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Jan 28
Tyler Faith
Calls
2:02pm. Tyler leaves this message. "I just read something about
me and Wankus on your site. Kurt [Lockwood] was never my boyfriend. We
just f-----. We weren't even friends with benefits because we weren't
friends. We just f-----. Boyfriend? No way. I haven't had a boyfriend
in a long time and I definitely would not have a boyfriend in this industry."
Jenna Jameson Posts On XXXPornTalk
I know Jenna is an avid reader of porn discussion forums and porn gossip
sites. She told me in year 2000 that she checked my site several times
a day.
She posts in
her diary about her posting
on XPT:
Ya know, sometimes, I take it upon myself to try to defend myself on
some of these rogue forums. It may not be such a good idea, but it can
be extremely entertaining. Especially when they don't belive I am really
jenna. LOL I certainly won't plug the latest forum that has bashed me
into ablivion, but I will give shout outs to... smutmutant, jamesnhave2cit,smelly
monkey and all the others who think they are lady killers... I love
monkey business...LOL
Jenna posts on
XPT:
I have been defending my ground for many many years... not to raincoaters,
not to porn fans, but to middle america that thinks I should be burned
at the cross. I have fighting skills...LOL, or just a hard head!
Kyoto writes: "Now I know why you had all that Nazi stuff in Bella
Loves Jenna, you kraut-sympathizer."
Jenna replies: "Oh, now you know my movies, HUH? I thought this
was the raincoater crowd? Put a few nazi's in your movie and see what
happens? Now I'm a racist ... LOL"
Luke says: I've always worn my Jewishness on my sleeve and I've never
detected the slightest whiff of anti-Jewish sentiment from Jenna Jameson.
When I asked her if I should become a rabbi, she said I should become
all I can be.
Why is CCBILL sales support far better than Epochs?
Brad Shaw
writes on JBM:
I email my rep at CCBILL a question, I get a reply fast, within an
hour 90% of the time. Keep in mind, I am a minnow at CCBILL.
Epoch takes days and days, and then the answers are usually ambiguous
if at all. We are by no means a whale, but have done millions and millions
over the years.
Trend I am seeing with Epoch is apathy by the staff. I know I am not
the only one seeing it, several people have expressed the same frustrations
to me over icq in the past few months. Join pages being changed, thing
going on without any communication, a basic lack of communication.
Does [CEO Chris] Mallick know this is going on, or has everyone made
so many tens of millions that apathy was bound to set in?
The
Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
XXX writes: "The new Legs McNeil book arrived in the mail last week.
Christ, that guy believes anything he's told. I'm not even an insider,
and it only took three random openings of the book to come across a clear
falsehood that Legs was happy to present unchallenged. Oh, well. At least
he's not doing it in the name of legitimizing the industry."
Teagan Dating Paris
Hilton's Ex Rick Salomon?
Working for companies other than Digital Playground?
KSEX Program Director Wankus Splits From Daisy
Is he with Jill Kelly Productions contract star Tyler
Faith now?
Remember how Tyler's ex-boyfriend
Kurt Lockwood threatened Wankus about ten days ago?
Wankus
writes on KSEXradio.com:
I've been trying to just let this move on but with the constant emails,
phone calls and posts, I guess I do owe you fans an explanation on Daisy's
departure from KSEX. I was going to talk about it on my show but seriously,
I don't think I could do so without breaking down so here is going to
have to do.
Daisy and I have decided to part ways. We've been together for over
three and a half awesome years but we've struggled a lot because although
we truly love each other, our lives are kind of moving in different
directions. Normally I would feel like this conversation and information
is nobody's business but you've all come to know and love Daisy as she
has been such an important part of the growth of KSEX. She didn't say
goodbye on air because it hurts too much. We didn't have a party for
her because it would hurt too much. This isn't a "good luck with your
new venture" kind of thing, this is a "we all love you so much and are
emotionally crushed" kind of thing. A goodbye show, party, bon voyage,
etc., would be so painful and quite frankly, she really wanted to take
a break from anything that involved the adult world for now.
For those of you that don't remember, Daisy used to be a cam girl on
one of those web cam show sites. I met her when a friend of hers was
featured on my show. I actually met her in the chat room and she was
being such a wise ass and cleverly treating me like s--- that I really
enjoyed her in there. After that we began talking on the phone, then
visiting each other coast to coast until finally she moved out here.
Our founder, Mike Rick, loved her. She was always willing to do ANYTHING
for KSEX and we had to beg her to take money for it. One thing many
people don't realize is that Daisy was one of the best show hosts in
the history of KSEX. She wasn't featured in a billboard like the porn
stars were but she was the key element that kept so many shows together.
She learned how to do "good radio" and always kept the stars on track
and the conversation moving. I think she always wanted her own show
and I waited too long to give her one.
Her and I decided two weeks ago that we were going to take a break
and separate. It doesn't mean we'll never be together again but it also
doesn't mean that we will. She's going to take some time to refocus
her life as I will mine and I only hope that we'll be in constant contact
as we do have a great deal of love for one another.
Today is the day she officially moved out of our house and it is one
of the worse feelings you can imagine, watching a person you care for
so much, drive away into an unknown future. Those of you who have been
reading about Wankus and Tyler, Wankus and Stormy, Wankus and Anyone....don't
play too much into the media hype. There were no outside influences
or secret affairs that led to the break up with Daisy. We have been
having some conflicting issues for a little while now and as much as
it truly hurts both of us, for now, this is the best thing for both
of us.
Our personal lives exposed. I hope that this answers your questions
and gives you understandable reason as to the absence of the beautiful
Daisy. Her KSEX email has been turned off and she asks that if you have
her personal email addys or instant messenger info, that you don't contact
her right now. It's not that she doesn't want to hear from you, it's
that she needs a break and time away to heal from this emotional roller
coaster we have been living lately.
Alexander DeVoe
Interview
I talk by phone with the black director/producer Monday afternoon, January
31.
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew
up?"
Alexander chuckles: "I wanted to be an architect. I liked to play
with little Erector sets and I liked to build stuff."
Alexander grew up in LA but also lived in other parts of the country.
Luke: "Did you have experiences with the porn industry while growing
up?"
Alexander: "Nah. I became interested in erotic stuff around the
age of 12. I liked to read a lot. My family had moved to Philadelphia
and my grandfather had a bunch of novels in the bathroom. I found them
and I started reading them. From there, I caught the bug and I've been
an open person since then.
"The interest in adult didn't happen until I was going to the University
of Hawaii and I started taking production classes."
Luke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"
Alexander: "I played sports. Everybody who was popular. Football,
basketball players.
"I double-majored in political science and communications. I graduated
from the University of Hawaii in 1992.
"I did a lot of stuff after that."
Luke: "How did you get into porn?"
Alexander: "About six years ago, me and [Alexander's ex-girlfriend]
Diana
[Devoe] were a couple before we got into the business. There were
a lot of feature entertainers who were coming to Hawaii. We had a friend
who was a photographer. He knew we had an interest in doing adult stuff
so he would call us and we'd hang out [with the feature entertainer].
"Anna Malle came out. I did my first shoot with her in Hawaii. It
didn't go so well. It was twelve o'clock in the afternoon and they wanted
to shoot it on the beach with everybody around.
"Hank [Anna's husband] was shooting the same. It was the first time
I'd try to do something in front of the camera. It didn't happen. He gave
us some contacts to come out, such as Reb [Sawitz] with Pretty Girl International.
She got into some videos. Some companies shot us together. I got the idea
that I didn't want to be talent. I wanted to shoot.
"Ed Powers gave me the chance to shoot my first scene. I shot one
for Elegant Angel. Then I went to Westcoast Productions. Every time I
had the opportunity to pick up the camera, people had the opportunity
to see what I was doing, and it spun from there."
Alexander's relationship with Diana ended about two years ago.
Luke: "What do you love and hate about working in this industry?"
Alexander: "I love that I get the opportunity to create something
and have people give me instant feedback when it hits the market. I've
changed the way black porno is perceived by people.
"Being a person of color in the business, you get overshadowed.
A lot of the black performers only look at you from the performer's point
of view. As a director, I've done a lot of stuff. I've shot features.
My body of work is diverse. It gets recognized by AVN, but by the general
population of adult, I don't think I get enough credit, the credit that
is due to me. I'm coming at it from a different point of view. I'm a black
guy working for Westcoast. That company has traditionally gotten a lot
of press and it is because of my work.
"I feel that a lot of people who are not black have an easier time
working in this business because the business is structured so that 99.9%
are not people of color. There is a small percentage of us who are doing
a lot of great things but we don't get recognized."
Luke: "What do you hope for?"
Alexander: "I hope to become a part of adult history."
Luke: "What do you tell strangers you do for a living?"
Alexander: "It doesn't come up. When I go to a club, it doesn't
come up. People don't recognize me."
Alexander believes that porn has helped him build bridges to people and
expanded his world. "Meeting fans is the greatest thing ever. At
[Adult Entertainment Expo], not just fans, but everybody was coming up
to me. Distributors. Retailers. Congratulating me on producing stuff that
was really good and selling good."
Luke: "How does your fiance [a mainstream model] feel about your
adult work?"
Alexander: "She knew what I did when we met. She thought that when
she came to my house she'd see girls all over the place and random sex
having but I keep those two things separate. At home, I don't watch porn.
It wasn't a big adjustment for her to make. She said, 'I thought it would
be a lot worse.' It was an eye-opener for her."
Luke: "Do you date the talent?"
Alexander: "No, man. I've got a girl."
Luke: "Is it tempting?"
Alexander: "Most definitely. Girls come and they want to do a scene
with me. No, it's not going to happen. Being around females is tempting.
That's why we do what we do. That's why men especially want to be involved
with the business because of the women.
"I just want to leave a little bit of Devoe behind."
Howard Stern Dedicates Monday Night's E! Show To AVN
Awards
Paul
Fishbein has details.
Snoop Accused Of Sex Assault
Woman
claims rapper, posse attacked her at "Jimmy Kimmel" taping.
JANUARY 30--Weeks after Snoop Dogg filed a preemptive lawsuit claiming
he was the target of an extortion scheme hatched by a woman claiming
to have been sexually assaulted by the rapper and his posse, the alleged
victim, an Emmy Award-winning makeup artist, has responded with her
own blistering legal complaint. In the below Los Angeles Superior Court
lawsuit, filed Friday, Kylie Bell charges that Snoop (real name: Calvin
Broadus) and several associates raped her in the entertainer's dressing
room following a January 2003 taping of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Bell,
who won a 2002 Emmy for her work on HBO's "Six Feet Under," claims that
she was left incapacitated after drinking what a Snoop associate told
her was champagne. According to the complaint, after Bell, 36, was drugged,
she was sexually assaulted by Broadus and four cronies. In addition
to the rapper, Bell, who is seeking $25 million in combined damages,
has named ABC, Kimmel's show, and the Walt Disney Company as defendants.
She alleges that the network is partly liable for the attacks because,
during the week Broadus co-hosted the Kimmel program, his dressing room
was stocked with "large quantities" of champagne and marijuana (Bell
also claims to have seen Broadus "snorting cocaine powder" on the final
night of his Kimmel gig, which came during the show's first week on
ABC).
What Happened To Dateline NBC's Show On Porn/HIV?
A source writes: "I don't know if you know what's going on with
the Dateline NBC show on porn and HIV (you reported about it in July)
but I heard a staffer complain that NBC had postponed the airing indefinitely
out of fear of the FCC. They're afraid the mention of porn, condoms etc.
may trigger the wrath of the FCC. Can you believe it? Of what I heard,
NBC may reconsider airing it if the climate changes in their favor."
Tim Case Bitches About AIM
Dear Mike:
I see that Luke is reporting accusations that Sharon Mitchell has been
pocketing donations, hires incompetents, wants AIM to be a monopoly
and might be popping pills while at work. Gee, THERE'S a news flash
for ya.
I don't know about any of those accusations, but I do know this...I'm
39 years old, and I've lived all over the country, and been to see the
doctor as much as anyone. I have never, in my entire life, seen an employee
at any medical facility who could match the rudeness, s---ty attitude
and sheer nastiness of Helen, the receptionist that works at the AIM
clinic on Ventura in Sherman Oaks. Every single time I've been in that
office, she's been condescending, ugly, spiteful, and just plain rude
to the performers who come in to get their tests, many of whom are brand
new to the industry and understandably nervous about the testing process.
Helen has all the customer service skills of a wing nut, and whoever
keeps her on the payroll needs to have their head examined.
Scotty, on the other hand, another AIM employee at the same clinic,
is gold. A nice guy, who is always courteous and helpful, the polar
opposite of that twat who sits at the front desk and ignores or insults
the very people she's being paid to help.
Sean writes: "Since the HIV cases last spring and the Hep C case
later in the year, there has been no other STD cases reported by AIM.
Is the industry now STD free or is AIM covering up the information?"
Luke says: The industry is not STD free, nor is AIM covering up the information.
They don't publicly release the names of performers who catch STDs so
long as the performer seeks treatment (which usually happens). AIM does
keep stats on the number of people catching STDs but this doesn't make
the news much unless the STD is HIV.
I've always had good service from AIM when I've gone there for a blood
draw or test. And that includes Helen, with whom I've been friendly since
she was a he back in 1998 (Annabel Chong introduced us in Reb Sawitz's
office).
David Aaron Clark writes MikeSouth.com:
Yeah, Helen is a transsexual. So f---ing what? It has NOTHING to do
with Tim's bitching, which actually shocked me, considering that Helen
has always been sweet & pleasant to me & I've NEVER heard any of the
actresses or actors I'm friends with say anything but nice things about
her manner, as opposed to Tim's own suspiciously femme-like bitching
.... there might be a lot to complain about with AIM, but this strikes
me as mean-spirited and silly, to say the least ... What's the matter,
did yet another imperious anal queen or self-important suitcase pimp
running into AIM five minutes after the end of their posted hours demanding
either that their blood be drawn because they had forgotten their test
was up that day or to come in for results during working hours not have
their spike heels or cowboy boots spit-shined hard enough? Sheesh, must
be a slooooooooooooooow news day!
Wankus from KSEXradio.com writes MikeSouth.com:
Not sure if you care but when I first started going to AIM, Helen was
rude to me too. But in time, after she got to know me and after I went
out of my way to be nice to her, she's been very nice. And I echo what
Tim said about Scotty. He is really an awesome guy. He told me a funny
story once about how Tony Sexton came in for a test, he looked at the
calendar on the wall and started pointing people out that he thought
were f---ing faggots. "That guy's a f---in' fag, this guy's a f---in'
fag, etc." Scotty was like, "I'm not sure it's a very good idea to be
pointing out fags in an office that has a lot of gay men on staff."
TV Sex Objects
Fast Eddie writes:
As a young lad, my "reason-for-using-so-much-Kleenex" girls, besides
those women in the "bust enlargement" ads at the back of my Mom's Ladies
Home Journal, included Juliette
Prowse, who starred in a TV show called "Mona McClusky". I don't
remember a damn thing about the show, but I sure remember those legs!
I had never seen legs like that in my life. They were the longest, shapeliest
appendages I had ever seen. I'd imagine those long dancer's gams wrapped
around my prepubescent body, and that'd be all it took. I'd get a stirring
in my loins and it wold be all I could do to wait until the show was
over before before telling the folks, "I think I'll soak in the tub".
Another lady that did it for me was an English actress named Glynis
Johns who starred in a sitcom aptly named "Glynis"... Cute, sexy
and blond, but more than anything I think it was that accent that got
to me... to this day I have a thing for British babes. (Taylor Wane
and Layla Jade, are you reading this? Call me!) Then there was Julie
Newmar... Yowzah! She was in a show called "My Living Doll" with Bob
Cummings (now that I think of it, kind of ironic wasn't it?). She was
a robot that wacky ol' scientist Bob had built, and her misadventures
led to much hilarity and mirth. Julie was the total package... blond,
busty, one of those va-va-voom figures - all curves; and she had the
legs, pouty lips and that unidentifiable but oh so sexy accent to go
with them. I'm getting a chubby right now just thinking about her.
Next there was Lainie
Kazan... she of My Big Fat Greek Wedding... Oh sure, go ahead and
laugh, but back then Lanie was as hot as they got - Long flowing black
hair, tits to die for and a face that would make a man weep. One look
at Lainie and you'd go home and throw rocks at your wife. Back then,
before she started acting, she was a singer, and I'd scour the TV guide
looking for a guest appearance by her on one of the many variety shows
that dominated TV in those days. She had done a pictorial in Playboy
which induced the most powerful orgasm I had ever had, and I couldn't
look at her on TV without picturing her naked. It's a good thing!
Last but not least was, of course, Barbara
Eden... I Dream of Genie... Nothing else needs to be said. Does
anyone really think that show lasted so long because of its stellar
comedic writing? Barbara was the closest thing to a Sex Symbol TV had
in those days and she drove the censors (and every male from 12 to 90)
nuts with that Genie outfit. Later, Lonnie Anderson and Adrienne Barbeau
briefly caught my attention, but by that time I had discovered porn...
Renee Bond, Desiree Cousteau and Seka had replaced Juliette, Lanie and
Barbara as my prime sources of whacking material, but I still have a
warm place in my heart for my first Fantasy Girls.
Cheyenne
Silver Talks About Bestiality
In a Mike Hott video early in her career, Cheyenne Silver lies naked
in a bathtub while she's questioned by the cameraman Craig Amabello.
She meditates on the inequities of life: "You can't gamble in this
state. It's legal to do this [porn], but you can't have dogs in it, for
one thing. A dog enjoys itself. Who cares? Right?"
Craig: "You used to f--- a dog?"
Cheyenne: "I have f----- a dog. Yes, I have. I love it. It should
be legal. Lots of girls would get off on it out there."
Craig: "What kind of dog?"
Cheyenne giggles: "A chihuaha."
Craig: "You actually f----- a chihuaha?"
Cheyenne: "Yeah."
Craig: "What prompted that?"
Cheyenne: "He was a horny little dog and would jump on my arm and
start humping it. I was horny. He ate me once."
Craig: "Did he eat your pussy good?"
Cheyenne: "Yeah."
Craig: "Did you come?"
Cheyenne: "Yeah."
Craig: "He knew how to put his dick in you?"
Cheyenne: "Yeah. My girlfriend gave him to me. I believe she used
to play with him. That's where he got the knowledge of it."
Craig: "How would he mount you? Doggy style? You're a kinky girl."
Cheyenne: "Why can't it be legal?"
Craig: "So long as no one gets hurt."
Cheyenne: "If they didn't want to do it, they'd get out of it."
Craig: "Humans have to have dinner and a date..."
Cheyenne: "That's why I like animals."
I remember the first time I met Cheyenne.
6/29/98
Cheyenne Silver, formerly Wildcat, has tired of sucking cock, and now
smokes a cigarette. She giggles when I maneuver the tape recorder towards
her pert mouth. "You're not going to get any crazy stuff out of my mouth,"
she laughs.
She's appeared in about 30 videos in her five months in porn. "I was
horny. Throughout high school I got increasingly sexual. After I graduated,
I had to have some interesting fun. And I enjoy getting paid for it. What
could be better?
"I had a friend who knew about the porn industry. I want to own my own
horse ranch one day. My friend told me, 'The way you f--k, you should
be in films. If you like it, do it for a few years. If you don't like
it, no one will know.' It's not a problem for me.
"I came hard tonight. I got crazy. Went kind of deaf because of it. When
I have intense orgasms, I go deaf for several minutes.
"I want my own horse ranch. I want to train and ride. It's what I was
born to do. Riding a horse can be sexual. I've done a few things on horseback,
but the main attraction is the life experience. Getting out there and
letting her [the horse?] go.
"I lost my virginity at age 13, on my mom's birthday. She doesn't ask
me questions about my new career. My dad would freak. He's almost a pastor
of a church. First my mom was deep into Christianity. Then my dad. She's
looser. She smokes out with me.
"My religion is Native American. I go into the mountains. That will be
another part of my ranch. Doing ceremonies. Teaching people how to become
one with the earth. I've known a few Sharman. It's me. I believe in past
lives. I was a Native American warrior. I'm a quarter Cherokee and a quarter
Chochta."
Investigating Adult Industry Medicine
Tony Montana (wife of Laurie Holmes) writes:
Dear Luke, I was reading your article investigating Adult
Industry Medical and certain accounting problems. You mean like
all the thousands and thousands of dollars of DVDs and VHS tapes that
were donated for tax write-offs that I sold for Sharon Mitchell at various
conventions - for a non-profitable organization of course, cash donation
only? Now that would be interesting to see - HOW MUCH OF THAT MONEY
WAS ACTUALLY REPORTED.
Although you and I have not always seen eye to eye in the past, I have
to say, and even my wife, Laurie Holmes, whom as you know was the General
Manager at AIM for some time, agree that your article on Sharon Mitchell
is on the money. If you look at the history of AIM, the average employee
no mater what the job title, is usually two years or less. Two years
being about the right amount of time for them to get a clue about Sharon
Mitchell. Then it's they did this, they did that, usually associated
with paranoia and drama from the Queen herself - then, like my wife,
they suddenly don't have a job anymore.
My wife worked 12-hour days, watched Sharon Mitchell play the Adult
Industry against the County with the game plan that would strategically
force her business and cut out any fair competition, knowing full well
that it could backfire against the Industry. Then one day my wife made
the mistake of saying "What's that old smell?" Hinting to Sharon that
if she could smell that smell everyone else could too. Goodbye Laurie
Holmes and Laurie didn't have to run home and get Sharon the prescription
of Vicodans so that the "Dr." could function when she came in around
noon every day.
Although my wife and I agree that AIM Healthcare is an important part
of the business, we disagree when it comes to a patient's true medical
needs. I went in for a flu shot last fall, my wife happend to call me
right before the shot was administered. I had recently been ill and
my wife advised me that I should wait. A week later, my wife called
about getting me the flu shot and as it turns out someone else noticed
that the very same and only flu shot they had left, was last year's
expired vacine. That shot could have really hurt me, especially at that
time.
Six years ago my wife had a hepatitis B Vacination at AIM (before she
worked there). Dr. York told her to bend over and he gave her the shot
in her ass. My wife was deathly ill for two months. Dr. York said she
had an allergic reaction to the vacination, which is possible. When
Laurie started to work there a couple years later, she noticed that
Dr. York was giving people the shot in their upper arms. She asked Dr.
York why he gave it to her in her ass and Dr. York stated "I just wanted
to see your ass."
We don't know for sure if this factor played a part in my wife's illness,
but either way this kind of behavior in a so-called clinic is questionable.
One thing is for sure, Sharon Mitchell (like it or not and she doesn't)
needs to remember where she came from. She hates the Industry as she
has stated many times to me in the past. She has felt unappreciated
in her attempts to help the Industry and while I will give her some
credit, I drew the line when she played both ends against the middle
with the thought that if it backfired on her, she would take her degrees
and do outreach, thus, not having to deal with those "motherf--kers"
in the Industry. She doesn't like to be reminded of the past that gave
her her present.
Welcome To The Lukeisback.com Literary Edition
A
critique of modesty poster girl Wendy Shalit's Sunday essay in The New
York Times.
The
Duel for the Dirt
TO media voyeurs, the name Elizabeth Spiers inspires awe. Ms. Spiers
is the original "Gawker" - the founding editor of New York's most popular
gossip blog, the pioneer of the site's dark obsession with New York
media, and the exemplar of the snarky tone that bloggers the world over
try to imitate.
An
Open Letter To The Editor-In-Chief Of Reason Magazine
Drew Carey writes:
Dear Nick [Gillespie, David Aaron Clark's old pal from the Syracuse
university newspaper],
I'd like to offer a few suggestions to improve [circulation].
To start with, how about some near-naked starlets? "The Girls
Of Reason" or something like that. To justify them editorially,
you could have them holding pencils between their pouty lips while reading
books on privatization. You could also note how much perkier their breasts
are without government interference.
I
Need a Chinese Wife (Mexican Just Won't Do)
If you know of any Chinese, Korean, Japanese or Vietnamese women out
there who might make me a good Chinese wife, kindly contact my life coach
at RABBIGADOL@YAHOO.COM with the pertinent details. And spread the word:
Luke...is open to certain forms of miscegenation (may his white ancestors
forgive him).
Devon is OFF the Exotica-2000.com
site
Priam writes
on TER: "She's moved to the VIP board and is the NY VIP listed
for the same dates her name was up before."
Archaeot writes: "You don't actually believe she's not available
as of now do you? The same thing happened with Gina Ryder when she was
on the public version of e2k and everyone here was making a big production
about it. She disappeared from the site too. My guess is they are both
now available only to VIP members which was probably the intent in the
first place."
A Chat With Dayton
I called Dayton Saturday night, January 29, 2005.
"What's going on? I heard you were subpoened before a grand jury
in New York investigating organized crime?"
Dayton: "Yes, I was subpoened before a federal grand jury. I don't
want to comment on anything."
Luke: "Did you date [reputed organized crime figure] John Baudanza?"
Dayton: "I had a friendship with John Baudanza."
Luke: "Did you know what he did for a living?"
Dayton: "He was a landscaper."
Luke: "Did you date [reputed Gambino player] Craig Marino?"
Dayton: "No."
Luke: "Did you hang out at that strip club Privilege on 23rd Street
in Manhattan?"
Dayton: "No. Not that I recall.
"I don't know where you got this information. I didn't tell you
about it. Who would tell you such a thing?
"Anything that goes on in any federal grand jury, the person who
testifies is not allowed to talk about it. It's called an obstruction
of justice."
Luke: "What's going on with your life?"
Dayton: "This is a stressful time in my life. I've never been in
jail. I'm not in the gossip columns. I'm low on the radar. I have good
relations with every company I've worked with. I'm harmonious with everyone.
This has been a lot of stress for me as a person."
Luke: "You would think that if you were called before a grand jury,
you must've been leading a dangerous and dramatic life?"
Dayton: "I had dinner and drinks with my friends. That's it. And
I have dinner and drinks with my friends all over."
Keith Gordon Hurting
Now that he's left Jill Kelly Productions, ex-New Yorker Keith Gordon,
owner of Bizarre Video, is hurting financially.
Keith, John Baudanza, Craig Marino are all Internet illiterate.
XXX writes: After the Bizarre-JKP split, there were a lot of JKP DVD's
in the Bizarre warehouse, so someone at Bizarre is peddling them on the
cheap.
Cosa Nostra writes:
The person who wrote the legal analysis column is ignorant. There are
between 2500-3000 "made" members worldwide of the American LCN. This
is not counting other Italian groups in the world. They average between
20-60 associates each. They have been in the Wall Street stock game
forever. They dominated the "Pump and Dump" game since the late
eighties. They still have a large presence in and around Wall Street.
They are still in the Carting Business, they control the routes, the
Union etc.. They without a doubt still control construction in the New
York area. No building goes up or down without the LCN in the picture.
They even controlled the clean up on the WTC site, along with no show
jobs. They control the Unions. The docks, they run even in Florida.
Look at the arrests last year. Gambling is the life blood of LCN, they
are involved.
They run Online Gambling along with that overseas. They own Casino's
and control junkets overseas. They still make massive amounts of money
from Bookmaking on the street. A real gambler wants to be paid cash
when he wins, not wait, no checks, no forms. They have been in Movie
business since Al Capone. They are in the Recording Industry and that
runs deep.
Other crime groups? When was the last time Colombian's killed some
LCN guys? Mexican killed LCN. They do not because they stay within their
ethic groups. They have killers sure. LCN is made up of killers, from
17-90 years old, they do not go straight. None of the other crime groups
in the US have the pool of talent to draw from. The Triads and the Yakuza
have been around Asia. The Russians work with the LCN, They meet in
Brighton Beach in NY with LCN guys. Lets see is LCN relevant in this
century? They steal gas tax millions, they steal cars millions, gambling
millions, fraud? Billions. Garbage? it cost us all. The general public
is a victim of Organized Crime.
The movie Boiler
Room was based on guys like Richard Martino and Craig Marino.
Sleaze
Sex Paperback Authors: How They Died
Lynn Munroe writes:
Bill Knoles, who loved parties and people, was alone. Bill Knoles,
who hated the cold, was alone on Cape Cod, freezing in December. Sometime
on December 20, William Henley Knoles put his pocket money and Social
Security card on a table. He took a warm bath. In the bathtub he slashed
his throat open with a razor blade. He bled to death.
Miriam Linna writes:
Ron [Haydock] was last seen alive on August 12, 1977. He met that day
with [Ray Dennis] Steckler, who had relocated his film operations to
Las Vegas. Ray recalls Ron being obnoxious and out-of-control. When
he drove him to the airport, he assumed Ron would fly back to Hollywood.
Instead, disoriented and wobbling, he began hitchhiking home. He was
struck in the wee hours by a semi truck, and was killed instantly.
Brittany A. Daley writes:
Gene Bilbrew [African-American]...[was] reputed to have had an an insatiable
appetite for drugs and alcohol, and a penchant for white women... By
1974, Bilbew was so destitute that he was living in the back room of
one of Eddy Mishkin's porn stores. He was still doing artwork... Bilbrew
died of a drug overdose...at the age of 51.
How Much Were The Mafia Involved With The Sleaze Business?
Earl Kemp of Greenleaf Classics tells Sin-A-Rama:
Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties:
The Mafia had total control of paperback porno by 1973. You couldn't
sell a single book that they didn't profit from in some manner. They
owned 99% of all the distribution and retail outlets.
Russell
Hampshire's Remaining Employees Walk Out Of VCA
"It's an empty building," says my source Friday afternoon.
"They all up and left."
They're ticked off with LFP's handling of the company.
Dennis Prager To Discourse On Deep Throat
WHAT:
A special evening of "INSIDE Deep Throat," starting with a screening of
the new hit documentary that was the talk of Sundance from Academy
Award(R)-winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed writers/producers/directors
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye," "Monica in
Black and White"), followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Peter
Bart with panelists Arianna Huffington, Lawrence O'Donnell, Dennis Prager
and Richard Schickel.
Inside
Deep Throat opens in select theaters around the country on Friday,
February 11, 2005.
What
Killed Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties?
Stephen J. Gertz writes:
By 1970, the open publication and ready availability of explicit sexual-themed
books had lost its novelty: the sales slump of the late '60s; the wholesale
move to adult bookshops after local communities legislated pulp porn
out of neighborhood retailers; the reduction of strong story elements
to a mere skeleton; the acceptance and publication of erotic novels
of exceptional literary strength by mainstream publishers; the move
away from print media to visual; and the hijacking of the business by
organized crime.
Why Did Paypal Leave Porn?
Confucy writes
on JBM:
PayPal stole a billing
program which was designed by Lew Payne of Persian Kitty. PayPal was
then sued by LPPI (Lew Payne) and the case was silently settled. PayPal
got their ass kicked. They didn't know how to handle the adult biz
without stealing ideas and programs from others.
When
Sex Was Dirty
Josh Alan Friedman writes
in his new book:
Fred and I got to talking about the national pastime of whacking off
to television.
We began compiling Top-10 lists, then a Top 40... My top five were...Tuesday
Weld, Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe, and Mary Tyler Moore.
Fred's were Joan
Collins, Joey
Heatherton, Sophia Loren, Angie Dickinson and the mother
in the Please
Don't Eat the Daisies TV series. His all-time favorite scene to
"beat off" over was from Inn
of the Frightened People [aka Revenge], when a young Joan Collins
ravishes a younger boy, accounting for dozens of Fred's finest ejaculations.
The flick was repeated often on late-night, where Fred, who scoured
each week's TV guide for it, waiting with his Kleenex box, timing his
rhythm for 35 minutes into the film, when Collins slinked out.
Our conversations came to an abrupt halt one day. Fred was getting
fidgety. "Hey, this stuff is private, our innermost secrets, just
between us, right?" he asked. "Ya know," he concluded,
"they just don't make TV shows to jerk off to like they used to.
Today's cable shows are too easy, too obvious. Anyone can beat off to
a porn flick, big deal."
"'Twas an art, jerking off to My
Little Margie," I finished.
Email Luke the names of those
persons on television who brought you the sweetest releases. And why.
Please compose your emails in the form of an essay of general interest.
My guilty shame was the 1966 TV show Skippy:
The Australian Kangaroo:
The show centered a ranger stationed park deep in the Austrailan outback
with the father who was the ranger and responsible for the park and
Skippy as head of operations and his three sons, and their marvelous
pet, a intelligent and quick witted Kangaroo from the bush named Skippy
whom the family took in as a pet---believe me, any kid's dream pet!
Anytime the family and the ranger were in a tight situation it was always
Skippy to the rescue to save the day from the common sight of outlaws,
poachers, and anybody who trying to destroy his blessed home!
Mike South writes: "Karen Valentine Baby. Room 222. Wonder who the
first sick porner to say The Flying Nun will be. Wankus still beats off
to Barney...the dinosaur. Nick manning beats off the the deputy sheriff
Barney."
Rabbi Porn
Stephen J. Gertz writes about pioneering pornographer Milton
Luros in the new book Sin-A-Rama:
Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties:
"He's a diffident little guy with a slouch, a comfortable paunch
hanging over baggy slacks and wearing a rumpled short-sleeved shirt...a
constant bemused smile beneath his slightly crooked nose...continuously
jingling keys and coins in his front pocket...[he] never speaks above
a whisper, even when angry and more than anything loves reciting Talmudic
parables and aphorisms for the benefit and enlightenment of his employees,"
a former employee recalls.
Born in the Bronx, New York in 1911, Milton Luros began his career
in the fine arts.
When the sci-fi market declined during the mid-50s, Milt began illustrating
"spicy" men's magazines, selling work to, among others, Bentley
Morris for Adam and Knight magazines.
...[Milt] set out on his own, contacting an L.A.-area periodicals distributor
and receiving an advance for printing costs after selling the idea of
publishing a high-quality girlie magazine at a time when all had poor
production values.
Milt began building his empire [American Art Enterprises]... Soon Milt
established his own printing operations, London Press and Oxford Bindery,
and developed the slickest mail order of the industry. He was a corporate
finance genius; the stock in his many corporations was held by a real
estate holding company trust.
Consultations with renowned 1st Amendment lawyer Stanley Fleishman
became so frequent that Milt provided Fleishman an office in the San
Fernando Valley Luros porn compound.
Barclay House was added by Luros for sexual nonfiction, and though
many of these titles would stretch the definition of nonfiction to the
breaking point, Milt had an in-house fact-checking department to vet
every manuscript so that no matter how outlandish, the basic facts would
be correct.
The first publisher for my first book, A
History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film, was Barclay House. I signed
a contract with them in December 1995 (though it boosted my confidence
and helped in getting interviews (to be able to demonstrate a contract
for the book), I got no advance of money) and delivered my manuscript
to them in June 1996. They didn't do anything with it and in the Spring
of 1997 said they weren't going to publish it. I then took it to Prometheus
Books, which published it in June of 1999.
Milt Luros sold his company to Paul
Wisner, head of Parliament News, in 1974; but the shadowy co-owner
was Reuben
"Ruby" Sturman...
As I read Sin-A-Rama,
I recall with shame my first experience with auto-eroticism. I was 16.
It was September 1983. I was beginning my Junior year in highschool. I
was staying with friends. I bought one of these sinful paperbacks at a
new used-book store in town. Alone at my friend's house, I became aflame
with desire as I read my new book. Suddenly my shorts were around my ankles
as I sat on the couch feverishly stimulating the one part of my anatomy
most engorged with blood.
I felt the tension build throughout my body as I let go of my book and
selfishly concentrated on my own pleasure rather than the joy of intellectual
exploration. Suddenly, my body's tension began shooting out of me all
over my book, my leg, the couch and the floor.
I regained my breath within a few seconds and looked with horror at the
grey sticky drops all around me. What had I done? Oh, the shame, the shame.
It was too terrible. Please, let not anyone come home now.
With my shorts still around my ankles, I stumbled to the bathroom, rolled
off reams of toilet paper and began the long slow task of cleaning myself
up and then the living room. The distance to which I shot my tension horrified
me and the amount of the viscuous liquid staggered me.
I swore I would never do that shameful act again.
Yet the next afternoon I returned to my shame. I returned so vigorously,
in fact, that I rubbed the skin off the end of my knob. I was not yet
skillful in the ways of self abuse and I tended to my tension as though
I were rubbing two sticks together between my hands. It was much later I learned the more pleasurable and less painful technique
of tugging, sometimes with the aid of a lubricant.
I am relieved to say that I have now conquered the shameful habit that
haunted my teens and twenties and that it has now been almost ten hours
since I engaged in this sin.
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