Howard Stern hosted a hilarious debate over the validity of porn's biggest gangbangs Wednesday morning with Jasmin St. Claire, Annabel Chong, Spantaneous Xtasy and Houston.
Director John Bone is getting an AIDS test. "I let you [Luke] say s--- about me but this is nonsense that I have refused to get an AIDS test," said Bone Wednesday morning. "I've taken many AIDS tests. And when you start accusing people of rape...perhaps you [Luke] should check your facts. Kristen herself denies this story that I tried to force her to have sex. [True.]"
Talent agent Rob Spallone (818-996-6543) and his hated rival Jim South of World Modeling (818-986-4316) smoked the peace pipe Tuesday afternoon with godfather (VCA owner) Russ Hampshire.
Rob agreed to fold his modeling agency in exchange for Jim referring shooters to Rob's studio homes.
"I'm totally shocked," said rival talent manager Damien Michaels Tuesday evening, when Luke informed him of the news.
Damien says he represents almost 300 girls through his Ultimate Entertainment Group at 818-998-6668.
Michaels will no longer send talent to John Bone and Cream Entertainment. "John f---ed me," said Michaels. "I got him all the girls he wanted on a Sunday and he didn't pay me. Not only that, he took one of my girls, Kristen, and made her a contract girl. I eventually did what I had to do to collect my money.
"I do not send girls to clients who will abuse them. I don't care about the money. I won't put up with that."
Veteran porn performer Brick Majors phoned Luke Tuesday around 5PM to say that Kristen was no longer with Cream. John Bone, said Majors, assaulted her, like he does many of the porn girls who work for him, and pushed her to give him sex. She refused, and ran from him. Bone, who's well known for having sex with the talent, refuses to take an HIV test. None of the industry's talent agencies, from World Modeling to Ultimate Group Entertainment to Pretty Girl International, will deal with him. Tuesday night John Bowen's home phone number was "no longer in service."
Bone finds Major's comments outrageous. "To say that I am raping girls, that is unfair. Who?"
Kristen denies Majors assertion that Bone attacked her.
At 4:30 PM, a tired South said over the phone: "I'm glad of the meeting [with Rob Spallone and Russ Hampshire]. I'd much rather make money than fight. If you spend all your time fighting and arguing, you don't make any money.
"Russell Hampshire had called me about Rob Spallone and I sitting down. I heard that Rob wasn't interested in being an agent any longer. This [peace overture] comes from them, not from me. We had the meeting today in my office at 2:15 PM. It was cordial. We did not dwell on the past. We were upfront with each other, with Mr. Hampshire sitting in 'chaperoning.'
"As of this minute, according to Spallone, he is not running an agency. I will be sending him new people and emailing him new people for him to consider in his movies. In addition to that, and I brought this up, I'm very good at getting rental for places to shoot. He does get a lot of rental on his houses and I can give him additional shooters. So the peace is here. Praise the Lord and pass the potatoes."
At 4:10 PM, Spallone told Luke: "We sat down. I told Jim, 'the past is the past. Forget about it. I'm the easest guy to get along with and I can be the biggest scumbag in the world. I can be a mean motherf---er.'
"I told Jim that I would do whatever I could to help him and in return if he could help me out by helping to rent the houses out. He said he'd keep those houses so busy that I wouldn't know what to do. I straightened out a problem he was having with Damien Michaels [rival talent manager].
"I'm welcome in his office any time. He'll email me when he gets new talent. I'll pay him when I shoot. He'll recommend the North Hollywood clinic (818-765-4500) which is doing more business than AIM. North Hollywood is going to switch over to the blood lab Consolidated which gives a 36 hour turnaround. [AIM switched over a week or so ago.]
"He asked if he could have something in writing. I said no problem, just write it up and I will sign it. He's nervous and I understand that. He only knows me as a maniac."
Russ Hampshire said over the phone at 3:40 PM: "I wanted to help them work out their differences and they seem to have come to terms. Everybody went away happy."
Luke: "Oh no, I'll have nothing to write about."
Russ: "You're done now. We all know it was your [Luke] fault to begin with. That's what I said and they all agreed. 'You guys read that stupid Luke F-rd thing and he prints all this s--- about you guys, and all this disinformation,' and they laughed."
Pornographers, like other businessmen, hate competition, and without outside interference like this site they'll merge operations to increase profits, raise prices and decrease production.
Russ has hired Rob to shoot a big feature for VCA and Spallone will probably also shoot one for Sin City (as long as he does not use Chuck Martino's enemy James DiGiorgio).
RAME moderator Brad Williams: "Does this mean that Spallone will no longer be the rebel in the porn biz who dishes-out loads of gossip to Luke F-rd and rails against the powers-that-be? Too bad.
"It was interesting
reading the insights of Spallone and how he perceived
the business to be. I guess it was only a matter of time before he got
"brought back into the fold."
"How does this exactly benefit performers or consumers? Jim South has been on top for quite a while, and I'm really missing what he's contributed to the betterment of porn for anyone."
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"When the HIV outbreak happened," says male performer Brick Majors, "John Bowen heard that Jim South had spread a rumor that he [Bowen] had it. Instead of coming over like a normal person, getting a test and posting the results on the wall at Jim's office, Bowen sent a litigating letter saying that if you talk about me anymore I will sue you. The April letter was directly addressed to Bill Margold. [Bowen says he took an HIV test at this time and tested negative.]
"Bowen openly says he has sex with transvestites. He loves them. [John denies this. He says it was a joke at Jim South's office ten years ago.]
"Everybody hates Bowen's guts, and his only friend left is Gene Ross of AVN. The Jerry Springer would like to do a show on Bowen and have him face these accusations."
On April 8, 1998, John Bowne sent out this from Cream (which I print below as is), entitled "An Open Letter to the Industry: Let the Litigation Begin."
Bone writes:
"Well, the silly season is here again and the rumor mongers are hard at work. Only this year they have names. So lets shine a little light on the cock-roaches and watch them run for cover.
Bill Margold. Bill took it upon himself to take aside my newest contract girl, Kendra Jade, and tell her that my partner and her dance manager Charley Frey, was a 'scum bag' and she should not do business with him. It is probably well within his first amendment rights to express this opinion, but why? He then went on to tell her that I have sex with the girls in industry, that we do not require HIV certificates from talent. and use AIDS infected male talent on a regular basis. That I had sex with Tricia Devereaux. That I in fact have AIDS and am too afraid to take an HIV test, and I am personally responsible for the recent out break of AIDS in the industry. Now the first part is very flatterring. You see. I'm 51-years old and I estimate that 10-15 new girls join the industry every week, so I thank you for perpetuating this myth.
Let's move on. To my knowledge Tricia left a detailed list of everybody she had sex with for many months prior to her positive testing. Is my name on the list? I wouldn't know because Jim South refuses to release any information on HIV problems in the industry to me because I owe him $40. The next part of his statement is of course what bothers me most. Where do you get off throwing these kind of insinuations around?
You sir have the mentality of a Salem witch hunter. the morals of a lynch mob and the courage of a fish-wife. Two days ago I called your house and left a message that I intended to sue you for slander and gave you the opportunity to call me and explain your words. You have not. Your mindless insinuations and arrogant posturing may impress the "kids" but the 'adults' are not amused.
John Gallo. Who the f--- is John Gallo? This buffoon is telling anybody who will listen that I had sex with Tricia Devereaux, that I have AIDS and that I am having sex with everybody in the industry. Now in this order the 'haivng sex with every body' takes on a whole new connotation.
I am sure that neither of these illustrious gentlemen have ever had to stand by their stupid malicious lies before, so here's a golden opportunity to both of you, and indeed to any other rumor monger with the courage to crawl out into the open. Stand up like men, state your case and suffer the consequences. Litigators are standing by.
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Kristen at 10AM, 3/3/99 [Kristen, reportedly, later denied saying the below, claiming she was misquoted]:
"I left because… Yes, he [John Bowen] does try to sleep with all his contract girls. He did not try to force himself on me. But it was getting to the point where… I was getting the benefit of being a contract girl but he wasn’t getting from me what all the girls give him. My thing was, I will give you a shoulder massage instead of f---ing you. And that was fine. I’d give him a shoulder rub at CES so he would get off my case. He wasn’t bugging me about it, but I could tell it was starting to get a little difficult for him to be giving me all this money and I wasn’t f---ing him or anything. It’s really difficult for him.
"I got really scared at CES because it was a weird situation. The contract girls at Bowen are like real whores and I am not familiar with that because at CES they [Kendra and Zoe] were really working that and doing weird stuff and I wasn’t used to that.
"I was at Caressa Savage’s house the other day. Man, Heidi Fleiss all over again. Guys were calling and going ‘I want to reserve this girl for the Grammys for $5000.’ I didn’t know there were porn stars who were actually hookers. She does that www.nicisgirls.com. All these girls there I was looking at, ‘all these girls are real whores, they really sleep with everybody [who pays]?’ A lot of people have been approaching me lately [for sex for money]. I had that false positive [for HIV] so everything about that just freaks me out.
"There was a bunch of that going on at CES. Fans paying porn stars. You know how they have those little booths [at CES], where you can close the door. The VCA booth and stuff. Well, those porn stars would go in there with fans and take pictures and give blowjobs and stuff and people would take pictures of them to have proof and then they would pay the porn stars. I was freaking. Get me out of here, these people are nuts. If it wasn’t for Taylor Moore and Katie Gold, I don’t know what I would’ve done. ‘All you girls aren’t like this, right?’ It just scared me."
Neither Luke nor Kristin meant to imply in the above that porn girls were giving blow jobs at the VCA booth. Only that many of the stands at CES, like VCA, had private booths. And in many of those booths (not the VCA one to the best of Luke's knowledge), porn girls were giving blow jobs. Luke talked to a furious Russ Hampshire (VCA owner) at 11AM.
Russ: "How dare you put that f---ing innuendo on your site? I resent that f---ing remark. And you better retract the sonofabitch."
Luke: "Ok."
Russ: "I'm tired of that f---ing crap. I don't run my business that way and you know it."
Luke: "I know."
Russ: "Then why did you put VCA? So people would read the sonofabitch?"
Luke: "She said that."
Russ: "Then you tell her that I am going to sue her f---ing ass."
Luke: "She did not say that...[VCA girls were giving blow jobs]."
Russ: "The innuendo was made that the VCA booth and stuff."
Luke: "Look, this is what she was trying to say..."
Russ: "Then you f---ing correct it, allright? I'm f---ing pissed. Goodbye."
Russ hangs up.
Kristen: "Fans would follow me to my hotel room and on top of Bowen being all nutty and Zoe getting all freaky about her boyfriend. I don’t know if I will go to another CES. That was scary.
"I want a girlfriend now, boys are trouble.
"I didn’t exactly leave Bowen, it’s just that he ran out of money and he couldn’t shoot any more of my movies.
"He is going to get an AIDS test. I know that he’s scared out of his mind but Kendra gets AIDS tests every month and he f---s her on a daily basis. If he had AIDS, it would show up on her.
"Basically, yes, I did leave because it became hard for us to get along because I wouldn’t have sex with him. I mean, really hard. We would have screaming matches. And I knew that he was just frustrated because he couldn’t get his dick in me, like every other male in this business like Brick Majors, which is why he’s talking so much s---.
I’ve had the same boyfriend since Matt Zane. I’ve had one singular dick in me since Matt and it’s been the same dick. And he’s not in the business.
I’m working a lot for a new company that Sean Rider started – Premier Pictures. It’s called Kristen Experience.
Details [magazine] has a good thing on Matt Zane. I’m mentioned a little bit. Sometimes I would watch TV while he was f---ing another girl. But he looks good in it. No, I don’t miss him. I want to beat him out as director. Shane has inspired me with her nice house, nice car and line… That’s what I want to do. I want to be a Baby Shane.
I’m not signing contracts anymore. I’m signing movie deals.
John Bone called Luke at 10:30 AM and we did a threeway (phone conversation) with Kristen.
John appeared shocked when I relayed my summary of Kristen’s thoughts.
John: "I have Luke on the line, honey. And he says that you said that I insisted you have sex with me."
Kristen: "No, it wasn’t like that. It was difficult for us to get along because everyone else was having sex with you. I was telling him about that time we were at CES when I said, ‘I will just give you a massage instead of f---ing you.’"
John: "I don’t know what you’re talking about, honey."
Kristen: "When we were at CES, and everybody was f---ing everybody…"
John: "Who was everybody f---ing everybody?"
Kristen: "You know how you were f---ing Kendra and Deelicious…"
John: "Kendra was not at the CES."
Kristen: "I know that. She was a part of the company and you were f---ing her."
John: "Did I ever ask you to have sex with me?"
Kristen: "No, but you did always say, ‘you don’t have sex with me.’ And Devon was there a couple of times…"
John: "Did I ever intimate that it would be good for your career for you to have sex with me?"
Kristen: "No you didn’t."
John: "Did I ever tell you it would benefit you in anyway to have sex with me?"
Kristen: "No you didn’t. When you contacted me, you said that there was a whole new generation of porn stars that you can’t f--- anymore."
John: "So there was never ever a question of you having sex with me. So why does Luke think that you quit my company because you wouldn’t have sex with me."
Kristen: "I didn’t quit the company exactly. What happened was that it got real difficult for you and me to get along, whether that was because of the sex… It became difficult for us to be in the same room together, and I do not know why that is, because everybody you do have sex with, it is not difficult for you to be in the room together."
John: "So you felt left out because you weren’t having sex with me. Luke, make sense of this."
Luke: "John, it seems that Kristen feels that all of John Bowen’s contract girls have sex with him, and she felt this pressure whether or not you explicitly stated that…"
Kristen: "I felt like the low man on the totem pole because I did not have sex with you. All of a sudden, I went from you concentrating on me and making me the top girl to me getting kicked out of offices…"
John: "It was because you kept trying to borrow money from me. Every time you walked in, you asked if I would lend you more money. And eventually it got to the point where I wouldn’t lend you any more money."
Kristen: "That was because we were on contract and I need the money to shoot a movie. You threw me out because I wanted to shoot a movie and you didn’t have the money and I kept getting mad at you. You didn’t have any money to shoot, to fulfill the contract, and because of that, I didn’t have any money to live."
John: "But what does this have to do with sex? He is now writing… I’m lost in all of this. Luke, please, try to tell me what you’re hearing?"
Luke: "It seems that Kristen felt uncomfortable being a Bowen contract girl, being the only one of your contract girls who does not have sex with you. And that was a significant factor in her leaving along with you not having the money to shoot the movies your contract with her called for her to shoot."
Kristen: "That’s it. That’s the truth."
John: "Are you comfortable working for me again?"
Kristen: "I’m comfortable shooting another Candid Kristen for you."
John: "But are you comfortable working for me?"
Kristen: "Yes, I am comfortable shooting another Candid Kristen."
John: "Would you assume that meant that you would have to have sex with me?"
Kristen: "No. It would be a movie girl, it would not be like being a contract girl."
John: "So sex does not come into any dealings that you have with me."
Kristen: "That’s because I am not a contract girl anymore. How many times do I have to repeat that?"
John: "I’m getting a headache from all of this."
Kristen: "Take an aspirin."
Luke: "John, do you usually have sex with your contract girls?"
John: "Let me clarify something. I’ve been in this business for 15 years, and for some reason it behooves people to amplify my sex life to a legendary level. I’ve been flattered… But these accusations of rape go too far. I put you in touch with this girl to show that you’ve [Luke] printed lies again. I’m 52 years of age, I’m overweight and I have a heart condition. In the 15 years that I’ve been in this business, I’ve never raped, attempted to rape or sexually assaulted a girl. If you listen to the rumors, I don’t need to. Why would I need to rape if I have six contract girls f---ing me every day.
"Neither she nor anybody she’s brought here…"
Kristen: "I’ve never gotten John laid."
John: "It’s never been an issue. It was never a part of our deal.
"She made a movie for me that happened to be excellent. She is going to make other movies for me…
"Now, I’m bowing to the pressure of your site and I am going to get an AIDS test today. It will be available for everybody to see, particularly the people out there who want to come over and get raped by me. Enough Luke."
Raven McCall told Luke a few months ago that John Bowen, about two years ago, had tried to rape her. On 9/23/98, Raven told Luke:
"Paul [Thomas] is the most wonderful, sensual gorgeous attractive man. Great in bed. Generous. He took me out to the nicest places - wining, dining. He introduced me to some of the greatest people in the regular industry. He was always there to help me, like when my car got stuck out at Iverson Ranch when John Bowen tried to rape me. Paul used his AAA card to get my car out…
"It was my fourth month in the business [June '96]. Rob [Spallone] booked me to shoot for John. Rob felt so bad because the guy did not pay me for two months. John wrote me bad checks. Finally, Rob said, 'I'm going to beat your head in with a baseball bat if you don't pay me.' Rob went up and scared the living piss out of him and the next day I got paid. [Rob and John deny this.] Even Reb got on the phone. Reb said, 'look, you're an illegal alien and so is your wife. We'll have you deported…'
"John had just moved into this place at Iverson. The bath got plugged up. It had no hot water. The shooting conditions were disgusting. He made sure that I was the last one to leave. He even told Rick Masters to leave. I was in the shower. He kept coming in the bathroom, saying, 'I need you to sign your paperwork right now.' He wouldn't let me put on any clothes. I came out in a towel and the next thing I know he's unzipping his pants and unleashing his cock and telling me to go down on me. He tried to force his cock into me. I told him, 'I came here to work for you. My work day is over. I'm not interested.'
"He became offended, said some nasty words to me and told me to get out.
"I've never done drugs. I have asthma and take enough asthma medicine so that if I ever tried coke or speed, which are popular in the business, I could cause myself cardiac arrest. I smoke pot. I have a medical prescription from my doctor for it."
John: "I hired her about two years ago when I had my ranch. She showed up at 8AM and went into the bathroom and she never came out. Around 2PM, the two boys left. They couldn’t be bothered waiting any longer. Nobody could pee. We kept hammering on the door. She kept saying she was showering, or shaving her legs or douching or whatever…
"She finally came out of the bathroom at 4PM. I told her she was a nutcase and then she started taking her clothes off. I threw her out.
"I heard about three months later that she was saying that I had tried to rape her. All I wanted to do is get her out of my bathroom. I think the girls’ sanity is questionable. It’s all f---ing nonsense."
Luke: "I hear that the talent agents won’t deal with you?"
John: "Reb I’ve never used since the days when there were only two agents and you could only deal with one of them. I worked with Jim for ten years.
"I used Damien Michaels once. He pulled me out of a bind on a Sunday. I put a newsletter out about how helpful he was. Jim South read the newsletter and told me that all of the girls I got from Damien were Jim’s… Jim wanted me to do business with me again on the condition that I do not do business with Damien Michaels.
"At the end of the day,
I don’t see the value in paying Jim for girls that come to me by themselves.
Jim doesn’t send me girls. He doesn’t pick up the phone or email me…
Jim and I have had an ongoing argument over this for years…"
John Bowen's Sex Life by John Bowen
The porn gossip world seems so fascinated by my sex life; I’ll give you the insight to one of my typical days.
I get to the office at 7:30 am and read my horoscope. Starting at 8am my seven contract girls come by at 30 minute intervals to have sex with me. From 11 to 12 I have a massage and blowjob from my favorite hooker. At 12 I take Shelle, my secretary, to lunch stopping by a local motel for a quickie. From 1:30pm to 4pm I rape four or five new girls. From 4 ’till 5 I pay bribes to the assorted journalists on my payroll and then I bang Shelle one more time before she goes home. I spend the next couple of hours in a local brothel, famous for it’s large breasted Spanish women, then it’s home to peruse the sex mags and decide which call girl to have over for the evening. Pretty good life huh? The only down side is that it hurts when I masturbate.
I hope this clears up all the speculation.
Two of my personal hero’s are Larry Flynt and Al Goldstein. They were fearless in their fight for first amendment rights. Thus spawning Luke F-rd’s right to publish unsubstantiated lies about me on his Internet site. Over the last two days I have been victimized as a rapist, a sexual predator, as HIV positive, and as a homosexual. On of my dear friends is supposed to have threatened my life. All of this on the words of Brick Majors an actor I have refused to hire on many occasions and Raven McCall. On Wednesday he told the world that I tried to rape Kristen. She called him and told him that it wasn’t true. I asked him to send me his stuff in future so that I could point out the inaccuracies before he published. Thursday he sent me another story full of inaccuracies but published before I could defend myself, his reason "I had to get the story up before Gene Ross, and that was more important than getting it right." I have been victimized and humiliated. The temptation is to seek revenge, but I cannot be a hypocrite, freedom of speech must be defended at all costs. Though Luke steadfastly refuses to validate his facts, check his sources or follow any rules of responsible journalism I must defend his right to publish these scurrilous and defamatory stories. So I shall put away the baseball bat and lick my wounds hoping for this mess to be soon forgotten as Luke moves on to expose yet another ‘porner.'
An observer replies to Bowen:
John Bowen seems to
be taking the high road in response to accusations
against him. He defends the rights of his accusers, citing their first
ammendment rights. It has been clearly established time and again that
the first ammendment does NOT offer protection to libelous speech.
While people are free to insult (i.e. "Mr. X is an asshole") and lampoon
(i.e. "Jerry Falwell f---ed his mother") one another, they are decidedly
not protected from retribution when making unsubstantiated allegations
of criminal and unethical against an individual.
When he says "...I must
defend his right to publish these scurrilous and
defamatory stories." Mr. Bowen is simply mistaken. It is in exactly
these cases where the first ammendment reaches its limits. The speech
in this case is potentially damaging to career and reputation whether
true or not. If the claims made are true, then Bowen has no recourse.
If not, the individuals who have libelled him can be held accountable
for their irresponsible disregard for his reputation.
Mr. Bowen may still
opt to avoid childish litigiousness, but he needn't
feel that he's doing so to avoid betraying his own belief in the freedom
of speech. People are not free to publicly accuse innocent individuals
of rape.
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AJB writes on RAME: "Tonight I saw Tiffany Mynx (of Asswoman and Sodomania fame) at "Whiskey A-Go-Go" in northern Toronto.
In the set I saw her,
Tiffany's high heeled shoe broke and she fell -- but
like a good pooper trooper she continued on with the show.
She was much more interactive with the crowd than most big name pornstars. She straddled my shoulders and jiggled her buns in my face at one point...although she had a g-string on at this point in the show, I would have sworn my nose flicked across pussy lips for a moment. She mashed her tits into another couple guys' faces. Very nice tit job BTW; I could hardly notice they were fake. Very minor stretch marks on the belly but otherwise a perfect woman.
While playing the Nine
Inch Nails song with the chorus "I want to f--- you
like an animal", Tiffany spit on her fingers and let the goob drip into
her
snatch. Then she rubbed it in as she sat about one foot away from a
guy's
face. Some of the other songs in the set were a little lame to be honest.
She climaxed the show
by getting the help of two volunteers from the
audience. She creamed a line of whip cream from one ankle, up her leg,
just
past her twat and terminating at her belly button. Then she made another
such whip cream line up the other leg. She put a cherry in her belly
button.
At the word GO! the two guys had to lick up the whip cream as quick
as
possible to get to the cherry. Those two porn hounds slurped her up
in
seconds. She licked some whip cream off the fingers of the winner. f---...
All in all a very good
show -- one of the better ones I've seen in months.
Afterwards I got a polaroid done with her. She let me kiss her sweet
ass
cheek as the pic was taken. Unfortunately, the club doesn't seem to
let
their feature acts do personal lap dances, so no nookie lookie for me.
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Jane Waters aka John Keeler is no longer with Extreme Associates (because he takes too long filming). Carolyn Monroe now lives in Woodland Hills with her rich Italian husband of the past eight years, Uger Ross aka Rossano. Racquel DeVine has married and left porno.
Imlikgod says that ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling) has made a deal to use Jasmin St. Claire on their TV program.
Kid Vegas writes: "I'm visiting my Notorious friends. I love the talk that I am seeing. There is this new girl in the business called Mara Pleasures, just wanted you to know that she has done a Johnny Toxic film for a total price of $50.00 for one scene. Is that a hooker or a true porn girl, this girl should be in the hall of fame for working the cheapest. She is a new 20 year old straight off the bus from Missouri. She is the worst actress, & her cocaine habit doesn't help with the acne...hahaha If anyone is looking for cheap help in scenes call her Manager, not me, everyone seems to think I am affiliated with this poor girl. His name is Ron Daniels, at 818-772-0724... Peace, hope to talk more truth soon. Suck Cock Kid Sparkle!"
Get Massa Card from Mike South
Mothers of porners Steve Austin and Kyle Stone died last week. Kyle called Rob Spallone Sunday for a loan to bury his mom.
I hear that veteran pornographer Paul Wisner may be going broke. His family owns a printing company in Ventura. Wisner was part of the Joe Spallone - Howie Wasserman - Gourmet crew.
Internet power Don Osterholt has filed for divorce from his porn star wife Tabitha Stevens. They hope to remain good friends but the pressures from the adult industry were just too much to deal with.
Sin City's shooting one movie a month (Sweet Life) starring Shay Sweet for the TeN network. Shay's up for Best New Starlet at the Hot D'Or Awards at the Cannes Film Festival in the second week of May. Chuck Martino plans to shoot a couple versions of Sweet Life that month in Budapest, Hungary.
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Pat Riley congratulates AVN on RAME:
Today is March 1 and
guess what? March AVN arrived in the mail! Wow.
Kudos AV, keep it up.
Who are all the ugly people on the front cover though <g>?
I haven't read the contents
yet--hell, I haven't read January yet--but
I did notice a whining letter from Zane in the ReaderSpeak
column--usually the best part of AVN--where the guy complains Cherry
Poppers didn't get the accolades it deserved and suggests some
complicated system (too complex for me <g>) under which I suppose
Zane
will get all the 5 A's and Vivid will receive 1 A's. It also addresses
the one line reviews and the follow up from Mark Logan says this was
the best of various alternatives.
Hmmm. I haven't really
followed this as it unfolds but it seems that
what they're doing is just giving the name of the movie, the
manufacturer a few words like "Cute girls, mid-range sex." and a star
rating for all movies gaining less than 3.5* although some 3* movies
get a full review. The big thing missing is the cast.
Now I understand their
problems with the paper cost/shipping etc (I
know the feeling) and they have to make some compromises but this
seems to be the wrong way to go. For these bottom-of-the-heap movies
the cast list is the important part and it's only AVN, being a central
clearing house, who get all these movies to review (generally
speaking). For example, by reading AVN you have no idea that Tina
Thomas appears in RSM #16 (probably her first movie). I would think
there are quite a few guys (me included) who would rent RSM#16 simply
based on her presence.
Without dumping too
much on AVN (this time <g>) I would suggest their
evaluation of any movie is far less important than the factual
information so my suggestion is a far tighter editing of the reviews
and bring back the cast list for all of them.
For example: On the
previous page to the one line entry for RSM #16 is
the review of Only The A-Hole #6 which runs 7.5 column inches. (RSM
#16 runs 0.5 column inches.) Both get 3 A's. Mickey Ramone (an obvious
raincoater) waxes on with lots of irrelevant information such as:
"This five-scene all
rump-humping tape starts off promisingly enough,
but then begins to occasionally lose steam before uh, crapping out
completely in the end. It's as if director Rectal Mike couldn't keep
it up, so to speak, all the way through."
Strike "It's...way through."
Substitute "anal" for "rump-humping" and
"5" for "five". In fact reword the paragraph to read:
"This 5 scene all anal tape starts well and then peters out."
Who needs the smart
ass comment about Rectal Mike? He then goes on
with:
"The aforementioned
opener is the most energetic of the lot, thanks to
the loud, twichin' manner in which cutie Barret (sic-misspelling)
Moore takes Alec Metro up her heinie."
Now if we combine the first and second paragraphs:
"This 5 scene all anal tape starts out well with an energetic scene of
Barrett taking Alec
up her heinie in a loud, twichin' manner but then
the quality deteriorates."
(We don't need last names; they're in the cast list at the beginning.)
So far I've saved over
50 % of the space and lost nothing of the
sense. The rest can be similarly shortened and leave ample space for
the cast list of the bottom dwellers. In fact since there are a lot
more editorial tightenings that could be made, Fishbein can probably
save more and still provide the reader with the cast for all movies.
Of course he could also
change the 10pt on a 20pt leading (looks like)
to a more reasonable 10/12 or 10/14 and in one feel swoop reduce the
text length by 30% for the entire review section of the magazine.
Editor David Bernstein writes on www.adultstarsmagazine.com:
With his charming and
fervent smile, Luke F-rd candidly speaks to ASM
Publisher Stacy Cartwright in a way that can only be described as "having
a hidden agenda". Sure, during this interview Luke openly discussed
many of his personal feelings and experiences that few have ever known
(until now) . . . but what he’s really thinking about is how he can
separate
Stacy from her panties and probably her husband as well!
Stand in line Luke . . . everyone wants Stacy!
As always, Stacy was her perky, lovable little self with her own agenda ... to interview the infamous adult-industry journalist, Luke F-rd.
This interview took
place a few weeks ago at the CES convention in Las
Vegas when Luke stopped by the ASM Exhibit to say hello. It began as
casual conversation, and then Stacy began to probe . . . deeper and
deeper into the background of Mr. Ford.
Born on May 28, 1966,
Luke F-rd was a journalist in the making. While in
school, Luke joined the school newspaper and in a short time became
known as "The Seeker of Truth". Whatever popularity he had as a
classmate, soon took a nose-dive as his candid and truthful articles
hit
the school newsstands. His list of friends began to dwindle, but his
lust
for the power of the written word gained more and more strength.
Now that Luke had found
his niche, he was determined to turn his
"no-holds-barred " style of writing into a livelihood that, as an adult,
would
mirror his younger years as a seeker of truth. But this time, his main
focus would be on the adult entertainment industry.
He entered the adult
biz by way of an acquaintance . . . he met a man in
synagogue one day who asked Luke for some help in writing a
mainstream script. Luke seized this opportunity and also used it as
a
possible front door into the world of acting. Despite his well-meaning
venture as an actor, Luke soon discovered that he couldn’t find enough
acting work to survive . . . After all, one can only live out of their
car for so
long . . . acting simply wasn’t his forte, so he pressed on with his
work as
a journalist.
To this relatively quiet
and shy man, writing serves as an outlet of
expression for Luke. In fact, his truthful style of journalistic commentary
has oftentimes resulted in negative feedback. Luke’s perception of how
people react to his writings have caused him to seek professional therapy
. . . everyone needs an outlet for venting and Luke has wisely chosen
an
unbiased clinician to hear him out.
As it turned out, Luke
did a video entitled "What Women Want,
Gang-Bang 4000" with Kimberly Cummings and five guys. Produced on
January 21st, 1996, Luke wore several hats: Director, Producer,
(sometimes) cameraman, and stud!
His stage name was Dick
Dundee. The "Dundee" name was
appropriately chosen for Luke’s Australian heritage and akin to Crocodile
Dundee. The "Dick", we’ll assume, comes from his very own pride and
joy, which according to Luke, is a mere five inches . . . obviously
nothing
to write home about, but apparently enough to get the job done.
Kimberly gave him a
B.J. as Luke delivered the intro for the Gang-Bang
4000 movie. Although he claims "she was great", he failed to climax.
As a
matter of fact, Luke’s first encounter with sex was at the ripe old
age of
21. And, it was only about six months ago that he first ejaculated into
a
woman’s mouth . . . not because he never had the opportunity, but
because of his religious beliefs.
Luke F-rd is a very
religious guy . . . although not born a Jew, years ago
he converted to Judaism and has taken it quite seriously ever since.
Case in point - Luke’s girlfriend was menstruating one fine evening,
and in
the Jewish religion you are supposed to refrain from sex during that
time
of the month. In an effort to satisfy her man, she performed oral sex
and
he finally got the chance to see and feel what is was like to cum in
a
woman’s mouth.
Today, Luke’s reporting
has significantly grown in popularity . . . he was
one of the firsts to write about Aids and the impact it’s had on the
industry. His groundbreaking reports on this [sometimes] deadly virus
attempts to fill a void that is sorely lacking in both adult and mainstream
reporting practices.
In short, Luke F-rd
has a style unto his own; it’s provocative, sometimes
controversial, always informative, and in this writer’s opinion, a necessary
entity that provides us all with a keen ear into the workings of the
adult
industry.
By the way Luke, I was
at CES the day you spoke with Stacy and again at
the AVN Awards when you asked her to keep your lap warm. . . I don’t
think she was wearing any panties either time!
"How would I know" you might ask?
"No comment".