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Friday, April 2, 1999

Luke hasn't had sex in six weeks and he feels jealous when he imagines how much sex the big porners get.

"AVN is afraid to talk against World Modeling and Pretty Girl International, and makes these cunt-anies companies like they are god," says talent agent Regan Senter, who's making a slow recovery from the flu.

On Monday evening, Mike South said in pornchat that Lorissa McCommas (Penthouse Pet and B movie actress) turned tricks in Houston. Luke quoted Mike on this site. 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."

www.geneross.com covers another screwup by Metro, who convinced Madelyn Knight to change her name to Madelyn Night because they believed "web pirates" had registered the internet domain name www.madelynknight.com. Those supposed pirates turned out to be Vivid Video who are willing to make a deal with Metro to let them have Knight's domain name.

Brooke Ashley Bukkake

Source: The Ashley thing: they [Notorious] called us about that shoot thinking that we were fans interested in jerking off on to her.
Source:    In the article they say that the guys got paid to do the shoot.
Luzdedos1:    You mean you're not fans interested in jerking off?
Luzdedos1:    lol
Source:    When they talked to me on the phone, they told us that we would have to pay them $100 bucks to attend the shoot.
Luzdedos1:    lol
Source:    I consider my jerking off a private, holistic, spiritual thing.
Luzdedos1:    :)
Luzdedos1:    I have not noticed you writing about it on your site
Source:    I guess AVN needed to alter that fact so that it didn't come across that the shoot was really a video documentary of an actual group act of prostitution.
Source:    Re: the Ashley shoot. During the phone call when they asked me to shell out the $100 bones to appear in their video, their was absolutely no mention of needing to bring along an AIDS test.
Luzdedos1:    hmm
Source:    At the time it struck me that Ashley might be attempting to finish herself off.
Source:    Which, I guess, would have tied in nicely with the whole Japanese theme of the shoot.
Source:    Porn hari kari.

Cherry Poppins Controversy

The 18-year old? girl, Cherry Poppins, in the middle of the Rob Spallone - Reb Sawitz  (talent agent at Pretty Girl International) feud, left this message on my answering service at 7:30 Wednesday night: "Rob said some really horrible things about Reb and these people that let me stay there for one night. I had no idea that you would print such things. Those are not true, they are rumors. They are very accusatory and very mean rumors. I really don't appreciate it and I'm sure neither do the people who live here. So please print that it is a rumor and nothing else."

Late Thursday night, director James DiGiorio phoned to back up Rob's version of events. Luke was off celebrating Passover from Wednesday evening to Thursday night.

Luke received this email: "What are you doing? Reb is suppose to be your friend. You know Reb better than that. Reb is a good person. He lets people into his home, out of the kindness of his heart. And what do they do? Lie out of their ass, and for what? I don't see how you can lisen to those liying bitches, and betray your friendship with Reb. I know Reb is a good
person, and he doesn't deserve this s--- from anyone."

Blake Leigh, husband of porn girl Heaven Leigh, writes: "Cherry Poppins has played some of the main players in porn today. She used each one of you to get her name all over the business. It seems alittle funny someone new in the business knew who to play and who not to. Maybe Luke should find out who she is working for or had her do this. She used Reb then talked s---
about him to Rob (and anyone that reads this site knows there is no love between them two) then you throw in Jim South and Luke and Gene Ross and Mr. Margold, I would say this little girl did her job. Or maybe she figured it all out like they say " bad publicity is better then no
publicity."

"I know Rob and Jim pretty good and would have to say they are telling the truth what she said to them that night. I guess the question to ask now is WHY? and who is this guy that showed up out of the blue and took her in. And now she is embarrassed for it all? Guys she played you all like a fiddle and is sitting back and watching it all unfold right here on www.l-keford.com and www.geneross.com."

Director James DiGiorgio wrote www.geneross.com: "None of these events were concocted or fabricated by Rob. I was there, and heard every word the girl said. I questioned her about it myself. There's no embellishment here, there's no added dialogue, it's exactly what the girl said. Anyone thinks I'm lying about this can go f--- themselves....anyone.

"Next, this girl, Cherry, was not stoned or f---ed up in any way that I could observe (in spite of what Mitch says). She seemed grateful to find a place to stay. The whole conversation took place because I had heard someone say she was homeless, and I asked her how she came to be that way. Her story began when she was fourteen (she's now 18), and left home because her father was showing her some very unfatherly attention. The story continued through dancing in Florida, hooking up with Brian Williams, ending up at Reb's, then Ron's, then Rob's. The details of her story are on both your's and Luke's site, and again, nothing is fabricated (in terms of what she actually said). Luke doesn't have the imagination to make this s--- up, your giving him too much credit when it's assumed that that's what he does.

"By the way, Reb. Get a f---ing grip with the Rob being a strapped, NY thug s---. If you knew anything at all about Rob, you'd know her prefers a bat (36oz Louisville Slugger), and sometimes a golf club--to a piece.

"And how'd this girl end up calling Bill Margold or Luke F-rd? She knows no one, and had no idea who Luke F-rd was/is during or after Rob's phone calls. I can't imagine her knowing who Bill Margold is---surely she didn't have his phone number. So who helped her out making those phone calls? And who has influenced her to recant her story? If this girl was lying, then I definitely want to hire her for some of my features...she's a pretty good actress! In fact, I got the impression she was surprised to hear that doing free scenes in exchange for a place to stay (s---hole or otherwise) was anything but normal for this biz. She seemed a bit bewildered that Rob and I would go off over a situation like that. She did seem a bit nervous about it, but we assured her that she was in no trouble or danger for telling us. But now that she's denying what she said, maybe someone has convinced her otherwise."

Luke F-rd called www.geneross.com to say that he was celebrating Passover yesterday, and, hence, didn't get back to us for comment on the Cherry Poppins story. "Happy Good Friday to you," Ford said. "I looked at the story [on geneross.com]. It was interesting."

Ford: "I think it's another typical Luke F-rd story where he takes a rant from someone, particularly Rob Spallone, and creates a big brouhaha. I think on my ethics' rankings, I've given Reb the highest ranking of any talent agent in the business. I think, compared to his peers, he's a man of integrity. That's my perception of him. I've always had a good relationship with him. I was sorry that he was upset. One think that caught my attention was a remark from Jerry [from the geneross story] where she said I don't like my family being attacked. I don't remember anyone attacking her children or grandchildren. Or even Jerry. Jerry's got a pretty good reputation, too, from what I understand. I think this is another example of how the porn industry attracts lost souls and self-destructive types."

Ford said he picked up a message from his voice mail Wednesday night from Cherry Poppins. "She said she didn't say any of the horrible things to Rob about Reb," Ford states. "And she said that she embarrassed about the horrible things Rob said about Reb."

Ford said he got home last night and talked to James DiGiorgio. "He called and said he was with Rob when Cherry spoke to him," Ford recalls. "Cherry was sitting next to Rob when Rob left the five angry messages on my answering machine [last] Friday night which started the whole thing. He's always giving me a lot of rants about Reb, and I've almost always refused to run them because I thought it was too over the top and unfair. This time I ran a few lines from one of his [Spallone's] phone calls.

"I thought it was pretty funny and fairly harmless," Ford added. "But then it totally mushroomed out of control. I didn't hear any protests from Cherry when Rob left those messages. James said he was also there when Cherry Poppins first came to Rob and told him her story. He basically backs up Rob's version but doesn't offer the colorful language that Rob does. I think you know more about this than I do."

Adult Video News has been covering the story on www.geneross.com:

Two days ago, nobody knew Cherry Poppins from Mary Poppins or poppin' fresh dough. Now she's the most talked-about girl in the adult business. Poppins is in the middle of a brouhaha involving Luke F-rd, agent Reb Sawitz and producer Rob Spallone. It's a tawdry tale of alleged squalor, sexual servitude and wild accusations on Ford's site that Sawitz was requiring Poppins to do sex scenes in exchange for lurid living conditions.

Rob Spallone: "Reb and this Luke F-rd are buddies. Luke don't print nothing about Reb, as much as I wanted him to, he never did."

Bill Margold: "Everything Luke's doing right now is simply competition with you, Gene. With the Spallone-South war out of the way, he's desperately in need of creating more trouble and finding new targets. I'm not altogether sure that Spallone feeds him a lot of that information. I think he makes it up on his own... I haven't read any of this stuff that Luke was putting up about supposed cockroaches. Quite frankly I don't care. The only time I deal with Luke is at Las Vegas. Neutral territory. My people tell me to stay away from him. I helped create the sonofabitch, and I wish I hadn't. But the problem is, in the giant analogy, he's too big to kill. Once upon a time, we could have crushed him. Now it's way too late. He'd have to destroy himself. The thing is the more attention you pay to him, the better off he gets. The only way he dries up and goes away is if you don't water him with insults.

"Then she [Poppins] called Ford Wednesday night and started blasting him. But that's feeding Ford's fever, basically. He'll twist it around. He has nothing to lose. He's absolutely unsueable. The thing is let him destroy himself. Hell, he's turned against himself already, anyway. He hates himself more than anyone else in this whole business. I give him nothing at this point because there's no reason to. He's a fad. He will burn out because he's going to run out of things to attack. If we're going to complain about how this industry is operated - we live in a gutter; everyone of us floats in a gutter. We shouldn't take on airs of pretension. When you let Luke know he's touched a nerve, he'll drill all of your teeth without novocaine.

"Ford likes hurting people. He thrives on it. Indicative of that was that show on Fox Files. He doesn't like this business. He has no use for this industry. The body bags statement alone, God knows where that came from. It may have been something I gave him a long time ago. Sure we have people who die, but if you look on his website, you have people that he doesn't know how they died; and he has people who he thinks are dead that aren't even dead. He has anyone he wants, dead, because who's going to challenge him? Who's going to take him on? If you take him on, you climb down to his level. Frankly, Gene, you're now in competition with him, and you know that. You're simply putting your mud through a strainer."

Director Ron Sullivan: "Luke F-rd has reared his ugly head to once again stir up unwanted, unnecessary s---. Three years ago he interviewed me. He understood and heard that I was very much involved with organized crime. A member of the Mafia. I looked at him and said, 'Do you think I'm in the Mafia?' [Sullivan has a belly laugh.] I'm not, obviously." (Quoted from www.geneross.com)

Dave Michaels of www.talkingblue.com says they are starting a a whole slew of new video lines for companies and they are looking for new talent who are willing to work. "And we don't ask for blowjobs for it either."

From the latest Pussycat column on www.unchain.com:

Everyone's pissing and moaning about Luke F-rd's involvement in this little Fox Files docudrama. On the show, he spoke very sternly and strongly about porn "flattening the soul" and how these girls are seriously affected by their porn careers. Well, it's harsh, but I can't say definitively he's wrong. I personally would never be a porn star, and I find nothing wrong with the women that do it, but for sure, it's not high on the moral scale. How is Luke wrong in saying this? If anything, he fires up the porn supporters and makes their case even stronger! After hating his guts for months, I actually love the guy now because of his moxy and his ability to give two s---s what people think of him. Anyone that takes Luke too seriously needs to rexamine their priorities. He's a study in himself.

Loves porn, then his moral fiber takes over and he wants to see the porners fail. This is not an unusual characteristic for a human being. Sex is the #1 guilt inducer. Women have a great time f---ing, then later, regret their actions - maybe they were enjoying it too much. It's American societal standards for sure, that allow people to feel guilt when sex is involved.

Back to Luke, it appears that finally, AVN online has jumped on the bandwagon. Although Gene Ross has been producing his "Loose Lips" column for years in AVN, it's always seemed fun and amateurish but definitely a scream to read. Now he has his own little say on AVN online. The funny thing is, it seems to be in direct response to www.l-keford.com. In fact, not a day goes by where there's not some sort of rivalry between the two sites. The big difference? Luke can print whatever he feels like because he doesn't give a crap what people think of him or his site. Gene can't for fear of pissing off advertisers. I'll use this analogy: Gene is like People Magazine, all fluffy and cute and in fear of lawsuits. Luke is like the National Enquirer who doesn't give a great f--- what they print. They love to get sued, good publicity.

My favorite gripe I hear daily about Luke's site is "can you believe what Luke wrote about me today?" I always think that's hilarious because rarely in the past, if ever, does Luke provide personal commentary on anything. The more valid gripe would be "can you believe what so-and-so said about me and Luke actually printed it?" Seriously folks, I could call Luke up right now, say that Pussycat has signed a deal to f--- so-and-so for a movie, and he'll print it with the preface, "I heard Pussycat has signed a deal to f--- so-and-so for a movie" VERBATIM! Most or all of the stuff on his site is copped from other sources or told to him by a third party. He just prints it! But check out his tone of voice lately, it's ripping! He's learning! If he keeps this up, his site will end up being more like Mad Magazine meets National Lampoon.

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LT writes on on the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica newsgroup (RAME):

"There are only four reasons for the www.geneross.com website to exist 1. Discredit Luke F-rd 2. Discredit anyone that posts anything negative on the internet 3. Give porn honchos the unassailable, final word on all subjects. So, nothing more than a promotional and propaganda tool for the porn biz.

"Why is AVN doing a piece on it [Marc Wallice] now?. At the time, Wallice was portrayed as an innocent victim and they downplayed even his role in it. Why are they (as the above writer put it) "now ready to lay it all at Marc Wallice's doorstep..."?. Why now?. Why did Russ Hampshire get so upset over the investigation of Wallice? (basically, he completely lost it). Why is he so protective of Wallice...and will his influence kill or change the direction of the AVN piece?. Why is it so important for Jim South to address the particular passage above and for Gene Ross to spend so much time on it?. Hey, I've seen comparable things on Jim South posted both on Luke's site and the NG's...why this one at this time? (yeah, I realize, there was no GR website earlier). What is it about this particular one that seems to have struck a raw nerve?. Yeah, it's a serious charge, but like I mentioned, I've seen plenty similar here for years. You can tell a lot by how people react to things...an overreaction speaks volumes."

Pat Riley on RAME's reaction to comments by TT Boy: "The passion provoked by TT's comments makes me think some people on this NG have lost touch with reality, a bit like they have when they start passionately defending the nookie of the month--the one who patted them on their bald spot when she was shaking her butt in the local nudie bar.

"RAME is a great place to discuss porno movies and meet some interesting people but it's not and shouldn't be your reason for existence. It's not "My NG, right or wrong." If TT doesn't like us (not that he has any basis for making the judgement) shrug your shoulders and say "So what.""

Jeff writes April 1st on RAME:

Has anyone looked over fukelord.com lately? In his quest to get his index done, he seems to have just started posting *anything.*

As an example I offer:

"Perhaps I am not the only one surprised to hear that Rob Black and Sean Michaels were recently spotted at a trendy L.A. eatery together snuggling and  kissing like two hischoolers [sic]"

"Personally, the thought of a certain high powered escort service relying on Rob Spallone's Star World doesn't shock me too much... especially since Ron Jeremy is making over $4500 an hour."

"You might wonder who the gal with the digitized face in the latest rock star video is -- it is no one other than 'Downtown' Julie Newmar."

And the craziness goes on! How does he get away with this stuff?

"Pint-sized star Napoleon, the star of such soul draining fare as "A Little
Christmas Tail" was found homeless on the street by Mila, someone recently
posted on RAME. I hear he is now living in distended rectum."

"Really old pornstar Paul Litle [sic] has donated his cowboy hat to the
Smithsonian Instituion. They plan to use it to hold open one of the doors
in  their fund-raising office."

"Italian pornstar Wendy Ivanhoff has been named part of the "ex-pornstar
catfight" team of Brendy [sic] and Bionco [sic]."

"Little wonder that the succubus that is Jim South just celebrated his 91st
birthday with a party at Chasen's. In attendance were such mega stars as
Steve Hatcher and Tony Montana."

Folks, I find it hard to believe that more people don't mock this guy.

"Opposing porn has long been Linda Lovelace's vacation [sic] but never has
it backfired so poorly when she was seen in the local Shop 'n' Go deep
throating the month old hot dogs on the browning rack... shouting "I have a cit [sic] in my throat!"

Or this gem: "IEG has announced plans to release the recently unearthed
Janine bestiality tape. She has sex with a goldfish and two chickens. Vivid
president Steve "Joey Bananas" Hirsch had no comment"

"Linda Tripp has signed a deal with John Bowen's company, Creme [sic]
Productions, to star in a series called "f--- Your Friends - Caught on
Tape!" Bowen has reportedly paid her $25,000 to keep her clothes on. But since we know he bounces checks, she's expected to appear naked in the series."