Friday, January 20, 2006
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Vegas Flu
I called a porn friend Friday afternoon. I did not recognize her voice.
"That's because I've got bronchitis," she said. "I caught it at the show two weeks ago. A lot of people are still sick. I didn't want to take antibiotics but I finally succumbed three days ago."
Kendra Jade just moved into her new home. She has the flu.
Jenna Presley Interview
She calls me Friday morning, Jan 20.
Jenna says that as a kid she wanted to become an actress. "When I hit seventh grade, I wanted to be a Playboy model.
"In highschool, I hung out with all the people who thought they were popular, who got nominated for Homecoming Queen. I was nominated as well but then I got put in the hospital for anorexia.
"I was an extreme dieter in my junior and senior year in highschool. I got down to the point where I couldn't diet anymore without dying, so I was put in the hospital by my parents. I'm over that now. I was in the hospital my entire senior year. It sucked. I was so bored.
"They told me in the hospital that someone who is anorexic never knows they're anorexic until they go on their first diet. My friend and I had gone on a diet together. We had only wanted to lose a good ten pounds, which would've been healthy for us. She stopped when she lost ten pounds. I couldn't quit, which is typical with anybody who has the disorder.
"I left the hospital the day I turned 18 [April 1, 2005]. I went back on my diet. One day I passed out in a store and got my license taken away. I checked myself back into hospital three weeks after I checked myself out. I stayed for four months."
"How did you overcome the problem?"
"I just checked myself into a good hospital. My uncle helped. He started crying because I was so thin, he thought I was going to die. Me and my uncle get along so well, better than anyone. Seeing him cry just crushed me."
"What was the least you weighed?"
"Fifty eight pounds [Jenna stands 5'1]. I checked into the hospital at 70-pounds. I refused to eat when I was in the hospital.
"I originally weighed 135-pounds. I lost weight quickly. I stopped at 105. Then I decided to go on that ten-pound diet. I weigh 95-pounds now."
"How old were you when you lost your virginity?"
"Fourteen, but that wasn't by choice. By choice, about 16."
"How did it affect you getting raped at 14?"
"Ohmigod. I kept my mouth shut. I didn't tell anyone, but it had a huge impact on my life. It was always in the back of my head. I was always scared to go to bed at night. When I was raped, I weighed 100 pounds, so I decided I had to weigh 99 pounds or less. My mind was all warped. I just had it in my head that if I was under 100 pounds, I wouldn't be raped."
"How many guys did you sleep with voluntarily before you turned 18?"
"Only three. Then I went to college [June 2005] and went crazy [had about 14 lovers, all protected she says] and then I got into porn [September 2005 and quit college].
"I was stripping at Spearmint Rhino. A couple of producers saw me and introduced me to Derek [Hay of LADirectModels]."
Jenna estimates she's done 125 scenes. "I was booked for three scenes the other day."
"Do you ever get injured?"
"Never. My pussy is like leather. I never get hurt.
"I'm saving my money. I plan on buying a house. I have a non-exclusive contract to direct and producer my own films for Shy Love Productions and Vicious Media."
"How often do you take 8x10s with you when you go to dinner?"
"I just did that that one night. I get a lot of emails and a lot of people on MySpace writing to me, 'How come we never see you?' This is not mainstream. I did it as a joke one night and a lot of people showed up at a club. I had brought 200 of them.
"People kept asking to see me, so I said, I'm going to the Ivy with my sister. About 25 people showed up. The Ivy was pissed."
"How did you like the convention in Vegas?"
"I had my purse stolen from me on Sunday. Other than that, I had a blast. I'm getting booked more because of everyone I met there."
"What do you love and hate about the porn industry?"
"I love the money and the sex and I hate when I'm booked with complete perverts who are groping you throughout the scene, or, when you are booked for a BJ scene, they ask, 'Can I put it in you?' Yeah, pay me.
"Europeans and people new to the business are more professional. They don't give a f--- about you."
"So why did you want the picture of you kissing Ron Jeremy taken down?"
"My friend Frank, who owns Bad Ass Models, was disgusted by that picture, so I took it down. It was also causing some drama. There's a girl in this business who I can't stand who told everybody that I was f------ him, which was a complete lie."
"What's it like trying to date and have relationships while you're working in porn?"
"It's horrible. Nobody wants to date me. They just want to f--- me. I don't have sex in my personal life unless the guy will date me. There's one guy that I'm with right now. I haven't had sex with him yet. He's involved in the industry. He's not talent.
"People see me, even friends from highschool, they come to visit me and try to get laid. 'Excuse me, we're friends. We're not f--- buddies.'
"I try to stay with guys who are familiar with the industry, guys who understand that this is just a job and I'm not attracted to any of the guys I work with. I was dating a guy who was talent. That didn't last too long."
Jenna Presley blogged Dec 27, 2005:
Please, let me explain this to you!! Im in porn, I have sex EVERYDAY!! What makes these boys that I get invloved with think that ALL I want is SEX??? NOOOOO I have feelings and emotions, im not a fucking blow up doll! I want a relationship... I want a guy to appriciate me, and buy me dinner without the thought of "I BETTER GET LAID FOR THIS!" You should invite me over as a girfriend with the feeling of excitement because you get to cuddle with a NICE girl, that just so happens to do porn. Im in porn and in my WORK life, yes, im a whore, no nice words needed. BUT In my PERSONAL life, I want to be loved and adored, im not materialistic so burn me a fucking cd with songs that remind you of me! Am I doing something wrong? Why do you ONLY want sex? Why are you suddenly SCARED of relationships? waaaaa I Just want to come home to a boy thats happy to see me, casue thats the biggest turn on, and then without even expecting it... YOULL GET LAID!
Luke: "How has it affected you being in porn?"
Jenna: "My mom's side of the family is understanding but my dad's side, my stepdad, I went to a family party and nobody knew what to talk about with me. They were standoffish.
"My brother [10] and sister [14] are cool. They know it's just a job. My brother said, 'Eversince you were in eighth grade, you've said you would be famous, only you didn't know how.' I'm not famous but he sees me on the computer so... 'You always said you were going to be on TV but you didn't know what you were going to do, and you're doing it. I like that. I want to be a motorcross rider and now I know I can do it.'
"That's cool that my little brother looks up to me. Not necessarily the porn side of it, but that I always said I was going to do something on TV and now I'm doing it."
"Your sister is able to deal with you being a porn star?"
"Yeah. She likes the attention at school. She goes to the same highschool I did. I was friends with a lot of the people who were younger than me. So, people always tell her, 'Hey, your sister is doing porn now.' She says she likes the attention. It was hard for her going into highschool, but now knowing a lot of the upper-graders, it's made it a lot easier for her.
"I want to go back to school and do some internet classes. If I'm going to direct for Vicious Media, I want to do it right. I want to start my own company one day. I have a couple of mainstream offers.
"I want a family so bad, maybe when I'm 28, 29, 30. Obviously when I'm not having sex for a living."
Some Of My Favorite Songs
# Song Name Artist Name Album Name Time
1. (They Long To Be) Close To You The Carpenters Close To You 4:36
2. Abide With Me Amy Grant Rock Of Ages...Hymns & Faith 4:49
3. Abide With Me London Philharmonic Choir Hymns Triumphant Volumes I
& II 2:23
4. All I Need Is A Miracle Mike & The Mechanics Mike & The Mechanics 4:11
5. Always On My Mind Willie Nelson Willie Nelson - 16 Biggest Hits 3:30
6. Amazing Grace Anne Murray What a Wonderful World: 26 Inspirational
Classics 3:46
7. Annie's Song John Denver Back Home Again 3:02
8. Ave Maria The Carpenters Christmas Portrait (Special Edition) 2:33
9. Babe Styx Greatest Hits 4:24
10. The Best Of Times Styx Paradise Theatre 4:18
11. Big City Nights Scorpions Moment Of Glory 4:36
12. Breakup Song Greg Kihn True Kihnfessions 3:12
13. Broken Wings Mr. Mister Welcome To The Real World 5:43
15. Can't Fight This Feeling REO Speedwagon The Hits 4:54
17. Cracklin' Rosie Neil Diamond The Neil Diamond Collection 3:01
18. Daydream Believer Anne Murray The Best...So Far 2:29
21. Don't Let Him Go REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity 3:46
22. Don't Stop Believin' Journey Journey's Greatest Hits 4:09
23. Dreams Fleetwood Mac Rumours 4:14
25. Faithfully Journey Journey's Greatest Hits 4:26
26. Fire And Rain James Taylor (Popular) Greatest Hits 3:26
27. Five Circles Vangelis Chariots Of Fire 5:24
29. For All We Know The Carpenters Chronicles (3 CD Econopak) 2:39
30. Go Your Own Way Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits 3:38
31. Goodbye To Love The Carpenters Chronicles (3 CD Econopak) 3:58
32. Harden My Heart Quarterflash Quarterflash 3:52
33. He's Got The Whole World Cedarmont Kids Sunday School Songs 1:53
34. Hold Me Now Thompson Twins Into The Gap 4:46
35. I Can See Clearly Now Willie Nelson Stardust 4:16
36. I Just Fall In Love Again The Carpenters Carpenters Gold - 35th Anniversary
Edition 4:05
37. I Just Fall In Love Again Anne Murray The Best...So Far 2:50
38. I Ran (So Far Away) A Flock of Seagulls A Flock Of Seagulls 5:09
39. I Wish You Were There REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity 4:27
40. I've Never Been To Me (Remixed Single w/Dialogue) Charlene
41. In The Garden Patti Page Sings America's Favorite Hymns 3:09
42. It's Going To Take Some Time The Carpenters Chronicles (3 CD Econopak)
2:56
43. Just A Closer Walk With Thee Jim Nabors 16 Most Requested Songs 2:57
44. Just A Closer Walk With Thee/Take My Hand Lord Jesus Featuring Tommy
West Anne Murray What a Wonderful World: 26 Inspirational Classics 4:19
45. Keep On Loving You REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity 3:22
46. Lay Your Hands On Me Thompson Twins Arista Heritage Series: Thompson
Twins 4:22
47. Leader Of The Band Dan Fogelberg Portrait: The Music Of Dan Fogelberg
From 1972-1997 4:54
48. Leaving, On A Jet Plane John Denver Greatest Hits 4:04
49. The Living Years Mike & The Mechanics The Living Years 5:32
50. Lost In Your Eyes Debbie Gibson Electric Youth 3:32
51. Nadia's Theme James Galway Greatest Hits Vol. 2 2:39
52. Nadia's Theme (Theme from The Young & Restless) Ted Brabham In The
Key of Love 3:44
53. Nearer My God To Thee Anne Murray What a Wonderful World: 26 Inspirational
Classics 3:37
54. Nearer, My God, to Thee The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Philadelphia
Brass Ensemble & Percussion, Alexander Schreiner, Fra Rock of Ages - 30
Favorite Hymns 3:06
55. The Old Rugged Cross Patti Page Sings America's Favorite Hymns 4:08
56. Only In My Dreams Debbie Gibson Out Of The Blue 3:56
57. Open Arms Journey Escape 3:18
59. Rainy Days And Mondays The Carpenters Carpenters 3:39
60. Reeling In The Years Steely Dan A Decade Of Steely Dan (Utimate Master
Disc) 4:38
61. Rise Again Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends What
a Time! 6:02
62. Rise Again Dallas Holm Signature Songs 4:24
63. Rock Of Ages Mormon Tabernacle Choir Rock of Ages - 30 Favorite Hymns
3:35
64. Rock Of Ages Patti Page Sings America's Favorite Hymns 2:20
65. Rock You Like A Hurricane Scorpions Best Of Rockers 'N' Ballads 4:12
66. Rocky Mountain High John Denver Greatest Hits 4:44
67. Sing The Carpenters Now & Then 3:19
68. Sister Christian Night Ranger Midnight Madness 5:03
69. Snowbird Anne Murray The Best...So Far 2:10
70. Song Sung Blue Neil Diamond The Neil Diamond Collection 3:15
71. Sunshine On My Shoulders John Denver Greatest Hits 5:14
72. Superstar The Carpenters Carpenters 3:51
73. Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection:
Best of Neil Diamond 3:19
74. Take Me Home Country Roads John Denver The Rocky Mountain Collection
3:11
75. Thank God I'm A Country Boy John Denver Greatest Country Hits 3:30
76. These Dreams Heart Heart 4:15
77. Time For Me To Fly REO Speedwagon The Essential REO Speedwagon 3:42
78. To All The Girls I've Loved Before Julio Iglesias The Essential Willie
Nelson 3:32
79. Top Of The World The Carpenters Chronicles (3 CD Econopak) 2:59
80. Touch Me When We're Dancing The Carpenters Carpenters Gold - 35th
Anniversary Edition 3:21
81. Tough Guys REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity 3:50
82. Video Killed The Radio Star The Buggles The Age Of Plastic 4:14
83. We've Only Just Begun The Carpenters Chronicles (3 CD Econopak) 3:06
86. Wind Of Change Scorpions Crazy World 5:13
87. Words Get In The Way Gloria Estefan Greatest Hits 3:25
88. You Needed Me Anne Murray The Best...So Far 3:42
89. You've Got A Friend Anne Murray What a Wonderful World: 26 Inspirational
Classics 4:36
90. Young Turks Rod Stewart The Very Best of Rod Stewart 5:04
91. Your Love The Outfield Play Deep 3:36
He replies to my email:
It went very well for several reasons. First this is the first time we have even been acknowledged as an industry. Second, like the general video side they only self rated when congress started to express concerns. Self rating is good for the industry because children are not the business object of the companies and thus to assist in filtering at the destination computer is a good thing to do. It shows a sense of responsibility on the part of the industry. It also allows the industry to show that it is serious about wanting to protect children.
As far as .xxx, I am not convinced it will happen since the right wing groups are opposed to it and it does not solve any problems since foreign countries will not be effected and the alleged problem will not be solved if the foreign countries are free to do what they want. Besides the ring wing groups feel that .xxx will tend to legitimize the industry and I agree that it will.
I am working with major producers already to create a rating system.
'Attorney Paul Cambria Looked Bad On TV'
I'm sorry but the senator in charge of the american inquisition made him beg and kiss his ass. He said "You and your clients, why arent they already providing ratings?" His answer was basically "Duuuuhhhh" Excuse me, but isnt ICRA kinda the standard of ratings? Don't most responsible adult sites rate themselves? I know that every single quickbuck site sends headers that indicate that we are Adult, which is the equivalent of ratings... we rate ourselves as SUPER XXX hardcore violent just to make sure we dont take a chance of accidentally slipping through any filters. And Cambria just kissed this guy's ass and said "um um um you're right sir... i will advise my clients to rate their sites.. but we need a concerted effort". Hello!!! There is ALREADY a concerted effort, if you're a responsible adult site you put headers in your site to turn away adult web sites. Jesus... it's the blind leading the more blind in this business. Every filtering system recognizes ICRA.
Paul Cambria responds:
That is the difference between someone who is trying to get somewhere and someone who thinks they know it all. I am not talking about just the ICRA which deals with web sites I am talking about rating everything movies and all in one comprehensive scheme and dovetail it with filters. So duhhhh to you. Moreover some moron suggested that I was in favor of some expensive software for age verification when all I said was my clients are willing to explore constitutional methods of age verification. Some of these know it all guys do not see the big picture here. We were invited and we want to be invited again and that will not happen if I was snapping at these guys every time they said something that was not exactly correct. The message I wanted to convey is the one the general movie guys do and that is we are ready willing and able to make this work as long as we do not sacrifice our rights to market fully to adults. Even the ICRA rep understood where I was going in expanding the whole voluntary rating thing and how it will dovetail with filters. Give me some credit here guys just think if we were not there at all. Go online to the commerce committee and review my opening testimony.
Olga: "What are you getting out of this?"
Nathan Zuckerman: "A terrific headache and a look at your c---."
Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness By Dr. Frank Tallis
Here are excerpts of the book that particularly struck me:
From Andrew Capelanus's The Art of Courtly Love (btw. 1174-1186):
Rule 2. He who is not jealous cannot love.
Rule 13: When made public love rarely endures.
Rule 19: If love diminishes, it quickly fails and rarely revives.
Rule 20: A man in love is always apprehensive.
Rule 21: Real jealousy always increases the feeling of love.
Rule 22: Jealousy increases when one suspects his beloved.Ovid, in his mercilessly honest Ars Amatoria, noted that: 'Night turns any woman into a goddess.' ...Soft lighting has become an obligatory requirement for those embarking on a new relationship. All faces -- both male and female -- are flattered by the night, because idiosyncrasies vanish in shadow.
Facial symmetry is the best and most reliable indicator of fitness.
Emotional convergence was also a good predictor of relationship longevity.
Social psychologists have demonstrated that when groups of people are isolated, they become more extreme in terms of their beliefs. The classic real-life study of this kind was undertaken at Bellington, a women's college in the United States renowned for its espousal of liberal values. It was found that the longer students stayed at Bennington, the more liberal they became.
Jealousy and love are inseparable. It is almost impossible to love without also desiring exclusive possession of the beloved.
An early response to suspected infidelity might be anxiety; however, a shift of attention to the 'rival figure' will probably arouse anger, and a further shift to issues surrounding loss will probably result in depression.
Jealousy is more commonly associated with surveillance, confrontation, ultimatums, and even the use of violence.
Men seem to experience sexual jealousy far more keenly than women.
For the average human being, sexual experimentation can only be accomplished comfortably in the absence of love. Liberal thinking is no match for our evolutionary demons.
Sometimes we proclaim our love and there is no reply. Our words are killed by the dead acoustic of a cold heart and the ensuing silence is terrible.
The most prolific artists seem to be able to ride their energy surges in much the same way as a surfer rides a wave.
The immoderate behavior of artists has become a well-established cultural cliche, but its sustained popularity may be due to its very real effect on the brain. Artists have learned that by living life according to a repeating cycle of rapture and despair, an ordinary talent might be transformed into something that begins to look much more like genius.
The emotional rollercoaster of love is very similar to manic depression.
Although love is painful, it awakens dormant capabilities.
Geoffrey Miller in The Mating Mind: "Sexually mature males have produced almost all of the publicly displayed art throughout history. Males produce about an order of magnitude more art, music and literature...than women, and they produce it mostly in young adulthood. This suggests that...the production of art, music and literature functions primarily as a courtship display."
Whatever the music, whatever the words, all men sing only one song, and it goes like this: 'My genes are good -- mate with me, not my rival.'
When we fall in love, when we vacillate between rapture and despair, we shake off the psychic shackles that bind our personalities. Our creative potential is released, and suddenly there are words to express our feelings.
Artists, and particularly musicians, are always feared when they are sexual rivals.
The sexually sated male is rarely romantic, largely uncommunicative, and inordinately fond of stertorous sleep.
Sex is fundamentally different from playing a game of tennis or listening to the radio. It has profound psychological and emotional consequences. When we have sex, we play with evolutionary fire.
Sexual intimacy engenders chemical changes in the brain that make us feel attached. These same chemical changes underlie positive perceptual distortions. Thus, sexual partners appear more attractive than they actually are. Sex makes us more likely to hallucinate an ideal.
Pop Painter Mark DeMaio
He has his first art show in years Tuesday, February 7th, at The Synchronicity Fine Art Gallery (106 West 13th Street, between 6th & 7th Avenues Phone: 646-246-8199) with an exclusive reception from 6pm to 9pm.
His press release by Penthouse's Lainie Speiser was labeled "666." Why? "Oh, I don’t know, just being silly," replies Lainie. "I think Mark used to use that phrase for some passwords to get into things when we worked together. I think he used “66sex” as a password. His brother is a speed metal/heavy metal rock star Joey DeMaio of Man ‘O War."
Lainie worked with Mark (send him wishes for a speedy recovery at mark@markdemaio.com) at such august New York publications as Gallery, Lollypops and Fox. DeMaio also served time at High Society, Cheri, and Genesis.
Mark, 45, calls me from hospital at 12:13pm Thursday, Jan 19. "I was walking down the street [Friday, Jan 6]. I was coming back from a shop where I was buying wood for the show. I stumbled on a huge crack in the sidewalk and blew out all the tendons in all my knees.
"Now I'm siting in St. Vincent's overlooking my apartment. I should be out in a couple of days.
"I'll be on crutches or a walker for a while."
Mark was Creative Director at Gallery and Fox and other magazines. "I directed a lot of the photo shoots. I conceived a lot of the crazier shoots for Fox magazine and made it what it is today."
"What's that?"
"More hardcore. I hope it is still funny. More like a comic book -- loud, bright, crazy, and incredibly hardcore. We showed a lot of stuff for the first time. We were ballsy and daring."
"How did you get into porn?"
"When I came to New York in 1983, I was working for science fiction magazines (Vangoria, Gore Zone etc from Starluck Press). The guy I worked with went to Genesis for an interview. He came back from lunch and said, 'It's the coolest thing in the world. Too bad I can't take it. My parents wouldn't let me.' I said, 'If you're not going to take it, give me the phone number.' He did. I called over there. They hired me.
"The thing I hated about porn was that I never could make the kind of money for myself that I seemed to be generating for others."
"Why did you stay in it?"
"Because it's comfortable. It's laidback. There wasn't a lot of attitude, particularly in the side of the business I was in. I didn't consider us pornographers as much as magazine publishers. We just happened to publish incredibly filthy magazines."
"How did it affect your artistic creativity working in porn?"
"At first I never thought it did, and then I realized later on that I had stopped doing anything creative. After work, I was drained and I wasn't doing anything.
"Then I realized we were coming up with with all these crazy things for photoshoots... It drained me to the point I realized I wasn't doing anything for myself. That's when I figured it was time to make a move."
"How did working in porn affect your relationships?"
"I just ended up with the kind of people who have no problem with porn. I don't know if it was me personally or just the jobs I held. I guess I'll find out now that I'm out."
"Are there any common denominators to girls who are OK with porn, because they're rare?"
"They may come with a little extra baggage."
"How did it affect your social world?"
"At first it was a fun and shocking thing to say to people. Suddenly you were the cool guy in the room. And then, after a while, your social world shrinks. I never let [porn] consume me outside of my job. While it drained me creatively, I never let it consume me socially. I always hung out with my regular friends."
"Did you lose any friends over working in porn?"
"No. I've lost friends for many reasons but not for working in porn. Maybe for not giving them enough for free."
"Are you attracted to the perverse?"
"I've always had a penchant for strange off-beat carnival creepiness."
"I'm looking at your paintings on your website and they're all perverse."
"They're not attractive... They are the kind of people who will not be ignored. Their emotions are on their outside and they're shoving them down people's throats. And they're forcing you to look at them.
"It's like you are walking down the street and you see a horrific-looking woman with the greatest guy in the world and you wonder how did they find each other? One of them had the balls to go up to the other and you know it wasn't the attractive one."
Mark left porn for three years between 1995-97. "Then I got a lucrative offer to go back [to Gallery]. I felt like I had to do it and I did, like an idiot."
Mark left again in the summer of 2005.
Cut Norman Bentley A Break
Harry writes me:
Norman Bentley from Defiance deserves a break on your site. He's put up with a lot of crap over the last 12 months from his ex-wife.
Example: Did you hear about Robbye Bentley confronting Norman at the Players' Ball? She snuck into the VIP area (was seriously boozed up) and demanded to talk to him. Norman (and a lot of people think he's been way too patient with Robbye) was there with his new girl, and Ron Levi. He told her he didn't want to talk and that she should leave but Robbye didn't listen. Eventually D Money had to call in security to have her removed.
I know from talking to her buddies (the few real ones she has left) that everyone just wants her to step away...and get back to working. Has anyone ever done an industry intervention?
Robbye says she was given a pass to the VIP section. She didn't sneak in. "I wasn't drunk at the Players Ball nor did I get drunk at any event at AVN. It was Ron Levi who asked for me to be removed. D-Money did not show up with security. All he said was, 'You guys stay on the opposite end of the table. I'm not kicking her out.'
"I've secluded myself from people in the industry who party. My friends are not all in porn."
Monkey writes: "I've been told by at least one Euro chick that she needs two valid forms of ID to appease most 2257-scaredy cats, so why haven't you asked...about the practice of assigning girls 'dead' social security numbers [in addition to dubiously-obtained driver's licenses]? I'm told that this is happening a lot. Problem is that the IRS are going to come down hard on someone somewhere down the line, so where does the buck stop? My guess is that when the truth hits the fan months from now, we won't be able to get a hot Czech/Hungarian chick in to the country for love or money and the girls will be barred for years."
Michael Raven, Julia Ann Divorcing
They've been married since June of 2003.
Before that, Michael was married for eleven years to Sydney Steele.
Wankus Responds To Kurt Lockwood:
There's many DIVAs in the adult business. Like all entertainment venues, there are some people who are so insecure, they place themselves way above everyone else and spend way too much time in the mirror every morning, praising themselves and filling their own heads with the s--- they shovel to everyone they meet.
But in the case of this story, the DIVA I'm speaking of is a man. With his name sounding like Dirt Cockhood, this drama queen has become so attached to himself, he actually spends day after day thinking that the porn community frequently mocks him because they're obsessed with him. Not realizing, his name comes up in conversation because his antics, comments and attitude make him a target for banter because they're so over the top ridiculous that it's nearly impossible to ignore it.
I love eating pussy but need to find my next meal
My latest singles ad: "I am a good-looking guy who has an oral fetish. That is, I love to eat pussy! My last girlfriend was lucky enough to get eaten out by an expert every day, day after day. The relationship ended but my cravings continue. I am looking to find a new "friend." I am not really looking for a girlfriend or a dating situation but rather just a friend I can eat out regularly. You wouldn't have to sleep with me or perform oral on me. I would never ask that of you. I only want to take care of YOU."
Xcitement.com's Cindi Loftus Interviews Nina Ferrari
ADULT FUN 411: Were you born and raised in Texas?
NINA FERRARI: Yeah, Waco,Texas.
411: Because you don’t have a big Texas accent, but you have a little
Texas accent.
NINA: Well when I start drinking it comes out pretty bad. I start sounding
like my Mom. My accent is really bad.
411: How’s your weather.
NINA: It’s so hot and humid and disgusting. It’s unbelievable. It’s humid.
Uck! I love going rollerblading in the morning and I can’t go, even in
the morning before 9am it’s already up in the 80’s. It’s just so muggy.
. 411: So how come you named yourself after a car?
NINA: Actually an ex-boyfriend came up with the name. I’ve always danced
under Nina, since the mid-nineties, and when I started featuring, I was
going to out to go out to do bookings and I can’t just be Nina. Usually
all the features have the cute names, a first and a last. And he came
up with Ferrari, and I was like that’s great. I was really pleased.
411: Tell me about your tattoos?
NINA: Actually I hate three of the four that I have. The only one I like
is the one on my right toe. The other ones were just done on a whim and
I wasn’t even old enough yet. I was supposed to be eighteen. I was seventeen.
I got my friend’s Mom to lie for me and say she was my mother. It was
a bad idea all the way around. I hate the one on my ankle. I hate the
one on my chest and I hate the one on my back.
411: Did you ever think of getting them taken off?
NINA: Yeah, I did and I talked to a doctor about that and he said it would
probably leave a worse scar there then the actually tattoo itself. So
I guess I am stuck with them.
411: What is on your toe?
NINA: A marijuana leaf.
Ya know how some chicks can call up their girlfriends and tell stuff to
them that they wouldn’t tell to their husbands, but with him, I hide stuff
from my girlfriends and tell my husband first. Well my fiancé, but he
might as well be my husband.
411: What is the best and the worst things about porn?
NINA: The best is that you get to have sex with good-looking people safely.
And it’s a controlled environment. The worst is not being recognized as
much as you should. All the publicity end of it I don’t care for. I was
wanting to be a contract girl for the longest and some girls just get
one right away, I guess that is what is angers me. I haven’t done a movie
in a year or so because I have been featuring. But I was actually thinking
of going out this month to do another one. If I don’t do it in my bedroom
I won’t do it on film.
411: I was going to ask you, what wouldn’t you do?
NINA: Oh man, there is a list. All that s--- with raunchy and anal, I
don’t do that. I don’t do interracial. And I won’t do a scene without
a condom. I got a lot of flack for that. There was a series put out called
Filthy Whore, put out by Legend. And they said that every girl has one.
And I didn’t appreciate it because I saw the box cover when the movie
came out and it just trashed me. It was like a personal attack because
I used condoms. I called and bitched and cried but eventually I just had
to take a deep breath and let it go because there wasn’t nothing I could
do about it. I don’t think that having sex with condoms is a bad thing.
411: Tell me something different about you that people don’t know.
NINA: I am Obsessive Compulsive. I clean everything. I fidget with paper,
my fingers. When I get my mind on something I do it until I become obsessed
with it.
Xcitement.com's Cindi Loftus Interviews Mary Carey
The first time I ever talked to Mary Carey she was deciding if she wanted to be a porn star. Although I didn’t know it, Mary had been reading and stashing (under her bed) every Xcitement Magazine since she was nineteen. She saved every issue. She read every word more then once, and could quote ME about what I said in various stories. She knew all about me. It was kind of weird. To decide if she wanted to do porn she went out to LA to meet my friend Nelson X from Legend who I always talked about in my stories. I guess you could say that Xcitement Magazine is the reason that Mary got into porn. And she certainly has come a long way. I’ve been along with her for the whole journey so far and am very happy to be her friend. Yeah, she’s a little loud and bouncy and over the top, and it’s fun, but she is also loyal, loveable, brilliant (she has an IQ that got her into the top private high school in South Florida) and a great friend. And she just did a makeover on herself, so if you can believe it, she looks even better then she did six months ago.
Xcitement: Hi Honey. What did you do all day?
Mary: I went to Playboy to do a voice over for a Christmas thing. I went
to the mall and ran into Kendra Jade, and we hung out for a while. She
knows a lot of people. At Halloween I went with her to a party at Jack
Osborne’s, and then to a guy in Maroon 5’s party.
X: I love Maroon 5; I went to see them in concert.
M: Yeah, one of those guys is calling me. He’s really nice.
X: You should at least make friends with all these famous people you are
meeting!
M: I did enough partying when I hung out with Tawny (Roberts) to last
a long time.
X: Was Tawny a bad influence? Or were you?
M: Tawny was fun! I think back on some of the things we did and I can’t
believe that me and Tawny are alive. There was one time when we were drunk
in front of a nightclub and the paparazzi were shooting us and we both
completely lost our balance and fell backwards on the concrete and hit
our heads on a wall. I remember looking up and all theses flashes were
going off and turning my head to the right and Tawny was laying next to
me.
X: Where did those pictures end up?
M: I don’t know. I know that Celebrities Uncensored has footage of it.
If you look on the web you’ll find lots of drunk stuff of me. We start
out at a basketball game and then sometimes the players would fly us out
and we would hang out in their cities. Her and I together were a bad influence
because I was the responsible one.
Hannah [Harper] was responsible, but we’ve had some crazy times too. Last year I went to Disneyworld in Orlando with my Mom and Hannah for Christmas. And me and Hannah were drunk in Epcot center. We did a drink from every country. Hannah didn’t know what Epcot was, so I told her I was going to take her to England, and so I brought her to England inside of Epcot.
M: I was down in Florida and I saw Eric (her ex husband), he’s like you
look sick, you are doing drugs. Then he told me I looked like Mr. Burns
from the Simpsons! (Laughs)
X: Yeah, right. Your legs look fabulous.
M: That’s with help of Ballet at Pinecrest High School. I went over there
but they were closed but a janitor let me in and there was still a plaque
hanging on the wall with my name on it for winning awards for dance. I
thought for sure they would take my name down.
X: Are you running for Lieutenant Governor of California?
M: I think I am going to run for Governor this time. I’m going try. It’s
a lot harder to get on the ballot because you need so many thousands of
votes. I am going to take this more serious though. Last time I was a
lot younger and my Publicist came up with a lot of the ideas. This time
I want to run it on my own and come up with my own issues. I want to deal
with it on serious terms, not on silly things.
X: What is the wackiest thing you did lately?
M: I’m friends with Dr Dre’s crowd. I went and hung out at the studio
with them and I got up on the music equipment, the soundboard. I was drunk
and I was loving the music. I was doing splits and stuff. I fell backwards
down to the floor and got all bruised up.
Xcitement.com's Cindi Loftus Interviews Sunny Lane
AF: I heard that you stopped skating because you got injured.
S: That's correct. I had foot surgery for a bunion.
AF: What's a bunion, I thought that was something that an old lady got.
S: It's where your foot actually gets deformed. You get a weird growth
on your bone. If you would run your finger down the side of your big toe
to where it arches. The bunion grows right before your foot arches. It's
one of the war wounds of skating. I got it fixed and lost four months
of training and I just couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't compete. So
I made a change and went down to DeJa Vu in Tampa and started dancing.
I got named Showgirl of the year for 2004. I came out to the AVN conventions
in Vegas last year because I wanted to see if that was what I wanted to
do. And I got to go to the award show and said to myself next year I want
to be up on that podium. So that night at Sean Michaels party someone
came up to me and said you are what we are looking for. You have the look
that we want. You have no tatoos, a great personality. Here's my card.
When I came home my parents told me to get back out there. So two weeks
later I was back in LA on a radio show which lead to Night Calls, and
it was the squirting competition.
AF: What does everyone back in Tampa think of you?
S: Everyone knows, the whole skating community.
AF: When you go home what kind of reception do you get?
S: I got to see all my skating friends and all the people from school
and everyone was very supportive. I thought I would get some dirty looks
and stuff, but everyone was really cool. They were saying "We've got your
movies!" And at the skating rink they named a drink after me! A lot of
people were very surprised about it because I was not wild and crazy when
I was a kid.
AF: Did you have any jobs while you were in high school?
S: I worked at taco bell. It was great because they gave all kinds of
rewards away.
AF: What is your favorite Taco Bell food?
S: I love Taco Supremes. Then I worked at Ekcards in the photo lab.
AF: So in the photo lab when you came across pictures of naked people
what did you do with them?
S: I would start laughing and giggling. The policy was that they couldn't
be touching each other in the photo. If they were touching themselves
then we couldn't print them. But if you have solo naked pictures you could
print them out and the people would come to pick them up they would be
all nervous and shy. You would think they would take Poloroids, then nobody
would see them.
AF: You would think so. Have your parents seen you perform?
S: Not live, but they have watched my movies and critiqued them.
AF: If I had sex in a movie, I can't imagine my father sitting there watching
it.
S: It is kinda wild. At first I was out here by myself, and I called them
and asked them to come out because I wanted my family with me, and I was
up-front about what I was doing. I have Vault of Whores posters on my
wall with my ass sticking out, I have DA2 posters on my wall. So it's
all around us. My parents watch my role but they go outside the parent’s
point of view. My parents are free thinking people. They went to nudist
camps when I was younger. They are very open minded. They weren't freaked
out about it.
AF: What nationality are you?
S: I am Irish, German, Scottish and Cherokee Indian.
Book 'Em
Joe Zigfield writes 12/12/05 for XBiz:
[Derek] Hay attributes his firm's quick rise to nothing more extraordinary than "old-fashioned hard work" and perseverance. "My phone used to ring every morning with a reason from a girl why she couldn't do that day's shoot," he told XBiz. "It's very frustrating, and it's quite depressing. But after four years of working with that, my phone rings perhaps one morning a week now with that type of call. The girls know that if they want to have Direct Models working for them, they need to be as serious about the industry as we are."
Hay personally interviews all clients before signing them up. But that doesn't mean that everyone he takes on will last with the agency. Hay, whose soft-spoken intensity, shaved head and muscular physique project an intimidating authority, is tough on performers and maintains a strict code of behavior. "If they do something that is not in keeping with how we think they should behave, we'll move them on," Hay said.
In Praise Of Barry Manilow
Dylan Schaffer lists the top five complaints against Manilow and then answers them in his 2004 novel Misdemeanor Man:
Five. We don't like his clothing, and we really don't like his hair.
Four. The fans are middle-aged housewives who worship Barry because he reminds them of their little boys.
Three/Two. The songs are overwrought and the sentiments are sappy. The purpose is exclusively commercial.
One. A man made famous, in part, by singing a song called "I Write the Songs" did not, in fact, write many of the songs that made him famous, including, 'I Write the Songs."
...[Y]ou need Barry. We all need him. Barry is us. ...He's the guy at the piano who is too shy, too unsure about his own voice, to step out in front. Even when he becomes the biggest recording star on the planet, you can still hear the bashfulness in his voice; you can still see he has no idea how he got there or how long it will last.
...Barry is hope and hopelessness. Harry is love, desire, passion. Barry is exuberance and heartache. He is falling down and beating your palms against the ground and hollering about the unfairness of it all... He reflects the essential, wondrous workings of human existence.
...Barry Manilow is the truth. Barry is the daunting, overwhelming, terrifying truth. And a lot of people can't handle the truth.
City Beat Covers Porn Star Karaoke
Keiko Keiko Captain Bob (L-R) Estella Leon, Alexis Silver, Pamela Peaks, Echo Valley Estella, Alexis, Pamela Estella, Alexis, Pamela, Echo Alexis, Pamela, Echo Alexis, Pamela Alexis, Pamela Estella Leon Estella Leon Estella Estella Estella Estella Blonde, Judy Blonde, Judy Blonde, Judy Blonde Blonde, Judy Jeremy Steele Jeremy Steele Ron Jeremy, Monica Pastore Ron Jeremy, Monica Pastore Ron, Monica Ron, Monica Flower Tucci, Jimmy Mofo Flower, Mofo Flower, Mofo, April Storm Seymour, Ron Jeremy Seymour, Ron Jeremy Estella Leon Estella Leon Estella, Tee Reel Estella, Tee Reel Seymour, Monica Pastore Seymour, Monica Seymour, Monica Seymour, Monica Seymour, Monica Tee Reel, Stacey Tee Reel, Stacey Tee Reel, Stacey Judy, Seymour Judy, Seymour Seymour, Monica Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Kayla Kupcakes Kayla Kenny Carolina and his partner Mike Katie, Ron Jeremy, Monica Alexis Silver Monica, Gianna Alexis Silver Alexis Jeremy Steele, Estella Leon Estella, Powder Estella, Powder Estella, Powder Estella, Powder girls Judy, Blonde, guy Stacey, Judy Judy, Stacey, Blonde
I'm getting email about who is this Judy in my photos. She is a North Hollywood bartender.
The female LA City Beat writer likes to feel the porn girl's breasts as she interviews them. The girls don't mind.
Rob Longshot and his wife Keiko are moving back to Florida February 1. Keiko says she'll study Forensic Anthropology. Rob has a "great job" and will try to finish his Engineering degree.
"You've heard about Donkey Punch, haven't you?" asked Keiko.
"No, I have not."
"Someone thought it would be a good idea to make a film about punching girls in the back of the head as you are about to come.
"OK, if we are going to keep catering to the wanna be serial rapists and serial murderers, then I'm out of here."
"Have you gradually grown disillusioned with porn?"
"Yes, and not all that gradually."
"Was there a time when you realized you had to get out?"
"I have no regrets about what I've done.
"I think a lot of the things came to a head with the Eon McKai debacle."
"Did you and Rob take this journey together [they moved to LA almost three years ago]?"
"We have this bizarre psychic connection where we make the same decisions at the same time."
"How many friends are you going to take from the porn industry into your real life?"
"About two or three. The sober ones. The ones that will remember me in two months."
Tara: "Eon McKai has been the hot topic in porn."
Keiko: "Considering I called him that ['the hot topic in porn']. He's about as edgy as a butter knife."
"Do you think Donkey Punch is edgy?"
"I think it is disturbing, disgusting and says something about the climate in this country and the way we're raising our children."
"What disturbs you about porn?"
"That the only thing they try to do to expand into other markets is to go into disturbing niches where it's all about vomiting, pissing, and bizarre crap that is not erotic."
Keiko says porn has "not changed me at all. I'm more addicted to caffeine that when I started.
"I've considered myself part of the porn community, but because there's such a drastic difference between myself and most porn stars, not really... Most of them are so high, they don't know which direction is up. Most of them bleach their hair so much, they don't have any brain cells left. They're doing [porn] to support their habits and their dead-beat boyfriends."
"You bleached your hair a lot."
"I didn't bleach my hair to be blonde. I bleached it to dye it red. And I only did it four times in six months."
"What percentage of porn stars would you estimate have a drug problem or alcohol problem or an unhealthy relationship problem?"
"About 93-95%. There are 10-15 of us who are all right."
"What have you learned from your time in porn?"
"That it is not as glamorous as it looks in the finished product. And even the finished product isn't all that glamorous."
"What have you learned from your time in porn?"
"In the last three years, I've learned that this isn't a good place to be for an extended period of time, especially not if you want to have a family and raise kids."
"Could someone have told you this three years ago?"
"I would've believed them but I would've said, I've got three years to spare, so I'm going to go ahead and do this and see what it is like and make my own mistakes and then be a homebody."
"Can there be such a thing as a pornographer who is a good person?"
"It's possible but highly unlikely. Just to be a part of this business, this childish juvenile bulls---, dealing with it makes you want to hurt people and be a bad person. The way you're treated, you're just scum like everybody else. Eventually you become what you've been acting like.
"Pornographers are capitalizing on lives that have already been ruined. If the market is there for you to take people whose lives have been ruined and make a profit off of it..."
"Do you think that is honorable?"
"No more dishonorable than selling alcohol or cigarettes or guns to people who will use them to hurt people."
Rob Longshot: "The evening news does nothing but make money off of people's ruined lives."
Keiko: "Good news doesn't sell. If there's not a body or a fire or thousands of dollars in damages, people don't want to hear about it."
Rob: "All forms of media feed off of people's misery."
"Was there a moment when you realized you had to get out of porn?"
"When I realized that everything I said I was not going to do, I was doing. Before I came out here, I wasn't a believer in the rough stuff. Then I found myself shooting it. One day I took a look at myself and said I can contribute more to society than this. This happened a while ago."
"Was it the Eon McKai thing?"
"No. It started before then.
"I'm a big fan of erotica, but the people who are currently making it don't have the creativity to make erotic art. So they go for the lowest common denominator, which is what sells. It takes a lot more [effort] to sell something that is not degrading. The degrading stuff is already sold.
"The moment I decided to leave LA was when Donkey Punch came out."
Keiko laughs: "Future serial killers."
"How did you find yourself making nasty porn?"
"It all comes down to the almighty dollar, and in LA you need a lot of them. That's why I'm going to [Florida] because you don't need as much of it there."
Luke: "Did you lose any illusions during your time in porn?"
Rob: "Quite a few."
Keiko: "None of those girls are really that hot."
Rob: "I found myself more attracted to the real world. It grounded me. It made me appreciate the real world more.
"My creativity has been sapped the past three years. I haven't written a song in three years. In the past few weeks, since we've planned to go back, I've written an hour's worth of music."
I interview Captain Bob.
Luke: "Do you regret your 15-year excursion into porn?"
Captain: "No. I regret my 20 years in the ministry [as a Christian pastor]. The only good thing about that is that my daughters [the youngest, Red Velvet, is a make-up artist in porn] are not all f---ed up. They don't do drugs. They had a stable family life."
Luke: "You don't think that having a father in porn screws up a daughter?"
Captain: "Some of the most screwed-up girls I know have fathers who do other things. For instance, I had sex with Kelly Van Dyke three months before she died. Her father [Jerry Van Dyke] f---ed her up. He was not in porn. There was another porn star, Diamond [Lisa Canary]. Her father was David Canary from One Life To Live. She hated her father. These people were totally f---ed up."
Luke: "But how has it affected your girls to have a father in porn?"
Captain: "The only thing that has affected them is that they've fallen away from the Church. I was their pillar of strength while I was in it."
Luke: "How disorienting was that for them to go from having a father who was a pastor to having a father who was a pornographer?"
Captain: "Well, yeah, that was a big change for them. It was a big deal when they found out I could have sex with other women aside from their mother. We'd gotten into swinging before we got into porn. It was incidental that I got into porn. I just happened to be at the right place at the wrong time.
"My kids still love me just as much. I spent a lot of time with them when they were growing up.
"My kids love me to death, even though I became a pornographer. They don't like what I do.
"I have no problem with anybody being in the porn business as long as they know what they're doing. I'd be a hypocrite if I thought otherwise. Here I am banging other guy's daughters... I was doing this girl in the Young Chix, Old Dicks series. She looked up at me while she was sucking my dick, and said, 'I know your daughter. I'm the same age as your daughter.' I said, 'You're not my daughter, so shut up and suck.'
"I get along with the [porn] girls. They'll let me do things behind the scenes... They'll sit on my face because I get along with them."
Captain Bob says he first had sex at age seven and then organized an orgy with the little kids in the neighborhood.
Luke: "Why do you swing to such extremes?"
Captain Bob: "A lot of people are like that. In swinging, many of the people come from strictly religious backgrounds."
Luke: "Where do you find the meaning in your porn work?"
Captain Bob: "I like interviewing the girls and finding out what makes them tick. Some of them started masturbating when they were three years old."
I introduce Tara to Captain Bob. I use the word "pornographer" about Captain Bob.
Tara: "You say that like it's a dirty word. You're a pornographer too. You have links to porn sites. You're going to hell too. You hooked up with a stranger in Vegas."
Luke: "She was my roommate."
Tara: "She was a stranger and a roommate. You didn't even know her. You're not supposed to boink your roommate."
Luke: "I'd talked to her on the phone. We'd exchanged email. She'd been reading me since 1998. She knew my body of work."
Tara: "She was a groupie."
Luke: "She wanted to know my body of flesh. Is that so wrong?"
Captain Bob says he's slept with about 700 women in his life. "It's not about numbers," he says. "A dozen of them were really good."
Later in the night, I have a long chat with Puerto Rican porn star Estella Leon.
"I was studying TV production at [Puerto Rico University]," she remembers. "I'd worked as a dancer for five years. I wanted to combine both of them."
Estella moved to LA and entered porn 18-months ago and has done over 100 movies.
As a kid, Estella wanted to be a singer. She was a straight-A student and a popular girl in highschool.
"My mother is a Pentacostal pastor and a nurse. She's very strict in her religion. I'm still very Christian. I still believe in God. I have my own relationship with God. I was so secluded from the world."
She lost her virginity at age 14. "It was to my neighbor/boss/friend. He was in his thirties, married with three kids. I was very attracted to him.
"He had a yoghurt business. I was working for him under the table. He came in one night while we were closing. I went to the back to change to my school uniform. He came to the back and stuck this big huge cock in my ass.
"It wasn't [traumatic] because I wanted it so bad. I didn't know what I was doing.
"I used to watch porn when I was nine years old because my brothers were like 32. They had porn and I'd sneak a look. My mother was oblivious. Then she started finding out."
Luke: "How did your mother react to your becoming a porn star?"
Estella: "She respected me a lot. She cried for three hours. I love my mom. I flew to Puerto Rico [after six months in porn] to tell her what I do.
"My dad is very quiet. He's an old fashioned man. He's sixty-something. My mom talked to him and he got used to it.
"I'm a dominatrix. My boyfriend is very passive."
"Do you have a bad temper?"
"I have a terrible temper."
"Have you ever encountered a man who can make you submit?"
"No."
"What type of men are you attracted to?"
"White boys. Americans are mostly submissive. I can not date a Latin man. We'd be fighting over who's got the power in the house."
"I have a bachelor's degree in TV production and an associate's degree in music."
Estella says she hates the cattiness among porn girls. "We're all beautiful. We're all the same. We all f--- for a living."
Estella's writing a book about her life.
Luke: "How does God feel about you doing porn?"
Estella: "He's happy because I get to give testimony about him. I pray before every scene. I say, 'God, thank you for the opportunity to share myself with someone else.'
"When someone tries to degrade me [in porn], I degrade their ass back."
Cam writes: "I actually had a pretty funny conversation with your webmaster friend (the black girl) about her--I said something about Estella being a "sit-n-spin girl." The other person [Luke] in our conversational circle didn't get it but your webmaster friend was rolling."
Estella Leon tells Keiko: Hey, I want to f--- you!
K: (reaching for paper to write down her contact info...) OK
Man: (incredulous) Wow--that really works for women?
E: Most of the time, yes.
Man: Must be great to be a hot girl.
Gia Jordan writes on XPT: "When I was brand, brand new, someone told me PSK would be a great way to network in the business. Network my ass! I guess if you're dying to be in a Dave Pounder production, sure. I've been there a total of 3 times and maybe once every blue moon, someone from a good company is there. I'm not much of a drinker anyway and I'm not much of a karaoke person in general, so just because it includes the word porn star..."
Gen Padova writes: "I've been to PSK a few times a little over a year ago. If you're not big on drinking or tolerating a wild drunken irritating crowd of people that are trying very hardly to land a spot in the biz, its not for you. I'd have to say every time I've been there I never felt comfortable to be myself. I was very shy, reserved and well kept to myself because I was so freaked out by the weirdos. The only cool kat there was being able to sit with Stormy."
Jeremy Steele writes:
Malice mal-ice n.
1) A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite. Law.
2) The intent, without just cause or reason, to commit a wrongful act that will result in harm to another.
I've been the subject of hate and bogus talk since I told a certain low-life, low-budget director I won't work for his ultra-cheap rates, and since then he runs this mouth on this thing and has incited his own posse of cyber-psuedo-badasses who think it's fab to ride the bandwagon, including people who have never met and don't know me. I'm curious as to what makes these people think they can hide behind their computers and be immune to the s--- they perpetually spew. I would love nothing more than for any one of these collection of losers to say it to my face. After all if I'm such a loser supposedly, what the hell do they have to fear? If someone has an intent to harm another, that's something very serious. It ain't funny. It ain't cool. And it ain't immune from the harm it seeks to cause others through it's incessant malicious mythmaking s---talk. It's time to get out of the dark ages before something blindsides you.
Sex.com Sold to Escom LLC For $14M
Gary Kremen is out of porn. I bet he wishes he never got in.
Kremen had dinner last night with Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel (and assassin of some of the Munich terrorists). Gary plans to visit Israel in the next few months. He had a long talk with a rabbi last night and might take up the study of Torah and reconnect with his Jewish roots.
Shooting Pirates Aboard HMS Bounty
The rumors started swirling last June, when a slew of beefy actors and comely actresses showed up at the Pier in St. Petersburg to film a TV movie aboard the HMS Bounty.
Those who weren’t lugging cameras and cables were decked in full-blown pirate garb, which didn’t faze Bounty officials in the least. Lots of pirate films shoot scenes aboard the historic tall ship. In fact, the Bounty crew had just rented the boat to Disney for use in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.
But this time, as families, fishermen and tourists passed throughout the Pier, people began to suspect that this pirate movie was not like the others.
You know what they’re doing there, right? workers would whisper.
You know they’re shooting a porno flick?
...“They told us the story, we took them at face value, and they lied,” said ship owner Bob Hansen, reclining on the Bounty’s bow during a recent stop in St. Petersburg. “What are you going to do? It happens. Not everybody is truthful.”
Mary Carey, VH1 And The XXXChurch
It was VH1 who approached Mary to do that show with the XXX Church guys. And, for a chance to be on a VH1 reality show, it seems she was willing to be "saved" and be a Christian... well, at least for a couple of weeks. If VH1 had asked her to be a Jew-hating Nazi for a starring role on a TV show, it wouldn't surprise me if that's what she'd suddenly become: "I was depressed and I just woke up one day and realized all my problems were because of those Jews. But that was only for like two weeks. Tee hee."
VH1 has been struggling to figure out a way to make some kind of show out of the XXX Church story since last June. I know this cuz I was a co-star in their original, un-aired, pilot which was based on Bill Day's documentary film, "Missionary Positions" which I'm a fair part of. But it seems VH1 s----canned the original production company who shot that pilot (in and around EroticaLA) and decided to go in a different direction with the format. A direction more, uhhh... spiritual. Sometime later, VH1 was going to use that Trinity chick in the show but, somewhere along the way, they decided Trinity wasn't what they were looking for so they dumped her.
BTW, that's why the XXX Church guys decided to help Trinity and raise money for her to go back home and get a life-- cuz VH1 dumped her and the XXX guys felt bad about it and also felt partially responsible for her hopes getting s----on so they wanted to help her out. And they did.
The Girl Next Door
Mark Kernes writes: "I just reviewed the Stacy Valentine documentary, The Girl Next Door, which apparently has just found a DVD distributor. There's a scene in there of Stacy attending the Hot D'Or awards in Cannes in, I think, '99, with boyfriend Julian -- and the film shows her getting ready for an "encounter" with a very rich French guy, and later, her throwing a stack of hundred dollar bills over her head and rolling around in them on the bed. Since I knew her but never knew she escorted, I found that interesting."
Narcissism In Photography
My writer-friend Cathy is egotistical. Her writing overflows with her Nieztchean sense of superiority. I am narcissistic. My writing overflows with my desire for attention. I don't mind debasing myself to get attention.
I'm curious about photographers. When is a professional photographer getting narcissistic supply from endlessly photographing pretty boys? When is he just endlessly photographing idealized versions himself?
For instance, when I watch Drew Bledsore (Dallas Cowboy quarterback) drop back to pass, that's not Drew I'm really seeing, that's me. When I watch Mel Gibson or Russell Crowe on screen, that's really me up there. I'm not sure if that is primarily narcissism or empathy.
AMA Content Still Going Strong
They weren't at their booth at AVN is because they signed a distribution deal with Exquisite, and were at Exquisite's booth instead. Other than that they are still going good. There's a new co-owner in the company (Dennis Ormond, who is Bisexual Britni's husband) . They are now going by Pink Kitty Video for the DVD end.
Using Foreign Talent
In June of 2005, because of the Justice Department's new interpretation of the 2257 anti-child-porn regulations, the major porn producers stopped using foreign talent who didn't have a greencard (legal permission to reside and work in the US). Many prominent First Amendment attorneys said this was not necessary but the major producers erred on the side of safety.
Over the next few months, LA Direct Models got legal American IDs for their foreign models (I assume LAD got them CA Driver's Licenses), allowing them to work for most producers.
Most producers will not use foreign talent without American ID. The most careful producers, such as Penthouse, will not use foreign talent who don't have greencards. But dozens of girls who won't be used by Penthouse will be used by Hustler and other producers.
I was scanning the chatboard of one content producer. A fan wrote in: "I'm so glad you finally shot Barbara Summers. She reminds me of Stacy Valentine. I didn't want to put a request in for her because she's European and I thought it was impossible for you to legally shoot her. How did you manage to do it? Is she American now?"
The producer replied: "She got her American IDs through the help of her agency."
I assume this means a CA Driver's License. To get one as a tourist, all you have to do is show the DMV your driver's license from your home country, and fill out a form that vouches you are getting a Social Security number. This temporary license is good for three months and is a sufficient form of American ID for many content producers. Whether it is legally obtained is the question. If you falsify stuff on your application to get the CA Driver's License, then it is obviously fraudulent and producers who use girls with fake ID are legally responsible.
To the best of my knowledge, only LA Direct Models will arrange this type of American ID for their foreign talent.
In the long run this may not be a big deal because this part of the 2257 regulations may not stand up to legal scrutiny.
Another reason foreign talent is signing with LA Direct is that LA Direct allows producers to pay the agency for the talent's work and then the agency pays the model, and I believe this gives significant tax advantages to the model (she doesn't have to suffer the 25% withholding tax, etc). I'm not sure how foreign talent can be legally paid in America if they do not have a Social Security number.
I wonder if the feds will go after content producers who were accepting foreign IDs one month, and then CA Driver's Licenses the next month from the same talent. Surely many of these foreign talent have fake Social Security numbers as well. So maybe the IRS will take an interest. Maybe the content producers will be on the hook. Maybe they'll have to explain to a jury, "Yes, I knew she previously only had Czech ID but the next month she had American ID and I thought it was all legitimate." I wonder if the jury will buy that?
Some foreign porn stars who've never driven and never held a driver's license have obtained CA Driver's Licenses over the past six months.
LA Direct Models is the only talent agency that works extensively with foreign models who don't have greencards. World Modeling and other conservative agencies tell foreign talent not to come over to the States because they can't get them work.
One porn girl is getting an investor visa to work here legally but you need a lot of money in the bank to prove that you are coming here to start a business.
Luke Seeks A Wife
Chaim posted this ad for me on Craig's List:
I’m Luke, writer and investigative reporter whose in depth work uncovering scandal in the more dimly lit corners of the entertainment industry has been highlighted on E!, 60 Minutes, and in numerous publications both here and abroad. (If you watch 60 Minutes, likely you have seen me interviewed by Steve Kroft.) I’m here because I am looking for someone I have not found through more conventional means: a woman to love, cherish, marry, and start a family with. This isn’t the place for me to toot my horn - okay, it actually is the place for me to toot my horn - but I’m simply not comfortable doing so. Therefore, this will be brief. (Those who know me best know that I’m as eager to talk about myself as I am to eat pork, especially given the more weighty nature of the issues I prefer writing about.) I’m a 39 year old man who stands over 6'1" tall in his socks, both trim and solidly built. (I’ve been known to start my day with several hundred pushups.) I follow a healthy diet, am of sturdy Australian stock, and am comfortable with an unusually broad range of people. While some of the world’s most attractive women pine after me, they are not the women I want to spend my life with. I don’t believe in presenting lengthy laundry lists of necessary traits, and I’m not going to do so here. I’m Jewish (I converted to the faith from Christianity over a decade ago), and while I’m not a fanatic about it, I do take my faith seriously, as I keep the Sabbath, pray, and know that to have the Jewish children I want to father, I a Jewish woman must be their mother. So please be Jewish (either by birth or conversion or at least be seriously considering it), between 21 and 41 years of age, fertile, not smoke or take drugs, and have a positive view of your life. Most of the women I’ve dated have been women of accomplishment, but there is no accomplishment that can trump that of the woman who has raised her children well, and it is the prospect of that future accomplishment more than anything you may have done in the past (heck, we’ve all made mistakes) that would attract me to you. Valor has no college degree or social pedigree, and a woman of valor has a price above rubies. I’ve done my bit here; the next step is yours. Come what may, I pray that you walk through life with God’s favor.
Luke: You're a good friend
ChaimAmalek: All I ask is that you break up the marriage of that ultra-hot
black-haired friend of Holly's [Aria Giovanni], and then convince her
to marry me.
ChaimAmalek: At her Halloween party,
there was this gorgeous friend of hers in a school-girl outfit.
Luke: she's married
ChaimAmalek: That's why I asked you to break up her marriage for me before
convincing her to marry me.
ChaimAmalek: Is that so much to ask?
Luke: yes
ChaimAmalek: What a prude. You need to build internal bridges to new communities
of broader ethical matrices.
Luke: Her name is Aria Giovanni
ChaimAmalek: She's about the only porn chick I've ever seen who I thought
was really beautiful.