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Saturday, July 17th, 1999

On his KLSX FM 97.1 radio show Sunday morning, Ed Powers hosted director Kris Kramski and Mila. Ed played a track from Kramski's new band which does not yet have a name.

At synagogue this morning I ran into Hustler features editor David Buchbinder and his mom.

Rodney Moore (http://www.rodneymoore.com) writes: "Screw Magazine (from NYC) gave my movie "I SWALLOW 2" 100% on the Peter Meter. The reviewer said it's only the 2nd time since he started doing reviews for SCREW after his tour of duty in Vietnam that he's given a movie 100%. Now the AVN in their infinite wisdom gave this same movie 3 stars (out of 5), reminding me that the AVN reviewers are the proof to the theorem that Excessive Masturbation will make you go blind."

Melanie Stone's hubby Hunter writes: "Well now I know why Mark Davis gets the big bucks, he is a professional. I am sitting in my office this Sunday morning wondering why the f--- Devin, yes the guy Devin, has flaked on Melanie and I. I have eight (8), yes eight, round trip tickets to Santa Barbara for the day, and three (3) VIP private suites on Amtrak. I am sitting on the phone with Amtrak while I am typing this e-mail to you. Amtrak is telling me that I am unable to get any type of refund, because I am not giving them 24 hour notice of the change or cancellation, da, I had this asshole Devin f--- me over this morning, but I cannot tell them this. I am writing you this e-mail just to let other directors and produces know that Devin is a complete asshole and a very unprofessional person, as I have spent $1,420.00 on these tickets and rooms, and now Amtrak has just told me that I am unable to get any kind of refund.

"I have gone out of my way to get this broke dips--- work. Melanie and I first met Devin last year and recommended him for a shoot that Melanie was doing for Shane. We are shooting Melanies new series now, "The Sexual Adventures of Melanie Stone", and as most people know Melanie is very particular about the guys that she will do anal with, so we called Devin for this shoot. I had a boy/girl scene in a train and two scenes to do at a lake, but the lake shoot was going to be next month, so I told Devin that it was up to him if he wanted to wait and take the two scenes at the lake, or he could do the one scene on the train. Devin told me that he needed the money badly so he could move into his own apartment, so he took the train scene. I spoke with Devin last night at 10:00pm and he assured me that he not only would not be late, but he would be early, and that I knew him and he was a professional. I hope that people in the industry read this and take note of this guy, this has cost Melanie and I a lot of money and time, we have just started shooting her new series and we do not have this kind of money to be wasting."

Rebecca Wild in Toronto

AJB writes on RAME: I checked out Rebecca Wild's show at a club called Caddy's in east Toronto. Her early show was fairly tame but I talked to her afterwards and got a good polaroid done. I brought along an old (March 1994 cover date) Erotic X Film Guide magazine for her to sign. She was laughing and totally embarrassed to see her old self with brown hair and a very different over-all look. She flipped through the mag and reminiced about pornstars she used to work with years ago... she noted that Biff Malibu and Alex Jordan were both dead. She mentioned that she suspected Alex Jordan was murdered instead of death through a hanging suicide; but of course, no one knows for sure.

[MOD: Before we get the "Biff is Dead?" posts -- She or the poster probably meant Cal Jammer, a frequent partner of Biff Malibu's in the Will and Ed series. Biff Malibu is now best known as Christoper Alexander, the man behind Anabolic's Gang Bang Girl series and other projects -- Jeff]

She let me slam by crotch into her ass while the polaroid pic was being taken so I've got a good one of me doggie boffing her... tried to slip the old salami out but I just didn't have the manual dexterity. One guy each show gets a free polaroid with her -- a great treat I think. I waited for her late evening show and was not disappointed. She grabbed one dude out of the audience, tied his hands, whipped him with a leather cat of nine tails, ripped his underwear out of his pants and draped the undie straps over his eyes. Then she rode him like a horse for awhile.

Finally, she got out some stage theatrical flames sticks flicked them on his balls (he was still wearing his pants). For a couple seconds his balls were on fire and then she slapped her hand down on him to kill the flames. She did this about 4 times... he had this great look of horror, pain and humilation on his face. I was screaming with laughter because the guy asked me minutes before the show if Rebecca Wild was really "wild" and I said, "yeah, pretty crazy". Can't say I've ever seen a pornstar light a patron's balls on fire before though. She had a good hard rock music sets both times and she was able to tease us a lot before finally letting her huge hooters fall out. A couple times she dived her head into guys laps and she went off the stage to jump on a shy guy's crotch.

Generally, a good solid show. Her face looked better than I've ever seen her before. I think her female road manager must be doing a great make-up job on her. The only negative thing I'd say is that the poor girl has this huge vein under one tit that gives her a bit of the "bolt-on" tits look. Some gifted surgeon's gotta help her out for the sake of porn fans everywhere. Any plastic surgeons on this newsgroup? Rebecca Wild definitely doesn't take s--- from drunken guys (there was some slob at her table she had to put into place) and she's very much the business woman -- not overly friendly but not a bitch either. She was pleasant to me, her slobbering fan boy so I can't complain. This is the second time I've seen her show and I could see myself checking her out again in the future.

Nice Jewish Girl in LA

NiceJewishGirl arrived in LA Saturday afternoon, and in the evening we went to the Beverly Connection to see Tea With Mussolini, a nice flick. We stopped by two bookstores and they both had my title. Then I brought her home to my lair and took gnarly photos. 71799 717991 717992 717993

NJG says: Luke is darling, I want him to visit me soon. What do you say Luke? What do you think of me?

Luke: You're da bomb baby.

Director James DiGiorgio writes: "Luke....although you've convinced NJG that you're a computer genius and all, it seems that when i click on the pics I'm instead taken to FANtasticOnLine's home page. I'm very disappointed. Was hoping to get a look at her. If she's hot, see if she'd be interested in doing a scene or two. Maybe there's a series there: "The Violation of Nice Jewish Girl " or maybe something like "Nice Jewish Anal Girl." Ya think she'd do inter-racial? Do me a favor and get her scene rates for me, ok?"

Luke: "Jim, this is a nice Jewish girl. She does not do porno."

NJG writes a friend Friday: "He loves the way I write, but I'm not sure he really wants a real relationship, I think he does inside, and there's a whole lot of good spiritual stuff that I love about him, but he reports on PORN for god's sake! And he's "done" a few of those women!!! Ewww! But amazingly, I still like him. Do you think it's because of my terrible self-esteem? You know how it was for me, how abandoned I feel, still feel...do you have any thoughts on the subject? I would respect everything you told me about it. Luke does say he wants to be married. He went to a yeshiva not too long ago! He wants to be monogamous, I believe him. I may be naive, but if you go to his site, click on "Luke F-rd" and read some of his autobiography. He's very very brilliant and interesting, controversial, quick thinking, argumentative, a s----disturber, a web genius, and an "entertainment" reporter, as well as being self-absorbed and has two sides to his personality. I know I over-identify with everyone, and maybe I'm just projecting at identifying with him?

"I'm going to see him tomorrow! He'll be coming over to my grandmother's house after temple. Luke is gorgeous, but he vacillates between his rabbi personae and his addicted to porn personae. And he fascinates me because of this dichotomy. Am I sick for being attracted to a guy like this? I don't know. I just know that I have such terrible luck with guys, and they ALWAYS hurt me. They always say I'm too intense, too needy, too much. I give up! But, it should be interesting with Luke, Luke really wants a jewish girl, although I'm a "new" type of girl to him. He doesn't understand the "alternative" underground type of girl like myself, yet inside I really am conventional and conservative. Like him, really. So we'll see. On paper and on the phone our neurosis match, at least in my mind they do. He's going to take pictures of me. I'll send them to you. He's a computer genius. I told Luke I want to be married, and I know that's what he really wants too. He's a bit of an odd character and all, so we'll see if we even like each other in reality! I'm nervous!"

Meta writes on RAME: "It also amazes me that Mr. Journalist Luke F-rd doesn't even know who ths guy was [Stokely Carmichael]... A very threatening figure during the height of the civil rights movement..."

Ultra replies: "Why does it surprises you Ford doesn't know that? The man trolls on race and gender issues but has never impressed me as having a strong working knowledge of the history of the civil rights movement. What amazes me is that his post was grammatically correct. One quirk in Ford's writing I've always loved was how he will refer to people by their (for him) defining characteristic (eg. the black said this, the homosexual said that or, my all-time favorite which appears in his bio of Sharon Mitchell, "the pagan says..." ROTFL! It conjures up delightful images of a loincloth clad Miss Mitchell, sporting a bone through her nose, leaping from some bushes in Van Nuys onto unsuspecting, white, heterosexual nubiles and dragging them off to a pot of boiling oil in the jungle). This affectation seems to suggest how the hack sees people."

VCA owner Russ Hampshire's gone on a three week vacation. He's been taking lots of vacations over the past year. Is l-keford.com driving him out of the business? I know he wants to sell VCA. And how come Russ does most of his important business in the VCA parking lot rather than in his office? Does Russ fear that he's bugged?

Tim writes: "I have read your site for a long time now. You were always reporting on what John T. Bone (aka. Bowen) said. Now that he's being sued by his partners, you have not interviewed him. What gives?"

Luke: "He no longer talks to me. You can regularly find his perspective articulated on www.geneross.com. If Gene covers something, I usually don't feel like I need to, unless I have new information or a new view."

Alisha Klass tells Gene Ross about the January 1999 CES: "I ran into Luke F-rd around 5 am after the last AVN awards. We were just outside the bar at the Rio, in the aisle. He had just wrote all that stuff about how I slept with Paul Fishbein. I've been in Paul's office a total of about four or five times. Most times with Mark Howard. Paul's door was open with his assistant there. So I didn't like hearing that, obviously. Someone told me Luke F-rd was at the bar. I said where the f--- is Luke F-rd. Someone pointed him out. I said you're Luke F-rd? I go, you're the motherf---ing friend of everybody. People were now packing around me. I said you're the motherf---er who writes things about people that aren't true. I said don't do that to me. I don't appreciate it. Facts are facts. It was so weird. He stepped outside the crowd and still stood there and remained there. He did take everything off his site, but I know he printed stuff about Seymore that wasn't true."

Spallone vs Mitchell

Sharon Mitchell sent Rob Spallone a fax, trying to bury the hatchet. "I don't do faxes," responds the truculent Spallone. "She's an ugly f---ing bitch. She has my number. She can call me or come up to me like a human being. She has a parrot in her office that s---s everywhere... Our HIV PCR DNA tests charges $75 while she charges $85. And a lot of her customers are complaining about her bird s---... Someone called Gene Ross to complain about Sharon Mitchell and Gene did not have the balls to print it..."

Luke: "I hear that you have hidden cameras at your shooting house? And that you've captured pictures of Kendra and I doing the nasty thing?"

Rob: "That's not true. I may be a little nuts but I'm not crazy."

Gene Ross and AVN Corruption

Last weekend's AVN Expo was a giant bust for almost everyone concerned, except AVN, who lined their pockets with the proceeds from organized porn aka organized crime aka Metro Home Video.

Thanks to their power as the industry's only trade publication, AVN attracted 110 exhibitors, compared to just 60 at last year's VSDA show in Las Vegas.

Many independent retailers have increased their porno sections to compete against big chains like Blockbuster which do not carry X-rated product.

AVN's Gene Ross told one porn director, I hear, that if he wanted better reviews, he should advertise in AVN. Gene supposedly said, "You guys should've run an ad. I could've helped you more and your distribution deal would've been bigger."

I hear that porners are now lucky to sell 1000 pieces out the door. Kevin Beech was supposedly overheard saying that he only sells 800 pieces out the door on a Farrah movie.

Porner: "I'm sick of Gene Ross and AVN... They're so political. If you don't advertise, they don't give you coverage... Everybody tells me it is the advertising thing. Even XXX told me. He said, 'if you don't advertise, they treat you like s---. When I wasn't advertising, I was getting one stars for all my movies.' And even though he knows that he deserves one star, he's getting threes and fours now because he buys several pages of ads every issue... And he bought a booth at the AVN Expo."

Last Thursday, July 8, I ran into Annabel Chong at the AVN Expo. Her debut video as a director was out, Pornomancer. She said they used the same editing house as the one that did the Madonna video Ray of Light.

Annabel: "It's a bunch of cool young gay guys who have their s--- together. I was referred there by Geoffrey Karen Dior. They also did Attack of the 50-Foot She-Male. My friend Allenina is in it.

"I've been on the road promoting my documentary... and dancing."

I meet Jim Gunn's teenage finds, Dene Dreams and Ashley Heart.

I talk to veteran sales gal Gigi Appleton who recently split from Luc Wylder's Erotic Angel company to create Avalon Enterprises (888-777-0969) in Northridge.

"Avalon is a manufacturers rep," said Gigi. "I represent a bunch of companies - Dave Cummings, Roy Alexandre Productions, Liquid Video, Stardust Video, James DiGiorgio's Blue Light Pictures, Paradox Productions, Danger Boy Video... We're a group, a family. I sell their movies and they make them..."

Gigi has three girls signing for her, Sierra, Gia Darling, and Claudia Ipanima. "And Gia and Claudia are transsexuals, as seen on Howard Stern."

Luke freaks and blushes.

Luke: "Do they have dicks?"

Gigi: "Of course they do. Transsexual Gang Queens outsells everything... Claudia is our newest fine. She's from Brazil...

"Luke, you're blushing... It's great."

Gia and Claudia have masculine voices.

Luke has a fragile psyche and heterosexual identity and he's very easily threatened by folks who he can't put into neat categories such as male and female, kosher and non-kosher.

Luke: "So are they male or female?"

Gigi: "They are transsexuals."

Luke: "I've seen pictures of them but I've never met one."

Gigi: "They're wonderful, very feminine. Very neat ladies. And here's Donita..."

Luke: "Oh yeah, she's the one with the big boobies..."

Dave Cummings comes over and fondles Donita.

Dave: "I objectified her in my Screw My Wife Please #8. She made me cum for my third time that day."

Luke to Donita: "What size are those?"

Donita: "36GG. Since the end of March."

Luke: "How does it affect you?"

Donita: "Not bad. I just need to wear a bra. If I don't wear a bra for two days, I feel it in my back. I've done about 35 videos now. I like the industry. Sometimes it is not as professional as I think it should be. I come from a business background."

Luke: "What are you doing in this business?"

Donita: "I was really bored... I started dancing and I love dancing. I'm starting to feature now. I have my first feature booking mid July. I'm getting my internet going and my publicity... And I enjoy sex too."

Luke: "Who did your boob job?"

Donita: "Dr. Bolton in Long Beach. He put in saline. It's an 800 CC implant inflated to 1325 CC. Before I was a 36DD inflated from a 36B. My husband loves them."

I run into Jim Holliday.

Jim: "It's dangerous to be seen with you."

He's already taken care of his first need - a place to smoke.

I walk through the Vivid booth. Sales manager Howard Levine comes over: "Dude, you don't have to come in. Why do you have to come in?"

Luke: "I'm just doing my job."

Howard: "Dude, you don't have to come in."

I run into General Manager Jeff Steward from Legend. He does not want to meet me nor have his picture taken with me.

I run into Kid Sparkle who's back working for Mark Carriere's Leisure Time:

Kid Sparkle: "I do the marketing, conception and development on the mail order... I direct and produce and shoot camera and all the box designs and all the designs for the AVN stuff. I shoot 12 videos a year for my Kid Sparkle series."

Luke: "What's it like working for Mark Carriere?"

Kid Sparkle: "I don't work directly for Mark Carriere. But Mark Carriere in my eyes is a pretty decent guy. He takes care of me and I take care of him. I don't have close relations with him but I'd rather work for Mark Carriere than anyone else in this business.

"Leisure Time is the biggest company. We sell more videos than anyone in the world. I'm with the big kid on campus."

Luke: "Vivid did about $40 million in sales last year."

Kid Sparkle: "We're in the same ballpark. They base their sales on what they sell to cable... Leisure Time has foreign sales, mail order... We could say that we only do $20 million a year in domestic sales, but we might sell $30 in mailorder and $2 million in space ads..."

Kid Sparkle entered porno in 1996, starting in its art department. "Then I took over the art department and then the marketing, mail order and catalogue. Then I started shooting my own movies. Then they pulled me out of the art department and gave me my own office. I have my hands in everything, the internet... I'm as close to the top as I am going to get, third or fourth in the chain of command."

Luke: "How did you like that MTV documentary?"

Kid Sparkle: "Nobody in the business liked it because they used that one guy J.D. Ram... A drug user... The bottom of the bucket... They didn't depict the whole scheme of things. People outside the business look at the documentary and JD and think that is what porno is all about... And it's not. I wasn't keen on it but they didn't make me look bad. But I also covered my own tracks. I said the right things I needed to say."

Luke: "What's your thing with Kid Vegas and how come there are so many Kids running around?"

Kid Sparkle: "Follow the leader, I guess. There wasn't a 'Kid' before me... I think Kid Vegas is an idiot. I don't think he'll be around in six months. He'll either be washed up on the streets somewhere or he'll be doped up or he'll be shooting scenes for $50. He's no threat to me... I'm dealing with money and work..."

Luke runs into a member of his synagogue at the AVN Expo who works for a mainstream DVD company.

I talk with bubbly 21-year old blonde Samantha Stylle, who left Seymore Butts a few months ago. She's now aligned with Egamii Group, an internet porn company owned by a husband and wife.

Married, Style lives in Sacramento, where Luke spent over ten years of his life.

"I'm going to start my own series called Sammy's Ammies because I really like the amateur stuff... It will be modeled on Seymore Butts and Shane's World... I prefer the most real sex you can get... I want awesome chemistry. I want people to pick who they want to work with... I want fun real sex. We'll start filming in the fall. I'll be both behind and in front of the camera.

"After leaving Seymore in February, I took a break... I loved working with them, but I wanted to start my own series.

"Porn stars are people too... I don't like to wear outrageous clothing to these events. If people want that, they can look at my videos. I am totally the girl next door who likes to have sex for money on camera with people I like to work with...

"I was just talking with Sharon Mitchell and Kim Chambers... And the way they talked to me and looked at me, I felt I got so much respect... And part of it is the way that I dress...

Samantha Stylle: "Egamii is not in a crunch for money, so we're trying to do things the right way... And I've been gardening and cooking... I only come to LA once a month. I've only done 13 movies and no magazine and yet I was nominated for Best New Starlet by AVN.

"I am just so down to earth and so normal, that for this industry, that is weird. To be normal. I don't do tattoos and piercings...

"I want to bring pleasure to people. I want to focus on couples... Bringing the wife in to watch the movie with you... I want sex to be more accepted by the normal middleclass family... For people to feel that they can go out and rent one of your tapes, and it's not, 'oh gosh, we're renting a porno.' Porno is something to help you with your sex, like getting a vibrator.

"I'm just into having good sex, making a living out of it and teaching some people along the way how to have a better sex life, with themselves through masturbating or with their partner... Or with multiple partners.

"[Owners of Egamii] Rebecca and Sean Taylor have an internet provider company that has nothing to do with adult... And an adult company... This is like playing the stock market for them. They see that there is money to be made in adult...

"After leaving Seymore, I was at the point of getting a regular job... Make my own videos and sell them for $40 each. Sell my own pictures, five for $20. It's easy money. Then I ran into Sean and Rebecca. They were fans of mine. I told them about the industry, movies, and where they were headed... What I thought about sex... And they just worked with me... I wanted a say in my own production, not just to be a contract girl where you have to say whatever the company tells you... We modeled ourselves after Shane's relationship with Odyssey Group Video.

"After I graduate [with a BA], I'm going to pursue a law degree. I was in Junior Statesmen of America in high school... I'm going through a custody battle with my stepson and my custody lawyer has offered me a job... He knows that I am such a smart girl with over a 3.0 grade point average. A lot more of the older people respect me than the younger people do."

I notice that Jenna Jameson of Wicked attracts the longest line.

I hang out with the European Sin City contract girls Katja Kean (from Denmark) and Linda Thoren (from Sweden). Katja worked in the hotel business for years until appearing in porno videos for Private in 1997, beginning with Anal Orchid followed by That's Life. She signed with Sin City in April and has done her first scene (director Michael Raven, sex partner Chris Cannon).

"I just did a big budget production for a famous Danish director Lars Boncreer called Constance."

Luke: "How did you get into this industry?"

Katja: "I was watching a movie with my husband...and at the end of the movie was an invitation to send in your picture if you wanted to do movies... After five years, I was tired of the hotel business. In that business also, people go in and out very fast.

"I met Allison Roberts through a Danish journalist... At the AVN office... I did a movie for Wicked KKS - Katja Kean Sports... Then Allison took over as my agent in February..."

Luke: "How does your husband feel about your work?"

Katja: "He's very open minded. He has no problem. He does not do scenes. He's in insurance.

"I prefer to work in the States. It's more like a job. In Europe it's 'what else are you doing?' [Extra-curricular sex.] You're not respected like here. And the people I work with here are more professional, with more longterm goals..."

We're standing with Sin City PR man Leif Rock.

Luke: "Has Leif Rock been professional or is he always hitting on you?"

Katja: "I like him a lot more in person than on the telephone..."

Luke: "Was he trying to get phone sex from you?"

Katja: "No, very professional. Very dry."

Leif: "I just had to bug her a lot to get stuff..."

Katja: "Since I've heard of you [Luke], I'm going to tell you that everybody has been so nice..."

Linda Thoren, now age 21: "At age 17, I wrote a letter to this Swedish mens magazine... I met Thomas [current boyfriend]... They suggested that I wait six months until I was 18. Then Thomas and I started calling each other and we ended up together. The age of consent is 15 in Sweden...

"It's different working in Europe and Japan and the US. In the US, people are open and it's easy to work... In southern Europe, the dinner is very important. A three hour dinner and then they start shooting. In France and Italy, the guys in the movies are always trying to touch you... Even when the camera is turned off... American guys are more professional. European guys keep trying, to prove their manhood. America pays better than Europe though Japan pays better than America.

"I shot for a few magazines in Japan and a few videos... They don't do hardcore... It's easier...

"The first American scene I ever did was for Sin City, Lollipop in 1996...

"I hate children. My ferrets are my children... I want to stay in this business..."

Luke: "Do you have any favorite guys to work with?"

Linda: "No one special... I do porno for the camera... I don't care about the man... He could be a dildo... I turn on for the camera... But it's not like having sex with my boyfriend... "

Last Thursday night, at the Sin City party in Chatsworth, Gabor of Heatwave corrects an assertion made on my site. Gabor, from Heatwave, says he has never sold drugs in his life. On Christmas Eve, 1996, I met a cute girl at a Jewish singles party who worked as an art director for Gabor.

Gabor, who drives a bright yellow Porsche, says that the last time he did drugs was April 23rd, 1986.

I meet Robert Schaffner, owner of Mondo Video at 1718 N. Vermont Avenue in Hollywood, his wife, his business partner and a couple of employees. Robert shows me his first X-rated movie, The Brides of Countress Recula. He tried to shop it at the American Film Market in Santa Monica.

"They called security and removed me with five escorts out of the building. I took fliers over there with titties, blood and gaping assholes all over it... Midgets..."

Luke: "Family values entertainment."

XXX: "Manson family... It has a midget pissing..."

Robert: "We're proud of being disgusting and sick. We have a band but they wouldn't let us play here... We always get into fist fights...

"Our lead singer Rocket Boy is retarded. He can't read or write. He hasn't had sex in 30 years. We want to get ten of the topnotch girls to f--- Rocket Boy. Just imagine the sounds and emotions.

"We play the most outrageous music and Rocket Boy sings songs about f---ing Pippi Longstockings and Nazi UFOs."

Later, I run into James DiGiorgio who tells me that "Alec Metro and Raylene always have the best pot."

A former cocaine dealer, Alec spent about ten years in prison prior to entering porn.

Jim: "And they have some stylistic high-end glass pipe [used for drugs]."

Alec and Raylene agree.

I ask Alec when he's going to make an honest woman out of Raylene and marry her.

Jim: "These business is very hard on relationships. They medicate their pain with marijuana..."

Raylene: "I used to do other drugs but now I've quit..."

Jim: "She used to be more fun when she did more drugs."

Raylene, who's half-Jewish: "Now I stick to my acid and my marijuana. I just got a nose job so I can't do hard drugs. The inside of my nose was all messed up from doing drugs in the past."

Jim: "She looked like an Arab..."

Raylene: "Now I can never do anything again, which is good. I've vowed I will never do hard drugs again. I've already paid $5000 to fix it..."

Jim: "I gave Raylene her first big break [Nightshift 2] which led to her Vivid signing. And Vivid still uses my photograph from my boxcover in their publicity shots because they can't take a better photograph of her... Why hasn't Vivid signed James DiGiorgio?"

Alec and Raylene are producing a gonzo series - Alec Metro's Perverse Journal. "The first volume has three girls who noone else has in the industry... All beautiful. It will be distributed by Sin City..."

I schmooze with Vivid girl Alex Taylor who's married to male stripper Rob Ashton, who appears on numerous covers for romance novels. She'd heard of him for four years before they finally met in late 1996. He looked her up in Atlanta. They married six months later. Alex only does boy-girl sex on camera with Rob, and that is in her Vivid contract.

A nasty band starts playing and clears the room of everyone over 30.

"They cleared the room faster than a quaalude opens a woman's legs," said DiGiorgio.

I see Alicia Rio. She's leaving tomorrow [July 9] for a month dancing as a housegirl in Fairbanks, Alaska. She says she's not ready to feature dance yet. She's got a release from her court dates to accomodate her work. She says she's been working out every day and drinking lots of water and juice.

Kevin Beech yells at me: "Chuck Martino told me that I was the only one he looked up to... Now I read on your site that David [Sturman] is... I'm hurt."

Rob: "You wrote that he said David was the man, when he told Kevin that he was the man."

Luke: "How could David be the man if you're the man?"

Luke to Gina Ryder, Kevin Beecham's girlfriend: "I hear that Kevin boinked five chicks tonight."

Gina: "Yeah, I got them all hooked up... I went down on their pussies, got them ready, and then my baby f---ed them. We're one big happy family."

Friday morning, July 9th, at the AVN Expo, I met manager Lucky Smith (who oversees the porn careers of six girls, including Keri Windsor, Vicca, Nikita and Juli Ashton) and his new girl Phaedra Alexis. A shapely brunette, she tracked him down through a contact at the Lee Network (strip club agency). She did four sex scenes as a blonde named Kim.

Kristen shows me her new tattoo on her lower back - a lotus flower with a pussy in the middle. "I cried," says Kristen. "They closed the tattoo shop while they worked on me. I wanted to cover up my little mushroom and have something on my back that I was proud of."

Luke: "You had drug paraphenelia on your lower back?"

Kristen: "Of course. But I don't do mushrooms anymore. I just smoke pot, and Ecstasy once in a while, on those special ocassions.."

Kristi Myst, at Extreme Associates, says that in her next movie they are going to kill off her Buffy character. Out of the business 18 months to have a baby, she signed with Extreme in April.

Kristi: "I've always had a thing for Jessica Darlin. All the contract girls get along well, except for a couple..."

I talked with Chad, husband of Misty Rain, who complained about a statement someone said on my site that Misty frequently looked drugged or drunk.

"Why didn't you call me?" asked Chad. "For me to get this second hand, seems unfair. It makes me want to kick your ass. If someone wrote that about your girlfriend, wouldn't you want to kick his ass? Misty has worked hard in this business to create a reputable name. We don't do drugs except for a little pot...

"Nine out of ten girls in this business probably do drugs, but I don't see them getting named. Just because Pink TV hired Misty to host their show... Why do Talking Blue [Chad believes Talking Blue was my source] get off for talking bad about Misty?

"If Pink TV is in competition with Pink TV and Kelly Holland, that is America.

"Yes, Missy's site is not up yet but we're putting up a bad assed site. We're not just throwing stuff up there like a lot of other people do. We're not out to rip off the consumer."

MegaMe vs Gene Ross

Gene Ross responds to MegaMe: "Oh, so you're not in the business and you would rather not have your named linked to it..well, excuuuuuuuse me. That statement alone tells me you don't know jack crap about the issues involved, so none of the comments you offer bear much insight, now, do they? You know as much about the facts-at-hand, as I do about Jose Canseco's bulging back disc."

MegaMe: First...no I'm not in the industry, and no I'd rather not have my real name bandied about...much like many of the stars who lambaste Luke for printing their real names. As far as I can tell, the issues are not specifically related to the "industry." They seem to be about liable, slander, freedom of speech, etc...so I can honestly tell you not only do I know Jack, he's a close personal friend.

As far as insight goes...it seems it's simply lost on you...or you simply react too hastily to see the bigger picture. Who's your audience, Gene? Who's reading your site? Who's renting the videos? People "outside" the industry, that's who. My points relate specifically to the audience; to the perception that is developed over time relative to people's words, actions and threats. It's odd that you chose to respond to the fact that I'm not "in" the industry, rather than to any of the other issues expressed. That would lead me to believe that you can't, or refuse to for some reason. Why is that? Looking forward to the continuing debate.

Regards,

MegaMe

P.S. Jose had a herniated disk which was repaired by surgery. May be back this year, but not likely. In fact, he's now talking about retirement.

Paul Kafka Fishbein Writes About the Metamorphosis of Steve Hirsch

As Vivid owner Steve Hirsch awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his dome-like brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.

Oh God, he thought, what an exhausting job I've picked on! Traveling about day in, day out. It's much more irritating work than doing the actual business in the office, and on top of that there's the trouble of constant traveling, of worrying about train connections, the bed and irregular meals, casual acquaintances that are always new and never become intimate friends.

This getting up early, he thought, makes one quite stupid. A man needs his sleep. Other commercials live like harem women. For instance, when I come back to the hotel of a morning to write up the orders I've got, these others are only sitting down to breakfast.

As all this was running through his mind at top speed without his being able to decide to leave his bed-the alarm clock had just struck a quarter to seven-there came a cautious tap at the door behind the head of his bed. "Stevie," said a voice-it was his mother's-"it's a quarter to seven. Hadn't you a train to catch?" That gentle voice! Stevie had a shock as he heard his own voice answering hers, unmistakably his own voice, it was true, but with a persistent horrible twittering squeak behind it like an undertone, that left the words in their clear shape only for the first moment and then rose up reverberating round them to destroy their sense, so that one could not be sure one had heard them rightly. Stevie wanted to answer at length and explain everything, but in the circumstances he confined himself to saying: "Yes, yes, thank you, Mother, I'm getting up now." The wooden door between them must have kept the change in his voice from being noticeable outside, for his mother contented herself with this statement and shuffled away. Yet this brief exchange of words had made the other members of the family aware that Stevie was still in the house, as they had not expected, and at one of the side doors his father Fred was already knocking, gently, yet with his fist. "Stevie, Stevie," he called, "what's the matter with you?" And after a little while he called again in a deeper voice: "Stevie! Stevie!" At the other side door his sister Marci was saying in a low, plaintive tone: "Stevie? Aren't you well? Are you needing anything?" He answered them both at once: "I'm just ready," and did his best to make his voice sound as normal as possible by enunciating the words very clearly and leaving long pauses between them. So his father went back to his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Stevie, open the door, do." However, he was not thinking of opening the door, and felt thankful for the prudent habit he had acquired in traveling of locking all doors during the night, even at home.

His immediate intention was to get up quietly without being disturbed, to put on his clothes and above all eat his breakfast, and only then to consider what else was to be done, since in bed, he was well aware, his meditations would come to no sensible conclusion. He remembered that often enough in bed he had felt small aches and pains, probably caused by awkward postures, which had proved purely imaginary once he got up, and he looked forward eagerly to seeing this morning's delusions gradually fall away. That the change in his voice was nothing but the precursor of a severe chill, a standing ailment of commercial travelers, he had not the least possible doubt. Read On.