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Sister Lee Noga, Quentin Boyer Launch XBangCash
Last time I talked to Lee Noga, she was becoming a nun.
From the February 18, 2003 report:
She announced 2/17 on the internet radio show CEgay with host Darren Austin. Lee said that she won't have to change her life style. She won't be leaving porn or selling her house. She wants everyone to treat her the same. It seems her main purpose in becoming a Catholic Nun is to change the way the Church perceives gays.
Now she's launching XBangCash. She writes on JBM:
Can you believe I had to lay low for weeks after I resigned from CECash on Dec 1st?
Did you all wonder where Quentin Boyer went who was formerly the Drector of marketing and sales, and then later director of public relations at TopBucks?
Q and I have teamed up with a powerhouse Asian company who dominates Asia in the VOD and DVD market. IdeaMax has moved to the web and shot exclusive content in HD just for their reality paysites. We have released 9 of the sites today.
I have been around since 1995 in the webmaster business, and I have never been as impressed as I am now after being in LA and seeing their operations. Last place I saw millions of dollars of equipment was at Dell.
Internext #523, the largest booth on the floor and the coolest shirts, stop by and I am collecting 3 years of hugs.
Advertising Dollars Flow Into AVN
Jim writes: "I just got the new show AVN special edition and man, did the pornographers spend some jack on the special inserts."
Russell Hampshire Interview
Russell Hampshire, former owner of VCA, calls me back Thursday morning, 12/30/04.
Luke: "Tell me when you first met Jim Holliday."
Russell: "It was 20-something odd years ago. He went to work in [VCA's] mail-order company [around 1980]. He was talking to customers. It was just a place to hang out.
"I thought he was very knowledgeable about the industry and the limited amount of product available at the time."
Luke: "How did he come to direct for you?"
Russell: "We were making movies and he presented a script and we liked it and we said, ok, you can direct. He came through one of the art directors in the company."
Luke: "You found his product sold well?"
Russell: "He had his niche for putting together product that had a lot of girls in it. Your average movie had four, five or six girls. His movies had 10, 20 girls in it."
Luke: "Did you watch his movies and get his trivia references?"
Russell: "I watched his movies. I didn't get into the trivia. His movies didn't have a lot of plot, just a lot of girls having a good time. I didn't figure out his trivia."
Luke: "I heard a story that he had some kind of breakdown on a set and you had to intervene."
Russell: "He got real sick. He had to go to the hospital. He didn't want to go."
Luke: "Was this about four years ago?"
Russell: "I can't remember. I'm getting Alzheimer's Disease. Somebody called me and said, you have to do something about Jim. He's real sick and he's a trooper and he doesn't want to get himself checked out.
"We went down there and put the shoot on hold while he went to the doctor who gave him something to make him feel better."
Luke: "I've read allegations on various posting boards that VCA and Jim did not want to shoot interracial product."
Russell: "I don't know anything about that. I was never concerned with that. It never crossed my mind."
Luke: "It sounded like you and Jim became good friends over the years."
Russell: "Umm, we were friends. He's a nice guy. A good filmmaker. I liked him."
Luke: "I'd hear stories that you guys would kick back and tell stories for hours."
Russell: "No. Jim would like to sit there and talk about the old days but I didn't have time for that."
Luke: "When did you last talk to Jim?"
Russell: "It was quite a while ago. It was four or five months ago. I was shocked to hear this happened. He is sorely missed."
Luke: "I hear the transition to the new ownership [of VCA] was difficult for Jim."
Russell: "I don't know."
Luke: "He didn't talk to you about that?"
Russell: "No."
Luke: "What do you remember about your last conversations with Jim?"
Russell: "He was asking me a question. Did I remember this? Truthfully, I don't remember what it was about. All I know is that he was a great historian and the industry will miss him and his trivia."
Luke: "Did Jim's sales figures justify his budgets?"
Russell: "Yes. People like to see girls and he made films with lots of girls. It was fairly simple."
Luke: "What kind of budgets did he work with?"
Russell: "He'd make films for $100,000. Sometimes $120,000. Anywhere from $35,000 on up."
Luke: "Was he easy to work with? Was he honest?"
Russell: "To the best of my knowledge. How many times can you get 20 girls to work in one film? There had to be something there that he had that made these people work together. I never had a problem with him. He was easy to work with. His shoots were always organized.
"I didn't go to shoots that often but from what I understand he was one of the few guys who didn't work late. His shooting schedule was bang, bang, bang."
Luke: "I heard from Bill Margold that nobody in the industry knew where Jim lived. Did you know where Jim lived?"
Russell: "He lived in some apartment. That's all I know. I don't know where most of the people that did films for me worked."
Luke: "Did you come up with the idea of pairing Rob Spallone with Jim as his production manager?"
Russell: "Yes, I suggested it. Rob was a good nuts-and-bolts guy. When you pair him with a freewill thinker like Jim, you put together a project. Some of them were complicated."
Luke: "So, is there anything you miss about owning a big company?"
Russell: "I like being retired. I put 25-years in. I'm getting old. I'm not in the best of health. I want to live peacefully in my last few years."
Many years ago, Russell said he might tell me a lot of scoop about his career when he had cashed out of the business.
Luke: "Do you have any interest in telling the story of your career?"
Russell: "No. Nothing I want to say. I go to the grave with all my stories. No one will ever know. It would be a great masterpiece but I go to the grave with my story. Like anybody else's story, I happened to be at the right place at the right time and I worked hard."
Luke: "How's your health?"
Russell: "I'm hanging around. I had a [minor] heart attack [two years ago]. I've got arthritis.
"I'm still out in the garden. Not as much. The body doesn't work as well as it used to. It hurts when you get old."
Luke: "But you're still able to play 18-holes of golf."
Russell: "Yes. Just so long as I can ride in the cart. I can't walk it."
Luke: "Who do you keep up with in the industry?"
Russell: "Nobody."
Luke: "Are you content?"
Russell: "I'm fine. I'm happy. I wish you a happy holiday season."
Luke: "You've accomplished what you wanted to in your career?"
Russell: "I guess so."
Luke: "No burning..."
Russell: "No big burning desires..."
Luke: "Nothing eating you at night?"
Russell: "No. Not like you."
Luke: "I'm perpetually dissatisfied."
Russell: "You're still young. You're a puppy. I've got 20 years on you.
"I just wish everybody the best of luck in the world."
XXX writes: "Why didn't you ask Russ about the shotgun incident? It happened decades ago. It had to do with collecting money."
Ernest Greene Remembers Jim Holliday
Ernest aka Ira Levine writes on Nina.com:
He and I were definitely not friends and he was definitely not helpful to me in any way. I can confirm, directly from his comments to me, many of the criticisms made on this thread, and I don't think death automatically wipes the slate clean of all misdeeds, but I see no point in pursuing old grievances once the source is gone.
At some point, I hope Holliday's legacy can be examined more objectively and free of the mawkish sentimentality that has characterized so many of the elegiac odes I've been reading since his death.
A source from XBiz writes: "XBiz has been blown away by the demand for tickets to this year's XBiz Awards show on Jan. 5. Jim Holio is the emcee and I've heard that there are going to be big surprise winners and guest appearances. There will be a private dinner for 100 or so before doors open with some of the biggest players in the adult internet biz. This show is now considered to be THE elite awards event where you get to rub shoulders with the richest and most famous players in the biz."
Video Team A Go Go
Gene Ross writes: "The new rumor on the street is that Lucky Distributors has bought Video Team."
My understanding is that this is not true. The rumor may be a confusion of some pending purchase of the Fat Dog line by Lucky Distributors.
The Rothsteins were long said to own Video Team. Then they purportedly sold it to a couple of NY Jews with a magazine company, Star (I thought the Rothsteins were a couple of New York Jews and they had a distribution company named Star Distributors?). They may have got it back through a default. Last I heard Video Team was owned by La Brook Inc, which has multiple owners.
Christian Mann, head of Video Team, writes: "Your information about Video Team is completely innaccurate. It doesn't really matter, but the Rothsteins did not own Video Team, hence they could not sell it to a couple of New York Jews, or anyone else for that matter."
Rich Benefactor Seeking Beautiful Woman To Pamper
A movie producer placed this singles ad on Craigs List to see who would respond. Most, if not all, of the responses were from whores. Two of the women had auditioned for his movies. They sent photos.
Kim Kataine Story
I heard an anecdote from the set of 1996's Scotty's X-Rated Adventure.
The late Kim Kataine walked on. She was not in the movie. Somebody inquired what she was doing there. The person was told that Kim was on set to blow the writer of an on-the-set piece for a prestigious industry magazine.
Kim and the writer disappeared for a few minutes.
Sex with Young Girls
That's the creepy title of a New Sensations series.
XXX says: Since you're exposing [New Sensations owner] Scott Taylor, you might as well include the fact that he has not learned any lessons. He isn't the only rooster in the chicken coop either. One of his minions is just as bad as he is.
Word is Taylor has romantic yearnings for his current sales girl Belle.
Ariana Jollee Is Not Prudish
There is no difference between being gay, straight, bisexual, transexual.. its just the way i am. i grew up in a scene in nyc that broke down all of those barriers. i can get off on anything, if you truly get off on something.. it will turn me on enough that i can get off on it. watch those scenes, theyre hot... they same passion you see in a 'normal' scene, you will see there. i have my feelings on sex, and sexuality and people will either agree or disagree... everyone if different.. society breeds you to believe that there is a right and a wrong, and black and a white... i like to look at everything as grey... a shemale for me is the best of both worlds...
Charles Kelly's Prostitution Empire
I keep hearing how the owners of the most influential review boards, such as Bigdoggie.net (once owned by Charles Kelly) used to extort the girls for free (often bareback) sex in exchange for positive reviews.
The SoFla sex industry is being taken over by grandfatherly procurers and Internet-surfing hos.
On Set With Penthouse
Jim Malibu directed and Rob Spallone produced a High-Definition softcore shoot for Penthouse in Sherman Oaks Wednesday, December 29, starring Katrena Starr, Dani Woodward, Penthouse Pet Crystal Klein and Charmane Star.
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Smelly Monkey writes on XPT about Charmane Star: "She gave me the same look when I jumped out from behind the bushes at her apartment last thursday. I love Charmane."
From Suze-Centerfolds.com on Crystal Klein: "She's a cute brown-eyed blonde born in Austria on October 10, who is 5'6" tall, weighs 112 lbs. and measures 35B-26-35. Her dress size is 2, shoe size 8. No tattoos, no piercings. Her ambition is to be a singer/songwriter."
Rob yells out: "Where's Jim Malibu?"
No answer.
Rob yells again: "Where's Jim Holliday?"
Juno writes: "Rob is looking like JABBA the HUT."
I met Kareena, who stands 6' tall with a 36" inseam, at the Penthouse talent call. She says they never called her back (though here she is starring in a movie for them). She says she's too old. She's 22.
I say 22 is not old. Jamie Lynn is 23 and she was just a Penthouse Pet.
Kareena tells me to keep quiet. She says she wants to believe that it is because she is too old. That is easier on her self-esteem.
Kareena says she dropped out of high school a few months short of graduating because she was kicked off the volleyball team for having "a bad attitude."
She later got her GED (equivalent of a high school diploma though the average professional success achieved by a GED graduate is about the same as a high school dropout) and says she was the valedictorian of her GED class of about 100.
I never heard of GED classes having valedictorians. Do they have Senior Balls too?
"Hi, I'm Sadie and I was the homecoming queen for my GED class."
"Hi, I'm Jack. I was captain of the football team for my GED class."
I don't think Rob Spallone got past fifth grade but look where he is today.
After Kareena dropped out of high school, she got her GED and went to college for a year. She lost her scholarship to FSU (Florida State University) after getting kicked off the volleyball team.
Then Kareena hitch-hiked around America for a year. While she was homeless, she did her first porn movie - Adventure Sex for producer David Rhodes. The movie has been nominated for a couple of AVN awards.
Kareena was promised 10% of the residuals. She's yet to see a penny of that.
Kareena makes her living as a bartender in a family restaurant.
Kareena says to Rob, "Your hands are shaking. Mine do too. We're going to get Parkinsons when we get older."
Rob's chopping up onions to make fried peppers, onions and sausage.
"My eyes are ------- burning," he complains.
"Don't use that kind of language around the ladies," I command.
"I can't see anymore."
"The girls are supposed to say that [during their scenes]," says Kareena. "You ------- dirty little bitch.
"I do like to talk."
"I like it nice and quiet," says Rob.
"If you talk to Rob during sex," I say, "he can't maintain."
"For all two minutes of it?" asks Kareena.
"He's always hitting on the chicks," I say. "That's our Rob."
"That's a lie," he says. "I can make sure you never work
in this town again."
"Are you straight?" she asks.
"As straight as can be," says Rob.
"Every porno guy is gay. If you have sex with two guys at one time, that's gay."
"That's called money," says Kareena.
"Your dick is not supposed to be near another guy's dick," says Rob.
The director complains that Rob's frying is too noisy. He sends an assistant down to the kitchen to pass on the word. Rob tells the assistant to put a blanket up to stifle the noise. Once Rob starts cooking, he doesn't like to be told to stop.
He cooked "Rocky Mountain Toast" for breakfast. Fried toast with an egg in the middle.
The kitchen counter is covered with food. "Yesterday I had them eat at McDonalds," Rob laughs about his low-budget gonzo shoot.
Scheduled for today are four solo girl scenes and two girl-girl scenes.
Rob plans to shoot two more of these softcore movies and then move into Penthouse hardcore.
The corporate headquarters of Penthouse magazine are now in Boca Raton, Florida. They maintain an office in New York and they are opening one in Los Angeles.
Don McDonald is the president of Penthouse Films. He stops by the set with his girlfriend and they eat Rob's cooking.
They don't die.
I tell Dani that I heard a rumor that she was dating Bob Friedland, CEO of Jill Kelly Productions.
She says that while it was not true, she did not mind such a rumor. "Bob can take me to Paris any time."
It's the more hurtful rumors that bother her, ones that extrapolate on her hyper-talkativeness and claim some chemical origin.
I find Dani a delightful chatterbox. I get her going on personality types, the subject of a book she's reading about the Myers-Briggs 16-personality type breakdown. Dani says she's an idealist.
That must be why she does porn.
In the industry on-and-off (once six months off) for 18-months, the 20-year old has the brunette beauty that could break this cynical journalist's heart.
A cynic is an idealist who has had his heart broken.
Ron Sullivan, who's shooting behind-the-scenes footage, returns from what he calls the "worst shopping experience of my life." He was buying stockings and nail polish for the girls who were most particular in their instructions.
Wednesday's shoot went smoothly, finishing only 30-minutes late.
A source: "That Dani Woodward. She chattered all day, from one subject to another. Crystal Klein said she thought she was going to be uncomfortable but then she got on set and she liked everybody and she had a good time."
So what's the deal with 2257?
A few months ago everybody was talking Chicken Little, the sky is falling. I was assuming that websites would start disappearing en masse after this thing took effect... So, what's the deal.
None of the sites I check out have removed any of their content and it seems everywhere I look things seem to be the same old same old. More adult sites and erotic movie review sites are popping up loaded with pics and such. What's the deal?
Mr Poo writes: "I stopped bitching to start complying."
Remembering Jim Holliday
Nina Hartley writes December 21:
I just heard that Jim Holliday has died. While my feelings toward him changed a lot over the years, there's no denying that he, along with Bill Margold, were the first two people in this business who recognized my potential, and who supported me over the years. During my dry years, ('88-'93) when everyone thought I had retired, or should, he supported me in print in the pages of AVN, and used me in several of his extravaganzas, though he last hired me over five years ago. I was his "Earth Angel," the way Sharon Kane was his, "Cajun Angel." I know he's not suffering any more.
On Nina Hartley's forum, Hartfan writes:
While I recognize Jim Holliday's contributions to the Adult Film industry, I have to buffer them observations of some of the less-than-sterling aspects of his career. You'll notice folks, that Nina mentions that while Holliday was a big supporter of hers in her early years in the business, they weren't on speaking terms at the time of his death. I wonder why? (over to you, Nina) In my humble opinion, Jim Holliday, to a great degree, represented some of the negative aspects of Adult Films. I never really heard or read anything from him speaking out on things plaguing the business, like misogyny, racism, and the general "Old Boy" network of producers and directors.
Nina Hartley responds:
Sheldon and Hartfan, I'm with you. I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but Jim personified a lot of what I find to be institutionally, genetically wrong with this business. He was racist, as well as being a misanthrope. That he had to pronounce otherwise so often brings to mind the quote, "Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much." I just kept my distance. He was part of the old guard, and had difficulty adapting to the new way of doing things. I'm sorry he suffered from such a debilitating illness, and I'm glad he's not suffering now. I'm grateful that he did champion me for a few years when no one else would. So, those in the know know him for the man he was. We don't need to rehash it here.
Sylvia Saint Photos From January 2000
Because I can.
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What Do Porn Star's Children Feel When They Watch Their Parents' Work?
XXXbitionist writes on XPT: "weird but as I grew up I had come to understand the sexual nature of my parents...somehow the thought of it being on camera for all the world to see..over and over and with so many different people..is not something that I think could have a positive effect on kids... by god I do love watching other people do it..but somehow am thankful that I never had to deal with a lot of the issues that some porn kids will or won't have to."
MidWestBadGirls writes: "Well, I love sex. And sex with many different partners. And sex on camera for everyone to see. So I guess it would be hypocritical of me to feel weird or uncomfortable if my mom, or my sister or anyone else I knew enjoyed that type of thing just as much as me. Maybe that's an un-American type of thought process, but I just refuse to feel guilt about something that I think is as natural a thing as sexual expression. I'd be more embarassed if I found out my mom was a Bill O'Reily fanatic."
Maged writes:
Hi read this index:
Nicole Brazzle divorced with 3 children- 2 boys and 1 girl
Hyapatia Lee married with 3 children some of them in the teenage
Brandi Brandt divorced with 3 children
Kianna Bradley married with 3 children
Bridgette Kerkove married with 2 children
Candie Evans married with 2 daughters
Tiffany Mynx divorced with 2 children
Danielle Rogers married with children
Tori Welles divorced with 2 children
Jeanna Fine married with son and daughter
Asia Carrera married with a kid on the way
Tricia Devereaux married with a daughter
Celeste married with a kid
Tyffany Million married with teenage child
Lynn LeMay divorced with 3 children in the teenage
Olivia Del Rio married with 2 daughters
Sunset Thomas married with a son
Veronica Hart married with teenage children
Violet Blue married with a son and others.All that can I say: "I ENVY THOSE VERY VERY VERY LUCKY CHILDREN."
Processing Expert Writes: There is a Santa Claus, Virginia
Kimmy Kim writes on Oprano.com:
However he's got a few distribution issues that are going to neccessitate someone biting the bullet and paying for it. ATM billing is a reality already, in a way that the banking system approves of and encourages, but it is expensive. However, you then bypass the card associations entirely so the parameters are wide open compared to the current Visa/MC regs. I heard a rumor that non-US Visa processing is going to get a new allowable CB limit this year that is very unfriendly to site owners and processors, regardless of whose merchant account they are using.
I do have firsthand knowledge of some potential new banks opening up who will be courting a certain subset of the adult market fairly aggressively. That subset will be the one that's looking for a longer term solution, not a turn and burn scenario.
Joseph Elkind Asks: What Should I Do?
I made millions in this industry before most of you knew about chat boards. I owned Net management, CEN, TrafficcashGold, EmailBucks, LoveDollars, Etc. My asshole partner (small dicked John Bennett who pays girls to say they are his girlfriend) is still paying me as we speak.
I started Ice Cold Cash and was doing well UNTIL WEBSITEBILLING went under and took ALL my recurring with them. I switched to Revshare and lost most my webmasters and some of the respect of the community. Bennett has blackballed me from the "big boyz" I introduced him to.
Should I retire? I have enough cash. I have a beautiful 7 year old daughter. I have one of the nicest houses in Ft. Lauderdale. I have spent over $1Million on content for Ice. I have TouristHunter, PrivateXXXGold, etc... Besides keeping my old attorneys and partner tied up in court, WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Brad Shaw replies:
JoeE, I would retire. The profits in this biz are SO small these days compared to the good ole days. Starting a program from scratch, is VERY VERY tough without a large recurring database behind you. You can actually lose money if you are not careful. But, if anyone can do it, you can. If you can do anything, it is market.
If I depended only on my affiliate program income I would be living small time. Thankfully, I have put many eggs in many baskets over the years and have other nice streams of revenue. Granted, they are all tied into porn.
Shauna Banks Interview
Hair: Auburn Eyes:
Blue Height: 5' 3"
Weight: 110 lbs
Dress: 3
Shoe: 6 Glove:
S Hat: 4
Bust: 34D
Waist: 24
Hips: 36
B-Day: 12 March 1977
We speak by phone Wednesday morning, December 29.
Shauna: "Thank for calling me back about the video [Call Girls Undercover 3, it was filmed by Kris Kramsky for Larry Flynt Publications. Shauna and two other performers never got paid.]"
How did you get into porn?
"I was a personal trainer in San Diego. I answered an ad for bikini modeling [in 2000] and met Regan Senter of Beautiful Models. I don't want to say anything bad about him. He's a little nutty."
How was your compliance video?
"I didn't do it. I'm probably the only girl that didn't.
"Brooke Daze was my best friend. We answered an ad for bikini modeling and went to his house, office, whatever. As soon as we got there, he said, do you guys want to get into porn? I'm open-minded. I said, I'll think about it.
"That wasn't what I was expecting. [Brooke] got a phone call and went into the other room. As she was in the other room, he asked me to do the BJ audition. I was like, no way.
"I was the aggressive one and Brooke was the shy one.
"He said, you have to if you want work. I said, why do you need me to suck your dick? Here's my mouth. Imagine it with a dick in it.
"As [Brooke] came out of the bedroom, he posed it to her without me being in the room. With her being more shy, she went ahead and did it.
"He put us both on the site. We both got equal amount of work. Ed Powers was our first job. He got us a couple more jobs after that. But then I bought a laptop and a porn directory [from AVN] and got work on my own."
Shauna's done about 30 movies.
"I moved to Florida about two years ago. I had lived in San Diego for two years. I came back to Florida to visit my mom. While I was here, I decided to work. I did a shoot for MILF Seeker. I fell in love with the MILF Seeker [Jason aka Jay Steele]. Now we're engaged. We've been together since we did that shoot. My stuff is still in storage in San Diego."
Did you get implants?
"When I was 21. I lost 50 pounds. I was a chunker. I started working out and I lost a bunch of weight. My breasts didn't look up to pay for a 21-year old. I got them done and I had no idea they would lead me here.
"My doctor [Goldstein in Florida] was awesome. He said, they're going to be swollen for a couple of months. If you've ever thought about doing porn, you should do it now.
"When you turn 21, lose 50 pounds, and get breast implants all within the same year, you tend to lose your mind. I worked at Hooters for a while. I think that's the beginning for all porn stars. You get a taste of the attention."
What do you love and hate about the industry?
"It's fun. I like to experiment. It's a safe environment where you can do things you'd like to do but you don't want to meet someone on the street and try. I like the attention. I'm over it now. It was something I had to get out of my system.
"I don't like that 50% of the producers and directors hate women."
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
"I wanted to be a veterinarian. When I was six years old, my uncle showed me Madonna in Playboy. From that point on, hmm. It was the wrong time. I loved Madonna. Things like that affect a kid."
Were you sexually molested?
:"No. I had an awesome childhood. I've just always been an exhibitionist. Since I lost weight. From 16-20, I was chunky. Then I started weight-training and doing cardio every day and everything came off nicely. I felt like I had to show it off."
What clique did you hang out with in high school?
"I was into country music so I hung out with the hicks.
"I moved to San Diego when I was 21. My dad went out there for a job and I followed him."
How did your friends and family react to your becoming a porn star?
"Not that well. I hadn't spoken to my dad in four years. We've just started emailing each other."
Send him some free tapes.
"Yeah, right. My mom was not happy but she's always been supportive and open-minded and looked the other way."
How do they like Jason?
"My dad hasn't met him. My mom likes him."
Are you a dancer?
"No. I tried that for a month in San Diego. It wasn't for me. I'm not a hustler."
Do you prefer California or Florida?
"I love California but I got into too much trouble out there."
What sort of trouble?
"I'd rather not say. There's just a lot of temptation out there. In Florida, I'm nice and normal. California was out of control. It takes a lot of will power to be out there and not go buck-wild. I don't have that kind of will power."
Has porn affected your view of men?
"Not really. Porn is honest. Everybody thinks about things. The only difference is that we do it on camera. It's affected my views on sex. All that period of having free crazy wild sex. Now I don't fool around. I got it out of my system.
"My husband no longer does MILF Seeker. He does VIP and a couple of other sites."
Does that bother you?
"Not really. Sometimes. Here and there. If the girl is really hot and younger than me, I might get jealous. I'd rather be involved with someone who does it openly and plainly and gets paid for it than someone who lies to me and does it behind my back like 90% of the men I've met. I don't mean that in the sense that men are bad. People need to get it on."
My friend Khunrum was once in the Peace Corps. Now he teaches at a community college in the South. Several times a year, he flies to Thailand to distribute alms to the needy.
Due to my Asperger's Syndrome, I did not think until Tuesday night how this recent tsunami could affect my friend Khunrum who likes to celebrate every year in Southeast Asia the birth of the Christ child.
Friend: "So is Rum floating a dozen miles or so off the shore of Thailand or what? The more time that passes without any communication from him, the more possible it is that he was washed out to sea."
I emailed Khunrum and he responded:
I am high and dry in Bangkok. My girlfriend and I were up country in Udon Than when the waves hit. I didn't even know about it until the next day.
Amalek writes: "Tell him plague might break out at any moment and travel up country to him."
Everything is OK in 'Kook. We are having a day of mourning and all should wear black. A member of the Royal Family, Hun Poem, the King's grandson, was also drowned. Thailand is in grief. I have personally dipped into my billfold and donated 1,000 bath, ($25) to the cause. That's enough money for "long-time" so you know this is a bad situation. New Years celebrations are curtailed. Very Sad. Many have no where to live.
Dead bodies are all over and floating in the water. There has been some criticism of the Thai government catering too much to the safety and evacuation of the tourists and not helping with the vast refugee programs of the locals. Houses and dwellings in the affected areas are flattened and there is no place for the people to live. One baby was plucked alive after being found, 24 hours after the waves hit, in the leaf of a palm tree. Colin Powell has been on TV offering assistance from the US. We are sending food, supplies and helicopters.
How has the tsunami affected the pricing for whores?
I'm sure one can get a better price. Especially if you have a place to put one up. The waves flattened the Islands. However this is the first trip I have been faithful to my girlfriend. She watch's me like a hawk. I fear my ho-monger days are drawing to a close. I'll be shut down like Helpful. More so when Sopee comes to town in March.
Here are highlights from past contributions from Khunrum:
Khunrum writes: "Air Force Amy looks pretty sturdy. Weathered but tough. It is spirit like hers that wins wars."
Khunrum writes David Aaron Clark:
I bet you've never been out of the United States. Korean ----- is not the bomb...Thai ----- rules. A close second are the dark, ripe plump arsed sweethearts of Cambodia who must be made love to on Cambodia soil to be appreciated. Number three are the Vietnamese...Nam is going to be the next "in" place to be. Our governments are playing footsie with each other. Soon we will be close buddies and the country will open up to Westerners again. The Vietnamese girls from the North (Hanoi) are breathtaking beauties. Nam will be the next Thailand only better. Why do you attempt to write about something you know little about?. Those porno Ho's you are f---ing (and writing about) have little to do with the real thing.....get your fat ass to Asia you gas bag... PS...Koreans are dead last. Everyone who knows anything about Asian women knows that...Last behind Philippinas...
Khunrum writes Martin Brimmer:
I see nothing wrong with Luke's writing. Just as James Dean was a "method" actor I believe Luke is a "method" writer. One has to search out the performance just as we had to with Dean. The obvious is not always what Luke has intended for the reader. If Luke has a problem it is with subject matter. He is writing about "producers" nobody cares to hear about. What's more, most of these people have not produced anything in the past twenty-five years. Imagine a book about producers who don't produce? Non-Producers as it were.
I Want To Reconnect
Chaim writes: "I think you finally have a home in the lexicon of disability. Seriously, you can just about check off all the symptoms. You can now reconnect with all the people you have pissed off over the years with this news and expect their understanding and pity. It is your due."
Do I Remind You Of Mother Theresa?
I make the San Fernando Valley my New Delhi. I walk around picking up porn stars, clean them up, put them to bed, and study the Bible with them. Yet this comparison is never made. Why must I incessantly be compared to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? To other geniuses with a touch of madness? How long until my philanthropic works are recognized as widely as my intelligence and photography?
Why Can't Luke Make Porn Stars Look Glamorous?
James DiGiorgio writes Luke: "your photography sucks beyond belief. get a new camera, learn how to use the one you use, or quit posting that crap... you ain't helping out your subjects publishing images of them that look like that. there's amateurs who can do better using a 19th century pinhole camera."
Why would people imagine that I write or photograph my subjects to help them? I do it as a service for my readers and as an expression of my autistic impulses.
Porn star Taylor Wane writes in the LF.com 3/15/01 update:
Dear Luke,
It so disappoints me when I see this kind of media being published. Why can't you spend your time making the stars and the industry look glamorous instead of reporting crap like that email.
It also amazes me that a lot of guys like the one that sent you that email thinks that any one over the age of 18 is old. Not all men are pedophiles, most men like a women that doesn't giggle while having sex or that are mature enough to hold a conversation. I really wish you would remove that report about me, it bothers me. Not the fact that the guy thinks I am old, I couldn't care less that he is into under age children and considers me old but the fact that you are showing me in a bad light.
Please talk about my movies or dance career, or web site or something that I work very hard at every day and something I have spent a whole career to achieve.
Do me a favor Luke, show me that you have humanity and please remove that report. I would greatly appreciate it. It seems to me that when ever a guy doesn't hear what he wants to hear. (That i will be a 2 bit hooker because they have no money) they threaten to report it to you. Are you to be just poison to the adult talent, or someone that we respect and would like to confide in.
Luke replies: "Taylor, it is my job to report on the sex industry, good, bad or indifferent... I have no desire to make you guys look glamorous or bad, I just report it like it is..."
Taylor Wane's Available
3/12/01 Mark writes TaylorWane.com: "Just read about your trip to St Marteens. Are you available for private shows in the LA area?"
Taylor replies to Mark: "Sure, it is 1500 an hour. 1600 by credit card."
Mark writes Luke: "Luke, Is she smoking crack or what? She is another Ryan Conner, finding idiots to pay outrageous prices for used up -----."
Taylor Wane replies to Luke: "I'm not sure why you sent me this. I don't appreciate this kind of publicity. The only way a loser like this could get used up??? ----- like me is to pay a high price for it."
Joe writes: "i might be mistaken but the last time i saw taylor wane was many years ago .last time i saw her in a movie was on the prowl 2 jamie gillis movie. all i can say she was hot then more than likelly hotter now i like olde pornstars."
Mark writes Luke: "For $1500 an hour you think she would LOVE all the publicity she can get. I know guys with PhDs who don't get $100 an hour. My attorney gets $300 and he "f---s" me!!! For $1500 an hour I should get to bang her asshole till she cant walk. I should get head till her teeth fall out. After that she should do my laundry(whites) and wash my dirty dishes (nude of course)."
BrandyAlx1: "Even for services of prostitution, you should tell Taylor that it violates the merchant agreements of all the major credit cards to charge a higher fee or surcharge to people using them. Anyone has been charged more for using a credit card should report it and get a refund."
On Set With Holly Wellin, Chelsea Zinn, Tricia Oaks
I arrive on set at 11am. A woman in her late 30s, Lexi Simone, waits at the door for somebody to open it. I turn the handle and she follows me in.
It's a lesbian movie pairing older women with younger women.
Ron Sullivan is in one room shoot a scene.
Kenny Carolina, production manager, and Bill Diehl, photographer, are in the kitchen.
I look at some of Bill's pictures of a tall blonde. Chelsea Zinn.
"Is that the younger woman?" I ask.
"No," he says. "That's the older woman."
Chelsea works with pig-tailed Tricia Oaks.
When Bill asked Tricia to touch herself during the still shoot, Tricia was shy and awkward.
Rob Spallone is shooting a softcore girl-girl movie Wednesday for Penthouse. It will be his second for the company. The house he wanted to use is no longer accessible because of all the rain. The road to it washed away.
Bill Diehl shot the stills for Rob's first Penthouse shoot a couple of weeks. His favorite girl of all time was on the shoot - porn star Nyomi, the sister of porn star Jade Marcella.
Nyomi and Jade did one scene together for Jade's website.
Nyomi said it was no big deal for her sister to go down on her.
Jade says it was no big deal.
I guess incest is no big deal.
11:30am. Ron's finished the scene. He comes out and sees a woman he doesn't know in the kitchen.
Kenny Carolina assumed it was my girlfriend.
"I'm Lexi Simone," she says.
"I am my kid's mom," says Bill Diehl, echoing Dr. Laura.
Lexi Simone Lexi Simone Lexi Simone Tricia Oaks Chelsea Zinn Chelsea Zinn Chelsea Zinn Johnny Zinn Johnny Zinn Lexi Simone Lexi Simone Lexi Simone Lexi Simone Tricia Oaks Tricia Oaks Tricia Oaks Lexi Simone Lexi Simone Lexi Simone Holly Wellin Holly Wellin Holly Wellin Holly Wellin Holly Wellin
"You're young enough to be my granddaughter," says Ron to Lexi. "I don't like this older women, younger women. How about experienced women?"
Lexi likes that name more.
She's been in porn for ten days. "I just moved to Southern California in July. I got burned out on my job that I had done for a dozen years. I managed cosmetics for different department stores. I'm taking a break. I wanted to make money. I like sex.
"I've done a couple of photo shoots and one video. I was with a man, the producer/director..."
Her face scrunches up with distaste. "I'm bad with names. I think his first name was Fred. In his late 40s."
How was the scene?
"Her face scrunches up. "Not too exciting. He was wearing Sponge Bob boxers. I love Sponge Bob but it just didn't do anything for me.
"I do guys, girls, interracial, group, anal, depending on how big they are. I'm not going with anybody who's going to rip me in half."
How did you get in?
"I looked through the LA Weekly and found World Modeling. I went in there and that was it. I met with the world-famous Jim South. He's a cool guy."
How long do you want to stay in the industry?
"Until I don't have fun anymore."
Do you think you'll ever be able to have as much fun as your first video shoot?
She laughs. "I'm hoping for more fun. It's got to get better."
Kenny: "You should know that Luke is a Republican."
Lexi's face scrunches up. "Oh please."
Kenny: "He loves Bush. He doesn't like our industry. He just reports on it."
Lexi: "Bye."
I'll treat you like a flower.
Lexi: "Ok. I'll be your flower."
If you were a flower, what type of flower would you be?
She laughs. "A rose. Pretty to look at but with sharp parts of my personality. If you're bad, I'll be bad back. You better treat me right or I will prick you."
Lexi was married for nine years. "All my gay friends say he's definitely gay. When I used to take him to gay clubs, men would be hanging all over him and he wouldn't even stop them."
When you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?
"Somebody famous. Like a dancer in Vegas. On stage."
Lexi was saving her virginity for marriage. Then she got to age 22 and she decided she couldn't wait any longer. She and her boyfriend got a Motel 6 in the middle of nowhere and did the deed. "It was horrible." They tried it a few more times. Lexi wasn't into it. She moved on to other men. She says she's only been with 20 men in her life.
Have you ever met a man and done him that night?
"Oh yeah. Especially lately. When I moved to LA, I started meeting people on the Internet and they turned into one-night deals. I didn't want it to be that way."
Lexi still tells everybody that she is a "freelance make-up artist."
Lexi says that working in cosmetics was not a good way to meet men. About the only ones she'd meet on the job were boyfriends and husbands who were bored to tears. There was one thing they wanted however -- red glossy lips on their wives.
At World Modeling, Lexi mentioned that she had never had sex with a black guy. Two black guys then offered to give her practice black sex for free. She declined.
"They both said the same line -- 'Once you go black, you'll never go back.' Hmm."
Tricia Oaks asks Bill Diehl for some free photos.
Kenny: "It only requires one trip to the bathroom."
It's a funny line because Bill doesn't hit on the women. Sometimes they hit on him because he's a nice guy and he's rich.
Chelsea Zinn has been working in adult entertainment for years but has only been making movies for five months. She's done 20 as has her husband Johnny Zinn.
Holly Wellin, a beautiful blonde from England who married an American porn cameraman a couple of months ago, walks in. She's tired. She just took a red-eye flight from Philadelphia. She spent nine days there with her new in-laws.
She told them she was a model. That she appeared in Hustler. That her husband worked on commercials.
Her mother-in-law is a strict Catholic.
Holly forgot her AIDS test. "What a knobhead," she moans.
Kenny volunteers to inspect her for anything unusual.
Instead, Holly calls AIM. She finds out, to her disgust, that her test is expired (more than 30 days old).
She drives off to AIM.
Kenny books two other girls to replace her. Whoever gets there first will get the scene.
Ron remembers booking talent for a movie in 1979. "Whoever got their first got the scene and the second person got $100 for trying. They came fast."
Tricia Oaks, from Thousand Oaks, has been in porn a month.
How many movies?
She counts with her fingers and stops at five.
She's going golfing in the friends. "My friends and I like to do weird things."
How did you get into this?
"From a friend in NA."
Tricia explains to Bill that NA stands for Narcotics Anonymous.
Tricia says she used to stick heroin needles into her arm at 15.
Bill's amazed.
Tricia jokes that she's graduated NA. "I don't use drugs now. That's how my uncle died."
Bill: "So you kept up the tradition?"
Tricia: "I had to. A sign of respect."
We talk about her past scenes.
Tricia: "T.T. Boy tried to get most of his money. I didn't work with him. I worked with his cousin Jacob. He's the first director I worked with."
Tricia's happy with the photos Bill took. "I usually cringe at my photos."
Kenny Carolina talks about what a horrible driver Ron Sullivan is. That his previous car did not have a square inch that had not been dented. The one time he got a ride from Ron was a frightening experience.
Kendra Jade Writes Poems By The Beach
Kendrajxxx: Shalom
KendraJXXX: I'm in hawaii on vacation
DukeFloored: nice life you have
KendraJXXX: Its like a hundred degrees here
KendraJXXX: I just got done jet skiing and parasailing
KendraJXXX: I also swam with dolphins!
KendraJXXX: Have you ever been ?
DukeFloored: only for an hour or two on the stopover to and from Australia
KendraJXXX: Yeah I'm laying on the beach right now, but I'm writing more
than I'm reading
KendraJXXX: This place is pretty inspirational
DukeFloored: writing what? how are you talking to me if you are on the
beach? KendraJXXX: Poems. I'm using my handheld phone\laptop thing
KendraJXXX: So when is our lunch with your new girlfriend mary carey
DukeFloored: lol, she flaked on me twice
KendraJXXX: Oh.. Well that's not very nice
KendraJXXX: Well u and me can just get lunch them one of these days
KendraJXXX: Well go to a nice kosher restaurant near you. There's a bunch
of them over there
KendraJXXX: I'm gonna take a picture right now and send it to u, the water
is so pretty
DukeFloored: I didn't realize you were so endowed
KendraJXXX: The waters great ! Breathtaking Lol! Lukey, I have always
had these things!
DukeFloored: I was always looking in your eyes
DukeFloored: I didn't know you had tattoos
KendraJXXX: Yes you did luke
KendraJXXX: Has it been that long??
DukeFloored: yes it has. I was only a little boy then. You look good
KendraJXXX: Thanks, I feel good. Older, but good. I'm in my prime I think,
probably the best ill ever be.
Get It Right
Rodger writes: First you write: "I'm sure newspapers will have reseavations on doing a news obituary on [Jim] Holliday, given the nature of his occupation and that he is not generally known outside the porn industry."
And then a few days later you write: "The death of Jim Holliday, porn historian, trivia buff and director. For many in the industry and out, that was the most significant event in porn in 2004."
Ummmmm, which is it, Luke?
Luke says: "Dunno."
Sports Illustrated Supermodel Nailed By Tsunami
LONDON - Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova, who appeared on the cover of 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, was injured and her photographer boyfriend is missing after the pair were caught up in the Asian tsunami disaster, a spokeswoman for the boyfriend said Tuesday.
Nemcova and British photographer Simon Atlee had been vacationing in the resort of Phuket when the waves swept over them on Sunday, said Atlee's agent, Eve Stoner. "She is in hospital and he is missing. We don't have any further information than that at the moment," Stoner said, The Sun newspaper reported Tuesday that Nemcova clung to a tree for eight hours as the water swirled around her. It said she suffered a shattered hip and internal injuries. Stoner said British authorities had no information on Atlee's fate.
"We are just very hopeful," she said. "As time goes on we are getting quite frantic and stressed about it. Our thoughts are really with Petra and Simon's family at the moment."
"It just seems horrific, like something out of a movie," she added.
Nemcova, 25, has appeared in magazines including Sports Illustrated, Marie Claire and Vogue, and also has modeled for Victoria's Secret. Atlee, 33, is a well-known fashion photographer who recently shot the pictures for Nemcova's 2005 calendar.
Ripped Off By Kris Kramsky?
My name is Shauna Banks, I am a performer in Call Girls Undercover 3, it was filmed by Kris Kramsky. Myself, nor Lacey Lee and Billy Lee (other performers in this video) have been compensated AT ALL for our performance. LFP has been no help whatsoever and basically said it was not their problem... even though they were notified in February that 3 performers in this video had not been paid, they still proceeded to release the video. Now I am trying to reach Karl Morino who is listed as the director. If you have any way of helping me with this situation, please contact me by email, it has been almost 1 yr and we have been very patient, but I will do everything in my power to ensure that we are paid. I think it is completely disgusting that LFP will purchase content from an independent videographer that they are fully aware is blatenly ripping off performers. They are completely aware of my situation and suggested I handle it personally with Kris, although he is no where to be found and his phones are disconnected. I have details of every correspondence between me and LFP, and emails that have been sent from them...if you think you can help in any way, please contact me. I would like to warn models to be cautious when accepting jobs from freeleancers claiming to work for LFP.
Scott Phillips - Top Spammer
XXX writes: I see your old boss and friend, Scott Phillips, is on the 200 top list of spammers.
Smiling Arab writes: "There's trouble in Shiny Happy Porno People Land! I wonder if they devote five minutes from every staff meeting to an intelligence briefing on what Jeff is up to. I mean, aside from the 20 minutes squishing the donuts to find the ones with strawberry filling, and the other 30 working out travel arrangements and customized t-shirt designs for their Non-Sexual ADT Convention Playdate."
LukeIsBack Saved From Hacker By MonkeyCage
This site had a virus maliciously placed on this page (on the server, not my computer, nor by any of my advertisers) Monday afternoon. I was notified by Ivor Biggun of XPT
Bornyo writes on XPT: "Once again, the proprietors of this site and our enabler Smelly Monkey, with the help of a loyal user, Ivor, save Luke from mucho embarassment, and the porno world at large from a very dangerous virus . How many folks at ADT are talking about this?"
Digital Playground Director Celeste Used To Be Performer Bunny Luv
Yes, Celeste is now a director for Digital Playground. Read the AVN article. She joins the likes of Su, Jessica Dee, Kylie Ireland, Jewel De'Nyle, Alexis Amore, and Kat Slater as a female director in the adult film industry.
She first came onto the scene a while back, initially working in gonzo before transitioning into some condom-only feature work for a company like Legend. Somewhere in there, she married Devan, who now operates the site www.hardcoregossip.com and directs for Madness Pictures. They did a couple of scenes together before their divorce. She was a rather popular girl with the fans, reportedly attracting quite a crowd at conventions. She was the Teagan of her time. However, in a January 2003 interview with Rog she definitively revealed that she was done with boy/girl, quitting because she didn't dig porn guys and was alarmed by the growing health risks that went hand and hand with the new extreme-sex-act trend. However, at that time she did seem intent on continuing her career as a girl/girl performer, promising several scenes in future Sineplex films. No such scenes ever materialized. She essentially retired without announcement and went behind the scenes.
From what I have read, DP director Robby D. is...her boyfriend. So, she has had a re-occurring non-sex role in his "Jack's Playground" series. She has done a solo or g/g scene here and there for DP but for all intents and purposes she is retired. l-keford reported some drudge about her actually doing a ton of the work behind the scenes [for Andrew Blake]... Den at cavr.com consistently credits Bunny in his reviews of "Jack's Playground" installments and one of his latest such reviews included mention that he had received an e-mail from DP requesting that he discontinue his practice of regarding her by her former name and acknowledge her only as Celeste.
By the by, I definitely recommend checking out some of Bunny's work (Initiations 1 with Vince Vouyer is a particularly hot scene) but do so knowing that frustratingly so Celeste is a lot hotter now than when she was Bunny, in part due to her hair color change. As Bunny Luv, she was a blonde for the majority of the time.
Jeanie Rivers Channels Her Seductive Talents at Miss Kitty's Cathouse
Drop-dead gorgeous Jeanie Rivers mysteriously vanished from porn in mid-2000. Quite a loss. Rivers had proven herself a sexual dynamo by giving impressively molten performances in (among other titles) Anabolic's Initiations 1, Hustler's Barely Legal 4, Randy West's Up And Cummers 70, and Legend's Trailer Trash Nurses 2. Yet, after a little over a year in the adult-film industry, the fresh, natural-breasted, smooth-skinned, lush-butted, big-lipped, doe-eyed new kid on the block fell right off the face of the earth.
Or so it seemed.
In October, that is, several months after Rivers' sudden disappearance, Spectator happily discovered the porn beauty in Carson City, Nevada. More specifically, at Miss Kitty's Cathouse, a legal brothel owned by Moonlite Bunnyranch pimp-extraordinaire Dennis Hof. Consequently, this journalist wasted no time setting up an interview with Rivers.
D-Money: Even White People Have Game
D-Money, who is Jewish and was born in Ohio, feels that even white people have "game." The Pimp game according to D-Money, has evolved from its start when it was done in the streets, selling women for sex to today's pimp game - the internet porn world. "Everybody in my industry profits off of women having sex for money," says D-Money. "[The only difference between actual pimping and the porn industry] is that we have model releases signed and it's done all legally. Basically, the pimp game today has risen to a new level. Today's modern day pimp is actually the guys on the internet, doing it legitimately. There is still actual pimping being done, but today there are different kinds of pimps and players out there."
One may think, that a white guy representing a black-dominated way of life is phony, but before anyone judges D-Money, he's gotten the respect of the most popular and world-renowned pimp - Bishop "Magic" Don Juan, who is now a part of D-Money's yearly party. "I've spent a lot of time with Don 'Magic' Juan lately and we do business together," says D-Money. "Me and him were talking recently and he was like, 'Yo D, you get it, you understand this game.' That coming Magic is great. It like the saying goes 'game recognizes game.'"