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Tuesday, March 30, 1999

AVN's Directors of the Decade

The April 1999 Adult Video News is out, featuring "Directors of the Decade" on the cover: Andrew Blake (picture obscured), John Leslie, John Stagliano, Candida Royalle, Michael Ninn (picture obscured), Paul Thomas, and Gregory Dark. Royalle is a particularly ludicrous choice. She's contributed as much to porn as Luke F-rd, i.e., nothing but a few sound bites.

Royalle publishes a self-righteous letter to AVN, complaining that she was not brought on stage during the four hour long awards show to receive AVN's first ever Safe Sex award. "You passed up an important opportunity to set an example for the rest of the industry and to provide motivation to those who are not using safe sex in their movies... I'm proud to have been the first adult filmmaker to recognize the need for not only protecting the health and lives of the people who work for me, but aslo for setting an example to the viewers as well."

Richard Pacheco contributes a guest column on his induction into AVN's Hall of Fame. He claims that "a Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame and should... fill you with a well-earned sense of pride and accomplishment." He remembers the bad old days of the Adult Film Association. "Oldtimers... would collect their Hall of Fame trophies and then stand at the podium awaiting the customary quiet to give their heartfelt speeches. It would never come. The disrespect of many in the audience would manifest in animated table conversation, loud laughter, and the clinging and clanging of dining as these poor souls would try to address the crowd at this pinnacle moment of their careers, if not their lives."

If getting into a porn hall of fame is the pinnacle moment of someone's career, let alone life, then they have lived a pathetic life.

Pacheco claims that the porn industry is capable of "exhibiting the greatest nobility and the absolute crudiness of humanity." What great nobility and when?

According to Richard, "A society that so downgrades its sexual media to the point where amateurs and criminals become the chief contributors gets what it deserves."

Just in case you thought porn was on the up-andup, read page 54's discussion of the end of Tight Ends. Bobby Rinaldi, former president of Tight Ends, told AVN, "Me and my partner, Romy, were buying the company from somebody - I don't want to name the guy - and what happened was we'd been paying him, and he decided that wasn't enough for him..." AVN couldn't identify the real owner of the now defunct company.

Extreme Associates is back advertising in AVN after their good showing at the 1999 AVN Awards. Page 109 features a "Rest In Peace" ad for Tiffany Mynx, "Asswoman," who served with Extreme from 2/9/98 to 2/2/99.

Kudos to AVN for forthright coverage on page 134 of a sensitive story about Allison Roberts, the wife of AVN Vice President Darren Roberts. www.geneross.com covered the story 3/5/99. A former porn star (used the name Brooke Fields) and then exec with VCA, Roberts has started her own talent agency Touch Me 2.

Jim South told AVN: "I get this screaming phone call from someone
named Allison Sandoval [Roberts] about a Czech girl. I couldn't get
a word in edgewise. She drowned me out. She told me about how
her girls are a step or two above mine. Then she gets into how her
husband is partners with Paul Fishbein on a number of different
deals. Is there a 'Darrien' Roberts over there?" [It's Darren Roberts,
and Roberts says, "No comment" about the business deals.
Fishbein says Roberts is partners in the IA 2000 venture.]

South: "Then she [Allison Roberts] starts blaming me for an
incident supposedly involving her and Bobby Hollander years ago
where Hollander was supposed to have offered her drugs. I ask her,
'you're blaming me for this?' Allison claims I repped her at the time,
that she was talent."

Publisher Paul Fishbein calls Rocco Ravishes Prague "the best sex tape I've seen in a year." AVN gives Director James DiGiorgio's Shooting Sex three out of five stars, questioning the need for another behind-the-scenes feature. April Raine gives a ludicrously good review to the atrocious book Porn King, "John Holmes' autobriography reads like any good novel: Once you pick it up, you can't put it down. From an abusive and strict Christian upbringing, to the depths of drugg addiction, prostitution and murder, Porn King gives us all the fixin's for a very appetizing read."

Here are highlights of the directors discussion which should soon be available in full on www.avn.com:

John Leslie on Paul Thomas: "He does the mildest stuff...of all of us, and he's the kinkiest of all of us."

Paul Thomas: "I don't consider the fans because I don't have any contact with them. I make movies for the clients... It starts with my own image, but then it does get pulled back, twisted and turned in different forms by Germany, Playboy and the hardcore market..."

Michael Ninn: "I'm more of a technical person than a sexual person, and it's always been formula for me... I know the shots that work... I'm an editor above everything."

Stagliano, who considers himself a filmmaker, discusses the artistry of shooting anal sex: "There's an aesthetic... As an artist, I would like to find - or creator - you know, to bring to people."

In Luke's view, Gregory Dark is the leading filmmaker of the bunch, perhaps only, while John Leslie and John Stagliano are the superior pornographers. Ninn makes visually stunning (for porn) productions that are not erotic. Paul Thomas ranks as the most financially savvy producer.

Check out Mikey Ramone's article on John Bone's newfound enthusiasm for mxing porn and wrestling for the primary reason Luke dislikes AVN: Its gushing, uncritical stance. Ramone accepts John's mantra about wrestling fans as an untapped audience for porn [Forty million people. Predominantly 18 to 35. Male Blue-collar worker.] and refuses to examine it. That's fine for a quickie article under a deadline, but a monthly magazine should do better. Most of the time, AVN's articles seem to accept the premises of its subjects, unless the subjects are in conflict with other porners. But unless there is inter-industry controversy, AVN rarely writes a negative word. Just positive piece after positive piece on porn girls, "directors," porn shops, etc.

AVN exemplifies trade journal "journalism." Outsiders who criticize the industry (be it Luke F-rd, Pat Riley, the Christian Right, Mike Ross, etc) get hammered. Insiders, like Kat Sunlove and Kylie Ireland, get kid glove treatment.

On page 234, Kylie Ireland, a married woman who sucks and f---s for a living on camera, is labeled an "internet icon." Author Ty Rayd tells us "Kylie is clearly committed to being at the forefront of Net advancement. And she isn't just talking the talk, she's walking the walk." Later, Rayd treats us to Kylie's views on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, as though we should go to performers like Ireland or pornographers like Flynt for wisdom.

Sunlove makes an important point on page 240: "In order to overcome the perception in the public mind of undesirable effects from adult businesses, it is imperative that we clean up our own house. Having been an "outlaw" industry for so many years, some of us fall prey to the outlaw attitude that it doesn't matter how we run our businesses, treat our employees or maintain our premises. The public views us with disdain anyway, these folks think, and nothing we can do will change that. So they ignore condoms carelessly discarded in the parking lot, post garish signs on their buildings' exteriors and condone drug use or other misbehavior by their staff or dancers. Thus the public perception becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: They think we're trash and we act like trash."

Blonde, Big Tits, Academic

Freddy Engels writes on RAME: "I have a subscription to the New Yorker, and, of course, eagerly devoured the article on academics in porn, hoping to gain some insights. Of course, I walked away being dissapointed. I'll make a couple of confessions: Number one: I went to Berkeley, so I know most of the people the article is talking about. I'm not surprised that our over-educated class can't come up with anything interesting to write about with regards to porn. Just look at the films that academics watch and use for their research: mainstream, high-gloss porn that basically sits rotting on the local video shelf. The stuff that people ACTUALLY see (and want to see), i.e., Rodney Moore, Max Hardcore, Dr, Fellatio, of course is not part of what academics study. In other words, academics remain clueless about what customers want and demand from current porn. Nina Hartley? Annie Sprinkle? I mean, come on guys, when was the last time you popped a video by these two performers into your VCR. They are played out, catering to anal hippies who are too afraid to admit that they love seeing pretty girls' faces covered with gooey cum.

"Now here comes the second confession, a story I am certain you will enjoy (sorry for the digression away from porn). As I mentioned, I went to Berkeley, and years ago I was trapped in this hellhole aka "Introduction to Women in Contemporary Film". I had to take this class in order to fulfill a requirement. Typical nazi-feminist crap. One girl in class particularly caught my attention: a dirty blonde with huge, floppy tits. Now anybody who knows Freddy Engels knows that I am a huge connaisseur of huge, floppy hooters. Now, this chick was an avid feminist, always spouting crap about oppression and racism and sexism - the whole nine yards. I remember sitting in class hearing her go on and on, all the while being mesmerized by her enormous cleavage (it was a spring semester). (She looked a little bit like that huge-hootered Israeli chick, Nilli Willis). I spent hours fantasizing about driving my oiled boner between
her mounds, thenn popping my nuts all over her tits and face.

"I should also say that - while at Berkeley - I was a regular customer at various incall massage establishments, my favorite being the Golden Gypsy. Anyway, one night I went over there, hornier than a hedgehog, knocked, waited a few minutes -and, then, the door opens and who the f--- is standing there (next to four other girls)? Ms. Feminist Hooters! Of course I picked her and banged the s--- out of her, although she wouldn't let me cum on her face. Later, she tried to blackmail me by threatening to tell on me. Nothing ever came of it. Memorable event, I must say.

"Anyway, and back to the topic: A better article on porn can be found in an
earlier edition of the New Yorker, written by Janet Malcolm."

Adult TV Entertainment

Jop Jansen writes via Email: "Hi Luke, Saw you 20 minutes ago on Dutch TV-station SBS 6 (national TV), the program is called ATE (Adult TV Entertainment) by Kelly Holland. This episode was about XRCO. The text in the attached picture is a Dutch translation of: "Is everything you say a lie?" Also shown is male performer Tony Montana.

Luke talked this morning with Walter Behr, who's preparing to leave for the Cannes Film Festival. His Behr Entertainment produces and distributes television programs world-wide. They had a special in their catalog called "Porn in the U.S.A.". It was a documentary piece on the adult video industry which was sold in Australia, England, and the Netherlands.

This led to a contract out of the Netherlands for an entire series called "Adult Television Entertainment". It is like Entertainment Tonight, but for the adult video industry. It is different from the original documentary (Porn in the U.S.A.) in that it has become entertainment in a more traditional pornographic sense rather than a documentary with social commentary. The series has been very successful. Vivid director Kelly Holland has produced thirty-nine episodes to date, the ratings are spectacular and sales have followed in England, Australia, with pending sales in France, Italy and the U.S..

One significant hurdle that Behr Entertainment faces before making domestic sales is that the American cable industry is incestous, and adult entertainment totally dominated by Playboy (Vivid owns the one other channel - Spice Hot). Most of the cable companies like Playboy prefer to own their own programming rather than buy from outside producers.

Here's an excerpt from the www.adulttventertainment.com site by Kelly Holland: "The Sweetest Drunk Award" [at the XRCO show in early March] would have to go to director Bud Lee. He'd had a few too many margaritas and was picking up actresses, throwing them over his shoulder and heading off in the crowd, much to the amusement of girlfriend ANITA CANNIBAL."

Lee told the 3/99 AVN that he's "evolving... People who have come up against me in the past and have found me irritating, or an asshole, or feel that they've been abused by me... I want to them to know that for a long time I was an alcoholic; still am. I drank a lot... Alcohol killed all the pain of trying to work as hard as I could at a relationship for years [Hyapatia Lee and Asia Carrera], and failing... And I was an asshole to a lot of people. I treated a lot of people without the respect that I believe is due to all people. And I want to apologize, and tell them that I've grown up a lot, and I've done a lot of soul searching.

"The mistakes that I make now are made out of innocence and ignorance, instead of blatant acts of hostility or deception."

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Email: "I recognized [male performer] Frank Towers on the WB networks 'Change of Heart' television show. Weird, he was so demure, but really into himself and working out."

Porner Lynne L-patin, wife of Bruce Walker, writes: "In my teens and twenties I was either wildly promiscuous or (frustrated and celibate...), but at least spent a few years in a sub-culture which accepted it, so it was fun instead of guilt-laden.

"My porno has always been about things which are pleasurable to me, which I've personally done hundreds of times and which were always enjoyable for me and my partner. But I always make sure my performers are completely comfortable with what they are doing. For example, they all have the choice of doing anal, but not a one has ever said "sure, fine, let's" so until I find one who does, no anal. I ask all men, "Are you comfortable working with a condom?" There's plenty of guys out there who are and I'll hire them.

"Of course I love cum. What an adorable little gift! Six spurting cocks onto a receptive belly, perfectly manicured hands rubbing it up and down, onto breasts, lipsticked mouth licking an elegant finger iced in cum...Cum is wonderful, especially in slo mo!

"A woman's mouth is not a place to be aggressive with one's cock, and so many women are uncomfortable with a cock near their face, let alone at the "moment." One "Max Hardcore" encounter can traumatize a woman for life re oral sex! (Can traumatize her, period.)

"I'm enough of an exhibitionist to love performing and, under my current circumstances it would be the best way to have the safest casual sex possible, but I don't have the urge to be high maintenance right now and besides, the tattoos really do limit working for other people."

False Idols, Fame, and Destruction

A Review of WADD: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes

By Fred Buccolini

As a teenager in the mid-1970s, I used to take the RTD bus to Hollywood High School. It was a  rather bleak bus ride. Part of my ride was up Western Avenue, and included such world  renowned sights as The Projection Room, a run-down porn theater near Melrose Avenue. The Cinema Theater, another run-down porn theater near Santa Monica Boulevard. The Pussycat Theater, a more upscale porn theater near Sunset Blvd. This whole dreary process would repeat as I would usually end up walking west on Hollywood Boulevard all the way to school, since the bus system in Los Angeles sucks. I would walk past prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, Scientologists, and along the way pass the XX Theater, near Gower, an upscale porn theater; the Pussycat Theater near Las Palmas, indefinitely playing Deep Throat--4th year running. And in the process, I would think about sex, fame, disillusionment, and John C. Holmes.

John C. Holmes?

I would see his posters in front of every porn theater. John C Holmes, aka, Johnny Wadd. Action Hero! He was the Arnold Schwarzenegger of the porn world. And his monster cock drove me into a state of self-doubt, insecurity, and counseling.

I was 15 years old at the time. A few days previous, I had lurked behind the exit doors of the XX Theater, picked up a pair of discarded 3-D glasses, and waited for the sounds of a rusty locked door to burst open, and I furtively made my entrance. The movie was The Lollipop Girls in Hard Candy, in 3-D. Now, up till this time I had seen Andy Warhol's Dracula in 3-D but I had never seen a porn movie. Period.

I remember being nervous. I had to psych myself up into believing I was a six-foot-tall usher even though I was rather short. Once I made my entrance I remember facing another door, slightly askew on its hinges which only opened inward. Thus, I had to take my small fingers and try to pull the door open, which was actually easy, and then face an audience of raincoaters, and visualize that I was an employee, and saunter to the front of the theater and wait a few minutes before finding a seat.

It worked like a charm.

I am rather hazy about the movie. I recall a girl in pigtails jumping on a trampoline with the camera stationed beneath her. I definitely remember the appearance of John C. Holmes. I thought to myself, "Well, s---, I'm definitely better looking than this gangly looking geek."

Then he pulled out his dick. My mouth dropped open. I sunk in my seat and thought, "I'm a nobody. This guy is lucky. I wish I was this guy." Then the f---er shot me in the face. Not with a gun, but with his seed. My glasses went flying, and I ran out of the theater crying.

I ended up in Mr. Brophy's office. Not a trained psychologist but a high school career counselor.

I was a listless, mumbling, decrepit wreck of a human being. I could not concentrate on my studies, my grades were falling at a rapid rate and I wanted to know why life was so unfair.

"So, what's your problem," the bald man asked.

"Johnny Wadd is the problem," I said.

"Is this guy giving you problems, threatening you in any way?"

Yes," I said. "He threatened me with his dick!"

Twenty-three years later I walk down Hollywood Boulevard again. This time, not to see Mr. Brophy, but to attend a screening about the rise and fall of a man who caused me so much heartache as an insecure adolescent.

WADD: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes made its Los Angeles debut last Thursday evening at the state-of-the-art New Egyptian Theater, sponsored by American Cinematheque.

Clocking in at about two hours, this shot on video feature documentary is pretty damn good. Essentially a compilation of talking heads mixed with old film footage and stills of the late dickmiester, WADD is a video about mixed messages, about dysfunctional people, about building false idols, and murder.

In one sense, the movie pulls up the curtain just a little bit to reveal the faces belonging to the long forgotten people who have worked behind the scenes of '70s pornography. People like director Bob Chinn. Bob who? Yes, before x-rated directors Robert McCallum and Anthony Spinelli stole his thunder, Bob Chinn was the working man's porn director.

A handsome, subdued Asian, Chinn brings a calming presence to the overall seedy feel of WADD as it outlays its rather unctuous cast of players which include veteran porn director and cameraman Bob Vosse, manager Bill Amerson, and Sergeant Tom Blake, an L.A.Vice detective. They tell a story of the up and down, truth or consequences, wild ride that was the life of one John Curtis Estes, born on August 8, 1944, in Pickaway County, Ohio.

Much of the first hour dribbles out the story of Holmes' upbringing: raised by an abusive stepfather and fanatically religious Baptist mother, he joins the Signal Corps at 16 years of age, and three years later ends up in Los Angeles taking odd jobs until he meets Bill Amerson who brings him into the world of pornography which at this point is testing the boundaries of censorship.

Financed by the adult company VCA, WADD feels conflicted. As if the backers said: "We need to praise the King." And the researchers said: "The King is an incredibly flawed human being."

I must give credit to VCA for allowing the director Cass Paley and his editing crew the freedom to work this out amongst themselves. Originally running at over five hours in length, the video at least gives you a balance-- both positive and negative--of Holmes' trials and tribulations.

What is truly enjoyable about WADD is its goofy novelty. Pornophiles will get to see their favorite porn stars of yesteryear in the present day, and yes, everybody has gotten much older. Annette Haven, Aunt Peg, John Leslie, Sharon Mitchell, Richard Pacheco, all make brief appearances. Mitchell and Haven have fortunately been blessed with good genes and health, and look fantastic. Pacheco, handsomely middle-aged, looks incredibly like attorney Barry Sheck, of O.J. Simpson trial fame. Director Bobby Hollander, of Personal Touch fame, looks fuller in the face, healthier, and much more subdued than the hyperkinetic gaunt-like appearances of his earlier movies; unfortunately, probably due to time constraints, he makes only a brief appearance. Those left on the cutting room floor or who may not have agreed to be interviewed include Seka, Marilyn Chambers, Gloria Leonard, and Amber Lynn.

According to some of the players in this video, Holmes was a legend in his own time, a god of sorts. Conversely, others think Holmes was a pathological liar, a pimp and prostitute, a selfish egomaniacal user and manipulator.

Porn historians William Margold and Jim Holliday are definitely in the King's court.

But praising the myth is only part of WADD, as the latter half of this documentary reveals the downside of John Holmes' swoop into drugs, betrayal and evil. Through a mixture of footage from a 1981 documentary on John Holmes, through interviews with Detective Tom Lang and his partner Bob Souza, through interviews with Holmes' first wife, Sharon Holmes, and second wife Laurie Holmes, we get a negative portrait of a man who began to believe his own publicity; a man who committed unconscionable acts of betrayal, avarice, and potential murder. The word pathetic is an understatement.

We revisit the world of Eddie Nash, nightclub owner and alleged drug dealer. And the infamous house on Wonderland Avenue, where the brutal murders of four drug dealers took place with Holmes' alleged involvement. We see the actual videotaped file footage of the crime scene in all of its gore.

Things become bleaker when Holmes learns he is HIV positive and takes off with his wife to Italy to work on a x-rated movie with Ilona "Ciccolina" Staller, a future member of the Italian parliament.

Fortunately, nobody was infected by Holmes. But his irresponsibility does not make him a sympathetic character. When Bob Vosse closes the movie with the comment: "I loved the guy," I wanted to puke.

"He just figured that if they don't get it from me, or if they don't already have it, they're going to end up with it anyway," says Laurie Holmes. "He just figured that everybody in the business was going to die of AIDS anyway."

Well whoop-de-doo!

Since this is such a tragic story, the saving grace of WADD is its irreverent humor, much of it due to the appearance of Al Goldstein, who drops in and out of the film bringing levity in somber moments.

Boogie Nights director Paul Thomas Anderson chimes in during the first half of the movie to talk about his opinion of Holmes' acting ability. Surprisingly, he thought Holmes a good actor at times. This is juxtaposed with Chinn, who says Holmes was not much of an actor.

It got a huge laugh.

Despite the rather static feel of WADD, with the camera stationary, and the editing rather ungraceful, I highly recommend this video. If you could give a flying f--- about John Holmes or how Father Time has treated the porn stars of yesteryear, at least buy this video for its morality play, because it is a good one.

Special credit must be given here to associate producer Rodger Jacobs who interviewed the majority of the 40 some people originally featured in WADD. Somehow, during the Q & A after the screening, Mr. Paley forgot to thank Mr. Jacobs.

WADD has mainstream written all over it. With a few minor cuts--one being that of Holmes plowing some guy in the ass in a gay porn flick--this would easily fit well on PBS, A & E, or the Playboy Channel. This vid should clean up in the home video market. WADD recently won Best Feature Documentary at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

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Voyager7 writes on RAME: "I was at a strip club once, and as usual the girls were kinda shying away from me, must be the "leer". Finally, an "older type girl" took pity upon my soul and started to nudge $5 lapps out of me. I know Riley and Torris are shaking their heads in disbelief that I'd be getting lapps from a 40+ year old sweetie. Anyway, as she was beating me up, she was telling me her life story, the thrills her new parolee boyfriend was giving her, etc. Then, we started talking about "offspring", I think I made some reference about possibly wanting to aid her in creating more offspring....

"Anyway, she nudged the girl sitting on the guy's lapp next to me and introduced her as her 18 year old daughter! I almost died and went to heaven right then and there.... Of course I rolled off to mommy a few plot-lines I'd like to see her and daughter in, but, alas all I got was a big wide smile and a fair amount of physical abuse....."

Email from www.wickedweb.com: "Update on Serenity's trip to New Orleans: Wicked Pictures contract star Serenity was in New Orleans for an appearance at Adult Video on Bourbon Street when the police were called in because of the crowd size in and around the store. At one point, New Orleans mounted police had to be called in for back-up. Serenity fans remained calm through out the near riot and everyone went away happy with their souvenirs -- Serenity stayed late to accommodate her fans. Serenity films "The Shark: next week with Freddie Lincoln directing."

Free Speech Sucks My Dick

Luke possesses incontrovertible first-hand evidence that up to half of the members of the porn industry trade group, the Free Speech Coalition, experience homosexual tendencies.

During the 1999 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, Luke took several male members of the board to drinks. When they were thoroughly licquored up, I started stroking their thighs. And let me tell you, they were loving it. And I thought to myself, "they're so gay!"

After the AVN Awards, for instance, I took FSC executive director Jeffrey Douglas to drinks at the Rio. Convinced that he'd been eyeing me for years, I gently worked my hand inside his pants, and massaged his rapidly growing members. And as I stroked and stroked, I thought to myself, "he's so gay!" Eventually I got under the table, and took his two peni into my mouth, and as I sucked on him, I thought "he's so gay." Eventually Jeffrey blew thick juicy loads down my throat, and I knew that he was gay.

Tomorrow a shocking expose of how Phil Berman threw a pass at a leading company owner, causing the veteran porner to flee the Coalition.

Luke's therapist wants the world to know that because her client has not been laid for six weeks, he is not responsible for what he writes (the semen has backed up into his brain).

Email Luke the Scoop on the porn industry's pitchers and catchers. Preliminary results indicate that the Christians are on top, and the Jews are getting f---ed.

Pitchers?

Russ Hampshire, Rob Spallone, Jim South, James DiGiorgio, Max Hardcore, Gene Ross, Kat Sunlove, Mike Albo.

Catchers?

Luke F-rd, Steve Hirsch, Alex Katz, Paul Norman, Ed Powers, Steve Orenstein, Chris Mann, Howard Levine, Jeffrey Douglas, Paul Fishbein, Marc Wallice, John Bone, Phil Berman.

From www.geneross.com: Luke F-rd's bizarre "pitcher-catcher" categorizations of certain individuals in the adult business had Hustler's Mike Albo with this to say. [Ford gave Albo a "pitcher" designation.]

Albo: "He [Ford] used to call me all the time, like a couple of times a day. He'd ask me if I'd like to go to a movie with him, if I'd like to go to a Synagogue with him. Finally I called him up and just confronted him. 'Look, man, if you're gay, that's your thing. But I'm not. So quit asking me out on dates.' And he's going, 'I'm not gay, Mike, you should know better than that.' Then he stopped calling me which is good. Then this thing...really irks me. In my twisted mindset, I guess, if you're going to be gay, it's better to be a pitcher than a catcher. I think we should organize a pool and start taking bets to when Luke's actually going to commit suicide. I think it's coming. I give it like eight weeks from today. By his own hand. We got to get some other people and start putting some money into this.

"One of these days I'm going to run into him [Ford]. And when that day comes, we'll see how f---ing gay I am when I stomp him into unconsciousness. He should really know that that's coming. I really hate to call him and yell at him because I think he's jerking off and s---. He's really a whack job. f--- him."

Lap Dances For Legislators?

(By anonymous, written for Luke. FSC lobbyist Kat Sunlove chose to not respond.)

In the last couple of months, we have been watching the porners main industry spokespersons, the FSC, self destruct.

How can I say that? Simple, with Paul Fishbein off the board, Russell Hampshire "leaving for business and personal reasons," Sharon Mitchell not happy with their activities and Gregory Zeboray pulling his insurance support from them," we need to look for reasons and signs as to why they left and what's going on with them. For instance, did they all leave because they have no "faith" in the FSC's future? No faith in Jesus Christ as their personal savior? Because Mark Kernes tried to seduce them? Or is it because they have stopped caring about the free speech cause?

No matter what the answer to those Politics of Pornography questions is, the question that becomes foremost is, will people like Russell Hampshire still be their number one cheerleader and financial supporter? And if so, would this make Russ a catcher?

Additionally, we need to ask questions like, with the FSC going downhill, what is the role that they will play in the politics of pornography, and conversly, will role will Mistress Kat Sunlove be playing it, now that it appears that she has lost all of California's dance clubs to Michael Ross? And does this make Ross a catcher?

Well, as you read here last week, I'm [Luke] going to Sacramento even though I am not invited to find out answers to those and other pertinate politics of pornography questions. Once there, I plan to do several things, with following the stars around and finding out what they are thinking and how well they are being received by legislators and staff as one of my top priorities. Additionally, I will be attending the FSC press conference (thanks to special credentials), and spending time interviewing both Sunlove and AEIEF lobbyist Michael Ross so that we can compare and contrast them.

Finally, I will be attending Sunlove's "Free Speech Stripper Party" and asking the tough questions. The questions I expect to ask and have her answer will range from "Do you think that having industry leaders pay for their trip to Sacramento by lapdancing is the professional image the industry wants to portray?" Additionally, I expect Sunlove to answer the question "what do you think people will say when they find out that the stars are doing "lap dances for legislators?" Finally, we'll ask the hardest question and make her justify it - namely since she is the FSC's lobbyist, and this week is dedicated to FSC legislative promotions and fundraising, why is National Act sponsoring the event and receiving the money as the official charity listed to receive the money from door reciepts instead of either the FSC or someone needy charity? What make this even more interesting is this: isn't Sunlove already being paid as part of her job to hold this event? Finally, once she gets the money, what is she going to do with it donate it to charity or put it in her pocket?

A new porn bill in Sacramento, AB 1301, would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to conduct a study to determine whether there is any connection between pornography and sexual abuse, and to report its findings to the Legislature on or before August 31,
2000. This bill would also require the State Board of Equalization to make recommendations to the Legislature, on or before August 31, 2000, regarding an appropriate method to impose a tax upon pornography.

FSC lobbyist Kat Sunlove writes: "We are opposed to this bill as it is written. In general, we welcome studies if they are conducted in an impartial and scientific manner because those results virtually always favor our industry as not being related to criminal or other anti-social behavior. However, the author of this bill seems to have decided on the outcome of his study before it has even been done and his purpose in reviving the porn tax concept is clear. On that basis, we are opposed."

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Andrew Drake from www.planetpixis.com writes: "Missed you at the Hustler Hollywood on Thurs 3/25. Rebecca Lord looked wonderful as always! AVN photographers as well as Adam Film World were on hand. My good friend Ivan Nagy stopped in to chat awhile as well as some folks from Digital Sin, Ron (Christie Lakes EX) and his gorgeous daughter and even more gorgeous friend ( a Bo derek look-alike) stopped in as well. Even with th rain Rebecca didn't stop signing the entire night. We all got nice drunk before hand and then went up the block after for a little more."

Email: "One thing I've watched for but not seen mentioned more than once or twice on your website is Viagra and how it is used in porn. A few weeks back I was watching the beginning of "Asswoman in Wonderland". Rob Black was joking to Tom Byron about forgetting the Viagra at the office. This is where everyone is sitting around getting drunk before Tiffany Mynx goes into the bathroom and then to "wonderland". A "porn's eye-view" of "the blue pill" is currently absent and could be interesting. The Luciano story begs the question: If "the blue pill" works so well, why would Luciano/anybody still be injecting to get an erection? Enquiring minds want to know."

Luke: I'd guess that about half of the male performers use a stimulant of some sort, either Viagra or an injection.

Porn Chat

<MikeSouth> I heard from contacts in Houston that Lorissa mcComas [Penthouse Pet, B movie queen] is hooking.

[Lorissa writes to Luke: "I was informed by one of my fans that you posted that I was hooking in Houston. In case you want the truth,I will tell you that I have never been to Houston and that it is idiotic of anyone to make up and post such trash anywhere. I still live in the L.A. area and am doing very well without being a whore."]

<MissTrump> hooking is not a nice word

<MikeSouth> but every "escort" I know uses that word BT

<MissTrump> I dont care

<MissTrump> still not nice

<MissTrump> escorting will do

<MikeSouth> hell my best friend calls herself a whore.....

<Luke> the porn industry can suck my dick, i am sick of the way it abuses women.

<MikeSouth> Luke is getting more graphically outspoken in his old age

<BobBlec> Luke: the Fox Files story is over now ;)

<RogTPipe> And Pudg says Ive been in a bad mood

<Luke> just got back from my therapist and she reckons it is cause i have not been laid in 6 weeks.

<MikeSouth> come to one of my shoots...everyone has fun and I dont abuse anyone...cept maybe my camera guy

<lsb> Luke....you should be getting ready for Passover

<BobBlec> Luke: were you happy with the way that the Fox Files story turned out?

<Luke> Bob, I thought that I looked good. I don't give a f--- about the porn industry.

<JimGunn> Luke, you should be ashamed of yourself.

<MikeSouth> Luke...why the sudden harshness....not like you man

<Luke> I thought it was a trashy tabloid piece like the industry it was about.

<Luke> It reminded me of the 1930s exploitation films. Warning about sin while showing some.

<MikeSouth> porn and tabloid TV are made for each other

<JimGunn> Compare the suicide rate of Asutralian ex-patriots, or converts to Judaism- I bet they're higher than porn stars.

<MikeSouth> hey Luke you get any marraige proposals from that TV show yet?

<Luke> I can't even get laid.

<JimGunn> Trail of body bags my ass...

<BobBlec> Luke: ok, that makes sense... question is, though, why'd you do the story in the first place?

<MikeSouth> come on to Atl Luke...I'll get ya laid by a girl that will prolly even like you

<Luke> Bob, they asked me and I did it. I don't care that it is trash TV. It sells me and my book.

<PudgyM> It's amazing what the lack of an orgasm will make one do and say.

<JimGunn> Luke did you really screw 30 girls the year before you started this porn journalism kick like you say on your site? And if so how many ether rags did you go through that year? Ha ha.

<Luke> LSB, I spent 4 hrs cleaning up today for Pesak, then 90 mins in therapy and two hours washing. I'm booked for two seders. Can't wait.