Thursday, July 14, 2005
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AVN Publisher Paul Fishbein Wins ESPN Monday Night Football Package
Source says: I was listening to ESPN Radio this morning. They are doing a charity auction all day to benefit cancer research, They were letting a few of the winners on the air for a minute. The first one I heard was Paul Fishbein from Chatsworth, Calif. He won an ESPN Monday Night Football package... airfare and tickets to the MNF game of his choice, he gets to go on the field during warmups, visit the production truck, visit the broadcast booth. His winning bid was $9500.
Erotica LA Brittany Spears Lookalike Just 17yo
She signed for Stripper Ale at Erotica LA for three days. A porn management company wanted to guide her porn career. She told me she had an interview coming up with LFP.
She was using a fake ID that said she was 23. But she's only 17.
A writer-subject relationship gone wrong.
f--- you and you're website,scumbag. I love summertime;we're gonna have loads of fun,you and I. Slander and defamation from your ramblings will simply give the lawsuit legs and will get you in deeper,scumbag. Karma indicates that you will pay me the $ you owe me with interest and legal fees and court costs times 3. You simply rattled the wrong cage,scumsucking deadbeat that you are. We've only just begun the fun . No threats from here you pompous lying prick. After speaking with Cass, i realized i should have fun with this and so i am. indulge me a little bit scumface. You have my money, my tapes and my notes that I gave you.I,m gonna have some lame-ass fun with the lame-ass deadbeat on the other end. your pal
Luke F-rd genuinely needed to interview Kitten Natividad, then the world's leading granny p-rn star, and, more importantly, someone who had been around the sex biz since the 1950s. Nobody knows more about p-rn than the Great Kitten Natividad.
So, on a stormy, wind-swept night in 1997, Mr Ford drove the Serial Killer VanT to Kitten Natividad's house, where ... Again, people, I'm warning you: Please, please do not continue reading if you are: a) 21 years of age or younger; b) someone of modest to high moral standards; or c) someone who has just eaten a large (or modestly-sized) meal. Who are we kidding -- someone who has eaten any food at all over the past 24 hours. This is your final warning: Turn Back Now!
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Tomorrow (or sometime this week) in the next installment of The Luke F-rd StoryT find out what happens when a Beverly Hills narcissist and a Silver Lake egomaniac become best friends. (Hint: lots of Google-ego-checking, lots of blog-hit-counter-comparing, and lots and lots of the phrase: "Enough about you, already. Let's talk about ME!")
The story was broken Tuesday by Defamer.com, not by KBTalks.com as I previously reported. Also, almost a paragraph of the KBTalk.com piece was plagiarized from the second paragraph of the Defamer report.
Brooklyn's Joanna Angel Back In Los Angeles Till Thursday
At 7:32pm Monday, Joanna calls me back. "Somebody mentioned your name today. Funny that you called. They're like, 'Everyone really likes you except for Luke F-rd.' I said, 'I think he likes me.'
"I did a movie for Adam & Eve. Tristan Taormino directed. She's a close friend of mine. She's one of my heroes.
"She hasn't directed a movie in a long time.
"This is called House of Ass. It's like the Real World except that it's a porno. She sent everybody to this house in the desert [Idyllwild, near Palm Springs] for two days and filmed what happened.
"Mr. Marcus. Scott Nails. Justine Joli. Kaylani Lei. Sarah [Blake]. Talon. T.T. Boy's brother.
"I had sex with Justine Joli, Sarah [Blake], Scott Nails and Mr. Marcus."
Was that your first interracial scene?
Joanna: "Yes. He was the only black guy I've had sex with in my life."
What brought it on?
"I don't know. It was funny. Everybody was assigned one person and then you could ---- whoever you wanted after that. Mr. Marcus really wanted to have sex with me. He asked Tristan if he could many times. I said, 'I don't know. That's a big deal.' After a while, I was like... Me and him got along really well. It was actually fun."
We talk about Rochelle Gurstein's dismissive article in The New Republic about Joanna and alternative porn.
Joanna: "I looked up her pictures on the internet. She's extremely unattractive. That's my analysis of the situation."
Duke: "Rochelle didn't think you had heard of Linda Lovelace or Deep Throat."
Joanna: "I've heard of Linda Lovelace. I have a huge Deep Throat poster in my office over my desk."
Duke: "You should come to Porn Star Karaoke."
Joanna: "I'm not a karaoke person. If I'm going to go out, I need to go out somewhere that's not porno."
Duke: "Is there any drama in your life?"
Joanna: "There's always drama in my life. I don't know if I feel like talking about it. I'm a little angry."
Duke: "When you were stuck in the desert with all those porn people, did you think they were really stupid?"
Joanna: "No. I really like Mr. Marcus."
Duke: "Did you discuss literature and music?"
Joanna: "We mostly talked about sex. He's an intelligent guy. He can talk about sex intelligently, as opposed to Scott Nails who can't talk about anything intelligently. Justine Joli is smart. All the girls were cool."
Duke: "Did you ask for their SAT scores?"
Joanna: "I did not ask for their SAT scores...not even Marcus, because I do not intend on dating him. Mr. Marcus is married. This is just porno. We did a scene. It doesn't matter what he got on his SATs."
Duke: "How's your soul?"
Joanna: "I don't have one, remember? I was looking for one. When you called me, I was in the middle of being lost. There was all this traffic and all these cars were beeping and I was going the wrong way. I had a panic attack. I pulled over and I had to take a deep breath. I saw this coffee shop. They had these books. I haven't been reading much lately. I feel guilty.
"They had a biography of T.S. Eliot. I hadn't read anything by T.S. Eliot since I was in college, so I was sitting down for 45 minutes and I felt much better and I almost found my soul. And I checked my messages and there was one from you. So I thought I'd call you back. I left the coffee shop because I didn't want to talk about porno in front of all these people reading books."
Duke: "You never answered my email about what is the source of morality."
Joanna: "I didn't feel like continuing anymore. I was sick of it. It was fun up until now so I just stopped it. Sometimes in a relationship you can keep beating a dead horse. I felt like we were starting to beat a dead horse.
"You're going to have to think of a whole new set of questions.
"Eon McKai is my best friend in the industry. I got along really well with Belladonna. I can't call her my best friend because I've only met her once."
Joanna met Eon McKai in Las Vegas in January at the AVN show. "I emailed him before saying, I saw your movie. I really liked it. I'm a director too. I do something similar. Are you going to Vegas? Let's meet up.
"We did and we became best friends instantly."
Playboy TV About Broke
Larry Flynt Publications ready to gobble it up.
Playboy's studios are empty. There have been mass layoffs. Only a few people are left at Playboy TV. They're trying to buy content on the cheap. "Playboy TV is like a ghost town," says one insider.
Hustler magazine is doing poorly and its DVD division is confused.
LFP has been looking to start (or take over) its own TV channel for a long time.
Mafia Update
Former LA putative capo Louie Caruso lives in Arizona. Is he still in the Mob? You are always in the Mob. You can't get out. Funny thing is Jimmy Frattiano stayed in LA and lived in Palm Springs after he turned federal informant.
Announcement this week. A-list man, B-list woman.
Ice Is Melting
A former JKP employee writes:
Everyone is bailing out of JKP as fast as they can. Their PR guy left Friday, I hear the warehouse is down to two people, the bookkeeper quit Thursday, and a sales person was fired. I called the office today to ask what was going on, and someone said they were not interested in talking to anyone unless they wanted to buy something. He then hung up on me! What a rude son of a bitch. How many people are actually left, and how are they making ends meet? I feel for those left there but I would get another job quick. Why would anyone think that the ICE man can turn this around? He is obviously up to nothing but self enrichment. Why else would you not pay any bills? I hear the college kids and the ICE man got raises too. Isn't this company broke? Cannot afford to shoot a movie, but can hand out raises to a select few.
Former JKP source says: "Bob Friedland introduced the ICE to the company. Jill Kelly did not know him before that."
Dollars.com Shutdown
Willemstad Curacao - After years of development and marketing Dollars.com, the holding company which owns the internet website Dollars.com including the domain and patent rights has decided to stop selling the business-to-business service the system was designed to provide.
Rick Latona who was retained as a manager after the acquisition said, "It's a damn shame that most people couldn't understand it. On hindsight, we made it too complicated. The sad fact is that people actually would make more money if they sent their advertising traffic through the Dollars.com platform. The innovative Revenue Per 1000 impressions (RPM) technology proved it in the numbers."
Brad Shaw writes: "I hate to say I told you so, just live and learn. Make things simple, and dumb. The dumber the better I have found in this business."
Some guy posts to GFY:
Hee Rick, I used to work for you in Panama. You left Panama in a hurry ..remember? The only reason we (your ex staff) got some money (salaries) is because we had your dollars.com source code. Shortly after that you failed with your hentai studio? Now dollars.com? What's next? Iwebmasters? Why would someone put faith in you and moving business to you after so many failures? Not a hater, just someone that got f---ed in the process.
Yes, dollars.com was way too complicated, no-one would ever understand, hence: 'management' didn't even understand what was going on. Having said that: obviously it's not that hard to not understand when you're in the office 5 days out of the month. Did I forget to mention 3 out of those 5 days he was stoned? Amazing mentallity here on this board. Employees got f---ed, investors got f---ed and some small people that invested time and money to get their site rolling in dollars.com got screwed over now as well. Rick , well done. Btw: you dare to get back to Panama or afraid for police?
When coming to a country you live by the rules, laws and obligations. Rick/Paul and others assumed rules did not apply to them. Sign a contract for 12 months with programmers and walk out after 6 months. This has nothing to do with the language barriers. If you can not evaluate staff after 3 months you are not worth running a business. Until today he owes us money.
To wit, I was working with an outsourcing company in the skinny part of the continent, and the company's funding collapsed due to issues beyond my control. There was no choice but to close the company, and, being the only gringo within rock-hurling distance, I was the bright white target of 40 pointing, unemployed brown fingers. I swear no cocaine was involved. This is how they have been running the company. Set an office and run leaving a ton of unpaid bills. Funding Collapsed? Nice story to find out later Paul is a shareholder. My only message here: Watch your back when doing business with Rick. Maybe you should ask the people that funded part of dollars.com (we learned later it was not rick).
I believe that Chris Mallick and John Bennett funded the Dollars.com experiment. In the process, they lost their investment (hundreds of thousands of dollars).
Klixxx magazine ran a huge puff piece on this failure of a program.
Smugglers probing SENTRI for flaws
As the maroon Kia Optima crept toward the United States in a lane designed to speed people through the San Ysidro port of entry, the world's busiest border crossing, two weeks ago, an inspector noticed trouble.
The government's computerized Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid Inspection system, or SENTRI, didn't recognize the transponder, a device the size of a cigarette pack used to identify the car, on Jhuliana Aramis Cohen's windshield.
The inspector sent Cohen to secondary, a covered area where other inspectors open car trunks, look under the seats and use trained dogs to sniff for drugs, among other things.
When inspectors found 202 pounds of marijuana in her car, Cohen, 21, became one of an increasing number of people accused of smuggling drugs after assuring the government they wouldn't abuse the privilege of using the fast-track SENTRI lanes.
Jeff Mullen Car Crash
From Pornohs.com: "Jeff Mullen, (owner All Media Play and Britney Rears manager) involved in violent early Sunday morning car crash. Unclear if Rears was in vehicle. Developing..."
I hear it was Saturday night. Jeff was the passenger in an SUV. Director Quinn Roberts was driving.
Nobody was injured.
I call Jeff. "Who is pornohs.com?" he asks.
"We were going to the desert to cover the big final crash scene of Nic Andrews in Dark Angels 2: Bloodline.
"We were on the 14 freeway going about 70mph. We're not sure exactly what happened. It's like the back tires locked up. It was like somebody threw the car into [the gear] park. We went spinning and rolling (witnesses said two to four times). There was an insane amount of glass breaking and screeching and metal crunching and flipping. It just kept going. Just when I thought it was over, we started flipping again.
"We ended up upright on the freeway. I said to Bob, are you ok? He said, I'm ok.
"The doors wouldn't open. We climbed out the broken windows.
"The ambulance came. We weren't injured. I have a cut on my hand."
I met her at the XRCO Awards June 2nd and was taken aback by her enormous breasts.
Lori Pleasure, Lady Armani Lori Pleasure, Lady Armani Lori Pleasure, Lady Armani
We talk by phone Tuesday, July 5.
Duke: "Why did you get into porn?"
Lori: "To expand my sex life, build my website, and have some fun. It's an extension of my lifestyle.
"Some people pointed me to Jim South who introduced me to a lot of people in the industry."
Lori's been a swinger for about eight years. "I'm not sure that I'm a swinger. I'm sexually adventurous."
Pleasure got her first breast job in early 2003. She's had two since. "It takes a while for the skin to accommodate the bigger and bigger bags."
Before surgery, she was a D-cup. Now she's a G-cup. "I'd love to be bigger than I am now, but there are certain practical issues that have to be considered."
Duke: "How's it changed the way people react to you?"
Lori: "It's like night and day. I love to show them off so I wear sexy clothing. Everywhere I go, a lot of people stop and stare. When I enter a room, it will often go silent and I'll see people talking amongst themselves and looking at me. Most people aren't exposed to such an outrageous sexuality. They don't know how to react. People will walk by and I'll hear, 'Ohmigod.' And laughing. I'm amused by it.
"I don't come across people in my social life who are far out of the industry where I have to talk to them about it."
Duke: "When you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Lori: "A nurse or a doctor."
Duke: "What happened to those dreams?"
Lori: "After I graduated from highschool, I thought, do I really want to go through all this science and math? In college, I found I enjoyed psycology. I graduated with a psychology degree. That's when I started exploring my sexuality and that took me in a whole different lifestyle.
"I grew up in Canada in a small town. I was the first in my family to get a college degree. They didn't have any particular expectations of what I would be.
"I left Canada as soon as I could and came down to California [during Reagen's reign]. I wanted to jump into an interesting life. The expectations of my family weren't as high as my own expectations for myself."
The Last Mafioso By Ovid Demaris
I reread parts of this book because I heard that Dion Giarusso's father Raymond is mentioned. He worked for the trucking company of Los Angeles mobster Jimmy Fratiano.
Dion's half-brother (they have the same mother but different fathers) David Joseph owns Red Light District, which was founded by Dion. The brothers had a fight in late 2003. Dion punched out David and David kicked him out of the company and had him sign a non-compete. Dion has not worked in porn since.
I only once talked to Dion when he was in porn but I've called him twice in the past few months to chat.
Tuesday. July 5.
Luke: "Is that your dad in that book?"
Dion: "I wasn't close to my dad. He left when we were young. He lived in San Francisco and was in the trucking business. I know Jimmy Fratiano was a partner of his. I never knew about his private life. I only knew he was a hard-working guy in the trucking business. I read that he was in one of those books. I wasn't close with the guy, may he rest in peace.
"He passed on four years ago of esophagus cancer. He left us property."
Luke: "Did you ever meet Jimmy the Weasel?"
Dion: "I knew him. Every time I went to see my dad, I saw him around. He was a nice guy. I never knew what he was about until I read about it."
Luke: "Did you know Chris Walsh?"
Dion: "I did. I met him with my dad when I was a kid. He was a Teamster guy. I remember Rudy Tham, who was a big Teamster guy and a friend of my dad's.
"My dad owned the rights to the book The Last Mafioso with his lawyer Dennis McDonald. I shopped it around [about 20 years ago] to make a movie out of it. Nobody wanted to. They were scared of it. Too many people were still alive."
Luke: "If your dad owned the rights, doesn't that mean that you own the rights?"
Dion: "I don't know. I've never looked into it. Dennis McDonald controls it. Right before Jimmy Fratianno passed away [circa 1998], I had a threeway conversation with Jimmy [and Dennis] about me shopping the book in Hollywood. Jimmy gave me the right to shop it.
"You couldn't call Jimmy because he was highly protected. He was one of the most sought-after guys they wanted to kill."
Dion graduated from Grant High School in North Hollywood in 1980.
Luke: "Do you think you might produce some real movies?"
Dion: "I'd sure like to produce something. I'm bored to death producing nothing. Even though I have a non-compete [with David Joseph], I'm not so sure I'd want to get back into porn.
"A lot of porn stars go there [Power House gym in Chatsworth] but they don't recognize me anymore. I see Van Damage. I wish that guy would get a break. He came in with Greg Alves (owner of Zero Tolerance). Look where Greg Alves is and where Van is."
Luke: "How's Frank Barbarino?"
Dion: "I have lunch with him every Wednesday. He's one of the true friends I've gotten out of porno. He looks wonderful. His health seems to be coming back [after a horrific car accident a couple of years ago]. He's back working out.
"He knows I've been going through some tough times, a little depression from not working. He's there for me. He's always calling and checking on me.
"A lot of those guys I made rich, you don't hear them call me to see how I'm doing."
We talk about the mammoth success of the Paris Hilton tape.
Dion: "I was offered that when I first started Red Light. I didn't know who Paris Hilton was. I said, 'I want no part of that thing.' My brother was a lot smarter than I was. I didn't think there was any value to it because of what was happening with it on the internet."
Dion started Red Light District a few days after 9/11. "It was just Anabolic done better. We were selling 6,000 pieces out the door within a couple of months. When I left Elegant Angel, we were down to 1,200 pieces out the door. Those were the days [1997] when Tom Byron, Van Damage, Rob Black and Tiffany Mynx were all there. I was the general manager. The greatest days ever were 3,500 pieces.
"Platinum X didn't take off like that. Mike Stefano wanted to come to Red Light. Vince Voyeur was in charge of production and he didn't want Stefano. T.T. Boy was going to have me distribute his stuff. Vince said no to T.T. and to Brandon Irons.
"I said, let's just start another company (Platinum X). That's how I got involved with Jewel DeNyle. How a sweet innocent guy like Stefano could marry a girl like that? Two different people. That's how I met the family [of Jewel] -- Larry and Debbie [Jewel's parents]. I brought them out from Colorado. Our first salesperson was Bonnie Kail. Then Debbie.
"I feel that Jewel is an ungrateful little bitch, but I never had a problem with her. Her parents were nice. I haven't spoke to them since I left.
"Jewel needs to lighten up and get a little class.
"I don't think I put enough time into Platinum X. If I would've put my little touch on it, I probably would've gotten good results out of it.
"Red Light. I took Anabolic's packaging and was more colorful and more friendly to all the distributors and gave a good price. It was a phenomenon. I don't know that I could ever accomplish that again."
Luke: "You took many of Anabolic's directors?"
Dion: "I didn't take no one. Vince Voyeur came to work for me at Elegant Angel as a director [in 2001]. He left Anabolic/Diabolic in early 2001 because they were only giving him one movie a month.
"When I left Elegant Angel, Patrick Collins fired Vince. I gave Vince a job at Red Light. Lexington Steele, through his manager of the time Harry Weiss, contacted me and asked if I'd be interested in giving Lexington Steele ownership. I thought it would be a wonderful idea.
"[Now] I believe Lexington Steele belongs in front of the camera, not behind it.
"Lex came over. God knows he didn't live up to anything that he promised. He never quit. I kicked his ass out of my office.
"Mike John and Eric Everhard wanted to meet with me. They told me they were leaving Anabolic. They came over. The rest is history.
"I brought Manuel Ferrara and Steve Holmes over to Platinum X and gave them directing gigs. Tony Ribas came over from Elegant Angel.
"Look at Red Light today. They're maintaining what I did.
"Anabolic wasn't willing to give up ownership. I was willing. I gave them all interest-free loans. My motto is share the wealth. I wasn't getting rich at Red Light. Too many people owning their own stuff."
The adult industry was abuzz Saturday night with the Adultfyi.com story that Evan Stone was shot on set Saturday.
It turns out the "shooting" was part of a scene and nobody was hurt.
As part of its policy for the past four-and-a-half years, AVN doesn't name Gene Ross when it goes after him here:
Several hours after the other Adult site posted its story - which made no mention of the "shooting" being part of the script - that site added one key, clarifying sentence to the story: "Stone's shooting was an angle called for in the script in which his character Mason Caldwell is a target of an assassin's bullet."
Lars raises the level of intellectual discourse in porn by writing to the AVN blog:
hey ramone, you are quite the journalist--"another Adult site"--what kind of pathetic little faggot are you? i could care less about you or adultfyi, but if you are writing about that site, why don't you have the balls or professionalism to NAME the site? i guess you don't have the balls or the professionalism to do so. have you ever worked for a REAL newspaper or magazine? how pathetic. you are some kind of "editor?" yeah, in the porn world maybe, but thats it.
Anonymous writes AVN: "it's just a question of time before a porn stud/contract girl is actually shot by a fan, stalker or fellow porner possibly to death."
Mike Ramone responds:
Thanks for inquiring about my credentials Lars. As a matter of fact, yes, I spent 20-plus years in mainstream journalism (various wire services, newspapers and radio stations) before joining AVN, the adult industry's top trade publication, which to just about everyone qualifies it as a "real" publication. (Geez, Lars, are you ever transparent in your motive for your bitchy little rant: still smarting over us and adultfyi exposing your sick little operation - if indeed this is the Lars I think it is?) As for not naming the other site, that's got nothing to do with unprofessionalism or lack of balls, but is simply due to some industry politics you're unaware of. So take some Maalox for those uproared bowels of yours and stop making your ignorance so obvious. P.S. - How professional is it of you to use an epithet such as "pathetic little faggot" - a lazy substitute for genuine, meaningful dialog - just cause I don't need to slaughter an animal then f--- on it to get it up?
What I meant by "industry politics" merely is that we don't want to drive traffic to a competing site, one run by a former embittered employee known to take shots at us on occasion, duh.
Mike Ramone worked at the law daily Daily Journal (as well as other mainstream journalism outlets) before going to work at AVN.
Al Goldstein In Razor Magazine
Josh Alan Friedman writes: "As an appetizer for the book we may write, there's a feature in the July/Aug. Razor magazine. About Al Goldstein's year homeless on the streets of New York."
Thanks to the largesse of remaining friends, many of whose careers he made, Goldstein has survived. After three recent arrests and hitting bottom, Al Goldstein is preparing for his comeback. After all, life itself is nothing but an endless series of comebacks. Back on his diabetic feet, with a gorgeous young fifth wife by his side, Goldstein, 69, currently resides in a small apartment outside Manhattan. I met up with him there, where the interview was momentarily interrupted by a couple of Black dudes who recognized Al on his front porch. Amid high fives, they asked if he could break them into porn. Goldstein himself is breaking back into the porn biz.
Razor: How far did you fall?
Goldstein: For a year and a half I wanted to kill myself. I felt Al Goldstein's gone, washed up. Like one of T.S. Eliot's The Hollow People. Just two months ago I wrote a suicide note. Mostly because my son betrayed me. Jordan did not invite me to his Harvard graduation. He stole a million dollars worth of watches. The idea of a son stealing from his father. . . I've read so much stuff about fathers and sons. Benjamin Franklin did not speak to his son for 20 years because his son supported the English. Alexander the Great killed his father. I loved my kid. I read to him every night, I was the most loving father, I took him to dude ranches, magic camp, gave him $500 a week and a car. Each year I bought him a $10,000 gift, and the last year we were together I gave him a million travel miles from American Express. And then for him to cut me off, and not give me my watches back. He works for Wachtel & Lipton on Madison & 52nd. Anybody who reads this, call him up and tell him to return the watches.
Let me tell you who the friends have been: Steve Hirsch of Vivid sent me $5,000. Paul Fishbein of Adult Video News sent me $5,000. Ronnie Jeremy gave me money...
Taylor Rain Interview
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Thursday. 11:30am. Sitting outside in the shade with Gene Ross and Taylor Rain.
Taylor's shakey on her feet. She threw up this morning. She bought two cars (souped-up Ford F150 and a Mercedes) this week because she'd started her period.
Taylor (she turns 24 August 16) says her new SUV had $40,000 worth of stuff done to it. It was previously owned by a Crip in Long Beach. Now he's serving 25 years to life.
"It's a show car. It's a car on hydraulics."
Gene: "It's a truck on steroids."
Later she shows me how one can move it up and down a few inches off the ground.
Duke: "Do you need that kind of high-performance vehicle to get around to different sets?"
Taylor: "No. I actually don't. But it's a fun car. I have a car for my dog because my car [Mercedes] has a suede interior.
"I just bought a house last Thursday. I have three-quarters of an acre in West Hills. I needed a bigger backyard for my dog (a pitbull named Brandy). He's the best. He had a $3,500 surgery on Nantucket Island. I was with Scott Fayner. My dog almost died twice on the island. He was only nine weeks old.
"There was a bet when I got my dog at seven weeks old how long my dog would die. Yeah, three weeks to four weeks. Sure enough, it was two weeks until my dog started dying.
"This was a year ago."
Taylor Rain was married to Scott Fayner for almost four months (in early 2004). Then the marriage was annulled.
Duke: "Were you guys under the influence of anything when you got married?"
Taylor: "Oh yeah. Lots of them. I can't do that. When we weren't good together.
"I lived upstairs from Scott for about a year."
Duke: "Trent Tesoro lived next door to Scott."
Taylor: "I used to have his place."
Duke: "Did you hear about the time Trent got high and locked himself in the refrigerator?"
Taylor: "I was there. I was the one who opened the door. 'What are you doing?' He was all f---ed up on drugs. He was all dumb. He was only there for a couple of minutes. He was just trying to show off. Then he tried to hang himself in the closet. He's nuts.
"Katie Captive almost overdosed twice [at Trent's place]. I had a friend who overdosed on pills at place and I wasn't even there. Great. They called 9-1-1. The [paramedics] said, there are a lot of drug addicts in this house.
"I moved away and got a house in the Valley. I got away from Hollywood and Studio City. It's just me and my dog now. Everything's been great since I've been away [from where Scott lives].
"I got kicked out [of the apartment building where she lived next to Scott Fayner]. There was feces and high male traffic throughout my house. All eleven other tenants were like, we want her out of here. They thought prostitution was going down, which never happened."
Duke: "Where did the feces come from?"
Taylor: "I would unlock the door and Brandy would be scratching at the door at 8am. He's only seven weeks old. He would go downstairs and take a crap on the sidewalk rather than jumping over to where the grass was at. He couldn't jump because he was so small. It was understandable. I needed a yard. So I moved out.
"Scott's not a good person to live next to. He parties like a rock star. We're still good friends. We go to the dog park together. We barbeque together. I only hang out with him during the day time because at night he's doing drugs.
"Should I be saying all this?"
Duke: "He says the same thing."
Taylor: "Ok. Cool. I'm being too honest right now. It's because I'm on my rag. All girls are more open when they're on their rag."
Duke: "You've been spending a lot of money."
Taylor: "I didn't put any money down on these cars. I owe them in 45 days $4,000 and in another 45 days, another $4,000. Then I [put down] $10,000 for the house."
Taylor talks about her dirtbikes. "I have lots of toys. You've got to keep busy and do stuff. The only thing that makes me happy is toys. I'm still a kid at heart."
Duke: "How did you meet Scott Fayner?"
Taylor: "Two years ago at Erotica LA. I was hanging out with these guys who call themselves the hippies. We're smoking so much herb. Whatever. That's when I was going out with Trent Tesoro. I told him to come over. He said he was with his friend Scott Fayner. I said, who is he? Trent said, that's the guy from l-keford.
"I'm like, I don't like that guy. Good. Bring him over.
"As soon as I saw him, I socked him in the arm. He weighs 130. I knocked him across the room. I said, I don't like you. You're the guy from l-keford[.com]."
Duke: "Why didn't you like him?"
Taylor: "He wrote something stupid about me. I can't recall. Like he didn't know who I was.
"Trent was in love with me for four months. I was married [a civilian, before Scott Fayner]. After I was married, I bought a brand new car off the lot with zero miles. That was another bad thing. I bought a 2003 Ford Thunderbird. All black. I partied with Trent. And then with Scott Fayner. Then I was like, I can't hang with these rock stars anymore.
"I've had a couple of civilians since then."
Duke: "Did you have a good time with Trent?"
Taylor: "We had some crazy times. I don't regret going out with him. We didn't spend one time away from each other. It was weird. The relationship was not going to work out. Nobody can be with anyone 24/7."
Taylor says she prefers to date outside of the industry. "They're much more sane. My boyfriend now works for the mainstream side. He does commercials and music videos. He's like a PA. He does bitch work."
Duke: "I bet he doesn't make as much money as you do."
Taylor: "Yeah. He's been doing it for like two years. It's about how many hours you've put in. It's 600 hours before you even get a raise. He makes a couple of hundred bucks a day.
"We grow plenty.... I'm allowed to. That's the main point of the house. We've got a perfect third bedroom."
Duke: "What benefits does weed convey?"
Taylor: "You're more mellow. I enjoy food a lot better on pot. Everything's great on pot. I couldn't go a day without pot. I have though. I did in Florida. It sucked."
Duke: "When do you do your first?"
Taylor: "Wake and bake. I've got a pipe on the side of the bed."
She giggles and repeats: "Wake and bake. An eighth a day. Three point five grams.
"Do you want to smell it?"
Duke: "Yeah. It's not going to make me high?"
Taylor: "No. You'll smell and you'll be like whoa."
I smell it. "Whoa."
Taylor: "Yeah. This is what I.... It smells like dogs---, right?
"I smoke a lot but I buy in large quantities. It's not expensive."
A girl says: "I grow. On dry months, like right now, we won't have anything for two-and-a-half months."
Duke: "What's the difference between having sex when you're high and not high?"
Taylor: "I've never had sex not high. Maybe once or twice I've been sober. I have to be sober to do dialogue.
"I smoke half-a-pack of cigarettes a day. If I'm on set, a-pack-a-day."
Duke: "When did you get into the industry?"
Taylor: "Right after 9/11."
Duke: "Is that related?"
Taylor: "Yeah. I was going to be a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. I went to school for it. I got an AA. I went into school on 9/11. I thought, should I go to school? Yeah, I've got to say what-up to my teacher, because she used to be a flight attendant.
"She was not in good shape. Class was ended. I finished my school. Within two or three weeks [with no flight attendant jobs opening up], I decided to get into porn. I wanted a decent job. That would've only made me 40 Gs and I thought that would've been fine.
"But I did this and now I'm stuck, but I like it.
"[Before porn], I stopped smoking weed for eight months. I actually got pregnant. I got an abortion while going to school [within a few months before entering porn]. My husband and I were so fertile from not smoking weed."
Duke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Taylor: "I wanted to go to an important college. My dad's side of the family is all lawyers and doctors. Dad owns his own machine shop. My aunt Maria owns a couple of shops. It was more like, get smart like they were. That's all I knew. I did go to college but not to an important college. But I always went to school no matter what. I really didn't know what I wanted to be, I guess. Something in business and owning something of my own."
Taylor shows off one of her bongs. It says "Taylor Motherf------ Rains."
Jenna Haze: "That's awesome."
Taylor shows off the underside of her lower lip. It has "TMFR" tattooed on it.
Taylor takes my recorder: "I want to smoke a fat bowl into this, take a whiff and then cough."
The still photographer: "Gene Ross. You have a website too?"
I laugh.
Photographer: "I've heard the name a million times."
Taylor lights up her bong and breathes onto my recorder and giggles. "Your recorder just got high."
Photog: "Where have I heard Gene Ross before? Where was that at?"
Here's an etiquette tip. Unless you are trying to insult, don't say to someone, "I don't know who you are." It makes for an awkward moment and doesn't encourage the person to talk to you (and if you don't want to talk to the person, why are you asking him questions?).
I remember when a researcher from Nightline called me and asked: "Who exactly are you?"
I always try to spend a minute or two with Google before I interview someone or ask for their assistance.
Phil Donahue said in his autobiography that the most frequent awkward situation that he ran into was when people told him, "I don't know who you are."
It's no sin to not have heard of a public figure or to not be able to place him. It happens to me all the time. But there are better and worse ways of expressing one's confusion.
So what is Gene Ross supposed to say in these situations? Well, in this case he said: "I've been in the business for about 20 years."
Taylor: "I hate it when the stupid Orientals paint flowers on your toes. I told her five times, no flowers. Finally, I said, ok, you convinced me. Put stupid flowers on my toes."
"I ate $150 worth of sushi last night. I yakked it up this morning. My dog ate it up."
A producer complains: "Porn chicks only have to bring two things with them to set: A test and a good attitude. If you do that, you get paid a lot of money."
I talk to Kelly Erikson, who's directing her first movie.
Duke: "What have you learned about directing?"
Kelly: "That they're long days. That they never go smoothly. The first day [July 6] was the most horrific mess I could've walked into. No matter how much you plan..."
Kelly says guys have a harder time taking directions from a woman.
Duke: "How did you react to that?"
Kelly: "I didn't. I continued to tell them what to do. If they didn't listen, I talked louder. I don't scream very often."
Duke: "That's not what Tony [Simone, her boyfriend] says."
Kelly: "That's private life. That doesn't count."
Lauren Phoenix goes off on a rant about herself for not showing up yesterday with a valid HIV test (it was a day late). She pretends that she's AIM answering the phone about Lauren: "Don't use her! She's a dirty whore!"
I ask Kelly if Jenna Haze looks like a 13 or 14-year old girl. Kelly says more like 15.
Lauren describes a hot-looking Marine who repeatedly hit on her at the gym. While she appreciated his efforts towards keeping the world safe, she "doesn't give it away for free."
Phoenix says she's never been with more than six guys at once. That's it.
Lauren prescribes herbal remedies for all sorts of ailments. She spreads on fish oil when she works out because it supposedly helps get rid of fat. She has a protein drink in her purse. "Thirty five grams," she says. "Only two grams of sugar."
Duke: "Are you a frustrated doctor?"
Lauren: "No. I just like helping people. People in California think this is the most absurd thing ever because people here just look out for themselves. But in Canada, we look out for each other."
Duke: "Did you get into the porn industry so you could help people?"
Lauren laughs: "No. Maybe a little. I just wanted to do a fun job where I could meet people and travel and... Please don't take photographs of me with this. Evidence."
It seems like every other girl I meet in porn claims to have a medical marijuana license.