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Tuesday, March 9, 1999

Kid Vegas phoned Tuesday at 4:50 PM to respond to criticism from director Jim Gunn. "That guy is just mad at me because three months ago [CES] he was in a suite with me at my dad's casino in Las Vegas, before my dad sold it. I was really wasted on drugs and I had these ten girls at my place... They were all wearing tight dresses and were sucking my dick and I was taking turns with them. They blindfolded me. I was kicking back by the jacuzzi and they were f---ing and sucking me and taking turns, and saying 'guess who?'

"I felt some teeth and I got scared and looked down and guess who I saw?"

Luke: "Jim Gunn?"

Kid Vegas: "I saw his ass on his knees. He f---ing pulled off a wig and he was on his knees in a dress sucking me. I freaked out and called my body guards and I f---ing picked up the phone and f---ing kicked his face and they dragged him out and I told them to beat his ass, so they threw him out in the back alley with a f---ing ripped dress and he left the hotel.

"Yeah, Jim was trying to suck my dick. He had my dick in his hand and he was f---ing teething it. What the f---?"

Luke: "I hate that."

Kid: "I think that's why he's making lesbian movies now. His movies suck. If he keeps it up, I'm going to come out there [Florida] in my dad's Lear jet and bring my posse and embarrass the hell out of him.

"I've got Johnny Toxic, my buddy, here right now and we're tripping out that he talked this crap about me on the internet."

Johnny: "I say hello to all my fans."

Luke: "Gene Ross reported that Johnny went to jail for three days."

Kid Vegas: "He went to the West Valley police station for some bulls---. He didn't go to jail... And he didn't get f---ed up the ass.

"We're straight. Tell that Jim Gunn to shut his mouth and if he wants to cross-dress again, to do it on film and I'll put him in one of my bi lines. I've got a new movie coming out after The Whoremaster. It's called Viva Kid Vegas.

"And I'm going on tour with Johnny Toxic next week. Legend is paying for it. And my dad is giving me some money to support the band. Tucson, Arizona on March 16. Austin, Texas on the 17th and Phoenix on the 19th."

Jim Gunn: "Ha ha, Kid Vegas is really funny [sarcasm]. I never met the guy in my life, for all I know he doesn't even exist except as a practical joke on your web site. Luke you should know better than to believe that ridiculous story he made up about me and him together in Las Vegas. What a preposterous bunch of crap. Puh-lease. Of course he is just trying to be outrageous and nothing more.

"Luke, if you were having second thoughts about your involvement in porn journalism, then I don't blame you. When you publish a completely implausible tall tale like that, that even you had to know was made up on the spot, then I agree that you should reconsider what you are up to career wise. After all you've got to figure that Gene Ross would have recognized an unbelievable joke for what it is or at least call me to verify such nonsense."

Kid Vegas retorts: "Do not deny the truth "JIM GUNN", you can't squirmish way outta this one. I have 24 witnesses & will name everyone of them, even have each one of them tell the press their side if needed. You will buy my movies like everyone, when they are released so you can see true real porn, & because you know you worship the ground I walk on. You will also get a lesson called "Porn 202", new updated learning. I hope when you watch you will learn to make money selling & improving your crap. My camera men know all about lighting, white balance, etc., do not comment till you see, assholes!! Peace, shut that mouth Jim Gunn cuzz you know who's the man."

Mike South: "Luke, I think you should shut these [Gen-X]  idiots down, hell they haven't even done anything in the biz... Kid's comments about  Jim Gunn comments are totally ridiculous. Tell those little f---s to shut up and produce a product."

Videoe Xcitement on Toxic Deliveries 13:

Mike South Says:

Ok ya’ll have heard me go on about camerawork and lighting right? Here is a prime example of what not to do. The idiot working this camera has no idea what the "color balance" control does, so when the scenes move from outdoors to indoors or from indoors to outdoors the people turn purple and green respectively, quality lighting is non existant. Add to that the special effects on the lame pop shots and you can file this one with Gum Me Bare 4.

Ginger Says:

Johnny Toxic makes Jef Hickey look like prince f---ing charming, he is way over tattooed with what appears to be Naugahyde pants and a cropped, bleached "do". I wonder how many little naugas they killed to get all that hyde. Anyway the only thing "toxic" about Johnny is probably his blood, it certainly is "anemic" but I guess Johnny Anemic would have been a little too much truth in advertising. He picks up a passably cute girl at a dumpster and does her back at the house. Next a delivery guy delivers a sports bag to Johnny’s house, and in the bag is Elexa. There’s a couple more scenes here but don’t waste your time with this s---. There’s nothing toxic about it, If the energy in this video could be harnessed there wouldn’t be enough to power a piss ant’s motorcycle half way around a BB.

Paulina Says:

Somebody should tell Mr. Anemic here that the Billy Idol look went out with the eighties. This is seriously bad s---. Read your camera manuals, learn to operate the controls, don’t get f---ed up for a day or two and try again. Better yet, DON’T. By the way, if that thing is twelve inches long you must be measuring from somewhere behind your asshole.

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Joy King writes from www.wickedweb.com: "Hustler Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. will bring Wicked Pictures exclusive adult superstarsMissy, Stephanie Swift, Brad Armstrong and Mickey G. to their superstore on March 12th & 13th to sign autographs and give away cool Wicked prizes. The first 100 people thru the door both nights will receive a Wicked/Hustler collector travel mug. Everyone who comes down will get a raffle ticket good for a chance to win t-shirts, magazines, fanny packs and more! One lucky fan each night will win the Grand Prize - a trip for two to the set of a Wicked Pictures movie.

"Wicked exclusive Jonathan Morgan just completed a new movie with contract perfomers Missy and Mickey G. The new project by writer Martin Brimmer is an unusual love story with twists and turns and an unpredictable ending.Tentatively titled "Tell Me What You Want", the movie is scheduled for release in May.

"More contract player news: Brad Armstrong has finished production on a new Serenity picture titled, "The Kissing Game" The story, which was written by Armstrong (who, by the way, had more AVN Best Screenplay nominations than any one else in the category) is an action drama and profiles the story of a couple of con artists. The movie also stars Missy, Randy Spears and Herschel Savage.

"Upcoming Wicked productions: Brad Armstrong will direct Stephanie Swift at the end of the month in "Sex Safari", a vignette style all sex picture. Dates are still being disussed for a new Jenna movie. Early indications are for an early April shoot date."

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Ginger Lynn has signed a three picture deal with VCA, with the option to do three more shows. Michael Ninn, Antonio Passolini and Jane Hamilton will each direct a feature starring Lynn, and each one will contain at least three sex scenes with Ginger. "We don't rip people off the way the other companies do," says VCA owner Russ Hampshire. Lynn's first shoot takes place on the 21st and 22nd of March.

Critic Pat Riley: "So what are these over-the-hill women going to do after their comeback videos? Spread them for the Bogas brothers in Older And Anal #34? The World's Oldest Gangbang? I can't believe the gays can absorb too many more fag hags and Hartley has "The Politically Correct Way To Suck A Dick" market sewn up. I know: assistants to M-i-s-s Sharon Mitchell in giving HIV tests!"

Free Speech Coalition (porn's trade group) President Gloria Leonard responds to Luke's Ethics Rankings: "To further infuriate me, you have the unmitigated chutzpah to give Mike Ross four stars and Kat Sunlove only one. Ross is slime and I daresay, you haven't a clue as to what either has or has not accomplished in this business. I suppose I should be pleased that I'm not even on the list!

"In response to Pat Riley's rant about Ginger Lynn's comeback, I suppose he's either too young or too senile to recall that Ginger was indeed the last "legend" that this industry produced. And does he really believe that a woman who is 30ish is too old for sex. I suppose all those over 40, over
50 mags and videos are all purchased by one guy in Biloxi??? His ageism is just as ignorant as racism! And Sharon Mitchell is a treasure who's legacy will be remembered long after all the Tiffanys, Jasmines and Nikkis' silicone has melted!"

Nic Cramer's shot two pornos on film today - Poseur and Flesh For Fantasy starring Katja Kean (did Michael Coxx), Rebecca Lord, Linda Thoren (who did an awesome scene with Ian Daniels and Brian Surewood) Alysin Chains, and Maya Divine.

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Sin City Director Michael Raven shoots Principle of Lust this weekend starring his wife Sydney Steele, and new girls Lisa Bell (a tall blonde from France) Maya Divine, and a couple of asians.

"David [Sturman] gives Chuck [Martino] the money and Chuck disperses the checks, and that's the extent of his role. He was the executive producer [of Michael's productions]... He no longer casts... We had some creative differences. Chuck and I are still friends and we refer talent to each other. He's still with Sin City and he has to be involved to a degree because he writes the checks."

Luke: "Is he still head of production at Sin City?"

Michael: "I don't know. You'd have to ask David [Sturman] that question. I submit my budgets to Chuck who submits them to David and David approves or disapproves through Chuck."

A swinger from Dallas, Raven entered porn at the end of 1997. "I've always been a big fan of porno. I was working on music videos and saw that there was probably a market for me to put my twist on things."

Michael began shooting for Sin City in the summer of 1998 and went under contract for the 50-employee company in November. "I try to tell more of a story, and for the shows not story-driven, I try to create beautiful visuals. I've always been a fan of the visuals of Andrew Blake and Michael Ninn. I'm trying to merge nice visuals and hot sex. It is easier said than done. It seems that you often have to give up one to get the other. You either have hot sex but average visuals or cool visuals and blah sex. Someone in there is a happy medium where you can accomplish both and I'm still looking for that.

"I gravitate to quick [editing] cuts, an MTV style...

"A director can have some control over a sex scene but its heat really depends on the people cast. If they're into each other, you're usually going to have a hot scene. I don't script the sex scenes. I script the scenarios and the setups."

Raven's best features include Rage (Sin City), Penitent Flesh (Fallen Angel), and White Rabbit (Sin City) which appears in a week.

Michael produces two features a month for Sin City and one gonzo every other month. He recruits talent at strip clubs and restaurants across the country. "I'm not afraid to approach anybody. Sometimes they take the bait and talk with me... It's a number game." Raven's leading discoveries include his busty brunette wife Sydney Steele (with Bryan since 1990), Julie Meadows and Maya Divine.

"I've watched these movies for years and always had these images in my mind about what went on on a set... I bought the same misconceptions [about porn] that most people have. That it is a big party. I was pleasantly surprised by how business-like it is. People work hard and play hard."

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Fred Buccolini: "I looked at geneross.com yesterday. While his site is cleaner and he uses appropriate attributions such as "according to" and "allegedly," his site is stale. Somehow it lacks the outlaw quality that is l-keford.com.

"Porn has always had an "outlaw" quality at its core, and l-keford.com has this up-from-the-bootstraps outlaw quality; they both share a sauciness, a rebellion, a bond."

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Luke Gets Boned

Replying to Kendra's stepmom "Kelly Jade," Kendra Jade and John Bowen said Tuesday morning that John did not mastermind the Jerry Springer - Kendra Jade liason in a hotel. Pictures of the escapade wound up in the London tabloid News of the World.

"It was a mutual decision by everyone involved," said Jade. "John said I did not have to go through with it. I felt under tremendous pressure at the time from the people from the newspapers who'd flown in from England. I would like clear everything up but it would take hours to relate the whole story and I've forgotten many of the details. I was under great stress at the time."

"Back in December,"  Kendra said by phone from the East Coast, "I ran my mouth and said many things that weren't true. I was in a bad mood. And I think everyone is trying to jump on the bandwagon. I'm partially to blame for all these people saying John did this and John did that..."

John, who just tested HIV negative, says: "I signed an agreement with Springer's attorneys to not divulge the story. They just want it to go away. But there's one piece of information that I can give you... It all started one day when Kendra said to me that when she finished her career in porno, she wanted to write a book. She wanted to be able to look back on all the people she met... I said, 'nobody will believe you if you don't have photographs. You need to have pictures taken of all the famous people you come into contact with... I suggested to her that I had a friend who was papparazi... And if we could get a photo of her and Jerry Springer coming out of a restaurant together, it would establish that she knew him and validate a chapter in her book...'

"I introduced the two of them [Kendra and Kelly] to a paparrazi friend of mine... When Jerry was coming to Hollywood for his movie..."

Kendra: "He was calling me 20 times a day."

John: "I might suggest to you that Kendra is Gypsy Rose Jade."

Kendra: "What does that mean?"

John: "That you're the daughter of an extremely manipulative stage mother but I wouldn't say things like that."

Kendra: "I only remember bits and pieces from that time [Springer scandal]."

John: "We were having lots of sex then and that cleared her brain."

Kendra: "All these stories going around... But I guess if everybody shut up, you [Luke] wouldn't have a job."

John: "This mythical payoff that I was supposed to have had from Jerry Springer. If anyone were to ask Springer or his lawyers, they would find out that there was no such thing as payoff.

"When all of this went down, Kendra became Queen of the Media. She was Monica Lewinsky. We had people planted outside my house and the studios... We had detectives chasing her. It was insane. She had a tremendous flurry of paid newspaper, TV and radio articles. She made a lot of money from personal appearances. Kelly wanted half of everything. Kelly was on Kendra's case every day. We [Kendra and John] invented the story that I was coming up with the money and paying Kendra's bills to justify not having to tell Kelly where the money was coming from..."

Luke finds that talking to the charming Brit rascal Bone resembles getting a blowjob. John knows how to push all my buttons, giving it to me long and hard then soft and sweet until I climax with florid sticky prose all over my site.

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Chloe, AVN's Female Performer of the Year 1999 and a director for VCA Xplicit, writes: "I find all this Gen-X controversy amusing. I was named (by none other but Details) the "first Generation XXX porn star" in the Dec. 1998 issue, and I still haven't really figured it out, but I do have an idea about why they would name me that. I think it has something to do with being "hard-core REAL". No politics, no lies, no faking, no bulls---. Also, it may have something to do with combining music in with the sex, to try to make a MTV-style hardcore sex video, if you will. My first movie that I directed "Chloe's What Makes You Cum?!!" is my attempt at making a sex video that appeals to my generation...the Gen-Xers. I did my own music and editing, and just tried new things...especially in editing. I hope the sex meets up with everyone's standards, but it is geared to appeal to a younger generation, as its the younger generation that will be watching more porn in the years to come, if we give them something they want to see."

Pat Riley: "Matt Zane at least contributes good looking young chickies who
know their function in life."

Director Jim Gunn, of www.jimgunn.com, writes: "Hype is the key word here. Does anybody really care about who's Gen-X and who's an old fart, as long as the movies they make are hot? These guys are all trying to outdo each other and make a name for themselves on sheer nerve. I mean, isn't it silly- a bunch of young punk blowhards trying to see who's cooler than the other by virtue of who can throw out more stream of conciousness catch phrases and talk more s--- than the other. "Back in the day" (that's old school talk for you young punks) we called big talking, showboating, trend jumping, 'I'm cooler than you', big-obvious-brand-name-tag-fashion wearing, loudmouths like this "poseurs" and I see no reason the moniker wouldn't apply today. "I was 23 years old when I produced my first adult movie seven years ago and I saw no reason to trade on some artificial hype and nonsense just to keep my name out there. I prefer to let the product speak for itself.

"Does anyone really care about his ugly mug, band, or lifestyle? It's hard to tell who's more in love with themself, Matt, Al Borda, or one of the new "Kids" on the block. How about making a good movie first and let that be your calling card rather than trying to impress us with your shock value bravado and "too cool for this world" tough talk?"

Mad Jack: " I don't know if this "Kid Vegas" is for real, but since I live in
Vegas I decided to check up on the "store" he claims to own. There were
two, and they both sell nothing but toddler clothing. Now my question
is, does this guy also make movies with his customers? With the way he
brags about using dope and women, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. It
children like him that bring heat down on all of us."

Vegas Vic writes on the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica (RAME): "I just watched Vivid's much hyped new release, "Dethroned", starring Alex Taylor. For those of you who are unfamiliar with her story, she won the Miss New Hampshire pagent in 1992 (as Adriana Molinari). When the sponsors found out that Adriana was dancing to pay the bills, they stripped her of the title. Adriana went on to become Alex Taylor, Penthouse centerfold, and has since posed for numerous spreads in magazines.

"I had low expectations from this video, after all, it's a Vivid release. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. Alex is in 3 scenes ( a b/g, g/g, and b/g/g). She only does b/g with her real life lover, but unlike so many others, this guy is well hung and knows how to f---. Alex is not shy about slapping his dick in her face and talking dirty. She is very vocal during her sex scenes, and she loves to talk dirty. Alex also displays some deep throat talent that comes close to rivaling Jeanna Fine and Bobbie Bliss. She's not shy about taking a load to the face either, although Paul "Cecil B. DeMille" Thomas dropped the ball in the b/g/g scene. Alex finishes off her boyfriend while he is lying on his back, which is the worst conceivable position for a facial. Nevertheless, she makes the best of it, taking his load in her mouth and on her lips, then smearing in on her face. I would recommend this tape, even to those of you who despise Vivid, because Alex surpasses the passive, clock watching performances that we've come to know and abhor from Vivid."