Archives - Tuesday, June
22nd, 1999
Tiffany Storms aka Lisa Diamonon
For the 4/24/99 San Diego Union-Tribune, reporter Steve Schmidt wrote about the Learning Annex class of Tiffany Storm, star of 100 porno movies between 1985-88. Born in 1963, at her prime she measured 34D-24-33.
Excalburfilms.com describes her: "Tiffany is a Latin love doll in the mold of Keisha, a brash and bold sexer with a lush body and a need for sex at its most raw. Tiffany’s body was pure eye candy, a 34D-24-33 sex machine that was a marvel to watch in action. She never saw a sex act she wouldn’t try and was known throughout the business as one of the hardest-charging Latin lovers around... Group sex was another specialty of this hot tamale, and she could often be found in the middle of a wildly writhing mass of flesh."
For years, Tiffany Storm taught a class at the Learning Annex entitled "How to Drive Your Woman Wild in Bed." Schmidt writes it was more like Confessions of a Porn Star.
From the Tribune: They saw The Learning Annex blurb, paid their $39 and then sat in a small room at a Midway hotel. Seventeen men, waiting for adult film actress Tiffany Storm. A woman in a tiny black sports car pulled up in front of the building, whisked through an empty lobby and into the meeting room. She looked teary.
"Tiffany Storm will no longer be teaching this class," she announced.
"So who are you?" asked one of the men.
"I have been known as Tiffany Storm."
Her real name is Lisa Diamonon. Her Tiffany persona was just a prop -- a moneymaker, to be sure, but still a soulless prop, writes Schmidt.
"I would rather this class be presented in a different way," she said. "I think Lisa could teach you a lot more than Tiffany does."
So she talked about women's need for emotional intimacy. Lisa's tired of teaching. "There are times when I get no respect."
"She flipped out," said Louis Sandberg, director of Learning Annex's San Diego office. "I think she had a nervous breakdown. I don't know what happened. She used to pack them in." (San Diego Herald Tribune, 4/24/99)
Sex and the City
Death and the City
Krash writes about the producer of the HBO TV show Sex and the City who left behind a dead 19 year old blonde in his hotel room.
Eros and Thanatos? What about the 19-year-old starlet’s nude cadaver in Darren Star’s Central Park West hotel room?
When questioned by New York detectives about the dead blonde Star left behind when he checked out the Mayflower Hotel, Darren Star gave his name as “...”--a ruse that enabled the producer of HBO’s “Sex and the City”--in complicity with Star-struck reporters from the Daily News, NY Post and weekly NY Observer-- to embargo the truth 19-year-old about Leigh Zerhmuhlen’s overdose.
And when the Medical Examiner’s report on Zermuhlen was issued approximately two months after her death, it was ignored by the aforementioned periodicals. Only The Staten Island Advance, in an item dated 12-7-95, took note that “texicology tests found a lethal combination of opiates, cocaine and alcohol” in the doomed Staten Island blonde Star met at the nightspot Bowery Bar.
Later that same night, accompanied by Zermuhlen, Star rented the Mayflower Hotel room where hotel workers found Zermuhlen dead of an apparent overdose three days later. When New York City cops reached Darren Star by phone at his home in California, the producer claimed Zermuhlen was only asleep when he left the room at six a.m. on Oct.25 to catch a California-bound flight . Shortly after speaking with the NYPD, Star traveled to Hawaii for a vacation.
Possibly because the 19-year-old decedent’s apparent overdose bore no evidence of violent homicide, there followed a merely perfunctory NYPD investigation in which no charges were filed against Star--enabling Jay Stowe, Joanna Molloy, Richard Johnson and other memebers of Gotham's gossip junta to conceal from their readers and editors the producer’s role in the fatality.
This conspiracy to spin the story into nothingness is evident in clips from the Post and Daily News. [both dated 11- 14-95] as well as Jay Stowe’s Observer piece. Note how Star’s name is omitted from all three items; note especially Star’s omission altogether from the Observer --where, given Star’s HBO executive-producership of vogueish Observer writer Candace Bushnell’s “Sex and the City” column, the conflict-of-interest is most tangled...almost as tangled, as that embodied by the fact that Richard Johnson's wife was the paid Bowery Bar publicist who coordinated the entire cover-up.
And what America really wants to know is: Who scored the hot-shot that killed Leigh Zermuhlen? And what was Star, widely believed to be gay, doing with her?
XXX: "All narcotics users are gay when there's no pussy around. It's a blind alley, my friend, going nowhere.... I know this territory like the back of my gland."
A source describe Leigh: "She was a bubbly, very attractive 19-year-old blond, obviously not visibly underage because she was something of a regular at Bowery Bar. According to Joanna Molloy's evasive report, which attempted to stigmatize the victim while ignoring the victimizer [16 years Zerhmuhlen's senior], the gal was something of a wannabee star-f---er....always bragging about the celebs she saw at Bowery Bar."
Oy writes:
From the 5/31/99 New York Daily News: "Spanking, anyone? To celebrate the opening of the fetish-themed restaurant La Nouvelle Justine in the East Village, the owners invited "Sex in the City" columnist Candace Bushnell and some of her friends for dinner last week. During the night, a dominatrix made the rounds and spanked Bushnell, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Noth, Darren Star, Bret Easton Ellis, Sandy Hill Pittman and Nicole Miller."
Vivid Girls Do the Bunny Ranch
Vivid owner Stevie Hirsch tells Luke F-rd that all his contract girls, including Janine and Julia Ann, will be available at the Bunny Ranch this summer. "I took a look at the action those Sin City execs were getting, a real piece of the pie, Luke," said Hirsch by phone Tuesday morning, "and I wanted some for myself."
Katya
Katya writes Luke: "I am 27 years old, I came to the States from Russia about 7 months ago. In my country I have been graduated from the Medical School and have a degree in Pediatrics. I would like to work in the X-rated movies or still industry and I feel that having a great potential I will be able to accomplish a lot in this field. I am in NJ-NY area. If you could help me, referring to some companies operating in this field I would be very grateful."
Luke: "You're in luck. There's huge demand in porno right now for Russian Pediatricians. I recommend you read my Enter Porn essay in the subjects folder. Never mind, I think I am going to manage your career. I'll shop you around to my friends at Vivid and VCA. Or perhaps you could become a Cream Contract Girl." katya katya1 katya2 katya3
Katya's boyfriend Yura has also been in America seven months. He's not bothered by his girlfriend's entrance into porn. "The great thing about this country is," says Yura through a thick Russian accent, "that there is no job which one could be ashamed of. That is one of the cornerstones of this country. If you work hard and have some success, it makes no difference whether you own a car dealership, you're in the sex industry or you're the president of the country. It all depends on how well you perform."
Art director Kevin Hein has returned to Screw magazine after three years with Genesis. But when Genesis was taken over by Swank last year and moved to New Jersey to be with editor Paul Gambino, Hein returned to Screw. Kevin previously served there for about ten years, prior to leaving for Genesis magazine in 1996.
Director Jim Gunn says: "I shot a neat thing last night in a West Palm Beach, FL strip club with Julie Ashton called "To Be A Porn Star". Potential pilot for a Playboy TV show (It's not finished yet). It's a reality-based live event we taped to mix in with the eventual fulfillment of the promise to feature new talent on film."
Porn Stars on Game Shows
What@f---.com writes on RAME: "I was just watching that dopey show "Change of Heart", and one of the guys was a pornstar who made a few of those movies calling himself Opie [Frank Towers], he was bodybuilding freak. I remeber him doing one with Dominique Simone, kinda of an Opie in the Hood thing. His name escapes me. The funny thing though is that the lady he was considering breaking up with was whining about him being real vain, I guess he didn't bother to tell her what he used to do. The other lady he went out with was bodacious!!! Wouldn't surprise me if she was a pornstar too. Anyway, what's up with these pornstars on game shows, I remember seeing Raquel Devine on Love Connection not too long ago, she also didn't mention what she did. Seems like that would be a real big topic if they did actually admit to being one."
Opie is Frank Towers, who had to abandon the hetero hardcore world because his oppressive girlfriend said so, writes John. So Frank went into gay porn but has now returned to the straight and narrow.
Luke F-rd's new book A History of X climbs the charts this week. It now ranks as the 37th most requested book in entertainment and pop culture according to Ingram Books, just ahead of Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls; How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood.
Skipp Porteous writes: I read you book last night. It is a valuable contribution to the controversial and confusing world of porn. Next week we will make A History of X our Book of the Week at our other site, www.ifas.org. Our readers can order it through Amazon.com, to which we are linked.
I, too, am a Prometheus author. In 1991, Paul Kurtz published my book Jesus Doesn't Live Here Anymore. I'm a former fundamentalist minister who converted to liberal Judaism.
During the past 15 years of my First Amendment work I've gotten to know Christie Hefner, Bob Guccione, Larry Flynt, Al Goldstein, and a few others in the industry. However, it may interest you more that I've known Jeanna Fine since she was a kid. Born Angel Gauthier, her mother, Karen Gauthier, married Ron Payson. I performed the wedding. Angel changed her name to Payson. Angel sang in my choir and was active in our youth group. She was a sweet kid who became rebellious as a teen. Not uncommon. Sometimes when Angel comes east to visit her mother she comes over to see me. I last saw her two years ago. We talked about my conversion to Judaism, but she only said about herself that she married a Jewish guy, so she considered herself half Jewish. She also expressed an interest in Earth religions such as Wiccan. We've since had some email discussions about this.
Porn Chat
MikeSouth> Yer book A HISTORY OF X was interesting...oddly enough my
thoughts are to compare it to Hawkings A Brief History of Time. To the
casual reader it does a good job of giving exactly that...a brief history
A good example is the Rueben Sturman story
I think ya did a good job Luke...Ginger is reading it now
JustMrT> I'm guessing none of those reviews included accusations that bloated eurotrash types were international drug smugglers & money launderers
MikeSouth> I spoke with an industry insider who would know...said every girl on Nicisgirls.com is know to have turned tricks...my insider has employed many of them.
LT> Luke: Ever thought of looking into whether Mike Albo REALLY taught at LaVerne?
I find it hard to believe that Albo taught there, but then again, LaVerne
isn't quite the Claremont Colleges :)
Mike Albo writes to www.geneross.com: "Oooh, I did it now! Because I recently posted a somewhat critical view of Luke F-rd's "The History of X," I am now being subject to this moron's attempts to discredit me. (I've had fewer problems from rejected girlfriends.)
Today's posting entitled "Porn Chat" is an apparent followup to Friday's ridiculous posting. For the record, yes I did teach at the University of La Verne, and those who wish to check this out can contact either Dr. Rhoda Kachuck or Dr. Andrea Labinger.
Following my stint at La Verne, for those of you who find this an important issue, I worked at Pacific Rim Language Institute where I taught Conversational English, did private tutoring, and taught prep courses for the Graduate Records Exam. Persons wishing to verify this need only contact Kurt Swain or George Wang. As for the internet goober who states that La Verne "isn't the Claremont Colleges," I have this to say: La Verne is a well-respected liberal arts college and has been in existence for over 100 years.
As to the repeated allusions that I am a heroin addict, it's time you all give that a rest. Yes, I had a drug problem at one time. However, I have been sober for several years (despite what some disgruntled former employees and lying porn scum with personal grudges might say). I am willing, at any time, to take a drug test for heroin, random opiates, cocaine, methamphetamine, etc.-as long as the parties who need such proof put up the costs of the tests. Until that time, kids, put up or shut up. And consider getting lives of your own. Don't you realize how far you've fallen when you've been reduced to speculating on the personal life and employment history of some guy who edits a porn magazine?
Response to Mike "Summer is Smack Time" Albo: "Isn't it amazing how a major magazine porn editor has to spend so much time rebutting things that supposedly aren't true? If Luke F-rd is insignificant to you, then it shouldn't matter what he says."
From www.geneross.com: "The Luke F-rd website lends more than the distinct impression, John T. Bone and Regan Senter have been banned from the Free Speech Coalition, Bone in particular for dallying with underage girls. Presumably.
"According to Regan Senter, though, Senter tried to get into the FSC a couple of years ago, though as a performer. The FSC wasn't buying it. "I sent them [the FSC] 50 bucks and got ripped off," Senter said. "They didn't accept me as talent. They wanted me to pay as an agent." Senter claims he never got his refund. "But they wrote me a letter saying they rejected my membership and wouldn't accept me as talent," he added. "I did nothing about it [the refund]. I was never banned. They just wanted me to pay a minimum of $500. They said they'd let me be classified as a producer per se rather than paying as an agent. Bill Margold will confirm every word I say."
FSC president Gloria Leonard says that neither Senter or Bone were refused FSC membership.
John Bone told www.geneross.com: "So far this year I've been ground zero for AIDS, I've been a rapist, I've been a sexual predator, a homosexual and now a pedophile. I figure I got to f--- my dog now to go for the cycle. I know Kid Vegas will never talk to him [Luke F-rd] again."
Gene writes: "Vegas is now shooting for Bone and is working on a Star Wars parody that will wrap up this weekend. The title is also very Star Wars-y: Cocksucking Skank Whores. Bone said that David Aaron Clark is also back into the Cream fold."
Luke: "I work hard. I mind my own business. I don't bother other people. I try to uplift people. I try to be constructive rather than destructive. I try to bring people together rather than divide them. I try to create family entertainment with wholesome all-American values. Something where a man and his wife, and the kids, can all jump in a car and drive to Kinkos... Click on my website. And enjoy some uplifting stories about the triumph of good over evil... And I get people like Gene Ross and Mike Albo picking on me. A prophet has no honor in his own community."
Cy writes: "Please tell me where I could get a list of Adult Video Distributors, and if there are any helpful sites with lists. I am a writer and producer thinking about releasing a series of low budget amateur girl solo videos. What are the best ways to get the product into the video stores? Trying to distrubute myself or through a national distributor? I have also heard that distrubutors also produce and want in some cases to buy the rights and distrubute under their own label. Is that a good way to go? Your thoughts on this market as well, is appreciated."
Tuesday night I stopped by three bookstores by the Beverly Center and all three had my book on order but copies from the publisher had not arrived yet.
Kramer and the Christ
Mark Kramer, former Screw journalist, writes: "All of Joe Christ's endeavors are directly linked to the world of porno, at least NY porn. The fact that Screw adopted him as a kind of mascot only emphasizes the tenous boundary between sex and death that ruled there, mainly vis a vis David Aaron Clark. Thus through the unlikely person of Joe Christ, penile amputee, one is vouchesafed a unique window on Gotham porn culture... And the fact that David Aaron Clark stars in one Joe Christ movie, has appeared in public events with Christ, as well as in two of Nancy A. Collins' [Mrs. Joe Christ's] books only highlights the epistomological value of the Joe Christ inquiry."
Dallas Morning News music critic Tom Maurstad said in a Fall 1997 about Joe Christ: “.I guess in the sense that...self-promotion sums up the 80s, Joe Christ was . somehow an examplar of the 80s....Still, I don't know whether I'm eager or anxious to get involved again.....Joe rewrote a negative review I'd written on his band "G-Spot" ,in the Dallas Observer, taking out snippets of my statements and running his version in various alernative music mags of the time and made it laudatory... What I remember about it .completely based on listening to the "G-Spot" record, was approximately “What a monumental asshole”, a bombastic wash of punky guitar noise... A contemporary analog would be Marilyn Manson .. The one standing memory I have of Joe Christ was the rumor that is the most striking urban folklore --that in an amphetamine-driven frenzy he had one night.... while his girlfriend went out and scored.... and he was in the bathtub... somehow he ended up cutting his own dick off and flushing it down the toilet...I remember thinking that it was the perfect Joe Christ story... I think it was 87 or 88.. I never pursued it as a news story because Joe Christ was never as an important fixture..."
Joe Christ's wife Nancy A. Collins wrote 4/27/96 to the newsgroup alt.comics.alternative: "Everyone who knows us, knows how Joe started this rumor himself, years ago in Dallas, when he was running short on publicity.He thought a little bit of weird word-of-mouth would help him in some way.
"When TED Klein [famed horror author asked me about it, and said that your friend Margie had brought it up, I played along because that's what Joe asked me to do, back when we first met. (People do ask, since there WAS good word-of-mouth) Joe had told me that you believed it was true. TED: I'm sorry that I used you as part of Joe's little game to toy with Mark, but I only repeated what I was asked to by Joe.
"Even though we have an "open" marriage, Joe still comes first with me, and I with him. I'm still a fan of your work, and hope you'll forgive me for for making you part of this. I didn't mean to make you out to be a fool.
"As for the letter to New York Magazine, Joe was working for Psychedelic Solution Gallery, and wrote the letter in question, as told by his boss at the gallery, Jacaeber Kastor, who signed it. But I certainly had nothing to do with it. Whatever the case enough is enough! I think people want to get on with their newsgroups, and read about only the things relevant to their newsgroups. So, if Mark Kramer wishes to continue with his efforts, whatever. We won't be participating any further with it.