Sunday, September 19th, 1999
Cindee Plenum
SindeePlenum@netscape.net (who is she?) writes: Luke, despite what you may have heard, I have always been helpful to my coworkers on the set. But they aren't necessarily nice back to me! yesterday Amberly drives up in her Porsche (the one that guy she is "dating" bought her) and asks if she can borrow a few things for some shoot that she needs, a hairdryer and some kotex. No problem, I lend her some, and she drives off without even a thank you. And this is AFTER i helped get her into the business. I introduced her to Tibor Hammer when she was jsut another needle ho. And did I not lend her $750 for that boob job when she was starting out?And NOW she is too good to thankme or whatever. That BITCH!!!!! She is probably infecting half of LA. If you write about a scabies problem, itll be her doing. And to make it worse, she still owes me the money for the boob job. I am not a dumb women Luke. I have a degree in public school education from Tuscola. So I told her that if she does not pay up, I will call the cops on her. so what does that bitch do, she calls the cops on me. that whore. Tells the cops I am dealing dope. Luke, i am clean. Unlike some other people in the biz I could name (but wont). SOME PEOPLE ARE.
WHO AM I? GIVE ME A FRIGGIN' BRAKE! LIKE YOU, thats right, UUUUUU, dont' know me? Or do you expect ;me to use my "reel name'?? All I want is for you to put the word out on you web site that Sindee Plenum is NOBODIES PUSHOVER!
VCA DVDs Rock
DSL1999 writes: I am neither affiliated, nor do I have any interest in VCA, other than as a consumer, but I highly recommend their DVDs for only one reason: high quality. I just received my recent DVD order of DIVA GIRLS and SEX/SEX 2, as well as BAD WIVES [Vivid] and NIGHT TRIPS [David]...and by far, the VCA releases have the best picture, best menus, and give more bang for the buck. No gimmicky angles, or unworkable menus, poor transfers, gimmicky extras, or time compression editing: all you get is image perfection and a faithful transfer of the original master source. DIVA GIRLS has extra scenes from the original DIVA releases, and SEX and SEX 2 has an audio interview with Michael Ninn, and basically offers two great movies on a single-layer disc for a single price. VCA should be commended for their outstanding efforts, particularly in this day and age where lackluster releases by Vivid seem to be getting all the attention.
Trading remains halted on Metro aka Mafia Home Video. Though you won't read about that, or about Metro's ties with organized crime, or how Metro's auditors quit in disgust with their dishonest ways, in AVN or GeneRoss.com. Because AVN is in bed with Mafia Home Video. Metro sponsored their AVN Expo in July.
Scolnik writes on Yahoo: They [Metro] are f*ckers, they f*cked us, and this f*cking sucks. They [Yahoo Message Boards] deleted the post about the buyout by IEG. The rumor posted by bigscatcat. I wonder why, never seen a rumor deleted from this board b4. It wasn't even offensive.
Cindy Papa: What do you expect...from a company that signs Ron Jeremy as an exclusive!
Buyout my ass writes handjobwilly. The only buyout would be by the FBI Organized Crime Division.
Nickflx: Who knows what their real numbers are?... But remember there is PLENTY of $$ in the adult industry. Any loss they show is probably to hide/skim profits....and metro(south pointe enterprises to anyone who followed this 5 yrs. ago) has been down before.
What does the E mean by the MGMA trading logo? Ted writes: I called Nasdaq to ask. They said it means they are late in filing some documents. They gave no indication as to when it will trade again. Why hasn't MGMA, or should I say MGMAE, put out a press release?
William Jefferson Clinton: Metro's financial statements are probably all flawed (the reason for the halt, and they will restate earnings?). Therefore, the book value stated in Yahoo Finance [$2:64 a share, trading halted at $1:50] is probably misleading.
Please, don't call my intellect into question. First of all, I hold a master's degree. Secondly, I've attended an Ivy League school. Aside from that, I didn't invest in MGMAE because: 1. Problems with their former accountants. 2. They should use a world-class firm such as Deloitte & Touche or Price Waterhouse. 3. If .5% of what I hear is true on message boards, this company was headed for trouble. 4. MM/others seemed to manipulate this stock. 5. MOST IMPORTANT TO ME...I personally know of 3 peope who requested their CD and got nothing. I also read posts of others with similar experiences. Chances are, a million were not distributed before these people submitted their requests...MGMA--MGMAE would have had a press release stating they had one million hits to their site. 6. There is no coverage of this stock. 7. I BELIEVE the BV to be in the $1.00-1.50 range..just a wild guess. I will also GUESS it could be delisted. 8. WHY NO PRESS RELEASES?
AVN publishes about 45,000 copies each month of its trade magazine, of which about 10,000 subscriptions are paid. The rest are given away to porners and video stores. How could Luke check to see if these figures are accurate?
BMC writes: If they're audited, they have to file a statement twice a year indicating their circulation. If you have a copy, check the table of contents area to see if the ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations) or BPA (Business Publishers Association) logo is there. If it is, that means they are audited and you may be able to find out their circulation through ABC's or BPA's web site...My guess is that they're not audited, however.
Luke: I don't think AVN is audited.
BMC: Another option is just to contact their advertising department and ask them what their circulation is. Tell them you're considering advertising. Of course, they will likely give you an inflated figure. You can then ask them if they are audited.
Lee: I believe AVN mails by the periodical (2nd Class) rate. Every mailing they do must be documented with the post office. They have to fill out a form with their circulation. How many are free how many are paid for. Many other things (amount of advertising, e.g.) have to be documented for each mailing. I am not sure if this info is public or not. How about some more "whatever became of" articles. How about police arrest records.
Jeremy Steele (jeremysteelexx@hotmail.com) says that Hustler magazine wants to do a profile of him as soon as he gets some work. But he needs work, so the magazine can accompany him to a set. Steele has one of the biz's biggest pop shots.
Here are Jeremy Steele's opinion of porner's opinions of Luke in poem form...
Although it's true Luke F-rd makes mistakes
People ought to thank instead of attack him
Everyone please.. give him a f---in' break
For, of those stories, he also gives you a chance to answer back them
He is, at least, a source you can root a story to
And he will reasonably correct things if you point them out
And if you have nothing of substance to say in response
Then you simply shouldn't bitch and shout
He's been attacked for spreading gossip
And how, for feces, he really seems to fish
But what about the careless gossipers of the industry
Who, themselves, spread fables on a dish?
Because of absolutely no sense of or need for responsibility
In those who spread every sensational story
They are, each, as bad as the one who deliberately or mistakenly starts
them
And sets, to blaze, one's hard earned achievements and glory
I've heard it come back to me, that I had aids,
Ghonnorhea, am gay as well,
And shot my dick up during those pre-viagra days
Well, y'all, that's very funny...
But according to whom, what source?
This, indeed, has cost me lots of money
How about I spread the news that your mother f---s a horse?
It must be true, right? Because I heard it, too.
After all, hasn't such a standard always been good enough for you?
Once upon a time, I shared alternative info on HIV
Even though there was absolutely nothing in it for me
And the thanks I got, left me with yet more regrets
And proof that the industry lives in mythology
It's all about research.. we must each do it
Check our sources, welcome and even search various views
For, if it's all just about trusting "authority"
Then there was never a problem with the nazi's treatment of the jews
After all is said, the truth is like steel
It is only strengthened by fire
And that's why I still hold faith
While, as I fish for a living, I dwell in the mire.
Steele writes: I looked through all the archives of recent history
and found more stuff on me, my ex and what other's have said as well,
and would like to respond...
Re: Sept 1: "A source close to Eden Rae says that Jeremy is very
bitter and lashing out because she refused to take his BS and left him.
He ripped Eden and a number of other people off as well. He was arrested
for domestic assault, but Eden did not press the charges. He has repeatedly
called and
left threatening messages on her voice mail (of which i have copies),
and threatened to do this s--- to her to f--- with her career. What
he doesn't know or tell you is that Eden no longer perform in hardcore
scenes. She has made two films since january, and ONE was interracial
so that shows what he knows about Eden, in fact, Tina Tyler referred
her the job.. The rest of the 'info' he gave you is also FALSE. If you
do not remove that crap from your site, Eden Rae will contact a lawyer
to sue you."
I RIPPED HER OFF??? AND OTHER PEOPLE AS WELL?? NO, THE EXACT OPPOSITE
HAPPENS TO BE TRUE... NOT ONLY DID EDEN TAKE EVERTHING THAT WE EVER
BOUGHT SINCE WE WERE TOGETHER (EXCEPT THE FISH TANKS AND THE BED), NOT
ONLY DID SHE TAKE EVERYTHING THAT WAS BOUGHT WITH THE LEFTOVER MONEY
MY DAD SENT FOR HER SURGERY (WHICH SHE HASN'T PAID FOR AND NEVER WILL,
EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO SINCE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, BY NOW.),
SHE ALSO TOOK MISCELLANEOUS THINGS OF MINE, TO BOOT.
ON TOP OF THAT, I WAS BURGLARIZED/ROBBED BY DYLAN FEINSTEIN AND JEROME
SNYDER, TWO LOW LIFES WITH WARRANTS FOR THEIR ARREST, WHO WERE SELLING
DRUGS FROM MY HOUSE, AFTER MY EX FINALLY MOVED OUT.. THEY CALLED PRIMAL
WORLD WHO STILL OWES ME MONEY WHILE I WAS WORKING TO FIND OUT WHEN I'D
BE DONE AND BROKE IN WHILE I WAS THERE (I STILL HAVEN'T BEEN PAID FOR
MY WORK THERE AT PRIMAL WORLD, EITHER.. SEE MY BANTER ABOUT NICK RICHMOND).
I ALREADY MENTIONED THE DOMESTIC ASSAULT CHARGE, WHICH WAS DROPPED BEFORE
IT WENT TO COURT.. THE TRUTH IS, SHE ASSAULTED ME... AND CHARGES WERE
DROPPED BECAUSE, IF YOU GO TO THE HOLLYWOOD COURTHOUSE AND LOOK UP THE
RECORD FOR JASMINE GRECINGER (WHICH IS EDEN RAE'S REAL NAME) YOU WILL
FIND THAT SHE THREATENED ME WITH A GUN AND ALSO FIRED IT IN OUR APARTMENT
IN DECEMBER OF 1997.. I AM THE ONE WHO DIDN'T PRESS CHARGES AGAINST
HER...SHE DID ALOT OF
COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR IT AT THE GAY AND LESBIAN CENTER AND TOOK DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE CLASSES IN BURBANK FOR IT.
I WOULD LIKE TO f---ING SEE THE ALLEGED COPIES THAT EDEN RAE'S PUPPET
LOVER SUPPOSEDLY HAS OF ME REPEATEDLY THREATENING HER... IF HE OR ANYONE
CAN PRODUCE THAT.. I WILL PAY THEM AS MUCH AS SHE OWES MY DAD ($6,000)..
BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, I ONLY CALLED HER (888)# ONCE, AS I HAVE SAID
BEFORE, AND ONLY LEFT MY DAD'S P.O. BOX MAILING ADDRESS, AS WELL AS
BASICALLY MENTION THAT I'VE BEEN TOLD SHE OWES OTHER PEOPLE MONEY AS
WELL, BUT THAT SHE GAVE HER WORD TO MY DAD AND IF SHE BREAKS IT, SHE'S
EVIL. I NEVER THREATENED HER. SHE HAS, ON THE OTHER HAND, THREATENED
ME MANY TIMES, WITH A KNIVE, A GUN, HER FISTS, HER FRIENDS, AS WELL
AS HIT ME.
MR. PUPPET ALSO SAYS THAT EDEN IS NOT A RACIST... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..
EXCUSEME... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!..
SORRY BUT THAT ONE WAS TOO FUNNY...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
MR. PUPPET WAS NEVER AROUND THE TIMES WHEN EDEN PROUDLY PROCLAIMED THAT
SHE WAS A KARD KARRYING KKK MEMBER.. OR THE OTHER THINGS I'VE PREVIOUSLY
MENTIONED. DOES MR. PUPPET REALLY BELIEVE THAT HIMSELF? HOW LONG HAVE
YOU KNOW HER??
MR. PUPPET ALSO SAYS THAT EDEN WILL SUE, YOU, LUKE, IF YOU DON'T TAKE
THIS "B.S." OFF THE NET.. I'M CURIOUS, IS SHE GOING TO SUE
YOU AS EDEN RAE, AS JASMINE GRECINGER (WHO, OFFICIALLY HAS NEVER DONE
ANY HARDCORE MOVIES) OR AS KATHRYN MCNAY (THE FALSE I'D SHE USED TO
DO ALL HER MOVIES)....?
MR. PUPPET SEEMINGLY DOESN'T KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT ALOT OF THINGS.. AND
THE MAIN ONE BEING.. THAT I AM GOING OFF ON THESE RANTS, FIRST AND BY
FAR, FOREMOST BECAUSE, THAT EVIL PIECE OF s--- REFUSES TO PAY MY DAD
THE $6,000 SHE OWES HIM (PLUS 10% INTEREST AS SHE ALSO PROMISED) FOR
MISTAKINGLY SAVING HER LIFE.. AND MY DAD IS HOLDING IT AGAINST ME, IN
MORE WAYS THAN ONE, UNTIL I f---ING DO!!
MR. PUPPET IS OBVIOUSLY SIDED ON THE SIDE THAT THE PUSSY IS ON. BUT
MR. PUPPET HAS NO f---IN' CLUE.. HOW THE f--- DOES HE KNOW ABOUT THE
THINGS I'VE SPOKEN ABOUT?.. WAS HE HIDING IN THE CLOSET THE YEARS WHILE
WE WERE TOGETHER ALONG WITH ALL THE SKELETONS IN EDEN'S CLOSET? MR.
PUPPET IS NEW TO THE SCENE, NAIVE, AND IS NO AUTHORITY OF HER'S LIKE
I AM.
re: Sept 2: "Says the source: "Jeremy has a few KKK paraphrenalia
catalogs, which advertises among other things a NIGGER hunting permit.
He also has a problem with 'faggots' as well, which is how he ALWAYS
referred to the guys who logged on to watch his solo jack off shows
on the internet. As for using the term nigger, the ONLY occasions Eden
used it were SPECIFICALLY in
reference to one of the guys who raped her.... and she has never applied
it to blacks across the board. That is total and utter bulls---.""
I'VE ALREADY ADDRESSED THE KKK CATOLOG THING.. REGARDING MY HATING FAGGOTS,
HOW STRANGE.. AND AGAIN, WHY IS MR. PUPPET ACTING LIKE SUCH AN AUTHORITY?
IT WAS EDEN WHO HAS INSISTED TO OTHER'S THAT I AM A FAGGOT.. WELL, I
GUESS THE REASON I HATE THEM MUST HAVE TO DO SOME PART OF ME IN MYSELF
I DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT... ANYWAY, I HAVE GAY FRIENDS AND THEY'VE HEARD
ME SAY "FAGGOT" ABOUT CERTAIN GAYS.. THEY UNDERSTAND.. THEY
SAY IT TOO! IF I WAS GAY, I'D BE GETTING LAID ALL THE TIME.. BUT AS
A GAY OR TWO HAS SAID ABOUT ME, I'M "HOPELESSLY STRAIGHT".
AND WHO WAS THAT LOSER, FRANK THE LAWYER TALKING IGNORANT s--- ABOUT
ME? ET, TU? ANOTHER FOOL SIDING ON THE SIDE THAT THE PUSSY IS ON.. ALTHOUGH
I DOUBT THAT MR. LAWYER IS GETTING MUCH, HIMSELF.
Luke Gets Mail
Nikki Dial dances at Spearmint Rhino in the City of Industry.
Rumdar writes: Luke....As a charter member of your Houston Texas Fan Club I want you to have this tidbit of information. Recently a buddy received fifty or so old porno tapes. While going through them he came upon a scene with a very young, thin, goofy Ed Powers. Ed is wearing a bandana and is getting drilled in the keister by a strap-on wielding debutante. What is more, Ed is yelling "harder," "deeper." I have seen this tape and it sure looks Ed to me. We were shocked. Any comment?
Luke: It is Ed. He's willing to bend over backwards for his fans.
Xach: Hi Luke: Just a note to say I found your site in DETAILS magazine. WOW. some interesting and NAKEd stuff! Good job. Hope to see some GAY pics....gay porn stars, naked gay porn stars etc. prob not your thing--BUT HEY a lot of us queers look at your site--how bout some eye candy for us!
Fred writes: So NJF lives in San Francisco, eh? I should have guessed. Poor San Francisco. Too small to be a separate nation. Too large to be an insane asylum. Gee, she lives near me. It appears that she has had some kind of traumatic event in her life, so she generally hates men, but she is burdened with normal biology, so she is attracted to men. There is nothing she can do about it. Sounds like if she doesn't get therapy, she will live out a conflicted and stormy existence. Tell her that Dr. Fred Freud is willing to take on new patients.
Cookie writes: I am a generation older than you but I have to hand it to you. You must sit and laugh your ass off at these women. I would if I were you. Can I offer a suggestion? Don"t ever get married until you are 60. Keep having a good time and keep laughing at these poor fools. I can't believe that in listening to these 2 women that they are actually baring their souls, or are they just spending hours twiddling their twines. This can't be for real. Are women really so desperate that they actually degrade themselves in writing? Oh well I guess it is the new age. You have one that supposedly hates men? You have another that apparently loves all men. Go for it Luke this is your kingdom.
Marcus Killus writes: I know ive not been around in a while. I'm weaning myself of the cesspool we call X. Send me a pic of CS. I'll tell you if she's all that. She appears to be a smart girl. I like her responses to NJG. Though i must state i'm a NJG fan . It need not be the nekid pic. I don't need it for my hardcore jollys.
Chaim Amalek at amalekchai@yahoo.com writes: Luke, although I doubt that you will be a Jew in a year from now, I want you to know that I forgive you your sin of not volunteering to act as pimp for me when I asked you to set me up with a disease-free porn chick. Best wishes for an easy fast!
PS - I just had another great idea for fighting porn using our legal system and international law. It is so ingenious that its full development is going to take me a bit of time to work out. All I need to do is figure out a way that our lawyer class can enrich themselves by filing suits against pornographers, and sure as the bright clear dawn follows night, the pornographers will be toast.
Which raises a troubling question, looking ahead to a porn-free world. At the moment, the porn industry fully engages the socially destructive impulses of a tiny minority of Americans, a tiny minority characterized by its high mean I.Q. and/or proclivity for organized crime. If these numerically small but intelligent/violent people are driven from porn, to which fields will they migrate and what harm will they then do? Perhaps the world of porn is the best place they can be after all, both for their sake, and for society's.
PPS: What sort of reception have you been accorded by the LA Jewish establishment? I recently read that shortly after the shootings at the community center, lots of Christian ministers came by to offer their help; the establishment Rabbinate, other than to appear before various TV cameras to argue that the Jews of the United States would be safer if disarmed (along with the goyim), did nothing. Is this true?
Luke: True. But here is my big problem. I just had another Jewish woman that I dig, have gone out with, phone me, and say how disturbed she is by my website. I tell her that I am only holding a mirror up, and exposing evil. She thinks I create pornography with l-keford.com. How should I respond? I dig these Jewish chicks and they're shunning me because of my website.
Amalek responds: Luke, Jewish or not, for most of the world's women, your web site is going to prove to be disturbing. The average mentally healthy woman simply does not want ANYTHING to do with the stuff that is the focus of your web site.
If this surprises you, it likely is because you spend much of your time in the company of statistical outlyers - porn starlets - who are, well, different. Think about it - in the world of l-keford.com, what fraction of the women are willing to have gangbangs with dozens and dozens of men? Let's say it's 3% of the total. That is still ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE greater than the fraction of jewish women (or christian women) willing to consider this.
Now I realize that you do not condone such behavior, but the women who visit your site still see discussions of gang bangs, bestiality and other things that are frankly disgusting to most people. You might as well announce that as a hobby, you collect the feces left by your neighbors pets, or that you enjoy eating fresh roadkill. Another factor at play here (and this is speculative on my part): perhaps because you see that so many of the porn people are jewish, that Jews as a group tolerate this stuff. NOT TRUE! While the average Jewish woman is certainly not more up-tight than the average gentile, she certainly is no more inclined to have anything to do with it, either. Just because a few percent of a few percent of the nation's jews are involved in the trade does not mean that it is viewed with respect in the jewish world. I mean, I would rather tell women that I was a racist, antisemitic, marxist POOR man than tell them that I was a porner.
Face it Luke, for so long as you center your professional life in that field, you are going to be increasingly ghettoized, same as the people you write about who wish they were doing something else and just don't see why the world does not take them more seriously. On the other hand, if you are getting to have sex with all these hot porn chicks (although personally, most porn starlets look like skanks to me) . . . . what need have you for these jewish women?
PS - I am not surprised about the LA rabbinate. Outside of the orthodox world, whose members inhabit a world all their own, the typical rabbi . . . no I will not say it, it is not fair.
PPS - In answer to your question, "How do I respond?" there is only one response that will get you anywhere. Tell these women that you are as horrified - no, MORE horrified - than they, and that you are merely seeking to expose the industry so that it is better controlled by the authorities. Play the jewish angle up by saying that you, as a jew, have an especially important obligation to do this, if only to prove to the goyim that not all jews approve of the defilement of Christian girls. (Similar to what I'll bet that Jewish judge who sent Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg to the chair may have thought.)
Luke: Thank you. That was very helpful. What do you think I should transition to? Something suited to my talents? And financially and socially rewarding?
Amalek responds: Ah, what should one do with his life? A very tough question, one which I cannot say I am qualified to address, as I have not answered it for myself to my own satisfaction. In some respect, I envy the life you have out there. You seem to get lots of women. They may not be of the highest quality, but, as Leon Trotsky once said (his real name was Lev Bronstein, by the way) "quantity has a quality all of its own".
Since you are a writer and in Hollywood, why not try to do a somewhat autobiographical movie script? Of course, you will have to strip away all references to religion, for the obvious reasons. I have no idea what sort of money you make (the most personal matter any two americans can discuss amongst themselves - far more so than sex), and I do not know what your financial needs are. And as I really do not know you, I would not venture any guess as to what sort of things you could do (although I just did and will infra). You got a lot of temptation there to deal with, Luke.
If I were in your shoes, I would find it very tough to walk away from that world completely. I might become another one of those jewish pornos you write about, if I could bear the thought of humiliating my family. (Although probably from an internet angle - the video world you describe gives me the willies). I do know that most jobs, even most well-paying jobs, suck, are boring, etc. What are your interests? Maybe you could be Rabbi to the porn world, with your own temple. You could offer both a sabbath kiddush AND HIV testing. That would attract a lot of media attention, the mother's milk of modern life. Then you could write a real book about your experiences, travel the country with some Christian fundamentalists condeming the porn culture, file class-action lawsuits against main-stream companies that adopt a porn look, who knows? It is pretty late out here on the east coast, and my brain is running out of steam.
XXX writes: Reply to your question to Amalek: Obviously to us, your readers, Luke, your personal dysfunctionality is the modus operandi of your website. It draws in those who are equally dysfunctional. What a shameful tack to take on yourself and on life!
The smart business decision for you to make would be to find a way to crossover to mainstream Hollywood and TV personalities and celebrities, where the real audience and money is. The people of porn are idiots, and going nowhere. You could have written the same History of X 15 years ago and the story, personalities and history would have been almost identical. You realize that you are a big fish in a small pond by choosing to stay in that cesspool, waiting for the money to come your way. Why not take some risks and branch into mainstream, and take your chances?
You have many fine qualities, and a great deal to offer. You have made your mark. The reality, as you well know, Luke, is that without l-keford.com, you're just like the rest of us adults in society: you are nobody and nobody gives a damn, and you know that better than anybody. So it's always funny when someone is drawn in to ask the obvious no-brainer: why don't you do something worthwhile with your life, Luke, buddy?
The once-and-for all answer is "Because I'm nobody and noone gives a damn!" Now let's all sit back, and lie in wait together, for the next stupid Rabbi to tell you what to do with your life next!
Luke: Is there a 12-step program for recovering porn journalists?
Romance
The lead actress for Romance, Caroline Ducey, felt disturbed when she found out from director Catherine Breillat - on the day of the shoot - that she'd be doing scenes with porn star Rocco Siffredi.
Breillat tells salon.com: I felt that had I told anyone I was going to cast Rocco for the role, there would have been an uncontrollable reaction in the press, and then I would have lost François Berleand in the role of Robert, which would have been a shame. Why shouldn't one put them in the same film? If I hadn't cast him, I wouldn't have this film. It was a radical idea, because it went against myself and against my inhibitions. My inhibitions are those of society and they are not profoundly me, but to fight against them is very, very difficult. But this is why we have a radical film. The [head technician] and the camera director -- who was very important to the project -- wouldn't want to be in the same room with him because they had prejudices. So I didn't want to say it immediately.
But it was obvious that they [Ducey and Rocco] were an extraordinary couple. I knew they were extraordinary. They knew only that being a porno star is not extraordinary at all. That's true, but Rocco is a very charismatic being. I had confidence in my choice, but there was terror on the set when he arrived.
It was very, very difficult. And extremely difficult for Rocco, because there are so many biting tongues on the set, a lot of culpability and shame put on him -- it was intolerable for him. For Caroline, how do you want her to be able to bear this? Well, she bore it for hours, for hours, for hours. She bore it from 10 in the evening till 3 o'clock in the morning. At 3 o'clock in the morning she couldn't stand it anymore, it's true. How could she be the only one to find it normal to film with Rocco when everybody else was appalled?
From http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/movies/review/1999/09/17/romance/index.html:
...The camera is an expression of the phallus, and is thereby related to technology's rape of nature, America's rape of Vietnam, capitalism's rape of everything...
In the 1970s, these aspects of film -- a fascination with beauty, movie history, performers and sex -- all boiled to the surface in what I think of as the "let's f--- in a bare apartment until we arrive at an existential realization of ourselves, or die trying" genre. These films range from the sublime ("Last Tango in Paris," "The Last Woman") to the provocative ("In the Realm of the Senses") to the preposterous ("The Night Porter"). Breillat had a small role in "Last Tango," and has said that she was inspired to make "Romance" when she watched "In the Realm of the Senses." Can art and porn be fused?
Shabbat Teshuva
Saturday was Shabbat Teshuva, the Sabbath of Repentance, leading Jews into Yom Kippur which starts Sunday evening.
During his sermon, my rabbi talked about how we tell ourselves "they deserve it," when we know that we are going to hurt people. We say: "They deserve it. I'm just acting our divine karma. They brought it on themselves."
Luke was deeply unnerved to find the rabbi articulate the way Luke
thinks before he hurts people on this site.
Luke Threeways Brandy, NJG
BrandyAlx1: So, when do I get to have a threeway with you and NJG? I'm jealous. I thought we were an item?
So at 5:30 PM, Luke conducted a threeway phonecall with NJG and Brandy Alexandre.
Brandy: In the porn circle, I'm like Albert Einstein. Perhaps that's why I don't want to step out of it.
BrandyAlx1: Okay, so out of all the little quotes you could pull from that conversation, you pulled one completely out of context because you knew it was flame fodder. Right? Luzdedos1: Right.
Our conversation late Friday afternoon, shortly before the Holy Sabbath, began with Nice Jewish Girl (NJG) telling Brandy why she admires her.
NJG: You kick men's ass.
Brandy: And they hate it. And I have this horrible repuation as a bitch...
NJG: So do I. Are you a Scorpio?
Brandy: No, but I have a Scorpio moon though. I'm a Cancer.
NJG: Courtney Love is a Cancer...
Brandy: We're sensitive and weird...
NJG: Oh, I love sensitive and weird.
Brandy: Luke doesn't believe in this stuff.
NJG: Luke totally believes in it.
Luke: I'm agnostic on astrology.
NJG: Do you believe anything Luke says?
Brandy: Not usually.
NJG: Thank you.
Brandy: You and I are a lot alike. I read your discussions...
NJG: I am totally your fan too... This woman is brilliant and she gets s--- all the time. People just rake her over the coals.
Luke: She's not deferential enough to men.
NJG: Shut up Luke.
Brandy: Am I supposed to just roll over and be like Cocksocket?
NJG: The only reason he likes normal chicks is that they are not like you and me Brandy. They are not going to rake him over the coals for every little s--- that he does.
Brandy: I only rake people over for stuff that I know that they are wrong about and I know that I am right.
NJG: I'm in a similar job to what you had at Forest Lawn... I feel so bad for what happened to you... You should be in a union. I hate unions too, and I rake my union over the coals...
Brandy: I worked for Sony in a floater pool... And they put me in this job for supposedly only two weeks. Nine weeks later, I'm still there. But they said that if I did not join the union, they would terminate me. So I said, fire me, I will not join your union.
Brandy: By working three years for a studio, movies have been totally ruined for me. And being totally brilliant... Within the first 15 minutes, I've got it and I can go home. If I lose interest in the story right away, there is lots of other stuff I can look at... XXX and I went to see Notting Hill five times.
NJG: If the story line isn't emotionally pushing me to the wall...
Brandy: It was a celebrity commoner union...significant to our relationship. And as our relationship progressed, we wanted to see how we related to the characters...
Luke: Cocksocket is going to convert to Judaism and become my brood mare.
NJG: In your dreams baby... You want to live off her...
Brandy: I have the same ideals but it is not the same when a woman goes after a guy with money...
NJG: But when women go after a guy with bucks, the guy is a frog... Luke, if you hook up with her, will you send me and Brandy to Europe together...
Brandy: All I want Luke to do is cosign an apartment for me... It just sold and I was talking to the owner and he said that he'd really like me to move...
Luke: Is he Jewish?
Brandy: I think so...Sam Deutch...
Luke: It's those Jews, bloodsucking...
NJG: My ex landlord won his building in a crap game... We organized against him.
Luke: You chicks need to stop organizing and become more deferential to men.
Brandy: If I can get a guy to marry me and give me everything I need, I will do what he wants...
NJG: Go for somebody who is hot looking...
Brandy: I met someone online... We communicated for a year before he sent me a picture...and it just destroyed the relationship... He was passing through, singing at a wedding... I picked him up at LAX... And the superficial part of me tookover... Then I got to go to one of his performances... He sang "Maria" from West Side Story... But by that time, because I had been so shallow, he married someone else.
I keep trying to give Luke a chance, the dog that he is... But his personality just doesn't hold up either...
The only reason Luke is Jewish is that it is the only religion that does not have excommunication.
NJG: He's Jewish because he's antisemitic.
Brandy: Kinda like that Seinfeld episode where that comedian converted to Judaism so he could tell the Jewish jokes...
NJG: Luke digs torment...so he's Jewish.
Brandy: He and John Stagliano ought to get together... They'd get along so well. They are both these angst ridden people who could go bemoan their existence and how the world does not confirm to their ideals... Then Luke could do him up the butt and then they would all be happy.
Luke: NJG, do you know who John Stagliano is?
NJG (thinking of Ron Jeremy): Is he that fat guy?
Luke: No, he is Buttman, a leading innovative pornographer.
Brandy: I created Buttman... I used to do the promotion for Evil Angel.
NJG: I've never heard of Buttman.
Brandy: You never heard of Brandy Alexandre and Best Butte in the West and these other fantastic movies she made?
NJG: No.
Brandy: My contemporary is Barbara Streisand in Yentl, because she also wrote, produced and directed...
Luke: A lot of critics have compared Best Butte in the West to Yentl.
NJG: Whenever I hear of porno, I go ugghhh... These are all people Luke knows and Luke f---s... And they are all so ugly, except for John Decker.
NJG: Was Ginger Lynn in that Metallica video?
Luke: Yes, she was the hooker.
Brandy: What a stretch.
NJG: No offense to Ginger but she's lived a really hard life. That's the thing about porn. You know what it kills first? It kills your face. I think girls should get way more money because your looks are going to die really quick.
Luke: I think it'd be good for their faces, considering all the semen that gets splashed on them...
NJG: These women are getting taken advantage of and they should organize...
Brandy: But there's always someone who's a little more desperate and willing to do it for a little less...
It's my mission in life to make porn stars look better so I can look better by association... But the girls in the industry tend to be dumb.
NJG: Your face is going to fall the longer you are in it...
Brandy: Mine is still in the same place, though a little wrinklier than it used to be... I got fat for a while and when I got back to the weight I used to be, for some reason it did not all snap back in the same place... I don't know if the industry did it or that's what happens when you get fat...
NJG: Were you eating out of frustration over what you had been doing? I've known sex workers and they feel so contemptuous of those guys...
Brandy: I started gaining weight when I worked for this nail products company... Within the first week I was working there, they found out who I was, through no fault of my own... I started wearing frumpy clothes and I allowed myself to gain weight. I cut my hair off... Because I figured if I allowed myself to become less attractive, it wouldn't have the impact on my job... Of course it did... I got heavier, and when I hit 150 pounds, I stopped...
You do get very jaded in the industry and I still keep people at a great emotional distance...
Luke, would give up chasing porn stars after one blowjob from me...
NJG: Don't be sweet on him. Brandy, you read how he treated me the next day... After we had gone out and he was leaning on me and holding my hand and being all sweet to me... And the next day he disses me and doesn't even walk near me...
Brandy: It was because you didn't put out.
NJG: No, he's like that to every girl.
Luke: I had a lot on my mind that day. I had just been to the Playboy Expo...
NJG: He wants an innocent girl he can treat like s---...
Brandy: I think he puts out this 'I'm practically impotent' thing to present a challenge to women... So these women will think, 'let me help you. I bet you won't with me.' I almost did the same thing...
I think everyone would like to see it. You come down and hold the camera and we'll do this great Brandy Gives Luke A Blow Job and we'll see how flacid it stays the whole time. Then we'll have a debate whether Luke is a total loser or because Brandy is scary.
NJG: I think any girl with an opinion is scary to Luke...
Luke: I'm just looking for someone to love me. To mother me...
NJG and Brandy laugh at me.
Luke: My mommy died when I was very young and I had to live with many different families and I just want a little affection and tenderness...
NJG: That's why he leaves every chick he sleeps with after 15 minutes...
Brandy: I have my original parents and siblings and I just don't know how to relate to that...
Luke: I'm in pain...
Brandy: But I was raised Mormon, so I am just as whacked as him...
NJG: That's why he leaves every chick he sleeps with after 15 minutes...
Brandy: I hate Andrea Dworkin... She has no concept of the differences between men and women. And why those differences exist...
NJG: Because men use all their power against us.
Luke: I'd like to use something against you right now baby.
Brandy: Andrea Dworking is so afraid of the penis...
NJG: She's living with a man... She's doing him...
Luke: He's a poofter.
NJG: Why is she living with him [John Stoltenberg] in the same room?
Luke: They wanted to look normal but they are both queer.
NJG: They are in love. They met in their 20s. They totally have sex. Brandy, did you read her quotes?
Luke: Brandy doesn't read my site.
NJG: But you read it for me, right? Oh, there she is! I've got to read this...
Brandy: I like to glance at the Nice Jewish Girl stuff...How you rag on him. We think alike in our assessments of Luke...
NJG: When I first met Luke, I really liked you Brandy. And he was like, Oh Brandy, she's done all these evil things to me...
Brandy: The reason that I lost my job was because of Luke putting my real name out there... And whenever people were losing their arguments with me, they'd start calling me by my real name... And it trickled down to some psychos...
NJG: Is John Decker bright?
Luke: Yes.
Brandy: That's my problem in relationships. I have yet to meet someone who is my intellectual equal.
NJG: I hear you Brandy. Most guys don't even like intelligent chicks... And Jewish guys don't like Jewish chicks...
Brandy: I think that's why I liked XXX so much because he was so much smarter than me and I've never encountered that... In the porn circle, I'm like Albert Einstein. Perhaps that's why I don't want to step out of it.
NJG: How about Gloria Leonard? She seems smart.
Brandy: Yeah, kinda.
NJG: I like her vibe. She's this Jewish ballsy chick who's like, f--- Luke F-rd.
Brandy: I would classify her with Nina Hartley and Annie Sprinkle...
NJG: I'm not into Nina's trip... Oh, it is so healthy...
Brandy: I don't get into that rah rah, we're all exercising our First Amendment rights. I think that's bulls---. I think we all know deep down why we're here...
NJG: Money...
Brandy: That goes on because people want to feel better... They want to have a better image... You know why you're here. Face it, have fun with it, and move on from it when you're done... And you should be able to move on from it when you're done because society is saying that it is so bad, and you'd like to get real jobs... And I got one, and look at what happened. And that is something I am trying to approach in my book that will never be published.
NJG: I've got his book here right now from the library... I don't know... He's great on the website but his book... I still love you Lukey... I guess it is well researched...but it is unexciting.
Brandy: It is not. Luke took information from every possible source he could and believed it to be true... He didn't do any research on his own. He read a bunch of magazines.
I told him a year ago that instead of relying on quotes, he should put it in his own voice... He said, yeah, yeah, Brandy... I was always ragging on him anyway. He thought I was trying to tear him down. Then look at Publisher's Weekly. They said the same thing. There's no unifying theme...
NJG: His style is raw.
Brandy: Rog says that the book was good before it went to the publisher and a lot of it had to be cut out...
Luke: Yeah, the editor kept redpenning "libel, slander, gossipy..."
NJG: That's the best part. Slanderous, libelous, gossipy is great.
Brandy: He was with Prometheus and they do not have a nice legal department to handle these things... I would like to find a larger publisher.
He's got this area for the gossip which shares the same amount of space as his own picture... I just grab the scroll bar and go down fast looking for NJG.
NJG: Luke, you have no understanding of lesbians. You think lesbians are what they do in porn movies. Incorrect. They don't even look like real dykes. I've never even seen any dykes that look like those chicks in porn movies that do girl girl scenes.
Brandy: Gay for pay, and I refused. I did not do one single lesbian scene... There are people who say I did because Nina Hartley went down on me, or Trinity Loren went down on me, but I never did...
Nina is very much by formula. She's been doing it a long time. Even when she speaks, she sounds like a recording of herself... She even says it the same way. There was a joke way back that all the guys had a pattern, oh god, oh god, oh god, repeat... Do this with the tongue, do this with the tongue. Do this with the dick...
NJG: I think in the longterm relationships, that is exactly what happens. If you even have sex after awhile...
Brandy: It was the very last thing that went out of my relationship with Stagliano. Sex was the one thing we had in common. Two years... My longest relationship...
NJG: I had two three-year old ones but I stopped having sex after a while. There's a lot of emotional pain with somebody and it gets to the point where I just don't want to sleep with you anymore...
Brandy: For me... I really want to have sex with you, but you don't deserve it.
NJG: You're like, I'm so mad at you, I really hate you... I don't even want to sleep with you... I see a faucet tap... At one point, I see it turned on at full force, nymphomaniac style... Then it depends on how much bulls--- they give you... If they give too much bulls---, I see the tap turn all the way off...
Brandy: I try not to use sex as a weapon anymore. If I want it, I get it. If I don't want, they don't get it. But usually I want it... I got my cat Kami to replace a guy.
NJG: We do a lot of things to replace guys.
Brandy: I think I made a good trade. She replaced Buddy Love [porn actor]. He was cute but he was also a crack addict.
NJG: Brandy, you have really bad taste in guys... But I do too.
Brandy: I don't generally have bad taste. It's just that someone needed me to let him stay the night so he could get on set in the morning... He never left...
NJG: Lukey, tell me more about John Decker.
Luke: He's smart. He divorced Roxanne Hall.
NJG: But he's a major player. He's like you.
Luke: Yeah, he Fs for a living.
NJG: But I don't care about that. I don't care if people F. for a living...
Luke: But if I do it with someone for fun, with someone I meet at synagogue...
NJG: No, I don't care about that because now I know that they don't mean anything... No one you do means anything.
Brandy: He wants a nice Jewish girl but he doesn't do anything to deserve a nice Jewish girl.
NJG: He's just not grown up enough...
Luke: I'm ready to settle down.
NJG: Well, I hope that you settle down with that woman because I want to go to Europe... We'll all go together. You can hang out and f--- her and we'll just hang out. And you have to pay for my pet sitter.
Brandy: Luke, you'd get a lot of press out of it...
NJG: A girl who is not working class like us. She is naive... Working class women will not put up with bulls--- for one second... These rich chicks take lots of bulls---. You don't see working class women getting plastic surgery for guys, except the ones in porno. Working class women are tough, they can spot a wolf....
Brandy: I'd like to meet her rich brother...
NJG: Me too...
Brandy: I'm willing to put up with quite a bit for someone who just makes my life more comfortable...
NJG: You and Luke. Hos. The both of you... I have more pride than both of you. I've had a really hard life. And everything I've done, I've worked for...
Brandy: I've been working since I was 16 and I deserve a few years off...
Luke: NJG, I thought you were raped at 16.
NJG: Like I couldn't have a job and be raped. And it was 13.
Luke: And you were incested at 12?
NJG: Yeah.
Brandy: I talked myself out of rape once... I was 18...
NJG: Well, when you are 13, it is really hard...
Luke: Especially when you really want it...
Brandy: At 15, I had a guy expose himself to me and to this day I'm amazed at how quick my mind worked... I just said yeah, so... This guy in a pickup truck pulled up along side of me and asked where a certain street was... I said it is a mile down that way... Then he pulled it out and asked, what do you think? He was stroking it. And I was like, so?
NJG: I would've gone, oooohhh, you're ugly...
Brandy: It looks like a penis, only smaller.
NJG: I had that happen to me when I was walking home from high school one night. There were tons of men in the bushes... And they were doing it. And I was so freaked out that I ran all the way home.
Brandy: This guy in a motorcyle pulled up ahead of me and starts digging in his trousers... When I got up there, I pointed and laughed and he covered up and went away...
NJG: Luke wants all the disgusting details because he has rape fantasies... Brandy, that is not unusual. That happens to every single chick on the planet.
Brandy: That is not the reason I turned into a porn star?
NJG: You turning into a porn star had more to do with rebellion...
Brandy: I was trying write a chapter about all the possible things that happened in my life that led me to porn... I ended up trashing it all because I didn't want to provide excuses for other people to say...
NJG: You should write that. Andrea would love that. She's a goddess.
Luke: She's an angry little bitch. She's a cunt. She needs to get raped...
NJG: I think you do, by a big ugly guy.
Brandy: A big ugly dyke with a strap-on.
No, Luke's ok... And this is off the record. Out of all the people in the industry who do all their preaching about looking after the kids, and keep supporting them, and everyone look out for each other and if anyone ever has any trouble, call these people, Luke was really the only one who was there. And he's so generally hated by the industry, I found it interesting...
NJG: I don't see why everyone hates him, it's just gossip.
Brandy: Because it's spiteful. That's why he hasn't changed my bio. I've asked him a million times. I even rewrote it for him.
Ultra indy: What a pair of confused individuals. No wonder you connect with them both. Ultra indy: Actually, I retract that. They are confused. You are conflicted.
NJG writes Brandy about Cocksocket: She's not who she says she is. She's a fake. Her so-called innocence is good though. Had me convinced for a second. But Luke is blinded by this and won't investigate it because he wants to believe LOL Luke's been HAD BIG TIME BY THIS CHICK! LOL. There is NO WAY she's who she says she is. NO WAY. Well good luck to her you know? She had me believing for a second and I can spot 'em a mile away, my step-father was a salesman, he taught me to spot 'em. I'm spotting one right now. ROTFLMFAO!! Luke deserves it though, and more.
NJG: You are like my "straight guy" you
know
NJG: you think?
NJG: and I am your drama queen!
NJG: and YOU LOVE DRAMA!!
NJG: and Fred he cracks me up!
Luzdedos1: Yes
NJG: Luke you think I am super psychic?
NJG: be honest
Luzdedos1: yes
NJG: thank you
NJG: I really appreciate that
NJG: to be honest that is the reason I can never have
sex with you
NJG: really honest
NJG: any kind of sex
NJG: Luke you think I am super sensitive?
Luzdedos1: yes
NJG: thank you sweetie! :) :)
NJG: you get two stars from me for that Lukey :)
Luzdedos1: :)
NJG: did you like what mom wrote you?
NJG: mommy what mommy wrote you
Luzdedos1: yes
NJG: isn't she the coolest mommy in the universe?
NJG: "I dig these Jewish chicks and they're shunning
me because of my website." Luke these chix would still shun you
without the website. You have to realize it is the way you are. You
aren't good to girlz.
NJG: they have pretty good self esteem, and no one
with good self-esteem would want you, sorry. They would see you coming
from a mile away.
Ellis writes: I was doing a internet search, on a favorite adult film actress of mine,TRICIA YEN, when I came across a article, that you had wrote up on her, and the reason, why she was dong a dult films, I was SHOCKED!!!! I really do mean that!!!..I can't believe, that poor girl, has had to resort, to doing adult films, to pay for her cancer treatments!!!! What kind of world, or human beings, have we become, to let such a beautiful angel, such as her,exploit herself, in order, to get help?..
Over the several years, that she has done adult oriented features, I did'nt really take notice, of her physical appearance,and as slim, as she was,I DID'NT GIVE IT ANY THOUGHT, as to knowing, that she had this horrid affliction...However, I THOUGHT, I did see her, several years ago, as she was on the "MAURY POVICH SHOW", being interviewed, by him, (as he spoke with quite a number of adult film actresses and actors in the industry), and he asked her why she,and many others do adult films, for a living: Many of them responded, that that are good looking, and have excellent sexual skills and prowes, and they THINK, that this is their calling, but I focused on her statement, as she stated, that she does it, becuase she had (at that time),developed ovarian cancer. And there was'nt any way, that she could afford to pay for her surgery, and that this was the BEST WAY, she could earn money, to be operated on. I did'nt know it at the time, but it was her. (I believe, it was back in 1994, I saw her in this interview with Maury).
As of 1996, as i understand it, she has retired, from adult films, living, hopefuly, a peaceful, and cancer free life.... What a saga, it has been, in the life, of this young, beautiful, sexy asian female... It's quite a paradox, how we get pleasure, out of other peoples' pain....
Another adult film actress, I feel for, that you have done a article on, is the beautiful, blonde, sexy, playful, wonderful, Ms. Lynn Lemay. I loved her, in the adult feature, "Full Blown", as she is the most arousing female, I have ever known, in the adult film industry, that does'nt mind, being with black men, and gives it her all, as she would with any man, that she is with, in any adult feature, that she does.... And yet, it seems, with all of the love, and hot passion, that she gives, in all of the adult features, that she does, her personal life, is in ruins!!!!!....
She is, "lookin for love, in all the wrong places", and continues to find nothing... She is heartbroken, as well as a heartbreaker... I hope, that some good man, comes along, and takes her away, from all that she has known as pain, and like Nancy Suitor, she gets out of the business... I will miss her yes, as I do Tricia Yen, but I would wish her the best, none the less... Thank You, for writting these very informative articles,as there are'nt many that do, whom give the inside scoop, on the adult film industry, and the stars, therin, as you do... You do it well.. Before I end here, can you tell me,if ther is any way, that you know of, that I can write to (ex), asian adult film stars, Kristarra Barrington, and Tricia Yen?..Or, is it, that once they leave the bussiness, they leave it al behind?...Also, can you tell me,if there is a mail order company, that deals with out of print videos, I can order from?.... I am looking for the feature, "Pink Champagne",( starring the amazing, contortionistic, MARIA TORTUGA), as it has been put into moritorium, as of now.
HEVG vs Luke F-rd
VonTripps writes on RAME: In the Nov ish of Hustler Erotic Video Guide the editors take some well places shots at Luke F-rd. Check Ask the Exxxperts, One Extremely f---ed-Up Aussie's Opinion and Book Review of the Month. Duke Cord, indeed.
Ramsey responds: HEVG likes to attack the wrong people. I mean they also like to attack Dave Cummings for his age and now they attack Luke F-rd, Sid Deuce also likes to take cheap shots at Luke while she supports ass-kisser Gene Ross. It doesn't matter because Luke is doing a great job, HEVG could learn a lot from him especially Mike Albo and Sid Deuce.
Greg Steel writes from Atlanta: I have been really busy lately. The television business here in Atlanta has been quite a great experience so far. The biggest difference between directing porno and directing television is....the check's are good in television as opposed to porno's NSF's! Julie is doing well, she is 7 months along now and says hi to you also.
American Beauties
Nick Zeckets writes for the Arizona Daily Wildcat, September 9, 1999
Playboy magazine's "Women of the Pac-10" issue is hot off the press, with two current students and one UA alum gracing the pages. Now for UA students, a line must be drawn between art and degeneration. Granted, they may have beautiful bodies, but the argument hinges on whether the act was artistic or merely vulgar.
In my opinion, these three ladies have stepped over the line of art. The production of nude material should return to its purer form rather than the grunge it has regressed into. Formerly, the naked body was an artistic element that few could render onto canvas. Art is the natural expression of hand upon canvas, not hand on KY Jelly. It is the purpose for which such works hold, that defines them as art or slime. Where, ladies, is the purpose of your Playboy layouts?
Skin mags have spearheaded the death of the body as art, codified women as objects and caused a downfall in society. How, I demand, can women be a part of this collapse? How can they pass off the posing as simply a way to garner funds? To pose is to comment on your character; being one of low morals and a lack of self-respect.
The moral fiber of this nation is waning under the guidance of perverts like Bill Clinton, with the women who fall into the trap of going buff for the camera feeding that perversion and the nation's waning, scruples. For the great Venetian portrait painters, the body was a graceful design created by a heavenly being. For them, the Roman-Catholic church inspired them to commemorate His great creation forever with a brush.
Antithetically, Hugh Heffner has found the sexual cord of the world's men, picturing women on glossy sheets to fuel the lust of males. Powering the ointment-driven shaft-pumping of males is not art, it's degeneration.
Howard Stern
XXX writes: On November 30, 1999 l-keford.com will shock the world by posting a $10,000 reward on startup website InfoRocket for an adequately documented answer to the following question: IS HOWARD STERN A CLOSET TRANSVESTITE?
By special arrangement with l-keford.com, InfoRocket has agreed to post our question in anticipation of the media frenzy and mutually advantageous controversy and publicity that will ensue. l-keford.com will accept either verifiable photo-documentation, or personal testimonials of a convincing nature that prove conclusively that Howard Stern is a closet transvestite. We believe Howard's closet transvestite lifestyle is his secret "implode button" that will ruin him forever and get this miserable smut peddler off the air for good. Those who would like to participate in the destruction of Howard Stern are asked to e-mail pledges to l-keford.com. Obviously, we would like to post the largest dollar amount possible to garner maximum press for this event, which we anticipate will send major shockwaves through the entertainment world, so your support is needed and very much appreciated. This is your chance to take a personal stand against smut, and enjoy the personal satisfaction of nailing this perverted sicko once and for all.
WiredPink.com Review
BritPop writes on RAME: Most adult actresses come into the business looking young and fresh and leave looking like hard,worn out skanks. When Jill Kelly came into the business as Seth Damian, she looked like a tough, hard street girl, yet has actually become better looking and more glamorous with each passing year. Naturally, I was curious to see if Jill's website would also improve with time, since her first website was your typical Atlas designed piece of s---. The site offers the standard images,quicktime clips, as well as live webcams (4) from Jill House which either feature Jill or one of her guest models.A Java chat client is also offered.
IMAGES
Images are virtually all behind the scene shots as well as on tour photos showing Jill on stage dancing. Total images in galleries was about 250 broken down as follows: Set1- 12pics,Set 2-10pics,Set 3- 8pics, Set 4- 159pics, Set 5-15pics Set 6- 39pics Unfortunately, the average size of the pics was 50-60kb, and looked to be at 800x600 resolution which was much lower than what I look for. Set 5 was basically just thumbnails, and while set 6 did have a few larger images, they were behind the scenes shots of the lesbian gangbang. While I liked the behind the scene pics, the absence of professional quality solo girl photo shoots was noticeable. And the inability to see any of the photos at a higher resolution was frustrating as well.
ACTRESS INFORMATION
Jill has a standard bio page of herself as well as about a dozen other women who have appeared in her movies. The bio was a short 2-3 paragraphs, and had that dry Public relations department feel to it. All the movies the actresses have appeared in were listed. In short, it did not have any information that would really interest a true Jill Kelly fan. There was no diary or weekly journal where Jill tells us about her life or what she did last week at all. Very disappointing.
WEBCAMS & STREAMING VIDEO
I am on a cable modem, and to her credit Personal Porn and Jill Kelly have enough bandwidth to support all the streaming videos that they are serving. The problem is that the technology is just not there yet, even for those of us who can download at T1 speeds. Her site uses quicktime technology, and the movies appear in a window that is roughly the size of a audio cassette tape case, and even at high speed they suffer from the blocky pixalated look. What you get are roughly 50 minute versions of each of the first 2 Purrfect Pink movies, some clips from her gang bang video, and one streaming dance clip filmed at a club in Denver. Jill's webcam schedule and dance schedule is not posted in the free section, so you don't find out until you join whether or not she will be there or if you will get a guest model The webcam windows are the same size as her streaming videos, and do have sound, so you can here the person speak. Jill was not there when I viewed her site, but "Nurse" Kelsey was. It was better than most webcam shows, but streaming video technology in such a small window does not do it for me.
MARKETING COSTS
Wiredpink.com is currently paying referring webmaster's $25 a signup, yet their monthly subscriber fee was also $25. When I see payouts that high it usually means either two things: 1) The site is so good that subscribers tend to stay with the service for months, allowing Personal Porn to recoup the sign up bonus paid to webmasters. 2) They were cheating webmasters by not paying for all the signups. The next thing I noticed was that you had to host their banner on a page in a password protected directory. What? If they just wanted traffic, then they would allow everybody and their grandmother to participate in the program. Requiring that the link be behind a password protected directory limits participants to other paysites. The only advantage of that I can think of was a way to keep the chargeback ratio down by only getting traffic which was a member of another site. For a pay site op, encouraging your existing members to leave your site and go join another one would have a short term gain, in that it might reduce your monthly variable costs for bandwidth in addition to the sign up bonus , but the surfer might decide to drop your site the next month and stay with Wired Pink. So I am assuming that this would primarily appeal to those paysites which did not update content frequently and thus did not have many recurring subscribers.
CONCLUSIONS
Whether or not you will like this site depends on how you feel about streaming video. My impression is that the technology is does not provide high enough quality to be worthwhile yet, and I am on a cable modem connection, so if you are on a dialup connection, your image quality will even be worse. I will say that Personal Porn has done one of the best jobs of implementing the technology that I have seen on the adult web, with plenty of bandwidth to support users as well as having multiple frame rates which the user can select based on his connection. As far as jpegs are concerned, 250 images for $25 bucks a month ,ie 10 cents a pic, is not my idea of value . The site has a dry corporate feel and lacks a personal diary or any sort of personal "warmth". You also get to view some of Personal Porn's content which consist of streaming video clips, organized by category and a rotating 3D image of various amateurs. The 3D images did not impress me at all, and the Personal Porn's video server was down when I viewed it on 18/09/1999.
The reason why I am calling this an observation as opposed to a review, is that the obviously the entire sucess of the site and a fan's enjoyment of it depends on Jill Kelly's webcam appearances, and she will not be there again until Oct 10. If her webcam shows rock, then maybe the site will generate the recurring monthly subscribers which it needs to cover its referring bonus. If the shows don't rock, or generate any initmacy that would appeal to a fan, then this site will receive an unfavorable recommendation.
Rapestock
Nice Jewish Girl (NJG), feeling feisty before her period, writes about Woodstock: I've been searching and posting throughout the net. Anyone notice how the guys come to, say alt.feminism, and just go on and on about how women are bitches, feminazis, and that men are great, and that there's no sexism, that we made it all up. Everyone is all equal now. And they claim that the feminists are f---ing everything up because they're whiny little bitches. So at alt.feminism, btw, there are only like one or two girlz there, the rest are the creepy men. Or over at the bbs for the woodstock thing that neva wrote there's a bunch of creepy guys who say the same thing, over and over. Sexism doesn't exist.
And if that's true how come we hate men so much more? How come men treat us WORSE than ever? How come feminism has become a dirty word? How come Andrea Dworkin is a dirty word and causes men to call her a "cunt"? Well it seems to me that men are the whiny ones here, they are whining again, about how women are bitches and feminazis. So men, I have this to say to you, if you don't like us, don't like feminism, don't like Andrea, you have two options. You can find some less bright girl, a la Pam Anderson who doesn't mind that you are an idiotic whiner and won't call you on your stuff, or you can like guys. If you like an intelligent equal then expect that you will be confronted, over and over on the sexist stuff you do. I do realize that many men like Pam Anderson ROFLMAO, they do you know, they find her porn star image so appealing! ROTFLMFAO, well if that's your cup of tea, then fine. LOL LOL LOL LOL
How would guys have liked it if they had to show their dicks to other guys just to go pee? And raped in the mosh pits? I just love how a significant MAJORITY of men on this board don't believe it happened, name call us feminists (oooh we are SCARED). Many many women had unreported incidents according to Ann Powers who I believe wrote the piece for the NY Times or something. I never understand why men come over to this board or other ng's like alt.feminism (which is almost all woman-hating men, except for a girl or two)and trash women, it doesn't make sense, except again, it has to do with men dominating over women. Which is why men are a big problem. And all these guys do is name call and say really dumb stuff. That is the male mind. Ladies we must excuse them, their mind doesn't function very well except on "DICK HARD -MUST f--- OR RAPE".
I saw this movie called "Rosie". It played in L.A. already I've heard. It's about this 13 year old girl, Rosie. She is beautiful and inspiring. She has a crush on a boy she sees on a bus, Jimi. He is kind of cold to her, but then either she imagines this completely cool relationship with him or it really happens, I'm not sure. Her "uncle" comes to stay with her and her single mom. Her single mother had her when she was 13 or 14. Her mother loves her, but wants Rosie to call her "sister" not mother. This hurts Rosie terribly and she really needs her mom to be her mother.
The uncle starts laying down the law to Rosie, she has to come home earlier, she can't go out. The uncle is a loser and a gambler and has a weird relationship with the mom. The mom gets a nice boyfriend. There is tension between the uncle and the boyfriend. Rosie has already shown that there is something strange going on with her. She steals a child, then gives it away. She is mostly a little girl, and can be cruel, but seems just to need love. In the end her uncle is trying to get her down from her hiding place outside in an industrial part of the town and is climbing up to her. She steps on his hand. He falls. He breaks his neck but is alive. Rosie does not want to help him. He tells her he is a scumbag, but that he is her father, FATHER.
Rosie does not want him in her and her mother's lives. She thinks he is destructive. In the end the mother's bf finds him and saves him. Rosie gets sent to an institution, where people are either "crazy" or "have killed someone". But the running theme of incest bothered me a lot in this flick, and frankly I am sick of indie movies with incest themes.
Luke: Cocksocket wanted me to tell you (she thought it would drive you crazy): I think going down on a woman is gross.
NJG: Interesting. So we're even. But do you ask for oral?
Luke: Yes, I love it.
NJG: What you want to call me for another 3-way with CS? It seems that she has questions for me or something. Please tell her that it is fine. And also, that I don't want you, to sleep with or even really marry, IRL. Tell her that you are hers because ...well just because. I dunno, tell her that you would die for her or something romantic like that. Do I have to write all your lines for you Luke?
Luke: Cocksocket, I would die for you. I love you.
NJG: No Luke, you love her money.
Dish on Lesbians
Is Anna Nicole Smith a lesbian? From the Is She Gay Page: DF118 writes: Anna Nicole Smith may be 'family', but, cute as she is, she may not be the kind of family you'd want. There's tonnes of stuff out there about A.N.S. Her maid actually sued her for sexual assault. It's also reported that she f---ed some woman (with dildos - the works) in a hotel lobby in New Orleans; that she forced herself on the breasts of unsuspecting lovelies at the Miss José Cuervo tequila competition last year; that, yeah, she's had a slew of girlfriends and basically, she loves pussy and is determined to get it no matter the consequences. Lock up your daughters, your friends, your cats - even yer old mum.
According to Felicity, Hollywood lesbians include: Taylor Holland (who just won an Emmy for The Practice) Anne Ramsey (Jamie’s sister on Mad About You) Jodie (duh) Jane Pratt (editor of Jane magazine).
Brooke Shields: There's no doubt that she only dates gay men, but I've seen no proof that she's actually gay. I think she's basically asexual and that's one of the reasons she goes for Michael Jackson, George Michael, Andre Agassi, and Dean Cain (if you believe the rumours about him). Of course I'm sure the industry/economic reason for her to be attached to some man, the more famous the better, is also involved. One reason I think she's asexual is that I've never heard of any woman she's been linked to. Most women who are rumoured to be gay are linked to someone. For instance, Whitney to her high school galpal. Why hasn't this happened to Brooke? Remember, Brooke has been in the entertainment industry since childhood, and you know how messed up emotionally most child stars are when they grow up. I'm sure the experience of filming "Pretty Girl" left some scars, even if they were only from her overbearing mother.
Tourista: Since I think sexuality is deeply linked to love, maybe she's never been in love. Since she's tried it so many times with men, maybe she's never tried it with a woman. She could be asexual for now because she hasn't found what or who she's looking for. Or she could be asexual because the only thing that gets her hot is success (I think that goes for a lot of people in H'wood, frankly). ANYway, I don't buy that she didn't know Agassi was gay. If you've spent as much time in the entertainment industry as she has, you've got to gain SOME form of gaydar.
N/T: Disagree that sexuality is tied to love. However, I do think that Brooke is shutdown around sexual matters when it comes to men. Perhaps that why she appears to be asexual. I just don't think she is interested in men. I mean for crying out loud any woman who is really interest in and attracted to men would not have "dated" the men she has dated over the past 15 years. I think sexuality is a separate issue from love. One can be sexually attracted to someone they do not love. Happens every minute of every day. Brooke's sexuality is hidden and out of sight. It's as if she is afraid of it...I really think she is gay deep down inside.
From groupiecentral.com about Madonna: In her late 80s and early 90s tours, she was pulling a Joan Jett and sleeping with a whole lot of women. She was into multiples and often would have 2 or 3 gal pals in her dressing room and go at it. Since then, I am not sure. Some think she has given up on women. Others think she has settled into a lesbian relationship with Ingrid Casares, with whom she goes everywhere with...promotional tours, Oscar parties, etc.
Jews
From http://www.jewishjournal.com/jjgoldberg.9.17.9.htm:
There was a telling moment, midway through the Sept. 7 press conference announcing the CBS-Viacom megamerger, when one of the unmentionables of American entertainment peeked through the veils for an instant. It came when a reporter asked CBS President Mel Karmazin why he wanted this merger. His reply: "This is the deal I've wanted to make, I think, from the time I was bar mitzvahed."
The reporters laughed nervously. Nobody commented afterward. Nobody would have brought it up if Karmazin hadn't. It's one of those inside jokes you don't usually tell in public.
Americans consider it downright rude to talk publicly about Jewish ownership in the media. Marlon Brando mentioned it two years ago on "Larry King Live" and nearly got lynched. Three years earlier, journalist William Cash caused an international uproar with a scathing article in the British newsweekly the Spectator, also about Jewish influence in Hollywood. It's just not something you discuss in conventional society.