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Friday, March 19, 1999

Houston 500: "Gabor, who in his heyday was best known as being porno's lookalike for Burt Reynolds, still is a dead ringer for the Cannonball Run star - that is, a dead ringer for Reynolds if Reynolds didn't have a plastic surgeon. Despite the deterioration of his physical appearance, Gabor still plays a Casanova with buffoonish effect, and while seeing him in full narcissistic glory, I kept holding back the laughter thinking of one woman I know telling me of Gabor's recent failed attempts at trying to seduce her." Gabor does not know which woman Sterling refers to.

A swinger and a porn performer for almost 16 years, Sasha, an intelligent, elegant and multi-lingual gentleman, writes on the porn industry for Scandinavian sex magazines. He recently filed on the Houston 500 and published an interview with Laurie Holmes, whom he f---ed on camera for a forthcoming video.

A birthday party was held Thursday night for veteran porner Paul Wisner, owner of Gourmet and Parliament News. Wisner took over Parliament News around 1974 from Milton Luros with money from godfather Reuben Sturman, the true owner of Parliament. Wisner has been rumored to be in financial trouble. Reuben's son David came down to LA for the Wisner party.

Luke stopped by Van Nuys Superior Court Friday morning to pay a $77 traffic ticket for speeding away from AVN last month. Luke found no updates to such porno cases as Brooke Ashley vs Hardcore TV and the Tom Byron Lawsuit.

Bianca Trump goes to her plastic surgeon tomorrow to fix her crooked breast. Bianca appeared on a February 3rd taping of the Jenny Jones Show Too Beautiful to Get a Date. "[T]he show was a flop," Bianca writes on her web site www.biancatrump.com. "Chicago has no love for a woman who is intelligent and beautiful that wants to meet a man that meets her 32 requirements in life. My thighs seem to take precedence over anything else. To bad I'm not a weak feeble minded woman that turned to crack to meet Chicago's standards."

Bianca is available for escorting. "I will be taking select advance appointments in the South Florida Tri County area (Dade, Broward, Palm Beach). Or, you can arrange to have me travel to you," she writes on her website www.biancatrump.com

"If I am traveling out of the tri-county area, you provide airfare and personal accommodations for some private time payable up front. Plus a minimum of a 4 hour booking payable upon arrival. I will no longer be available in Dallas on the 20th SORRY!

"When I am available outside my area I post it so PLEASE do not email me asking me when I will be in your area. When I know you will know.

"Escorting rates are as follows: It is strictly cash basis, $500 per hour, $3500 for 8 hours (Day Rate), no credit cards accepted.

"Please do not email me asking me ridiculous questions like "Is this full service", "Will you be as passionate as you are in the movies","Do I have to use protection", "Does this include Greek". I am in no way going to risk breaking the law answering these type of questions. I am no different than any other escort. Most of the same rules apply. If you don't know what it is about maybe you shouldn't be calling. Also, there are plenty of free picture on this site, so, NO I will not send you more.

"Serious Inquires Only! Leave a detailed message for the date your inquiring
about on my voice mail 954-721-8401 or email me at biancatrump@biancatrump.com."

Fox Files, a yuppie version of 60 minutes, profiles ex-porn stars including Linda Lovelace and Sharon Mitchell Thursday, 3/25, at 9PM. Luke F-rd also appears. The award winning VCA documentary on John Holmes, Wadd, plays at the New Egyptian Theatre at 6712 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood, next Thursday at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $7 and are available at the door.

KBeech shooter "Mad Jack" writes from Las Vegas: "I'm about fed up with those broke-dick assholes over at Mondo. It seems like they have guys coming out of the woodwork to take pot-shots at Mila. Talking all this s--- is uncalled for. Had they been up front about what they wanted her to do, and just maybe PAID HER WHAT SHE'S WORTH, I have no doubt that she would have been there ON TIME and ready to give them the performance of her life. She is about as far from being a prima donna as you can get in this biz. Since she signed her deal with DangerBoy, she still lived up to her prior commitment of shooting the fourth volume in my series. Something I think a lot of others would have blown off for self promotion. I am absolutely certain that drugs and alcohol ARE NOT a part of her life(but I'm not so sure about the Mondo crew). If these pricks at Mondo ever get their s--- together enough to market a tape, they'll see what a mistake it was to
blow off their first, and best choice."

Director D. Wreck writes from Danger Boy Video: "I do mainstream TV and FEATURES and I really can't afford to be known in the adult industry... I've known Mila for nearly four years, she has always been a dear friend and will remain one forever...

"Last year she asked me to shoot some of her videos for her, but I was
busy doing the Academy Awards and prepping a feature film... This year
she snagged me!

"I've been a DP (not in your industry terms) Director of Photography for
twenty years and have shot everything you could imagine, from a sex
change operation to the Sandinista Rebels in Nicaragua.

"Today I completed three days of shooting the first installment of "MILA
QUEEN OF NASTY" for her new owned and operated label with Danger Boy Videos. Without patting myself on the back too hard, it's some of the best work both she and I have ever done... Actually the only work she and I have done together. But this stuff ROCKS !!! Some of the scenes
will blow your mind.

"Mila had this wonderful bevy of young, little "first timers" (Candy,
Viagrra, Mara, Trisha) getting tossed-up by herself and Dave Hardman,
John Strong and Earl Slate. Some of the shots I got were amazing, Mila
squirting down Viagrra's throat at the same time as John. Mara taking
eggs out of Mila's ass with her tongue. Candy sucking cum out of Mila's
cunt while Dave is f---ing her "Rose Colon".

"The great part about this video is that they let me use my crew and
allowed me to shoot it on Betacam, so it looks terrific. Even though
some of my crew were tripping when she [Mila] squirted all over my
$8,000 lens and then licked it off while I was rolling.

"Mila is the BOMB !!! She wrecked these little girls and some of them
liked it and may even be back for more... Although, when it's your
first movie and you do it with Mila, it's all down hill from there.
s---, I may even do another one for her..."

Email: "I love porn. My particular fetish is blow-jobs, and the money shot. Why is it that the porn producers are getting so extreme (spitting, pissing, and a2m) yet they don't give us "real" in-the-mouth cum swallowing? Surely if they can get some babe to start sucking a cock after it has been pulled out of her asshole, they could pay her a few extra bucks to gulp the load down!"

Martin Brimmer replies to www.geneross.com: "Geez, all of a sudden, according to Gene Ross in his online musings today, I am "Martin Brimmer of Luke F-rd website fame." Luke, I wish I could give you credit for launching my career but I made my bones in this business when you were banging cheerleaders. By the way I was told today that Playboy was absolutely thrilled with DOUBLE FEATURE and Jonathan Morgan and I are gearing up to put together the third installment of the comedic trilogy soon."

Luke to Martin: "You ungrateful bastard. I made you and don't forget that I can unmake you. You might never eat lunch in this town again."

Italian stallion Rocco Siffredi stars in the film "Romance" showing Friday night at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan, New York. Several cast members of the movie were disturbed when they found out, after they contracted for the movie, that "European pornography star" Rocco Siffredi was cast.

VCA owner Russ Hampshire wants consumer advocate Mike Ross to substantiate his charges that the porn trade group, the Free Speech Coalition, engages in price fixing. Hampshire resigned from the FSC three weeks ago. His employee Jane Hamilton remains on the board along with Mark Kernes of AVN, the trade magazine's legal correspondent.

"How can the Free Speech Coalition control prices when most manufacturers are not members?" asks Russ. If Ross has some ideas, Russ would be willing to cut him in a piece of the action.

Hampshire donates office space and $1000 a month to the FSC. Deja Vu owner Harry Mohney also sends in $1000 month as well as funding much of Mike Ross's lobbying. For over a year, Hampshire has also funded much of the salary of FSC executive director Jeffrey Douglas, who makes much of his money serving as the personal lawyer (on call 24 hours a day) of Lenny Friedlander, owner of New Beginnings.

Russ says he needs to read l-keford.com to keep up with Mike Ross for the Sacramento Jew no longer faxes him updates. Ross and Hampshire have frequently in the past put aside their differences and worked together. Russ used to lobby for the FSC in Sacramento until he was replaced by Spectator publisher Kat Sunlove.

Mike Ross wrote on RAME 3/16 that AVN is a propaganda tool of the porn industry. "There should be no question.... as in ZERO QUESTION ... about AVN's role in the "porn industry"..... Are they a propoganda tool? YOU ARE DAMN RIGHT THEY ARE, and its expressed in a comment Paul made to me a couple of months ago about not printing stories about what the AEIEF [Mike's porn lobbying group] is doing.... Basically he said.... "I am carrying the FSC line... straight and narrow." Well, that political line is controlled by VCA and the other companies who not only advertise in their magazine, but have created a board that is set to control prices on the streets as well as prices during filming.... Which leads to this.... is AVN an industry propoganda tool or a political propoganda tool? In my mind, they are both, and as such, the question becomes, if they are, does anyone outside of the industry read it or even care?"

FSC President Gloria Leonard replies: "Mike Ross is self-aggrandizing, self-absorbed and more often than not, someone who shoots from the hip with little or totally incorrect information. Yes, we are a trade association, much like thousands of others in this country looking out for their own industries. Not a goddamned thing wrong, illegal or unethical about that! I've been on the Board of Directors (this time) for about a year-and-a-half and video pricing has NEVER, EVER been discussed by our organization. That is not our purpose, contrary to the speculation put forth by both Luke and Ross. I guess it is just beyond the grasp of some cretinous cynics that there are adult industry people genuinely trying to accomplish worthwhile goals and am always puzzled by those who work feverishly at trying to bring it down. There are a couple of centuries' worth of experience present at our Board Meetings and that Luke, is truly history!"

From www.geneross.com:

Mike Ross "Perturbed" at Luke F-rd

Lobbyist Mike Ross says he was extremely "perturbed" by remarks
attributed to him on Luke F-rd's website yesterday.

Ross: "I'm really pissed at the stories Luke wrote. That story, no matter what you think of it, is a compilation of stuff that was put together over a 3-6 month period [It was cut and pasted in its entirety from a post of Mike's to RAME]. What he's been doing is collecting stories and saving them and then doing cut-and-paste type of stuff. Some of the stuff that Luke is talking about [anti-trust and collusion] is not projecting me properly. I think the Free Speech board knows exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not worried that they're price fixing. What I'm concerned about is that the way they're marching down the road, that could lead to price-fixing and anti-trust. And that's the problem that you have to watch out for with any trade organization. That's really important. The reality is that Luke leaves that stuff out, and I felt what Luke did was unfair."

Contrary to what Mike Ross says on the Luke F-rd l-keford.com
today about not getting publicity from AVN on his lobbying group,
Mark Kernes says that he's running an article on Ross' group in the
May issue of AVN.

"Ross was aware of it," Kernes says. "He gave me the interview. I
don't know if I told him May, but I told him I had to talk to him by a
certain time to get it in the next issue. Not only that, but he's [Ross]
known for at least two months, where I said to him, 'If you got news
you think AVN should print, you get it to me. If I think it's worthy of
printing, I'll print it.' Most of the stuff he [Ross] gives is self-serving
propaganda but every once in awhile there is a news story."

A source close to the Free Speech Coalition has never heard any
discussion on videotape "price fixing" nor any discussion on fixing
the costs of adult video shoots which Ross also alludes to.

Amazingly, Luke F-rd takes credit yesterday for "breaking" a story
which he received as a press release. Ford says The National
Enquirer is "all over" the story linking Jill Kelly and Bruce Willis. Ford
received the same release as did AVN. AVN didn't run the story,
simply, because there's a strong suspicion that it may not be entirely
true.

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VCA director Jane Hamilton shoots Ginger Lynn's first comeback video next week. "They [Marilyn Chambers and Ginger Lynn] have great names and I think I can sell a lot of product," says VCA owner Russ Hampshire.

tankinatl writes on RAME: "I read that Vivid had gross sales of $ 40 Million last year. I have noticed that the Vivid titles do not sell or rent particulary well at my local video stores here in Atlanta. I suspect that a large portion of Vivid's sales come from cable, as well as the sales/rentals in
stores that carry mostly mainstream titles but have a small adult
section. What I would like to know is roughly how many units of an
average title Vivid sells.

"I have gathered from various websites that for the average gonzo video
typically sells 4-6,000 copies in its hardcore form, which would mean
that gross sales are between $40K-$60K on a typical release. I would
like to see if Vivid's "kinder, gentler" style actually produces more
unit sales from both cable and hardcore versions, than say, an Evil or
Elegant Angel release.

"Also, if anyone knows how many units on average a particular contract
girl will sell, for example, the average Janine title sells X units,and the average Kobe Tai title sell Y units, I would greatly appreciate it. I am a b-school student, and I have a sneaky suspicion that the porn industry has a more stable return on investment than mainstream hollywood. Unfortunately, with the expection of Metro, porn companies are not public, and while AVN lists the top selling titles, it does not provide per unit sales, or gross domestic revenue, so it is difficult to compare the "bankability" of the top porn stars ROI and risk variance with that of mainstream hollywood stars, where information on Gross boxoffice sales, and production costs are more
readily available."

GoodDrX writes on RAME: "The current state of porn is just plain awful. The late winter snowblast the other day kept my clinic shut, so I wound up renting some of the latest videos to kill the day. In case I had any doubts about porn's golden age being over, those doubts were certainly
obliterated, not only by these recent rentals, but by most of the stuff I've seen off and on over the last couple of years.

"For one thing, most of the girls in porn these days are just plain skanky! How many more tattoos and tongue jewelry the size of baseballs are we going to have to stomach? How many more cocaine addict anorexic bodies with pontoon tits glued on will we be treated to? How much more horrible hairstyles or heroin chic Frankenstein monster makeup jobs before I go soft forever? It used to be, even as late as the early 1990's, that the porn girls had fine natural bodies, attractive makeup and hair, and actually looked like women! And most important, they had the aura of seeming like, even if for only a moment, that they didn't belong in porn but yet were there anyway, f---ing and sucking like maniacs! Go back even further to the 1970's, and you'll see porn queens who looked enough like the kinds of girls I used to pick up in singles bars. I'll take Abigail Clayton, Lysa Thatcher, Serena, Ginger Lynn, Kristara Barrington, Taijia Rae, Desiree Cousteau, Annette Haven, or practically any of the girls of the old school I can't think of right now over the current crop that's overly populated with women who'd make me want to flee in terror if I saw them out in public.

"Case in point: one of the tapes I rented was a volume of "Shut Up And
Blow Me," which I only rented because it had Leeanna Heart in it, someone who I think is  the exception to what seems to be the rule now among porn queens. But even she couldn't save this tape, which amounts to a parade of fours and fives taking anemic loads one after the other. And Leeanna was looking a lot bonier than in earlier tapes. Is no one safe?

"Another rental was the latest "Gang Bang Girl." Here's a series that has gone to hell in a handbasket. What started out with Trixy Tyler's hypnotizing smile over every cock she drained and matured through Francesca Le's Superbowl Sunday coating in a warehouse has now been Robert Blackified. First we get Inari Vachs, who has a great body all right, but do we really need to see her piss through her panties? I guess the auteurs down at porn central have grown tired of ass to mouth and spitting, so now we'll push the supposedly erotic boundary by including pissing. Boys, if I wanted to see a woman wet herself, I'd hide my Aunt Agnes' Depends, and I wouldn't get hard then either. And tocomplete the Robert Blackization of the series, we get assorted camera angles and cutways from Inari's cute face plastered with cum, followed by a second scene where a pair of beanpole skanks are slurping cum from the seat of a port-a-potty. Enough!

"I know people from the porn biz read this board. I have a question: Have
you forgotten how to make porn? Have you forgotten how to make women
alluring and sexy, or are you only interested in them as human toilets? I have some suggestions for you business honchos out there, for whatever they're worth.

1. Bring Back Good Porn Music!  Rock and roll has always been about raunch, and every one of us out here has had rock music playing while banging somone at some point in our lives. Rock music goes with sex. I want to hear those bad ZZ Top imitators, the sleaze Rock, the high school prom bands that populated soundtracks in the1970's and 1980's, and do it NOW. I'm sick of just hearing the background noise to your trailer park office where you're shooting the latest crack addict off the bus who'll blow you for a hundred bucks.

2. Normal Hair and Makeup! I want to see hair color that looks natural, I want to see makeup that enhances a woman's natural beauty, not a mess that looks like it was put there by a school for the blind playing with fingerpaints.

3. Just Sex And Fantasy, Please! No more of this spitting, pissing, and other nonsense. Three words: cute girls f---ing. Is this too complicated? Could they f--- in fantasy settings that some of us out here actually have? Pretty please? And don't throw that Vivid sheeit at me boys. There's got to be a happy medium between the supposed classiness of the upscale porn that is always boring and the hardcore where cum is flying off the walls.

"In lieu of these simple suggestions, I plan to hunt around for a video
store that stocks the older titles, to see if there's anything I never saw or
have no memory of seeing. There's no way I'm shelling out any more money for the new crop of Gen X-pierced-tattooed garbage, or for Ron Jeremy f---ing deaf girls or their grandmothers, though I would rent a tape where Ron f---ed a running lawnmower, and it shaved his back after mulching his dick. Yeah boys, I'm in that kind of mood. You'd be too after shoveling snow!"

Many fans find a solution to these problems with Private. But not Prometheus Books critic Pat Riley: "Private may indeed provide a greater number of girls with surgically-naive bodies but in gaining that limited advantage, which you can obtain elsewhere from (say) Ed's tapes, you collect a whole load of other problems which hardly accord with either this posters desire to see girls like the girls of the early nineties/eighties, girls who "didn't belong there", or female-friendly porn (for the couples aspect).

Private is for the raincoater who likes to see:

- almost exclusively anal sex,

- girls totally devoid of personality--IOW warm love dolls,

- sex scenes which provide no feeling for either participant,

- a substitute of a travelogue and costumes for any real story,

- a girl who seems more interested in the camera lens than in the male
and who stares vacantly in that direction while her mouth and/or other
bodily parts are engaged in copulation,

- scenes where Max Hardcore-like the girls are told they are or are
referred to as whores and sluts (you may miss this if you don't speak
the language or they override the natural sounds but the body language
is unmistakable)

- a majority of multiple male/one female scenes

"Are you seriously contending that these attributes make the girls the
equivalent of Abigail Clayton, Annette Haven, or Ginger Lynn in her
prime (names mentioned by Dr. X)? Or that the typical Private scenario
is one in which any of these women would have appeared? Or that some
female is going to identify with Orslova Vandahovitch (a made up name)
getting it in all holes from Jean-Yves LeCastel, Frank Gunn, and John
Walton?"

In response to posts on RAME about the lack of quality porn, Mike South wrote: "You are in desperate need of Mike South's Southern Belles 2000, insist that your store order it immediately."

Dsl1999@aol.com replied: "NOT! Hey, look, for a long time now I have reading follow-up posts by Mike South bragging about how his videos are the antidote to much of the complaints in today's pornos (his videos have intimate kissing, ntaural women, blah, blah, blah). In response to his recommendations of his Georgia Peach series, I actually rented his videos and have found them to be a very poor man's version of Buttman and Seymore Butts' tapes. In other words, his videos suck."

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Fans feel frustrated by the lack of information, including online, about European porn.

Porn journalist Clifford Cremer (cccp@zap.A2000.nl) writes from the Netherlands: "The European porn industry is scattered throughout all those European countries, without a single uniting factor. In the US there's AVN, Fox and all those other video mags. In Europe there's only Hot Video from France (at least this is the only quality mag to speak of). This is in French - so the rest of Europe won't buy or read it. European porn stars are certainly not household names here. It's funny, but only some males have some form of 'mainstream' fame (Christophe Clark, Rocco). Names like Nikki Andersson or Silvia Saint are only known to porn consumers.

"The European porn industry very much operates in the shadows of society. Everybody knows they're there, still few people would admit buying, renting or watching porn. This has always been so, and always will be, I'm afraid. I also get frustrated about the lack of information about European stars and productions. My guess is that an adventurous entrepreneur would be succesfull in launching something of a European AVN. As a matter of fact I don't understand why the AVN is not launching an European edition. It would sell well, that's for sure.

"For Americans the porn industry has to be an extension of Hollywood. So big names, big stars and a lot of glamour. Most US porn stars are blond and big breasted (sillicone of course). I guess this is America's favourite fantasy: an unreachable blond babe with a (semi-)perfect body. In Europe however porn is different. European's like 'the girl next door' in their fantasies. So no glitter and glamour, only 'real-looking' girls who you could easily meet in the streets. The consequence of this is that there are no 'big names'. Best example of this is the superb series of Steve Perry a.k.a. Ben Dover. Compare any Ben Dover production with any, for example, Shane or Zane production. The differences are obvious. Personally I loved the Buttman movies. Untill Ben Dover came along that is."

Vivid girl Lori Michaels of www.lorilive.com writes:

I'm setting up a page for those of you who would like to have phone sex
with my friend Kim. She was my next door neighbor when I was young and I just recently told her about my site. She got such a kick out of it that she
has been on my chat room lately and says she loves it. Many times when I'm
on the road I don't have the time to do the Lori Phone. Kim said that she
would love do to phone sex and I can guarantee that it would be a much
better than the phone sex you pay a rediculous price for from the phone sex
companies. She is really good at it, and just like me, it will really be her
when you talk to her. I'll put up a signup page for her by next week and the
price will be $2.95 a minute. She knows a lot of stories about me, so I
think you will enjoy yourself. Ask her about when we used to play doctor
after school everyday.

I think it is so great to find someone to help me with things that I've know
all my life and can trust. We will also be doing a web cam together when we
see each other in April.

I'll be heading home next sunday so if your on I-35 north of Austin wave at
me as I go by. I have a week home at my place in Oklahoma and then I leave Sunday for LA. I'll be there for 12 days making two more feature films for Vivid. I'm quite excited because they finally agreed to let me do one the
way I want. Every scene will be natural with no stopping for poses or fake
scenes. It will just happen naturally and hopefully be lots of kissing and
passion. (the way I like it) I will be doing a total of eight boy-girl
scenes in one film, and will be on a subject that we all fantasize about.

I have one more appearance at Sugars in May and then I'll spend the summer at home working on my web site. You'll be able to spend the summer with me in the woods of Oklahoma and maybe on a few trips or two. I recently saw the Truman Story and loved it. I turned around and played it a second time right after I played it the first time. It gave me a terrific idea, the Lori Story. hehe I'll be live or making video daily and try to include you in the day to day happenings in my life. Some will be live and some on video, but it will all be current.

I've had a lot of fans say they would like to see me on the Howard Stern
show, so I called them today to see if we could set something up. I'll let
you know how it turns out. I would love to get Howard to do a nude lotion
rubdown on me (maybe behind a screen) and then play it on the web cam.