Tuesday, September 21st, 1999
I hear that Zoe has left John Bone's Cream Entertainment who are about to release her new movie, Major Slut.She's looking for another contract. Another departee from John, Kendra Jade, has signed a contract with LGI, a friend of Rob Spallone's, beginning in January. Jade plans major plastic surgery in December. The contract calls for Jade to do her own series (six movies in the year 2000) for LGI, directed by James DiGiorgio and produced by Spallone.
Charlie Sheen
That's Showbiz: NEW YORK -- Charlie Sheen is taking on the role of a pornography king riddled with drug and alcohol addictions, problems that mirror the actor's real-life struggles. Sheen and brother Emilio Estevez are slated to play siblings in Showtime's upcoming cable film, Rated X. Estevez is directing the project, which chronicles the careers of pornography pioneers Artie and Jim Mitchell. Sheen plays the doomed sibling ultimately killed by Estevez's character after the latter becomes fed up with his brother's drug and alcohol abuse. In reality, Sheen has suffered a string of legal troubles related to substance abuse and has spent time as an inpatient for detoxification. "Charlie had to go down some very dark roads. I realized it could be dangerous," Estevez said of the film. "In fact, it was cathartic. He's brilliant."
Eden Rae writes on RAME: So, since I am now getting hate mail after doing that f---ing scene, I wonder was it even worth what I was paid to do it? Probably not. I was villified here for not having done one, when the opportunity hadn't even arose. Now, I get crucified for doing it.
Ahhh whatever, no surprise that I decided to retire now was it? No one gives a damn about the talent, be it the producers, companys, or the fans themselves. No one wants us as we are, for who we are, they want us to do what they say when they say it, and be damned with the consequences for us.
Not to mention gossip hounds that say they are journalists yet print every accusation and line of crap fed to them without any substantiation from any biased source with a grudge. If you choose to step above it, and not respond, people assume that your admitting to it, if you deny the bull your lying anyhow.
Any asshole who can turn on a computer seems to be doing just that, and it is they and not the relatively few relatively intelligent persons that bother to engage in these tirades and slanderous rants. Unfortunately, it allows the propogation of malicious, hurtful rumors and allegations to continue. If a few more balanced individuals took the time to put a less spiteful and more sane twist on the garbage being spewed by a handful of idiots, maybe the industry and this NG would have been worth staying with. Its sad to feel the need to walk away from a part of my life that had been somewhat pleasant til recently, despite the occasional asshole/childish remark from a flamer or a troll.
Unfortunately I have been forced to leave the L.A. area due to a resurgence of threats to my life, a few claiming to have been from my attackers. I will be flying into L.A. for mainstream film work, and am stuck now hiring a bodyguard to accompany me anytime I am in L.A. without con tutti l'anima, my love. Wonderful how easy it can be to terrorize someone isn't it? Even self-important astute 'journalists' will get in on the fun, no matter the cost to a womans (or a mans) safety.
Luke Gets Mail
Sin City owner David Sturman writes: Luke, Just got back from Honolulu and spent this last weekend in Las Vegas watching the fight. I read your story on Sin City and it amused me no end. Some people think I am as good as the second coming but what I could pay for blow jobs would only pay a few days of Nikki's salary. Seriously, Nikki is a very competent individual... She has a very tough and important job at SCV. Her duties include marketing the studio and my production facility including the editing facility. I now have four operating bays. I started an internet company called "Adult Internet Services" offering a link to an adult super store selling every video,dvd, and adult toy which she also has the responsibility to market. Her last duty requires her to market and promote the sincityvideo.com site which is in the process of a complete make over. All this makes her very busy and an integral part of the company. Keep your powder dry and your muzzle clean.
Clay writes: Gene Ross sucks! His long winded tirades are bulls---. You da man! If you need any help with those goons out there in Hollywood, us Arkansas rednecks will gladly come out and clean up the scene for you. No sidearms needed!
Marcus Killus writes: The handle Cocksocket lends itself to Ho-isim. I dig the entertainment value of NJG though,i dont concur with her rant. BTW did'nt Andrea Dworkin perish in one of Stalins purges :) lol I'm sorry but i just finished Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn and i swear i seen that name associated with purges.Yea i know that s--- aint funny. No Jew except Howard Stern should have ever been caught between Stalin and Hitler. Yo Luke, if cocksocket is a libertine with money marry her. Thats slacker Heaven.
Also in my personel experince lesbians,feminist,and bisexual women have by and large been among the best of lovers ive known.Four women ive known come to mind. They were all beautiful, very submissive,stark sexual adepts. With the plus that after you finished the best of sex and asked what was on there mind you could count on engaging dialog. All the really good looking marginaly litterate women ive known have been, no pun intended "cocksockets". So i would buy stock in NJG's contention that she would make sex with a porngirl obsolete. p.s NJG, Yo buddy, Andrea Dworkin, is as wrong as chicks wit dicks. i marcus killus would not, could not,ever! gank (steal) pussy.Killus must have it in one way SUBMISSION !:)
Boss fella writes: Anyone with any news on Metro Global Media - contact the editor at XXXgen Magazine (editor@xxxgen.com). This is a very interesting story and we have reporters working to uncover the facts for an upcoming story.
HillaryClinton replies on Yahoo to William Jefferson: I know why you hang out at MGMA, now get your rear end home! So you attended an Ivy League School, tell the truth, you tended the ivy, while avoiding the draft and not inhaling, but impaling. Don't worry about the book value, if MGMA goes under you will not only get porn books but videos too! Maybe even act in a flick? Of course yours would only be a small part. Now turn off the computer and quit looking for new interns or this witch will turn you into a republican.
Bimbonaut: Supposedly Metro Global holds 500,000 shares of NOOF, and also holds 500,000 options for NOOF at 7 7/8. At least the former represent hard assets. This company has great revenue per share. If they are losing money, they aren't losing very much - and we all know how small-cap companies prefer to reinvest earnings rather than pay taxes. I don't know what happened to Fanzine that it suddenly came up losing money - wasn't there a PR in Spring touting Fanzine as contributing $0.25/share to earnings in FY2000? - but perhaps it's an industry-wide phenomenon that's now past. Keep in mind the first quarter of Metro's current FY is already over: perhaps we'll get news about those results soon after this accounting mess is taken care of.
Jim Gunn writes on RAME: Although in recent years people like myself and others have been producing an increasing number of adult movies outside of L.A., still the overwhelming majority of porn production in North America occurs in California. As for the meainstream business, pick up the Hollywood Reporter to get detailed info. about mainstream movies in production- you'll see just how spread out the production is- with New York City, Toronto, Vancouver ,Miami and other metro areas contributing a significant percentage of theatrically released feature films.
Porn Chat
JimGunn> Brandy, not to break your chops or anything but your wishy washy denial of doing g/g on Luke the other day is a little sketchy...true it was only just a little pussy eating on the receiving end, but just think what these guys would say to me if I got caught with my cock in some guys mouth for even two seconds!
DelaneyD> I command that all nads should be shaved, and all remaining pubes should be nicely trimmed
JimGunn> I trim a bit down there, even thogh I'm not on camera. I like my girls shaved or mostly shaved too.
JimGunn> Half the time I'd rather get some foreplay and a bj rather than screw.
Gentlemen's Club Expo
Sande Weinstein writes Gene Ross: Now that the Gentlemen's Club Expo is over, I decided to sit down and release all that is pent up inside about the overall atmosphere of the adult entertainment industry right now. As one who is still considered an outsider in this industry, I am allowed the pleasure of enjoying some of the benefits of being on the inside a little, sitting on the outside looking in and watching how many people in this industry interrelate amongst their contemporaries. I then get to laugh my ass off sometimes at what goes on and also comment on what I see and hear. The following, Mr. Ross, is what I have seen and heard for the past couple of months.
I have been communicating with Michael Ross and Kat Sunlove for a little over a year now and the reason for that was that here in my own little hotbed of sizzling democracy, Phoenix, Arizona, the adult entertainment industry was going through a crackdown of sorts by the Phoenix City Council. The city council felt it their duty and obligation to protect their citizens by telling them how to think, how to act, basically acting as the thought police. I felt the need to become active again in the industry and attempted to organize the clubs, cabarets, swing clubs, adult retail businesses and the vendors into an organization here even before I had ever spoken to Mike Ross or Kat Sunlove. Finding it a little more involved than I thought, I then did some research and looked to Mike Ross and Kat Sunlove for guidance which I was able to find from both of them. I've had some experience in this business. There are a lot of other people much more qualified than I in this business. But I consider myself intelligent, intellectual and able, I believe, to discern bulls--- from truth, fact from fiction.
The adult business has been around for quite some time. But it still gets no respect from society, let alone the people who actually work in the industry itself. Mr. Ross, one just has to pay attention regularly to your column and read AVN's LooseLips section to see that. Sometimes though there are people who the industry must look to for guidance and leadership. Who are these people? Well, Mike Ross has been there for as long as I've been taking notice. Kat Sunlove has been there. Gloria Leonard and Jeffrey Douglas have been there and taken a much-needed leadership role. These people are the visible ones who are there to put a face on a long-misunderstood industry that really has no one but those involved to watch out for it.
This last month, we were all able to watch part of this industry take control of their destiny. Michael C. Ross, who has taken a much needed leadership role in the cabaret/club business around the country, created the National Cabaret Association. This section of the industry has been taken to task many times by our old friends/opposition, the National Family Legal Foundation, the Christian Coalition, Moral Majority, all those Pat Buchanon/Pat Robertson right-wingers who believe that we all need their help to get by in life to make the right decisions about how we live and get along in society. In other words, we should conform to their God's way of life or we should be damned for eternity.
Michael Ross has taken the right approach. To get along in society, we must actually become a part of society. We must have a voice in society. The industry must be taken seriously and earn respect if it's going to survive. Over a year ago I contacted both Mike Ross and Kat Sunlove about this industry becoming more vocal and more national. Approximately 5 months ago, a serious effort was put into action by Michael Ross to unite the Cabaret industry into becoming a powerful lobby. And why not? Is the Cabaret industry not a legitimate legal business entitled to the same laws and benefits of business accorded to the liquor business? The large hotels in Las Vegas or large hotels around the country? Are these businesses not part of large corporations? Are they not large investments equal to other large entertainment businesses? Why shouldn't these businesses have representation in their states, in the nation's capitol? There are large industries that rely on the Cabaret business, some high caliber vendors to Cabarets who would suffer from the loss of these businesses. These are important businesses who rely on the business of Cabarets across the country.
Mike Ross, with help from many people around the country, was able to put together a team of people to get the word out, and he was able to travel to all points of the country and unite several states, including Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc. and bring them, in the guise of some of the major national players and local clubowners of all sizes in this industry to the table. They were able to express their main concerns regarding legislation from the national level to the state and municipal level and discuss some of the ways they can help themselves to solve some of the problems facing them in the new millennium.
They then were able to come together in Las Vegas, NV, (what better place?) and discuss these same problems on a larger scale. From the discussion and chatter after some of the panels were heard, and after the owners were divided up by state and were able to discuss these issues amongst themselves, these clubowners, attorneys, lobbyists and club management, they are now more aware then they ever were and more active in their resolve to improve their lot in business and society as a whole. If there was anything accomplished by Michael Ross, the attorneys of the First Amendment Association and the clubowners, management and talent that were on hand at these seminars, it is that they are now aware of the issues confronting them ahead and are united in their goals to meet and solve these problems head-on.
The fact that Mike Ross went forward with the incredible step of registering the N.C.A. as a national lobby with Congress and, along with it's sister PAC, the Adult Entertainment Industry Education Fund, the industry now has a national identity that society can see, touch and feel. This is nothing to just take lightly. The Cabaret business can/will be a very powerful lobby in this country in the coming national election not to mention local and statewide elections should the N.C.A. Board of Directors take control quickly and put their plan into action. If you took a look at the material the N.C.A. put out at the convention, the Board of Directors of the N.C.A. is a formidable group not to be taken lightly. If you are going to have a Board of Directors, why not put the most powerful people in the industry nationwide on it to get it off the ground. Its funny because even the talent in this industry is taking a closer look at the industry as a whole. In the dancer panels, serious issues regarding their futures and careers and marketing advice were discussed amongst the features and house dancers who attended. This industry is maturing in such a way that who knows what will happen now. According to Mike Ross, talent plays a big role in what he has planned for the future. The difference between the Free Speech Coalition and Mike Ross and the N.C.A. is that he is implementing a plan.
Now there always has to be a downside to all this good news. The Cabaret business is only one part of a larger picture that must be seen. The Adult Entertainment Industry must be united in their resolve to win this fight for acceptance and respect. I've said it before but I'll say it again. There is a symbiotic relationship in this industry. The cabarets and talent have a relationship and talent and the video production part of the industry have a relationship but the relationship between the video production companies and cabarets must become closer and become more involved in promotion and revitalization of the business. Now there are two organizations that are competing, not working together in representing the industry. The Free Speech Coalition has been around for a long time, and it is vested in its representation of the video production industry. Everyone who knows anything in this business knows about the rift between Michael Ross, heading up the AEIEF and the Free Speech Coalition.
There is a serious clash of personalities in this rift between the two organizations representing this industry. It doesn't do the industry any good to have this rift. It certainly will not help the industry have any effect in the coming election year. Its time to end this crap and make room for coalition building instead of coalition competition. There are serious infractions on both sides. Michael Ross has made it his business to one-up the Free Speech Coalition at every turn. He is a man on a mission. He is succeeding where the Free Speech Coalition appears to be treading water. But it is the Free Speech Coalition itself who put Mike Ross on the map and ulitmately on this mission. The Free Speech Coalition, by its own admission, is responsible for the zeal and intensity that has fueled the flame of Mike's mission and he has them to ultimately thank for the goals he is setting and achieving at this time by virtue of the slow, if any response to the issues the industry as a whole is being faced with now. Why is Mike Ross getting all the publicity and respect from the Cabaret businesses now? Because, essentially, Mike is the only game in town. Because people can see, feel, touch and relate to his accomplishments. He began an organization on a shoestring budget, worked his ass off to get the people he has behind him and left his office chair in front of his computer and has travelled out to the real world where there are REAL PEOPLE! Industry people obviously think Mike is doing the job because people are donating money to their respective state organiza tions set up by the key people in those states with the help of Michael Ross.
The question that I always ask when a member of an association that represents me is "What have you (the organization) done for me lately?" I asked Mark Kernes that question in an hour-long, very enlightening conversation with him at the Gentleman's Club Expo and as much as I admire him as a journalist and industry expert, I still didn't get an answer to that question. Where do I find that answer? I read everything that the Free Speech Coalition had out at the Expo. I reread the material from the AVN Expo and did not find the answer to that question. All I'm looking for is something tangible, something I could put my hand on, and see and touch and feel. What has the Free Speech Coalition accomplished in the name of this industry that we can all put a finger on and tangibly see. Kat Sunlove is nothing if not capable as a lobbyist. Gloria Leonard is more than admirable as the President of the Free Speech Coalition. But as the commercial said some years ago, "FSC! Where's the Beef?" The Free Speech Coalition could have, should have, would have been the organization to arrive on the Congress steps at least two summers ago and registered as a national lobby. Where were they? What were they doing during this time?
If the hub, the home, if you will, of this industry is in Southern California, that would mean that the market for the industry would be anything EAST OF BLYTHE! That market has been under fire, slowly disappearing or reducing in size because of harsh legislation around the country, sometimes funded and directed by the National Family Legal Foundation. Should a Republican ascend to the White House again, what will the Free Speech Coalition say then? Where was the Free Speech Coalition when New York City was under fire two or three years ago by Mayor Guiliani? Where has the Free Speech Coalition been during this time? There is a difference between reading/writing about something and then actually standing up and doing something about it.
In http://www.xxxadvocate.Com and http://www.cabaretcoalition.Com, Mike Ross' websites, it is not an "if you build it they will come" kind of site. Its interactive, there is alot to see and download and read. There is an abundance of substantial information for talent and cabaret owners to view and see and to understand to help them in their business. I've said this before and I'll now say it in print. I have worked with Michael Ross. I have found him to be an intelligent, intellectual, politically astute man. He has accomplished what this business has needed for a long time. You could probably call it a "shot in the arm" of the business with some major "juice". It's awakened what I would consider a "sleeping giant". United, the adult entertainment industry would be a formidable lobby that could win back those inalienable rights that the Constitution and Bill of Rights so long ago provided to every American but have become diluted with more government interference and encroachment in our everyday lives. What an interesting thought. It could happen.
However, and here's the real kicker. I don't think it's in this industry's best interests to elect a king. Michael Ross is what's right with this industry right now. He's the man! But the Free Speech Coalition is necessary too. More importantly, a STRONG Free Speech Coalition is necessary now! A Free Speech Coalition that is in touch with its membership, an organization that has direct goals and ideals that are set out for the Free Speech Coalition to accomplish and a Free Speech Coalition that includes its membership in direct conversation about those goals. Not just at Free Speech Lobbying Days or once a year at CES. Get more CEO's and industry workers, not just talent involved with all the activities that are planned for the FSC. Come up with the budget to get Kat Sunlove out of California past Las Vegas to reach out and touch other cities where the industry needs to be represented. There are adult businesses that are not cabarets that need representation now.
As I said to you Kat, "REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE NOW!!!!" Later, when a budget is planned and passed, it will be too late. Instead of reporting what is going on with other organizations and other businesses around the country in your Free Speech Xpress, create the news! Make the Free Speech Coalition an activist organization again. Go out amongst the willing and create the same uproar of activism that was created at the Gentlemen's Club Expo. Kat, you and Mark Kernes were witness to it. Don't tell me again that you've got to be in it to win it. If I didn't care, why would I bother to write? And put this feud with Michael Ross to bed, uh?. aside?put it aside. Get past it. Michael Ross and Jane Hamilton have expressed an idea for working together in some kind of fundraising capacity. In this business that's called an "olive branch". Consider taking a hold of that branch. You and the Board of Directors of the Free Speech Coalition are in a position to make things happen now. Consider the power behind a united adult entertainment business lobby across the country. Mr. Ross, thank you for letting me vent. Even though the cute blackjack dealers and I were not seeing eye to eye, when all was said and done, you missed a great time in Las Vegas.
Brandy Alexandre responds: In response to Sande Weinstein's commentary to Gene Ross, he can tout the value of Mike Ross all she wants, but he's a whiner. He wrote a number of whining diatribes against AVN as engaging in censorship because they, as a private publisher opted against continuing his column. He cried censorship, obviously not knowing what censorship is. It negated everything positive he tried to say about or do for the industry, closed my ears to ever listening to him again, and destroyed the respect I would have needed in order to listen at all. I can't see getting behind someone who can't take his lumps.