I hear that Jessica Darlin has grown sick of porn and will concentrate on other things, such as stripping in clubs.
Ugly George, an ugly man who walked around New York in the 1970s getting women to disrobe for his bulky camera (tapes played on the public access Channel J) was the true inventor of reality gonzo porn. He's still walking NY streets but is no longer on the air, according to this RAME post: "I've seen him in the last few years here in New York, just walking around. Still with that giant contraption on his back...wearing some bizarre looking uniform. Kind of creepy, to be honest. As far as I know, he's no longer on the air (if I'm wrong, someone please tell me where and when I can see him!). But it may be time for an Ugly George comeback...I know I'd love to see it."
Lush Ocean: "He has a homepage, which is, not surprisingly, www.uglygeorge.com.
I grew up in New York
City, and I watched his show on channel J when I
was 12. His primary audience has always been boys 10 to 13 years old.
I
read somewhere that his show is still broadcast on the public access
channels of a few scattered cable systems. I don't think he has been
on
the air in New York City for a while. The guy had his 15 minutes of
fame
in the late 70s. New York magazine did a feature on him. Maybe the
Village Voice too.
I love porn, but I would
say Ugly George is a walking advertisement for
birth control. For those who are unfamiliar with his act, he just goes
up to random woman on the street and asks them if they will pose naked
for his show. I think it was the New York magazine article in which
he
said that about one in twelve take him up on his offer.
I have several problems
with him. First he is unapologetic, misogynist
bastard who abuses women. He does a voice-over commentary during the
show. While a woman is stripping he often says things like "Whew, she
has a face like a truck! Man is she homely looking!" The sad part about
it is that at 12 years old I thought that was funny. I've also known
a
few women who have been approached by him - including my sister, twice
-
and they were upset about it.
Luke, I wouldn't classify
him as gonzo. There's a big difference. The
woman in gonzo porn are actresses who are paid to be there. They know
what they are getting into. The woman on Ugly George's show obviously
have little idea of what they are getting into.
Film Your Fantasy
Luke got an email from a German TV producer tzny2@usa.net doing a story on a small business in Los Angeles: "They shoot your sexual fantasy on tape. A client will write out his fantasy and they then translate that into a script; they then cast it, shoot it, edit it and finally deliver a finished product on VHS that the client uses at his discretion. I would be very interested in finding out if and what their competition is up too. There might be somebody doing the same exact thing or that has added a twist on the idea."
"I have recently become a internet junkie and to my surprise I found out about www.dejanews.com and hence all of the s--- on the internet about me and my life, so I am here to set the record straight once and for all and answer all of your wonderful questions and respond to all of your uninformed comments, so lets begin:
"No I have never done a dp in my movies nor do I have plans to as I am currently not doing movies at this time so I can concentrate more on my featuring and my upcoming website. I do not currently have a web site so I can pretty much guarantee that all those sites out there using my name are not me at all so if you spent your hard earned $ on them in monthly charges I am sorry, but keep checking my profile at XXXARDELL@aol.com and I will post my web address as soon as I have one.
"Yes it's true I am currently featuring regularly at TALK OF THE TOWN in Las Vegas when i am not on the road but as for all of the hype about my outcall services all I can say is GET A LIFE, I do not escort, outcall, one on one private personnal appearances, or any other form of prostitution. So all those people who say they "know" I do escort, you have me confused with those girls you pick up on Las Vegas Blvd. after you see one of my shows.
"True I seem to be posted on nici's girls but just tonight I seem to have straightened that little problem out with them and I hope that there is no further misunderstanding on this subject.
"To my good ol buddy ol pal ol friend Max Hardcore aka Max Steiner, NOT. How is it that you have confused yourself into thinking that you found me or made me something in this business. Every time I took a dick up my ass or had a cumshot on my face I dont remember you taking the same dick up your ass or someone handing you a towel to wipe the cum off your face, No I don't think so Max. The truth of the matter is that I got to where I am because I worked hard for it. Not to say I did not have some help, everyone needs a break to get started and the break you claim to have given me was very small indeed like your dick. The only person who deserves the credit for starting me in this biz and helping guide through all of my major decisions is Danyel Cheeks, so there!
"As for my much trumped about relationships and marriage to someone who gets off to me getting gangbanged on film, all I can say is do you really believe every f---ing thing you read because if you do youre probably standing outside waiting for some UFO to beam you up. I am no longer involved with Ian, and I now always keep my personnel life to myself, sorry.
"Now last but not least
to my good friend Mike South, exactly who in the f--- are you because
you talk online about me like we know each other. Until I saw your lame
web site I did not even know you existed, so I would greatly appreciate
you letting me speak for myself for now or until you are
officially appointed my personnel spokesperson which I see the san antonio
spurs winning the NBA championships before that happens :). As for my
heralded escort services in Augusta, GA, which you seem to know so much
about can you give me the name of the bitch at what club who said she
knew this for a fact because I seem to have had a total memory lose
about those events, maybe she can e-mail me so I can arrange to discuss
it with her face to face, right after I kick the living s--- out of
her for spreading a cheap ass lie like that, but than again everything
in her life is probably cheap anyway. Well Mike I think you get the
hint, let me answer for my life both on and off the net and maybe someday
we can actually be friends."
Mike South: "You [Davia] were at a club in Augusta GA before and during The Masters last year, you worked there with several girls I know who were "escorting" in that club all of them said that you spent as much time "downstairs" as anyone. I personally, could care less, I was asked a question I answered. BTW we have met on at least 5 separate occasions, not that you would remember...."
Email: "I have been living in Las Vegas for six years and about two years ago I was friends with one of the dancers at the club where Davia worked, Talk of the Town. This girl did escort as did Davia and about 80% of the dancers in there. You probably already know but I never really realized it until I lived there for a while but MOST if not ALL the strippers in town escort/prostitute themselves in some way, shape, or form. She is/was a true "junkie" and though I never met her this girl I knew always said if she couldn't get anything she would call Davia because "she has everything." The girl is trash, she is rambling on in her e-mail to you and I just wanted to give you a little background on her, though I never witnessed any of it I doubt if it is false. I haven't seen any of the girls I knew there for a while, but for her to still be there amazes me."
Vivid's Steve Hirsch in Bikini
Vivid Video owner Steve Hirsch appears in the 4/99 issue of Bikini magazine, which reveals more about his upbringing as the son of Reuben Sturman assistant Fred Hirsch than previous articles.
An excerpt: "He [Steve] lives 15 minutes away from the office, where he spends most of his waking hours. His off-time isn't wasted partying with nude actresses [hah!]. "There are still people out there that think an adult company is just a 24-hour orgy," Hirsch says with a laugh.
"Outside his office, Hirsch returns to the straight world, seeing an occasional movie or pop music concert with his girlfriend, the national sales manager for another video company [Video Team]. She understands. "I work too hard, put in too many hours, I don't need somebody to have a problem with what I do," says Hirsch. "It's just business.""
Bikini does not investigate Hirsch's prolific sex life with porn girls nor the enmity that has long existed between Steve and his father Fred, and between Steve and his business partner David James, who's not mentioned in the article. During the 1980s, Steve Hirsch wanted Reuben Sturman to buy out David James.
Vivid PR Director David Schlesinger is quoted "Have you seen her face yet?" to reporters watching the scene between Ed Powers and Hungarian newcomer Veronica.
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Canada's Government
Gets Skimpy
With Work Visas for Exotic Dancers
That's the headline from Friday's Wall Street Journal. Here are excerpts:
The government never made a big deal of its anti-foreign-stripper policy; it's just that agents who import strippers for the estimated 200 clubs that dot Ontario woke up one day to realize that almost no new permits had been issued after Jan. 1, 1998. By contrast, the government, in previous years, had approved visas for about 400 women annually; most came from Eastern Europe or other economically depressed countries, lured by the fact that dancing in a Canadian strip club could net them more in a day than jobs back home (assuming they could find one) paid in a month.
"Ninety percent of the good-looking Canadian dancers are in the U.S.," says club owner Mr. Cohn. For starters, the tips are better; beyond that, he says, they can dance topless instead of nude.
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I hear that male performer Brandon Irons returned to Canada Thursday after receiving a deportation order from the INS (Immigration and Naturalizations Service).
Email: "Luke, I was in a couple of bukkake shoots for Notorious. They paid the guys $25. Don't know if they are now charging them to do it. HIV tests were not mentioned. I brought mine as did many of the guys but they were not checked by anyone from Notorious. One of the girls told us that if we weren't tested we couldn't cum in her mouth and all agreed. Not to safe if you ask me. We sat around for 2 hours waiting for the shoot to start. Tests could easily have been checked at that time. I don't know why they wouldn't go to the small trouble of making the shoots safe."
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Jim South Jr phoned from World Modeling: "I have a message from TT Boy for you. He said that he wouldn't be calling you anymore but if you were smart, you'd remove what you have on him from your page."
I hear that Jim South Sr. has hundreds of pages downloaded from my website that he's shown to four lawyers. They've all told him that it is not worth suing me.
Baltimore Porn Shops Closing Down
Tim Evanson writes on RAME: "It seems that a new Baltimore County law took effect in mid-March that bans adult busineses in most neighborhoods. Stores had a year to relocate, and anti-porn forces are calling in hundreds of complaints in order to roost out the porn stores. The law, which passed unanimously, restricts adult video stores to heavy manufacturing districts and requires that they operate at least 1,000 feet from schools, homes, churches or parks and at least 2,500 feet from each other. Stores that have less than 20% of stock or floor space dedicated to adult materials can remain in commercial districts under the law. Love Ones, the five-store Movie Sales chain, and many other stores -- most of which are your regular video store that carries a large number of porn videos as well as mainstream fare -- are being investigated and closed."
Email: "It appears to me that the people in the industry are a group at the far end of the bell curve of human decency. In a war I certainly wouldn't want any of them next to me in the fox hole. What I don't understand is why there is all the fuss about porn starlets trading sex for money (escorting) or "servicing" the guys who run the industry. Isn't trading sex for money what they do everytime they do a scene? Why is it acceptable to do it before a camera where we can all see it (for the $29.95 price of the video), but not acceptable in the more "traditional" circumstances of the world's oldest profession? By the way, anyone who thinks that what these girls do before the camera is "just acting" and not the equivalent of prostitution needs a reality check.
"The controversy about stars exchanging sex with agents and producers reminds me of a scene in my favorite movie "Casablanca", where Claude Raine's character is shocked to find gambling going on in the casino: "We are shocked...SHOCKED... to find prostitution going on in the porn industry!""
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Melody writes on the Condom Chronicles about www.psuedo.com: "It also recently featured a peculiar webcrab soap-operaesque name of Luke F-rd. Luke is the Matt Drudge of Net Porn, though not with Drudge's covertly financed agenda-machine. Luke reveals all the "inside horrible naughty bits" of the porn industry, suggesting "pornography does to the soul what cigarettes do to the lungs."
"The clincher is that Mr Ford is a Marlboro Man -- he owns two porn paysites from which he makes his living. He has a very anal, palmy accent, and one supposes he's serving some sort of penance. It does strike one of bordering on the edge of hypocrisy. Check out the show at Luke F-rd on Infinity Factory video or audio."
What is an "anal, palmy" accent?
Luke's big sister writes to him: "I've just been shocked to the core from reading your website for 3/26/99, re your masturbating while watching yourself on tv etc - luke luke luke - if its a joke its not on, if its true it is very very sad - people will think you are crazy - not just because of the fact that it occurred but that you would write about it for all the world to see - people will doubt your sanity - have you no shame - have you no regard whatsoever for those who love you and are hurt to the core by this - please remove it and please get help - real help - not someone who agrees with you and just makes you feel good.
your loving sister.
p.s. if you decide to remove it will you please tell me when you have removed it as it will be a great relief.
p.s why do you feel driven to make people despise you? isnt it friends that you need rather than despisers?
Bianca Trump Depressed
Porn star and escort Bianca Trump has taken a bath on her website www.biancatrump.com which is hosted by www.teleteria.com. She says she's lost thousands of dollars of late because of technical mistakes by her billing company www.ibill.com and Teleteria.
"You get f---ed if you do it [website] yourself," said Bianca by phone on Friday. "You get f---ed if you have somebody else do it. Girls should stay the f--- away from the internet. It's more of a headache than it is worth. If I could go back, www.biancatrump.com would still be an open domain.
"To just have your information out there and try to do a good thing, I get bashed for it, more than it's worth. I'm lucky that I don't care what people think of me. If I was weak-minded, this business would've chewed me and spit me out, especially the internet. People are so f---ing mean to me, just nasty."
Bianca's sentiments are echoed by other porn stars like www.asiacarrera.com who recently closed her paysite to new customers.
"People think they can come into my chatroom and say what they want," says Bianca. "I pay for the bandwidth. I pay for the scripting. I kick them out of my own chat and the next thing you know there are all these posts up about what a big bad bitch I am.
"I wouldn't type anything that I wouldn't say to somebody. And I'm just an upfront person. People like Brandy Alexandre get behind a screen and they have an altered personality. They lash out... s--- runs out of their mouths for hours. She hid from me during CES. She came up to the Annabolic booth, crept around the back, threw s--- at Biff [Malibu] to get his attention while my back was turned to say hi to him."
Regarding Bianca Trump's Tits, Brandy says: "She's still looking for "poor baby" pats on the head and for people to feel so bad they give her money. Her breast implant manufacturer IS NOT out of business and they even have a web site at http://www.mentorcorp.com/home.html. She's such a liar."
Bianca: "I resent what you posted that Brandy said. I am not asking people for any f---ing money for my tits. I paid to fix them all these times myself. I never said or meant that Mentor was out of business. I simply said that their class action law suite is over and settled. That I am not and was not ever suing them. And lastly. I DO NOT want or need any damn sympathy. How many times can I reiterate that? For christ f---ing sakes!"
Former Private PR whiz Adella O'Neal is now at Zane.
Anna Malle's Website
Voyager7 writes on RAME: "Anna Malle: B-List Girl. What is there to lust for about Anna Malle.. Long, range-fed body. With her long legs, she looks very good in cum-f----me-over-the-knee-boots, one of my weaknesses in life. Another weakness are parlor tricks, and Anna has this roll-the-eyes-in-the-back-of-her-head-thingie which tends to get my blood boiling. Always an enthusiastic performer.
So what does Anna Malle
offer at her webbie site?
http://www.annamalle.com.
First off, a fairly quick loading site. The last time I visited the site was last year, when she made an dancing appearance in my neck of the netherworld. There were more images of Anna in last year's site, dressed in various garb. Here she is in some cumly leopard cum-f----me boots and panties. No complaints here.... :-)
You are hit upon to join at $19.95 per month for premium service, evidently to see explicit naughty bits, etc. However, we are not given a "taste" (Eddy Murphy-48 Hours) of what our hard earned dollars would reap. Like many of my fellow RAME'rs, I squeeze the nickel so tight that the buffalo s---s(TM. Torris) and I've never paid for "porn content" on the net, though I have purchased vids. I especially wouldn't pay for content, if I don't get an initial taste. You are granted 5 days free, but you gotta fill in valid name and credit card info. If 5 days are free, why do you gotta give them a taste of your financial well-being first?
Ok, so what sorta taste does a fan of Anna's get for free? First off, one gets the impression, that Anna didn't design the site. This isn't really a site for her fans, its more of a scummy-huckster-type-site, though not as blatant as most sites "made for pornstars". You come away from the site, with little more knowledge of Anna and the why-and-wherefores of her porn-entertainer career than when you entered.
Well, if you surf the site, you'll get a brief bio, her dance schedule, her "swing-set" schedule, links and the like. Last year, she provided a means to email her, which I did prior to her visit, and she provided terse replies, though she never commented on my submitted review of her dance appearance. At the present time, I didn't find an email reply link directly, though her email address is in the text of her Swinging section and then again, an easy link may be provided if your belly-up $19.95.
How To Enter Porn
From www.davecummings.com:
In addition to the many letters and emails I receive from men wanting to become porn studs(see the report on "How to be a Porn Star" at www.davecummings.com), I also get lots of inquiries from people looking to be producers, directors, script writers, and crew members. Instead of lauding the upcoming late-April release of my new series "Sex Fun", or the happenings of the last 30 days in the Adult Film Industry, this month’s column will cover my personal views on some of the other avenues into porn.
Though I prefer to be positive and encouraging, I also have a responsibility to be personally honest in what I write here as my personal view. First of all, you need to know that there is a HUGE glut of video tapes in the market place; some folks credit this disastrous situation to people with some extra investment bucks, a 3-chip digital camcorder, and the (mostly) false idea that they can get laid and/or become millionaires in the $4.2 Billion Adult Film Industry. Many want to improve the quality of adult video, or appeal to renters and buyers who have the same specific preferences as they do (indeed, there are different preferences for different viewers, but the majority of consumers are mostly men watching by themselves who often seem to prefer: to have little time "wasted" on set-up/plot/dialogue; to see beautiful and sexually enthusiastic young girls having hot sex; and, after the "money shot" for that sex scene, to view other/additional sex scenes but with different girls----hence, the reason "Gonzo" videos are so popular. Full length features with plots, nice settings, high production values, and love-making as well as sex, seem to appeal primarily but not exclusively to couples and women—--features cost much more to produce, but often bring in soft core cable money not available to many gonzo videos. And, of course, there are specialty videos which appeal to a specific audience, such as those viewers who like B&D, older women, heavier women, gang bangs, foot-lovers, etc.). Because of the glut of many kinds of available productions, some wholesale buyers/distributors are extremely picky about their selections (and sometimes are a little slow in paying their accounts payable). I’ve heard of instances where producers waited many months before they got fully paid and had enough proceeds available to finance their next release).
Since I’m familiar with the financial aspects of my "Dirty Dave, The Sugardaddy" gonzo line, let me use it as an example. Generally having five regular-length sex scenes and three "quickie" sex scenes of additional actresses who will be in full-length scenes in other volumes of the 90-minute series (all eight scenes have different girls/set-ups/sex, and cum shots), I spend approximately $10,000 in hard costs to get 1500 fully completed copies delivered to my sales distributor for onward sale and shipment to wholesale distributors/buyers at approximately $12 each. If (and with today’s massive glut of product, it’s a big "if") all 1500 copies are sold, it brings in $18,000 which is split 75%-25% with my sales distributor, leaving me with $13,500 or a gross profit of only $3,500. As a result of the glut of product and the low profits for Producers, I now release a new video every 6-8 weeks instead of every month as previously. An investment of $10,000 yielding an eventual profit of $3,500 is not going to make any producer or investor rich, especially since it often takes 2-6 months to get your money. Follow-on foreign licensing, catalog sales, and Internet sales might possibly bring in some additional profits, but not much. If someone plans to put out a $10,000 video a month, they probably need at least $50,000 to finance the first five productions before enough collections from their first release will be available to finance subsequent productions. The video your sales distributor sells for $12 to wholesale distributors and buyers probably winds up being listed in a retail store at $39.95 –-- rather than produce videos, perhaps investors should become distributors or buy adult bookstores!?!? "New" producers/investors sometimes mistakenly think they will make a lot of money, when they actually are merely contributing to the already huge glut of product while waiting to eventually realize that they are not going to make a worthwhile profit, let alone become rich! (And, as far as the "fantasy" that every adult actress can’t wait to f--- every guy/producer/crew member they see, forget it!)
Script writing seems to be centered in a few select insiders, while most directors prefer to either write their own script or come up with a "set-up" just minutes before filming. In spite of increased numbers of productions, I’ve not noticed even a slight increase in the demand for scripts; instead, I hear of scripts from want-to-be writers being routinely trashed by producers, directors, Production Managers and companies without even reading them. I also hear that in those few cases where a relative/friend/writer provided a script, the pay for it was only a couple of hundred dollars.
Directors seem to prefer using the same experienced crew members they’ve previously used. Additions to crews usually come from recommendations from other directors, the production company, or present crew members, thus proving a basis for experience and professionalism instead of someone who might make mistakes or "hit on" the girls while working on the set---and, no, the girls do NOT have wanton sex with crew members or others on the sets! I’ve noticed that even the experienced and dependable crew members have to hustle to find work. There’s no shortage of qualified crew members.
Incidentally, all performers must have a not-older-than-30-days PCR by DNA HIV test before they are allowed to participate in a sex scene. Unlike the somewhat basic Elisa test that most physicians order under routine situations, we get a VERY expensive state-of-the-art test every 28-29 days.
Just like I know of NO Adult Industry company which will give auditions to guys wanting to be porn actors, there doesn’t seem to be a need for investors, producers, directors, writer, or crew members either.
The above is my personal
opinion, and even though everyone might not totally agree with me, I’m
confident that it’s pretty much right on target. I wish I could be more
encouraging for folks wanting to explore alternative ways to get into
the Adult Industry, but I have to be truthful.