Friday, August 13th, 1999
Police Bust Big Prostitution Ring
ST. LOUIS August 13, 1999 (AP)-- Fifteen people have been indicted in what authorities say is a "major" multi-state prostitution ring. Nine of the 15 accused ring members were arrested simultaneously in four states Thursday morning, including five in the Minneapolis area. Guns and drugs were seized in the raids, as well as luxury cars and houses.
According to the FBI, some of the prostitutes were minors. Authorities have identified at least 50 women -- most between the ages of 14 and 18 -- but they suspect that many more might have been involved. The indictment says the prostitutes were beaten, tortured and raped by members of the ring. Authorities say the victims typically stayed with the ring from between six to seven years to as little as two weeks. They were working seven days a week, often three to seven times a day.
"This is as close to modern slavery as you can get," said Detective Joe Delia of the Maryland Heights, Mo., Police Department.
WCCO-TV, CBS 2 News' Minneapolis affiliate, reports that the girls earned millions of dollars for the operators of the prostitution ring, sometimes as much as $20,000 a week. All of the money went to those who ran the operation.
"The females relinquished the proceeds of the prostitution to the pimps," William G. Eubanks of the FBI's St. Louis office said. "They were controlled and disciplined through beatings, torture, rape and attempted murder."
Darren Star-log date Thursday, July 2, 1998: Intragalactic medianaut Krash--not making the obvious connection between the Staten Island Advance and S.I. Newhouse’s Advance Publications, owner of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and other fine periodicals--phones the outer-borough daily for info on late Staten Islander Leigh Zermuhlen.
Staten Island Advance newsroom operative Brian Damiano faxes backstory clips identifying Ms. Zermuhlen’s last date as “....” Damiano, shortly after receipt of faxed clips from Daily News, New York Post and New York Observer, agrees that there seems to be a cover-up and, given its Staten Island angle, says that he’ll pitch the story to his editors.
Darren Star-log date Friday, July 3, 1998: Brian Damiano of the Staten Island Advance, contacted by phone, states that his editors have encouraged him to explore the .../Darren Star/Leigh Zermuhlen mystery. Later that day, medianautic Krash places a call to ... of Sea Cliff, NY--leaving a voicemail message requesting that ... phone Brian Damiano at the Advance with regard to the dead blond at The Mayflower Hotel.
Darren Star-log date Monday, July 6, 1998: Brian Damiano informs Krash--who still hasn’t gotten the Advance Communications link--that his editor, Tom Checchi, has instructed Daminao, suddenly and in no uncertain terms, to spike the ... story.
Darren Star-log date Wednesday, July 8, 1998: Ron “Mr. Big” Galotti, Vogue publisher and intimate associate of Darren Star collaborator Candace Bushnell, is summarily fired by S.I. Newhouse for crimes against the empire. Not only has Galotti compromised the distinguished Vogue “brand” with a factually suspect Darren Star profile penned by Galloti’s occasional sex partner Candace Busnell, but also he had transgressed the Newhouse corporate structure by leaning, via a corporate proxy, on Tom Checchi to spike Brian Damiano’s investigation into Leigh Zermuhlen’s overdose.
Since the Ron Galotti termination is largely subsumed in Newhouse’s simultaneous firing of New Yorker editrix Tina Brown--which is what gets the headlines--Krash, using the latest cybernetic modalities and mediamorphic wetware, rescues the following narrative from the gaping maws of negative space:
On Friday, July 3, at about five p.m., ..., Sr., father of ... Jr.--of whose existence Krash does not yet know--receives a disturbing phone call from a reporter regarding the dead blond in the Mayflower Hotel. ... phones his son, now known as Darren Star. Darren Star phones Bushnell, who phones Galotti--and together with the ... family, they spend much of the weekend plotting how to zap the looming Staten Island Advance story. On Monday, Galotti--his reasoning clearly clouded by the innumerable conflicts of interest wrought by his romance with “Sex and The City” writer and Vogue contributor Bushnell --bullies an Advance Publications underling into ordering editor Tom Checchi to kill Brian Damiano’s Darren Star investigation. This intelligence is not slow in reaching the ear of avenging entreprenur S.I. Newhouse.
Darren Starlog date Wednesday, August 4, 1999: Staten Island Advance editor Tom Checchi denies, in a telephonic exchange of analog signals with Krash, that he is responsible for killing the Darren Star story. Moreover, asserts Checchi, he is “not comfortable” with Krash’s invasive phoner. Krash hangs up, allowing Checchi to make himself comfortable, and places a call to Brian Damiano in the Advance newsroom. Damiano reiterates: Tom Checchi is the guy responsible for killing the Darren Star story. Darren Starlog date Friday, August 13, 1999: A telephonic scan of the Staten Island Advance newsroom reveals that Brian Damiano “doesn’t work here anymore”. More heads roll in the next transmission of Reckless Endangerment 90210.
Reporting for l-keford.com: Krash, going boldly where no maniac has gone before.
Woo-OO-oo-oo-oo-OOOOO.... Woo-OO-oo-oo-oo-OOOOO....
Chuck Martino Update
I talked to my wounded buddy Chuck at 2 PM. He totaled his car early Sunday morning, August 1, after spending all Saturday shooting a Philmore Butts movie.
Chuck: "The cops said, 'what happened?' I couldn't tell them because I had f---ing smacked my head... So I say, hahahahah.... And those f---ers gave me every [drug] test they could give me. They said, blow in this and it reads 0.0. And they laugh...I could hardly f---ing sit up because my back hurt so bad... They took me to the hospital where those f---ers gave me every kind of drug test imaginable for every kind of f---ing drug...from Ectasy to coke to speed... And they said, this f---ing guy doesn't have anything in his body. What the f--- happened? I said, it was an accident.
"I was in a semi coma until Thursday night, August 5th... My mom, who lives in Palm Desert, says you would come out of it for 30 seconds twice a day and then slip back into it. When I came to, they gave me a catscan, and the doctor looked at my mom and said, I've never seen this before. For someone to be in a f---ing coma for three days and have no brain damage. She said that this is f---ing incredible. They released me to my mom last Friday.
"I've been staying at my mom's this week... I just came home..."
Luke: "So, how did the accident happen?"
Chuck: "Luke, if I could f---ing tell you, I could tell everybody. I know I was coming off the 101 at Reseda and hit my brakes. My brakes locked... I've got a lawyer and we're going... There was a reason the brakes. I didn't slow down. I had my brakes flat to the floor from the beginning of the offramp until I ran straight into the metal pole across the street. Wrapped my car around the pole, the light came down, the airbag came out... My f---ing hands are numb... So I'm f---ed. My backs all f---ed up... f---ing cuts everywhere...
"I totalled my other car three years ago and nothing happened. Just scratched my hand. This one f---ed me up... A concussion...
"I had every drug test and came up negative. They don't just allow you to total a car, have drugs in your system, and walk away. That's not how our system works. I've got my hospital records right here...
"I'm very lucky because I partied in July... I'm lucky it wasn't then... I told my mom and she said, you're very lucky. I'm lucky to be alive.
"I'm talking kinda weird because my mouth is all f---ing sliced inside because I bit my tongue during the accident and there are pieces of my tongue where my teeth sliced it open... I bit my cheeks. There's a hole inside my mouth where it was sliced open... Your spit has acid in it so that it burns... I haven't been able to eat a whole lot... I'm on a f---ing liquid diet. I've lost about 20 pounds."
Luke: "You don't need to lose that."
Chuck: "f--- dude... It all went from my stomach... I look f---ing ripped. I look like someone from a f---ing diet program... I want to get back to work. So what's happening here, the same old porno?"
Luke: "Yeah."
Chuck: "Oh man, I'm f---ing glad to be back to normal... Mentally I feel like I've got a f---ing new lease on life. I didn't learn in the last accident. This time I learned. I learned how easy it can be here today and gone tomorrow."
Luke: "I've had an accident or two. It is a very sobering experience."
Chuck: "That's a good way to put it... I would be surprised if I even smoked a f---ing joint. I won't even take aspirin right now... I'm in f---ing pain but I told the f---ing doctor, don't give me nothing for the f---ing pain. I don't want no f---ing pain pills... They drained my whole system out while I was in a coma. They shoot IV [intravenous needles] through... 250ccs an hour... My brain and my body inside feels 20 years old again. I don't want nothing... I think the worst is over.
"I'm sure everyone is saying, oh, he was f---ed up. That's why he totalled his car. I don't give a f--- what people are saying. You've been in an accident... I've got hospital reports and my close friends know..."
Fred: "Luke, the Chuck M stuff is so good. Too bad you can't get stuff like this daily. Compelling stuff."
Economist Profiles Steve Hirsch
The latest issue of the British newsweekly the Economist profiles the owner of Vivid Video Steve Hirsch:
"The studio system provides Vivid with brand identity. Now that anyone with a hand-held video camera can make a film, the market is being saturated (see chart). Vivid employs an in-house director to give its films a “Vivid feel”; it even makes sure that the boxes that the film comes in have a “Vivid look”.Significantly, Vivid’s biggest competitors, notably VCA, are adopting a similar strategy to deal with the glut in the market.
"What happens if the Vivid girls decide to set up in business on their own, just as Humphrey Bogart and his cohorts did in the 1950s? The answer, as far as Mr Hirsch is concerned, is not much. Vivid girls are a lot easier to replace than the likes of Julia Roberts, not least because they appeal to the least discriminating parts of the consumer’s brain. And life outside the studio’s warm embrace is a lot colder in Mr Hirsch’s world than it is on the other side of the Hollywood hills."
Veloacre writes: "OH MY F*ING LORD - did you really read the article?? In the second paragraph the author compares Stevie's AVN awards to "Adult Oscars" - OH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE who the f--- is he kidding!!! Those AVN awards are not even CLOSELY related to Oscars .. to even use that in the same sentence is dragging Oscar's name through the dirt (or should we say smut?) Those AVN awards (as every one knows) are merely "awards" for those who patronize (read: place ads) in AVN. The more $$$ you line Paul's pockets with the more AVN "awards" you shall receive. Just ask Stevie, he can verify this information first hand. Don't these journalist check facts or do research before writing/posting ANY articles?"
Veloacre refers to this: "The tanned and aerobicised Mr Hirsch looks like just another foot-soldier in that vast army of Californians who divide their time between the gym and the beach. Yet as he chats about corporate diversification, market segmentation and vertical integration, he sounds as if he has just graduated from a high-powered business school. He sits in front of an eye-catching display of Adult Video News Awards (in 1997, Vivid won no fewer than 15 of these adult Oscars, an all-time high). But if you focus instead on his collection of fossils, amber and presidential memorabilia, which he displays equally proudly, you can be forgiven for thinking that you are talking to an unusually technology-savvy executive in Hollywood proper."
Luke: "AVN publisher Paul Fishbein has shown me the ballots from reviewers regarding the AVN Awards as well as the new electronic setup... And everything checks out... However, industry rumor says that some of the awards have been fixed and one source tells me that he has sat in on meetings where AVN Awards were fixed [like Savannah's Best New Starlet for 1992?]."
Naughty Quebec Firefighters
QUEBEC CITY, Canada (Reuters) -- Three firefighters have been suspended after scenes from an erotic movie featuring a naked porn star [Cindy Cinnamon] were shot at a Quebec City fire station last June, embarrassed city officials said on Friday. A fire chief and two lieutenants were suspended without pay on Thursday for wrongly authorising the use of city property during the shooting of "Cindy Cinnamon, Queen of the Exhibitionists."
Johnny Jump-Up
ZZ: "I was watching a 1986 (?) vid called Deep Inside Vanessa Del Rio; the story and the music are credited to someone named "Johnny Jump-Up", who also does the narration. Now, either this guy IS Frank Zappa, or else he has the most mind-bogglingly Zappa-like voice you could imagine. At first I thought it was just a coincidence and that it must be someone else, but then I remembered a few things: -Zappa apparently staged a pictorial for Hustler, when the Thing-Fish album came out.
-The utterly silly story is not unlike some of his absurd songs (they shot in small-town California, and pretend it's Siberia...).
-The lyrics of the theme song also remind us of the more ribald Zappa songs ("Grab a flashlight, we're goin' deep inside Vanessa Del Rio, where we might find an organ or two", to a music not unlike the tune Brazil).
So I guess I'm puzzled. Has anyone ever heard of that Johnny Jump-Up? Has he ever written/scored anything else?"
Given that disrespect for human sanctity is built into pornography, Luke would not be surprised if various members of our esteemed adult industry would make snuff films or child pornography if they could get away with it. Email Luke with your tips on porners most likely to make snuff.
Speaking of snuff films, Gene Ross reports: With the 2nd Annual XXX-Treme Adults-Only Mexican Vacation looming over the October horizon, a talent call is being scheduled for Tuesday, August 17. It will be held at Metro Home Video between noon and 4 pm. "We're casting for the October trip to Mexico where we will be shooting MANY videos as well as productions for September," said Quaserman. "We need much vagina. Interested parties should come see us at 16557 Arminta Street in Van Nuys. For those of you without map reading skills you may call 818-988-1067 for directions." Quaserman stresses that this is a FEMALE talent call. "If you have a penis please go to a movie that day," he suggests.
Luke suggests that anybody who values their life not work for Metro. And while I generally do not seek lawsuits, I would welcome one from Mafia Home Video.
Michka: "The fact that snuff films are illegal in the US, and the fact that the US government would have a strong case for considering it a RICO offense and thus taking *all* of the businesses involved with their assets, makes this so unlikely that I do not even know what possesses you to think people would be that stupid. I doubt Jim South wants to raise that much money for the government, plus spend time in jail to boot."
XXX: "Yo, Luke- I think that Peter North would make a snuff film if he could get away with it. He would call it a Matt Ramsey production, have a twelve year old boy shove a jackhammer up his ass, and then kill the boy with a steak knife. North would then deny everything, saying it was preposterous. After being questioned, however, he would say that he used "a stunt butt and fake silverware." That or he would probably just kill someone on film for touching his hair(piece)."
Nice Jewish Girl Raped
Another l-keford.com exclusive
Nice Jewish Girl phoned me at 8PM Thursday night.
NJG: "You don't like CuteJewishGirl...Cookie told me your mother was Jewish?"
Luke: "My mother is a dead goy."
NJG: "I told her that your mother was a Dead Goy. Because your mom died, you're really angry and you are going to f--- over every Jewish girl."
Luke: "Yeah."
NJG: "And be really cold to them because you have problems with intimacy in the same way that I do... Now you're shying away from CJG because she likes you. Yes, be honest... You're just like my father. You go around saying you're going to get married and it is a lie Luke. You don't want to get married."
Luke: "I want to get married. I want to settle down and put aside the life of tawdry blowjobs and one night stands..."
NJG: "If you wanted to get married, you have so many opportunities with Jewish women who are not in porn... And you shove us aside. You shoved me aside and you're shoving this one aside...
"I'm so disappointed she slept with you the first night. I would never sleep with a guy on the first night."
Luke: "I boffed her baby twice. She sucked my cock."
NJG: "On the first date? What is that?"
Luke: "She was drunk."
NJG: "You did a drunk girl? Isn't that date rape?"
Luke: "She liked it."
NJG: "I want to sleep with you maybe, but I have to get to know you..."
Luke: "We need to talk about your first time..."
NJG: "You don't call me anymore..."
Luke: "I do..."
NJG: "When was the last time you f---ing called me?"
Luke: "I don't remember exactly."
NJG: "I don't remember either the last time you called me or emailed me or even said like what I wrote to you was good. I wrote to you several emails that you loved and you didn't say great or anything... I did not get any encouragement from you whatsoever... You know Luke already what kind of a girl am I... I need attention and affection and at least saying that's great..."
Luke: "I f---ed you... I took your emails and I gave you nothing in return."
NJG: "That wasn't very nice."
Luke: "It's like I sodomized you and came all over your face."
NJG: "Ohmigod."
Luke: "I'm sorry."
NJG: "You better be sorry baby. Don't be jealous, but I saw Po Bronson [writes on Sillicon Valley and the internet] tonight... You could do a better job... All my girlfriends were like, oh, he's a hunk on the net... He looks like Richard Gere but you're better looking. But his hair is all grey and I am not into guys with grey hair... He's PC and I don't like it... There were all these f---ing black dykes behind me and they were only there because the woman that puts on these things is black and so they were like black dykes behind me and they were whispering and I was pissed off. There were lots of chicks there but I was one of the better looking chicks. I am pretty cute."
Luke: "You are. So tell me again about that time you were 13 and you got raped."
NJG giggles.
Luke: "When I think about what those two beasts did to you, I get all choked up."
NJG: "You do? And how long has this fantasy been going on? Are you choking your chicken while you're getting choked up?"
Luke: "Baby, that is so insensitive to my feelings. I just want to take my new gun and blow these bastards away."
NJG: "But you only have a small dick baby... I'm a size queen. I can accomodate...
"Wait, I have to put on some music for this...Ok...
"I saw two of my fans mentioned me on your site. They wrote NJG but CJG..."
Luke: "My fans love you."
NJG: "They do. Because I am a Drama Diva.
"Ok, are you recording this?"
Luke: "Yes."
NJG: "That's ok. I had a girlfriend Kathy. And she was bigger than me. I was really skinny and I was beautiful and I was only 13..."
Luke: "And you had big knockers."
NJG: "Totally humongous. I was 4'6". I was..."
Luke: "All knockers... Oh baby..."
NJG: "There were like these guys in Junior High and they grabbed me... And they were like 6' tall... And they grabbed me and they said 'oh, kleenex...' It was so embarrassing because mine were not kleenex."
Luke: "Did they feel you up?"
NJG: "They walked by me and they grabbed me. It was practically my first day of Junior High and I was freaked out."
Luke: "And they started fondling your breasts?"
NJG: "They just came right up to me... They were like 6' tall. You know how they grow in the Valley... They just grabbed my breasts..."
Luke: "Did they twist your nipples?"
NJG: "Yes... And they hurt me and I was traumatized..."
Luke: "Oh, that's terrible. Did your nipples get hard?"
NJG: "No...So then my other thing with those two guys. So Kathy, her boyfriend named Rob and his friend named Steve... And they picked me and this other girl Sue up from school, from Junior High. Rob was 19 years old and Steve was 16 or 17. And Steve was fat and ugly and he had braces. Rob and I had been flirting alot. I've always liked boys. You know me. Am I flirt? Do I flirt with everyone?"
Luke: "Yeah... You do..."
NJG: "Does everybody like me? They do. When I was in ballet class, the two straight guys... Was I the most popular girl in my class with men and women? I was The Girl."
Luke: "Yes, you were the girl."
"So, Rob and Steve get me stoned and they say, ask your mom if you can stay out later. And my mom, who knows this guy [Rob], he's been over at my house a million times, says yeah."
Luke: "How irresponsible."
NJG: "And I thought, cool, we're just going to go get stoned. So we're in the car and Rob's kissing me. And I'm like, I don't think we should be doing this. You're my friends boyfriend. I'm 13! And he says, oh, you are so beautiful to me. And I'm totally insecure and I'm eating this up. You're serious.
"And he says, oh, you are so hot, blah, blah, blah... And I'm like, really, do you think that? And I agree to kiss him... And Steve's driving...And this other girl Sue is in the back...And the next thing we know, is, I'm like, where are we? And we're in Reseda. Near Reseda High School. And I'm like, what's going on. And he's like, I'm going to f--- you. And I'm like, you're going to what? No you're not. No way. That's gross. And he's like, yes I am. And I'm like scared.
"You already know Luke that my family is really dysfunctional so I can't call my mother to come pick me up. I go into the house and I don't know what to do. I'm only 13. I'm just a girl. We walk passed Steve's mother in the living room drinking a beer and watching TV. And we go into his room which is right next to that room. You know how the Valley houses are set up. And you know how you can hear everything.
"We get in there and it was like, take off all your clothes. And I was like, I don't wanna take off all my clothes...So they make me take off all my clothes. And I'm like, I don't want to do this. I don't want to be here. I wanna go home."
Luke: "Oh baby."
NJG: "And the TV is on really loud and nobody cares. And I'm scared. And I don't want to be in that room with those two guys... Everybody is naked."
Luke: "Did they have big boners?"
NJG: "I don't remember. They scared me. The other girl Susan is boffing Rob right away. They're at it like rabbits. She's Kathy's other best friend and there was all this tension between me and Susan because we both loved Kathy... We were both her best friend. And that she was betraying Kathy. I was sitting there shocked.
"And they forced me to take off all my clothes. They tore them off of me."
Luke: "Did Rob have a condom on?"
NJG: "No, this was before the days of condoms."
Luke: "Did he come?"
NJG: "I don't know. I wasn't paying attention. I was freaking out. And I remember listening to the radio and praying to God that I get out alive. And this guy Steve is on me and he starts eating me... And his braces are on me [vaginally]... And I don't like it. And he's biting me and I don't know what he's doing... And he's giving me hickeys.. I'm totally crying..."
NJG cries over the phone.
Luke: "Did he open up your legs?"
NJG: "Yep."
Luke: "What a beast."
NJG: "I'm crying, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts... We're on a bed... And the fat guy is on top of me and I am really thin..."
Luke: "And he sticks his dick into you?"
NJG: "Not only that, but he ate me..."
Luke: "Did he pull out and come or did he come inside of you?"
NJG: "I don't remember... He may've come inside of me... Really gross. I was crying. Then Rob said, ok, switch. And I said switch, what does that mean. And then Rob comes over to me and I'm thinking that Rob is still my friend... Because I'm only 13, he doesn't need to do this to me... How could he hurt me like this? We're friends, I thought he liked me... And I'm crying. And I'm saying, Rob, how could you let this happen to me?'
NJG sniffs over the phone.
"I don't understand. What did I do? Why? I wanna go home. And he says, no, it's ok baby... And he starts comforting me and he hugs me and then he f---ed me!"
Luke: "Oh, and then he f---s you?"
NJG: "He f---ed me!"
Luke: "Is he on top?"
NJG: "I think so."
Luke: "Did it feel good though?"
NJG: "No."
Luke: "Did he have a big dick?"
NJG: "I don't remember. I was a virgin. I didn't like dick then."
Luke: "Were you bleeding?"
NJG: "I was bleeding."
Luke: "Did he go down on you while you were bleeding?"
NJG: "I don't know. I think he did. And I was like, I don't want to do this. I want to go home. Then I stopped crying and I went into another zone inside my head. I totally disassociated. I was like, please God, please let me get out of this alive. I just want to go home to my bed."
Luke: "And how long did it last?"
NJG: "Luke, I am like getting really overcome. This is like really f---ed up s---... This is so f---ed up I can't even tell you. It really hurts me to think about it. It's really horrible. I was a virgin. I trusted him... And he did that to me."
Luke: "What a prick."
NJG: "It was so f---ing awful Luke, you don't know. And I was stuck in Reseda."
Luke: "Yech, just imagine losing it in Reseda."
NJG cries. "I was really freaked out and I went home and I told you all about that whole f---ing scenario at my house. And then my girlfriends all blamed me for the whole thing. And me and Kathy got into a fight and I kicked her ass. She was twice the size of me but I am a scrappy fighter..."
Luke: "And then didn't Steve force you to fellate him?"
NJG: "Oh yeah. And then me and Kathy ran away from home... I was influenced by stronger girls. Kathy was so strong. She was a Scorpio and I was a Libra girl. We wound up in Reseda at Steve's house. And yes he forced me to fellate him in the parking lot and he came all over me. It was the most horrifying experience. I just remember choking and feeling like I wanted to baugh."
Luke: "Were you able to take all of his dick down your throat?"
NJG: "He had a fat dick. It was hard to get it in my mouth but he forced me. I didn't do anything..."
Luke: "Did he put his hands on the back of your head and move your face up and down on his dingaling?"
NJG: "I don't remember. I just remember feeling, I want to choke, I want to die, I want to kill myself. I don't want to be alive..."
Luke: "Did you get raped after this as well?"
NJG: "Ummm... I would do a lot of things after that but I wouldn't have intercourse...No, I wouldn't fellate. I liked guys going down on me..."
Luke: "Did you jerk them off?"
NJG: "No."
Luke: "How did they get off?"
NJG laughs. "I don't know. Wait, I did have a boyfriend at age 15. And I did jerk him off and we got caught by his mom. She called me a whore and threw me out of the house. We were in love. He'd come to my house every night and cry about how much he loved me. But so what? He was just Marty..."
Luke: "Did anyone breastf--- you?"
NJG: "Breastf---?"
Luke: "Yeah, they put their dick between your big breasts?"
NJG: "I think that happened that first rape... After that, I wouldn't let people get their dicks near me... I was so sensitive and delicate...I'm lucky I didn't end up with several different personalities...
"I fear and hate men..."
Luke: "Did pornography cause your rape?"
NJG: "Steve did have Playboy posters in his room."
Luke: "They've been known to cause rape."
NJG: "I think they read Hustler. They had chicks with dicks. They used to get me loaded and say, hey, hey, look at this? And it would shock me and I would go out of my gourd and say don't f---ing show me that. I can't handle chick with dick thing."
Luke: "The beasts, the beasts... Thank you for being a part of l-keford.com."
NJG: "You're shrink setting you up with CJG, it's unethical... And obviously your shrink wasn't good enough... She didn't figure out that you hate women. That I figured out..."
Luke: "I can't hide it from you."
NJG: "Maybe I should find some other guy?"
Luke: "Like Gene Ross?"
NJG: "I can't wait for you to get your s--- together, Gemini... I'm a bright, cute girl... You have influenced me in a good way. I am going to shul [synagogue], this vegetarian potluck with chasidism and kabbalah..."
A: NJG: "You don't like CuteJewishGirl.. Luzdedos1: oyve Luzdedos1: she'sjealous A: I can't beleive you printed this - I am pissed now Luzdedos1: really Luzdedos1: ? A: yes Luzdedos1: kick her ass A: forget it - I am not going to feed this A: bye luke
10:45 PM Update: NJG: "I feel bad for her CJG. She doesn't know what hit her. She doesn't understand you... You have to be of the same mindset as you to understand you... Only I am like that. I understand you 100% but most women won't and they're going to be freaked out..."
Luke: "So how was my writeup of the rape story?"
NJG: "It was really good."
Luke: "The tone of my voice?"
NJG goes into hysterical laughter. "You sound so sympathetic on the website but you know you were just saying whatever... You didn't feel my pain... It fed into your rape fantasies."
Luke: "Do you think that I am exploiting you for my website?"
NJG: "Oh yeah."
Luke: "I think pornography is responsible for you getting rape... Porn desensitizes men, turns them into brutes..."
NJG: "We were on the same level except for that time when you said that women should have their heads pushed in toilets by men... Where did that come from?"
Luke: "I'd just watched a porno..."
NJG: "Previous to that time, you were completely supportive..."
Luke: "Porn reduces men to savages and they savage women."
NJG: "The men who did that to me were savages. I felt like an animal in the zoo. I do think there is a connection with porn but help me...
"I was so traumatized by what happened to me... I felt in shock for a long time... I was totally afraid of men and I am still afraid of men... If you're 13 and you don't have a mom or dad to talk to about this because your mom and dad are porn freaks... They have magazines and everything... They're all liberated... My mother was cheating all the time... She did my friends... She thought it was ok that her 13 year old daughter was f---ing. Even though I wasn't f---ing, I was raped."
Luke: "I think it was disgusting what those guys did but it was stupid of you to be stoned and hanging out with them."
NJG: "Even though I was only 13? That I needed love and my mother didn't give me any? Where was I supposed to go for love Luke? I only wanted people to love me. So I turned to boys but boys don't love you."
Fred writes: "It seems rather odd for NJG, or anyone else for that matter, to be so complacent about having you post on your web site a rather long description of how she was raped at an early age. Is this story for real? Why do you suppose she would want that published on your web site?"
Luke: "The story is for real. Why on my website? She knew that it would be handled sensitively and responsibly."
NJG writes Saturday: "Luke I saw this great indie movie "Broken Vessels"! BTW Ron Jeremy is in it but I didn't even see him. I didn't even realize it till I saw the credits. BV is about these paramedics, one of whom has a drug problem already and the other one is more of an innocent, but slowly gets caught up in it. The innocent one barfs several times in the movie, in his roommates aquarium, behind the couch, on the street and at some point in the toilet too. This movie was heavier than Drugstore Cowboy, heavier than Trainspotting. This movie made me feel like I was dice and rolled around in a cup than spit out! I love a movie like that! I know you hate that, but it is great. It took me hours to get back to myself. I was walking around the city like a zombie afterwards. The guy who plays Jimmie (Jason London) is really cute, he's the more knowledgeable and burnt out guy. They bond over self-destruction.
"And I went to the newsstand to read this scholary magazine called Lingua Franca, which had a huge article on David Stoll and the Rigoberto Menchu controversy. RM is a Nobel Peace Prize "author" who said she was a poor peasant and the army killed her family. She got accolades galore for this, she has become an icon. But according to David Stoll she is not from a "peasant" family, her family was a pretty well off farming family in Guatemala, she was never illiterate as she portends in her "book" (more on that Nobel Prize winning book in a sec), she went to Catholic school. David Horowitz thinks she's a fraud. David Stoll says that the military was horrible in Guatemala. But the Mayan Indians that she says she is, just weren't involved in the politics of it. RM says she didn't even write her Nobel Prize winning book, she dictated it to a professor, and he is currently suing her for the profits (you know those "leftists" that SAY they are for the downtrodden). She says that there are a lot of untruths in it. Some Latin American journalist says that "only a gringo would believe it was true (her story)" and goes on to defend her. According to him, the Lat. Am. journalist "she represents" the poor. My opinion? I'm LOL. What does "represent" mean?"
Francis D. Cornworth Auctions His Virginity
A 17-year old boy is auctioning off his virginity on Ebay.com. He writes: "Hi! My name is Franics. I just turned 17 and I'm going into my Senior year in High School. I decided I'd like to lose my virginity. I figured with the latest eBay craze, I'd see exactly how much I could get for my virginity. Bidding on me will start at $10. I bet you want to know some information about me now! As I previously stated, I'm seventeen years old. I am... a virgin in the top 5% of my class and am a standing member of the National Honor Society the president of my school's computer & A/V clubs Lead trumpet in jazz band a proud completer of 400 community service hours, last year alone I think I am desirable if I can find the right woman (or man, I'm willing to experiment.) I live in Miami, FL. If you live in Florida, I could probably meet you halfway up to Orlando in my 1990 Honda Civic Hatchback. Otherwise, you'll have to arrange to meet me. Please, no women or men over 60. If you know you carry an STD, please do not bid."
Jeff Feiger Show
Luke appeared Thursday afternoon on the Jeff Feiger Show (attorney to Jack Kevorkian) on a Detroit radio station to discuss his new book.
From www.snipe.net: "Jeffrey Feiger is the lawyer responsible for keeping the ever cheerful and upbeat Dr. Kevorkian out of jail. He is crude, unpolished, controversial, and consistently wins the Mad Scientists guild award for best hair. This man nearly won the Governor's race in Michigan."
Jeff's brother is Doug Feiger who wrote "My Sharona" about a nice Jewish girl turned real estate agent who lives nearby. She went to Santa Monica college with NiceJewishGirl.
Feiger: "Where are the pictures? Somebody showed me this book and I said, 'thank God we have an interesting author here...' Then I look at the book and there are no pictures."
Luke: "You have to go to l-keford.com."
Feiger: "Believe me, we have... How come you didn't put them in the book?"
Luke: "I sent pictures to the publisher and in their infinite wisdom, they chose not to include them."
Feiger: "Are they crazy?"
Luke: "Ahh..."
Feiger: "Are they crazy?"
Luke: "Ahh..."
Feiger: "I have a long history with Prometheus Books. You better watch your statement... They'll forget to send it to you. Their method of accounting is creative... You will never sell a book actually, they will all be returned. No matter if you sell 100,000, they will all be returned.
"Now since I've given you all this free legal advice, you are going to introduce me to all the people in the business?"
Luke: "You don't want me to introduce you..."
Feiger: "Is there much of a chance for people in the industry crossing over and becoming successful in the film industry?"
Luke: "Yeah, just as much chance as people in the garbage industry or the cheese industry from crossing over..."
Feiger: "How does the industry attract talent?"
Luke: "The same way as your neighborhood pimp..."
Feiger: "Are there really snuff films?"
Luke: "Two men were convicted in Germay this year for making and selling a snuff film... And I believe that there are people in the American porn industry who would probably procure talent for snuff films for, say, $250,000... [If someone offered Jim South of World Modeling $250,000 to get a girl for a snuff film, would he do it? I don't know.]"
Feiger: "We don't need moral police... Remember Ed Meese?"
Luke: "I have no problem with moral police investigating smut... I was more hands off in my attitude towards pornography and censorship until years in this industry just wore me down... It is such a foul place, and the way some of these people continually degrade... I don't have a problem with censorship... As soon as Clinton called the feds off, the way this industry just got nastier... 100 men boffing a woman... Now we have rape scenes..."
Feiger: "Is there such a thing as fem porn?"
Luke: "Yeah, like there are Jews for Jesus."
Feiger: "Their motto is, Jews for Jesus - We can lead you to him wholesale.
"Luke, what's your take on people like Guccione, Hefner and Flynt... People who've made fortunes in legitimate pornography?"
Luke: "I think these are low people who've trafficked in human misery and low instincts and they will get what they deserve, if not in this world, then in the world to come."
Luke F-rd Hypocrite
Pornoguy writes: "Congratulations! You are now a bona fide celebrity! You must be proud of yourself. I must say that I find it rather hypocritical however that you condemn pornography out of one side of your mouth and then appear in Rolling Stone photographed with two of the very people you condemn. You wax philosphic about the decay of morality and then boast about your trysts with assorted porno starlets. You claim you are have no problem with censorship when it comes to pornography but have also claimed in the past that you abhor communism. You are the type of person who would bring a six pack to an AA meeting. Do you have any priciples whatsoever? You have all the credibility of Jimmy Swaggart or Jim Bakker. The fact that you report a great deal of information that the industry would rather you left alone does not bother me. The righteous indignation you display in the face of your own uncanny hypocrisy is what I find disturbing, as well as your indifference to factual reporting. To suggest that Jim South would provide talent for a snuff film if the price were right is pure fantasy on your part. You can't hide behind the "satire" defence on that one. You attempted to enter this industry as a producer/director and failed miserably. Everything after that in my opinion has been an attempt on your part to get even. I don't doubt that you will post this. The one thing you are honest about is posting the opinions of your detractors."
Juliet writes: "I have been a high-end developer in the main stream and adult Internet market for years. Adult Video and Adult Internet are very different animals. I read the article in the LA Times and I felt compelled to write. The adult Internet world is becoming and soon will be the major monetary support of the adult industry. Run by intellectuals far superior in talent than you could ever relate to. Multi-million dollar main stream as well as adult companies with all the money they have still can't figure out the Internet world. AVN has blown the adult Internet world wide open.
"I had never heard of "Puke" I mean Luke F-rd until a few months ago.. Anyone who is making any money certainly doesn't have time to read a bunch of gossip. You may have tricked mainstream media into thinking your worth something, however the rest of us out here running the gen-x internet adult world know your full of rat s---! Your s---ty site that was remodeled by another porn site so they could leech traffic is just that, we know you couldn't html your way out of a paper bag. Your a goof, a gag, a fad...... Your the inquirer and AVN is the CNN.. People may read you but nobody believes and nobody has any respect for you. AVN Online is accurate and full information that makes money. The value is clear-cut to all of us.. you can gather the droppings of the adult video world because it takes no brains, no ingenuity.. your just regurgitating what was bad dialog to begin with. The fact is you couldn't report on technology because your technically retarded. You couldn't hold your own."
Elastino received this: HE IS A TOTAL f---ING LAMER!!! He came off as a total unmitigated fraud trying to con the audience. I've really never heard anything as blatant as this in a long time - He makes Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge seem like the Reverend Billy Graham and the Romper Room teacher by comparison. I have never before formed an opinion of him - I have heard the criticisms, seen his responses and talked to him online. But I never saw his "work".
Many porno figures past and present called to lambast him on the air. And what was incredible about it, is that he didn't even really try to defend himself. He just sort of whimpered sort of half-assed mea culpas over and over again and explained how he had been misled in publishing lies, false rumors, et al. repeatedly. He may as well have committed Hari Kari on the air. It left me with the inescapable conclusion that he is dead set on obtaining the sort of flawed fame and fortune that only the most cynical and sick at heart of us go after. I will say one thing for him, he is extremely articulate with a great voice and charming british accent. But he's not legit and one of these days if he ever sells a book or two, Margold and countless others will be able to sue him for libel and slander. I would not want to be the carrier who issues his umbrella liability policy.
New Yorker on Porn Internet IPOs
"Where are all the paper billionaires in the on-line porn business" asks the August 16 New Yorker. About the only folks making a profit on the internet are porners yet none of them have gone public (meaning, issuing stock and moving from a private holding to becoming a corporation). Seth Warshavsky's IEG has been trying for a year to go public and its offering should occur within the next three months.
"All the banks have been very interested in the deal," Warshavsky told the New Yorker, but some of the Grade A firms have been worried about how it would affect tehir other relationships."
Seth says that IEG earned $15 million last year on $50 million in revenues. He values the company between two hundred and five hundred million dollars.
Public companies must comply with a host of regulations that do not apply to privately held companies, which will scare off many porners.
Also in the New Yorker, a profile of mob lawyer Oscar Goodman who recently became Mayor of Las Vegas. Raised in Philadelphia like Fishbein, Goodman once considered becoming a rabbi. Instead he became a lawyer, moved to Las Vegas, and represented numerous mob figures and pornographers.
"Goodman's last big Mob case went to trial in 1996. And although Americans have long been infatuated with the Mafia, there is not much romance in pornographers and drug dealers, bothof whom are to be found among Goodman's clients..."
Will AVN Fold Fetish Magazine?
XXX: "The "Fetish" tip is solid. It's more than a whisper. They had practically nil distribution in New York. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if AVN kept publishing the mag for the sole purpose of proving you "wrong". Why not ask Paul Fishbein when "Fetish #9" hits the newsstands....? Not a word about Fetish on geneross.com--and if Fishbein was telling the truth geneross would be all over it. Luke 1 AVN 0"
Darklady writes: "Hmmm... maybe distribution is slow in LA but up here in Portland, Oregon we've got copies of Fetish Magazine #9. I have a couple copies in my salon right now. Make sure and read my review of Skin Two's site. Once issue #10 is out you'll want to read my brief piece about the Sex Workers Film and Video Festival. Sorry I missed you while I was in town in June for the LA Fetish Ball."
XXX replies: "Okay, so #9 is out. Big deal. Especially since the issue I requested, #8, was already a month old when I first started chasing it down. And through the assiduous reportorial application of old-fashioned shoe leather followed by cobbler's glue on the seat of my desk chair, I discovered that AVN's "Fetish" was not distributed to a single Gotham retail outlet ranging from Saint Marks Books to Kinematics fetish emporium to several X-periodical outlets in and about Times Square. Also, the tip I got earlier this week was based on intelligence generated *after* #9 had gone to press, which was probably about a month ago. And since my scoop's timeline began last week and extends indefinitely into the future--it doesn't mean squack that some provincial bim has copies of "Fetish #9" in her "salon". I stand by my information. As for you, "Darklady"....suck Luke's dick! :)
"PS: Since "Darklady" admits to being a "Fetish" contributor, she no doubt has two advance copies she received via snailmail--which proves exactly nothing about AVN's distribution prowess or the availability of "Fetish" on Portland, Oregon newsstands. Luke 2 AVN 0"
The latest New Yorker contains an article by John Updike on Paul Fishbein's home of Van Nuys. "In the loveliest town of all, where the houses were white and high and the elm trees were green and higher than the houses, where the front yards were wide and pleasant and the back yards were bushy and worth finding out about, where the streets sloped down to the stream and the stream flowed quietly under the bridge, where the lawns ended in orchards and the orchards ended in fields and the fields ended in pastures and the pastures climbed the hill and disappeared over the top toward the wonderful wide sky, in this loveliest of all towns Paul stopped to get a drink of sarsaparilla."
Pestilence Breeds Disease
Moz, from GM Video, writes Gene Ross: "While initially blinded by silicone, I quickly realized that Porn fosters vermin in equal proportions as any free enterprise within our illustrious "free" society.
"Unfortunately, pestilence breeds disease, and such afflictions proliferate due to unsanitary conditions. Said soiled ordeals ( read LF ) give opportunity for the "unwashed" or unfounded to release diatribes relating their uninformed conclusions to the masses. By accepting, and therefore generating response to, the misgivings of an unindoctorated miscreant, you only seem to create the byproduct on which said pestilence ( read LF ) affords its comestibles. In essence, if you will refrain from reference, much like keeping water from a plant, the strain Lucifierous Fordopoly will first shrivel, and then perish. Remember, without fuel, a Ford can no longer run..."