Friday, October 15th, 1999

The Schlong Goodbye

Luke F-rd Wire Services, Ltd.: Will the VCA-financed documentary 'Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes' bring mainstream credibility to the legally and medically distressed porn industry?

In the short term, 'Wadd' has clearly brought a small glimmer of legitimacy to names heretofore recognizable mainly among chronic masturbators, mafia associates and cable-porn purveyors: "A VCA Pictures presentation," announces the credits, "....Executive producer, Russ Hampshire....associate producer, Rodger Jacobs....With: P.T. Anderson, Sharon Holmes, Det. Tom Blake, Ann Perry, Bob Chinn, Cicciolina, Larry Flynt, Kitten Natividad, Bill Amerson, Sharon Mitchell, Ken Turan, Bunny Blue [sic], Al Goldstein, Annette Haven, Ron Jeremy."

"Picaresque, funny, cautionary and hugely enjoyable," began a Variety review, dated 10-11-99, following the doc's recent Toronto screening, 'Wadd' focuses on the cultural impact of gawky country boy turned genre folk hero John C. Holmes and his natural endowment.... "Minor and judicious pruning (such as scenes of the industry's most famous organ, seen every so often in repose) would yield an item playable to tolerant, prepped auds nearly everywhere, with big ancillary action assured.

"Docu vet Cass Paley captures perfectly the the joyously uninhibited yet increasingly sad mix of loopy family values and sleazy economic interests at the heart of the American porno boom, which began in the late 1960s and petered out with the advent of AIDS in the early 1980s.

"The stage is set for Holmes' career via a thumbnail history of porn in America. Relying more on penetrating insight than actual penetration (of which there is none), the pic then mixes clips from some four dozen vintage porn titles among the recollections, musings and tall tales of nearly among as many peers, historians and hangers on to trace "not bright but street smart" Holmes' rise from humble Ohio beginnings. Docu chronicles the first marriage he kept secret for nearly two decades, his stardom as Johnny Wadd, drug-fueled self-destruction with an underage mistress, the grisly Wonderland Avenue multiple murder in which he was implicated and his death at age 42 from AIDS complications.

"A determined and cheerful liar, Holmes was a pussycat to some and a monster to others, and pic is best at using contrary clips to bring alive that corner of showbiz where posturing and a 13-inch penis count more than talent, honesty and likability. The funniest sequence assembles close-ups of actresses working with him as guage of their reaction to 'the post of gold at the end of his zipper.'

"Kudos to Paley, who began the project after wondering about the veracity of 'Boogie Nights' and has delivered a film that balances compassion with humor. Tech credits are pro for the milieu, with Christopher Rowling's snappy editing of the shot-on-vid pic complemented by cheerfully cheesy original funk and disco themes...

"Distilled from a 5 1/2 hour first cut (and, per helmer, shorn of ten minutes since its Toronto screenings on its way to film), pic won the docu feature prize at the [Texas] South by Southwest fest...."

As a counterpoint to the review's cheeky swirl of euphemism, dissumulation and weenie jokes, an earlier Variety report from Toronto, dated 9-20-99, observed, "two provactively themed docus [including] Cass Paley's 'Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes'...failed to deliver the goods that auds no doubt came in expecting." Will Russ Hampshire be lunching with Warren Beatty anytime soon? Or is "Wadd" is just the dying echo of "Boogie Nights"? Stay tumed.

Going Greek

From http://www.argonaut.uidaho.edu/viewarticle.cgi?133

After a long-time effort to produce a pornographic film with "artistic quality," UI Film Studies Major Dirk Tungsten, and writer/co-producer Jake Cross have begun their debut film, "Going Greek."

Unlike other porno on the market today, "Going Greek" will, according to producers, attempt to fix some things that are wrong with today’s adult movies. The main flaw being the degrading depiction of women.

"Right now we feel that women’s roles in porno have not been very positive. Hopefully we can change this by presenting women in a more realistic and uplifting light," said Tungsten.

According to Tungsten, "Going Greek," will not only be directed at men, but both sexes in a very real college setting. "A lot of people have had the experience of leaving the bar with the wrong person, this film takes the viewer through the foreplay, sex, and the reality after the load," said Tungsten.

The filmmakers want to assure the public that the movie will not be soft core. "Oh yea, you’ll see the pink, however it will be in a creative manner," said Tungsten.

John Wayne Bobbitt

John Wayne Bobbitt's manager writes Luke: Coming soon The Best Porn Film Ever, Staring John Wayne Bobbitt

The only thing is John does not know about it yet. How you ask? Well, let me give you the scoop. It isn't actually a porn film but more of a home movie, in the way I set John up. With help from a girl and plenty of hidden cameras I caught John in the act on tape. I was hoping to get a half hour of film I ended up getting 6. I have enough to edit and make a great movie out of it. This will really answer some questions about John that everyone has asked him in every interview ever. Let me give you the details.

As you may or may not know, I Robert R. Yates, have been working with John Wayne Bobbitt for quite some time. In this time I have given John many opportunities to make something of himself, again. For example, John's comedy career. The week before John's first booking he had gotten stage fright. Then refused to talk to me for about 2 weeks, after he already missed 4 gigs, including Comedywood in Toronto. After that I got an offer for a big movie contract that would have John in the staring role. Well, John had taken the contact number without my knowledge, and tried to do some negotiating himself saying that he was his own manager. He blew that deal. After that John came back to me and asked what I could do.

John says he wants to become famous. The entire time I have been working with John, the only thing people seemed to care about is if he is going to make another porn. After all he has the World's Most Famous Penis. John refuses the idea of doing another adult film. He says he has already shown the world what they needed to see. But no one has ever seen John in the state he is now. His penis is deformed it got all bent up and out of whack after the enlargement surgery, which made his penis huge!!! I never seen anything like it. It is the size of a beer can, Just longer. John wants to be famous again well I am going to make his wish come true.

The way I set it up is, I got a pretty 19 year old girl, my age by the way, and a friend of mine, Ray. We had set up a room with camera's hidden all throughout it. I had my friend hide in one room and I hid in the closet. I had told John that I was having a party for him and let him know that I had arranged for some girls to meet him and told to him to be ready for a good time. Apparently he had a great time we were stuck there for over 6 hours. I ended up with enough footage for an entire movie. Which I plan to packaged and sell worldwide with or without John. Any distributors interested can contact me at 716-297-9006 or 716-297-3076 or e-mail at Bobbitsrep@aol.com.

This movie will answer a lot of question his penis is about 3 times the size it was in "Uncut." We had got some great footage. The girl, Victoria, was great. She really knew how to get John to work the camera. I even had her ask John A few question about his disfigured penis. It is going to be great. John has no idea that he was being taped. Oh and by the way I have gotten the first queeve ever caught on tape! John has gone to great lengths to make sure that no one gets a hold of his phone number. But I cannot wait for him to find out about this, I wish I could see his face when he finds out.

Jim Powers Bukkake

Lynne L-patin attended Jim Powers' latest Bukkake effort Thursday night. Bukkake refers to an originally Japanese style video where a group of men stand around and jerk off on a woman's face.

About 70 guys showed up, including one man in a wheelchair, to contribute their sperm. Angela D'Angelo was the lucky recipient.

Lynne says: "It was the most democratic thing I've ever seen. There was this guy behind me with a pretty blonde girl who looked like a porn starlet and this guy is saying this is so homosexual, all these guys are almost touching. And I'm looking at it as almost exactly the opposite. It's a male bonding ritual, a civilized version of a gangrape. No homosexuality at all but a comradely feel, all these men on this playing ground, no matter who they are in every day life or their body size or their penis size, were all on an equal playing field.

"Angela D'Angelo is one of my favorites. I like to model myself after her because she's so strong. It was a difficult shoot, in a smaller place than usual, and it was hard work for everybody. It ran smoothly and was one of the better human interactions that I've seen. Better than going to KMart and watching people tear things off shelves and throw them on the floor.

"I'm shooting on the 30th and 31st. It's a totally abnormal shoot. Black people getting treated like totally normal and dignified people."

Brad From Danger Boy Video IMs Luke:

Jimplasti:    are you getting any correspondence from Metro's mexico trip?
Luzdedos1:    no
Jimplasti:    Do you want Mila to call in from there?
Luzdedos1:    y
Jimplasti:    She can be your little Mata hari....whore spy
Jimplasti:    LOL
Luzdedos1:    :)
Jimplasti:    It should be crazy.....I wish she wasnt going.
Jimplasti:    Shes gonna be all f---ed out by the time she gets home
Jimplasti:    and were shooting this thing with the band Droid, kinda porn/rock video for europe....
Jimplasti:    Mila is going to do 3 of the band members while the 4th one sings to them
Jimplasti:    or something like that.
Jimplasti:    at the Roxy.
Jimplasti:    in a van.
Jimplasti:    Deja Vu...
Jimplasti:    Its good timing..The new Queen of Nasty,The Wreckage comes out next Friday.
Jimplasti:    Its right up that same alley.
Jimplasti:    We had to cut that scene with you and John Douglas though. I kinda liked the Bi-twist in our movie, but too many fans wrote in saying that if we showed you and John, then we were fags, and thats the one thing I'm not...so , cutting room floor with you.
Jimplasti:    It was a good scene too...you looked really good except Johns ass was so hairy.
Jimplasti:    It looked like the Psyco house in the backround...Im not sure though.
Jimplasti:    I didnt even know that you guys had a thing going.
Jimplasti:    Last time he hung out with us, The Chorizo Brothers were all over John. They will be pretty jealous to know that Lukie is movin in on their boy.

Mad Jack Orgy

Mad Jack writes from Las Vegas: It started out as a typical shoot but ended up as an all out orgy. Good for me considering EVERYBODY signed releases. We showed up at the club around 4:30 to shoot two anals and a b/b/g/g which should have had us out of there by 10:00. But no, nothing ever works out the way it's supposed to on a Mad Jack set. When we arrived, the place was empty. It didn't take long to pack up as I guess the owner had told his better patrons that we were shooting. Got some killer anal footage with my guy Marco pounding Jennifer. f--- SHE'S HOT!!! wait till you see this, it burns... Here's a few shots for the scrap book...More later..Gotta wake these girls up and shoot a spanker.

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Atlas Multimedia

Luke's heard that Melanie Stone and her husband Hunter ripped off their former company Atlas Multimedia for thousands of dollars before leaving for Texas last week. Don Osterholt, owner of Atlas, has no comment.

Long short-handed on programmers, Osterholt says "We just hired one of the best guys in the business. He is relocating to Los Angeles from North Carolina November 1st. we also just hired a new graphics guy so we were short handed for a while but we're fine now.

"Our massive new project www.liveporn.com will be launched in two weeks. We have a full fledged studio and will be shooting a lot of stuff for the web site. In fact, US News and World Report is going to make the web site the cover story for one of their January issues."

On 10/5, AVN.com ran this story about Jill Kelly and her frustrations with Atlas Multimedia:

Amidst an otherwise enjoyable ia2000 for her, adult video star Jill Kelly offered a few words of warning for fellow performers wanting to stake themselves to an Internet presence.

"Make sure you domain your name," the friendly blonde said sharply. "Set your name right away before somebody else does. And talk to everybody…but if you have the time to do your Web site, do it yourself. Read everything. Have an attorney look at it. And weigh all your options."

Kelly spoke from bitter experience. She's been on the Web for just over a year, but the first six months, hosted by what she politely calls an "unscrupulous" group [Atlas], saw her and a number of fellow performers losing money despite the hosts claims to make large payouts annually.

"I also referred friends to (this) certain company and they have not received any money," Kelly says, "and these girls work so hard, making adult movies, making a name for themselves, and then turn around to have some f***ing asshole steal your money."

The business is hard enough to make your way through without that kind of thievery, Kelly says, her smile hardening into frustration at the memory.

"In three weeks, the money that we'd made - and it's not even finished - proves to me that (my former hosts) they were making money and charging me for s--- that I didn't even approve of," she said.

Mike South writes Luke: It's funny to hear Jill whining about Atlas Multimedia. While Jill was at IA2000 she was signing in personalporns booth. Jill knows about this company and how many people they stole conent from and flat out told me, hey, they are paying me. Sorry Jill...I like ya but when you lay down with dogs don't be surprised when you get fleas.

Gene Ross To Chris English - 'I Took The Bullseye Off Your Back'

Adult Video News journalist told Europorner Chris English (chrisenglish1@yahoo.com) this evening, "I did you a favor. I took the bullseye off your back. You were a hunted man."

Ross refers to his fuzzying up of the issues regarding how AVN publisher Paul Fishbein has been trying to cover up for his buddy Chuck Zane. Chuck's Prague buddy Dick Miller aka Richard Mailor allegedly provided Fishbein with hookers.

Gene made only one update yesterday as opposed to his customary two. Normally Gene runs his interviews in Q&A format, but yesterday Ross put tremendous time and energy into rewriting the interview to neuter its devastating effect on Chuck Zane and his cover-up buddy Fishbein.

Here is a sample of 's coverup, concocted on the orders of Fishbein:

English, who wants to be a full time director in the adult biz, emailed John Bowen several days ago, essentially seeking either employment advice or business opportunities in that area. What happened over the next 48 hours would have you thinking English was the anti-Christ. The way the story developed, English, who shot four volumes in the Sperma Diat series for Zane Entertainment might as well have been Lou Costello with Sperma Diat translating as, 'Who's On First?' Many issues have become muddled. English holds firm in saying all he wants is a job. But then there's the emails and the flurry of obfuscation that followed.

English said the story's now exploded totally out of proportion. "I just want a job and get to work," he says. English also states emphatically that he never told a story about seeing Paul Fishbein in compromising pictures with girls of questionable social breeding. "I just saw pictures of him in Prague. That's all. I regret that his name was ever brought into this."

Chuck Zane said officially earlier this week, "When Video Team releases them [Sperma Diat], the evidence will be there." Zane also said that English knew the Sperma Diats were to be condom shoots.

Luke: I talked to Chris English at 5:30 PM.

Chris: "Maybe you could explain this metaphor to me. Gene Ross said that he'd taken the bullseye off my back. He said he'd done me a favor because I'm a hunted man. What does that mean?

"He told me this just now, when I called him up on the telephone to tell him that I thought he'd clouded the issue.

"He was very hostile. What I told him is in there but it is very colored. And he says, 'If I were you, I'd think about it for a couple of days. I think I've done you a favor. I've taken the bullseye off your back.' What does that mean? [Sicilian] Chuck Zane used to boast to me about knocking people off back East, like some wiseguy. It's got me thinking now, to tell you the truth."

Luke: "It's a disgusting threat, on behalf of Fishbein's buddy Chuck "Hit Man" Zane."

Chris: "I wondered what Zane meant the evidence will be there when Video Team releases Sperm Diat. I'm wondering if Chuck Zane would spend $60,000 to save face by recalling the series."

Luke: "I doubt it. Good question though."

Chris: "John Lipsom was my production manager [for English's non-condom shoots for Zane]. He did a good job for me.

"The ironic thing is, Gene Ross got the call first. And he lost the story. Now he's tried to cloud the thing over. When I called him today, he was very hostile. The atmosphere was hostile. His questions were very hostile. Do you think the credibility of his site is at stake?"

Luke: "In part. This is not unknown to happen over there."

Chris: "To tell you the truth Luke, I'm not experienced on these things. But people have told me terrible things about your site. But you have represented me accurately.

"Gene confided in me that they have a lot of trouble whenever they print anything that angers Chuck Zane. I guess they're afraid of him."

Luke: "Gene and I have our own strengths and weaknesses."

Chris: "What he hasn't done is follow up with Jim Powers to confirm that this is true [that Chuck Zane tried to hire him to shoot non-condom sex]. The actresses involved [in the June condomless shoot, including anal scenes, for Zane in Los Angeles shot by Chris English] were Rebecca Wild, Phylisha Anne, Candy Apples, David Hardman, Jay...

"Candy Apples was walking down Hollywood Blvd with her face covered in cum. Phylisha Anne was walking down Rodeo Drive with her face covered in cum. And Rebecca Wild was at a tattoo shop and on the boardwalk in Venice with tons of people around, her face covered in cum.

"Gene was saying that it was not a unique concept. That Rodney Moore first thought it up. But I think Rodney's girls only got as far as his front door."

Chris English writes: Hello Luke, Just one thing miss heard over the phone. It was Jaid, Jaid Marcella not Jay. Other blokes that did arse shagging without johnnys were Kyle, Guy de Sylva and some little fellow called Peter and one more but I can't remember his name. Sorry mate. I got to Jade walk down Ocean Park Blvd. and Near the Pier in Santa Monica with spunk splattered all over her face onlookers aghast. Who's got a bloody job for me? (chrisenglish1@yahoo.com) Stills photographers Alan and Mike Mommano. All these people will confirm that it was no johnnys... This partly explains why one of my E-mail adresses is: (ugotcumonyourface@yahoo.com).

Oh! Bye the way luke, For someone who has a long standing policy of not talking to or not allowing his staff to talk to or contact you, I can tell you Chuck Zane reads your site with the most intense scrutiny every single day and moans and groans when your site is inactive for a few days.

Gloria and Fred at Hustler Hollywood

Fred Buccolini writes: Luke, this is not for publication, your eyes only.

I went up to Hustler Hollywood around 9ish, just for a cup of coffee. I do this about twice a week. Bring a book, relax outside, so forth. So, I'm walking up the street and I see these Klieg Lights shooting across the sky. They are coming from Hustler. I'm thinking, "Hmm, must be some event that did not get promoted on Luke's or Gene's site. Ok. I walk in and I see Gloria Leonard. I want to say hello, but she has all of these people around her. So, I go and have my coffee. A half hour later, I am ready to leave and I run into her as she is leaving. I introduce myself. She seems glad to see me. She asks, did you just get her, and I say "Yeah." I didn't know what to say. She says, "Oh, tonight is our Gay night." I say, "Oh, I'm here for the coffee, thank you very much."

So, she goes upstairs--must be some private function. I go inside briefly, and see a table where there is some promotional display. On the table are a line of gay male videos. Great! I can see it now on Gene Ross tomorrow. Gloria posts, "I was at Gay Night at Hustler Hollywood, where Legend introduced it's new line of Butthole Boys in Bondage vids. In attendance was blah blah blah, and Fred Buccolini. Yikes!"

Pat on Private

Pat Riley writes on the rec.arts.movies.erotica (RAME) newsgroup about Private:

1) The Private girls are not only not "very pretty", there are very few among the frequent performers that even come up to the passable level. I'll grant you the occasional one-time girl who's quickly disposed of because she doesn't look like a whore.

2) You'll have a hard time convincing me that getting butt butt banged by a couple of guys at the same time is consensual in the sense that it's something a female would consent to in real life without payment of big bucks. (I'm not implying that Private is in some way forcing the girls to appear in their movies.)

3) Many of the earlier Private movies were verbally abusive in exactly the same manner as Max or Al Borda but of course in (usually) French. The body language and attitude of the Euro-studs indicates, if not a physical abuse at least a high degree of contempt for the girls.

4) A pretty environment as you put it is indeed an annoying similarity between VVWA&E movies and Private movies but is IMO only tangentially related to the raincoater/non-raincoater split. It's more due to the influence of the general media on a susceptible population which has convinced that group that sex is somehow better when it occurs in a castle (Private) or a nouveax-riche mansion (VVWA&E). One might call it the "Dallas" syndrome after the soap opera of that name.

I wouldn't call D.O.G. [Dirty Old Gillis] a raincoater movie and I think there'll be a lot of disappointed (or angry) raincoaters if they understand the review the way you did. If anything D.O.G. is like rubbing salt into the raincoater wound and far too intellectual to be a raincoater movie. Hyperbole for sure but I've always thought that the market for the Nikkatsu (sp?) movies was far more the Facets crowd than the Zena the Warrior Princess consumer.

It's the same idea for D.O.G. The only reply in the thread for D.O.G. came from someone who clearly didn't understand the implications of the Lola/Gillis/Jack scene but I'm not going to disabuse him of his erroneous assumptions for fear of having Mike Paul yelling at me .

If the last part means that I'm indifferent to the type of movie (I wish you wouldn't use a loaded term like "vanilla" which implies bland and uninteresting) and have other criteria under which a movie might appeal, that's only partly true. It's just that there are so many raincoater movies on the market and even raincoater scenes in otherwise non-raincoater movies that it's impossible to avoid them if you want to watch any porn at all. That is beyond boring VVWA&E laughable attempts at plots with past-their-sell-by date and/or whorish women. I put up with and ignore as much as possible the raincoater aspects so as to watch the rest.

IMO gonzo is just a type of movie like horror or comedy; raincoater is the audience to which the movie is directed. Gonzo could be raincoaterish or non-raincoaterish. Although I'm probably inconsistent in my reviews, I'd say both Stagliano and Ben Dover produce raincoater movies and based on those I've seen I'd disagree with your contention that they don't treat the women as receptacles/targets. Maybe not as much as Anabolic but still well up there on the raincoater/non-raincoater continuum.

In most VVWA&E there is an attempt, albeit usually unsuccessful, to show an emotional involvement between the male and the female. The looks of the girl has little to do with it although I'm sure the average raincoater prefers them as tarty and whorish as possible. Putting these girls into VVWA&E movies and adding raincoater elements such as anals and facials, and the occasional DP, are some of the major reasons for the failure of these type of movies to be erotic.

What emotional involvement can you have with a girl when there's another guy cramming his dick in her mouth? I could see a mm/f non-raincoater scene in a bi-sexual movie or one which had heavy characterization such that it was part of a rape scenario or similar but in general they don't occur too often (ever?) due to the ineptness of the industry.

Million Man Gangbang

John Bone writes on www.millionmangangbang.com: Are you an able-bodied man of color over the age of 18 and disease-free? Are you ready for a gangbang like no other? If your answer is "Yes!" to both of those questions, then you could be a part of a one-of-a-kind event starring XXX star DEELICIOUS MILANO, coming March 18th, 2000, organized by the legendary JOHN T. BONE, the first and still the world’s biggest king of the gangbang.

Ben responds: Why would i wanna spend money to come out to hollywood and f--- some nasty crackwhore with a bunch of other guys around when i could drive down to the ghetto and get one for 5 bux? at least they could find one halfways attractive. she's got nasty lookin fakes tits plus she resembles lajon from the group sevendust. she is way to repulsive to be shown with no clothes on, let alone f---ed by a bunch of fat bastards.

David Bernstein from www.adultstarsmagazine.com writes:

Right now we're dealing with another Hurricane, but other than that, I thought you might be interested in some new developments taking place here at ASM. The ia2000 show recently held in Miami Beach proved to be our most successful show ever. It seems that our new hard-copy print edition has gained major attention from the movers and shakers of our industry. Not just from an advertiser acquisition standpoint, but from many top name adult stars as well. Apparently our non-politically focused magazine is rapidly gaining strength in the adult world. We've recently brought on several new columnists who not only believe in what we're doing (bringing the news and players in the adult arena to the consumer) but who also firmly believe that ASM will become a powerhouse and a voice of the entertainers for a long time to come.

We're constantly asked if we're trying to give AVN a run for their money. The answer is no. However, we do believe that most, if not all advertisers currently displaying their wares in AVN, should take a long hard look at Adult Stars Magazine as a viable venue in which to reach their ultimate intended audience - the adult consumer. We believe that direct-response advertising [by the production companies] is money well spent as opposed to only targeting their efforts to the who's who of adult industry big boys in an "adult industry publication". Sure, most of the advertisers in AVN need to be there to maintain their presence and stature among their peers, but isn't it all about making money? And isn't it their ultimate goal to sell more tapes and toys? Am I missing something here?

ASM is all about Adult Stars, written by Adult Stars and the consumers can't seem to get enough of it. So doesn't it make sense that the savvy marketer would want to take advantage of such an entity? We're not anti-AVN, but we do believe there's more than enough room for two players at the top of Porn Mountain.

Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't address a rumor that's been circulating. ASM is not looking to sell off a chunk of the magazine. What we have is something very special that has been cultivated over the past several years through sweat equity, lots of cash and perseverance and we're not prepared to forego the fruits of our labor by giving away the farm. Then again, if someone stepped up to the plate with two mil and other considerations, we might be inclined to listen.