Luke F-rd attended the Fallen Angels premiere for Silk Ties at Hustler Hollywood Saturday night along with Ed Powers, Randy West, Inari Vachs, Felicia, Luc Wylder, Alexandria Silk, Melanie Stone, Dee, Stacey Valentine, Julian.
An all-condom company, Fallen Angel's Silk series is directed by Alexandra Silk and produced by Luc Wylder. First edition was called Silk Stockings, then Silk Panties, then Silk Ties.
"We wanted to make a high-end couples feature with feminity that still had heat," explained F.A. co-owner Gigi Appleton, a porn veteran of 14 years. "She's [Silk] an author writing a book on fetishes."
"It's about sucking and f---ing with lots of penises," says Silk who plays the bailiff on Playboy TV's Sex Court. Litigants sign in on her butt. "All that normal porno s---."
In business for two years and located next to Extreme Associates on Eton Avenue in Chatsworth, Fallen Angel (888-666-0690) is best known for its Luc Wylder line Dirty Dancers, which follows on from Arianna's Dirty Dancers.
F.A. also distributes: Roy Alexandre's Transsexual Beauty Queens, Natural Wonders, Filthy Knights; Decadent D's Liquid Video; Dave Cummings Sugardaddy; Shayla Productions (including a video on swinging starring Nina Hartley, Alexandra Silk, and Shayla LaVeaux); Sleaze Brothers Rode Hard and Put Away Wet, Pink Planet's Penitent Flesh (directed by Michael Raven) and Twist Productions.
To avoid federal prosecution for obscenity, Fallen Angel Entertainment refuses to ship to about 15 states with conservative values. "I've been doing this too long and I am too old to get into trouble," says Gigi.
"We were hoping for me to be in the office part-time," says Luc Wylder, co-owner of Fallen Angel. "But that never worked. I'm full time in the office and full-time in production. I'm available to my company 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It won't be that way in a few years."
Luke: "Partnerships rarely work. Are you guys at each others' throats?"
Gigi: "We go through our growing pains... We're very different people. But we care about each other, and one day at a time..."
Luc: "A partnership, according to its legal definition, is the most fragile body that you can create... So partnerships rarely work. This one has worked to this point. We have built ourselves up to the point where Gigi and I are expanding into the corporate world and that leaves open an entirely different option.
"You can't do favors for each other anymore. I'm going to go make a movie for you and you can sell it the next day... In a partnership arrangement we were able to do that, but once we started getting corporate, our accountants said 'who bought this and who sold that and where did that come from?' So we had to start accounting for things differently and it brought a lot of things to light for us."
Luke hears that Luc and Gigi Appleton are ending their Fallen Angel partnership.
Dave Cummings, who turns 59 y.o. in a week, shows me pictures of Laurel Canyon sucking Dave's hard pole Thursday night in the bar at the Century Club after the XRCO Awards. "It could've been your dick if you'd just stuck around," said Dave. "I told her to go over and do you.
"She sucked my dick all the way down through Orange County to San Diego.
"Last week I hosted Screw My Wife Please, Vol. 8 from the company Wild Life, which used to be known as Tight Ends. I interacted with all five girls and had sex with three of them. This week I'm doing a scene for VCA, playing doctor to a cheerleader, and getting help from my nurse."
Luke: "How do you do this at your age?"
Dave: "I stay in shape. I don't do drugs. I run five days a week. I don't drink for at least 12-24 hours before a scene. I always try to get a good nights sleep before performing.
"I'm in a running club for beer drinkers. We did nine miles last night. Two beers is my limit. Three makes me drunk. There's a fine line between drinking to lose your inhibitions and not being able to get your dick hard because you had too much to drink."
I chat with Hunter, the husband of ex-Metro contract girl Melanie Stone. "She did her first internal cum shot," says Hunter, "but I didn't want to give it to the companies so we did it ourselves at home... Instead of a guy cuming on her face, he comes inside of her and we let it drip out... She's going to do an anal internal cum shot (her first one) and a DP (another first). She's never done five guys or interracial (never asked).
"Unedited videos (60 minutes) sell for $50 and edited (30 minutes) for $30.
"I haven't done a scene yet. Everybody emails her and asks 'are you ever going to f--- your husband on film?'
Born 9/15/73, Melanie hails from Dallas Texas. With brown hair, brown eyes and natural breasts, she stands 5'5", weighs 115 pounds and measures 34B-24-34. She debuted in the 1995 video Shane and Seymore on Tour.
Melanie, of Russian-Italian background, lost her virginity to a guy at age 16 "on the middle of my high school's football field." Her first time with a woman came two years later, with Hunter's fiance.
Hunter owned a vending business in Dallas for eight years. A swinger, he met Melanie through her brother who lived above Hunter and his fiance of the time. Melanie, Hunter and soon to be ex-fiance began having sex. Melanie and Hunter married in 1994.
"Melanie brought me into the business," says Hunter. "She met Shane in 1995 and did three videos for her and Seymore. We entered the business full time in February, 1998."
Flynt Family Values
I interviewed Theresa Flynt-Gaerke, Larry's daughter, who's V.P. of Retail Operations. She said that Hustler operates two Hustler boutiques, one in Cincinnatti and the one on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. "We're looking to open more.
"Mr. Flynt decided to open one in Cincinnati to challenge the obscenity laws. It did so well that he decided to open one next to his home in Los Angeles. This one is doing well too, so we're looking at property to expand. We describe it as "Adult store meets the new millenium." My dad calls it an "erotic department store.""
Luke: "How do you feel about the porn business?"
Theresa: "I don't know. I grew up in the adult business and it doesn't affect me at all. We all got here from sex and it is always going to be here, and you can't go wrong doing business with it. And the more recognition it gets with clean stores, and movies... the cleaner we can make it with AIDS testing and education and the use of condoms... It makes people more aware [of sex] so that it's not such a dirty dark secret.
"We're going to have an AIDS benefit here and my dad donates to fight cancer and AIDS.
"My dad goes to trial May 3rd in Cincinnatti."
Luke: "Is your dad easy to work for?"
Theresa: "No, never. Family expects more from you than anybody else. He'll call me at home on the weekends and say, 'get up and go to work, what are you doing at home?'
"I want to expand. My dad isn't for advertising. I want to get our name out there more, more stores, perhaps sponsor race cars...
"I watch the [porn] movies, read the magazines, buy toys...I like something between a feature and a gonzo. A gonzo can be too hard for me and features too boring. Latex was a favorite... Seymore Butts... I'm married. My husband and I watch one or two [videos] a month."
Luke: "How do you feel about the urination pictures in Hustler magazine?"
Theresa: "Everyone else is doing it, so we're following suit. That's personal preference. It's a fetish, not mine. I don't see why people think it is sexy. But it's selling."
Luke: "Is there anything that LFP puts out that embarrasses you?"
Theresa: "No. Perhaps the cartoons at the front of Hustler called 'most tasteless.' Maybe. [Laughter] Those can be graphic."
Luke: "What if bestiality was legal? Would that embarrass yo if the company put that out?"
Theresa: "Yeah, oh yeah. I've grown up with the fact that child porn, bestiality is illegal..."
Luke: "So anything that is legal doesn't embarrass you?"
Theresa: "That's a personal.... That's hard to answer. On a business level, sot here's urination in Hustler. That's what the readers want but it is not my preference."
Luke: "If you ran LFP, how would it be different?"
Theresa: "It would be the same because I hold my dad's vision, no matter what."
Luke: "And how would you describe your dad's vision?"
Theresa: "Give your readers what they want. [Laughter] So long as it is legal, you keep your readers satisfied."
Luke: "Do you have any second thoughts about that, because people will buy anything. They would buy bestiality if they could."
Theresa: "That will never be legal so I don't even have to worry about that."
Luke: "You have a sister who hates porn."
Theresa: "She's a couple of years older than me. I've lived my whole life with my dad and I have only met her twice. So, I don't know her. She does not have enough knowledge to know what is going on.
"Myself and my little brother Larry Jr., we grew up close. My dad had five children, she was the one who wasn't around."
Luke: "How do you feel about anti-porn crusaders?"
Theresa: "I am totally for free speech... They come to events here and picket outside. All they do is get us on the news quicker, so it is better for us."
Next I talked with the charming 33-year old Tina Tyler (tinatyler666@hotmail.com) who's died her hair black and cut her bangs. "It allows me to do more with my hair. It was either change the hair color (formerly auburn) or cut if all off."
She's started her own production company Thirteen Productions (mainly with her own money) which releases the lines Tina Tyler's Favorites. The first one, a blowjob movie (Rebecca Lord on the cover), came out in January. Next one, an all-girl movie (starring seven girls), comes out March 9. In April, she shoots the second part of the blowjob movie.
"I now make back-end of my movies and I'm not just charging a day rate. My distribution deal is with all-condom Odyssey. I did a strap-on scene with Taylor Moore in a lesbian video, and as a joke she put a condom on the strap-on with her mouth.
"I've been condoms-only [for intercourse] since a week before Brooke Ashley came up positive. The whole [AIDS outbreak] thing left a bad taste in my mouth.
"I'll stay in front of the camera as long as the fans want to see me, and don't say 'oh yuck, her.' I look at people like Nina [Hartley], the Sharons [Kane and Mitchell] and Jeanna [Fine].
"I've been back in the biz a year and I am having a great time. I came back with a lot more clarity than I had when I left. I came back with my head screwed on straight and I am doing it right this time. I'm taking more control over it and making it work for me instead of me working for it. I've started my own production company... I'm more picky about the type of production I'll work in... I have a tendency to become a total workaholic."
Tina, a veteran of 160 videos, plays the devil in VCA's Devil in Miss Jones 6 (directed Antonio Passolini).
Tyler does have a rock n'roll boyfriend but he supports himself and does not slap her around. "The only person that you [Luke] would know that I've been with is Tony Tedeschi. And that was one time and I was gone. I don't put up with that kind of stuff. I'm stronger than that."
In her first porn scene (1992), Tina absorbed Sean Michaels fist for a German release. She talked with Lasse Braun about doing her second fisting scene but it did not come to fruition.
"Sean took me under his wing and gave me a list of people to avoid and a list of people to avoid. He's a class act. Along with Herschel Savage, Randy Spears, Peter North. The veterans tend to be class acts - Nina Hartley and the Sharons..."
Tyler's received only one bad check during her time in porn and only one director has asked her for a free blowjob. "I said, 'I'm not an 18-year old blonde bimbo. I'm not stupid. You can't manipulate me. I'm 27. I've been around the block a few times. If you really really want that, than hire me.' The guy said 'you wouldn't like the kind of scenes I do anyway,' and left it at that."
Luke runs into the towering 18-year old blonde Capri Cameron, Arrow's new contract girl (10/22/98) who's squired around the club by writer George Kaplan aka Fozzi.
Capri appears in two videos (Naked Angel and Candy Stripers 5), as well as the 3/99 AVN and the 7/99 Cheri magazine.
"Arrow approached me a few days after I turned 18 (in July). It took me a few days to think about it, but each day that I'm in the business I love it more and more. I was working at Dominos Pizza and [Arrow owner] Raymond Pistol approached me.
"I was scared at first [she did John Decker]... I didn't know if I was doing it right. My second scene [with Brian Surewood in Candy Stripers 5] is ten times better than my first scene. I plan to start feature dancing this summer."
Capri stands 5'10, but with three inch heels (sometimes she goes up to eight inches) she's an inch taller than me. "I like being tall. I wish that I was taller. Or way shorter than average... I want to be different."
She saw her first porno at age 12 - Debbie Does Dallas. "I found it interesting... I got all excited... When I was younger [Capri grew up in Idaho], I'd sneak into my dad's room and look at the Playboys, and thought that would be fun.
"I lost my virginity shortly before my 15th birthday. I was scared... It was traumatic. He was very large. He didn't know I was a virgin and rumors spread and it was horrible. I didn't do it again for a year. Then I only had sex twice that year. I worked into it [sex] slowly. I've not had that many sex partners [but runs into double figures]."
Capri's going to do her first girl-girl scene on camera though in Candy Stripers 5, Cameron plays with Tina Tyler.
A tom boy growing up, most of Cameron's friends were guys. "Girls just never liked me."
Luke: "You were competition. You stole their boyfriends."
Capri: "Not then...
"My dad doesn't acknowledge [Capri's porn appearances] but my mom tells everyone. 'My daughter does movies and she's a model.' My mom did one movie - Raymond Pistol's Madam Kittys [in Carson City]. She used to work there [as a prostitute]. We did a fourway in Cheri magazine. Me and her didn't do nothing. She was with one guy and I was with another. It will be in the 8/99 Cheri magazine."
I run into Justin, Jimmy Flynt's son, and he checks out my digital still camera and snaps a few pics. Then I collide with the boys from Apocalypse Productions in Las Vegas, Tom Zupko and Brian Surewood, who (along with partner Jay Stone) play a key role in Rodger Jacobs essay on nasty porn in the 2/99 Hustler magazine. They're accompanied by Dutch sexual terrorist named Meilin, a smiling, pug-nosed brunette.
"We had this young French girl come into [Damien Michaels] office," says Zupko. "I gave Damien a list of things that I wanted her to do. And after about the fifth one, she ran out of the office. Damien ran after her."
Zupko and Surewood (both in their mid 30s) laugh.
"Our partner Jay Stone is a rock musician...and a porno hound," says Surewood. "He must've whacked off to every porno..."
"He f---s his girlfriend three times a day," says Zupko. "Then he gets his magazines and jacks off to them three times a day, then he watches movies..."
Brian: "He's always whacking it."
Meilin: "I'm like a terrorist. I do everything."
Luke: "Have you ever sucked a guy's dick?"
Meilin: "Yessss."
She plays the electric violin and sings "world music."
"I dance all over the world - Iceland, Jamaica, Japan, Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium and the USA. I like S-M. It's therapy. I've done
I spot Julian holding hands with his ex-girlfriend, Stacey Valentine, the busty blonde VCA contract girl.
Porners depart from the Hustler Club to the Rainbow Grill just 200 yards up Sunset Blvd. I walk with Zupko, Surewood and Marty Rudy from Vivid.
"Ron Vogel [photographer - gaffer] walks around in s----stained shorts in our new movie about demented hillbillies," boasts Zupko, sipping a beer. "Vogel plays the patriarch of the family. And when Dude [Surewood] says "swamp dingaling" three times, he turns into a sexual monster."
Surewood: "We're going to have Damien Michaels strapped on to the back of 6'9" Big Bill, playing a banjo."
Zupko: "In the most important scene of the movie, Ron Vogel comes up... The Mother asks, 'Any of you boys want milk with your dinner?' She plops her tits down. 'I do mammy.' And Vogel says, 'You know mammy, every time you do that you make me so horny.'"
Brick Majors is Surewood's brother. They both entered porn in 1984 and then left for years. Brick worked as a Chippendales dancer. Surewood became an assistant to photographer Ron Vogel before entering sex performing in 1997.
Zupko: "At Apocalypse Productions, the casting couch is definitely intact. Every filthy squaw is an unapologetic human cum mop... A whore by any other name would still suck my f---ing dick."
Luke to Brian (while surrounded by giggling drunks at the Rainbow): "Have you ever sucked a guy's dick?"
Brian: "You can drive 100 trucks and you ain't no truck driver. You suck one dick and you're a fag. So no."
Luke: "Has it been tempting? All the choices you must've made to stay heterosexual."
Brian: "I never had a desire to suck a f---ing dick. There's nothing any funnier than guys sucking each other off."
Luke: "What if they were wearing a dress, and you thought you were butt f---ing a girl, and then you looked down and saw balls and a dick?"
Brian: "I haven't gone there."
We meet Donita, a busty brunette who did a boy-girl layout with Brian a few days ago on a log in the woods for Busty magazine. She doesn't use condoms but does do anal. Standing 5'9, she measures 44G-26-36. "Originally I was a B [cup], then I went to a DD [cup] then a G [five weeks ago]."
Zupko: "Would you be interested in doing anal for our company Apocalypse Productions?"
Donita: "If the money is right."
Her best scene came with Valentino in Screw My Wife, Please #8.
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Early Sunday morning, Powers hosted the widow of John Holmes on his KLSX FM 97.1 radio show. Laurie aka Misty Dawn promoted the wretched 1998 post-humous "autobiography" of John Holmes, Porn King. The show combined moments of wit and insight with long stretches of inanity. Ed, you've got the talent and the contacts to have a great show, but get rid of your annoying co-host Elizabeth and get a producer to discipline and guide the production.
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Newly free from hubby Don Osterholt (internet power at www.sex-sells.com), Tabitha Stevens, porn star and "publisher" of New Rave magazine, heads soon to New York to do escort work. "Tabitha never really made it in porn," says Divorcing Don, "so being a whore is the only skill she has left."
You can book her through www.nicisgirls.com along with other porn stars, though not every porn girl listed on the site is necessarily available. Many escort services use fraudulent advertising, claiming that certain porn stars are available for work when they are not.
From www.geneross.com: "Apparently the rumors about Tabitha Stevens' working for an Internet outcall agency have been slightly exaggerated. Stevens, according to website gossip, was reportedly off to New York to pursue a career as a hooker in the wake of her busted marriage to website maven Don Osterholt. Stevens called from a hotel room in Los Angeles to deny the stories. Stevens says this hooker story has been around since Day One, but is false.
"Stevens: "I'm in a hotel and I'm sick. The divorce has got me down. I don't think we were prepared to get married right away." Stevens said this was her third try at marriage."
Luke's Quote of the Week comes from porner Kristen: "I was at Caressa Savages 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 didnt 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."
www.nicisgirls.com advertises the sexual services of Alex Dane, Alicia Rio, Anna Malle, Brittany Andrews, Brittany O'Connell, C.J. Bennet, Davia Ardell, Dolly Golden (blonde French girl), Jeanna Fine (who's flipped tricks for years), Julia Parton (who sings in a church choir on Sundays), Kelly Ashton, Leanna Hart, Marilyn Star, Melanie Stone, Minka, Missy (she and her husband deny she's available but she remains on the site despite their protests), Misty Rain, Mocha, Nici Sterling, Sunset Thomas, Tammi Ann.
A source: "Luke, I am amazed at how stupid people can be. With the Hollywood Vice having their own internet unit searching for child pornography on the net, with the New Times LA article, put two and two together. They are probably daily l-keford.com viewers. Nicigirls.com has to be the most irresponsible idea I've seen on the internet."
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Luke has long wanted to be on top of Wicked star Jenna Jameson. Web site www.talkingblue.com places him in the dominant missionary position that he has long desired. Luke does, however, take issue with a few things in their report.
Particularly this paragraph: "Ford has frequently justified his behavior by stating that although he is compelled to watch pornography, he often "hates" it, and that his site and upcoming book A HISTORY OF X (Prometheus Press) act as a warning to others of its evils."
I have not been compelled to watch pornography and have never claimed that. I consumer very little in the seven years before I started reporting on the industry, though in my teens I often looked at mens magazines like Penthouse. I have never said that pornography is evil. I have never taken it on as a mission to warn others of its evils. Rather, I have often said that the way most people view the porn industry is essentially correct and they have little need to read my book unless they are fascinated by the subject.
My forthcoming book A HISTORY OF X is the best book in print on the history of X. It is also the only book in print on the history of X. The primary reason I began writing on porn was that I saw a professional opportunity, i.e., that the standard of porn journalism was so low and amateurish even I could make a contribution.
I do often hate porn, and I often like it and I often experience feelings that travel that range. I view porn as soul pollution. I don't yet support criminalizing it, but I am no advocate of increasing its reach into polite society. I think the New York mayor is on the right track. NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) with the sex shops, but over the internet and through the mail is ok by me.
Oh, a couple of months ago you www.talkingblue.com took me to task for printing a scurrilous rumor that Christy Canyon was divorcing her husband Jeremy Stone, Adam Film World editor. She is indeed divorcing Stone as I reported and is currently dating a leading porn webmaster.
Do I take pride in reporting this? No. I generally leave people's breakups alone until they are out of them (unless they don't mind).
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Luke F-rd announces the winners of the "Lukeys" for the Best Porn of 1998:
Best Film - Models
Best Video - The Lecher 2
Best New Starlet - Inari Vachs
Male Performer of the Year - Mr. Marcus
Female Performer of the Year - Jill Kelly
Director of the Year - John Leslie
Email: "The Lukeys should have nothing to do with "Best of" anything. Rather, they should be given for various reasons that only have to do with any sort of controversy they sparked (which in turn played well on your site). Example: A Lukey for Nude World Order for its role in prompting the most-written-about "witchhunt for Luke's source," on both yours and Gene's sites. How about a special Lukey for Alec Metro for biting part of Nancy Vee's privates off? you get the idea...I'm sure you could come up with many more flicks and/or performers and/or industry players who deserve Lukeys for varous and assorted reasons. A Chuck Martino Lukey for the most lies (according to Chuck) spoken about him?"
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www.eyemag.com is profiling Europe's leading porn director ever - Lasse Braun. In response to questions about his dad, Lasse's son Axel Braun sent the magazine this:
1) Yes, I am Lasse's son. I was born (like many others...) from an adulterous relationship between my mom and Alberto in 1966, and I was raised by my mom and her husband, a wealthy, loving man that I thought was my father until the age of 16.
Lasse's version is that (since my mom had been diagnosed sterile after losing a child in 1959) he had no idea she was pregnant when he left her (he fled from Europe because of something like seventeen warrants for his arrest for pornography). Then, when he came back to Italy in 1980, a common friend he got in touch with told him that my mom had his baby fourteen years earlier. Eager to see me (since I was the only male son he knew of) he called up my mom and they set up a "casual encounter" in a park in Milan. Inevitably, I was immediately fascinated by his eccentric looks, immense culture and sharp intelligence, and I have to say that when I looked in his eyes for the first time I felt some kind of weird connection. He started sending me postcards from New York, Rio, Hawaii, Barbados and all the most beautiful places in the world, though he and my mom agreed that it wasn't time for me to know the truth. The truth came out two years later, during a major argument between me and my mom. The same night she called him up in Los Angeles, and two days later he was in Milan, where we got to know each other and had a great time.
My mom always told me the same version of the story, though a couple of years ago while vacationing in Italy I run into that common friend that in 1980 told Alberto he had a fourteen years-old son. She told me (swearing on her husband's grave) that Alberto knew my mom was pregnant and just left to avoid any responsibility.
Even if this is probably
the truth, I honestly don't hate him for that. As I told you I grew
up surrounded by love, affection and commodities. I went to the best
private schools, I learned to speak fluently four languages, and I had
a great childhood that I cherish very much. My father (even if not
biologically, he was my dad) was the sweetest person on earth, and when
he passed away in 1995 he left an immense void in my life that I still
can't overcome and I probably never will. He knew I was not his son,
but he didn't know that I knew. How I wish I had the strength to tell
him "Dad, I know the truth, and this makes me love you even more, because
it takes a very special human being to do all that you did for me knowing
that you didn't have to."
Unfortunately, being genetically different meant also thinking different, and I was never able to speak to him freely about all the things I had in my head. He was an honest, hard working man who made a career and became general manager of an American-owned Italian wine company, while I was a rebellious soul who loved to read the classics, watch movies and just wanted to travel, have fun and get girls. Lots of girls. As you see, meeting Alberto meant being able to share many interests, even though not growing up with him was probably a blessing.
2) I took a semester of film school in Milan, Italy, and I always was (and still am) a movie-freak.There, I learned the basics about directing, screenwriting and editing, but it wasn't nearly as valuable as the hands-on experience that I got from being around Lasse. I am not ashamed to openly admit that I admire him as a director, as well as I have no problem in saying that I despise him as a person. I didn't plan to become a porn-director, though in my teens I "practiced" some hard-core 8 mm shooting with various girlfriends (most of whom were unaware of the camera...), but that was just for fun. Yet, from a very early age I had been very sexual (while my family was kind of sex-repressive), and when I met Lasse it became clear why... Did he help me in becoming a porn-director? Well, of course all I know about the business I owe to him, and being introduced by him as his son for years opened a lot of doors, but when it came the time to actually start doing something on my own he tried in every way to talk me out of it. Fear of competition? Come on, Lasse...are you so insecure? Fear of confusion between us? I don't think so, I am 32 and I don't have a beard...Afraid that I could take away business from you? Well, first of all after the two features that I shot for VCA, I started financing my productions by myself, and besides, I think that any adult-company that had to choose between me and "the legendary father of modern pornography" would still bet on you, don't you think?
3) The G-spot issue is something that really freaks me out. It is completely my thing. I am the one who told him about it. Sure, everybody knows what the G-spot is, but the fact that every woman can ejaculate and have a third kind of orgasm is something that I had been researching since I was sixteen. I practiced it with almost every girl I've been with (trust me, I had quite a few...), and the response was 100% positive. In the summer of 1995, Lasse came to Milan and rented from my mom her apartment for a few months, while she was vacationing by the beach in Tuscany. There, we started to brainstorm about how to put together a deal with an Italian distributor for a series of 12 videos to be shot in the US.
We thought that something involving the G-spot and female ejaculation, associated to his "glorious" name, would be very interesting and profitable. So he started writing this book, in the form of a dialogue between him and an imaginary assistant who represented the perfect woman. All the dialogues are his, while all that is written about the G-Spot is something that I completely dictated him. It is a very interesting book, but the point is that he doesn't know how to make girls ejaculate. The plan was that if we had been able to close the deal, I would have had to use my hands in close-ups and pretend they were his. Believe me, I had no problem with that, it was a good opportunity to do business and spend time in America. Unfortunately, after Lasse showed him a close-up fragment of a video that I shot privately with a girlfriend of mine, the distributor wanted to see a full-screen test with no cuts, so we hired an Italian actress and he tried to make her squirt. It was a failure and the deal didn't go through. Still, we shot for him a video in Budapest, called MasterSex (distributed in the US by Raw Silk), with no female ejaculation whatsoever, but Lasse went terribly overbudget and the guy figured out it was cheaper to keep buying rights for a few thousand dollars than producing something so expensive. So, to cut a long story short, there is no "Lasse Braun's research", there's just Lasse talking to people about something he doesn't have a clue about.
4) Yes, the parting was not on good terms. Besides the fact that I worked for free (when I was supposed to get paid) as a CO-producer, CO-screenwriter and cameraman for the movie Uncontrollable Lust that he shot for VCA in 1997 (see the end credits), not only I still have to get some $2,000 that I gave him to pay his hotel, but he also tried to f--- me with an editing deal he put together for my two VCA titles Sexcape and The Book of Lust . I knew he was making a profit off the deal (he told me, and that was fine with me, since I was saving money anyway), but I thought he was making only $1,000 ($500 per movie). When the editing started to be a total mess (the editor was not letting me stay there as agreed, he was always late and he was slow as hell) I freaked out. That's when I found out that they were basically working for free and Lasse was keeping the most of the money. That was the end, even though after things got straightened out with the editing bay and they got more money, he still wanted from me the $1,000, threatening not to sign the model release for the scene he did for me in The Book of Lust (he also wanted me to change the name Lasse Braun in the acting credits, and replace it with Bob Sortino). After he got his money, he wrote me a certified letter saying that he didn't want me to use the name Axel Braun in the two VCA movies...poor pathetic asshole.
Of course I did use MY NAME, and I will keep using it. He told me he was going to take me to court for that...yeah, right! Go ahead, Lasse!!! Why is it taking you so long? It's been 16 months since that certified letter...
Now, frankly Sam I don't really care about making a fuss or starting a stupid war against him. I enjoy my life, produce my things, and I have other interests and other sources of income besides porn. But when I read that he says that I am an impostor and that I was his daughter's boyfriend and s--- like that, it makes me sick. The only way he has to try to embarrass me is blatantly lying, while I just have to tell the truth...
Are we gonna reconcile? I wish I could have him back the way he was and spend nights laughing and watching soccer games, without jealousy and backstabbing... but it is very unlikely that this will ever happen. By the way, Lasse, congratulations for finally being inducted in the AVN Hall of Fame, you really deserved it and I am truthfully happy for you. I had the tickets for the Awards Show in Vegas, but at the last moment I decided not to come so that I wouldn't ruin your night. You still are a better director than me and you will probably always be...but I already am a much better person.
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"The newer Assman videos use women that look strung out," writes Mr. Owsley on RAME. "I've seen many German flicks where the women were definitely junkies, some Max Steiner flicks use strung out women and the list goes on. If the sex scene is extreme but there's not much money to be paid, then about the only people you're going to find that will do it are junkies, homeless folks, etc.
"Tom Byron is the only good thing Extreme has going for them. All of Byron's tapes are good and several are great. But like you, I avoid Black's tapes like the plague. Van Damage was getting a little better."
Jokey Smurf: " I have followed those guys ( Van, Tommy, & Rob ) since they were with Elegant Angel. Back then, even Rob wasn't as carried away with the special effects stuff. They were all alot more tame.
"When they all went to Extreme Video, it seems like the hired some editor who is on acid or something. All their work changed. Don't get me wrong though, the difference between Rob's work, and Tommy's & Van's is noticable. Tom & Van pay alot of attention to the females body and glamorize it ( each of Tom's scenes starts by showing the girl posing nude and spreading that lovely asshole ) and Van pays alot of attention to close up, especially oral and anal. However Rob, focuses more on the far away action. He kind of ruins it in the fact that he keeps turning the camera at different angels, changing the light coloring, and adding grainy special effects." (RAME = rec.arts.movies.erotica newsgroup)
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Mike
Ross says California strip clubs have pledged over $100,00 to his
Adult Entertainment Industry Education Foundation (AEIEF) at meetings
across the state last week. Among those attending the Southern California
meeting: John Gray (Spearmint Rhino), Harry Mohney (DeJa Vu),
Mike Galardi (Cheetah's), Mark Kernes (AVN journalist), Kat Sunlove,
(FSC lobbyist), Bill Margold, and attorneys George Mull, John Weston
and Steve Jamison.
"Clubs across the country are mad as hell over governmental intrusions and are organizing to professionally fight back," says Ross. "For the last couple of years, a handful of clubs have helped us defeat bad legislation, but it's obvious to owners and other legal professionals that supporting our activities is important."
Mike Ross helped the sex industry introduce a bill into the California legislature - AB 1446. "Introduced as a 'spot bill,' it states that employers can not request or require employees to "strip". Conversely, you can have Independent Contractors Strip."
Luke received this suggestion: "I heard a reference to B porn stars and A porn stars, if such a classification exist, would be nice to see how the porn stars and name are classified and listed. This would help my movie buying. If this doesn't exist be a first and create. For example classification could go like this and definition:
A Star - Contract Girl,
Make top dollar for scene, Looks good, hot video
sales, cover girl, i.e. Jenna, Tiffany Mynx, Heather Hunter.
B Star - Solid performer, Good Looks, non-contract, i.e. Stryc-9, Inari,
Houston, Dominique Simone, Christy Canyon, Shay Sweet.
C Star - Still Hanging in the business, Will do for a scene, Will perform
any act to get payed, Gang band specialist, anal specialist. i.e. Nyrobi
Knight, Annabel Chong, Jordan Lee.
D Star - Scarred Up - Stretch Marks - Tattooed to hell , Fluffer at
best, No Teeth, Need to move on to another business, Can't talk, Asshole
three inches in diameter from the anals and fisting i.e about 75 percent
of
the girls I see today in the videos
"Think about it, It
would add some pizzazz to your site and probably piss
off folks (stars and producers) at you more than they are. Don't put
the
guys in there because they are just meat and I haven't seen one worth
a s---
and would make buy a video of them."
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Ben Siegel writes: "It will be porn starlet gridlock the last week in March at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Carson City (775-246-9901), with three of them there at the same time. Given how slow their business has been, it's hard to see how any of the girls will make much money.
Oral fave SUNSET THOMAS is there next week.
But after her, things get crowded. CHRISTINA ANGEL is back March 15-31 -- after a three-week bangaround just last month -- along with KATHY WILLETS. Then PORSCHE LYNN shows up March 24-April 4. I've never been with her, so she might be interesting. I thought she was very sexy during her heyday ten years ago. I haven't followed her subsequent bondage queen career that much. She's got to be pushing 40.
Voyager7 Surfin' the Peeps Again
Rodney Moore's new Working Girls #2 captured my attention, after swallowing my initial dead president, the cathode ray tube beamed a cum-swapping scene, I unfortunately only caught the last 10 seconds or so of, starring Heaven Leigh and another sweetheart of the rodeo.... they appeared to have a very swell time.....
Then Rodney has a very
good scene with Temptress as a sales clerk in a
clothing store. Somehow he gets Temptress to model a dress he is interested
in buying for his girlfriend. The perv quickly scams her out of the
dress, she gets in the Monica position and they go off to the races.
Very good, very well shot, wet, droolly BJ action as Rodney and Temptress
have a funny pervy banter while they go through their aerobic exercises.
Minus in the scene....
Temptress has a very long and full hood, but no
attempt is made to gap her sparkplug, or even blow-off the fine whitish
ash that accumulates on the tip of a finely tuned 12 cylinder engine
as Temptress'. I mean her hood is longer than Riley's ever most coveted
1976 Chevy Caprice, so I beseech thee directors, please let us PL-wannabe-shade-treee-mechanics
see under her hood.
The only time I've been able to see her ample morsel is in a scene with
Alex Sanders in Hot Rods/Bods #3, as he did her in a 63 Corvette Sting
Ray, (I wonder who cost more in that scene, the rental of Temptress
versus the Vette?). To this date, I believe it is only Avalon(?) in
White Panty Chronicles #2, who lifted up Temptress' hood and overhauled
her as a well experienced professional mechanic should, in the vein
of the Tappet Brothers..... but I digress...
Pluses of the scene....
I could not hear all of the sound due to the
crappy sound in the confessional I was in, but Rodney was running a
pretty good line on Temptress the sales clerk, and vice versa.
Temptress gives Rodney a very good, but all too short FOOTJOB!
and finally, after Rodney fills her mouth, Temptress carries on a
sales conversation with him, with a mouth full of cum. :-)
No condoms in this scene,
but I did notice condoms being used in some
of the other scenes, by both Rodney and Red....
Missy's New Rack....
On another channel was Wicked's Desperate Measures, I saw the intro
to
the vid, while flipping and noticed Torris' piranha-toothed Missy :-)
was a lead actress. I've been seeking out Missy vids since hearing
last summer that she got some inflatables... and in this vid I got to
see 'em for the first time.
Evidently, in the vid,
she is some hooker with a heart of gold or
whatever as plotted. First scene, she gives a guy a BJ in a car, no
boob-see in this scene, I guess the cheapskate didn't pay her the 5
extra dollars to be able to see and play with her radio knobs while
getting a BJ, though I could tell she was enhanced. I filed the info,
then flipped and waited till her rotation came back.
Time to focus....She
had a scene with
super-fly-Herschel-one-pop-I'm-back-in-the-saddle-again-Savage.
What we fans must endure.... condoms were abused in this scene.
She gets nekked and
her rack ain't too bad. I would say a very full
C-cup, with nipples in exactly the right spot and lined up properly.
They have a slight droop to them, so they don't look as unseemly and
cantelopie, as say Shayla LaVeaux's whom also is in the video. Other
than shooting cum on the tits,
Mr.-sexual-dynamo-hey-but-I'm-an-actor-Savage didn't bother to fondle
the tits, chew on em, etc., so I couldn't rate a pliability factor.
Not a bad chest job, as we know, we've seen worse.