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Sunday, October 17th, 1999

Deep Inside Kendra Jade

Saturday 10PM

KendraJXXX: i hate this biz
Luzdedos1: yes
KendraJXXX: i bought a great book
Luzdedos1: what?
KendraJXXX: it corny kinda
Luzdedos1: that's fine
KendraJXXX: its a list book
KendraJXXX: it helps you find out more about your true self
KendraJXXX: theres a different list on every page
KendraJXXX: you answer them honestly
Luzdedos1: title?
KendraJXXX: at your own pace
KendraJXXX: self discovery thru listing your self
KendraJXXX: lists such as : list how you made your father happy
KendraJXXX: list qualities in yourself you like the least
Luzdedos1: wow KendraJXXX: list what you wish foe everytime you wish on a shooting star,blow out birthday candles or drop a coin in a fountain
KendraJXXX: List the accidents youve been in
KendraJXXX: tv experiences that have touched you deeply
Luzdedos1: end of mash series
KendraJXXX: list what you would say if the one who got away walked in your room
KendraJXXX: blah...blah...blah
KendraJXXX: theres about 1,000 lists
Luzdedos1: title of book?
KendraJXXX: but its a GREAT release
KendraJXXX: i told yoy already
KendraJXXX: self discovery thru listing yourself
Luzdedos1: oh
KendraJXXX: i was thinking i was gonna send you 5 lists a day
Luzdedos1: cool
KendraJXXX: and then you might learn something about yourself
KendraJXXX: should i ?
KendraJXXX: theres 5 sections
KendraJXXX: early childhood
KendraJXXX: teenage
Luzdedos1: yes
KendraJXXX: adulthood
KendraJXXX: buisness
KendraJXXX: men and women
KendraJXXX: greater truths
KendraJXXX: oops 2 more
KendraJXXX: growing up
KendraJXXX: and suddenly...
KendraJXXX: 2 more.. change daily life
KendraJXXX: you should seriously honestly answer these everyday
KendraJXXX: you will learn much!
Luzdedos1: ok
KendraJXXX: its good therapy
KendraJXXX: want your first 5 lists?
Luzdedos1: yes
KendraJXXX: i will start easy for you.we'll get harder as the days pass..ok...we will ease you into this. List all the qualities you love about being human
KendraJXXX: (you can have as many answers as you like, in list form)
KendraJXXX: List all the activities you'd do if you werent so afraid
KendraJXXX: List the compliments you recieve on a regular basis
KendraJXXX: List the places you go in your mind when you want some peace and quiet KendraJXXX: List all the things you've made or built by hand
KendraJXXX: List the situations that make you cry
KendraJXXX: ok thats it
Luzdedos1: cool
KendraJXXX: just write whatever you think of
KendraJXXX: i'll give you more tomorrow
KendraJXXX: are you gonna do them privately or on your site?
Luzdedos1: not sure
KendraJXXX: we could help the world
KendraJXXX: and learn more about ourselves.it will be fun
KendraJXXX: ive almost finished my whole book
KendraJXXX: and anytime you want more than 5, or you dont wanna answer one...ill give you more KendraJXXX: this will be our project, no?
Luzdedos1: yes
KendraJXXX: and its so different than what you usually do b/c it is not destructive
KendraJXXX: but helpful
KendraJXXX: 1/2 of the porn biz could use this book
KendraJXXX: theyre all so crazy
KendraJXXX: wanna hear the answer to my list of things i would do if i werent so afraid? KendraJXXX: its my favorite list
Luzdedos1: yes
KendraJXXX: bunjee jump tell people i loved them tell people i hate them
KendraJXXX: scuba dive confront people who hurt me jump from an airplane
KendraJXXX: drive a motorcycle iceskate cut my hair off fall in love
KendraJXXX: swim in the ocean get a real job live alone take walks at night
KendraJXXX: sing at karioke
KendraJXXX: thats it so far...
Luzdedos1: wow
KendraJXXX: what do u think?
Luzdedos1: interesting
KendraJXXX: pretty nifty,huh?
KendraJXXX: :)
KendraJXXX: cant wait to see yours!
Luzdedos1: you're digging deep, good for you, keep digging, how is your autobio coming along? KendraJXXX: its almost done
KendraJXXX: i have been writing constantly

Sunday, 5:30 PM:

KendraJXXX: i dont see any of your lists , lukey
KendraJXXX: shame on you for not doing your homework
KendraJXXX: i have 5 more for you
KendraJXXX: List the situations that make you cry List your favorite talents List all the names you've been called ( endearing and not so)
KendraJXXX: List what always makes you laugh List what consistently worries you every day List the ways you dont care to die
KendraJXXX: thats it.i am eagerly awaiting your answers to the others.
KendraJXXX: goodbye, luv
Luzdedos1: ok
KendraJXXX: took you long enough
KendraJXXX: so wheres the first answers??
KendraJXXX: and DONT lie to me
Luzdedos1: still working on it Luzdedos1: prob won't get to it till tomorrow
KendraJXXX: uggh
Luzdedos1: what are ur answsers?
KendraJXXX: i answred them already. told em to you last night.
KendraJXXX: i wanna get this going.
KendraJXXX: you are taking too long
Luzdedos1: ok tonight
KendraJXXX: promise??
KendraJXXX: but you also have todays to do too
KendraJXXX: ok...i am waiting
KendraJXXX: tell njg happy bday for me
KendraJXXX: ill be back on later to harass you

The Five Questions Kendra Asks Luke

KendraJXXX: List all the activities you'd do if you werent so afraid

Luke: Sing, dance, act, explore Los Angeles and the world, get married, call old friends, seek forgiveness.

KendraJXXX: List the compliments you recieve on a regular basis

Luke: That I am intelligent, hard working, witty, handsome, unique.

KendraJXXX: List the places you go in your mind when you want some peace and quiet

Luke: Walking along past pathways. Lying by the beach in the sun.

KendraJXXX: List all the things you've made or built by hand

Luke: Very little aside from my boner.

KendraJXXX: List the situations that make you cry

Luke: Movies, funerals, particularly powerful lecture by my rabbi.

The Cindy Plenum Story

Cynthia Plenum (nee Plenemtrowicz) was born into a military family based near Minot, North Dakota in August of 1974, "on the very day that Richard Nixon resigned", as she likes to tell it.

A middle child, her childhood was difficult. However, blessed with an exceptionally high I.Q. of 170, she left Minot soon after graduating from high school at the age of 16 and moved to Southern California, where she enrolled at the California Institute of Technology to pursue her dream of a career in academic pharmacology.

At first, Cindy was a star among stars. She proved to be a natural chemist, and boasted that she could synthesize any organic compound out of things she could buy at the local supermarket or, failing that, at a WalMart. Friends from those days say that her skill at organic synthesis and her interest in pharmacology "naturally" led to increasing self-experimentation. While she began with cocaine, she soon graduated to powerful hallucinogens - the start of her downfall. Cindy became increasingly withdrawn from her peers and her grades suffered as her experiments progressed. She began hearing voices, and in her junior year, was diagnosed a borderline schizophrenic.

At about this time, she met Bartholomew Lionheart (nee Barry Lifs---s), the enigmatic leader of the Church of Faith. Even at that time, the Church had already received substantial notoriety for its practice of using comely female followers to attract male members (and their assets) by "prostituting themselves for god", a practice that became known as flirty fishing. With her warm, winning smile and need for acceptance and affirmation, Lionheart saw in her the quintessential devotee and quickly turned her into a hooker for the cult (albeit one who followed the church edict against doing drugs). The subsequent break up of the cult led to a new personal breakdown for Cindy, as she came to regard herself as merely another prostitute plying her wares on the strip. To deaden the pain, she again turned to drugs, first cocaine, and then crank and LSD.

During this time Cindy became involved in the Underground Porn Movement, a little known school of pornography that insisted that every video be made in one and only one shoot, with no retakes, no artificial light, and no professional actors. Anarcho-syndicalist in orientation (with many former Marxists as members), the movement was never able to tap into the largely Mafia controlled porn distribution network, and thus was able to achieve little more than a small cult following. Looking back upon her oeuvre from those days, Cindy feels that her best videos were "Way Inside Cindy Plenum's Head," and "GynoMaster".

Cindy's life appeared to all to be out of control, as she sought ever more outrageous experiences, fulled by drug use and mental illness. The list of personal calamities from those days is as harrowing as it is long: unsuccessful breast augmentation surgery in Mexico at a liposuction clinic; a brief stint in jail for robbing a 7-11 (brief because the only "weapon" she employed was a cunningly camouflage dildo and a hard salami stolen from here last shoot), and a very brief marriage to a fan that was annulled when the groom turned out to be the second bride. She even sold the use of her body to medical concerns for drug testing, and sold her blood as well. She is even said to have attempted to lobotomize herself by performing trepanation with an auger stolen from a WalMart (Cindy denies this).

Finally the inevitable happened. While stoned and driving a stolen Camaro, Cindy slammed into an embankment at high speed. The resulting collision led to brain damage and disfigurement. The brilliant budding research scientist was no more. (A silent benefactor subsequently paid for her to undergo successful reconstructive surgery and therapy.) But then things began to turn around.

Rediscovered by a former classmate turned porn web master, she again became an underground cult figure, and is known for having sex with what she terms "microlivestock" - arthropods of various types such as insects, (most recently mosquitos). While this shields her from further fears of HIV, it does carry risks of its own, as Cindy is the first to acknowledge. (While doing a shoot in New York City in the summer of 1999, public health authorities discovered that some mosquitos were carrying a West Nile-like virus.)

Cindy remains popular on the cult Internet scene, especially among cyber-skinheads for refusing to have sex with blacks. Ever on the lookout for more outrageous stunts, she recently began experimenting with indirect sexual encounters with bees ("not the Africanized ones", she insists) and yellow jackets ("Bee-stiality") via her "boyfriend" Tibor (believed to be of Hungarian Jewish descent).

After viewing this biography, Cindy was given the opportunity to comment on it: "Sounds good. But please tell everyone I am not a racist, and I do not hate jews."

Rob Spallone Rants About Sharon Mitchell

Rob by phone from his shooting house: "You love that Sharon Mitchell. You never write anything bad about her. Chris Mann does not donate the $150 a month anymore to Sharon Mitchell and AIM. He can't stand her. She's a cunt and everybody's finding out now. And this was her best friend. Cut her off. Another one cut her off. I give her six months to be in the business. Till AIM is shut down and Dr. York is going to lose his license. The Health Department and the Doctor's Board are getting involved in it.

"I told you, I'd get her Luke. I don't f--- around. Non-profit organization robbing people left and right. And you don't print nothing bad about her."

Luke: "I print what you tell me."

Rob: "You f---. Somebody called me the other day. Did you read it? How good she is, how great she is. She's a twat. She's no good. I picked up 32 of her customers this month. Thirty two who left there and will never go back there. Print it Lukey baby.

"I got my screener finally [of the Sopornos].

"How's Miss Sharon Mitchell today?"

Luke: "I haven't talked to her for a couple of days."

Rob: "Why? Isn't she great? Shouldn't you write how great she is."

Luke: "Yeah, I like her."

Rob: "She's finished Lukey. She made half the people quit Free Speech [Coalition].

"I've got to thank Jim South however. He's sending me customers."

Luke: "Is he still supporting her?"

Rob: "No, he's sending me customers so how is he supporting her?"

Luke: "She's a nice lady. She gives of herself to help the industry."

Rob: "Yeah, all she cares about is the talent."

Luke: "She just wants to help people. Maybe you should go to her for counseling."

Rob: "Yeah, maybe I should. Me and you together. A double session."

Luke: "Yeah, anger management."

Rob: "I love getting her customers. I'm going to have a big party when she closes down. A Goodbye Aim Party. Yeah, they proved she knew all about Marc Wallice. Greg Zeboray proved it. She should go to jail. She didn't tell Brooke Ashley she was positive until a week after... Let her work."

Luke: "Sharon is cute."

Rob: "Cute? She looks like... She's the dykiest smelliest looking thing I've ever seen. She's got a great body. I'd like her to get in a car accident and have her legs amputated. Write that. I just want her mouth to work so that she can suck dick to keep her friends.

"I've got my kids here. It's my wife's birthday. Now print some s---, okay Lukey baby?"

BrandyAlx1: Did you ever ask Mitch about her overuse of antibiotics?
Luzdedos1: no
BrandyAlx1: Would be interesting to hear the justification. Ask her if, as someone who now touts a great deal of medical knowledge, she's willing to risk creating more virulent strains of the STDs she claims to have been shielding performers from.

BrandyAlx1: I mean, surely in her "studies" she's read up on the increasing tolerance of the bugs
BrandyAlx1: Simple Penicillin doesn't cure syphillis anymore
BrandyAlx1: At least my current criticism of her is a tad more cerebral that Spallone's "she's a cunt" because she cares for the talent. That's the whole point. Does he NOT want anyone looking out for the talent?

Greg Zeboray, former Free Speech Coalition insurance coordinator, writes Luke:

I'm happy to hear that Sabrina Johnson has been cleared by a certain testing center (you know, the one quoted as saying "We're f---ing champions. We did good here,"), but I don't understand how she could have been, or for that matter, why they were involved in the first place. How can this facility categorically state her results when they themselves did not withdraw the blood? What's to prevent other performers who live out of town from having their (?) blood drawn anywhere in the country and sending it to Ventura Blvd. for a test result? I ask the talent: do you want to rely on a test where the blood was drawn elsewhere and shipped? In fact, if my memory serves me right, people accused Marc Wallice of having other people take a test on his behalf, thus avoiding the positive result they say he knew would come.

Back to Sabrina for a moment, why was it necessary for her test to be done here in the first place? She should have received a test at home. Then, when she came here to work again, taken a test here - like any talent. It would not have affected those on the quarantine list - they had to test anyway. This makes me ask if the whole thing was done so that a particular person could (again) tell everyone how great she is.

I am happy to hear how positive Tony Montana's attitude is, and can only hope and pray that the promises made to him all come to fruition - clearly they haven't with any of the previous performers who tested positive (just ask Brooke, Tricia, Mark, or Kimberly).

On October 11th, Laurie Holmes wrote on RAME a lengthy letter, and included in it was a suggestion I strongly support: the creation of an "Adult Entertainment database". Laurie, I couldn't agree more! However, it will never work unless the database is maintained by a neutral (non adult related) third party where all testing facilities submit their test results. The testing facility she recommends is not and never will be the single supplier of HIV testing for your community - in spite of their leaders continued (and false) representation that she "manages the health care of the adult industry". In fact, the new Family Medical Center (aka 10 minute No. Hollywood) is gaining more patients from the other facility every month. Family Medical Center is a state of the art facility - as nice as any hospital - with actual physicians on duty at all times. Just ask people who have recently visited Family Medical - people like Jim South and Bill Margold. Like me, they were very impressed with what they saw, and with what the owner Dr. Mark Bell had to say. Ask Dr. Bell if he would "pre-medicate" someone for a shoot, or -even better - if he would issue an HIV test result on a person who's blood was drawn and shipped from another location. He has told me the answer to both, and it is "absolutely not!"

I close by again repeating the risk associated with this precedent set by the shipping and testing of Sabrina's blood. It's time that you the talent, and the industry as a whole start asking questions about the way some things are handled - this is a matter of life and death. It's no joke and shouldn't be treated like one. I like Sabrina and Graham, but I don't consider her recent test to be valid, and neither should you. Her test should be removed from the equation when adding or subtracting people from the quarantine list.

Rapestock

Music critic J.D. Considine writes: It's funny you should ask about Woodstock. I just got a press release announcing that a portion of the proceeds from the Woodstock '99 double-CD that comes out Tuesday will go to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. RAINN has a long history of working within the pop music world to raise funds and consciousness on this issue -- Tori Amos, who is currently on the cover of Spin, helped put the group together -- and it has a lot of credibility. According to the release (which came from Woodstock's publicists), the idea came from the Woodstock promoters themselves. One could be cynical and suggest that having some of the Woodstock album money go to RAINN helps remove the taint of sexual assault from music, but I've always believed that good work done for less-than-honorable reasons is still a boon to the recipients.

But it's funny -- I was talking about the Spin story with someone else who was at Woodstock, and we were marvelling at how different our Woodstock experience was from the one those writers described. For instance, I was at the Liquid Todd rave, and didn't see any nudity,. much less the public sex described in Spin. What I did experience was a crowd so densely packed that it took real effort to move in the crowd, much less through it; I still have vivid memories of the squeegie-effect I experienced from pushing past sweaty ravers.

That's not to say I doubt that there was public sex and sexual assaults, just that I never saw that stuff. Nor, I'm guessing, did a lot of the other 225,000 people there. It was a big damn festival, and the sexual assaults were a very small part of it. Which is not to diminish their significance, by any means. But to describe the show as "Rapestock" both suggests that everybody knew what was going on, and either approved or didn't care. And it was definitely not like that. I wrote a piece for the Sun about the mosh pit phenomenon and what it has become...

Otherwise, what am I writing about? The avalanche of new pop product, mostly. I am doing a piece about the Japanese animated film "The Princess Mononoke." which is quite fun -- it's a great film and should explode your preconceptions about what animation is and can do -- but beyond that it's just profiles and reviews. Although I do have the cover story in this month's Guitar World, on Kid Rock. One of your favorites, I'm sure.

NJG says: J.D. Considine is very normal but he has no emotional understanding of music. His tastes are so mainstream. Do you ever get the feeling he wants to live your life? He could never handle me though. I only belong to you Lukey.

Weakly World News

Luke F--d Employment Services, Ltd: Are you smarter than Luke F--d could ever hope to be? Do you have what it takes to be the next David Aaron Clark or Fred Buccolini? Then it's time to dust off that resume...because Screw, "The World's Greatest Newspaper", is hiring! Over the last ten years, former Screw employees have succumbed to everything from AIDS to abduction by vampires---and according to The Village Voice, dated 10-19-99, this coveted opportunity to tempt fate can now be yours! Reads the Voice ad: "EDITORIAL, WEBSITE & LIGHT BOOKKEEPING ASSISTANT, adult weekly men's magazine in Chelsea. Experienced, good writing, website & computer skills.... Tel: 212-989-8001, ext. 246 Fax: 212-924-8154 EMAIL: screwmag@hotmail.com or algoldstein@screwmag.com." The successful candidate for this position will have a B.A. plus a solid marijuana and/or comics background, be willing to work long hours and otherwise make the personal and professional sacrifices needed to help penny-pinching prostitution-profiteer Al Goldstein offset the cost of his son Jordan's Harvard Law School tuition. Salary commensurate with experience or bosom size.

Gossip

Sin City has signed Zoe. David Sturman almost did it in March (when he also pursued Sunset Thomas, who moved to Pleasure). Luke reported a couple of weeks ago that Zoe had left John Bone's struggling Cream Entertainment. She's been longing to make this move for a year but only recently developed the courage.

Luke just watched a video excerpt of Max Hardcore urinating on Leanni Lei, including into her mouth.

From today's LA Times: "As every season passes, pop culture becomes the global Esperanto," said Fenton Bailey, an L.A.-based film producer. "And it's all coming from here, whether it's the porn industry or surfwear."

Nice Jewish Girl celebrates her birthday today. She writes: "In 1989 there was a huge earthquake here in SF on my b-day, I wasn't here but visiting family in LA (my g-mother whom you met) and I was really upset at my (then) bf, I thought I caused it! Cause I was really mad and hurt at him! BTW the LA earthquake just now was on my g-mother's b-day. We're quite an intense family."

NJG is sick and her place is a mess, "wrecked like Mila's bum," she says.

Rumdar writes: Luke....I hope you will be doing something NICE for Nice Jewish Girl on her birthday. Like spending a few bucks to take her out for a great din-din. She is the girl for you. Don't be a putz Luke. You are probably a home abusing your carrot over that slut Kendra Jade. Awaken Luke.....Nice Jewish Girl knows what you need but Kendra knows what you want (apologies to Dylan).

Luke: Truth be told, I will be romancing a hot Jewish grad student who I met at shul Friday night. Yummy!

A porner writes about my Michael Morrison profile: "This almost helps explain some stuff, like how Morrison, a convicted ca get a concealed caryy permit and own a club that serves alchohol. Maybe he was convicted as a youth and the conviction got expunged when he turned 18, regardless its interesting, Morrison is an interesting fellow and as far as I know abides by the law these days except for an occasional assault on a sleazebag agent who IMHO got what he was asking for."

I came across these lines near the beginning of Ian Gittler's book Pornstar: "Jamie [Summers] and I sit in her living room and make awkward small talk. She says Jenny Wren [Vivid publicist of the time]... goes out with Steven Hirsch, who owns Vivid. Jamie says that at one time she went out with Steven Hirsch, too. She says Wren is an ex-porn actress."

Luke wants to know if there is any Vivid girl that Hirsch has not f---ed. It seems that f---ing Steven is pretty much a job requirement at Vivid Video. Is there any Vivid boy that has not had to f--- Marci Hirch, Steve's sister?

From the January 1, 1997 Washington Post: Beijing residents now refer to five categories of wealthy people, according to the China Business Times. Red refers to party or government officials who "wear a red hat" and take bribes or trade power for money. Yellow refers to people in the pornography business. Blue is for ocean-going smugglers. White describes drug dealers. Black refers to the mafia. "These five types of illegal activities have severely worsened the social environment and their huge incomes have increased income disparities," the article said.

The End Times - First Trumpet Sounds

Chaim Amalek writes: Luke, it cannot be overlooked that the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck this morning hit almost dead-center between the alcohol and greed powered gambling dens of Las Vegas and the center of the Jewish controlled porn industry in Los Angeles. (By the way, did you know that similar to pornography, jews have been a disproportionate presence in the gaming industry? Think Benyamin "Bugsy" Siegel.) This is God's way of warning all to get closer to Him, to cease their soul-destroying fornicating and to live as the bible instructs. Those who ignore this warning (I can hear the snickering already) do so at their own peril!

Luke's mom writes: I thought if the earthquake was because of the sins of porn, it would have shook your computer. Maybe made it fall on your head. Tell Chaim.

VSDA Moves To January

Tim Evanson writes on RAME: The Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) has announced MAJOR changes to the scope and time-frame of the annual VSDA Convention. The VSDA show has, since the mid-80s, been held in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

In 2000, the show will be held at the much smaller Venetian Hotel/Sands Expo Complex. The date is July 8-10, 2000. But in 2001, the show will be PERMANENTLY MOVED to January and will be held concurrently with the Consumer Electronics Show. The Venetian Hotel will host the VSDA show through 2006.

VSDA officials say the changes came at the request of attendees and exhibitors. VSDA conducted a survey of 200 members who overwhelmingly asked for the change. VSDA says that costs for attendees and exhibitors will be drastically cut by holding VSDA at the same time as CES. January also allows VSDA exhibitors better timing for product announcements, better weather in Vegas, and a better time of the year for store owners to get away (January is a slow sales month).

However, many experts say that VSDA executives have mis-managed the association very badly. They say that in order for VSDA to survive, it had to increase attendance and exhibitor participation-- and the only way to do that was to piggy-back on a well-managed, high-attendance, numerous-exhibitor show. VSDA said that National Video Week will continue to be part of the VSDA show, but will be moved to January as well. And VSDA confirmed its commitment to permitting AVN to host the Adult Entertainment Expo at VSDA.

Lori Michaels

Idea writes: I love to check out the topless clubs when out of town and was told about a place called Sugars out in Austin. It's a topless club...I guess the girls aren't allowed to go nude, much to my disappointment at first. Well when I was there Thursday they had this gorgeous girl there featuring who I'd never heard of named Lori Michaels. Man! She is probably one of the most naturally beautiful girls that I've ever seen! Hot body and all of her own parts as best I can tell, with no additivies or preservatives. ;-) I found out later that she is doing films for Vivid. I have to tell ya, I've been going to clubs for years, but I've never seen anything happen like this (especially in the upscale mens clubs).

When Lori Michaels came out on stage the men started chanting her name and were going just nuts. She danced a few minutes and then pulled this guy up on stage. He ended up pulling her g-string down, going between her legs and I'd swear he made her cum. She had a head microphone on that was going out over the pa system so you could hear how out of control this dude was making her. It was probably the most erotic thing I've ever seen a feature act do. And I've seen quite a few! She was just on the edge of the stage playing with the customers and letting them play with her. I was sitting up in vip and I could tell what was going on. It was just wild! The floor managers were trying to get to the stage but the customers wouldn't let them. I couldn't tell if some of the men actually came on her though until later on when she came over and up to our stage. She had her g-string back on but breasts where still covered in cum! Man, this chick is way hot!

I tried to go back on Friday night since I didn't fly back until today, but there was a line outside the door so I didn't get in and had a rather disappointing night in comparison down the road. I wanted to ask you if you think this was a one time thing or what? Guess I'll never know since I didn't get back to see the show before flying back. I was also wondering if anyone has written anything on her that I might read. I wanna know more! This woman is an absolute 10 and put on a show I'll never forget!

William Shatner Celebrity

Somebody writes on Dejanews.com: When your husband has status (William Shatner) [a Jew], and you don't (Nerine Shatner), even if he is a known womanizer, embittered by the financial cost of previous divorces, a physical abuser who has grasped your neck in a choke hold, forcing you to the ground, in front of witness... Even if he has filed for divorce and asked the court not to give you alimony... He's not even a suspect when he's the only one around when you are found naked, in the dark, with a bruise on your head and a broken neck, dead in the swiming pool. Somehow the fact that you were drunk explains your injuries. Although you may be the only person ever to accidently break their neck, while drunk, prior to drowning.

Things Men Say

Toronto Sun, 11/12/98

Jen Cowan, 25, tends bar at Jack Astor's Bar and Grill on The Queensway. She remembers one particular smoothie sidling up to her and asking, "Can I borrow a quarter because I told my mom I'd call her the first time I fell in love."

Bar and club employees hear a barrage of pickup lines aimed at themselves and customers. Some are cute, some excrutiatingly cheesy, some downright crude. One recalls a guy walking up to her and saying, "The word of the day is legs. Do you want to go upstairs and spread the word?"

A customer at one bar remembers a man who wet his index finger in his mouth and wiped it on her blouse. "Let's get you home and out of these wet things," he suggested to her. She declined.

Other classics heard by bartenders in various establishments:

"Do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk by again?"

"I'm no Fred Flintstone, but I'd love to make your bed rock."

"My face is leaving in a few minutes -- be on it."

"How about sitting on my lap and seeing what comes up?"

"You could save on grocery bills if you had dinner with me."

On a cold day: "You look like you need something warm inside you."

At Montana Cafe on John St., manager Rick Steffl has overheard some priceless approaches. His favourites include: "Is that a mirror you have in your bag, because I can see myself in your pants."

Another outrageous line: "Are those space pants you're wearing because your a-- is out of this world."

A more subtle offering from Steffl: "Are your feet tired, because you're constantly running through my mind."

At Al Frisco's on John St., one of Toronto's well-known singles drinking spots, bartender Stuart MacLean, 38, says the best line he's heard there: " I'm sick and tired of one-night stands. What are you doing for the weekend?"

Officer Runs Sex Club

From http://www.tennessean.com/sii/99/03/24/club24.shtml

Nashville Social Club Elite is a place where the customers come not for drinks, but to watch or have raw, consensual and public sex. The club is run by Metro police Officer Clinton Lien, and Metro Codes Administration says they are powerless to stop the orgies that take place inside.

In a recent visit to the club at 504 Fourth Ave. S., The Tennessean saw a female patron dressed only in thong panties and high-heeled shoes dancing seductively in the middle of a circle of seated men, who were also customers who paid $40 admission to join the party.

Sade's Sweetest Taboo roared from the speakers as one of the male customers groped at the woman. Twenty minutes later, the male and female customers were performing oral sex on one another in the back room.

A visit to the club found couples openly tangled in the act of sex. While naked women pranced around the dance floor, another room offered entertainment for onlookers. People watched as a couple entered the screened-in room and undressed. A bright light shining behind the couple inside the room cast a shadow of the woman performing oral sex on her male partner.

The VIP lounge in the back of the club is separated from the main part of the club by a curtain, behind which as many as four couples engaged in sexual intercourse.

Brandy Goes Bar Hopping

BrandyAlx1: Since my computer was hosed I went to visit my friend, a bartender, who only works Wednesday--the night I have my chat. I learned how to keep guys away. GT dusted off the $15 a glass cognac and when they ask what I'm drinking, wanting to buy me one, they go away after he tells them.

BrandyAlx1: One guy who was trying to cajole me into a game of darts not only gave up on me, but left the bar entirely after half a beer after listening in on my conversation with another long-time-no-see friend about psychopharmacology. When *he* rotated into a pool game he made his shy friend sit and talk to me.

BrandyAlx1: But he perked up when I started on the computer problems and we exchanged geek stories

Child Porn

Washington Post, 1/20/77

THEY ARE in the usual explicit pornographic poses. And they are young - 11.9 years of age.
Some appear younger.

These pre-pubescent girls, sometimes photographed with Teddy bears and other playthings of the
young, appear in a magazine called Lollitots which can be purchased openly for $7.50 at "adult"
book stores in the District and across the country.

While Lollitots shocks the uninitiated, the magazine is, in fact, mild compared to the films projected
in "adult" book store peep shows and to magazines which display children as young as 7 engaged
in sex acts with other children and adults.

"Child molestation and exploitation, including prostitution, pornography, sex perversion and the
furnishing of narcotics, are extensive in this city," a recent Los Angeles Police Department study
concluded. "Children have become commodities and are bought, sold and traded for the financial
gain of the involved adults. Every conceivable sexual act is committed upon these young people,
including acts of sado-masochism."

During the investigation, pornographic materials - more than 3,000 photographs, 30 magazines and
120 amateur and commercial films - were seized. From information volunteered by suspects,
victims and witnesses, the study concluded that more than 3,000 children under age 14 were being
exploited sexually in and around Los Angeles. More than 25,000 juveniles 14 through 17 were
being used sexually by approximately 15,000 adult males, the report stated.

Child pornography is not new, but the use of children - and at younger, pre-teen ages - has
developed, with little controversy, in part because the public has been ignorant on the subject of
child pornography and prostitution. Public outrage, often an effective exralegal weapon, has only
recently begun to grow. Few of those citizens who would object are in the habit of frequenting
"adult" book stores, and many newspapers still bury stories on the subject or are reluctant to run
them at all.

"The distributor should be put in jail, along with those producing the material," says Rep. Edward
Koch (D-N.Y.) "This is simply a whole separate category - consenting adults can do whatever
they want to do as long as it doesn't involve children."

Koch toured a Times Square bookstore and recalls an automat-like experience in pornography.
"Out of 50 of these peep show machines, 17 showed films of sexual acts between children,
children and adults, children and animals. They describe what you are seeing alongside the
machine: 'sex between brother and sister,' 'sex between adult and juvenile.' There were two boys
about 10 and a girl about 12 in explicit acts of fellatio. People who want to see pornography, their
taste escalates. What satisfied before no longer does."

For example, Kent Master, a New York distributor of "chicken films" - the vernacular for porn films
involving children - advertises 10 films in its "Lollypops" series. The ads show cartoons of two
nude, very young boys licking lollipops, the slogan "Chicken Films Come of Age" and graphic
descriptions of sex acts, including "Ronnie, Bobby and Eddie - three pre-teens on a bed." The
movies are 8 mm, in color, 200 feet and $20 apiece. There is an address, but directory assistance
has no phone listed. Undercover agents last week arrested the firm's owner, charging him with the
misdemeanor of promoting obscenity.

EVEN if such charges are brought against distributors or bookstores, a labyrinth of fake
publishers, fake addresses, murky juvenile and obscenity laws, porno dealers taking the Fifth
Amendment - all protect the photographers, the recruiters of children and the people who make
"chicken films" and magazines.

Take the case of Lollitots magazine.The masthead leads one to believe the magazine is a
coast-to-coast operation - published by Delta Publishing Co. Inc. in Wilmington, Del., and
distributed solely by Parliament News in Sun Valley, Calif., just outside Los Angeles. But
according to Delaware authorities, Delta Publishing is a fictitious front. Parliament News, however,
is for real.

The city of Los Angeles is prosecuting Parliament News and its president, Paul Wisner, 52,
charging them with possession with intent to commercially disseminate obscene material.

This month, a number of District book sellers were picked up in a raid and charged with the
misdemeanor of selling obscene material, Lollitots included. The case is pending trial.

"Under the D.C. obscenity code we could move on Lollitots - because a section prohibits the lewd
exhibition of genitals of minors," says Robert Kendall, special assistant U.S. attorney for obscenity
prosecution.

But enforcement officials trying to get a tougher federal case against Parliament or the still unknown
publishers face problems.

Phil Wilens, chief of the Justice Department criminal division's government regulations and labor
department, said he "almost retched" when he saw Lollitots. "But the only federal statute involved
is in interstate transportation of the magazine. Posing, recruiting the girls, is all a state offense and
how do you get back to the source? I haven't any idea."

Presumably, since Lollitots is distributed solely by Parliament News in California and was available
over the counter at a 14th and H Streets NW "adult" bookstore, some interstate transportation
took place. But Wilens says, "You have to actually prove beyond a reasonable doubt that
Parliament indeed shipped that particular edition of that magazine - packaged and delivered it to a
carrier and in fact carried and delivered it to an address in a particular state." Records of such
shipments are hard to find. "We can make a case from time to time," Wilens said, "but it takes a
monumental effort, and resources are low."

In the California case, Parliament News' lawyer, Stanley Fleischman, of the Beverly Hills firm of
Fleischman, Brown, Weston & Rhode, plans to argue that Lollitots is not obscene and therefore is
covered by the First Amendment. "It is simple nudity, nothing more. For something to be obscene
[in California, unlike the District] there has to be sexual activity."

Parliament News Inc. is no stranger to pornography indictments. It is part of a conglomerate of
printing, publishing and distributing firms operating out of southern California.

A man named Milton Luros was once described by a Los Angeles district attorney as "the biggest
pornography publisher in Southern California and operator of a multi-million-dollar conglomerate."
In a 1972 lawsuit, it was alleged that Luros operated companies under the names of American Art
Enterprises (a publishing company), World News Inc., Seven Towers Inc., Academy Press, Socio
Library, London Press, OxF--d Bindery and (Lollitots') Parliament News Inc.

Although Paul Wisner is listed as president of Parliament, Luros is still active in the organization.
Today, if you call Parliament News and ask to speak to Luros, the operator refers you to
American Art Enterprises, the publishing house. The operator there informs you that "we go by
several names." If you then ask Paul Wisner, she refers you back to Parliament News.

Helgeson said there is another seperate obscenity case pending against Parliament News. Asked if
there were any convictions against Wisner, Fleischman replied, "Never one that stuck. The jury
convicted and the trial judge dismissed."

Fleischman says American Art Enterprises is not Lollitots' publisher.

When told that the publisher listed on the masthead was a fake, Fleischman repeated that
Parliament had nothing to do with the publisher. It was pointed out that any distributor has to pay
some person or company supplying the printed material, who in turn knows the publisher. "What
are you doing, hounding me?" he snapped.

Wisner, out on bail, said he did not know who published Lollitots. "It comes from overseas. It's
published overseas." Reporter: "But the masthead states that it is published by Delta Publishing in
Wilmington, Del." Wisner: "Yeah, that's who we deal with."

Reporter: "But that company does not and never did exist, according to Wilmington authorities."
Wisner: "That's who we deal with." "But if it's nonexistent, how can you deal with them?" Wisner:
"We deal with an agent." "In the United States?" Wisner: "Yes." "Then why do you say it is
published overseas?" Wisner: "I'm not interested in any interpretation of that." He would not give
the name of the agent.

Wisner was told that some people find the material in Lollitots objectionable, that they think the
children are being sexually exploited and that they would like to find the publisher and
photographers to prosecute them.

"That is not of any interest to me. I'm the distributor. If somebody's interested in that, that's their
problem. That's not my problem."

In 1974, for example, federal charges were filed in California against a magazine called Moppets.
The mother of one of the child subjects testified and identified the publisher and photographer as a
man named Edmund Leja.

Edmund Leja, a nudist and still a Studio City, Calif., photographer, complains repeatedly that he
is misunderstood.

"Nudists believe there's nothing wrong with the human body," he says. "We don't believe you
should hide the genitalia. Children will grow up with a better understanding of their bodies and
genitals because of my magazine." The magazine is available only in "adult" bookstores.

Leja contends most of his readers are nudists. "Sure we get a few perverts. They're all over. Did I
invent pedaphilia?" he asks, throwing up his hands. "Those people were there before I came on the
market and they'll be there after I'm gone."

Leja argues that his magazine is no more graphic than "Show Me!," a picture book described as an
"aid to sexual enlightenment" and sold in legitimate bookstores across the country. "Show Me!"
contains photographs of masturbation and children fondling their genitals.

"Show Me!," produced in West Germany, has been praised by some educators and physicians,
decried by others. It defeated three obscenity charges on the grounds that, as a whole, it was not
lacking in serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. And those attacking such magazines
as Lollitot and Moppets argue that the content and intent of those magazines are quite different
from those of "Show Me!"
Proliferation

RECENT YEARS have seen the surfacing of a number of pornography cases to which law
enforcement officials point as evidence that the problem is growing geometrically:

In 1974 postal authorities in Texas arrested one Roy C. Ames and found four tons of magazines
and films in a Houston warehouse. Ames was charged with recruiting children off the Houston
streets and paying them $5 for posing for photos and $5 for sex acts. He was sentenced to 12
years' imprisonment on federal charges of sending obscene material through the mails.

Ames had supplied 30 to 40 magazines around the country with pictures of children from age 8 to
late teens involved in homosexual and heterosexual acts. Most of them were poor, and recruited
their friends.

In 1975, a postal investigator purchased pictures of "Hard to Find Nymphets" advertised in a
Hollywood underground newspaper. For $2 he received sample shots of "Sandy," aged 11, and a
little doll." A set of 12 color photographs of her in a variety of "very interesting positions" cost $15.
The pictures were mailed from California to Roswell, N.M. The photographers, Jacob James Dost
and Thomas E. Kilfoyle, were convicted last summer of the federal crime of mailing obscene
matter. The case is on appeal.

Luke's Controversial Father

Washington Post Aug. 24, 1981

Two years ago, an Australian pastor and biblical scholar, Desmond F--d, publicly
challenged Ellen White's "investigative judgment" interpretation of the Book of Daniel, namely that
since 1844, Christ has been investigating the lives of Christian to determine which are deserving of
salvation.

F--d espouses the orthodox Christian view of salvation by grace alone: that by His death on the
cross, Christ atoned for the sins of all mankind; that Christians attain salvation not by good works
but by faith in Christ; that there is no biblical basis for belief in investigative judgment. If the
argument seems arcane to nontheologians, it strikes at the very heart of Adventist distinctiveness
and, for some, the church's very reason for being.

Last August, a consultation of Adventist scholars and administrators gathered in the Rocky
Mountain retreat of Glacier View, Colo., to ponder with F--d the theological questions he raised,
questions that "one person after another has been raising . . . for 75 years," according to Dr.
Raymond F. Cottrell, scholar and widely respected elder statesman in the church.

At the end of the three days of intense debate, a committee of the General Conference
recmmended F--d's removal from the ministry.

The action against the charismatic if controversial F--d sent shock waves through the church,
particularly the clergy.

Earlier this year, Smuts Van Rooyen, dean of the church's only graduate seminary, at Berrien
Spring , Mich., was dropped from the faculty because of views similar to F--d's.

Pastors and theologians interviewed for this article have, almost to a man, been unwilling to be
quoted by name. "There's such a witch-hunt going on," explained one man apologetically. "We're
all a little hyper."

"Most scholars have to be very quiet or else they'll lose their jobs," explained F--d, who now is
working for the Good News Unlimited Foundation in Sacramento, which he characterized as an
"evangelistic resource center." F--d added that "more and more men are being threatened."

New York Times 11/6/82

But the concept of Christ's beginning the final judgment in 1844 sets Adventists most doctrinally
apart, and this idea is also under assault. The Rev. Desmond F--d was expelled from his teaching
position at the church-sponsored Pacific Union College in Glacier View, Calif., after he openly
impugned that faith on the ground that there was no support for it in the Bible.

He also asserted that Adventist teaching improperly based salvation on ''works,'' or observance of
all the church's practices spelled out by Mrs. White, rather than on faith based on the Scriptures.
This echoes the Reformation conflict between the Vatican and Martin Luther, who argued that faith
according to ''Scripture alone'' was paramount over ''works.''

Several incidents in the last two years have raised tensions and lowered morale. Dr. F--d, the
challenger of Adventist fundamentals, was denied permission to speak on campus, but drew
sizable audiences at a local auditorium. Not long afterward, a popular religion professor, Dr. Smuts
van Rooyen, resigned under heavy administration pressure for adopting a position similar to Dr.
F--d's.

San Diego Herald Tribune 1/18/86

A former Seventh-day Adventist scholar says the church is gradually changing in response to the
kind of views that got him dismissed from the church six years ago.

"There's been a definite change in several ways," said Dr. Desmond F--d, Australian-born former
Adventist who was one of the church's most respected scholars in 1980 when he was stripped of
his ministerial credentials for challenging key Adventist doctrines.

But F--d says the church today shows the impact of the challenges presented by such as Rea and
himself.

"Number one, the majority of ministers in the Adventist church are very close to myself as regards
the attitudes toward 1844 and the investigative judgment, but they dare not say so," F--d, who
spoke recently at the Seventh-day Baptist Church, said in an interview.

"Most college teachers and university teachers know that the investigative judgment teaching is not
biblical.

"Secondly, Ellen White is now not used so much in the pulpit, which would have pleased her, too,
so I think there's been a big change in that respect."

Robert Jones, associate pastor at the San Diego Central Seventh-day Adventist Church, said that
F--d's impact on the church has been positive in that "he got people thinking."

F--d "represented a large segment of the scholarly community in the church," Jones said, and by
raising the issues he did, F--d "brought to the attention of the church at large and to those outside
the church the fact that Seventh-day Adventism speaks perhaps with several voices."

"I don't subscribe to his theology at every point, but my judgment is that he has done the church
some good, though not everyone would agree with that perception," he said.

F--d now lives in Auburn and does daily radio broadcasts to Northern California, Oregon and
other states, P conducts seminars and publishes a magazine. He said he no longer worships at
Seventh-day Adventist churches and that theologically he regards himself as essentially a Protestant
evangelical, but not a fundamentalist.

Holtz said F--d's defrocking was tragic for both F--d and the church.

"My impression is that both sides have been hurt by what happened," he said. "There were times
when Des (F--d) oversold his case and people did not understand what he was trying to get at and
I think there were times also when the denomination made mistakes.

"I consider him a Christian brother and I think the present status where he's kind of thought of as
an outcast in Adventist circles, I think that's very, very sad both for him and the church."