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Jessica Dee - Sad report in German Newspaper SZ

Stemcell writes on ADT:

Yesterday I was somewhat surprised when I opened my daily newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" - for those not familiar with Germany´s print media landscape: Briefly said it is equivalent to what the NY Times manifests in the States!

Okay, the frontcover headline of their weekly magazine - SZ Magazin - was: Jessica's last shooting - The lethal scene.

Here´s a brief summary for those who do not have German language skills. (Do not blame me for grammar and style mistakes, please. I am not a native English speaker!)

The report starts with an explanation how Jessica got infected with HIV at a porno shooting. Then her mental situation is described and her decision stop crying about the situation, but she still does! After that she says that "They want to get rid of me."

"A couple of minutes before Larry had told her that the shooting for SPERM Spites - her fourth movie as director has been suspended... As always Larry couldn't stand her tears. Larry murmurs: "Always this howling." Larry is CEO of Platinuum X Pictures. "The adult biz is a tolerant business," says Larry. "But one type of human beings are incompatible with the adult biz: Those infected with HIV."

The next paragraph tells something about Larry´s and his daughter Jewel D'Nyle background. Then the reporter gives a down-to-earth account about Jessica´s work as a porn actress. A paragraph about her former agent Dick Nasty follows.

Next the reporter give his impression about a HC scene with Steve Holmes and Melissa Lauren, directed by Kylie Ireland. The dialogue between Kylie and her husband Bryn Pryor is quoted word for word.

Then Steve Holmes tells the reporter about his background. Until the age of 35 he has been a Manager with the Software industry and a company car. He lived in a wealthy area near Munich. From that former life only his wife and his two daughters have still left. They meet each other rarely, because Steve commutes Between the three porn centres Budapest, Prag and the Valley. He plans moving to Barcelona with his family soon. We are informed that he earns about $40,000 a month as director. When working as an actor he gets $700 and he is able to do two scenes per day.

In the next paragraph a lighting technician talks about Jessia Dee as "collateral damage." Steve is not happy about that expression. Then the lighting technician is quoted with: "The four movies she has directed have others done for her. Jessica Dee is history."

Next comes a summary about AIM and Sharon Mitchell. Now the story returns to Jessica and how she got into the adult biz step by step leaving her hometown of Ostrava with the age 17. Her family background is explained quite in detail. Now we getting informed that a fourty year old man [American porn performer] married Jessica after she got infected with HIV.

Her current financial situation is getting worse day by day. She has to pay $1000 a month for HIV medication. If that´s not enough bad news, now the US immigration and tax authorities accussing her with illegal earnings of more than $100,000 Dollars. Therefore she has lost her residence permit. Were she to leave the USA, she never could enter the country again!

The report ends with her saying she now wants to find out in what movie the DAP (Double Anal Penetration) scene is used for having her life changed forever. Sad, very sad about her!

AC Cream writes:

Everyone who became HIV infected was involved in 1 film for TT Boy titled...."Split That Booty #2". If you search for that film today (as not to leave a smoking gun)that film was released without Jessica's, Miss Arroyo's, & Lara Roxx's scenes. Though informed people who took the time to read all the news coming out around that time know Bianca Biaggi is the actual Patient Zero and not Darren James. Bianca Biaggi's scene was still released in that film. She immediately retired after the HIV story broke, but a Transsexual Bianca had just worked with for Joey Silvera just prior to "Split That Booty #2" turned up HIV positive. Then a director in Brazil that tried to hire Bianca back in Brazil said she was HIV positive. Darren James, Lara Roxx, Miss Arroyo, & Jessica Dee should come together and either through subpoena or whatever should try to force Bianca Biaggi to return to the US to be tested. Those 4 people shouldn't struggle to survive while TT Boy's company goes on making him money.

Steve Holmes writes:

I met the SZ Magazin reporter in L.A. and we hang out for a couple of days. A very nice guy. But the way he tells the story is not true. He might have misunderstood something in the short time he was here.

John Stagliano is the best example that you can have a career after being infected. You should also know something about the structure of PXP. It is mainly a distribution company. Jewel De'Nyle, John Strong, Manuel Ferrara, Michael Stefano, Sean Michaels, Brandon Iron and me are independent producers. We cover all the cost and turn in a finished product for distribution. We all have certain slots for release. Manuel and Michael left to RLD but still own the movies they shot for PXP. Jewel gave Jessica a chance to direct some of the movies Jewel owns. She never worked for PXP. She worked for Jewel.

I like Jessica Dee a lot as a person and I feel sorry for her situation. I was neither involved in hiring nor firing of her but I can understand both decisions. Jewel wanted to give her a chance but Jessica couldn't live up to the expectations.

I personally use Darren James as PA and behind the scenes camera man when I shoot in L.A. A very nice and talented guy.

Give Me Your Soul

Jamie Brian writes:

I was up pretty late last night watching Give Me Your Soul, that Canadian documentary produced a few years back. Ya, it was a pretty shoddily made, biased piece of crap. Luke F0rd came off as the coolest mother f---er in the world though, Reservoir Ford in his suit and all. I love the way it showed JD Ram, presenting the industry as uncaring and selfish. Every year Hollywood churns out drug addicts, some of which die (see Rodney Harvey, John Belushi). Nobody is producing these kinds of documentaries about Hollywood -- presenting the actors who worked with them as uncaring and selfish. The stuff with Kimberly Jade was a wee bit creepy.

Bill Margold Kimberly Jade Marc Wallice, Kimberly, another girl Jim South J.D. Ram Luke Melrose Larry Green, Luke Randy West, Katie June Rob Black Tom Byron Katie June Katie June, and her mom Jim South, Katie Katie June

The director, Paul Cowan, backed up by a mostly female crew, clearly had an agenda going in - to show the industry as evil. He had his researchers, one of which was obviously Luke F0rd, draw up the absolute worst elements of the industry, and then went about designing a story around that.

1) The drug addict - OD, clearly Cowan found that he could exploit the pain of JD's family and girlfriend, and fit it perfectly into his agenda. By bringing them along to the awards, he was able to provide proof that the industry was selfish and uncaring - forget the fact that various members of the industry did try to get JD help. Yes, maybe the industry should've given the family more attention, but clearly JD was a troubled individual who was beyond help.

2) The Marc Wallice nightmare. This was the ONLY thing that Cowan could hang the industry on. Kimberly Jade made a very good point when she talked about the day she found out she was notified of her +HIV status, and how various industry types tried to get her to keep it under wraps. "Let's keep it in the family," Sharon Mitchell supposedly told her. When it comes to matters of life and death, that whole family thing doesn't walk damn. The industry-wide condemnation of Luke F0rd for getting the let out about Marc made no sense to me. He should have been applauded, but that's just my opinion.

3) The Katie June thing with her mom bothered me, but, f---, seriously how often does that happen, really? I think Cowan lucked out by finding Katie and her mom. I'm sure this kind of stuff goes on in Hollywood, but in this documentary, it was so matter-of-fact and it just seemed so wrong. Like I said, I can't understand it, but seriously it wasn't the industry's fault that it happened. Did the industry exploit these two women, yes, of course, but it also paid them for their services. See if Walmart will pay that much... See if Walmart cares either. At the end of the documentary there was a piece about how Randy West actually bailed Katie out of jail, after she got into some trouble with the law.

4) The lonely masturbators. I think Cowan was trying to show where a life of porn watching will lead a person. How sad, how utterly pathetic. Yes, it surely is, but don't be pointing your camera and making judgements. Cowan was clearly getting what he wanted in that room on that night. Nothing like exploiting those lonely people, then seemingly placing the blame on the industry.

The whole documentary seemed to want to place all the blame on the shoulders of the dirty immoral porn industry, but every month somebody in the music industry dies of a drug overdose but nobody blames the whole of that industry for all the problems that exists within it. They blame the individual. Am I making any sense? Probably not, but these are my feelings on the documentary.

The fact that Cowan decided to point his camera at the darkest area of the industry, trotting out Rob Black and such, the same way every other person doing a documentary about porn has done, only showed me that he is highly unoriginal. Clearly, there are some good things that happen in porn - friendships, love stories, money, hard work, intelligent kind people, etc... Nobody EVER makes a documentary about these things. Everybody is looking for their own Bella Donna story, and I'm so tired of it.

Big Daddy writes: "Katie June was great in a couple of scenes I saw back when. She was supposed to be some kind of mad vixen in Nashville, where she beat guys up at her strip club. Canadians! They live to make docs exposing American wrongness. It's their religion. It is! They are state funded. If it wasn't for comics and folksigers and documentarians and moose, Canada would not exist. OK, all that and Brandon."

ChickenMaster writes: "The naivety of Katie June made my skin crawl and I hated her mother, arrogant bag. Rob Black is antithesis of anything good, and that makes him cool in my books."

Former Adult.com Programmer to blow the whistle on Adult.com and CE?

Mike69 posts on GFY:

Seems there were some rumours floating around Internext this year... Due to the birth of my son I was not there.... This was sent to Lensman from a source I will not name.

I was told this story at Internext by a couple of different sources: About a year ago, a former programmer for adult.com was going to tell AVN editor Tom Hymes that adult.com and CE supposedly shaved and that he had evidence. Then, this programmer supposedly received a death threat from you and he's been afraid and quiet and hiding ever since. Any truth to this?

Well since I am the only person that these rumours could be about.. let me state this publicly... While Lensman and I have have not always seen eye to eye. Nothing like this has ever transpired. We handle any differences we have between us.

I have never spoken to anyone from AVN for any reason... How would I know anything about CE? I have never worked for CE, nor examined any CE code. I have never coded a system for Lensman that included any kind of shave. The odd time I have done the opposite if something in our systems messed up, he had me write code to give bonuses.

Death threats... hmmm - that is so far away from Lensman personality, who ever started this must not know him. Afraid and Quiet and Hiding.... lmao.... I guess they don't me very well either... lol While I have no reason to speak FM.. I do speak to Lensman on a regular basis... he actualy suggested I get a SIDS motion monitor for my new son.... So these rumors pure bull.

Lensman writes on GFY: "Right on Mike. Like I've always maintained, we have an open book to any credible developer that wants to review our software for honestly. Come on over. Of course, we use Nats now for RealityCash, but someone wants to look for a shave in our older software, let me know. Only one requirement, you cannot take with code with you!"

Bama writes:

Wait a second now. What if they did threaten you to make this post to denounce the death threat you received in Vegas? What if they knew that we'd think that you were being threatened to to denounce the Vegas death threat and threatened you again if you didn't denounce this threat of the death threat that you received in Vegas.

Then surely they'd know we'd know that you knew that we'd think that you'd denounce that this post was made under threat and that you did indeed receive a death threat in Vegas Perhaps AaronM was the hired gun who was supposed to take you out in a brutal and public execution during the GFY party if you didn't denounce that any death threat was ever threatend but you denounced the threat and the contract was cancelled and Aaron left the convention in a huff cause he didn't get to kill anybody.

BUT - that opens up a whole new can of possibilities. Maybe FM threatned Lensman to threaten you with a death threat and AaronM was there to take out Lensman if the guy Lensman hired didn't take out Mike unless all the death threats were denounced. If that were the case, we'd know that Mike was denouncing that he'd be threatned to start this thread to denounce the death threat that Lensman issued under the threat of a threat FM issued.

Carly Milne: 'The Day I Was Accused Of Trying To Bang Female Talent...'

Carly writes:

I remember sitting with Boss 1 and 2 talking about the book - the day I was accused of trying to bang female talent - and explaining to them that I wasn't trying to hide anything from them, I just saw it as outside work and didn't think it was an issue because it wouldn't infringe on my work for them, however I had plans to include Danni Ashe, Suze and Holly Randall, and anyone else associated with the company in the book to help further promote the brand. They seemed pleased with this. When I called Boss 1 about the reality show and told him about the reach and the demographic of the show, therefore showing it would be great exposure for the company, not once was I told not to do it.

Serge Birbrair: "I will no longer post on Oprano. I am not welcomed there any more."

Here's the thread. Serge sold Oprano.com a few weeks ago to Nick @ Ilynx.com. "Because I wanna move to non-adult with all my heart, adult bores me to tears," writes Serge.

Billionaire ex Sex Baron Stephen Michael Cohen donates five million euros to the Chinese Nanchang Orphanage located in Jiangxi Province

(PRWEB) June 18, 2004 -- Billionaire ex Sex Baron donates five million euros to the Chinese Nanchang Orphanage located in Jiangxi Province.

Minister Li Zhaoxing of the China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated today at a public hearing before the National People's Congress that Billionaire Stephen Michael Cohen (a citizen of Monaco) donated last week 5 million euros (US$6,050,000 million) to the Chinese Nanchang Orphanage located in Jiangxi Province.

Minister Li Zhaoxing stated that Mr. Cohen money was earned while he was the owner of a web site called Sex.Com. I am pleased to inform the NPC that Mr. Cohen changed his career from that of a life of pornography to that of a respected businessman who turned into a welcomed philanthropist.

The minister went on to report that Mr. Cohen's corporations own several hotels, casinos and a construction company who is doing business in China.

We in the Ministry are delighted with Mr. Cohen's donation and his personal desire to help children in need. We are most impressed with Mr. Cohen's lifestyle and career change.

Mike South Reviews Paul Fishbein's Appearance On KSEX

Mike writes on MikeSouth.com:

First; Kudos to Cytheria for getting him on, Paul is pretty reclusive, specially these days. It was pretty tame really, all the blogs and gossip sites were present...

Paul fielded some questions, admitting that Jules Jordan had started out working for him as a clerk in one of his video stores.

I asked Paul about Expo and since he was letting in so many fans and making money from that why couldn't the booth costs be drastically reduced or given out for free. He responded that it was expensive to stage the show blah blah blah. Then he said Hey I'm a Jew I am in business to make money.

HUH? He actually made a joke and thumbed his nose at the idea that capitalism is a bad thing? Damn Paul you are sounding awful Libertarian/Republican all of a sudden, You best be careful or the left wing bed wetting Democrats are going to revoke your membership.

What Paul did do on KSEX was give us all a glimpse of a MASTER Politician at work, the guy is good. Period. It took some degree of guts to go on and I admire that. But then I have always gotten along well with Paul, he has aways made me feel that my thoughts are as important to him as Steve Hirsch's or Christian Mann's.

Imagine Tim Connelly on there...THAT wouldn't have been as pretty.

Weiss-Finberg War Escalates

Driveway confrontation at Cytherea's.

'My, but you are ageing very well'

I ran into an old would-be girlfriend today. I say "would be" because, well, while I wanted to date her (this was ten years back), she did not think me good enough to date her. So here we are, ten years on, and both of us are still single. She complimented me so well that I began to blush: "My, but you are ageing well. You know, you are getting to look more and more like Brad Pitt!"

I looked in the mirror when I returned home and knew that she was right. But she, on the other hand, clearly has lost her looks. And to think that she could have had me.

Ladies, don't let this happen to you in life. Learn to settle for Mister Goodenough.

Khunrum writes:

I wonder if this lady felt any regrets letting you get away. After all, she could be living at your Hovel and driving the delivery van now. I'd wager that your experience has happened to all us guys at one time or another.

Sometimes we have to thank our lucky stars we got clean away. I recall running into an former girlfriend who, when we split, was just slightly overweight. One year later she was "mundo rotundo". As though she had been held captive and force fed for a year.

Advise all your male readers to keep in mind the French equation for choosing a mate. Half your age plus 7 years. For instance, for you it would be 38 divided by 2 = 19, plus 7 = 26. A lady 26 would be perfect for you. That seems a bit old though. I'd go for 24 or 25 just to play it safe.

Why Did JKP Split From Bizarre?

Insider writes:

One thing about JKP -- they are famous for announcing "done deals" then it never happens. Remember the JKP Clubs? Bob Friedland made a big deal about buying a New York City hotspot. He said he was going to reopen it as JKP club and then use it as a springboard opening a nationwide chain (something that it looks like Vivid is doing, something they should pull off). This never happened. My suspicion is that when it came time to hand over cash, JKP couldn't do it. This is the reason why the Bizarre deal failed.

JKP has no money. They are a struggling lower-end porn company that went public to A) pay off debts they couldn't repay (through stock in lieu), and B) defraud naive investors to repay Bob Friedland for the money he threw down the black hole. What true investment (as in cash spent) has the public JKP ever followed through with since announcing it?

Will Teresa Flynt Run The Show?

Will Larry Flynt's daughter Teresa take over LFP now that Jim Kohls and Mark Hamilton are gone? She was active at the show in Las Vegas, which is not like her.

Rob Spallone calls: "I just read your site and saw that you wrote something about Teresa Flynt. Luke, I don't ever want to see you write anything bad about Teresa. Me and Teresa are friends. If she does get Jim Kohls' job, she deserves it."

Paul Fishbein On KSEXradio.com

Picture of Paul Another picture AVN.com report

Tod Hunter concludes at the end of the show: "That was a waste of time and bandwidth."

Paul Fishbein says, "Tod Hunter is a waste of a person. How low he has sunk. He has officially become one of the bottom-feeders of the industry. How sad."

Tod Hunter replies:

My statement - "That was a waste of time and bandwidth" - was based on the fact that I was not enlightened or amused by his appearance on KSEX. I didn't learn anything I didn't already know, except for some trivialities that I didn't care about. In the chat room, Jay Moyes at least confirmed that the 2006 Adult Expo was going to be at the Sands Convention Center instead of my oft-predicted Mandalay Bay, so maybe I was a little harsh. But just a little.

Paul has shown himself to be a liar - I can still hear him telling me "You'll never be fired, you're grandfathered in" - and a sad little man chasing after his lost youth. He has gathered around him a group of yes-men and sycophants who tell him exactly what he wants to hear, and he dismisses those who no longer toe his line as "bottom feeders." He obviously has no clue about the contempt for him and AVN out there, and it's not up to me to tell him. And if he "doesn't read the sites," as he averred to me the last time we spoke, how does he know what I'm doing on Tod-Hunter.net?

The less said about the theft of tod-hunter.com the better, as far as I'm concerned.

I would say that a rich 50-year-old guy hooking up with a twentyish pornchick to be his third wife has his nerve calling somebody else a "bottom-feeder." But I have no intention of getting into a pissing match with Paul. He can keep his hand-picked crew and I can do my thing. If I make a living, I'll be okay.

Gene Ross writes that he was entertained by Fishbein's appearance.

Kat Slater Replaces Mark Hamilton As Head Of Production For Hustler Video?

How Christina Peters Came to Direct Porn

By Richard Abowitz, Las Vegas Weekly

Kat Slater, the director of Hustler's successful series Young Sluts Inc., remembers the night almost two years ago when she stayed at my barren apartment, and I inspired her to embark on a career in porn: "I did an independent movie for MGM in 1999, and it wasn't released in any form until last year. That was quite a lag time. In Hollywood, no one is banging down your door until you are already busy. I was hanging around Hollywood waiting for people to call me back. I decided to go on a road trip back home to Wisconsin. Leaving L.A. in my car, I stopped the first night in Vegas to see my old friend from college, Richard Abowitz."

I remember the night well. Kat (weird, still, for me to use her porn name) had always been the most driven person I knew. She arrived in L.A. with nothing but a bachelor's degree; I know from experience how useless that is. But, while working as a temp, she managed to write her film and then, even more impressive, succeeded in getting the funding to direct it herself.

Kat's life dream may have gone direct to video, but that is further than most of us get, and I was proud of her each time I walked past its box at Hollywood Video. But this modest success had taken her years of relentless effort, and during this visit she was tired, depressed and, worst of all, not sure what to do next.

I wanted to encourage her. I didn't know how, since, in truth, I had strong doubts about her chances. It's not that I didn't believe in her talents; it's that Kat's sensibility seemed all wrong for Hollywood. Her movie, set at a school, was packed with scenes of teenagers doing drugs and engaging in sexual violence. In fact, considering the graphic subject matter, it seemed a tribute to her abilities as well as to her powers of persuasion that the film was made at all. The script for her next film was, if anything, more extreme. I couldn't imagine that it would ever be made.

"But I am so not complaining. I am so grateful to have made my movie. I glow whenever anyone says, 'I saw your movie at Blockbuster. My daughter loves it.' Of course I'm ecstatic. Somebody enjoys it and got something out of it. A lot of people really do get the message that I was trying to convey. That girls can't be boys. Women can't f--- like men and I don't think they have to. A lot of times, women in a men's world feel that they have to become a man. I'm saying there's an alternative in that route. There's power in being a woman and in being honest with what you want. Lisa realizes that she's not such a great person but that's who she is. And Karen wishes that she had a boyfriend."

Q: "So how did you come to direct for LFP?"

Christina: "I don't want to talk about that."

Gene Ross reports:

Porn Valley - Selena Silver, www.selenasilver.com began what will probably be a very successful series on www.KSEXradio.com. Silver's interviewing female porn directors, and Kat Slater was her first guest. Kent Silver observed that guys are fascinated by women who are directors and in porn. "We're going to bring the porn listener the best women directors in porn today," Kent said.

Selena said she has worked with Slater on several occasions [Campus Confessions 8 & 9; Young Sluts Inc. 14]. "She's just awesome." Slater directs Campus Confessions and Young Sluts Inc. for Hustler.

According to Kent Silver fans are relaying their wish that Slater would do scenes. Silver also made reference to the current article in Las Vegas Weekly on Slater. Kent Silver also pointed out that Slater made a mainstream movie- The Smokers- for MGM in 1999. Slater explained that it was about three bad[teenage] girls in boarding school who decide to f--- men the way they've been f---ed. "So they decide to rape at gun point." Slater joked that it probably was her start for Barely Legal.

Slater worked 8 years to get that movie done, she said. "Three years, 26 movies [in porn] 8 years, 1 movie." Out of college, Slater moved to L.A. and started writing the film. "Between odd jobs to support myself and re-writing the script- I was a night receptionist so when my boss wasn't around, I was writing my script." Slater lost count as to the number of people she pitched her film to.

Silver didn't know how many porn directors have had mainstream movies. [Anthony Spinelli directed One Potato, Two Potato before going into porn.] On the other hand, Slater said she's heard of porn directors who have had success on the other end after-the-fact. [Greg Dark and Mike Sedan come immediately to mind.]

After Slater did the movie she went to her parents house in Wisconsin and along the route stopped in Vegas to see an old friend from college, Richard Abowitz.

"He saw my movie and he was writing an article for the Las Vegas Weekly on the porn industry in Vegas." Slater said they were chatting with Caroline Pierce, a porn star. For the most part Slater said she was checking to make sure that her friend wasn't getting any diseases.

"In fact I ended up interviewing this chick and liking her so much. She was a normal, cool woman."

Abowitz started putting the notion in Slater's ahead about directing porn. "It was another 1700 miles for me to think about it," she said. Slater said now she gets lots of input from people who seem to have great insight about what will work for her.

Asked if she was twisted growing up or had porn inclinations, Slater said it was a natural thing for her parents.

"We all have sex. We're all here because someone had sex along the way. My mother likes to look at it as, 'it's a good thing you're doing that for all those couples out there that need some help. I was raised open minded. Relax, it's just sex."

Slater looked at the whole process as just making another movie. Slater recalled shooting her first Barely Legal vignette. "The girl came- I was told they would have to have their PCR-DNA test from AIM and their IDs. Well the girl comes. She shows up to my house the night before. We're going to shoot on a Sunday- when AIM is closed. The girl didn't bring her test. I made her sit in front of a video camera and made her sign a statement that said I do not have AIDs."

Slater laughed about how she now makes all her boyfriends go to AIM to get tests. Slater said she hears the comments all the time about drugs and diseases. "Is everyone on drugs? Well, How many people are on drugs in YOUR business? It's probably going to be the same number." Slater said the porn business is a fun business and she loves it.

Kent asked Slater if on her 1700 mile road trip she started picturing her first porn movie and where did her name come from. Slater said she's not a cat person. "I like dogs." But her friend Abowitz has numerous cats.

"But I liked this one cat and bonded with the cat. This particular cat was in heat and I decided along my road trip that Cat in Heat was going to be the name of my first porn movie."

Slater was picturing a Gone With the Wind now realizing that porn was predicated on the series. Slater said her first credited name in Barely Legal was Snowy Rivers on the assumption if she was going with cheese it would be cheese all the way. "I was saving Kat Slater for Cat in Heat."

Slater thought with a mainstream credit she'd be automatically accepted by the porn community. "The irony is I go and my first place is VCA. I knock on their door and they essentially tell me come back when you're directing porn." Slater thought about finding investors knowing full well she didn't know what she was doing. "Maybe I should go work for a company."

A friend of Slater's then introduced her to Jimmy Flynt. Jr.

"In that meeting they basically said the same thing, come back when you've directed a porn. I said I'm not coming back."

Slater showed them the trailer to her movie. "They liked it- it was hot chicks. They said why don't you go do a Barely Legal vignette."

Adult Entertainment Expo Opening Panel

Thursday morning, January 6. Phil Harvey, owner of Adam & Eve, reads his speech, looking down at his paper most of the time. He's not compelling.

He rants against anti-sex nuts (Wicked owner Steve Orenstein, standing next to me, must wonder if Phil is talking about me, because there is nobody more opposed to masturbation and dirty pictures than me) as though anyone who is opposed to pornography and masturbation is anti-sex. Perhaps they believe in the real thing rather than the commercializing of substitutes.

There are about 150 people in the room but there might as well be just Orenstein and I, we are that close. Two hearts that beat as one. Ebony and Ivory. Oh, if only Joy King (head of sales for Wicked) hadn't come between us, what what wild ecstasy could be ours.

Phil attacks opponents of masturbation and immediately equates that with being anti-sex. He distorts the arguments of people opposed to pornography. He plays to the crowd with cheap-shots against those against the the making public of the most sacred act.

I wonder what Phil Harvey's position would be if somebody on stage with him sat up and defecated on his chair as their constitutionally protected act of free expression to protest strict moralizing by free smearing.

Phil says that all federal obscenity prosecutions under Bush have been for bad stuff. He must lump Extreme Associates' five movies as "bad stuff."

Paul Markham Profile

David Hoffman writes from Prague:

Paul Markham's studio is in the kind of building you might think twice about entering if you were a 19 year-old girl seeking to get laid. It has that sort of slightly seedy, not all that welcoming industrial feeling that wouldn't be all that dissimilar to an industrial district in San Fernando.

But once you make your way past the labryinth of bare, nondescript hallways and enter a plain white, unmarked door, you are made to feel instantly welcome by Markham and his charming and absolutely knock-out pretty office manager - a young blonde who makes me tea with milk, the British way and a sandwich. There are three or four partioned rooms with slightly-tacky bedroom sets, photographer's lights scattered about, and a large office with half-a-dozen computer stations and several young web designers whacking (uh, that is, typing) away. It seems very industrious and business-like, but in a relaxed sort of way.

Markham has a beautiful young blonde wife named Eva (a wannabe porn model whom he met on a casting) who was quite charming, and a small child of their own. They live comofortably in Brno, a nondescript working-class town comparible in character to Cincinatti or Baltimore.

"I'm a pornographer and I'm proud of it," intones Markham. "There are a lot of people who think they're pornographers."

We talk about the difference between Czech and Hungarian girls. "I find Hungarian girls to be a bit mercenary;" says Markham. "You ask a Czech girl to do it with a smile. You pay a Hungarian - generally."

(Author's note: I spent six months living in Pecs in southern Hungary, and spent a time in Budapest. Hungary was like a non-stop fashion show - the women are knock-outs! I have never seen more beautiful women in one place at one time! I would consider the Czech Republic the runner-up. No wonder Private spends so much time shooting in Budapest.)

Markham on LA girls: "If I had to deal with girls in LA, I'd probably kill one of them." Showing up late, negotiating high rates, "here they show up early."

On Attorney General John Ashcroft: "If Ashcroft thought it would lose him ten votes, he'd change his mind. American pornographers are a bunch of f---ing pussies. If they were to get together and say, 'Ashcroft is bad for our business and your freedom, like Larry Flint does, Ashcroft would sit back and go 'what the f---, maybe the religious right are worth half a million votes and these people - the pornos - are worth a million votes. Maybe I should keep my mouth shut.' The thing is, the religious right are organized. And I actually admire them. They are organized, and they get their message across. They are a tiny minority, but they are very organized and powerful. And they sweep us away."

Regarding Ashcroft going after pornos: "Well of course, he bloody well should. Those guys are producing illegal content. End of story. There is a law, and they went across it.. The fact that he's a pornographer makes it right? No.

"They have a TV program here - a weather program - where a naked girl walks on, in front of a mock window, and she dresses in the clothing suitable, for tomorrow's weather. This is the weather program at 10 o'clock." (confirmed by the author!)

"We've had girls here who were paranoid they were going to end up in magazines published here. We see her three, four, five months down the line, stripping on national TV, sicking a vibrator inside of her, for everything to see." (unconfirmed by the author)

"It's an open society. They're not particularly scared or frightened of pornography."

Markham pays around $250-300, which is often just slightly less than the monthly wage in the Czech Republic. "Some of these girls (in Brno, Czech Republic's second-largest city) don't earn that in two months. (Markham talks about foriegn companies now streaming into Prague due to the hassles at home, eg: Ashcroft): There are people here (Private, Pierre Woodman, Gary Fontello [sp?], Wicked, All Scan) paying girls $1,000 a scene."

Gangbangs: "The girls quite like them. So long as the girl isn't being knocked around and abused. Most women's fantasy is to be f---ed by two or three guys. You put a girl in the middle of five horny guys who are going to f--- her for fun, and f--- her nicely, she's done died and went to heaven! And you're going to pay her $300. Hell, they've got no problem with it - absoultely no problem! But if you start to hurt her, then you run the risk that she'll get up and walk out."

"There's two reason for Extreme's pornography (the Los Angeles company) being produced. One: lack of talent. Max Hardcore (for example) couldn't sell a f---ing normal film. It's like me getting in front of a camera (Markham is over 50 with while hair). Hello... we're past it. End of story.

"So it's lack of talent - the man has got very little talent. Ed Powers is the same age, and he can sell, because he's got talent. POV, amaetur, the photographer getting a B.J., the photographer getting f---ed, is a very old genre. It was started many, many years ago by a guy on the streets of New York who used to have a whole frigging camera strapped onto him. And he'd take a girl around the back and f--- her up against the wall or get a blow job. It was then moved on by Buttman - John Stagliano. It was then moved on further by Bend-Over - Lindsey Honey [sp?], an English guy, who brought into it that cockney humor. You've got people like Ed Powers doing it, who's basically like 'come to my studio or come to my house and I'm going to f--- you.'"

Regarding Max Hardcore: "I met him. And within five minutes I thought, 'you are a creep. You are f---ing creepy, mate,' and that he thought nothing of girls.... He'll probably end up in prison. Because the police don't just walk away from a guy like that."

(Interestingly, at the Free Speech Coalition last year, the members applauded enthusiastically when Max Hardcore's name was mentioned; this author attended - hell, the food was free!)

Markham says, emotionally, "The reason we have to have the Free Speech Coalition, is because of guys like him (Hardcore: real name Steiner and several others... hmmm). If we didn't have guys like him, we wouldn't have to f---ing protect ourselves. He's the chink in our armour - guys like him."

Carly Milne's Split From Pure Play

Devan writes on Hardcoregossip.com:

PPM receive more press from me due to her but that they received protection from things like the Private USA scandal and my thoughts on Seymore's stance during the HIV crisis and a far more delicate handling of the 'Anais quits porn to be a hooker' story...

Good luck to Carly who can now be reached through http://www.sinspin.com and who is currently taking a much needed break to finish her book for which she already has a signed deal. I would quit all of my jobs right now for a signed book deal.

Inside Deep Throat Sign On Sunset Blvd

Opposite sign for PG-rated Shrek II. "Inside Deep Throat premieres at Sundance January 21, and opens in theaters beginning February 11."

Tod Hunter's Fearless Predictions For Fishbein's KSEX Appearance

Tod writes about his former boss at AVN:

This is easy. Among the things Paul Fishbein is sure to say:

"The AVN Expo was a big success."

"$45 is not too much to pay when you consider what the fans are getting."

"No, she isn't. She's retired."

"The awards were a big success."

"We're looking at all the possibilities. We had a good Internext show at Mandalay Bay, we may go there next year."

"I don't want to take that call."

I'll be sitting at my computer and I suggest you do the same.

Please Help Me ID These Girls

Who? Who? Gene Simmons and who?

I can not rest until I know. Email Luke

Hollie Stevens interview.

Jill Kelly Productions and Bizarre Video Part Ways

LOS ANGELES - Jill Kelly Productions and Bizarre Video have parted ways, ending a relationship that began in June of last year.

I wonder what Bizarre owner Keith Gordon will do. He moved from New York and bought a house here.

Las Vegas Roundup

* I speak to Tony, the secretive owner of XBangcash. He's a Japanese-looking guy about 50. His company, in one form or another, has been around since 1997. He didn't want to give me an interview and shuttled me off to Quentin Boyle, the marketing director. Nobody wants to talk about Tony's background or where the company gets its money. I hear they've spent $400,000 at the show with a booth etc...

* Devan was hanging out with Roy G-rcia and Lensman Tuesday night, January 4. Devan said adultbeat.com was a good site. Lensman agreed.

* Wednesday, January 5. Carmen Luvana and Terri Summers at the Adam & Eve booth are exhausted, jetlagged and sick.

* Regina Lynn from Wired magazine is walking around the Internext. She can't get any quotes on new porn technology. She says that maybe she will write an article on how technology has stopped.

* Dull show. No giant giveaways. No big prizes. No hummers.

* IBill people wander around, largely incognito. Their company owes webmasters millions of dollars. IBill appears finished.

* Alec Helmy wanders around the show with his fiance.

* Tuesday night, January 4, Kevin Blatt almost got into a fight with Rick Latona (Dollars.com) at the Jungle Bash.

* Kevin says he is one of the few porners not hungover Wednesday. He tells Scott, the traffic dude, that his life is nothing but sunshine, money and pussy.

* I have a brief chat with Laurie Holmes. She sued me four years ago. She's now the sales manager for Hollywood Video. She goes on KSEX with Seka.

* AVN's report on Dave Koenig's XTV.

* I chat with Alexis Amore. She left JKP last February. She's worked for Vivid and Wicked since. She appeared in five films last year. She shot her first interactive DVD, directed by Taylor Wane (in Spanish and in English). She directed for Anabolic. She believes she has another contract coming her way.

* A little guy accidentally kicks my foot on the way by and apologizes. It is Scott Tucker, who owns Topco Sales.

* I tell Ron Jeremy how much I enjoyed the movie The Boondock Saints. He says he will be coming back in the sequel. He says the original was Blockbuster's best-renting straight-to-video movie.

* I walk up to Jonathan Silverstein while he's talking to John Bennett (CEN). Jonathan puts his hand on me chest and says, "Excuse me, Luke. Seriously." I walk off. There's about a ten-inch height different between Jonathan and John.

* I hear JoeE wants to sell off all his adult holdings and that his employees are leaving one-by-one.

* New Adult.com employee RRRed raves to me about the looks of the new young president of Playboy, Randy Nicolau.

* Tony Dennis, Senior Analyst, Juniper Research, gave the keynote address about the Mobile porn market. The crowd is sparse and deservedly so, because Tony is a terrible speaker. It is hard to hear him.

Last year we had cool parties thrown by SMS companies. No such parties this year.

* The experts panel closes out the day of panels. Tom Hymes moderates a 30-minute discussion with Joe Lensman (Adult.com), Chris Mallick (Epoch), Aly (AVN), Scott Rabinowitz (traffic dude), Greg Clayman.

Tom to Lens: "Joe Lensman, is that how you want to be known?"

Joe shrugs. I detect a look of annoyance crossing his face.

I hear people saying that Lensman sounds more like Ron Levi every day.

Impressionists of the panelists: Lensman = cerebral, blunt. Mallick = stocky, blunt. Scott = spiky hair. Nobody could understand what he was saying. Greg Clayman = obsessed with talking about ethics. Aly = perky. I wouldn't mind dating her if she was into guys.

She repeatedly runs her fingers through her hair during the panel discussion. She looks solemn unless she's speaking. Then she lights up. She's a chatterbox.

Tom Hymes is an experienced stage actor and he exudes strength and enthusiasm.

A big porner tells me: "I was in Tom's office. I didn't think his staff treated him respectfully."

Lensman hosts a high-stakes poker game later in the evening.

Everything the panelists say I've heard before. I have to reach for material. None of the panelists have gray hair. They must dye. All are clean-cut business types.

Tom enthuses about Dave Koenig's XTV. Lensman is not as enthusiastic.

Tom Hymes writes: "If I seemed to be extolling the virtues of the actual Koenig set-top box, that was not my intention, as it would be an intolerable sin for a moderator to do such a thing. What I was and am enthusiatic about is that and any new technology that augurs evolutionary change, and a set-top box that provides every type of digital media download fits the bill. It could very well be that every satellite and cable company builds their own version, and that one simply uses the set-top box of the company one contracts with, eliminating the need to purchase one's own. I don't know; the market will sort that out. But whatever the future holds, Koenig and company are certainly out of the gate with their product, and why not be impressed with their speed, vision and determination?"

Lens says: "Our industry is a series of unconnected individuals. It's like herding cats. Cover your own ass."

Lensman's Pureplay booth at the AEE (Adult Entertainment Expo) is a big leap forward in sophistication and offerings from last year's debut. AEE boasts more technological improvements from last year than does Internext.

* Almost all the major porn players have incorporated offshore for lower taxes, protection against civil claims, and reduced likelihood for obscenity prosecution. A federal prosecution manual instructs its guys to concentrate on porners based and hosted in America.

Larry Walters arranges these off-shore incorporations. LawrenceWalters.com. He specializes in porn and gambling clients. He's a partner of Clyde DeWitt.

* Wednesday, 11pm. XBiz awards. A girl is passed out on the floor. She claims she's not been drinking or doing drugs and is not diabetic. EMTs rush to her side.

Anyone know this girl's name and what her problem was? Email Luke.

* Jim Holio opens up the awards wearing sunglasses. This strikes many people as pretentious.

* I spot Lori Zaitz. She was fired a few ago from XBiz as marketing director and she's launched her own porn marketing company.

* Lensman introduces one of the prize-winneres. He gives the longest introduction and cracks several jokes, which fall flat. Most of the crowd spend most of the night ignoring the presenters and talking amongst themselves.

* Mike from SilverCash says people keep asking him why he does big booths at shows. He says that if he didn't, people would wonder if he were going out of business.

* Thursday. 1am. I walk out of the XBiz Awards with Kevin Blatt, Evan Horowitz and Michael Landau (owners of Xpays), and Kevin Blatt's cousin Adam. Evan yells that Gary Kremen is an asshole. He uses more colorful language. He yells that Gary should do more crystal meth. He tosses around the f-word. Michael tries to calm him down to no good effect.

KB stays quiet.

Evan exchanges graphic descriptions of different vaginal shapes with Adam while we wait for the tram from Mandalay Bay to the Luxor.

"I'm a child of divorce," says Evan.

Adam laughs about KB banging Girly and that she supposedly has no teeth. KB looks abashed.

* I sit with a white Southern porn star in a bar. She says she would never have sex with a black guy on camera because her family would disown her.

* A veteran shooter on the video side went to Internext for the first time to learn about the new technology. After two days of walking around, he says there isn't any.

I Hate You

Chaim writes: "That's the title I suggest for your new book, a compendium of hate messages that you and others have received. Hate mail, email, death threats by phone. And the best thing is that you wouldn't have to do any writing to put it all together. Your enemies would be enriching you with their hate."

Paul Fishbein On KSEX Tonight

PORN VALLEY - In a rare public appearance, AVN Publisher, Paul Fishbein will stop by the KSEX studios tonight as a guest of Cytherea.

The show, led by Cytherea and Co-hosted by Plus One and Harry Weiss, airs every Thursday at 5:00pm (PST) and can be heard for free. Members of KSEXradio.com and Camz.com can also watch the broadcast on the in-studio webcams.

Fishbein will be making the appearance to congratulate Cytherea as AVN's 2005 Best New Starlet and to speak on various other issues regarding the recent Las Vegas convention, AVN's strong presence and influence in the adult community as well as many "Then and Now" comparisons in porn history.

Fans can interact in the free chat room as well as by telephone at 1-800-KSEXradio.

AVN.com reports:

This is the fist time Fishbein will appear on KSEX. Fishbein said he agreed to appear to repay a favor to AVN's 2005 Best New Starlet.

"When Cytherea and Teagan Presley went on Howard Stern with me in December, I promised Cytherea I'd return the favor. Since she won Best New Starlet, I thought I'd go and talk about the awards show," Fishbein said.

The KSEX studios are closed to the press tonight at Fishbein's request. I don't remember the last time he gave an industry interview (except for Hot Video magazine, which is in French). He's never commented publicly on Gene Ross's departure from AVN in September of 2000, which has to be the most shocking personnel shift in the history of the company.

Gene now writes Adultfyi.com. He's not Paul's biggest fan. Nor is ex-AVN writer Tod Hunter.

I've had two sit-down interviews with Paul in my career -- May 1996 and December 1998.

Paul gives a great interview. He's about the most convincing guy you can talk to.

Bizarre Video

Heinrich writes on RAME: "I have been disappointed by all of their movies. While the covers look great, and the themes are enticing, there is nothing in their movies except very soft-core play."

Ruby Update

Ruby writes:

I just thought I'd let you know about my happy ending. I got married to the man of my dreams on August 20th in Reno of all places! Funny how things work out, me a happily monogamous army wife, so let that renew your faith, if it can happen for me it can happen for anyone! I will be hitting the feature circut pretty hard while my husband is deployed. Glad to see you started a new site, I need somebody to keep me updated, me being out of the loop and all. I'll be at the ED expo this year. I'm truly a domestic goddess now, and happier than I've ever been. I hope everyone doesn't forget me, because my years in porn were for the most part wonderful, I might even produce something one of these days.

Defamer Party

I snag a ten-minute conversation with the drop-dead gorgeous KABC talkshow host Kim Serafin. A noted writer comes over to whisk her away. I badger him about his career path. He says that when he sets his mind to something, he always accomplishes his goal. But he's very slow at it.

I get a leer on my face and turn to Kim: "Some women like that."

They leave.

Las Vegas Report

* Daron Babin runs webmasterradio.fm and YNOTradio.com. "We're posturing ourselves for an acquisition," he tells me.

I remember Eyada.com, which flopped. "The problem with them," says Daron, "is that they were trying to broadcast to the masses. F--- the masses. Let somebody else go lose their money. It's all b-to-b (business to business). The next channel will be travel. If you're a travel agent, if you work for the airlines, rent cars, whatever... We're already in talks with the American real estate association. They want their own channel. We're creating vertical-market radio over the Internet that we can push to satellite."

* Microsoft Search and Google Adwords had reps at the show.

* Younger webmasters wanted the Internext convention out of the Venetian and into Mandalay Bay. The older crew were happy to stay at the Venetian. I hear the AVN Expo will move from the Sands, possibly to Mandalay Bay, next year.

Three Days Of The Players Ball

D-Money writes on GFY:

Well, seeing how people are competing more and more for the night time parties and the day time stuff seems a bit flat lately, we're seriously thinking about doing a 3 day festival in the afternoon of Players Ball. Probably from 1:00 pm until 8:00 pm every day. We're looking into doing a Best Of The Players Ball. One day you might see Snoop Dogg with others, another day Cypress Hill and Xzibit, Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick, another day for rock, Ludacris, etc. We'll have a walk of sponsors, so people can see their stuff and pick up literature.

It's my belief that this industry has gone through many changes, including the trade shows are dwindling, which means there must be another option. We've had the most support ever by the webmaster community this year and hope to build another type of community for next year for better networking opportunities mixed with a fun atmosphere. Plus doing these events in the day time will help eliminate the security issues we face throwing these at night time.

So if you're interested in learning more about this, hit me up at darren at marketingfirm .com It's time to step things up to the next level. A new way to network.

Darren Blatt is married to Jennifer Rosenblatt, who was AVN's highest paid employee and advertising manager until getting fired almost a year ago. She's filed suit against AVN.

The Jill Kelly Poems

By Alessandra Porco

Adult-film diva Jill Kelly, in all her splendid forms (performer, producer, writer, and director), serves as the ultimate 21st century icon in Alessandro Porco's The Jill Kelly Poems.

This debut collection presents a poetry of surfaces that, at once, cherishes its Bacchus-like existence and comes to terms with its very impossibility through intelligent, irreverent, and formally sophisticated poems: an ode to Christina Aguilera; a love-sonnet for Rambo; and an epitaph in memory of Sharon Tate.

Porco's climactic sequence dramatizes, in gonzo fashion, the union of language and forms of poetry - a consummation that erupts from the page, leaving readers feeling a little bit dirrty (that's right, with two r's) but, undeniably, wanting more. Ample double entendres and sexual punning; lewd bar-room balladeering; comic revisionist histories that expound, for example, on the origins of the thong; libidinal utopias filled with D-cup superheroes and militant villains - it's all in the name of good ol' fashioned silicone fun!

What's New With Angel Cassidy?

I met her on the way to the 2004 AVN Awards. She was just entering the industry.

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Angel writes me 1/12/05:

The show was wonderful for me. I got to Present some great awards my g/g/g scene in Fem Bella won an AVN award so that was excited. I am also shooting a New Ninn Movie at the End of the month. I have a new movie Angel - Plush which is # 19 on the top 200 rentals. Pictures & Video here.

My site is blowing up and now has in an Affiliate Program called Model Cash.

My site is kicking ass with the new redesign. I update almost everyday and have once a week live webcam shows. My Members area is all interactive w/message boards and lots of naughty videos.... I've been talking to Vivid, Digital Playground, and Jenna's company about contracts and distribution deals. Pure Play may also re-sign me under Ninn Worx, so who knows.

Mike South Doesn't Shoot Jayna

Mike South, Jayna Mike South, Jayna

Mike writes on MikeSouth.com:

We didn't shoot her at all. There are several reasons why not the first being she isn't terribly photogenic as you noticed, the second being she didn't seem to be doing it for the right reasons and she is lets just say not mensa material, so I personally said forget it lets just have some fun and kick back here at the house and that was the end of it. She seemed embarrassed because she locked herself in her room and wouldn't come out even though we all invited her to. I knew then that I had made the right decision.

On closer examination it would have been a foolish thing to do as my lawyer pointed out when he and I met yesterday. For one she isn't an American Citizen and she doesn't have a green card, so an ID and a photo release stating what she was paid would be prima facia evidence in a case against me for hiring illegal immigrants, for another her ticket was paid for by someone other than herself (Ra Media) which potentially runs afoul of The Mann Act and finally she wasn't tested, which wasn't a huge deal because it was going to be a condom scene anyhow, but stuff happens for a reason and it turns out it is good we didn't shoot her.

I understand that she got upset and decided she didn't want to stay in Las Vegas so the Ra Media guys took her to the airport and she left on Saturday. Which is where the next piece will begin.

Fight Club Peter North-Style

Jack writes: A friend of mine told me this story about a buddy of his that is in this group that is like the movie Fight Club, but they wrestle instead of bare knuckle fight.... Anyways, at a recent get together, a new guy shows up to wrestle... He won't let anyone take his picture and insists on wearing a mask during his match.... Several guys there immediately recognize him... Peter North. The guy who wrestled him said that Peter was sprung the entire match. No one really wanted to wrestle him after that.

Next Show I'm Taking Salt Peter

My conversation with John Douglas:

Ultra indy: So you got offers when you were out there, huh? You got some will.
Luke: I take my religion seriously.
Ultra indy: I don't know if I could have been so strong.
Ultra indy: So no more pre-marital for you then? Until the Big Night?
Luke: right, but i carry condoms in case I fall
Ultra indy: So if I see you being tempted, I should get in there and cock block, just to help you out?
Luke: yes
Ultra indy: You should carry salt peter in case you fail, not condoms.
Luke: why?
Ultra indy: Salt peter is the stuff the military used to add to the military rations kits that they issued to soldiers during the war. It prevents erections, thus eliminating any chance of GIs bunking up when buried in a foxhole together. Wood killer. You should just add it to your meals each day.