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Porn Star Salaries
According to Black Kat Productions, per scene:
Solo - $100 - $150 an hour w/ 2 hour minimum
G/G - $200 - $400
B/G - $500 - 600
B/G/Anal - $800 - $1200
Gia Jordan writes: "As much as I love getting ------ and feel fortunate to be in this business because of the sex, the great friends that I've made, and the basic quench of my thirst for ---, I cannot accept a rate that is below industry standard because that would undercut my fellow performers."
Kami Andrews writes:
Not every scene is gold. The producer puts all this money on the front end more than the average American makes in a year and there are hundreds of pornos that don't even get distribution. There is no guarentee the movie will do anything. I have in fact scrapped two scenes because they sucked. I didnt see any performer offering me a refund. The performer assumes no financial risk and is in and out with no commitment. I think established performers who want to and can afford to should produce their own product so they own something at the end of the day but I don't think any producer should be required to give a performer a percent on the back end. The sales clerk at Gap does not get a percent of the till at the end of the night (assuming she isn't a stock holder)Gap could not run without sales clerks and they are the face of the company to the consumer but they come they work they leave.
Wanton Photographer Brian Michael Bradley
Some samples of Brian's photos: Dana Kelsey Heidi Heidi Veronica
On model Heidi's recommendation, I call him Tuesday afternoon.
Brian (who's in his fifth year in porn): "I came from a bad place. The first time I saw a picture of a naked girl (circa 1963), I never got over that.
"When I was a kid about four or five years old, I would sit on the floor and try to look up my mom's friends' dresses. I was the little kid that nobody in the neighborhood was allowed to play with, because of all the nasty s--- that would happen in the garage. I'm in the right business."
Duke: "What was it like photographing Heidi?"
Brian: "Heidi is a trip. When she started telling me all the Arabia and Yemen stuff, I was fascinated. You never know what a model is going to pop out with. She was really happy with the pictures. That's what makes girls happy. You give them money and beautiful pictures and girls are set."
Duke: "Who are some of the most interesting models you've shot?"
Brian: "I've shot most of the big models but I shoot them in an amateur environment. The only models I don't shoot are those who come into the business and go straight into mainstream Vivid-type stuff. I don't have Vivid budgets. Once a girl starts working with a big-time agent, they're just unattainable for me. Because I mostly shoot for the amateur niche, my clients don't want models who've been shot all over.
"I've shot most of the Penthouse Pets in the last few issues (Celeste Star, Jamie Lynn, etc).
"Women are a lot more interesting in their thirties than when they are 18. Wouldn't you think?"
Duke: "I'm not sure. They often turn more bitter in their thirties."
Brian laughs. "Other than those girls... They have more life experience and more stuff to talk about.
"Some of the girls I shoot are still in highschool, though they are 18 of course. I shot Kinzie Kenner when she was just barely out of highschool, or still in. Then I shot her two years later and she was no longer a kid. She was a woman.
"I did Gen Padova's first professional shoot. She was so nervous, I didn't think she was going to finish the shoot. Then, when I put her in a girl-girl situation, she was so happy.
"Look at what Gen does now.
"Gen is a good example. It was good for her to come into Adult."
Duke: "What percentage of girls do you think it is good for them to get into Adult?"
Brian: "Girls do this for three reasons. The ones you don't want to shoot are the ones who come in and want to run some creepy agenda and punish themselves. Then there are girls who come in for the money. Then there are girls who love the camera and would have sex with any weirdo who came by in their free time anyway."
Duke: "How many girls do you sleep with?"
Brian: "I don't sleep with them. Models aren't attractive to me. Maybe I don't have much of a personality when I'm not shooting."
Duke: "What percentage of them come on to you?"
Brian: "I'm too afraid to let them come on to me. I don't do anything without a signed release. I only have sex with models when I'm shooting POV. There are some test shots that get a little bit wild, like last night. We did a bunch of stuff. However, it was on video and there was a release signed. I just sold a bunch of [scenes] to [Homegrown Video]."
Duke: "What do you love and hate about your Adult work?"
Brian: "I love the photography and I hate the scheduling. I hate the negotiating with clients and girls. I hate the business end of it. It's one thing to have a beautiful woman come in and take beautiful pictures of her and it's another thing to have her come in and you have two hours to take 5,000.
"I talked to professional photographers before I started doing this for a living and one of the common threads was, 'I don't shoot for fun anymore.'
"After shooting all week, I don't pick up my camera to have fun. I just get in my car and drive around."
Duke: "How did you get into porn?"
Brian: "I was disabled in my previous career as a lighting director. I kept stepping down positions because I didn't like the work. I'd go from being a lighting director at a TV station to an electrician. I got my shoulders injured on Sister, Sister. I was disabled for two years. I lost everything. I lost my health insurance, my savings. I was on welfare.
"So I emailed a website and asked them what did they pay for pictures. I showed them a black-and-white nude I'd shot. They gave me a change. My first paycheck was January 1, 2001.
"Now I'm learning to shoot video. I f----- up a lot of video but I'm learning. I'm putting my own site up called wantongirls.com. I'm going to spend a day with a model, shooting what I can on her, nothing filthy. Maybe some Playboy-plus, but no graphic inserts or gapes. I'll interview them about what their lives are really like.
"I'll put up a mainstream site (lahots.com) with just hotties on it and I'll sell banners to restaurants and stuff.
"I just got pulled off my webhost today after five years. Because I shot Adult. They said I had 90-days to get out."
Duke: "What's the most dramatic shoot you've had?"
Brian: "Dramatic for me is different for me than for a model. Dramatic for me is when my crap breaks and the agent is banging on the door -- 'Are you done yet?' Or you shoot a bunch of stuff and you look at it later and it looks like ----.
"But I don't have experiences like running down the street with naked girls and the cops chasing me.
"I'm talking to the girls about going in and out of the mountains and shooting. I've already talked to the forest service to see what is OK with them. There's a certain amount of people you can have before you have to spend money [to get a permit]. They don't want you shooting sex or open-leg nudity, but you can shoot Playboy stuff. It really depends on what ranger is hanging around.
"I have a two million liability rider which you need to shoot in state property. If I go into a mansion and the chick smokes crack in the bathroom and knocks over the main base, I'm going to be covered."
Duke: "How often are chicks on drugs when you shoot them and how does that affect their performance?"
Brian: "I don't like it when girls smoke pot because they can't look in the camera. I don't use drugs. If they can smoke pot and function... A lot of them will go out on the balcony and get high, and that's cool as long as they can perform. But when it comes to the more exotic drugs, you can't focus on the job.
"I shoot a lot of girls, and I'm always looking for an excuse once a shoot starts to stop it. So if there any issues, they have them before they start working. If anything comes up weird to me, I say, 'Why don't we reschedule when you feel better?' Or, 'My camera broke. Can we do this later?'
"Plus, I'm heavily tattooed. When some people look at me, they're like Buckwheat. Their hair stands up and their eyes pop open and they start backing up."
Duke: "What percentage of shoots don't work out?"
Brian: "Forty percent right off the bat. That's a common industry number that no one talks about. For a porno company, that's no big deal. 'Find someone else who breathes and will accept penis.' But for someone who shoots custom content, it's either that girl or nobody. I don't have the luxury of saying, 'Why don't I just call Sally up? She'll do it with five guys and a dog.'
"Some people think the industry is growing exponentially. That more agencies mean more models. I think there are only a certain number of women willing to do this. If you have 25 agencies with 10,000 girls, it doesn't matter. Only a 100 girls are willing to do it."
Duke: "Do you prowl for girls?"
Brian: "I'm too old to do that. I am not a recruiter. I spent 24 hours a day being a photographer. They spend 24 hours a day being a recruiter. There's not enough hours in the day to do both. But jobs are complex with their own set of issues. I can resolve 90% of the photography issues and very few of the recruiting issues.
"I know a guy riding around on a skateboard in San Diego who's recruiting."
Insane Posse
David Aaron Clark writes:
I think that between your mordant flirtations/exploitations of on the one hand poor, doomed lunatic shiksa Heidi and shallow, glib narcissist J. Angel on the other, you begin to occupy a truly Rothian territory in this latest evolution, at least in terms of your lust/disgust thralldom to what is commonly refered to as "Insane So Hopefully Insane Enough to F--- Me" P-----.
Heidi Arrives In United Arab Emirates
The ex-porn star writes:
I can't do anything right in my life. I did not have my luggage because BA lost it. Customs held one of my bags. Sadly, to say I was bringing something illegal in the country. The x-ray picked it up. It was a present from my friends in the sex industry. I had never owned one in my life but one of the photographers gave me one as a gift. It was a vibrator.
I had no idea it was illegal. I was scared to go to prison or to be exported. The guys in the flat told me that I could go to the prison. I told them I am from LA where dildos are handed to woman like candy to trick-or-treaters. I did not know. All the Muslims said how can you not know that. The men here are scared the vibrator will replace them they won't allow it.
I had to go back into Customs, it was very scary. But actually they confiscated my vibrator and gave me the detained Items Receipt and put the sex toy to destroy. They are going to destroy my vibrator which is the one of the only gift I received in LA and the last reminder of my colleagues. I feel kind of bad about it. They told me that if I bring any more to the country they will send me back to LA.
The other European people were smuggling alchohol. Luckily I only had one if I had brought more then one they might think I was like on the mission from LA to sexually currupt there woman. Like the Western man's quest to unveil the virgin Muslim girls.
Can you ask your professional friends if they can find me a lawyer that can go after British Airways for me? I was stuck in London 4 days because of the strike of the union. It cost me time and money and lodging and food and I had to buy new clothes and I was distressed because I lost my luggage. It is a big claim and I need someone to represent me so I am not a victim of these peoples' poor management.
Your turtle died by the way. I let it walk about on the counter in the kitchen then it jumped off and ran away and I could not find it then I found it in the corner of the dining room dead. I am really sorry to say that but I gave the turtle too much freedom then it could handle.
Khunrum writes: "Luke, I'll wager the security Muslim who confiscated Ms. Heidi's sex toy is using it on his favorite goat as we speak."
Fred writes:
In some ways this is hilarious. However, one must not spend too much time basking in the glow of imagined superiority. I vaguely recall that some southern state (Alabama, I think) enacted a law banning vibrators. So much for the "it can't happen here" attitude.
I also vaguely recall an old Woody Allen stand-up comedy routine in which he says that his father was recently laid off. He became technologically unemployed. The company he worked for bought a little machine that did everything Mr. Allen did, except much better.
To add insult to injury, when he got home that night, he discovered that his wife bought one.
Airforce Amy at the Bunny Ranch
Joe writes: "I've seen Amy on 'The Cathouse' and she's always seemed 'off' in a way. From what I saw last week and based on how I've seen her act on the HBO show, she probably works while under the influence. Did you ever see that episode where she started performing a sex act uninvited on a male stripper that came to the ranch? I thought that was utterly bizarre. I wonder how many of the girls use at the ranch?"
Catching Up With Joanna Angel
I call her Monday afternoon in New York.
Joanna: "Did you know that I used to sing 'Aishet Chayil' (Woman of Valor) to my mom every Friday night.
"Aishet Chayil to me means someone who does porn. Belladonna to me is an Aishet Chayil. She's a wife who does porn."
Luke: "People come to my website for the porn, but they stay for the Torah."
Joanna: "As well they should.
"Do you want to know what's going on in my life?"
Luke: "Yeah."
Joanna: "OK. I shot with [photographer] Richard Kern. He's famous. I was honored that he wanted to shoot me. He lives in New York. He doesn't live in LA with the stupid people. I'm going to put the photos on Burningangel.com. He's going to put them on his website too. It was a content trade."
Luke: "Did it make you uncomfortable when he looked at you naked?"
Joanna: "I really liked it."
Luke: "He's 51."
Joanna: "He's cute."
Luke: "You like older men?"
Joanna: "No. I like younger men."
Luke: "You're 24."
Joanna: "No. Yes. Lately, I've been lying. I've been saying 22."
Luke: "What's it going to be like for you to get old?"
Joanna: "I'm going to have a lot of tattoos that I can't get rid of."
Luke: "Do you want to be in Over 40 magazines?"
Joanna: "I don't know what I want to be. It'll be a while."
Luke: "Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lies deserts of vast eternity."
Joanna: "Stop being so depressing.
"I'm going back to LA in September."
Luke: "For Rosh Hashanah."
Joanna: "Actually, Mr. Religious, Rosh Hashanah is in October this year. Let me check the Jewish calendar."
Luke: "I was just checking to see if you knew that. Rosh Hashanah begins October 3rd and Yom Kippur October 12th."
Joanna: "I don't like Yom Kippur. I hate to feel so guilty."
Luke: "Tell Uncle Luke about your sins."
Joanna: "This year I've been good. I don't think doing porno is a sin. A sin is when you're mean to other people. I was mean once this year. Someone took me on a date on Valentine's Day to this place and the bartender was someone I was dating. I wound up having sex with the bartender in the bathroom during my date. I didn't really like the date but I felt so bad because he was so nice. So I screwed him. Then I went to the bartender's house afterwards and screwed him again. Then I ended up screwing him continuously for four months. That was how I knew I was in love with him.
"He said, as you are Joe Whore, can I trust you to use protection with everyone you sleep with. I said, I don't want to sleep with anyone else anymore.
"I loved him with all my heart."
Luke: "Why did you guys break up?"
Joanna: "He didn't want to date a girl who did porn."
Luke: "Wow."
Joanna: "Isn't that mean?"
Luke: "You'd think he'd be proud of you."
Joanna: "He said he was OK with it but he really wasn't.
"I used to clean his house. That's what I liked to do. It made me happy. His house is really gross. I bought this little outfit to clean his house with. It was this little thong and matching thing. I'd get down on my hands and knees and scrub the floor.
"I was like, I have to go but I'll be back in two hours. I had to go make a video."
Luke: "Have sex with someone?"
Joanna: "It was just a blowjob video. He saw that video on the internet and I was wearing that outfit I bought for him. He said, 'That day you told me you had to go to a meeting.' I was like, well, that's kind of a meeting for me."
We laugh.
Joanna: "He was kind of a jerk. Only a jerk sleeps with a girl in a bathroom [while she's on a date with someone else]."
Joanna says she's had about a dozen boyfriends in her life. She's never been engaged.
Luke: "How many men have asked you to marry them?"
Joanna: "None that I've dated. Only men who've never met me.
"The bartender was Jewish. He grew up religious. That's why we got along. We were these filthy people who came from religious backgrounds.
"I'm dating someone [male talent in LA] now who's Jewish, but he doesn't like it when I tell people that we're dating. When you talk to someone on the phone every day and they tell you that they like you and I tell them that I like them, that's dating. He just has commitment issues. Sometimes I'll play this little tricks and I won't call for a couple of days and he'll call and say that he misses me.
"We don't actually go out. I go see him."
Luke: "And go have sex with him."
Joanna: "Yeah. And we talk."
Luke: "Is he a director?"
Joanna: "I wish. I want to date a director."
Luke: "Does he have an SAT over 1440?"
Joanna: "I didn't even ask. My last boyfriend had a 1550.
"While making Joanna's Angels, I didn't leave the house for two months. I don't even know if LFP will like it. The release date is September 13 if I fix all the terrible mistakes I made on it."
Luke: "You got to pass QC.
"So this is your first relationship with someone who is talent."
Joanna: "This is not a relationship. This doesn't count."
Joanna has done a scene with her non-boyfriend.
Luke: "So, you're feeling better. You sounded depressed the last few times I spoke to you."
Joanna: "It's so nice that you're concerned. I'm a little upset by all the QC issues, but I think that a lot of the time when people are geniuses, nobody gets it at first."
She laughs. "I'm coming this September. I'm going to be in a movie. He's going to be in it too but we're not going to be working together. I think we're both going to get jealous. I won't get jealous but he might, but he'll never say it.
"I'm supposed to do some press for Joanna's Angels. Who knows if it will ever make it out because apparently I suck."
AVN Editor Mike Ramone: 'Anti-Semitic Slur Over at AdultDVDTalk'
Haze begins the thread "Offensive Porn Titles" on ADT:
I noticed "Slut Puppies" and "Ass Whores" etc. Has there ever been a title that someone said "that title is just too offensive. We can't name the movie that"?
Has anyone seen Khan Tusion's "Cum Sucking Kikes"?
Oren from Anarchy writes: "A Latin Line titled Border Hoppers I think tops the list."
In a thread on "Offensive porn titles." Are those moderators asleep at the wheel or what? I won't repeat it here. Check it out yourself if you want. As for the authors, what a pair of s----for-brains. The bottom feeding of some people never ceases to amaze.
Here's part of their reasoning, as articulated by ADT owner Steph:
"We work hard to maintain a friendly environment but are not going to remove every stupid and offensive remark. ... Haze posted a title that would be too offensive for a company to use. He did not call someone a kike. You are making a mountain out of a molehill. ... It's a thread specifically about offensive titles."
Here's part of my response: "It's a NON-EXISTENT title. It would be a different story if it was a REAL title. The thread ISN'T about concocting the most offensive title one can think of. It's about REAL offensive titles, duh."
Whatever. They made their decision. As stubbornly stupid as it is. ADT moderators will admonish posters not to "flame" other posters, i.e, criticize them, but won't take down a flat-out ethnic slur. Maybe they need to re-think their priorities.
Steph (co-owner of ADT with her husband Drew Black) responds:
While we are posting private emails - here is Mike's comment that led me to not value his opinion: "I'm not going to let this go. I don't mean to cause problems for you, but as the editor of AVN, I have some clout, and I intend to use it when I contact whoever runs adultdvdtalk on Monday and ask why racial slurs are permitted on the site?"
Heidi Pike-Johnson writes in her review of Riot Sluts in the AVN magazine September 2004: "Ariana Jollee does her first interracial scene complete with d.p.s, a whole lotta butt sex and calls herself a 'filthy kike' mid-f---. It's what she wants to do, and she does it."
Mike Ramone responds: "Drew, big difference between Ariana, a Jew, calling herself that, actually uttering the words, and Haze making up a title with the "k" word in it. even so, I did raise my eyebrows at the Ariana reference."
Funny... AVN gave a good review of Slant Eye for the Straight Guy. Last time I checked, slant eye is a racial slur. Hell, the title was mentioned in one of the early posts of that thread yet I don't see you going all anti-defamation league over it.
Mike Ramone writes:
"Slant Eye," though racially insensitive, isn't a flat-out, full-on racial slur like "kike" or "gook." I draw a difference.
I'm not trying to throw my weight around, but only made the clout remark after very nicely asking ADT to please remove the "k" word reference and incrediously being told no. Being told no from moderators who on occasion delete posts because they consider them "flaming." But I suppose a flat-out ethnic slur doesn't rise to that level.
As a Jew, I find the reference offensive and ADT's reasoning for leaving it up extremely weak and inexplicable. Like, "Ohh, Ramone said 'clout,' so I'm gonna spite him and leave the 'k' word up there." Well, you know what? What's right is right no matter how the request is phrased. Simply unbelievable that they won't take that down. But it's a done deal at this point.
Morbid Thoughts replies:
As an Asian, I draw the line at where you try to tell me what's a flat-out, full-on racial slur to an asian and what's not since I get to be the one that experiences this (and I have). Slant-eye has been used as a derogatory racial slur against many asians and those of mixed asian blood.
The only difference I see is that you're telling someone else how and what to censor the very thing you allow in your magazine.
Mike, Don't you find it to be quite a paradox that you express dissatisfaction with the racial slurs on another site (ADT) and you never addressed your own website's racial slur? AVN clearly took MONEY from an advertiser called MY DAUGHTERISf---INGANIGGER.COM. It was up for two months before it was changed. But NONETHELESS, AVN supported, and promoted a website with a filthier racial slur. Care to explain?
Mike Ramone responds:
KB - IF true, and you being the brother in law of our former head of advertising, I will take you at your word. So if true: I was unaware of that (1 - advertising isn't my department; 2 - you say the ad ran on our website, of which I am not the editor; 3 - what's the time frame? it may have run, if it ran, prior to me starting here). But in any event, such an ad is clearly unacceptable. And there is absolutely no way the owners of this company would have approved such an ad, so it obviously slipped onto our site under their radars. And isn't the important thing that unlike ADT, we conceded such an ad was inappropriate and had it changed?
As far as Lars' latest rage-fueled rant, once again he's demonstrating just how completely over his head he is when he tries to be a media critic. Using whatever clout one has to try to wrong a right is a virtue. Is it wrong, for say, the L.A. Times to use its clout to combat racism? Don't you think the L.A. Times would be more effective in combatting racism because of its clout than say the average citizen? Is it wrong for AVN to use its clout to shine a light on Lars' depraved kill-animals-then-f----on-them business (the basis of all his rants against us and me in particular, since I wrote the articles)? Of course not. And clearly I don't have much clout since ADT said no.
Ben writes me:
What's the big deal about using 'kike' or 'filthy Jew' or 'Holocast survivor' or anything else? You guys throw around 'nigger' like its nothing and have no problem readily promoting girls who don't do black guys. Would the Jewish owners of companies ever use a girl who blatantly said she refuses with work with 'kikes' or 'filthy jews'? Let's get real and face the facts. Its the same hipocrasy has George W. Bush wanting war but doesn't want his daughters enlisting. They can go to Yale but not the Navy Academy. Give me a break.
I don't think I'd have to do much research to come up with a pretty lengthy list of racially offensive titles that deal with black and inter-racial flicks. Hell, I've shot some of them. But I don't recall AVN having a problem with any of those. In fact, I don't recall them having a problem giving some of them some pretty good reviews.
Howz that happen? Oh, wait. Could it be that there aren't too many black owners of big porn companies who buy AVN advertising while there's many, MANY Jewish company owners who do? Nah. It couldn't be anything as simple as that.
Hey Mikey! Two words, pal (and my guess is they probably won't offend your gentle sensibilities): Nigga Please!
Jake writes me:
The entire title controversy is from adultdvdtalk is bananas. The comment from Haze was a joke, maybe bad but still a joke. To watch Mike from AVN throw around his "clout" because he was offended? Oh my goodness, Mike...posting something like that will not save your karma. You are doomed brother, you cannot fix your soul. Rot on.
Wow, my post wasn't to offend I was only exaggerating a title that could be deemed "too offensive." I'm not antisemetic at all. I mean using the words "whore" or "cunt" or calling a woman a "f--khole" is not the most politically correct terminology either. BTW, is there not a porn title called "Yellow Fever"?
Lost Terrorism writes on ADT:
It's great to see that porn has moved on from producing titles that make offensive reference to black people to now producing titles that make offensive reference to people of all colours, races, nationalities and religions. Equal oppurtunites racism, the wave of the future.
Buy Buy writes: "I love these racially insensitive titled that degrade women. They are so funny and shouldn't be taken so seriously. Nowhere can you find an industry that doesn't care about politically incorrect statements and titles. More power to the authors who invent such insulting profanity."
David Aaron Clark writes:
Perhaps Mike is trying to get a little inter-site brouhaha going so that the other site can catch up, traffic-wise.
Considering that Khan has always enjoyed making self-mocking "Can you see the horns? Can you see my cloven hooves?" evil-Jewish-pornographer remarks himself (in between attempts at emotionally brutalizing abused & destitute teens, which of course doesn't offend Mike's sensibilities in the least), the irony drips like frosting in the rain, methinks!
How is [it] that Rob Black is a First Amendment hero for depicting rape & brutalization of pregnant women during a career based pretty much on the living out of hate fantasies; TT Boy, et al are considered industry icons to be honored; and Khan is allowed to buy advertising space & his distributor's press releases are dutifully run verbatim -- but poor little Haze is now a threat to world peace?
In case you haven’t heard, Mike Ramone, Editor in Chief of AVN , is offended. Furthermore, in case you weren’t aware, since someone at AVN is upset this means we as a collective community of adult industry workers and fans should also be beside ourselves with anger and outrage. AVN is undoubtedly the litmus test that all expression in or around this industry must pass and frankly this Haze guy over on AdultDVDTalk has failed that test miserably.
Carolyn S-nclair (Hustler Magazine Features Editor) And Her Men
The Hustler Tattler writes:
Through much research, the Hustler Tattler has uncovered some interesting tidbits on Hustler Features Editor Carolyn S-nclair. Originally from Texas, Carolyn is often heard complaining about those "blondes from Dalllas with big fake boobs who get whatever they want from men." But it would appear that she is just as manipulative as her more endowed, attractive counterparts. Sinclair brags that her days as a waitress in a strip bar in Austin taught her how to play men for tips. "I had the little innocent girl with braces thing going on, I knew how to work that on older guys." And apparently she has been working it ever since, sans the braces. Here is a short list of older men she has reportedly played:
Tony (last name withheld upon request)
Tony is an older graduate student a CSUN where Carolyn did her undergraduate work. When she returned from Thailand in September 2004, she convinced Tony to let her stay at his apartment, rent free, for months. "Tony is always complaining about how long it’s been for him since he's had sex," she once laughed. Indeed, the only "pleasure" Tony got was giving her free rent, paying for her car registration and the numerous parking tickets that she incurred.
Ed Rampel
A Hustler freelancer who took Carolyn out a number of times, but like Tony, didn't get any nookie, just the pleasure of being used. The veteran writer was further humiliated when the inexperienced young scribe beat him out for the Features Editor job she currently holds at Hustler. Sorry Ed, but Bruce David didn't want to mount you.
Mark Cromer
Carolyn went out with Cromer twice when he was Hustler's Features Editor [Mark says this was purely platonic]. She confided to a friend that all she wanted from Cromer was work, and ultimately his job. She got it. And the moment she sat in Cromer's chair, she stopped talking to him and started ripping the fired scribe to pieces over the phone to freelance writers. Que Sera Sera, Mark. Nice knowing you.
Bruce David
Her easiest mark. The 60-something Editorial Director of Hustler was enamored by the diminutive deep voiced ingénue, so it didn't take much effort to convince the sex-starved senior citizen to hire her. Bruce thought he was setting up the perfect pussy on the side arrangement by hiring the inexperienced writer, but shortly after he brought her onboard, she got married to an unemployed high school drop out Irish bartender. Suddenly, Bruce's X-rated office fantasies went up in flames faster than you can say "LFP."
Sinclair is able to deflect any personal responsibility via her Buddhist philosophy which amounts to, “I hope you find what you are looking for in life.” We sure are Carolyn. Every day we find another skeleton in your closet.
Duck Dumont (Allan Shustak) Died Of A Heart Attack Sunday Night
He owned Redboard Video.
Duck aka Allan was hospitalized last Friday.
He was with Kym Wilde for eight years. They broke up about three years ago.
Funded by Gary Kremen, Wilde sued Redboard Video and Allan.
Adult tends to make one a bit lazy. It’s hard to f--k up. As long as you get the image, it’ll sell. I was in a position where I was able to start making adult pictures in relative economic safety, and it’s evolved into a career. I’ve made a couple of movies that were non-X-rated, and they did well, and I was offered jobs doing other straight pictures, but economically, it just wasn’t there.
Alan began his porn career in 1974.
Bridget & Skeeter - Remembering The Better Times
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I Know This Sounds Horrible
A few months ago, a friend got me to join MySpace. It has a feature where people can ask you to add them as a friend.
Until two weeks ago, I added everybody who wanted to be my friend. Then a 16-year old girl I know found my profile and asked me to add her as a friend. I did so.
I immediately felt queasy that kids I know are going to run across my MySpace profile and immediately see my long list of porn friends.
After reflecting on that for a week, I purged my friends list of anyone connected to porn. I couldn't stand the shame of not only introducing porn to kids, but of introducing porn to civilian friends of mine who may have no interest in, or even be offended by, porn.
I don't believe in shoving porn in people's faces and when people come to my profile, I don't want them confronted by porn. I want to keep vast sections of my life porn free.
It depends on the person, and it depends on the porn, but at a certain level with certain persons, porn becomes toxic.
Does that mean I don't want to have friends in porn? Of course not. I constantly meet nice people in porn but that doesn't mean I want to introduce them to my parents.
You, dear reader, may take drugs, but I doubt you want to introduce your drug dealer to your parents.
You may have sex with prostitutes, but I doubt you want to introduce them (even if they are perfectly nice) to your parents.
You may think porn chicks are the most amazing creatures in the world (and I've had those feelings of awe), yet, in the nitty gritty of life outside the porn bubble, most of you are going to think of them as dirty whores and be embarrassed to be associated with them.
These conflicted feelings are not unique to porn. There are plenty of people who find me fascinating but, in certain social groups, think I'm a dirty whore and are embarrassed to be associated with me.
I like a lot of people in porn, but if they started flooding into my writing club or hiking club or Australia club or cricket club, I wouldn't like it.
When I left porn for over a year, I stayed in intermittent contact with James DiGiorgio, Rob Spallone, and DCypher. I occassionally reached out to others, including one guy I used to speak to almost every day, but they didn't return my calls.
I just emailed one person who wanted to be added to my MySpace friends list:
I want to be your friend, but I don't add anyone connected to the... to my MYSPACE friends list because of kids who might see my profile, my friends and family in the real world. I used to do it but my civilian friends ridiculed me, bla bla...
As a writer, I have no problem being perfectly nice to evil people (and I don't believe that most people in porn are evil). When I'm not at work, however, I want to keep bad people at arm's length.
Everything above is a sanitized way of saying that most people I deal with I am emotionally distant from. And while I try to be polite to everyone, I only care to share myself with a handful of people (and very few of those are in porn).
I know that the above sounds horrible, and I am sure I will regret publishing it. The feelings I've outlined are not necessarily ones I'm proud of, but they're mine and they're real.
Wankus writes: "Why not start a MySpace page for L-F and your adult friends then another one for your personal friends? A lot of stars I know do that. Keep everyone separate and offend no one."
PS. Since posting this article, I've had about ten porners apply to be my MySpace friend.
Reading her AVN interview, it seems that she takes little responsibility for her company's bankruptcy and only blames others for its misfortunes.
She claims she is going back to Jill Kelly Productions (JKP) to help out the creditors. The truth is that when she tried to form a new company, all the distributors that she approached turned her down. She has no choice but to go back to JKP.
Jill tells AVN: "I can really see who my true friends are. Nobody ever wants to see anybody successful and happy. I'd rather just be with my animals. I'm not bitter, it's just people in general make me sick. I'd rather just spend time with my dogs and my horses."
Distributors are not stupid. They know that Jill played a role in the JKP meltdown.
I wonder if Bob Friedland (former CEO of JKP) will eventually sing to the Grand Jury. He's got nothing to lose. When Friedland talks, Jill may have to forget about funding a new company and start funding her legal defense.
JKP owes distributor IVD so much money that IVD won't talk to Jill about distributing her new company.
"IVD bought the factor. We owe the factor like $380,000. ... So that’s why we had to file Chapter 11. It’s the only way I know how to try to make things right. I feel responsible. I should've educated myself a lot more rather than just be on the creative side, so I take full responsibility."
Factoring means selling invoices. Say you have a deal with distributor X to 1,000 of your movies at $12 payable within 90-days, you can sell that invoice for about 90% of its value.
Almost every production company factors.
Jill has a long history of working with shady companies. Personalporn.com was one. They stole content.
"She is attracted to cons like flies to s---," says Mike South. "Look at her stock filings for JKP. They list her salary as $450,000/yr and she is bitching in that interview that she wasn't mking that. If she wasn't, then she was party to a big scam."
Kenny Gallo = FBI Informant
Jerry Capeci writes August 11:
When [Teddy Persico] walked out of Green Haven, he jumped into a well-stocked stretch limousine that was waiting to take Teddy back to Brooklyn. Among the amenities was a porn star/hooker provided by a family associate with a lucrative online porn and escort business...
Unfortunately for Persico, the porn dealer had also been supplying the FBI information about mob activities from New York to California for four years, and was wired up and on the scene when Carmine L. Persico gave brother Teddy a handgun that triggered his tape-recorded rant about clean and dirty bullets.
I believe the porn star/hooker in this story is Dayton and the porn dealer is Kenny Gallo aka Kenji aka Kenneth V. Gallo (born 6/1/68). The only other person in the car was gangster Eddie Garofalo.
Kenny (half-Japanese (on the father's side), half-Italian) knew Teddy Persico well.
Contrary to the Jerry Capeci report, Gallo doesn't own an online porn and escort business. But as a gangster, he would shake down such businesses, including Exotica-2000. E2K would hire Kenny to collect money from the girls and then write him a check for his efforts.
...[T]the informer has told the FBI that Edward Garofalo – whose father, demolition contractor Edward (The Chink) Garofalo was killed in 1990 on orders from the Dapper Don – is a key Teddy Persico operative and partner in a Staten Island trucking company that was raided last month in a continuing federal grand jury investigation.
Edward Garofalo is related to Keith Gordon, who owns Bizarre Video. They have many businesses together, such as parking garages. Eddie and Keith grew up together.
There's a federal gand jury in New York investigating the bankrupt Jill Kelly Productions, which Keith Gordon partnered with for a year. As Kenny Gallo worked for JKP and for Keith, it is likely that Gallo's reports started that grand jury investigation.
Keith lived across the street from Edward Garofalo's uncle Manny, who's married to one of Keith's relatives.
Keith frequently fronts for Eddie Garofalo. Keith is the nice-guy front for the Mob.
Teddy Persico Jr was headed to become the boss of the Colombo family but Gallo took care of that.
Gallo is now running for his life. There are a lot of people who want him dead, including Donnie Shacks, Jimmy Caci, and Eddie Garofalo.
Teddy Persico's attorney Joseph Corozzo, whose uncle is Gambino capo Nicholas (Little Nick) Corozzo, says the testimony of Kenny Gallo is unreliable.
I call Tabetha Stevens and ask her "what's new and exciting?"
Tabetha: "Tomorrow I'm going to be suspended from hooks in my back, from my skin, 30-feet in the air, for my new film (R-rated). I'm the producer. It's a mainstream movie. Shaman. Two more weeks are left on [the shoot]. Matt Zane did it years ago. Matt's going to be on set with me."
Luke: "Why?"
Tabetha: "It's going to be a cool part of the movie. It's about the business, in a sense, and how I'm getting out of it. I may be pissing some people off by doing this movie. There's no sex, no kissing. I'm acting and doing gross disgusting hanging things."
Luke: "I think I've read about your ex-husband."
Tabetha: "That he's ratting everybody out? I don't talk to him. I have no idea. He's a nightmare. He's supposed to be out of the country in protective custody. He's a big liar. Whatever happens, he has it coming. He did a lot of bad things to me. He's been ratting on some big people.
"It's amazing to me how he got in there. To get in that close to get them in that much trouble? He must've done something serious."
Luke: "He was a big cocaine dealer."
Tabetha: "He wasn't that big. He says he was. Kenny likes to fabricate.
"He came crying to me [about a year ago over a porn store Kenny and Tabetha owned in Orange County]. He forged my name on documents. We got sued. I didn't know. I took the store over from him. There was a lean on it. I didn't even know. I had to pay off his debt (over $50,000). He cried to me that he couldn't do it.
"He's going to find out the hard way. He's going to screw with the wrong person at the wrong time and I'm not going to be there to bail him out."
I remember one day in 1998 when James DiGiorgio came barging into Rob Spallone's office and announced: "Kenji's (Kenny Gallo) been busted in a RICO investigation."
Perhaps Kenny went to work for the feds to reduce his own problems with law enforcemen?
From the February 25, 2003 edition of DP Tonight:
An email comes in inquiring about the private parts of asian men. The four girls deny any knowledge of such things.
Devon squeals to Tabitha: "You've been married to an Asian."
Tabetha's second marriage was to Kenny Gallo aka Kenji, a man who was busted by the feds on a RICO charge because of his connections to organized crime. Kenny is half Japanese and half Italian. He and Tabitha Stevens own an adult bookstore in Orange County. They divorced in 1997.
Tabetha: "He had a dogleg to the left. Last night, Kenny came over to Devon's house. We made him get naked. We made him do the bean dance. We called him Farmer Kenny."
Devon: "He's very subservient."
Tabetha: "That's what I like about him. Every morning, he would bring my orange juice, bagel and vitamins out at 6AM. I wouldn't get up for another six hours. My bagel was a little dry."
I called around the industry to get some reactions to Kenny the Rat.
"He's always prided himself on being an encyclopedia of the Mob," said one guy. "He could name names. He's read every book. His father is rich and owns a bunch of magazines."
Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith (author of the book The Animal in Hollywood, the autobiography of Gallo's friend Anthony Fiato, an ex-gangster) writes about Kenny Gallo in his July 1, 2001 column:
He still has the face of a young man, but he's been running the streets of Los Angeles for years. His eyes are getting old, like maybe they've seen too much.
First it was dope and strong-arm stuff, then he graduated to more sophisticated crime and even a few quasi-legitimate businesses. From cocaine to kink, he's made the rounds.
Eventually, he hooked up with Palm Springs, Calif., mobster Jimmy Caci. He traded on Caci's name and contacts, made a few scores and kicked back money to the aging Mafia figure. Through the years, he developed contacts in Hollywood and the pornography racket.
But by far his most important contact is with the FBI, with whom he has maintained a stormy relationship as a confidential informant on a variety of cases, but most especially the sweeping La Cosa Nostra racketeering case marked by the 1996 murder of Las Vegas mobster Herbie Blitzstein.
Now my man is nervous.
From the archives of l-keford.com 5/18/01:
When Jimmy Caci Shook Down David Sturman
XXX says: You know who sent Jimmy Caci (West Coast mobster whose contacts go up to Sonny Franzese of the Colombo crime family) to Sin City to shake down David Sturman in 1995? It was Ken Gallo, aka Kenji, that Japanese guy who thinks he's a mobster.
You can see Jimmy Caci and Ken Gallo and Tabitha Stevens in this picture.
Gallo claimed that Sin City owed him money. I think they screwed David over which is why David was being a hardass. They got into a screaming match. There were a lot of people in the building when it happened.
Kenny called these people (Jimmy Caci and company) in from Palm Springs. David got into an argument with them. David told they to go f--- themselves. And they said they were going to make a phone call. David said, 'You're going to make a f---ing phone call? I'll make a f---ing phone call. I'll make your f---ing phone call s--- in your pants.' In other words, David can make a bigger phone call. And those guys left.
Luke: They left with thousands of David's dollars.
XXX: They left with way less money than was owed Kenny. I know they settled for less, for like $9,000 out of $15,000. David was ballistic. He was pissed beyond belief. He was screaming. 'You bring these f---ing wiseguys into my f---ing place?' And then David tried to blackball Kenny Gallo. He said that GVA would not buy anything that had Kenny Gallo's name on it. I'm sure he still won't talk to Kenny Gallo.
YYY says: This Israeli guy Ben, through Jerry Zimmerman, sold a movie to Mickey Blank at Sin City. And Sin City never bothered to pay. So Jimmy Caci went down there and collected the money from David Sturman. Later, Sin City owed money to Kenny Gallo for the Buck Adams movie Blade. The video rights were sold to Kevin Beechum and David Sturman bought the foreign and cable rights. David claimed that Buck owned the money and that he didn't owe Kenji any money. So Kenji showed him the copyright on the movie.
So Kenji and Jimmy Caci and a couple of other guys went into Sin City to pay David Sturman a call. And Buck Adams and Mickey Blank and a bunch of guys were there. Buck got thrown out. And David said, 'I don't know what you guys are making such a big deal about. It's only $13,000.'
An argument erupted. David tried to weasel his way out and that he knew people, muscle, too. So Jimmy says, 'Get on the phone bubblegum chewing motherf---er. Call who you've got to call.' And of course, David didn't call anyone because he can't. He has no muscle. Just because you have money doesn't mean anything. Then Mickey Blank interjected until he got told to shut up. And Gallo got his check.
Jimmy Caci made hundreds of thousands of dollars off of porno. But he and the other mobsters hate to be called pimps. But they take the money. They shake people down and they're silent partners with pornographers.
Jimmy Caci was good friends with Butchie and Tony Peraino and LP Duplication and "Big Chris" Natale Richichi (a captain in the Gambino family). Big Chris's son Sal owned L.A. Video with Kevin Beechum. Big Chris lived in Las Vegas. He just died.
In the year 2000, Mickey Blank tried to get Gallo arrested for selling his product. First Blank told the police that it was counterfeit. The Orange County intelligence squad drove all the way into the San Fernando Valley to look into this. Mickey claimed that the only person who could distribute his product was him. And that it was worth $14 a tape. But everyone in the business knows it is worth $2 a tape. It turned out that Mickey Blank's son sold the 400 pieces to Kenji Gallo. And Mickey and the police looked like idiots.
Amber Lynn got high on crack cocaine and held Kenji Gallo hostage. The SWAT team got the gun away from her. She ran. They grabbed her. They held her on $30,000 bail. She called and threatened Kenji 20-30 times in a day and they pressed charges against her for making telephonic threats. And placed a six-year restraining order against her.
I call Kevin Beechum and ask: "Who is Kenny Gallo aka Kenji?"
Kevin: "Kenny's a f---ing little punk Chinese f---er that thinks he's a wiseguy Italian."
Luke: "He seems to have a lot of connections."
Kevin: "He's was a little f---ing runner for the boys in the day that would do anything and so he was associated with some. Big deal. The coattails, he's trying to scare everybody. Or he gets them to come into their office like he did with David [Sturman]. After that, David called me and f--- dude, I called Kenny and said, 'Bring them punks over here.' And they were too chicken to come over."
Luke: "Could you have handled Jimmy Caci? He's a big mobster."
Kevin: "He can suck dick."
Luke: "What's Kenny's full name?"
Kevin: "I don't know dude. He's f---ing Chinese. He's got four different names that he tries to go by and puts Italian names on. Who f---ing knows. He didn't shake down David like that. They went in there but as soon as they walked out of there, David called me. I got right on Kenny's f---ing ass and those guys. And they actually got together and called me on the phone through a mediator and they asked me to not be after them and be pissed off after them."
7/12/01
David Sturman Blackballs Kenny Gallo From Jill Kelly Shoot
I hear that Sin City Video owner David Sturman blackballed porn producer Kenny Gallo from working on a shoot for Jill Kelly Productions this week at the Sin City studio.
An inside source says: "David made a deal with Buck Adams. And Buck owed Kenny Gallo money. So Kenny took it upon himself to hire these junior Mafia guys to extort money from David because Buck owed him. Sturman bought the foreign rights to the movie. And once David got paid, David paid Buck. And then Kenny Gallo showed up at David's door.
"David could've made calls to New York but he worried about his family. So he just paid the money and that was it.
"David didn't know who these mobsters were. They were these midget Italian guys. David called Kevin and Beechum said he'd take care of these guys. David's a Jewish guy from the suburbs and is not used to this."
Shake It Up Luke
Steve writes:
Hey, Luke, I'm one of your fans from Canada with a couple of comments/questions. First off, when you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up? This question is probably not relevant to you, so I ask you why do you insist on asking EVERY single female performer the same? Hell, it seems as if you spew off this question verbatim as if it was some sort of verbal nervous tick. How about changing it up from time to time, because any decent "journalist" must surely have more than one interview format on which to rely.
The second thing that has been eating at me is your porn star karaoke photos. I'm sure that a photographer needs to take more than one shot of a person/group for the consideration of developing problems, but do you really have to post each exposure? How do your readers benefit from seeing five exposures of Katie Gold and Wankus in the same pose? Do you not realize that this repeated practice only serves to reassure your redundency? One shot of each "set" should be enough. I mean, Kelly Erickson is beautiful enough, but I think I saw enough of her after the seventh or eighth photo.
When you get on the track of something, Luke, you are a pretty imaginative writer who can really keep the reader interested in your topic du l'heure. That is, when YOU are writing something. Please stop relying on linked posts that others write. If I want to read Legs McNeil, Gene Ross or Gram Ponante (silliest name ever) I will damn well go to their respective sites and do so. I come to Lukeisback.com to read what Luke has to say. I discovered your work purely by accident about a year ago when I saw a starlet mention in an interview something along the lines of, "... I can't remember where I heard that first. I think I read in on l-keford.com..."
I checked out your former site and, as a porn enthusiast and historian, was very impressed by its content. I was soon disheartened to learn that you were no longer running the site and downright outraged when I saw what Scott Fayner was doing to a once-powerful porn outlet. Then I discovered Lukeisback.com last August. You might as well call it l-keford-Lite. Gone are the days of controversial topics and inflammatory comments . You have allowed your site to become a virtual stroke-job to the big players in the industry. Go ahead Luke -- shake it up a little! Get down and dirty and give your fans what they expect from you!
Don Fernando Remembers French Talent Agent Patrice Cabanel
Patrice Cabanel, who died in his sleep June 12 of a heart attack,was very important to me since the first time that I met him in Paris. At that time, he had just opened his agency in his apartment near Place de Gambetta. He was "the new agent in town" and I was "the new actor (from the U.S.) in town" and he asked me to help him contact my friend Carolyn Monroe, who was a porn superstar in the U.S. to bring her to work for Max Bellocchio in Paris.
I was living in Europe working for Alain Payet, Michel Ricaud for VMD, Max Bellocchio, Gian Carlo Bini, Gabriel Pontello and a new guy named Pierre Woodman (with hair) around Paris for a few weeks but then the summer holiday started and NOBODY was shooting so I ran out of money
.Even though I had only known Patrice for 2 weeks, he offered me the key to his apartment and invited me to stay in his son's room (his son was with the mother for the summer) until I left to Italy to work for Mario Salieri 2 weeks later. I politely declined but he would not take NO for an answer and insisted that I stay so I did.
We became friends but over the next months all of the Italian productions stopped coming to Paris to shoot and I only saw Patrice in Cannes for the Hot d'Or Awards every year. Time went by...and then after a long time not seeing Patrice I saw him in Brussels earlier this year on March 5 when we both received awards at the European X Awards event. I didn't think that it would be the last time I would see this stranger who opened his heart for me in Paris a long time ago and offered help to me without me asking. There is an empty space in my soul...Patrice...I will miss you!
Budapest HIV Update
During the meeting last Friday in Budapest, one of the subjects we have been talking about is the fact that some performers here in Budapest are also working in the gay porn. We know the gay porn doesn't works without HIV test even some productions are shot with condoms only. I don't blame the gay porn! Here is the real problem... In Budapest (maybe in other countries too) few guys from the gay porn does also "private" jobs!!! We don't know who, as they don't really talk about it but secretly everybody knows what is going on!!! On the set we will never ever know what the guy was doing the night before or any day before the shooting! He might have a current HIV test, but we still have some doubts about other "jobs" he might do beside porn...?! The very first thing the responsible of the Lab said last Friday "we believe he brought the virus from outside of the business"!!! The experience will show that in this particularly case, the guy was doing some gay prostitution jobs! Some guys in Hungary from the gay porn, works in the straight porn for sometimes a very low rate! That is really interesting for some productions and specially for the producer's bank account! The question, is the producer morally responsible for the performers he use in his films? Since the producer is a businessman and the model shows an HIV negative test...
Genesis Skye's dog is alive!
I know I looked like crap. I told Jeff not to take a pic of me with the dog but then said f--- it. My hair's a mess cause I don't have A/C in my car so all my windows were down. Well, at least now you've all seen me ruffing it! Jeff is a funny guy... knowing where I REALLY was the day before must really hurt your post silly boy. I knew he was going to post that cause he told me LOL! There's no reason to say where I was because it'll just start a whole new bank of rumors.
My car has no a/c because I used to street race back home in WI. It was for weight reduction. Not to mention that in Wisconsin it doesn't get too hot.
Joe writes:
Katie doesn't mention she dated Hugh Hefner. She mentions movies that she has appeared in and seems to have forgotten about the softcore Shannon Tweed porn she appeared in called 'Dead Sexy'. She showed off some full front nudity in that 'film.'
Tina Jordan is still around and it looks like she's leaching off Kerri Kasem (daughter of radio personality Casey Kasem), check out their calendar they've shot together.
I've also seen photos of the two on the red carpet together before different events in Los Angeles. Last I heard, Kerri was trying to launch a singing career and Tina was 'taking time off to herself' (direct quote from her website about two years ago). I don't know when or how they got to be friends, but the pairing is odd. Kerri is an LA entertainment industry rich kid and Tina is from the average LA family in the valley. Kerri is probably trying to get attention for her 'career' by attaching herself to a Playmate in a cheesy Maxim style photo shoot and Tina is probably just using Kerri for whatever it is trying to get. It is interesting to note that Tina is yet again attaching herself to a wealthy person with a well known name. The photos the two ladies have shot together could easily be a box cover for a porn movie. Tina doesn't at all look like the girl next door, because her features are too harsh looking.
Michelle Lay said on the Wankus KSEX radio show that this may very well be her last year in porn. The Monday show was interesting, because Dennis Hof and AirForce Amy were on and acting coked out! Amy, in particular, was acting very ADD, because her attention was everywhere other than where it was supposed to be. Viewers noticed and started discussing it in the chat room. In addition to being easily distracted, Amy couldn't sit still either. It was funny to watch. Dennis was on something too, but covered it up much better, because he was able to sit still and pay attention. The only give-away was that he didn't sound as calculating when he spoke, the words came out in a lighthearted and effortless way.
Molly writes Friday about the AVN publisher:
Connelly may not yet be in rehab, but he's certainly not just "taking time off, nothing more." My understanding is that Connelly is on a forced exile - he needs to get clean as a precondition for returning to work. So the longer he delays rehab, the longer it will be before he returns. I'm told that the general AVN [attitude] is a sense of relief that Connelly and his hyper, aggressive, confrontational personality is out of the building and as a result, things are running much more smoothly. He has alienated many people there.
Kurt Lockwood phones me at 4:03pm Saturday. He sounds angry.
I want you to print this on your site verbatim. You're a parasite. I see that you've written something about my friend Tim Connelly. You're talking out of your ass. You don't what you're saying. You should have more consideration for somebody who is going through something rather than using every means necessary to make a quick buck. You're a parasite. If you write about my friend again, you're going to have to deal with me when you see me in person. Got it?
Summer Haze, Craig Valentine Marry Again
pic pic pic pic pic pic Craig is Jewish. Note the yarmulkas.
Who Is Louis Depaz?
Louis took a break from his work as the publicist for StripDown Magazine to phone me Friday afternoon.
Duke: "I want to interview you about your career in the adult entertainment industry."
Louis, who has a strong Mexican accent: "I'm not in the adult entertainment industry. I was hired by StripDown Magazine to be their public relations representative because I know a lot of people and I'm a promoter. I can make these great events. I've never considered myself in the adult entertainment industry and I never want to be. I have done events for Oscar de la Hoya. I have his number.
"It's funny. It makes me look small time. I throw events for everybody. I interned at one of Southern California's biggest PR firms, Slanted PR."
Louis gets another phone call and has to run.
Rob Spallone Promises Me Beautiful Girls
And once again, he doesn't disappoint (from the set of Bang My Tight White Ass at the home of distributor Ariel, the Israeli).
Dan Lewis, disappointed he couldn't rise to the occasion Duane, Dan Eva Lux Duane Cumminz Duane Eva Envy Eva, Rob, Ron Don Fernando, Eva, Rob Rob, Eva Rob, Eva Eva Eva Rob shows Ron Sullivan the picture of the bottom left of the page, that's Rob plan for Ron when he kicks the bucket Rob Spallone
As I walk in, I see Duane Cumminz and Dan Lewis doing a scene with Envy. Dan can't keep it hard. The scene has gone on for two hours.
Black guys usually take longer than white guys to get it up because black guys have more to lift.
Don Fernando, married to Sabrine Maui, shoots behind-the-scenes footage.
Rob asks me: "What's new?"
Duke: "I saw my first Air Supply concert Sunday night."
Khunrum writes: "Duke. Do you think there is any collation between Air Supply and that porno guy's flaccid member? Were you playing A S's Greatest Hits whilst he was attempting to generate a boner?"
Rob: "You took your first hit of acid Sunday night? What was it like?"
Rob flicks the ash off his cigarette on to the floor. "It doesn't matter," says Rob. "The house is owned by a Jew."
Rob looks for people to blame for saddling him with a limp-dicked-performer.
Rob calls Jim South and yells at him: "Who's this guy you sent me? Dan Lewis? He can't f---. It's wonderful. We've been rolling since 8:30am.Unbelievable. I'm going to kill you. The next time this happens, I'm coming to your office and painting you black and you're going to do a scene."
Don Fernando, 57, tells Rob: "I don't know Duke with long hair. I thought he was talent."
Rob: "You thought he was cute? You were checking out his ass?"
Don: "No. I'm not gay, but I dream about good looking guys as talent in these movies."
Rob opens up the fridge and asks me to tell me what some food is that is labelled in Hebrew.
"It's yoghurt," I say. "Laben."
Rob: "Is that Jewish? You can have one."
Duke: "It's not our's, Rob. It's other people's property. Theft. Eighth commandment."
A month ago, Rob gave me $10 to get a haircut. He's not happy with the way my hair cascade down my shoulders.
Duke: "You only gave me enough money to get the front and sides cut."
Rob points out my hair is greying and he recommends I use the same color rinse he adds to the sides of his hair every couple of months.
Duke: "I think you dyed the whole thing."
Rob: "That's mouse in my hair. Are you coming on to me? If I dyed the whole thing, wouldn't I tell you I dyed the whole thing?"
Duke: "No. You might be embarrassed. You might feel less masculine because you have to dye the whole thing."
Rob: "I'm not embarrassed. I get a manicure and a pedicure every week."
Rob threatens to shave my head.
Duke: "If you give me another six bucks, I'll be able to cut the back."
Rob: "By the look of it, you cut your front and sides."
Duke: "You don't feel like you got your money's worth from your ten bucks?"
Rob: "No."
Rob looks out at Envy still toiling away with the black guys. Her white husband Peter watches.
Rob booms: "This girl's a professional. She's been doing porno since you were born."
Don: "I don't think he realizes the things that come out of his mouth. He tries to be a nice guy, but..."
Rob: "I realize. I'm not that nice of a guy."
There's a knock on the door.
Rob yells, "Who's that?"
Kenny and I go to the door and meet Eva Lux, 32 (has appeared in a dozen pornos).
Ron yells her name to Rob.
Rob says to Kenny, "Is that the one you told me not to shoot?"
Kenny: "Yes."
Rob: Did you tell her we didn't need her?
Kenny: "I couldn't get a hold of her."
Mallory Knox, 30, is due to arrive any moment.
Rob yells at Kenny: "Send her home."
Rob yells at Ron: "What is she doing here?"
I cringe, imagine what she is thinking after driving all the way from Disneyland.
Ron yells at Rob: "You booked her."
Rob: "I didn't book her and I told you not to. Tell her to go home."
Ron: "You tell her and Jim South."
Rob: "You gave her my number."
Ron: "Yes. You called her up and you booked her."
Rob calls Jim South but can't get cell phone service.
"She ain't working."
Kenny: "I'm the one who talked to her on the phone and gave her directions."
Rob: "Did you give her a call time?"
Kenny: "Yes."
Rob: "You told me she was too old and not to book her."
Eva steps into the room. "Oh hi."
Rob: "Eva, did Jim South call you up and tell you it was cancelled."
Eva: "Excuse me? No. I've been a little hard to reach. Is it cancelled?"
Rob: "I think so."
Eva: "Oh s---."
Rob tells Jim South to cancell Malory Knox.
Rob makes up a new check for Eva. She'll get $680 instead of the customary $800 because World Modeling paid her AIDS test.
The guys get paid $200.
Don: "Paint me black and let me finish the scene."
Rob tells Kenny to pay Dan Lewis a $50 kill fee and send him home. Rob tells Eva to put on a strap-on and go to work for five minutes.
Eva says she must wash the strap-on.
"It doesn't have to be clean," says Rob. "As clean as the girls."
Eva complains that her cell phone company cut off her service (that's why she wasn't cancelled from today's shoot).
Rob: "They do that all the time to porno girls. And only to porno girls."
Eva: "It's discrimination.
"OK, I didn't pay the bill."
Rob throws his cigarette on the floor.
Duke: "Does [Ariel, the owner of the house] know you're smoking in his house?"
Rob: "I don't give a f---."
Duke: "Is that because he's a Jew?"
Rob: "That has nothing to do with it."
Duke: "Yeah."
Rob: "Why? I only smoke in Jewish people's houses? Don't give me that prejudiced s---. I asked someone to throw out my cigarette."
Duke: "Aren't you afraid that the black guys will step on your burning cigarette and get hurt?"
Rob: "No. The bottom of their feet are like coconuts."
Don: "Rob, will you stop that s---?"
Billy Banks shows up and he volunteers to be the second guy with Envy in addition to his scheduled scene.
Mallory Knox calls. She's just been cancelled and replaced with Eva Lux. Rob hangs up on her. "I don't want to talk to her," he says. "It's Jim South's fault."
Eva walks in. "You look hot!" says Rob.
Rob talks about the 40th anniversary of the Watts riots.
Duke: "Why do the black people keep burning down their own neighborhoods?"
Rob: "Because the government rebuilds them."
Don tells me: "Don't say that. You'll get your tires slashed."
I ask Eva if Rob is the most difficult person she's worked for.
"He's not difficult," she says. "He just has that New York attitude. I get along with people like that. He just likes to be loud and abrasive like me."
Eva says she wants to convert to Judaism.
Don gives Rob his tape. Rob gives him a $200 check.
Don: "You said $200 a day."
Rob: "No. It's $100 a tape [45-minutes each]. My psychiatrist is $300 an hour. Yesterday you worked for 37-minutes [of tape]."
Duke: "Why you trying to rip him off, Rob?"
Rob: "What are you talking about? I rip everybody off."
Don: "Rob, come on. You told me $200."
Rob: "You want $200 for working 37-minutes? Today's your last day. Tell Kenny and he'll write you another check. It's no problem."
Don: "No. No. Come on. Just give me $50."
Rob: "Not today. The next time you work. I'll let you know."
Don: "Should I call you?"
Rob: "I don't call anybody. You know that."
Don: "I know one thing. You don't say goodbye."
Rob: "I do that to everybody. If I hang up, that means I'm done talking to you. You call back."
Don: "I may not be finished."
I hear Lilly Thai has stopped performing for the sake of her relationship with director Craven Morehead.
I deal with the latest of the modeling agencies who "took her out of the book" (porn agency porn-speak for "You Are FIRED") 2 months ago for being a flake...as far as I know,she went through 2 agencies in her last 6 months...too much stardust. She was wired to the gills when I shot her. It broke my heart because she wasn't like that until after she met Craven Morehead.
l-keford.com claims about Lucy Thai (different girl?): "We haven't seen much from Luci lately because she is a high-priced hooker in Vegas and porn doesn't pay enough. With fine asian trim like that, her pimp doesn't want to let her go."