test. Harley does the scene anyway, it's a girl-girl-boy with Pay Myne. In the middle of the scene, he [Bryan Williams] hands the camera off to the lighting guy, gets totally naked and gets into the scene. That's cool if that's his M.O.. If that's the only way he can get some pussy, well, go for it.
"But then, when he couldn't perform, he started blaming it on the girls, and that's where I got mad. And it was taking forever [because Bryan couldn't keep wood]. Pat "Bart" Myne walked off and sat in the kitchen waiting. Finally, he asks Bart to come back in to finish the scene which he does.
"Afterwards, he's saying: 'f--- those bitches. They'll never work for me again. They'll never work for Elegant Angel. That's when I got pissed. He [Bryan Williams] has this great big bouncer guy who hangs out [on the set]. I don't know why you'd need to have a bouncer on your shoot anyway unless you're a dick. So I called him [Bryan] into the bedroom and talked to him. One thing led to another... I lost my temper and we got into a fight.
"I felt bad about the whole thing. The next day I was in Jim South's office where I told him about it. And the attitude in the office was 'f--- that guy.' I talked to other couples who'd had similar problems with him [Bryan Williams]. One couple said he didn't want the husband on the set. Another girl said she showed up to the set, they took a break in the middle of the scene, and it suddenly became a big orgy. When you try to slip things in, it's cheesy.
"He [Bryan] wasn't going to pay her... Then I got pissed and he wrote her a check."
Randee Lee: "I want to know why Pat Myne did not stick up for his own scene. And I want to stop talking right now before I get into Shelby Myne..."
Jeff: "Harley Rayne talked to Dione Garrusso at Elegant Angel and their attitude is that they don't like him either, but he turns out a good product at a cheap price."
Jeff winces when I shake his hand. It still hurts from his fight with Bryan. He walks with a limp and has scars all over his body from his time with the Los Angeles Police Department serving in the rough Watts area.
Randee and Jeff met over twelve years ago. He was 16, she was 18.
"I made her cum the first time we went out," says Jeff. "I bounced her on my knee." They dated for three months before engaging in sexual intercourse. High school sweethearts, they've been married nine years.
Randee worked for eight years for an import-export Chinese company. Then she became police dispatcher (for a city Police Department) at one point ("6969, cum quick") and took part in a class action lawsuit (for sexual harassment?) against San Gabriel Valley that was handled by attorney Gloria Allred. As part of the settlement, Randee had to sign a document agreeing to not discuss the case. She then got a boob job (38DD) and became a stripper, before moving into porn through one of Jeff's buddies in the LAPD who was married to porner Krysta Maze.
Other ex-cops in porn include Jay Shanahan and Rod Fontana.
Jeff: "I worked as a sales rep for the clothing company Grind Clothes last year. Then the company had some problems. I used to be a police officer until two years ago when I had some problems with the department after I got into a boating accident. That is finally resolving. To make the bills pay, I [got into porn]. It's not as though I have a lot of trades going for me."
Luke: "What's it like having your wife f--- other guys for a living?"
Jeff: "It's not a problem, unless it is a shoot like that [Bryan Williams]. What if Harley had a boyfriend? How would that guy feel? Half of the girls in this business do have boyfriends. And guys don't need their chicks going to sets and having to worry about this... Most directors don't flim-flam [like Bryan Williams]. I have a strong sense of right and wrong. That's why I became a police officer. When I see something is wrong, I'd rather do something about it and worry later about the repercussions."
Broke porn stars Billy Glide and Harley Rayne live "temporarily" with Jeff and Randee in their Huntington Beach, Orange County home. Jeff admits that once, at home, he "accidentally" slipped his dick into Harley.
Luke to Randee: "Have you ever schtupped Billy Glide off camera?"
Randee: "Why would I tell you even if it were true? Everybody in this business is a fine person and a pleasure to be around."
Bill to Randee: "Did Claudia Chase [Metro contract girl and Billy's ex-girlfriend] treat me well?"
Randee: "I wouldn't know."
Luke to Randee: "Do you think you've been exploited by the porn business?"
Randee: "I think that the porn business has been exploited by me. And that whole controversy over Miscreants is stupid."
Randee Lee, 5'11 and 38DD, played the girl in the wheelchair who was raped in a trash can by three guys (Jeff, Kyle Stone and Paul Coxx) in the Rob Black movie Miscreants.
Randee: "I helped think of some of the ideas for that scene. Rob Black is a f---ing genius... You don't think that chicks in wheelchairs have sex?"
Jeff: "It was all dirty and hot, in the summer time [Miscreants scene]. We had hoods on. The lube was sticking on the dirt on our hands... Dust everywhere. Whenever she works for Rob Black, she does the best she can because he's cool and fun to work for..."
A redhead until late 1998, Randee is now a blonde. She can't wait to do her scene. "I like my meat red, raw and bloody."
Randee says she has a timeshare condo in hell - porn valley.
Jeff: "I'm the only person who'll let Billy Glide live with me. He's loud, he trips over stuff and he plays Nintendo all day."
Jim: "The private lives of porn stars. Everybody thinks it is drugs or orgies. No, it's Nintendo. It's Play Station. Ask J.J. Michaels what he does all day? Play Station. All these f---ing guys... That's all they do. They come to work, they f---, get paid, and they go home to play Nintendo."
Jeff: "Drugs and orgies get boring, but Nintendo..."
Luke to Jeff: "Do you ever wake up at five in the morning and catch Billy in bed with your wife?"
Jeff: "No, but I'll catch him at five in the morning with the f---ing Nintendo."
Billy: "I buy stuff for the house and I clean up."
Jeff: "I've been aggravated the past week... We've only got a small house and Hayley's been staying over the past week. We tried to kick them out [Billy and Hayley] and they said no."
Billy: "I have to turn Harley down. I've done her five times this week. She's a f---monster."
Rob Spallone walks in and bellows, pointing at me: "He's printing all this. Just so you know. Don't come complaining to me."
Billy is recovering from the breakup with his ex-girlfriend Claudia Chase is jealous and possessive. "I came in in 1997 and met Claudia. She became a contract girl with Metro. She only does two scenes a month."
Luke: "You're lucky your penis is attached [parroting Sam Kinison]."
Jeff laughs: "It's all he's got."
Billy Glide: "All I've got is a blow-up mattress. And I was f---ing Harley and popped it."
Jim: "All he needs is a tube of lube."
Billy: "I never let my bank account go under $3000... Now I'm starting from zero. Claudia wouldn't let me work enough... My monthly income was between $4000-$5000 a month, and it went down to $1000-$1500."
Wayne the Crew walks in. "Wayne, take your glasses off," orders Rob. "You've been smoking [dope] again [true]."
Billy Glide: "Claudia wants me to work with her again and I said I would. But I don't want the feelings coming back up. The other guy she works with, Pat Myne, is going to jail. He killed a guy with an axe when he was chopping wood. I'm kidding."
Jim: "Shelby told me four months ago that he was going to jail."
Billy: "Unless you do time in jail, you can't be in the porno business."
"I love her and I want the best for her. She's just turned twenty..."
Luke: "How could you spend 35 days in jail if you didn't do anything?"
Billy: "Because I had a prior. An ex [girlfriend] filed a false report [of domestic violence against Billy Glide]. It went to a jury trial and I lost. She was sleeping. And she made a false report that I had beat her up and left her hotel room. I did leave the hotel room but I went home. Anyways, I didn't want to take it to a jury trial again because I had a prior, so I plea bargained it to 35 days in jail."
Luke: "While you were in jail..."
Jim: "...Did you get f---ed in the ass?"
Billy: "It was a working jail, called the farm. You wear levi jackets and you work in the laundry room."
Luke: "Laundry room? And while you were washing these clothes, did anyone come in..."
Jim: "And bend you over?"
Billy: "It's very lenient. It's not what you think. Everyone gets along in there."
Luke: "Everyone is pretty close."
Billy: "Everyone has knicknames. I was 'porno guy.' All the little Mexicans asked me how to get into the business, so I gave them Jim South's number. When I was in Las Vegas, this taxi driver asked me, 'how do I get into this business.' I wrote down Jim South's number. I said I was Ron Jeremy."
"I've done 200 movies. I'm big. I don't get requested a lot for anal. It's eight inches long and five inches in diameter."
Jim DiGiorgio directs the Hayley Rayne - Billy Glide scene. "Get rough," Jim orders. They comply. Then Jim tempers his request. "Not too rough, remember this is VCA."
Rob employs two shooters - Tim, a slender lad, and Jim, not slender. On the roof, Tim's shooting Jeff and Randee. Halfway through the scene, they realize that they have not been using condoms. So they have to start over.
A source: "Van Brunt aka Van Damage, owes rent to his former landlord, Filthy Mcnasty. A collection agency in Los Angeles is attempting to collect this debt from Van. After agreeing not to, Van continued to make movies in the house. This really upset Mcnasty. His rental application claimed that he made $10,000 per month; but now he is too broke and too poor to pay his back rent."
McNasty owned two nightclubs, one on the Sunset Strip (where the Viper Room is now) and the other at the corner of Victory and Lankershim.
Toshi Gold (Astral Ocean) has taken over the distributor Pipeline and its nine employees.
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David Austin
transcribed Friday morning's 2/26/99 CBS THIS MORNING
"MORE WOMEN WATCHING PORNOGRAPHY" segment:
JANE ROBELOT, co-host:
If you have some children around this morning, this might be a good
time for
them to leave the room because our subject matter is about to become
very
adult. When you think of who buys and who watches pornography, you most
likely think it's mostly men. But this morning, Hattie Kauffman joins
us
from Los Angeles with a twist on that.
HATTIE KAUFFMAN reporting:
Good morning, Jane. Well, many Americans, particularly women, are deeply
offended by pornography. It turns out a significant number of them are
watching it. According to a recent survey, 29 percent of American women
say they've watched pornography, either alone or with their partners.
Frankly, we found these numbers shocking, and we wondered, how did that
happen?
Group of Woman: (In unison) Breaking silence, stop the violence!
KAUFFMAN: Until a few years ago, it was conventional wisdom: Pornography equaled exploitation of women. End of story, no debate.
Ms. ANDREA DWORKIN (Women Against Pornography): Pornography has become a form of social terrorism, and that tells us what we're worth in this society, which is virtually nothing.
KAUFFMAN: No one who believed in women's rights could consider condoning pornography.
Mr. MARY DORNAN (Feminists for Free Expression): And welcome to yet
another politically incorrect evening with the board of Feminists for
Free
Expression.
KAUFFMAN: Well that, as they say, was then. This is the world of
sex-positive feminism, a coalition of feminists...
Ms. DORNAN: I'm very pleased to introduce Candida Royalle.
KAUFFMAN: ...and pornographers. Talk about strange bedfellows.
Ms. CANDIDA ROYALLE (Femme Productions): Absolutely, I am a feminist. I don't think that feminist means necessarily the rejection of our sexual selves.
I like the way it went into that next shot of...
KAUFFMAN: Candida Royalle is a former porn star who became the first
director of pornography specifically geared to women.
Ms. ROYALLE: I very much wanted to pass on the information to women that our sexuality is a beautiful, natural part of ourselves. We have to get rid of this guilt and shame that we grow up with. It just ruins things.
KAUFFMAN: But what separates you from Larry Flynt?
Ms. ROYALLE: Look at my movies and you'll see.
KAUFFMAN: In fact, Candida Royalle's movies, while they're not for everyone, are a far cry from the violent and degrading images traditionally associated with porn. She even claims they're therapeutic for women.
Ms. ROYALLE: It gives you a way to open up a discussion with your partner. Communicating your sexual needs is one of the hardest things for us all to do, and this is a way to look at the screen and point to someone else and say, 'Gee, honey, did you ever think of trying that?'
Ms. MARY JO SCHAEFFER: Before I actually started, you know, watching pornography, I was probably one of those people who didn't ask for what she wanted.
KAUFFMAN: Mary Jo Schaeffer, a single nurse in San Francisco, started
watching pornography with a former boyfriend.
Ms. SCHAEFFER: We had different things that we liked about them, but--well, wait a minute, there was something here that could enhance, you know, especially when we hit stale spots, and then I found that I would use them on my own when I was single, so it was--they worked for me, basically.
Dr. PATTI BRITTON (Sex Therapist, Los Angeles): There are a lot of positive roles and a lot of positive uses of erotica or porn for women.
KAUFFMAN: Dr. Patti Britton, a sex therapist, prescribes porn in her
Los
Angeles practice.
Dr. BRITTON: It's essential that couples find ways of exploring and
really
expanding their sexual repertoire while remaining faithful to one another,
and this is a great way to go.
KAUFFMAN: If you think buying an adult video means braving a sleazy
storefront in a seedy neighborhood, think again. Here at Hustler Hollywood,
an erotic boutique on LA's fashionable Sunset Boulevard, things are
about as upscale as they are in any boutique in the neighborhood. We
stopped in one evening when the Vivid Video Girls were there making
a personal appearance, and plenty of the fans there to see them were
women.
Ms. NINA HARTLEY (Adult Film Star): A lot of lonesome couples might--'You're my wife's favorite,' or, 'My wife won't let a movie in the house unless you're in it.'
KAUFFMAN: Nina Hartley is one of the superstars of adult film. And
she
considers herself not just a porn star, but a teacher.
Ms. HARTLEY: We keep sex so private. Everything else is learned by watching. We learn how to cook by watching our mothers chop vegetables, and we learn how to fix a car by watching our dad fix a car. Somehow sex, it's supposed to be just you and him. The two of you have to figure it all out.
Ms. KRISTEN HERERRA (Porn Customer): We'll watch it and then turn--and then turn it off and then have sex together, and sometimes talk about what we've seen or do what we've seen.
KAUFFMAN: Kristen Hererra and her husband have watched pornography off and on throughout their relationship, but she thinks porn should stick to the basics.
Ms. HERERRA: I fast-forward through all of the--the chatting. I--who
cares?
(Excerpt from film)
KAUFFMAN: While many women still say that pornography in any form degrades women, Constance Penley, a feminist film scholar at the University of California/Santa Barbara, claims it actually empowers them. Isn't there violence in these films?
Ms. CONSTANCE PENLEY (Chair of Film Studies and Women's Studies Professor,
UCSB): There is a miniscule amount of violence in pornographic films
compared to what you see in Hollywood film and television. You don't
see women punished for wanting to have sex in adult films. You do see
that in Hollywood film. Think about anything from "Basic Instinct" to
"Fatal
Attraction." Sexually aggressive women get killed.
Ms. HARTLEY: When you really examine pornography, take away the cheesy
sets or the stupid dialogue or the funny hair or the pneumatic chests,
it's a very radical and subversive form of entertainment because at
the end of
these movies, all this woman has had is orgasm. She's alive, she's happy
and
the movie ends. Nothing bad happens to her.
KAUFFMAN: ...and plenty of men who remain offended by pornography. But what we found so interesting is that there are so many women who watch it, like it and even find it useful. Jane.
Doom claims that the best parts of this program were left on the cutting room floor:
KAUFFMAN: Ms. Hartley, unlike so many shallow T.V. news pieces,
we actually did our own own independent research. Now we understand
there is a man making porn named Max Hardcore. During his scenes,
he calls the women names like...oh, it's on the tip of my tongue...
HARTLEY: Cocksockets?
KAUFFMAN: Yes, cocksockets. Also, f---toys. Is this true?
HARTLEY: Uhhhhhh...
KAUFFMAN: How is this positive for women?
HARTLEY: Uhhhhh...we didn't cover this in the pre-interview.
KAUFFMAN: How about when Rocco Siffredi jams their heads into toilets, or smacks the hell out of them during sex. How does this jive with your claim that 'nothing bad' happens to the women in porn?
HARTLEY: Well...uhhhh....
KAUFFMAN: What is so 'radical or 'subversive' about the antics of Jamie
Gillis?
HARTLEY: Gotta run.
KAUFFMAN: Well, Jane, there you have it. No evidence that porn portrays women in any unempowering manner.
ROBELOT: Hattie Kauffman, thank you. In keeping with what we just learned,
may I say you're an excellent cocksocket.
Pornographer "Jimmy" is getting his office "rearranged" Wednesday for not paying his debts. The Enforcer was too busy Monday shooting a movie.
Rob Spallone offers two location homes for shooters - 818-996-6543.
The redesigned www.avn.com web site will feature complete reviews that the magazine has had to cut short for lack of space.
Sin City considers Brooke April difficult to work with, and she's probably shot her last movie for the company. Kris Kramski just got back from Amsterdam and Budapest with a bevy of new girls.
Fallen Angel hosts a premiere for their new video by Alexandra Silk, Silk Ties, on Sat. March 6th, at Hustler Hollywood. It's the 3rd in their Silk series which is directed by Alexandra and produced by Luc Wylder (her future hubby?). Expect about six or seven ladies including Alex, Shayla, Doomy Moore, Dee, Felecia, Temptress and Melanie Stone.
JM Productions is producing a Bukkake series featuring about 40 guys jerking off on a girls face. The first edition of American Bukkake features Brooke Ashley (she doesn't touch the guys, they simply jerk off on her). AVN covered it. Owner Jeff Mike has four scenes in the can, the first three feature in the first tape. Mikayla Shore and Bobby Bliss (a Rodney Moore favorite) also appear in the first tape. Next tape features newcomer Envy, a Penthouse-type girl. "Next time we might have the girl blowing the guys... We did our first Bukkake scene in Perverted Stories 21. I got so much response I decided we had to do a whole movie like this."
Who is Kid Vegas, at least, who is the person who emails Luke under the address kidvegas@Hotmail.com saying he is Kid Vegas? I think Kid Vegas is a new male performer with a connection to punk rock.
Al Borda denies all assertions about him by Kid Vegas. Borda has sold Al Borda Productions to Pleasure, and now only works as a hired-gun director. Al: "I've never even met Kid Sparkle or Johnny Toxic. I have no organization any more. I've settled my lawsuits with Nabisco..."
Kid Sparkle replies to Kid Vegas: "The people who have lasted in this buisiness are the people that treat it as a buisiness. And, if you need to sell your 3000 to 5000 tapes per volume, only your artwork and packaging will sell the tapes. Unless you are Elegant Angel the footage doesn't even f---ing matter. So here's the deal. KID VEGAS is just a young kid who doesn't even know how to get on to the internet, let alone talk the amount of s--- that has been talked about SPARKLE AND MATT ZANE. KID VEGAS is being pimped out for probably less than $150 bucks a scene. The real s--- talking and instigating idiot asshole person behind this whole scheme is JEFF MIKE from LEGEND. [Jeff denies this.] Now here's a word from KID SPARKLE, MR. JEFF MIKE. Ask yourself if it really takes falsifying information and slamming SPARKLE to move your new movie. Now here's the truth my fellow pornographers. JEFF MIKE and LEGEND have produced a movie coming out making a mockery of KID SPARKLE, MATT ZANE and JOHNNY TOXXIC. (That should sell more than any anal tape on the shelves...ha....) So MR. JEFF MIKE feels that if he can stir up some beef between ZANE and SPARKLE and whoever else he wants to slam that day he can move some pieces on his new vid. Well here's the deal MR. JEFF MIKE. THE f---ING GAME IS OVER. I now know the truth of the sitiuation, and your demeaning and untruthful statements are forgotten. I'll tell you what, why don't YOU give me a page and you can come over and suck my cock. Let me explain something to you MR. JEFF MIKE. I am here in this business to stay.
"If you want to challenge and slam someone... I would suggest doing
it to
someone with no balls. But SPARKLE my friend is the one person who will
stand up to you and you're lies. If you want some....come and get it.
So for all the rest of you Luke F-rd SITE FANS I can promise and assure
you that everything coming from a supposed KID VEGAS is really coming
from JEFF MIKE. Isn't it pathetic what some people will do to try and
sell some tapes. Here's some more advice MR. JEFF MIKE you won't sell
anymore tapes slamming me. And at this point you will be lucky to move
500 pieces out the door because my new goal in life for the next 30
days is to f--- up your world. Take a look at my track record mr JEFF
MIKE, then take a look at my artwork....then take a look at my stills....then
take a look at my footage....then take a look at how much money I made
LTE last year....then take a look at the kind of pussy that I'm f---ing...and
then take a loot at my fist hitting you right in the face you old ass
construction worker....I bet you don't think that's funny MR. MIKE,
but I can bet that there are alot of people laughing right now! If you
don't respect yourself...you better learn to respect SPARKLE. Have a
good day..."
Twelve-year porn veteran Jeff Mike from Legend is miffed that Kid Vegas is considering taking his movie to another distributor. "Maybe Sparkle and Vegas are in this together, to create names for themselves? I don't write as well as Vegas. Read some of my boxes for JM Productions...at www.jerkoffzone.com. I use small words and cuss words... I dropped out of highschool. "My parents don't care... I make a good living. I don't need to make a name for myself. I own my own company (five years). I feed Jim Powers my ideas, and he takes my sick idea and makes it ten times sicker, which is great. Which is why I only use Jim. I don't need a Kid Vegas or a Kid Sparkle. We're not in the same market. Gen-X porn to me is stupid and I want nothing to do with it."
Kid Vegas replies: "I am the one and only Kid Vegas. The same Kid Vegas that appears in my upcoming video THE WHOREMASTER. I am a director and performer.
"Kid Sparkle's wrong about a lot of things. First, he says I'm not
smart
enough to get on the internet and write my own e-mail. Oh really???
Then
how is it that I'm smart enough to own and operate one of the most
profitable stores in Las Vegas, KID VEGAS. Second, Jeff Mike is not
pulling my strings. I am the true pimp here. I met Jeff Mike in Las
Vegas and made a tentative deal for Legend to distribute my fly videos.
But then, after seeing the impact I was having on the industry, and
sensing the impossibly huge demand for gen-x porn, AND since Jeff Mike
and I didn't have a written contract, I decided I might shop my stuff
around. Legend was planning to release THE WHOREMASTER in April, but
hey, if I get a better offer, that's business. Jeff Mike will have to
put up or shut up. By the way, Jeff Mike called me today and told me
to
lay off the e-mails, because they were getting him in trouble with
"psychos and weirdos." Well that's his problem, not mine. I WILL NOT
BE
CENSORED!!! The bottom line of all this is, when it comes down to the
AVN Awards next year, let's see who the true gen-x pimp is, and who
the
bitches are. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go shoot a blowjob for
my next fly show. Unlike Sparkle, I HAVE A JOB."
...........................................................
Keri Windsor's Allure Entertainment www.allure-la.com employs porn stars Shayla LaVeaux, Vicca & Nikita, Missy, Johnni Black, Lauren Montgomery, Keri Windsor, Alexandra Silk, Jacklyn Lick, and are negotiating with Amber Michaels, Cassandra Knight & Gina Ryder.
"Our female entertainers average $500 each for a 2 hour girl-girl show and have made as high as $1500 for a 2 hour show. We are paid by the clients do not charge our dancers anything. Check out our website at www.allure-la.com or call us at 805-294-1115.
"I appeared in the Mystique Productions (Playboy) series The Profession and Alta Loma Productions (HBO/Cinemax) Passion's Cove series. I'll be Playboy TV's Night Calls Wednesday evening with Juli Ashton and Tiffani."
AP: A former Beverly Hills, Calif., plastic surgeon was indicted Friday on charges he tried to hire a hit man to kill his wife. Dr. Ian Brown was charged with soliciting a would-be hitman at the Rio and offering him $20,000 to kill Brown's wife. Any porners use this guy Dr. Ian Brown?
Hbmcc writes on RAME: "The Harmony theatres/clubs were tame reincarnations of the incomparable Melody theatre on 46th [St. in New York], finally shut down when it was discovered a high ranking city official was part owner. The Melody Mardi Gras (briefly copied by the O'Farrel in San Francisco until busted) featured at least a dozen completely naked girls who mingled with the audience. While I saw Sue Nero once or twice in the later days, Tish Ambrose was a regular. While I never saw a bj - the unspoken policy was that customers remain zipped up - many girls offered hair sandwiches to be consumed on stage."
Throughout 1999, Luke F-rd has been hosted by www.fantasticonline.com. In February, I signed with the Canadian company to run my site. The boss fella Craig Vasiloff sent me this announcement:
FANtastic! Talent Search
I say talent cause that's what I mean - FANtastic! Entertainment Online Inc. is seeking talent for its multimedia productions.
We are developing our own programming to take advantage of the interactive capabilities of the internet and we are looking for talent to fit within our structure.
Radio hosts, interactive performers and more! We are also seeking adult star/feature performers to act as spokespeople for our new website.
Are you working in adult film today? Do you travel as a feature dancer? Then FANtastic! wants to hear from you. Get involved in the web opportunity of the decade.
Also, if you are an adult video producer, we are now booking for our talk shows so if you want that extra promotion, contact us for talent bookings.
Contact us at info@fantasticonline.com.
As a complete adult entertainment publication, FANtasic! will become the leading adult internet site in the world. It will contain interactive multimedia productions, live web-cams, erotic fiction and investigative articles, classic humor, in-depth interviews and pictorials featuring the world's most beautiful women.
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- live video/chat programming - hotbods live - interviews web-cams -talk
show - culinary delights - event coverage- wild nights - automotive
world - radio
show - erotic narratives - fantastic! travel - interactive stories -
our online store - literature sexual news - telephone chat - letters
So as you can see it is pretty complete - incorporating a lot of mainstream aspects as well. The idea is simple to create our own adult entertainment programming - the internet is fast becoming not only a resource for information but our choice for home entertainment as well. people are not watching as much television as they used to and are spending more time on the internet - we are creating the programming that they will tune in to!
Our product will not be all about sex - we are also offering Streets of Rage - a monthly 1/2 hour streamed program (all these will be available for order as well) involving brutal vigilante justice cain. The point is to offer programming not available anywhere else. FANtastic! will soon become the preferred adult entertainment publication on the internet. By displaying leadership in style and design while maintaining an aggressive technological approach; consistently delivering on content, quality, excitement and value beyond our viewers expectations; motivating our viewers through exciting graphic and multimedia environments and compelling articles; and by nurturing and growing our own people to share in our success, we hope to quickly become the main source for adult entertainment.
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FANtastic! is a dynamic publishing concept that promotes, informs and markets adult content on the world wide web. with superior design, unparalleled audio/video programming, exciting visual environments and compelling articles, FANtastic! offers its viewers a unique brand of entertainment of uncompromised quality, enduring style and exceptional value.
p r o d u c t
FANtastic! maintains the perfect balance between design, quality and
content while highlighting the technological advances of the internet.
fantastic! is designed by a highly focused group of producers, photographers,
editors and journalists. this team is responsible for design, layout,
content sourcing and audio/video production. the result is a unique,
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standard of excellence.
FANtastic! will focus on the development of programming for the next wave - that is real audio/video interactive shows. not just picture posts, but actual radio shows, talk shows, interactive storylines - soap operas - live chats and more.
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FANtastic! is able to attract a wide customer base by exceeding audience expectations and providing an exciting adult experience with the right mix of programming, images and style. the customer base is not confined to a narrowly defined demographic or socioeconomic sector but we will focus on upper-middle-class men and women 18 - 55 years of age. FANtastic! is a reflection of attitude rather than age.
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From the vision of founder and producer, Craig Vasiloff, down the ranks to the newest part time employee, the FANtastic! team is committed to the culture and growth of the adult entertainment industry, the community and to each other. FANtastic! is directed by a thoroughly experienced editorial, design and marketing team. the group of entrepreneurial people who conceptualize, develop and launch the web publication are supported by experts in all key functions in the operation of corporate business.
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From the Morality in Media home page. An article by Dr. Jarrard, a Chairman of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles:
I attended the World Pornography Conference (August 6-9, 1998) at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, and I was probably the only pro-decency person among the several hundred people who took part.
"Eroticism and the First Amendment" was the title of the confab, which drew advocates and defenders of porn from as far away as Russia, Japan, South Africa, and Australia. For eight very long hours I rubbed shoulders and even broke bread with top obscenity lawyers, the porn industry's political shills from the ACLU, porn video "actresses," and "academics" from major universities, particularly California State University at Northridge (CSUN). The town of Northridge is the world capital of porn video production. The purpose of the proceedings seemed to be to advance a plan of the incredibly wealthy, $8 billion-a-year porn industry — namely, to get the public to accept the now-discredited Prof. Alfred Kinsey's anything-goes approach to sex as the basis for granting teaching credentials to all sex "educators" in both our public and our religious schools.
Judging from what I heard, the plan is well under way. I focused on the talks on "research and effects." The "academics" remarks were meant to provide the necessary pseudo-scientific intellectual basis for this all-out attack upon morality and reason. What these "intellectuals" said should frighten us citizens into action.
The first talk I heard was by CSUN's librarian, who described her efforts to protect the school's tax-supported porn collection. The only "academic" defenses she gave for this porn pile were "free speech," "academic freedom," the "First Amendment," and opposing "censorship." In the next "academic" session I heard, the professor quoted tax-supported "researcher" Dr. Ed Donnerstein of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Donnerstein maintains that only violence in porn is dangerous. The speaker did not mention that porn was a form of violence in itself. Nor did he mention the money that Donnerstein has taken from Playboy and other porn interests to do some of his "research." Dr. William Griffitt of Kansas State University informed us that porn caused no adverse effects, and that, why, even education can be distasteful to some — e.g., showing explicit sex films in the classroom. He cited the discredited, ACLU-dominated Presidential Commission on Pornography (1970) as showing minimal effects from making and using porn.
When I asked about the more recent Reagan-era [Attorney General Meese] Commission that found porn harmful, he dismissed it as politically inspired. He carefully dodged the issue of the link between porn and public health and safety problems such as rape, venereal disease, AIDS, incest, serial murders, child molestation, and sex addiction. Griffitt quoted those "scholars" who support him, and largely dismissed the findings of Drs. Cline, Weaver, Zillman and others whose research points to severe harm from porn use. He said not a word about the enormous increase in sex-related pathologies since Kinsey, as documented by Dr. Judith Reisman in her explosive new book, Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences.
I asked Griffitt about Kinsey, whose famous "research" Dr. Reisman has shown was a fraud that involved hundreds of sex crimes against children. He saw Kinsey as a very fine researcher, a real contributor to learning and teaching about sex. Porn, Dr. Griffitt assured us, was a valuable research tool. One professor from California State University at Long Beach told how he brought "porn stars" into his classroom as guest lecturers. He told us this shielded him from direct criticism. (Conference organizers brought out porn "actresses" to speak, too; no one talked about how many of these women use drugs, die young, or are lesbians who were abused by their fathers.)
The objective, scholarly title of one California State instructor's lecture was, "There Is No Relationship Between Pornography and Violence Against Anyone Or Anything." On and on they droned. The "research" of "sexperts" such as Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, Wardell Pomeroy and their direct descendants is being peddled endlessly. It comes from Vern Bullough's Center for Sex Research, from the other Kinsey-spawned sex "research" and/or teacher credentialing centers such as those in San Francisco and at CSUN, and from many other "centers" and "institutes" for sex "research" and credentialing.