Wednesday, April 25, 2005
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Jonesing for Josh Alan Friedman
Selwyn Harris writes on Sexwrecks.com:
Throughout Blacks and Jews, Josh Alan Friedman laments what he has not accomplished, rather than celebrating what he has.
Well, I am not going to tell him he's done enough and that he simply should be proud of the classics with which he's provided us. I'm too selfish for that.
Take that angst, Josh, that frustration, that lack of fulfillment, and remove your fingers from the neck of your guitar just for a little while. Set them loose across a computer keyboard and write more. And more. And then more after that.
You have a great wife, a beautiful daughter, a happy home, and now give yourself--and us--the body of work the world has been waiting for. You want to write it. We want to read it. The work itself is screaming to exist.
Keep writing, Josh. Because I hate to think I've finished reading what you've got to share.
Even you couldn't compose a blues number sad enough to capture that level of regret.
Nina Hartley On Retirement
I hadn't known Aja had attempted a comeback [in 1998-99]. Some people should just listen to their instincts and remain retired.
I couldn't have been just a performer all my life! There will be a time when no one, fan or not, will be interested in seeing me naked and having sex. I'm preparing for at least as long a post-porn career as I had in front of the camera.
I can talk and teach until I'm 90, I'm getting ready for that. I'm looking forward to it, too, actually. I like doing my web shows, since I'm in control, and that's the way I like it.
Goddess Guest-Blogging On MikeSouth.com
She writes:
Not to put Scott down because he's a good writer, too, but I stopped reading l-keford.com when Luke stopped writing it. I heart Luke and he was the draw for me, so when he left, I left. What I really love about his interviews is this: people will say "I'm not going to answer any of your questions," then Luke will proceed to get four or five answers out of them.
Hanging With Jenna Jameson
"When I was hanging out with Jenna," How to Make Love Like a Porn Star coauthor Neil Strauss told Time Out New York, "she would be approached by all these twelve-year-old girls and their mothers. It was always a mob scene. The girls had seen her on E! True Hollywood Story and would ask her to take photographs with them. The kids treated like she was [pop-music star] Avril Lavigne."
Gil Reavill Vs. Jack Heidenry
Gil writes in his new book:
Jack Heidenry [author of What Wild Ecstasy], a coworker of mine on magazines from Hot Talk to Maxim who now works at The Week, the national news-digest magazine, responded with an angry email when he learned I was working on this book. "What's disappointing," Heidenry wrote, "is not that you've become a no-holds-barred controversialist, but just another suburban dad."
What Happened To Mike McPadden?
He hasn't updated his Selwyn Harris column for a few weeks.
Mike replies to my inquiry:
I've been pulled away by some new business dealings -- all swell stuff, all potential material for you to cover later in the year (and all with Mr. Skin's blessing). I appreciate you noticing that I haven't updated my column. So far you're the only one!
In the meantime, I still update our "Mondo Pervo" links five times a week and I manage our cabal of columnists. Sex Wrecks is also soon going to add a column written by Chicago drag sensation Miss Julie Fabulous (much celebrated for her acting as Mistress of Ceremonies for my cock-rock combo Gays in the Military).
As for Blacks and Jews, I'm off to New Jersey this weekend for the Chiller Theater horror movie convention, but next week things should be back to normal, so I'll return to weekly ramblings. My review will run then.
AVN Unhappy With Variety's Dana Harris
You can't find a more pro-porn mainstream writer who regularly writes on XXX than Variety's Dana Harris. If there's a positive angle to take, even on an HIV-crisis, Dana will find it.
But the folks at AVN and FSC (Free Speech Coalition) are annoyed with her latest because she referred to former FSC executive director Kat Sunlove as "60-year-old former dominatrix," which is exactly what Kat Sunlove is.
I remember about seven years ago, freelance writer Scott Collins walked in on some sexual interaction between FSC lobbyist Sunlove and then-FSC executive director Jeffrey Douglas. They asked Scott not to report it because it would make them look less serious. Scott agreed.
The "60-year-old former dominatrix" thing - not the first time this description has seen print, but it's here twice - rankles Legislative Affairs Director Kat Sunlove, who's spent the past eight years training industry personnel to help create a legitimate voice for the adult industry in its yearly sojourns to Sacramento - which makes Harris' comment that "the timing [of the lobbying event] is curious" somewhat curious itself.
Several years before her involvement with Free Speech, as publisher of Spectator magazine, Sunlove personally lobbied to prevent California's oppressive news-rack law from being passed (the law, enacted in 1995, has squelched sexually-expressive speech in one of the last unfettered public venues: The street corner); and several years before that, she worked as a union organizer and as a grassroots activist trying (successfully) to get Tom Bradley elected mayor of Los Angeles.
"The most annoying part of that being my only description is that it represents such a small part of my life," Sunlove responds. "I am 60 years old and I've done a lot of other things in my life, including run a social service program for children and other similar programs, union organizing for the hotel/restaurant industry and other political activism. My time as a dominatrix, while it was great fun, really is just such a small slice of my life, I feel it's just inaccurate to characterize me that way."
By contrast, FSC's new federal lobbyist, Aubrey C. King, is described as "a vet lobbyist who holds a master's in political science and economics from Johns Hopkins U."
"The whole thing smacks a little of sexism," Sunlove said, "since all she speaks of about me is my age, a suggestion about my looks, and my sexual background."
Earth to Kat Sunlove: Once somebody has worked as a hooker (and dominatrix is just another form of hooker in the eyes of most people) that is going to overwhelm any other accomplishment in the minds of most people.
I suspect that Aubrey C. King has never worked as a hooker. Hence, he is taken more seriously. If he used to be a sex worker, that would've been prominently noted.
Folks, once you have participated in sex work, that is forever going to overwhelm any other accomplishment in the eyes of most people. I'm not saying that is right. I'm saying that it is inherent to the human condition (and it is not just Puritan America where this happens).
Sex is different. Once you've been tarred with working as a whore, most people aren't going to take you seriously. Many people like to use whores, but few people want to introduce whores to their friends and family, and fewer still want to seek out the opinions of whores on social and political issues.
AVN continues:
"Although Dana apparently couldn't resist sensationalizing the 'sexiest' part of Kat's background," Freridge observed, "she was a pleasure to work with at CFSLDs and provided us with some helpful feedback that FSC can use as we continuously improve the event."
What kind of reporter provides "helpful feedback" to her subjects so they can "continuously improve the event"? Once you befriend your subjects, you might as well turn in your journalism card and pick up the publicist one.
Lewis Perdue's Case Against The DaVinci Code
Lewis writes:
Random House filed suit against me last fall to try and silence me. They asked a judge for "summary judgement" in an attempt to stop my attempts to expose the massive and systemic plagiarism of my works in The Da Vinci Code.
Random House is now pulling out all the stops to prevent a trial, to keep a discussion of all this from becoming public. Indeed, their most recent court filing is filled with falsehoods, distortions, misrepresentations, out-of-context statements and similar tactics that raise the question: if their case is so good, why can't they fight it with true, honest statements?
It's especially telling that they are not willing to submit an affidavit from Dan Brown attesting to his done the research claimed OR even having WRITTEN The Da Vinci Code.
Hmmmm smells like month-old lox left out in the summer sun to me!
One of the weirdest things about the news media and those who'd like to call themselves journalists is how they have sucked up to the whole Da Vinci Code phenomenon and written totally Uncritical pablum, straight from the Random House flacks to your eyes and ears.
One of the most extreme examples of this began a thread at a blog from a prominent L.A. writer, Lee Goldberg. He points out that it is obvious bulls--- that airport screeners let Dan Brown board an aircraft using only his Da Vinci Code jacket cover photo as identification. Yet, the NY Times reporter who wrote the story did not question this, did not try to confirm it.
That thread on Lee Goldberg's site is a choice one that SHOULD get the attention of everyone, but especially media critics and anyone who wants to see just how BAD a job that reporters can do.
Josh Alan Friedman: 'I just didn't want to take s---...from niggers'
Monday evening I phone Josh in Dallas.
He said Gil Reavill sent him galleys of his new book.
Josh: "He was very worried that I would be insulted. I wasn't at all. I'm not in total disagreement with his book.
"First of all, it's a hack job. It was a hundred grand hack job. He's completely torn up about it.
"Him saying that he was seduced into the sordid world of pornography couldn't have been further from the truth. I just told [Al] Goldstein about that last week and Goldstein doesn't even want to see it.
"I remember when [Reavill] got in from the Mid-West, brand new to New York, and I think he had nothing but a waiter's job, and Richard Jaccoma hired him off the street into this really nice arrangement we had over there. Within months, he was in charge of all the Oriental health spas. He was getting free massages and getting laid every week, several times a week. Plus, he immediately became Goldstein's ghostwriter for freelance work, extra from Screw. He was writing pieces for Playboy and Penthouse and Hustler. It was a fantastic job. Plus, we had a lot of fun.
"He had a great time. He learned how to write. And now all of a sudden he's saying he was seduced into the sordid world of pornography. A mere hundred grand got him to say that.
"Hang on a second. I'm slaving over a hot oven here cooking for my family. And I'm a lousy cook."
Luke: "Gil says you and your brother were "precursors to the kind of famicide so much in vogue today."
Josh: "What does that mean?"
Luke: "You used to zero in on the foibles of celebrities."
Josh: "Oh. I suppose. Who knows? A lot of what he says in there doesn't particularly ring true."
Luke: "Did you have an edge of violence?"
Josh: "Oh yes. No question."
Luke: "When were you violent?"
Josh: "First, I box seriously. I don't consider that a violent thing at all. I consider it controlled and easy going.
"Back then, I used to get into a fight every week on the streets. Like in the subway. Any time some black guy, you know. If you brushed into a black guy on the subway. At that time, it was so out of hand in New York. It's not like that anymore. You brush into somebody on the subway and they were ready to fight.
"Between that and cabdrivers and stuff and there wouldn't be a week go by where I didn't have some kind of fight or standoff. They seemed to think I would throw them out the window. Manny Neuhaus seemed to think I was going to throw him out the window of the eleventh floor. I may have said that once or twice. I had a little bit of a temper problem.
"But I would never hurt anybody unless I was attacked. It's not like I was a bully."
Luke: "Did you get any criminal sentence for your fighting?"
Josh: "No. I've been taken to court a few times over the years for that, but I rescue insects here in the house and let them out. I won't kill a roach. But if I'm attacked...
"But there was a period when Gil was there and he may have seen me... I just didn't want to take s--- in the streets, especially from what we called 'niggers' back then. There were a lot of frayed nerves on the subways and on the streets between blacks and whites. I couldn't put up with it. Jaccoma was like that too. Jaccoma was a fencer in college. He was very good with knives. If we ever found ourselves in a sticky situation, against a Puerto Rican gang or something, he wouldn't hesitate to whip out a knife. Gil saw a little bit of that and was a little bit intimidated by that."
Luke: "Were you an angry young man?"
Josh: "Yeah, sure. And still am. There's a lot to be angry about. Not for nothing. I wasn't walking around an angry guy. Just the general anger towards the world and injustice."
Luke: "Gil writes, 'Women adored him.' True?"
Josh: "I wish that was true. I told him that. First of all, he was terrified when he emailed me and said he was sending me the galleys and he thought I'd never speak to him again. That I'd hate him.
"I said, 'Gil, no problem. It's flattering. I wish it were more true.' Some people seem to think that women adored me. I was never aware of that."
Luke: "Would you describe your cartoons as 'venomous lampoons of the rich and famous'?"
Josh: "Yeah. I always thought of them as reactions to the sickness of celebrityhood, which is worse than ever now. We celebrated sub-celebrities."
Luke: "Do you recall saying you want to do the world's most disgusting coverline, leading to the 'Sex and Diarrhea' issue?"
Josh: "Nah. Not like that. I just thought it would be funny to do cover lines like that. These are not brilliant coverlines. I thought, let's do a whole issue about s---, and call it the 'Sex and Diarrhea' issue. Not that we were falling down and thinking we were that funny.
"We thought, yeah, let's put that on the cover and every article should be about s---. Just for one issue. Goldstein let us do it [but when he had a BBC interview and that issue was brought out, the host berated him as a sick man and kicked him off the show]. Another one was called 'Voodoo and vomit.'
"There was just something nice about putting that on the cover. They were piled up by the New York Post back then. The more lines we could get like that in big bold type, it seemed like a nice offset to the rest of the newspaper scene."
Luke: "Do you recall trying to shock a secretary?"
Josh: "Not at all. How shocking was it? 'Sex and Diarrhea' is going to shock a secretary? It sounds kinda mild.
"The reason I agree with his book is that I don't think that anybody should have to have pornography thrust in their face. Not in ads or billboards. Even when I worked at Screw, I was offended, even though I personally loved pornography, I was offended on behalf of people who didn't love it and didn't want to see it, like my wife, and have to walk by the subway with 50-men's magazine covers, at that time they were showing tits and ass right on the cover and blazing blowjob headlines. I thought that was horrible."
Luke: "Yet you were trying to write shocking headlines for Screw."
Josh: "That was different because it is a newspaper. It was the only one placed with the other three newspapers. I thought it was cool to have something anti-establishment right in the middle of the establishment. Thanks to the Mafia, we were able to have it there.
"Goldstein had to approve all the headlines. Most of them were stupid."
Luke: "Do you recall waiting around a corner newsstand hoping that a Miss Typical Secretary..."
Josh: "Not at all. I wouldn't have done that. That's Gil's $100,000 advance. Do you think he's going to be on Oprah with his book? Bill O'Reilly? He probably will."
Luke: "He might. He taps into something that a majority of people feel."
Josh: "That's why this editor [Bernadette Malone at Sentinel] over there dreamed this up. It was purely an advance... It was like Madison Avenue executives coming up with a new kind of deoderant at a board meeting. It is stuff utterly without any reason for being needed. Yet they dream it up because they know they're tapping into a market.
"You can't turn the dial anymore. You're going to see tits-and-ass anywhere you look. It doesn't bother me. I still enjoy pornography. Certain kinds. I guess I hardly enjoy it anymore. It goes in one ear and out the other. It doesn't register unless it is really interesting. But I don't think my wife should have to see it if she doesn't want to. For the millions of people who have been sensitized to the Puritan ethic, they shouldn't have to have it rubbed in their faces."
Luke: "Was it his editor who came up with this or Gil?"
Josh: "It was dreamed up at an editorial board meeting. Some editor got a hot idea. Let's get some writer to turncoat in the porn industry, offer them a lot of money, and get them to do a book for the Christian Right. Just what they wanted to hear. It's a cheap marketing idea that will probably pay off.
"They went to Gil. He agonized over it. Then he went for the money. A man's got to earn a living. I'm not offended by his book at all but Richard Jacoma is. Richard did hire him. Gil didn't use Richard's name. He changed it to Manny Neuhaus [the real name of a real editor at Screw who was also at the pornographic weekly while Gil worked there], who nobody likes. I don't hate Manny. I just don't like him. But a lot of people hate him.
"I've been in close touch with Al [Goldstein] recently. I might do Al's book. He wants me to do his biography while he's alive. He's off the streets. I did a feature on him for Razor magazine about the agony of his year on the streets.
"I wanted to do a 35-year history of Screw coffee table book but there are a lot of questions as to who owns the rights to everything. Al lost the name Screw in bankruptcy. Nobody is sure who owns the history of Screw. But he does own his own life story. I'm putting out some feelers to see what kind of deal can be stirred up. Someone is going to do it. Some day there will be a handful of biographies on Al Goldstein.
"I've always had a great time with Al, but he treated me with kid gloves. He never yelled at me.
"[If Josh does the Goldstein book,] I'll bring Jaccoma into it as the third writer."
Luke: "What's the latest on your movie Blacks and Jews?"
Josh: "We're waiting to hear from three festivals. The one that we're hoping for [San Francisco Jewish Film Festival], we haven't got a confirmation yet. It's the biggest Jewish film festival in North America. Once you play that festival, you are automatically swooped into 20 other Jewish film festivals around the world."
Luke: "And your book, When Sex Was Dirty?"
Josh: "Distribution sucks. Feral House is getting a new distributor next year when they put Tales of Times Square back out. It's in about two stores in Dallas. You have to order it online. I'm not seeing any Feral House books around. It's gotten few reviews [aside from Screw, sexwrecks.com, Penthouse]. AVN it's called? They told me months ago that the review would be out in the April issue. It did not come out when Tim Connelly said. He was emailing me about it.
"They're giving a party for Tales of Times Square, the movie, this Thursday and Friday, at Paul Stone's offices, because they shot one 15-minute scene. They're showing it to everybody and celebrating and seeking investors. I thought they had the whole thing financed.
"When they told me they were having a party, I thought, they must be getting ready to wrap. They've been shooting all these months.
"They say they shot one very good scene. They found this homeless black guy who longs for the old days at Times Square. It's from the chapter "Save Our 42nd Street." Skids Grant. It's the only fictional chapter about a down-and-out pimp. I wrote it in the seventies for SoHo News.
"Jaccoma still considers [Reavill] a friend but Jaccoma thinks [the book Smut] is not good for any of us. The tide may be turning. We've got another four years of the Bush administration. There's no telling what could go down. This just fuels the flames of the wrong people and the wrong way of thinking and I tend to dismiss it.
"Jaccoma is usually right about a lot of things. I'm not taking it personal what Gil did. He's flattering to me.
"Bruce Jay's [Josh's father] 75th birthday party is this Saturday at Elaines."
Josh Alan Friedman Vs. Gil Reavill
When I first started working at Screw, one of its editors was Josh Friedman, a PAM (Post-Adolescent Male) so enthusiastic about smut that he seemed to devote much of his life to it. Friedman haunted the pre-Disney Times Square of the 1980s, and wrote a cult-favorite book about its topless shoeshine parlors, live-sex shows, and small-time street hustlers. After Times Square was revitalized in the 1990s, the neighborhood lost its Nelson-Algren-style charm for Josh. He preferred it smutty.
Friedman was a strapping, handsome guy, an extremely talented writer and, from his unlikely perch at Screw magazine, a sardonic commentator on the American cultural landscape.
Josh and his brother, the talented political cartoonist Drew Friedman, collaborated on a series of graphic comics, collected together in books, which poked fun at celebrities... They were precursors of the kind of famicide so much in vogue today.
Josh Friedman was a smoldering presence in the Screw offices, extremely likable, but with an edge of violence that always seemed inexplicable to me. I never could figure out what he was so angry about. I would have paid to have his life. Women adored him. But his anger came out in the texts he wrote for the Friedman Brothers comics, venomous lampoons of the rich and famous. It also came out in his work for Screw.
"I want to do the world's most disgusting coverline," Friedman announced one morning, referring to the large-print lettering on the front cover of the magazine. Coverlines usually announce the contents of the publication, but in Screw's case, they were only tangentially related to what was inside.
"I just walked past a newsstand," Friedman said. "I saw this secretary, you know, panty hose up to here, perfect hairdo."
"Probably from Brooklyn," I said.
"Or Queens," Josh agreed. "I thought of her, you know, coming up to the newsstand to buy her morning Daily News, or maybe some breath mints, and has to reach across a whole stack of Screw magazines."
He laughed at the image. I laughed at the image. We began tossing out coverlines that our Typical Secretary would happen to read, trying to come up with one that would upset her so much she wouldn't be able to think of anything for the rest of the day.
That's how we all thought. We weren't shy about articulating it, either. "Maybe we could come up with one that would make her throw up," Friedman said, laughing.
We began to laugh uproariously as each new suggestion topped the last. Each one was grosser, fouler, more outrageous.
When Screw hit the newsstands the next week, it carried the intentionally disturbing coverline "Special Sex and Diarrhea Issue!" That was the best we could come up with.
We even stood around the corner newsstand for a while the morning the issue came out, hoping that our fantasy would come true, and we would gleefully witness Miss Typical Secretary glance down, read the Screw coverline, and stagger away in horror, her life changed forever.
Nothing happened.
Porn king billionaire shunned by 'sexy' Sweden
STOCKHOLM, APRIL 25: Successful entrepreneur or sleaze merchant? Sweden's answer to Hugh Hefner could be seen as a perfect example of the former, but porn magnate Berth Milton is not a popular man at home.
Building on a monthly pornographic magazine founded by his father, Milton has in less than 15 years created one of the world's largest producers of hard-core pornography, Private Media Group.
Shares in the company were listed on Nasdaq in 1999 and it had revenues last year of $49 million.
Milton's firm has no presence in his native Sweden, whose reputation for liberal attitudes to sex has been overtaken by a growing public reluctance to tolerate pornography.
"I've tried a few times, but because of Swedish morals, whenever I'm behind something, helping out or investing, it gets smashed to pieces," Milton said by phone from his headquarters in Barcelona.
In a country where a newly launched feminist party recently won 7 percent of support in an opinion poll, the pressure on politicians and companies to take a stand against the sex industry is intense.
Sweden's armed forces recently banned staff from booking into hotels offering porn television channels, a rule that will eventually apply to most civil servants, a result of a campaign by the National Organisation for Women's Shelters in Sweden (ROKS).
Gil Reavill's First Day At Screw
The first issue of Screw I saw that day in 1981 made me feel physically ill. Not a magazine at all, but a tabloid newspaper with ink that smeared off on the reader's hands. The rag's back pages were filled with ads for prostitutes, for which Goldstein charged the same rate as The New York Times charged for its advertising. Screw fulfilled the basic function of a pimp, procuring customers for hookers.
The front editorial half of Screw presented itself as serious redeeming social content: broad-brush sexual satire, witless aggrandizement of publisher Goldstein, and rickety reportage about Manhattan's commercial sex scene.
I stared at the pathetic publication in my hands. Have I realy sunk so low? I didn't react to the sexual content so much as the depressing cheesiness of it, the low-rent stench it gave off. The offices were a shambles, graffiti-scarred, reeking of cigarette smoke.
........
Goldstein wanted more. He would sit in his tchotchke-cluttered office and shop mail-order catalogues compulsively, ripping through their pages and circling item after item.
"I want that!" he would call to his beleaguered secretary. "Get me that!" His two most well-worn phrases.
........
He treated other human beings as a toddler does. Either you fed his needs or you were deemed by his infantile mind to be some form of competition. He screamed and bellowed at his secretaries, often reducing them to tears. His friendship was nearly as toxic as his hatred. His life was a chronicle of burned bridges and scorched-earth relationships.
.......
In early 1980s, the distribution for Screw and a lot of other porn mags was controlled by a business that was in turn controlled by the Gambino mob family. Goldstein got regular visits by the capo whose thumb he was under: Robert "DB" DiBernardo, another mook straight out of central casting. I recall being ushered into Goldstein's office to meet DB as though to an audience with the Pope. He was treated with hushed awe as he stirred his espresso with a tiny spoon.
How to Make Love Like A Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale [Jenna Jameson's autobiography]...bottomlessly shallow...contains graphic descriptions of sexual techniques... But the real substance of the book details the ghastly time that a girl named Jenna Massoli had of it while growing up in Las Vegas. Rape victim, stripper, porn star. Connect the dots.
Reading the book has the same feel as moving into a trailer park. The relentless low pitch of the prose, in fact, turns the whole world into one big trailer park, and there is no way out.
Judith Regan published Howard Stern's bestseller Private Parts, and Jenna squeals for a whole chapter about landing a part in the movie version of Stern's book. Her part if "Mandy," the first girl to appear nude on Howard's radio show...
Porn Star is a book that very clearly wants it both ways. It wants to strut and moralize. There's the subtitle, A Cautionary Tale, which hints at Hayes Code-style punishment for sins. I appreciated Neil Strauss's heavy lifting, trying to gussy up the material as best he could. Each section of the book leads off with a quote from Shakespear's sonnets.
After reading Jenna Jameson's tome, all 579 pages of it, there is really only one human (and humane) reaction: I don't want to make love like a porn star.
The title of How to Make Love Like a Porn Star represents false advertising. I guess you can't call a book How to Behave Like a Crank-Addled Moron, but that's what Jenna Jameson delivers.
............
In the winter of 1982 the Screw offices got another author visit, from novelist Philip Roth (the absolute best writer of our age). Roth spent a few hours with Goldstein, then came upstairs to speak with the boys in editorial. My fellow editors Josh Friedman, Manny Neuhaus, and I were thrilled. We stumbled all over each other trying to impress the visitor.
I trotted out a few of my ghostwritten Goldstein editorials for the great man to peruse. Roth scanned them for a moment and then posed a cutting question: "But who reads it?"
I was momentarily flustered. "It's art for art's sake," I said, and Roth laughed.
But that's the sad truth behind porn chic. For all its time in the center ring of today's media circus, nobody cares.
A short year after he showed up at Screw's offices, Philip Roth turned his research there into a tour-de-force portrait of a pornographer in his novel The Anatomy Lesson. He spent at most four hours at Screw that afternoon, but he absolutely nailed Goldstein to the wall in his fictional portrayal, as incisive and penetrating a dissection of another human being as any I have ever read.
.......
Goldstein had an almost uncanny knack for employing embezzlers. There were three or four I recall in the period I wrote for him.
UK Series On 'The Dark Side Of Porn'
Channel 4 in the UK is doing a show tonight on last year's HIV chaos in the industry. Porn Shutdown Monday 25 April, 11.05pm:
"When porn actor Darren James was diagnosed HIV Positive in early 2004, the American porn industry ground to a halt as a 60-day shutdown was declared. Porn Shutdown is a candid and heart-rending film about a time of panic and recrimination in an isolated community."
It is part of a series of shows all week on the channel called 'The Dark Side Of Porn'
JoeA writes:
Sahara is featuring in the series on 26th April at 11.05pm on Ch 4 and my ugly mug is in it for second or two... Also she was in the UK magazine Closer last week and there is a two page story on her today (25th) in the Sun....
As I was around for 99% of the filming with Sahara I can tell you that the programme called "Diary of a Porn Virgin" just follows her as she started out in the biz full time. The filming was done between Sep and Nov 2004.
It isn't anti porn at all... There will be some funny moments, but my funny part is missing. I met Sahara at Gatwick after she did a trip to Portugal. The camera was filming us talking on the train back to London, over my shoulder pointing at Sahara. In the middle of it a middle aged woman came up and asked me for my autograph as she thought she'd seen me on tv... It took a lot to convinve her that it wasn't me being filmed and the cameraman cracked up.. But they had to cut that out as it didn't really fit in.
Tawny Roberts Breaks Down On Opie & Anthony
I got this email:
I thought you might have some insight into a situation Opie & Anthony had in studio the other day.
Mary Carey and Tawny Roberts were in Opie and Anthony's NYC studio to promote Mary's new DVD. They both walked in drunk at 8am, and Tawny got REALLY emotional when they called her out on it, despite having admitted it openly before she was on air. Here's some video.
I wasn't sure if this was normal behavior for these girls, or if this was a unique situation.
Porn girls can be emotional, particularly when they are drunk.
A source writes: "They're only lucid enough to see what messes they've made of their lives when they're wasted...and that's enough to bawl their eyes out."
Schemin' Skee
Syndicated gay porn columnist Mickey Skee seems to have inherited a few items from the late Geoffrey Karen Dior that he's now auctioning on eBay, most notably some old clothes once worn by the iconic gay porn superstar Joey Stefano. He says the funds are going to Tsunami relief. Okay, I believe him. Why not? But if you look further into his profile, you'll find Skee's just pocketing the money when it comes to other items, in particular many screeners for movies that everyone from Rad Video to Unzipped has sent him for review! What's worse, it doesn't seem Skee's even reviewed them, as they're described as "in mint condition, still wrapped in cellophane."; If Skee isn't careful, he's gonna become Mister Cellophane! Honey, we've all wanted to sell these damned things on eBay for years, but ya just can't do it. Can you imagine how much money I'd make from the 70+ straight and gay screeners I receive a week? Of course, it would all go to Tsunami relief. But I suggest you do what I do. I have a corner in my home where porn is piled up to the ceiling and there's a big sign overhead that reads: FREE PORN! TAKE SOME! You'll get rid of it all a lot more quickly and you'll have to pry them from your place with a stick. At least you'll never be lonely.
Nina Hartley - The Talk Show?
It would be a talk format, nothing at all like Dr. Block's efforts.
I kow Juli [Ashton] is getting married soonish, and it sounds like she'll be moving away from LA. I know she wants kids, so that might have something to do with it.
I wouldn't want to be tied down to a three-hours a day radio show, sadly, as I need more scheduling freedom in my life than that. Tiffany is fantastic, though, and I always enjoy my stints there [Nightcalls the radio show] as a guest host.
Anna Mills Update
Ernest Greene posts on Nina.com: "Happy to say that Anna is very much with us. She was out of action for a time, but she's back in LA and working with us and others. Mostly web stuff for now, but more video in the works. And her site will be fully operational again soon."
Porn Star Plot On Law & Order
Sheldon Ranz writes on Nina.com:
Did anyone beside me check out Law and Order last night?
The case involved a porn superstar named Samantha Savage who is at war with her publisher Helen DeVries because the former is dumping the latter for Knopf. Both are shot to death by a hitman/cop hired by a retired police commisioner up for a national security post. The ex-commish found a picture of him canoodling with Jen--oops, Samantha and thought it might be used as blackmail against him.
My jaw was dropping as they chose that particular 'ripped-from-the-headlines' item. It was also a fine episode. The chemistry between Dennis Farina and Michael Imperioli(of "The Sopranos") was great, including a very funny scene where Imperioli argues with Farina about whether to call a judge to get a search warrant extended to include a car with blood stains on it that wasn't included in the original warrant.
I email: "I heard you got beat up badly by a john? And you said something like you felt you deserved it because you were a porn star? You had some teeth broken?"
Kami replies: "Nope. That's really weird. Good thing 'cause I don't have dental! But my teeth are all safely in my head!"
Where do pornstars get the mainstream idea?
It seems like a lot of pornstars get the idea that porn is their gateway into the mainstream. Considering that there hasn't been a porn star to make the mainstream crossover umm ever (I don't count Jenna, Ginger or Traci, nor should anyone), where do they get this idea? Who plants this seed into their minds? I remember reading an interview with Alexa Rae after her first retirement and her saying she is planning to do some mainstream work. Now Alexa isn't really that attractive, (especially around the time of her first retirement), she is porno sexy but not natural attractive.
John Floofin writes:
I'm guessing it's the proximity to Hollywood and the general behavior and values displayed by it's residents that puts the zap to their head and draws them in. I mean, they're already a step closer to the limelight than the average Jane. Remember, a lot of legit actresses have old nudes of themselves floating around from when they were trying to get a foot in the door. That said, I say good luck to 'em for trying, but it's a longshot for sure.
Tantas Daddy writes:
I think this is the way they justify their actions to themselves. They get into porn for the money and get to see their selves on tape and they get to thinking. God only knows how that process works but it just may give them hope that their pathetic lives can count for something. Well something more than a place for their daddy to unload his sexual desires. Holding onto that mainstream dream is probably the only way they can get through the long dark nights. That is until they discover it is not going to happen. Then they trade all those dreams in on a good habit that will carry them until they are shot out in a year or two, so they can move on to the escort trade and further.
Michael Mayhem writes:
Can you imagine if the Pamela Anderson Video or the Paris Hilton video had come out in 1985 (with obviously different performers/celebs since Paris was only what? Three years old at the time. Do you remember what they did to Vanessa Williams at the time and she came back to be even more popular than any Miss America ever. (Name three others...without Google). Remember last year showed Chloe Sevigny sucking off Vincent Gallo on camera in the Brown Bunny (otherwise horrible film).
If a star can go from Mainstream to Porn and Back, I think the public will accept a Porn Star crossing over to another medium. If there was ever a time for a cross over porn star, I think it is now. Jenna and Ginger and Traci I think have opened the door.
The big stumbling block is going to be finding a porn chick with any other kind of talent.
C62 writes:
1) Delusions of granduer. They think they have acting talent. Not much talent when their lines include "Ohhhh", "Ahhhh", and "Your sooo big."
2) Naiveness, some may actually think they can make it because they starred in the local high school's play and luck will shine their way.
3) Some agent/pimp/boyfriend/all of the above telling them this is just a stepping stone.
Smiling Arab writes:
There's a bit of a terminology problem. I remember Alisha Klass talking about her burgeoning "mainstream" career which consisted of a couple of featured extra spots as a stripper. Howard Stern is "mainstream" to them. Anything involving not having sex for money is "mainstream."
I've always wondered why some girls will go the slasher and sexploitation films while others jump right into the double-anal circus. And a lot of it is persistence. The s--- you see on Cinemax is cut-rate and filled with more ridiculous subplots than porn but breaking in at least requires more than some seedy "agent" with a shaved head and goatee shoving his dick in your mouth for a POV "audition".
And though shorter and less explicit, the films are actually hotter than anything that the "feature directors" in XXX have shot, probably because of the tease factor. "How much am I going to see?" With porn, there's not much doubt you're going to see anything and raincoaters would burn the rental house to the ground if they didn't see it all.
With the exception of a few notoriously good looking chicas in porn, like my stalkee Taylor Hayes, most girls in softcore are better looking, too. With chicas like Maria Ford, or the ex-Playmates like India Allen or Lisa Boyle, it's like seeing a supermodel with her clothes off. And without parolees.
I'm not exactly a big fan of either, but softcore is pretty much the ceiling of "mainstream" for these girls, and most of them don't have much opportunity there, either (there was that one guy, Robert Lombard, who said he was casting them). I don't see why more couldn't do it if they could be bothered to read a script, keep from tattoooing their bodies into a Triple-A roadmap of Topeka and getting some professional headshots done. They might not be as attractive as some of the above but they're probably cheaper.
ChickenMaster writes:
This can all be summed up in what i like to call the "Princess Effect." Attention Attention Attention... whores want a broad range of people to love them for the various obvious reasons we all know. Daddy validation and so on a so forth. Stars supposidly set trends and are written in up in every garbage magazine when they wave or take a s---. It's all a big validation and ego trip. Plus what James said, they are the ugly ducklings turned half decent and out to make up for all the sex they thought the popular chicks in school were gettting.
Smelly Monkey writes:
It just amazes me that so many people lack common sense. If you want to be a porn star then great but it will never lead to mainstream so going in with the sole intention that it will is f---ing insane, I mean I prefer good legit reasons for getting into porn like paying for your dog's vet bills (Nikki Tyler) or to support a loser boyfriend who doesn't want to work and doesn't mind his girlfriend having 40 different dicks through her a year as long as the cable bill is paid.
Be nice to get a few porn star quotes that can be linked to their desires to be mainstream. I'll start with this avy one.
"That's a beautiful thing. Sometimes you get a taste of what it is like to be a Hollywood star. You don't make as much money. You don't get recognized as well.
"We are like the warriors of sex. We are part of the revolution. Once the world understands that sex is something good..." Avy Lee Roth
Have2 writes:
It's just something porn producers say to get stupid whores undressed. "I'll make you famous" - Max Hardcore
Kami Andrews writes: "Mainstream people love having porn chicks around. They normally have better drugs. Some dumb whores just don't know to take it at face value."
Caught?
Has the freak with the knife, who has been terrorizing providers in New York and Jersey, finally been caught? This post from "DangerousClientAlert" on The erotic review says that the infamous "Indian dude with a knife" has been caught and charged with attempted rape with a deadly weapon.
'I Went To Highschool With Dani Woodward'
Kevin Blatt posts to GFY:
Tweaker for sure- you can also see Dani on Netvideogirls.com. I remember meeting her for the first time and she was jibbed out of her mind.
It's not too impressive being a porn star Jim let me tell you. As one who dated many- and still have close relationships with some- they are all f---ed up. Some are drug users, others are Wiccan, some have been molested by uncles and neighbors, abusing boyfriends, others have abandonment issues. Oh and yes, about 99% of them "hook" on the side as well. You'd be hard pressed to find a pornstar that doesn't at have at least three of these characteristics.
Now if you really want to have fun - go to porn star karaoke in Burbank one night and watch all them seek more attention... I have seen executions on Ogrish that were more interesting.
I chat outside with Black Widow Productions owner Richard Williams and his 19-year old contract star Mallou. (Picture)
Williams, who says he has an MBA and has run Fortune 500 companies, owned a talent managment company (WQ Talent Mgm) in Hollywood until 2003. "Reality TV and offshore production, we didn't make any money."
Ric got into porn by placing a resume on Monster.com. Kenny Guarino called him and hired him to run Metro Home Video. Ric quickly tired of Kenny's micro-managing but lasted for nine months.
"Kenny liked that I had mainstream experience and that I had an MBA. I just couldn't work for him. He was the mico-manager from Hell.
"I left Metro on a Friday. Then I got a phone call from the President of Private (Charles Press, now Berthe Milton Jr). On Thursday, he flew out and met me. And on the following Monday, I started work."
Ric was COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Private USA from September of 2003 to September of 2004. Then Private shut down the North America division and Ric started Black Widow Prods."
Duke: "How did you find Mallou?"
Ric: "At the AVN show. I have a partner in Denmark. He had a couple of models that he flew out. She went crazy at the show. We decided for our first contract girl to take someone and develop them."
Duke to Mallou: "How did you get into the pornography industry?"
Mallou: "I started in Denmark. I started working for some photographers. It was fun. I liked the money."
Ric: "Next week we'll be shooting her first solo scene. We'll start her on girl-girl and work that for a while."
Mallou has never had sex on camera, except in her private life.
Duke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Mallou: "Many things. Vegetarian. With animals. What do you call it?"
Ric: "Veterinarian."
Mallou: "And a pharmacist. And I still want to be that."
Duke: "Were you a good student?"
Mallou: "Not really."
She says her best subjects were English, Danish and History.
Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in school?"
Mallou: "Only two girls. The rest of school were a whole bunch of bitches. I was always having a competition with this one girl who was controlling. She was a pretty girl too."
Duke: "How old were you the first time you had sex?"
Mallou pauses and looks at Ric: "Should I answer that?"
Ric: "Sure. Why not?"
Mallou: "Fourteen."
Duke: "How many men have you slept with in your life?"
Mallou, a heterosexual who's experimented with girls: "I'd rather not say. I've never told anyone."
It's difficult to get Mallou to say more than about five words at a time.
Ric: "We took her to Ralphs the first time to go shopping. She had to call her mother and sister as soon as she got home. 'You can't believe all the stuff they've got here.'"
Mallou moved to LA Friday, April 15. "The first night I was crying, crying, crying. I called my mom. I wanted to go home. But I stayed and I am glad I did."
Duke: "Do your parents know you are becoming a porn star?"
Mallou: "Yeah. My parents are not pleased but my mom still loves me."
Duke: "What are your ambitions?"
Mallou: "I want to make money. I want to get married. But no kids."
Mallou is attracted to bad boys, tall and dark, with tattoos and motorbikes.
Janie L, the former publicist at Metro, now has her own independent PR company.
A Letter To Newcomer Luc Parry
Tofer writes:
Luc,
You are hilarious dude! Starting with your name. Man, you have allowed yourself to be moniker'ed after a 90's teen serial character, who was openly laughed at even when the show was "hot".
I have had the pleasure of reading your self important blog. Classic stuff! I especially loved the "Howard Stern/now it begins" entry. Yeah, he's dying to book you. That 551 hit count on your website will seal the deal. Hard not to bust a nut laughing at that one.
Now don't get me wrong. You seem to be of moderate intelligence. I mean after all, to stockpile liberal arts degree's and flunk out of law school you gotta be kind of sharp.
What is your angle on this? I think I read something in there about "being the only male talent to post diary entries and document their journey." Newsflash dude, the other guys are smart enough to realize no one gives a flying f---. That, and the fact that they are too busy working. I guess perhaps there is a place for you, the Baudelaire of porn. Blog away! The cheques are gonna be huge!
I just hope you realize that to the rest of the world you come across as another LA loser sporting a hair "don't", attempting to pose his way to the top.
I am not in the porn scene. Even from the outside looking in your "tactical" approach is laughable. Yeah, make sure to align yourself with the lionlady and Wankus. They carry some serious weight in the industry. The first a joke, and the other reviled. And by all means, in your first month on the job, manage two spectacular non-pops. Then whine on about one of them in your blog. You really don't get it do you.
Those "200" guys on earth that you claim can do what you do. They would have popped. No excuses, no long winded explainations. (So please don't bother with the "you aren't in the bizz, you don't qualify for an opinion approach" I could easily non-pop a couple of scenes and write boring stories about my life.)
This leads to my next point. I loved the way you "called out" the nameless other "prettyboy" porn-bot. The difference between him (Lockwood) and you is that he is up to the task. (See the above paragraph.) He would have popped and walked. He is not spending his time on the set thinking about how to best portray his sensitive side on his daily porn blog.
I am really not trying to be mean-spirited. I think, in fact that I am doing you a favour. Can you really be this naive? They are going to chew you up and spit you out. Get out, semi-gracefully, while you still can.
BTW, the only reason I happened upon you at all was through L.F.'s site. Maybe you can consult with him on the finer points of self deprecation, a skill you badly need to hone.
Best of luck "porn star."
Avy Lee Roth Interview
I sit down with her Sunday, April 17 at the Naughty Talent Open House.
Avy grew up in Spain. English is her second language.
Avy: "I wanted to live in Los Angeles or New York because I was obsessed with rock 'n' roll."
Duke: "Are you really David Lee Roth's daughter?"
Avy: "It's a secret.
"He knows already. He didn't deny being Avy Lee Roth's father. He had so much crazy sex in New York he doesn't even know."
Duke: "Do you admire him?"
Avy: "I love him."
She's done over 100 porn scenes since entering the industry in December 2003.
Duke: "What do you love and hate about the porn industry?"
Avy: "I love the money. I hate gonzo. When it's really violent and aggressive, I don't like it because we're crossing some limits from sex to violence. We can control that but there are some guys who don't. One night when they're with their girlfriend, they might kill her. That's what happened with the guy from Australia, Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of INXS. He was with a prostitute. They say it was a suicide. People say that he asked her to choke him and she did it so hard that he died."
The only rock group I've seen in concert is INXS. It was the summer of 1986. The concert was in the San Francisco Bay Area. I took the daughter of my boss. It was a magical evening. I was 19 and would remain a virgin for two-and-a-half years.
Avy: "There are many fans who watch [rough gonzo videos]. I don't want someone to take a wrong step... I don't watch aggressive sex."
Duke: "How has your time in porn affected you?"
Avy: "It's changed a lot. It's made me more stressful. I said, 'That's not going to happen to me. I will remain the same girl.' But I've become more stressed. I became more tolerant. I try to be more patient with people. In my private life, it's really hard to get a relationship. I'm married. Even for my husband it is not easy have a wife in the business."
Duke: "Does he want you to quit?"
Avy: "He doesn't ask me to do it, but I can tell. I can feel the energy. He doesn't like it. It's really hard on relationships. Either you are going to date a porn star or you are going to be with somebody who belongs to the real world. That's not easy.
"But you need the money. I consider myself a good actress. I'm funny in my movies.
"It changed my life in many respects.
"I like to say that [her husband] is a rock singer. He's not famous. He's had a band in Hollywood for seven years.
"He didn't know [Avy was a porn star] until I'd been in the business for a month. It was really hard to tell him. He was ashamed of me. He knew I was doing girl-girl. I had to tell him I was doing boy-girl.
"At the beginning, I told him I was going to make-up parties. He'd see me running out with my make-up box. It wasn't a make-up box. It was filled with lingerie and stuff.
"Then I told him I was doing girl-girl. He said, 'That's fine. I'd like to go there.' After that, I said, 'Hey honey. I done my first boy-girl.' He said, 'Oh no.' It was a nightmare. We got into arguments every week. I was like, it'll take some time but he'll like it."
Duke: "How long are you going to do it?"
Avy: "As much as they book me, or as much as I get tired. I don't know. I want to direct. I would love to make a line. I love office and stuff. I love fetish. I'd love to make a series about having sex in an office with sexy outfits with all music too. Working in sepia tones or black-and-white. It's more artistic than porn."
Duke: "How is sex different in America?"
Avy: "In LA, the guys are like girls. You go to clubs and the guys are like fags. They want to take care of their hair. 'Do I look great or not?' They're like f---ing fags. They don't go straight for a girl. In Europe, guys dress nice but they don't care. If they see a girl, they'll go up to her and say, 'You're hot. Do you want to come up to my place?' They have sex. In the morning, they prepare for you tea and they pay for your taxi.
"Here it is hard to get a cock on the weekend. Guys are like girls. Girls got to chase guys in LA, in f---ing America. Girls are so desperate to get a cock, they're all like little bitches. Guys know girls are easy.
"In Europe, guys chase the girls. Here, girls chase the guys. Here, when I go out with my husband, all the girls, even they know he is my husband, they try to f--- him. They don't respect anything here. There are sacred things in life. They don't care."
Duke: "Do you care if your husband has sex with other women?"
Avy: "I'm jealous."
Duke: "Does he have sex with other women?"
Avy: "Maybe one or two friends that he has. I can not complain. I'm having sex with guys every week. I'll go, 'Hey, you're going to have fun with your friends.' You have to be more tolerant. Sex is just sex."
Duke: "Why did you marry him?"
Avy: "Because I was in love. He's all that I've got. We argue and everything. He makes my world come down completely, any time we have a bad day. He makes my day bad.
"Guys judge you so easily. When they find out you're a porn star, they automatically think that you're dumb. 'She's only good for sucking cock.'
"Let me say something to these guys: We have feelings. We do this because it is an easy way to make money. Sometimes you don't have other options. You can work for five hours making a movie and then you can come back home and read a book. I read a lot of books. I do yoga. I read a newspaper. I watch the news. We're not dumb. I can talk to you about anything you want right now, better than some girls who don't do the nasty or who work 40-hours a week.
"I have time to go to the beach. I can get up at 2pm. But that doesn't mean I'm dumb because I'm in a profession where sex is involved."
Duke: "How has it affected your self-esteem?"
Avy: "That's a beautiful thing. Sometimes you get a taste of what it is like to be a Hollywood star. You don't make as much money. You don't get recognized as well.
"We are like the warriors of sex. We are part of the revolution. Once the world understands that sex is something good..."
Duke: "Have you experimented much with drugs?"
Avy: "Oh yeah. In the past. I've tried everything. Last year, after two years sober, I started doing cocaine for three months. That's when I understood that that wasn't good for me. I started going to AA again. I had to leave some friends. I had to break up some relationships that weren't good for me. I start again from zero on being sober again [since last August].
"Drugs can open your mind. It's good to try once. It can open your feelings. Ecstasy can open your feelings. You know yourself better, how kind and loving you can be when you are on Ecstasy. But that's fun for a while. You can not do that every day.
"Cocaine is fun. I have great conversations on cocaine -- about the universe. When you are ok coke, you can talk about anything. But you know how hard it is when you go to bed and your heart starts beating fast and you can not go to sleep and you've got to take Valium. That upsets your system. It's horrible. I don't want to go through that again. It's horrible. With the overdose. With having problems with people because you can not control yourself."
Captain Jack writes:
Your Jim Holliday pictures, just posted today, circa 1977. What's up with these yankees ice skating with the Confederate Battle Flag flying in the background? It appears in the tea pic and in another one. If memory serves this is prior to Lynrd Skynrd and the Marshall Tucker Band. WTF were these boys doing flying that flag at that time? As a Southerner, I resent the use of such a Symbol in association with any ice skating related sport- even broom-hockey.
You have posted some killer interviews the last few days. I expect you will break the pornogossip story, too, when you can get to the bottom of it all. Maybe it will turn out that you did today.
Remembering Porn Director Jim Holliday
Dino writes: "I was able to obtain a few pictures from some of the Yellow Snow brothers that include Jim Holliday/Jack Nash. I thought you might get a kick of these. these brought back some good memories of the old boy. There are some more on the way that I will share with you once I receive them."
Walks writes:
Here's a few pics that should honor our dearly departed. These were taken circa 1977 (I believe).... in the heyday of The Yellow Snow Broomball Dynasty and bad teas with the Chi-o's. So without further adieu, a trip down memory (or the breakdown) lane, whichever you prefer!!!!!
Photo_1.jpg This was taken on the ice of Bird Arena (either before, or after) our Championship Broomball game. Can't remember is it was The Greek Championship, or All Campus. I want to say "All Campus". Hell, with time and embellishments, let's call it "All State"!
Photo_2.jpg Bill in the DU Dining Room. Hard to tell if this was during a tea, or just hanging out with the boyz.
Photo_3.jpg Classic picture of the '77 Championship Broomball Team (I forgot how we had a "ringer" in Bobby Joyce ---- didn't he play O.U. Hockey too!)
Photo_4.jpg Here's witness to perhaps the UGLIEST TEA ON RECORD......with The Chi-O's!!!! I believe naked guitarist with shaving cream on privates (....except for Joyce), broken glass dancing, and having a HUGE woman stuck in a downstairs window were just a few of the highlights. Notice the banner behind Bill...DISCO IS MY LIFE!!!! Also the dual turntables for seamless segues of Bee Gee's to Del Shannon. (I can still hear "Little Runaway" echo in my head).
Denise LaFrance's painting of Jim Holliday.
I think he's writing pornogossip.com (or it might be publicist T.J. DeReda). To the best of my knowledge, much of what he has published is true. The writing style is his (compare with his postings on ADT). He has the money and the connections and the juice and he's not somebody to mess with. Pick a fight with him at your own risk.
Dion's brother David Joseph owns Red Light District.
Here are some highlights from pornogossip.com:
Nadia Nyce got pinched in the airport with drugs and went to J.A.I.L. Now on probation and faced with losing her little ones she still hasn't learned her lesson.
Some one should teach the little Amber Peach the stars are out of reach. So show up to set ready to work... Girls lets go over this again. If you take your clothes off and have sex with a boy or girl on camera that's where your television and film career end. Now most girls figure that if they only do other girls they can still escape that rule, and then there's the really bass ackwards ones like Amber that think if they do interracial they might end up on the WB network.
Ynot is doing processing for internet companies now. Why would anyone trust a company that doesn't run a pay site or even have an office?
Wicked Girl Kelani Lei is quitting the business and moving to New Zealand to marry a rugby player...
I WOULD LIKE TO HIRE THE GUYS FROM BIZARRE VIDEO TO DO SOME ELECTRICAL WORK ON THE HOUSES OF A FEW PEOPLE I KNOW.
Victoria Zdrok Interview
She calls me back Friday afternoon, April 22.
I'm finishing a mouthful of Cookies'n Cream-flavored coconut macaroon.
Luke: "You'll have to excuse me. I'm just finishing a mouthful."
Victoria: "That's ok. I'm about to eat too. I've been on all these radio stations. I had one call me at 7am. I don't know how people get up that early.
"I usually stay up until about 4am and get up around noon, when I can. Unfortunately, some days I'll have a shoot at 10am and I'll get up about 8am. Not because I want to.
"I'm with a regular modeling agency. I shoot catalogue and calendars and ads. I do hand modeling. Anything that pays well.
"For my Penthouse column, every month we shoot a different product."
Every month, Victoria writes a psycho-legal analysis for Penthouse Forum and an advice column (replacing Xaviera Hollander) in Penthouse.
"The latest [psycho-legal analysis] one I'm writing now is about all these teachers seducing their students and should we lower the statutory rape page.
"The column in Penthouse is more fun. It has a regular Q&A and then it has Dr. Z's Top Ten. Say, Top Ten Ways Not To Get Laid On The First Date.
"Sometimes I have features on how to get her to watch porn, or to dress sexier..."
Luke: "Do you invent all the questions?"
Victoria: "No. Most of them are questions from my website members though this month I got five letters from Penthouse readers. Starting in July they will be real questions."
Luke: "What's your stance on lowering the age of consent?"
Victoria: "I think it definitely should be lowered to, at least, 15. In Florida, it is 18. When I was 16, I was dating a 19-year old guy who got into huge trouble for dating me.
"It depends on the state. Kids in New York are probably different from kids in Utah. Eighteen is ridiculous. Look at our youth these days. The majority of teenagers are giving blowjobs at 12. That's just the reality."
Luke: "Do you really think that the majority of teenagers are giving blowjobs at 12?"
Victoria: "Oh yes. There was an article in The New York Times recently. I was talking to my hairdresser, who has two daughters, 12 and 14. She told me jokingly that she's keeping their braces on, even though they don't need them anymore, because [oral sex] is so rampant. She's keeping their braces on until they're 16."
Shawn Hubler writes in The LAT: "The vast majority of adolescents still are virgins at age 15, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2002 that the size of that majority had increased since 1995. In a recent poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates commissioned by People magazine and NBC, 95% of 13- and 14-year-olds said they had not had intercourse, and 9 out of 10 said they disapproved of it for those their age."
"Also, [statutory rape laws] are enforced selectively against young men and not against young women. It's not fair. Most young teachers who seduce teenage students get away with low sentences while if it is an older man seducing a teenage student, who's going away for a long time."
Luke: "Every law is selectively enforced."
Victoria: "Of course. But we see gender discrimination here. Women are more vulnerable to be raped or coerced into sexual acts. They have more chance of STDs, pregnancy... Female teachers get away with a slap on the hand for seducing their male students, but if a male teacher did that, he'd be in huge trouble."
Luke: "By lowering the age of consent, you are opening up the field for predators to prey on teenagers."
Victoria: "I don't think so."
Victoria chews her food while she talks. I've never been able to rattle her with my questions. She has exquisite self-assurance.
"Sexual predators are compulsive. I don't think [laws about statutory rape] are going to deter them."
Luke: You don't think the possibility of a jail sentence, criminal conviction and registering as a sex offender deters anyone over 18 from having sex with someone under 18?
Victoria: "No. I don't think so. I don't think society should punish 15-year old girls who go out with guys 19."
Luke: "All laws are arbitrary. What's the difference between driving 55mph and 56mph in a 55mph zone? One-mile-an-hour more breaks the law. Wherever you draw a law, it is going to be arbitrary. If you lower the age of consent to 15, it is just as arbitrary."
Victoria: "Yes. When people were sexually active later in life, the possibility of coercion was greater. Voluntarily most teenagers are having sex around 15. How many people are truly naive at 18? Do you really believe that most people are completely innocent and naive at that age?"
Luke: "I belive that close to half of American 18-year old have had neither oral nor vaginal sex."
Victoria: "Perhaps. Just like with date rape, I see a lot of selective enforcement. I see a lot of opportunities for women to prey on men with this. 'He didn't like me. Now I'm going to claim statutory rape or I'm going to claim date rape.' Society can only protect so much. We need to have a lot more parental and personal responsibility.
"Women are getting their periods much earlier. This is a biological fact. Women used to get their periods at 14. Now we see 11-year olds getting them. People are taller. People mature earlier."
Luke: "Were you saying that many if not most claims of date rape are bogus?"
Victoria: "No. I've seen date rape used as retribution by women against men who've scorned them. If you've been drinking and you are up in a room with an athlete, you should either leave or take the circumstances into account before claiming you were raped."
Luke: "How old were you when you were a foreign exchange student?"
Victoria: "I was 16."
Luke: "You were preyed upon by your host."
Victoria: "My sponsor was charged. That situation was different. He had a fiduciary duty. I was in a dependent position. He was also 61. I was a student living in his home. I did not speak English well."
Luke: "Who do you get angry about about that? Who's to blame?"
Victoria: "The school system should've screened them better before allowing them to become host families. I've seen that over and over again. He already had previous complaints against him by several young women where he demanded sex in exchange for good grades. They didn't check his background well.
"I was placed in a couple of other host families where the older siblings had drug and alcohol records (DUIs).
"They put me with one lady who got obsessed with me. She'd never had kids. She wanted to adopt me. She pushed me to give up my parents so she could adopt me."
Luke: "Do you think it is possible that your views on lowering the age of consent are in part due to your being jaded by your experiences?"
Victoria: "That is possible. I was a very sexually active teenager.
"We live in a culture where teenagers are hooking up. Forget about love. It's about fun hookups. It's emotionally-void sexual interchanges.
"Women tend to suffer more in the hook-up culture because women tend to get more emotionally invested in any sexual act."
Luke: "Is it important to you as a writer to make a difference?"
Victoria: "Yes. The whole point of writing is to leave a mark. I don't know [how much of a difference she's made]. I haven't gotten enough feedback yet.
"If I can get men to be better to women because they understand them better, I will feel I've made a difference.
"I have high standards for making a difference. I have a TV show [in development] with Dr. Bob Berkowitz. The idea is the battle of the sexes and bridging the gap."
Luke: "What's the most dramatic thing you've learned about men in the last year?"
Victoria: "The hardest thing for women to understand about men is that they are much less emotionally-invested in the relationship than women are, on average. Men are about doing things. Women are more about feeling."
Luke: I met a woman my age who said she doesn't like men spending the night because it adds no value. I found that unusual. Normally women want you to spend the night and men want to flee. It's said about hookers that you don't so much pay them to come as much as you pay them to leave.
Victoria: "The majority of women yes, but in her case it's probably a defensive gesture. A lot of women feel too vulnerable to spend the night but they wouldn't say because of their vulnerability. She's probably guarded and armored. This is her way of maintaining control. A lot of women are afraid of losing their mystique, the mystery that surrounds them. They don't want a man to get to know them too soon in the prosaic light of the morning. But most women do like to cuddle."
Rick Salomon
Before the Paris Hilton thing started, nobody recognized Rick Salomon anywhere. Now, when you go to a restaurant, you should see the girls checking him out. During some weeks, he's on TV every single night -- VH1, E!, etc. When you go out with him, people start whispering.
Passover Seder At Paul Fishbein's House
Sunday night, I'll be joining Steve Hirsch and David Schlesinger (he's bringing the water and eggs to show his tears) and David Sturman's at Paul's pad. It promises to be the hottest porn seder in town.
As the youngest Jew at the table, I'll ask the four questions.
I wonder where Paul will hide the afikomen? If I find it, what should I demand of him?
Four cups of wine will give us a good head start into sloshing over our differences.
Next year at Steve Hirsch's joint!
Chaim Amalek writes:
Didn't Josef Goebbels look like a Hollywood porn exec?
I picture you sneaking into Taco Bell on Sunday if you don't get any invites to a proper seder.
So you are going to Fishbein's? Did they read the blog [PityLonelyLuke]?
OK, here is what you do. Post pics of Paul Fishbein and Joseph Goebbels side by side and ask "Were these men separated at birth?"
Goebbels was just 5'4" tall. How tall is Fishbein?
Goebbels was a widely acknowledged expert in propaganda. Fishbein a widely acknowledged expert in porn. Goebb was a virgin until his thirties. Fishbein was a virgin until his thirties. Post something like that and the Passover Seder invites will flow in.
Must be a seder somewhere for orphaned porners disowned by their shamed families.
Bread tastes extra good on Passover. I say you join with some Christians and eat pork, videotape it all, and sell it as the first in a new sort of porn: "The Debasement of Luke." That'll show 'em.
Penthouse publicist Lainie Speiser writes:
I know the line by heart, "Deliver me from the house of bondage." My favorite part of the Hagadah is the end the story of the life cycle, the lamb that gets eaten by the cow that gets slaughtered by the man that gets the angel of death etc. Ha Gadya its called? I'm spelling it wrong. But that was my favorite thing always because it was so creepy. That and the plagues.
Sunday, April 17. We sit on a couch. I hope people haven't had sex here.
It's 4pm. Marlena, 22, just rushed here from work at a specialty food store.
Duke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Marlena: "I wanted to be a lawyer. I always talked back and fought for everything. It was weird. I don't even like to read.
"My family raised me well. I don't know what got me into doing porn. It's crazy.
"I was a rebel in highschool. I hung out with the bad-ass girls with no limits."
Marlena lost her virginity at 18, graduating highschool in 2001. After two relationships with men that lasted almost four years, she "started liking girls a lot. I met his one chick in a club. I hit it off. I just wanted to do girls. Then I started getting into modeling and it turned out to be porn."
She entered porn in July of 2004 and has done about 50-scenes. "I just do girl-girl."
Duke: "I want to know what kind of guy it was who put you off men?"
Marlena laughs. She says her decision to become a lesbian was random. She says her last boyfriend will read anything about her. He'll read this interview.
Duke: "I want him to email me about what he did to you that turned you off men."
Marlena laughs: "I don't know what he did. He was just very pushy sexually. He always wanted to have sex. Sometimes I didn't want to."
Duke: "How often would you want to have sex with your girlfriend?"
Marlena: "Once a day. He'd want to have sex many times a day."
Duke: "No wonder you became a lesbian."
Marlena: "Sometimes I was not in the mood. I was tired."
Duke: "When was the last time you had sex with a man?"
Marlena: "Two months ago."
Duke: "What kind of lesbian are you?"
Marlena: "I was with a [male] friend and then all of a sudden one thing led to another because we were drinking at a bar. It was all right."
Duke: "How many men have you been with in the last two years?"
Marlena: "Two, including my ex."
Duke: "How has your time in the industry affected you?"
Marlena: "I've learned how to pay my bills. I've met a lot of strange people, people I wouldn't have met otherwise."
Duke: "How would your best friends describe you?"
Marlena: "I'm weird sometimes. I'll say stupid things. I'm the one in the group who falls down. Something happens to her. Klutzy. I'll have a soda and all of a sudden I'll spill it on me and I'm wearing white."
Duke: "What are your dreams?"
Marlena: "I had this dream when I was 13. I was in my apartment building and all of a sudden, my friends are downstairs in the pool area. Everyone's playing hide-and-go-seek. All of a sudden, there's this person I knew. She has no legs but she is pregnant. She starts dragging herself towards me. I realize that there's a skeleton with a key who's after us. And that's why she became pregnant -- because she took some pill. I had to run upstairs and take my pill.
"As I go upstairs to take my pill, I see a black widow spider. It attacks me. Then I die. That's when I wake up."
Luc writes:
And her pussy was sore. She'd been pounded pretty severely by someone earlier, who'd treated her like trash, and she was as tender as could be. So she was understandably leery of me and having another cock put in her pussy. And her pussy had stuff coming out of it. White stuff. A lot of it. And not of the yeast infection variety. Something else. Something mysterious that, thankfully, didn't smell or taste bad. But it was a constant concern of hers, that something was wrong with her pussy, that it looked bad, that it smelled and that she was sore.
After a time, I was told to leave, sans pop. She was completely passed out, and they called in a replacement.
I'm excited when I find out that Mrs Colonel threw out the Colonel. I think I have a scoop.
Then the Colonel tells me it was just for the afternoon from the store on Vermont (Mondo Video).
Colonel: "I've just taken my personal Zen break. April was when I first started for Russ Meyer in 1974."
I meet Mexican-American Carmen Sancha, an assistant to Tim at NaughtyTalent.com. She did 30-scenes in three months, her last coming in January.
"It got a little [difficult] when my family found out. Now it's not so bad since they already know."
Duke: "What do you love and hate about the industry?"
Carmen: "I love the money. I hate the roughness."
Duke: "Did you get injured?"
Carmen: "No."
Duke: "Psychologically?"
Carmen: "When I saw the video, yes, which means probably that everyone else liked it."
Duke: "Did it take a toll on you doing the movie?"
Carmen: "No. It keeps me interested. It stays in the back of my mind."
Duke: "How has it affected your dating life?"
Carmen: "It's made me more aware of who I'm dating. I'm more picky. I feel like I'm worth more now."
Duke: "So it's increased your self-esteem?"
Carmen: "Definitely. You're definitely going to serve me if you're going to date me."
Duke: "How quickly do guys find out you're a porn star?"
Carmen: "It's usually something I tell someone in the beginning if I think I'm going to have a relationship with them. But if I'm just friends with them, or an acquaintance, I usually don't tell them. It's never brought bad upon me."
Duke: "They don't treat you differently because you're a porn star?"
Carmen: "No. If anything, they like me more."
Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"
Carmen: "The bad crowd. I was always in fights, bullying people."
Duke: "You'd beat up other girls?"
Carmen: "Yeah. I had younger brothers in highschool and if anything went wrong with their relationships, I'd be the one to beat them up. I was the big sister."
Carmen says she was a good student. "My favorite class was accounting." She got a couple of college credits and then dropped out to party.
From Northern Washington State, she moved to California after graduating highschool in 2001.
Duke: "Are there many Mexicans in Northern Washington?"
Carmen: "There are because we have so much farm work.
"I don't know if that's really why, but it was funny."
Her eyes flash.
Duke: "How would your best friends describe you?"
Carmen: "Outgoing. If your fly is down, I'm going to be the one to tell you. I'm very flirtatious. I love sex. I'm definitely not committed to one relationship."
Sanchez lost her virginity at 17.
Duke: "How many guys had you been with by the time you graduated highschool?"
Carmen: "One. That relationship lasted seven-and-a-half years. We were together from freshman year to last year. I broke up with him when I turned 21. I was ready to get out there and explore by myself."
Duke: "Were you monogamous while you were with him or were you a slut?"
Carmen: "A bit. I slept with his best friend. Why? It was tempting. Because he was hot and I was drunk."
Duke: "Didn't that hurt your relationship with your boyfriend?"
Carmen: "Yeah. It definitely did. But I knew it wasn't going to last."
Before porn, Carmen slept with four men.
Duke: "In your private life, which do you find more intimate? Oral sex or regular sex?"
Carmen: "Oral."
Duke: "How has your time in the industry affected you?"
Carmen: "I quit, so that makes me want to do it more.
"It's made me more mature. I look at myself different -- that I'm worth more than I thought I was. Not necessarily money-wise, but morally-wise too."
Buck writes:
Amazing that sale of SC over easter and the resurrection after! How it was reversed when the Butcher [owner] didn't like how they were looking after his baby. He has been trying to pay some members since January 2005 with paypal echecks, that bounce each time so not many real members are posting these days. Some come for the right reward but thats thinning as I type. Latest is ARS (Adult Revenue Service) have bought 20 sigs. Trouble is the butcher don't have to pay anyone so not knowing how to Pay people should be no problem. Most of these members are just usernames he created. You won't see them on any other industry board well maybe 2 or 3 of them. Just look at the winners of the sigs and tell me if you know more any more than 2 or 3 of them or anyone you know does!
Ars have put funds in TheButchers account according to his post on the board and he is paying the winners 40 bucks a piece. Or is the ARS deal just him buying the ARS name X 20. Wonder if anyone knows? Ars what have they got to say about it? and FM (FantasyMan aka Ron Levi) is no where in sight. Don't blame him one bit.
