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Actor John Goodman Visits Porn Star Karaoke
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John Goodman had a few drinks, sang a few songs, and while he was leaving at 10:40 p.m. and complained that people were rude, that there weren't any porn stars, and that "there were no pharmaceuticals."
Early in the night, I walked up to him and told him that a friend just told me today that I was like his character Donny in The Big Lebowski. He was a few sheets to the wind and didn't give a damn.
Well, considering he played Walter (In a Best Supporting Actor-worthy performance, I should add Academy snobs!) in the The Big Lebowski, and Donny was played by Steve Buscemi, I can kinda see why he didn't give a damn.
Of course, this opens up a whole new debate about what Luke's friend was trying to imply...was he comparing him to the irritating, no-account little pussy so often dismissed with a terse 'Shut the ---- up Donny!', or to the 'Nam-obsessed, abrasive converted Jew Walter, who is thoroughly pussywhipped by his ex? The mind boggles. Jon Turturro stole that movie anyhow.
Michelle sings a song I've never heard before but I love it -- Kelly Clarkson's "Because of You."
I've become a big fan of American Idol's Kelly Clarkson. I love her song "Since U Been Gone":
But since you been gone
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so movin' on, yeah, yeah
Thanks to you, now I get,
I get what I wantSince you been gone
You had your chance, you blew it
Out of sight, out of mind
Shut your mouth, I just can't take it
Ron Royster brings along his civilian friend Anita Margarita and a civilian couple he just met over dinner.
I run into Eve at 10 p.m. and feel happy. I take her outside for a heart-to-heart.
"How come you spell and punctuate correctly?" I ask.
"English and literature were my favorite classes," she says. "I had a hard time staying awake in math and science."
"Me too."
"The only time I liked science was when we got to light things on fire."
Quincy says he saw Eve at the New Sensations party (11/12/05).
"Everybody says that," she responds. "I don't remember going."
I was there and I don't remember seeing her.
Tara from FreePornStarPix.com says she was invited to appear on black rapper Flavor Flav's VH1 show. She was not honored. She says Flava is a drug addict without enough class to hide his problems.
"He's a crackhead," she says. "I can't stand that. If you are going to be a druggie, be classy. A few swipes of the nose are OK, but don't be all cracking out."
"I feel you," I reply.
Eve says she was also asked to appear on the show. She auditioned because VH1 was right next to the Santa Monica DMV. They pay only $150 a day. "Not your DP rate," said someone at VH1 to her.
"They give you stacks of paperwork," Eve remembers. "Have you ever been arrested? Have you ever been in a fight? All this drama. I write in big bold letters, 'No.'"
Tara says she's never been arrested either.
Eve: "I had to make an audition tape about why Flavor should go out with me and why he should accept me on his show. 'Oh, because he has such good fashion sense with the clock and the horn hat. Oh, and I'm really good at stroking his ego.'"
Quincy says U2 is the closest I've gotten to rap music.
Tara yells at Ryan for allowing me to take photos of him smoking pot outside World Modeling. "It made you look like a drug addict. It made you look unstable. Say something Ryan."
Ryan's silenced and overwhelmed by her aggressiveness.
Then he says: "I thought we were friends."
They hug it out.
Tara says some guy from London wants to hook up with her when he visits Los Angeles.
"I am not a toy," she says. "Last summer yes, when I lost weight and looked beautiful and wore size nine. I would be a size nine now if I wasn't drinking so much."
Luke: "Why are you drinking so much?"
Tara: "Anxiety, I guess."
Luke: "Do you think that's a healthy way to deal?"
Tara: "No. I've had about four bottles of Chardonay over the past week. I've been eating a lot less. Right now I'm really bloated and wearing my size twelve jeans. But I don't care."
Eve likes to drink, but not heavily, not usually. She recently switched to lite beer.
John Good man walks out.
Tara screams: "Is that John Goodman?"
She runs up to him with Eve and gushes that he shouldn't leave.
"The people are rude," John explains, his breath reeking of alcohol, "it's crowded, there are no porn stars and no pharmaceuticals."
Tara says he should just get dinner and then come back. The babes will be here after 11 p.m. She takes his picture.
She tries to give him a pen with her website address on it. "This is my website. You should check it out. You can read the porn news and you can see where the babes are going to be."
He's not interested so she gives it to his minder.
Tara says later: "He has a drug problem. It's well documented. He can't get insured on movie sets because of his health problems.
"He's drunk. It's not even 11 p.m. And it's Tuesday.
"My first exposure to him was in the Campbell Soup commercials where he was dressed like a lumberjack and seemed like a nice guy. Now he's an old drunk looking for pharmaceuticals."
11 p.m. Kurt walks out with his date Kitten. The waitress runs out and gives him his wallet.
Eve Mayfair talks to Ryan Knox for the first time (they've exchanged messages on MySpace). She says she has two tattoos -- one on her lower back and one on her outer thigh. Ryan wants to see the latter. She pulls down her pants.
"Ooops," she says. "I'm not wearing any panties."
The porn stars at Sardo's weekly porn star karaoke were entirely upstaged by drunken actor John Goodman, who is best known for playing Dan Connor on the tv show 'Roseanne'. I encountered him staggering out the bar along with a minder.
See all the photos from this week's event including one of Mr. Goodman.
Would The Randalls Make Good Reality TV?
'The Osbournes' was a roaring success because it had all the right ingredients. You had the ass-kicking, take-no-s--- matriarch (Sharon), the Dad with the indecipherable accent (Ozzy), the wayward middle child called Jack (Jack), the spunky, punky, youngest daughter (Kelly), and of course, the sensible eldest daughter who wanted nothing to do with the whole thing, and had recently had her heart broken by some pretentious antipodean type (Aimee, and Daniel Johns from Silverchair respectively). All shot in their wonderful Californian home with their extensive menagerie of animals.
Now, let us contrast this with the first family of glamour photography: You've got the ass-kicking, take-no-s--- matriarch (check), the Dad with the indecipherable accent (check), the wayward middle child called Jack (check), the spunky, punky, youngest daughter (check), and of course, the sensible eldest daughter who wanted nothing to do with the whole thing, and had recently broken the heart of some pretentious antipodean type (check, and check respectively). All shot in their wonderful Californian home with their extensive menagerie of animals. (Double check) This would be like 'The Osbournes' multiplied by 'Porn: A Family Business', only better. Ratings gold...and just think of the guest stars! Holly, you know this idea makes sense...hell, your little sister might even get a record deal out of it. Start a bidding war between HBO and MTV and watch those fat, fat checks roll in...
Next Week: Larry Flynt stars in the new version of 'Ironside', wherein he and his crack team of investigators crawl up the ass of various anti-porn zealots with a microscope and bring them to justice. Critics agree: 'If you can believe that Ving Rhames was Kojak, then you'll have no trouble believing Larry Flynt as Ironside!'
Holly replies:
We've been approached about a reality show before, but it was a nobody so we kinda blew them off. I've often thought a reality show would be hilarious, because the s--- that goes on in the studio and the office is often just priceless. But, most of our crew doesn't want to be on TV as working in porn-- for example one of our makeup artist comes from a very conservative family, and they don't know she works in adult. The closest you can come to it now is the bloopers we run at the end of every DVD we put out, and the behind the scenes footage on www.suzevideo.com...
Welcome to my United States of Whatever
AVN's Heidi Pike Joy blogs on AVN.com:
A quote about me from Lukeisback: "I believe Kami [Andrews] believes that Heidi messed around with a man Kami loved and that Heidi abused her position at AVN, but I don't have the whole story."
I also shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Heh.
Seriously, wow. I heart how people can make s--- up. When the fiction is in the movies, that's great stuff but this kind of crap--well, nice try, assholes, but everyone in my life who means a rat's ass to me knows my heart and where it is and where it--and my other parts--have been lately. As far as the abusing my position here at the mag part, nothing's specific, naturally, in the accusation. Amazing. I don't know where some people out there get the frickin' energy to come up with this s---. Well, whatever. People are talking about me. Guess I've arrived or something.
White Model Stuck In Darkest Africa?
I'm Francine Clara Satriale (MySpace profile) from California. I went to stay with my boyfriend in New Jersey when my mother died.
I'm a model. I came to Nigeria, Africa for a fashion show several months ago. I was given good money for the show but I was not paid in cash. I sent the check to my boyfriend to help me to cash it and send me back the money so that I can pay off some debt I am owing here.
To my surprise, he didn't send the money back to me. He has even left the apartment we both stayed in before I came to Africa.
I really want to get back home. I just need someone to help me pay my hotel bill. All my travel documents are with the hotel manager just because I owe the hotel. I need help fast. I don't want anything bad to happen to me. You can call me through the hotel cell number - 2348028128214. Just say you want to talk to Clara.
I will pay you back as soon as I get home. I can come to your place if you can accommodate me because I don't really have a home to go to now.
You can email or IM me at francsat@yahoo.com or francsat@hotmail.com.
I got this press release from Sam Sugar:
TGP.com, like Sugar's other blog projects, has a majority female staff whose presence can be felt in the content selections and approach to sex in general.
"The adult industry often portrays women as passive sexual participants or corrupted innocents," said Sugar, "but the huge number of female-operated sex blogs is shining a light on the number of women interested in and turned on by porn. The best people I could find staff TGP.com and 75% of them happen to be female. I'm proud to be working with talented writers."
Sam, who's in his early thirties, calls me Wednesday morning.
Sam: "I don't really disclose my age. It changes the way people see me.
"I'm itinerant. I'm calling you from my apartment in Latvia. I've been here 18 months. Being a European citizen, it is not easy to get permanent residency in the US. London is one of the most expensive cities on the planet. All I need is access to a phone and an internet connection. I'm weighing up where my next move will be."
Luke: "How did you get into the adult industry?"
Sam: "During the dotcom period [1999, he went to work for DHD, owned by Danni.com].
"I began my career in the publishing industry in London for Maxim.
"We launched the first American issue of Maxim in October of 1997.
"Tech companies in Los Angeles wanted someone with publishing experience. The only place to get publishing experience in the US was in Manhattan. Unlike in London, when you work in publishing in Manhattan, you get paid a vast amount, particularly if you are involved with technology or marketing, and I was in both.
"This company worked out it was cheaper to hire people in London and bring them to the US then to hire Americans.
"I was enormously over-qualified. When I landed in Los Angeles and looked around, I said, 'Ohmigoodness, these people aren't in the same ballpark.'
"After a while, my colleague and I looked at each other and said, 'We are the best deal this company has ever had. It is wrong how much work we're doing and how much better we are than the people we are supposed to be working with or for.'
"A friend convinced me to go on this interview [with DHD] as a joke, thinking I'd be walking into an office full of people having sex. I was impressed with what I found.
"I was the director of marketing. I worked with them in one form or another until 2003.
"I'm now running a network of blogs that started a year ago with my own blog sugarbank.com. I've branched out to include other blogs such as Podnography.com, PSPPorn.com, SugarClick.com, SugarJoy.com, SugarPit.com, Sugasm.com, and TGP.com.
"I launched sugarbank.com as a way to contact people within the industry and to raise my profile."
Luke: "There are many Adult blogging operations. Why do you think yours will be successful?"
Sam: "There aren't many Adult blogging operations run by the commercial industry. The best sex blogs are run by people outside the industry.
"One of the things I've learned in the past year is how many women are interested in explicit sexual material and how blogging has connected with them in a way the rest of the Adult industry never has. It empowers people to publish their own stuff. Women have jumped on and supported the erotica they like, which isn't the typical Candida Royalle soft-focus Kenny G you'd think.
"Sugarbank.com has 600 subscribers and thousands of readers every day. I only make one post a day."
It's Alexa.com ranking is 65,121.
"The only sex blogs working on the scale of TGP.com are Fleshbot.com, Sexblogs.com and Erosblog.com."
Luke: "What do you love and what do you hate about the Adult industry?"
Sam: "I hate the stupidity. Because it pulls from a particularly barren demographic base, and particularly online the pickings were so easy, you have people in positions of power who wouldn't be able to survive if they had not been lucky to buy some great domain names in 1994.
"The video industry has more than its fair share of imbeciles. Because it takes a defensive attitude towards its product, it tolerates a lot of stuff that it shouldn't -- the violence, racism, narrowmindedness. The output of the Adult video industry is mostly unappealing. The exception is some of the bigger companies which are run by smart, nice people who are grounded in social reality.
"There's so much dreck which is an excuse for people who are emotionally stunted to vent their injuries in public. I don't want to shake those people's hands.
"There are some great artistic people who are like Betty Page and Hugh Hefner and Frank Zappa. Their pornography represents the avante garde who are advancing in America the still radical idea that sexuality is OK."
I hate this smugness and sexual superiority about sex that I hear all the time from pornographers (and this superiority to America that I hear all the time from Brits). As large a percentage of Americans believe that sexuality (privately expressed, and traditionalists would hold it should be within a relationship but even they don't want to send anyone to jail for sex outside of marriage) is OK as do Europeans and as large a percentage of Americans as Europeans believe that it is not OK to perform sex publicly and to earn your living from the sale of wank materials.
What percentage of Europeans believe that pornographers are expressing important ideas and are in the avante garde of important societal change?
All civilizations have opposed pornography and all civilizations will oppose pornography because civilization (based on, among other things, sexual restraint and respect for the family unit) is the opposite of pornography (the free expression of desire and the breaking of societal taboos).
As atheist Pat Riley put it: "It's not religion per se that is against porn; it's any civilization that has to ensure support (in its largest sense) for the children and the females. Briefly, if the male can find another outlet to satisfy his craving for sex, he won't make the sacrifices and adjustments necessary to pair bond with a female and porn helps him masturbate which serves as a crutch to avoid that commitment."
Pornographers have no reason to feel superior to the mass of humanity who have only one sex partner at a time. Pornographers have about the worst record of any group of which I am aware at sustaining relationships (every porn family of which I am aware is screwed up beyond belief), and if you can't sustain relationships, then your life is pathetic and you should shut up about advancing ideas on love and sex.
I don't mind pimps and hookers. I mind when pimps and hookers become preachers of pimping and hooking.
Kendra Jade Feels The Loss
In the past week, I've lost some people I thought dear to me, but gained others more dear. I've had some completely inexplicable things happening..some things I cannot quite wrap my head around.
I'm happy to be leaving this week. Time to remove myself from my surroundings for a moment and re-evaluate some things. It's strange how much I hate being on the road, and I hate being gone, but it's what seems to ground me and help me find myself and my core again. I will be sad to leave certain people behind , but i guess it's true what they say: absence makes the heart grow fonder. You gotta give people time to miss you, and also allow yourself to miss them. If there's really anything there, it'll still be there when I get back.
Today was what should've been a good day. I shot a segment for The Henry Rollins show, which I felt went pretty well. Yet, I feel sad. I look around me at the lives I have allowed to touch mine and it seems like I become attached to easily, and in the end, you always have to let go. Letting go has always been somewhat of a problem for me but I'm in therapy now, and working my way through it.
Time to make myself available to those who are available to me and stop dwelling on those that aren't. Oy vey. I'm in trouble.
Vivid - Red Light Collaboration
Jake Malone posts on ADT: "This is a Red Light District movie at heart, it just features a Vivid girl venturing into the dirtier, edgier side of sex. No condoms."
Holly Randall writes on the suze.net chatboard:
Zdenka was a very softcore model who only did very tame spread shots for us, trust me, we couldn't get any more out of her. Ashton Grey lives in Australia, and Cherry Rain married the owner of AVN and is pregnant with a little girl on the way.
Ander is another girl who got pregnant and left the biz-- she really was one of my favs. Alexus is no longer doing nudes and is working on breaking into mainstream, Tylar disappears and then reappears without warning, Domonique and Anita Dark are European, and you know how that goes...
Jane Magazine's Esther Haynes Profiles Suicide Girls
A friend writes: "I thought you might find a recent article in Jane magazine (a woman's fashion mag) about Suicidegirls.com interesting. There's a lot of controversy about Suicide Girls sending lawyers after models for breaking their contract, models complaining of being exploited by the site-- all that fun stuff. It's in the February issue, with Alicia Keys on the cover."
I got a hold of the article. It claims that half the members of suicidegirls.com are young women. No way.
The name "SuicideGirls" comes from the novel Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. A character puts up his home phone number as a suicide hotline. At times, he encourages the girls who call to shoot themselves. Some do.
Here are excerpts from Jane's article:
...[W]hat they [ex-Suicide Girls] once thought was an artsy celebration of nonmainstream beauty they now think is just another sleazy porn site.
"I had always been very antiporn. But at first I felt that, 'Wow, they did porn correctly -- not so dirty, and non-exploitational.' I later felt really fooled." Still, many ferociously loyal members maintain they'd never felt as empowered and confident as they did when they started modeling for SuicideGirls. So which is it -- a revolutionary pro-woman soft-core community or just another smut shop for boys?"
...Suicidegirls.com is a business, and maybe it's a testament to the decency of the site that its models had such faith in it to begin with (and hundreds still do). Because as sweet and cool as everyone is, it's hard to deny that what it all comes down to is this: making money off flesh. Which leads me to wonder if perhaps the real question is simply, Can there ever be a hetero soft-core site that's universally considered fair and empowering to women -- even if fair, empowered women are running it?
When I throw this out to the former SuicideGirls at Cheebo, Voltaire answers: "I wouldn't say any of this is empowering. How is selling your pussy empowering?"
I raise my eyebrows and look around for a response from the other girls. No one says a word.
Mary Carey Flies To Washington D.C. Tuesday Night For Thursday Night Republican National Committee Dinner
I call her back Tuesday afternoon.
She's disturbed by the transcripts I posted of Khan Tusion interrogating porn stars. I tell her that the girls are well paid and are told in advance what to expect. Some of them come to regret it but most don't say they do.
While talking to me, Mary gets her nails done, reads about Paris Hilton in a tabloid, and answers her email. That makes me feel special that she could be so comfortable talking to me that she could carry on three other tasks.
Mary said she would never do Meatholes. "It's not so bad if the girls know what they're going to be doing.
"I was more sober last week than I usually am. Sunday night, this New Zealand porn star got me doing shots.
"I tried crying in New Zealand [to get an upgrade to business class] but people in New Zealand you can't argue with them or reason or cry. They're unemotional people. They just left me in coach. My butt hurts to this day. Flying without the extra cushion [of fat] on my butt is not comfortable.
"Yesterday when I called there was only one first class seat available for tonight. Harold and I decided it is not fair for me to sit in first class and him to sit in coach. Instead of me spending the money [to upgrade], $150 is two nice meals. I'm paying for this trip, not Legend.
"Five hours in coach after just doing twelve is not that bad. I'll have a xanax to take to sleep.
"I took a vicodin on the trip back [from NZ]. It made me nauseous. I was throwing up in the bathroom on the plane. All I ate in New Zealand was cheese and croissants, cheese and crackers."
Superhead (Karrine Steffans) Destroys Mr. Marcus
They did a scene together in 2000. Now the black woman's an author (Confessions of a Video Vixen) and music video star. Vivid plans to release the scene in the next few months.
Conte writes: "She is probably the most notorious groupie in the world of hip hop and R&B. Apparently her latest conquest (we need a roll eyes smilie) is Usher."
Mo Murda writes: "As of now Super Head is giving Super Head to Usher.I was listening to Wendy Williams last week and it was mentioned that she said Usher is well endowed.But yeah thats who he is giving throat babies to at the moment.
"Man ole girl broke off alot of rappers she has a son by KOOL G RAP she left the dumb nukka when he started whoopin her azz."
A few months after he shot the scene with her, Marcus saw her in a music video. Then he started seeing her in magazines.
Marcus tells me Monday afternoon: "I wonder if there will be a double standard. Paris Hilton has done a couple of X-rated videos and she's still accepted. What's the difference between Karrine and Paris? None. You can do this and still have a strong lifestyle. You can still carry on and make money.
"I'd like to see Karrine do even more than with the book. That would make me feel better. That would make me feel that the people I met on my journey through porn weren't so bad. They weren't just stereotypes. Porn people aren't all in one room. They're spread out through the house.
"I want to be one of the biggest cheerleaders for [Karrine's sex tape].
"I'd like to become more than just Mr. Marcus performer. I'd like to knock out a few directing gigs. I'd like to be taken seriously on a business-level."
He wants to start his own company and is looking for investors.
"I have to take care of my family. I have more responsibilities than just me. I've always had them, I'm just starting to grow into them better. I want to spend more time with my kids.
"This Superhead thing is important for black females. They either like her or they hate her. The [sex] video is going to really divide them.
"I hope that I have more credibility and I can balance it out for her.
"The opportunity to talk bad about her always presents itself but I don't think that's the purpose of this situation.
"Cats need to know that it ain't about that."
Luke: "Why did she do it? Because she needed the money?"
Marcus: "Yeah. Every single one of them.
"You go to a strip club and see a bunch of fine bitches. She don't need to be on a pole.
"I'd like to see her succeed. It'd be a good thing for me too. I need a good thing to happen for me."
The tape featuring Karrine Steffans and Mr. Marcus is called Mr. Marcus' Cool Off. Word is that Mr. Marcus is repackaging the tape to take advantage of Karrine "Superhead" Steffan's celebrity. According to Solange at HipHopDX, Karrine Steffans might be suing Mr. Marcus for the porn tape. I haven't seen any court documents yet, so who knows if the suit has or will be filed. Maybe it's a publicity stunt to sell more video tapes? Solange states that the tape shows why Ms. Karrine Steffans is known as Superhead. "I’ve seen it before and, she has a MEAN head game," writes Solange.
Here's Karrine's official website.
Confessions of a Video Vixen is the widely anticipated memoir of Karrine Steffans, the once sought-after sexy siren who appeared in the music videos of multiplatinum hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly, and LL Cool J. A top-paid video dancer, Karrine transitioned to film when acclaimed director F. Gary Gray picked her to costar in his film A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel. But the movie and music video sets, swanky Miami and New York restaurants, and trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of People and In Touch magazines only skims the surface of Karrine's life.
This memoir -- part tell all, part cautionary tale -- shows how Karrinne came to be the confidante of so many, why she kept their secrets, and how she found herself in Hollywood after a life marked by physical abuse, rape, and drugs -- all before she was twenty-six. By sharing her emotionally charged story, she hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticized industry.
If she's had a life of abuse, rape and drugs, is it OK to masturbate to her porn scene?
Hanging Out With Mr Marcus In The World Modeling Building Monday
Marcus is moving into the big new office recently vacated by Alexander DeVoe (who's moved to West Coast Productions).
He's been married 13 years to a beautiful white woman who looks like Sylvia Saint. He has her picture next to his computer. They have two girls, aged 10 and 11.
The girls were up in the building the other night but Marcus wouldn't let them see his office because it hadn't been sanitized.
"Your girls look black," I say.
"They're mixed," he replies, "but black is the dominant gene."
I look on his bulletin board and read the following inspirational messages that all of us should incorporate into our lives:
* Get s--- done.
* Don't give up on your dreams
* God bless the sexual
* Only God can judge me.
In porn for 12 years, he remembers when nobody would talk about porn in polite society. Now it has exploded into popular culture.
Marcus opens up a book of Tupac Shakur's poetry and shares it with me. Marcus has a painting of the late rapper on his wall. Marcus says he got to hang out one-on-one with Tupac seven times.
What About The Agony Of The Retired Male Porn Star?
They have a hell of a time finding a good civilian woman, even when they have money. Women these days do Google searches on prospective men. Our pasts are laid out in gory detail.
What's The Deal With The One Page Ad In March's AVN Promoting Paul Fishbein?
Has AVN's screener policy changed? Is the place going down the tubes?
I got this anonymous email:
Wanted to let you know that the new AVN is not only laughable but sad. It has been circulating that alot of companies are pulling their advertising because there is no proof that AVN or Paul Fishbein affects anyones bottom line when it comes to sales.
In addition, his power plays and methods of getting people to advertise is ridiculous and COMPANIES ARE FED UP WITH AVN AND ITS POINTLESS EXISTENCE. Interestingly enough Paul started to return the AVN nomination screeners to companies. Everyone knows he use to put them in his stores and leveraged it against some stupid AVN nomination that encouraged companies to spend money on tables. Now lets discuss how funny this months AVN is.... He has actually taken ads out in his own magazine quoting others to qualify the pervasiveness and usefulness of his magazine. There is even a picture of himself with quotes about how smart he is and how great his publication is when it comes to adult information. I happen to know that AVN has consistently reviewed titles three months in a row giving them different reviews each time. THE END OF THE AVN EMPIRE IS NEAR!
I sent the email to AVN President Paul Fishbein and we had this IM exchange:
PaulFishbein: You have two choices. #1- you show some balls and tell whomever it is that you will only print their comments if they sign it. That means that you, Luke, are not going to qualify random comments without people taking authorship. I mean, if the end of the AVN Empire is near, then they shouldn't be afraid.
#2- I will answer it but you should say that I have enough balls to answer
anonymous people who are too gutless to sign their names
Luke: Yes. Let me just put those questions in my own mouth: Why the one
page ad starring you (not your normal style) and has there been a change
in AVN's screener policy?
PaulFishbein: We decided to do some marketing. That's all. We decided
to remind people what we've been doing all these years. People forget
that we have 23 years of history
Luke: That makes sense. It was just such an easy cheap shot - why Paul
do you promote yourself?
PaulFishbein: as far as my picture, my staff convinced me that since I
am AVN's face to the market, I need to show my face. When Tim was here
there was confusion, people thought I was retiring
PaulFishbein: this is the way we show people I'm still here an in charge.
Promote the face of the market
PaulFishbein: #2- We only started returning awards screeners four years
ago.
PaulFishbein: so they're only 48 months behind
PaulFishbein: the companies do not ask for them but it was too much product
to absorb, give away, etc. And everyone DOES NOT know I put them in my
stores because that is untrue. But the person accusing us of that doesn't
even have the guts to put their name on the e-mail.
PaulFishbein: AVN had its best year ever in 2005 and we are ahead more
in 2006. PaulFishbein: The only people pulling their advertising are those
who can't pay their bills or afford it. And sometimes we pull people who
can't pay. But, no other publication has over 15,000 qualified retailers
and another 7000 qualified distributors, foreign buyers, cable buyers,
etc. And that's part of the marketing.
PaulFishbein: And I'm sorry if the big retailers all use AVN to help make
buying decisions and maybe some of the whiners who won't put their names
on e-mails have s---ty product that nobody wants. It's easy to blame your
bad sales and crappy product on AVN, but at least I sign my name.
PaulFishbein: You know Luke, people should have the balls to put their
names behind what they say or shut up. What are they scared of, I have
no power according to that e-mail? What I am going to do, have them beat
up?
PaulFishbein: I would respect those who aren't pussies who stand behind
anonymous e-mails.
AVN Editor Mike Ramone responds to these lines:
"I happen to know that AVN has consistently reviewed titles three months in a row giving them different reviews each time."
Once in a great while a title may be reviewed twice inadvertently. That is not acceptable, but given the hundreds of screeners we review every month - many more than anyone else, btw - it does happen on occasion. However, I defy your anonymous poster to demonstrate that we "consistently" review the same title three months in a row. If he or she is correct, it should be easy: just list the titles we have supposedly reviewed three months in a row. Considering we publish twelve issues a year, "consistently," at the very least would mean say, six such examples over the past year. Well? We're waiting.....
My anonymous emailer writes: "Let Mr. Ramone know that is has been seven issues that have produced multiple reviews on the same title, and let Mr. Fishbein know I have no interest in outing myself since I don't care about AVN, but like everyone else I do care about Xbiz. I do believe they are what AVN should be and are being taken very seriously."
Mike Ramone responds:
Anonymous obviously can't back up his allegation that AVN has "consistently" reviewed the same title in three successive issues. All had to do was list one title that, according to him, we reviewed in three successive issues (along with the three issues it supposedly appeared in). That he didn't (but instead, picks a number - "seven" - out of the air) speaks volumes about his lack of credibility. And if he lacks credibility in that statement, then it can be inferred - as California judges instruct juries in evaluating the credibility of a witness - that he lacks credibility in all his other statements as well. Of course, his sweeping generalization - "everyone" cares about Xbiz - also speaks volumes about his lack of credibility. Not to mention his not very subtle agenda.
Jerry writes:
I just read your exchange with Paul Fishbein from Adult Video News and it really left a bad taste in my mouth.
Does that mean that up until then those screeners where in fact sent to his store? I must admit that I heard the same rumor about the AVN nomination screeners.
Why doesn't Mr. Fishbein list his retailers and distributors therby showing where all the producers and companies' advertising dollars are going?
The other issue is his choice to hire Tim Conelly who took bribes and pay offs for reviews and nomination considerations. I agree that AVN maybe the only game in town but there seems to be serious question about whether or not that game makes a difference, and if AVN chooses not to list their retailers then one can only assume he is full of s---. AVN/VIVID/WICKED it's all the same and people really do think he has become a joke.
I'm sure Paul regrets hiring Tim Connelly. As for the screeners, Paul says the reviewers took them home or they were given away. And I'd assume that the list of his retailers and distributors is something he treasures as a trade secret. I ain't Paul's spokesman. I'm just playing one now for fun.
Paul Fishbein writes:
Tell your anonymous e-mailer that if he didn't care about AVN, why write in the first place. He obviously does care. As for not outing himself, he is a pussy. no balls. As far as invoking X-Biz, why would he even bring that up unless you had some special interest in X-Biz. And, oh by the way, still staying anonymous?
If they are tired of AVN, they can always send me their movies to review instead. And I welcome advertising from anyone. I'll come up with a whole new awards ceremony and everything. Sure, it'll probably be in Austin instead of Vegas, but have you ever been to 6th Street? Bars upon bars upons bars. It's like Vegas, only dirtier and without the casinos. Actually, it's more like the French Quarter but without casinos. There is totally a 'porn journalist of the year' award in it for you if you help me.
Anonymous replies:
Mr. Fishbein in his infinite wisdom is assuming that I'm a male thereby using the word pussy to describe what he feels is my cowardice, and using it an awful lot, I might add, which would indicate his anger and defensiveness over all accusations. The mention of X Biz is not a comment that need be read into, I do not have anything to do with X Biz. I like so many others are bored and exhausted with the AVN "show" and the "Jenna Show" and the Vivid "show" as a result X Biz has become the better and new source of unbias information for the adult industry while AVN becomes Adam Film World. It's a free magazine that is paid for by its advertisers who are constantly jockeying for front pages and multiple listing so that they can get attention during the awards. The number of circulation has always been [dubious?]. Mr. Fishbein stayed ahead of the game long enough to make his money, but everyone is aware of his hustle at this point and we all have his picture (a desperate looking one) in the (and MY) last issue of AVN to prove it.
Why Did Kami Andrews Quit XPT?
"I quit xpt when I changed a lot of things in my life, the biggest thing my pride, coochie had slayed me and I couldn't take it anymore. I quit both boards at the same time because I was trying to make some serious life changes, one of which was quitting speed and I just changed everything, the people I hang out with, my computer habits, everything. Then, after a month, when I started posting again, I just went back to ADT because Jeff had freaked out on me when I quit."
She replies to my inquiry:
Friday was the Sex Z Pictures party for Kurt Lockwood's The Decline of Western Civilization Part 69: The Porno Years, and I danced with Kurt and his band, The Sex City Punks. Saturday night I went to go see the musical Rock of Ages at Ren Mar Studios. It was a fun show, lots of rock hits from the 80's and a story about Hollywood and dreams and love. Really cute. Great dance routines and interaction with the audience.
I just finished reading Douglas Coupland's All Families are Psychotic. It was a quick read with some farfetched plot twists.
Mark Kernes - Political Prisoner
Mark blogs on AVN.com: "I'm a convicted misdemeanant who spent roughly three months in Allenwood Federal Prison Camp for "willful failure to file tax returns" — actually, I DID file them, but the government didn't like the fact that, everywhere it asked for my "income," I wrote "I claim the Fifth Amendment." I also spent a night in jail and a year on probation in '69 for possession of marijuana. None of this is a secret; I've mentioned them both in AVN editorials a couple of times, usually to refute someone's statement that "there are no political prisoners in America." There are. I was one twice."
'The female Mark Kernes'
AVN editor Heidi Joy Pike reacts: "Wow. I can honestly say that I would never muse on the character of someone I barely know like Margold has, assuming that quote is correct. We've exchanged no more than a few sentences ever. Granted, there are worse things to be referred to as in the world than this crack at Mark but the attempted impact on my feelings shows me again why I give myself lots of space between me and some of the people in this biz. Sad stuff."
Kami Andrews responds: "Maybe it wasn't enough space."
I believe Kami believes that Heidi messed around with a man Kami loved and that Heidi abused her position at AVN, but I don't have the whole story.
Kami won't give me the scoop: "No, I don't want to go public with it," she replies to me. "It was never my intention. I think she is seeing attacks everywhere already. I'm done with the whole mess."
I get this email:
I've been following the postings on several web sites about Bill Marigolds' comments about AVN, Mark Kernes, and Heidi Pike Johnson and they are hilarious.
Margold is a guy who has been in the adult game his whole life and unlike a lot of these people, he has gone to jail and been persecuted over his exercise of free speech and expression. He does like to talk about himself a lot, and short of Al Gore inventing the Internet, I think Bill takes credit for everything else, but there is nothing wrong with that. People young and old know who he is and to many of the people in this industry, he was the first person to open the door so to speak and let them in. Yeah, he does self-grandize but don't we all.
The people at AVN are a fine blend of schizophrenic neurotic-- especially the above mentioned Heidi Pike-Johnson. Talk about wanting to get a straight answer or a answer in earnest from her and you have a better chance of cracking the Da Vinci Code then a straight up answer not laced in smart-assedness.
Holly's Hebrew Hammer Visits World Modeling Monday
Jim South Jr Ryan Knox, Jim South Jr Ryan Knox Ryan Knox Jim Jr
I walk in at 2:30 pm.
Jim South is on the phone with Latina ingenue Samantha South, 19. "I know things happen," Jim says. "But you have to be responsible. Your cell phone is no good. Is there a number where you are staying?"
Jim has work booked for her for the next few days but the snow this weekend threw her off-schedule. Then she lost her cell phone. Then she took a hotel in Hollywood "because there were no rooms in the Valley."
Ryan Knox says "2009 is going to be big for Ryan Knox."
He says he has a civilian girlfriend who works in mainstream entertainment and is OK with Ryan's Adult work. "It's a win-win situation."
Luke: "I understand why it's a win for you, but how is it a win for her?"
Ryan: "I mean it's a win-win situation for me."
Jim: "I'm not going to scream at you. Can you still shoot Wednesday?"
Junior gets an email from a prospective male talent (Swiss Balls) that includes photos of the guy making it was an ex-lover of Junior's Kody Coxxx aka Honey.
Luke: "How does that make you feel to see pictures of this guy with his hands [on her]?"
Junior: "They deserve each other."
Earlier Monday, Ericka Lockett came in and complained that everyone was grabbing her boobs and molesting her. Before she left, she grabbed Junior's head and rubbed it between her breasts.
"I'm not a piece of meat," says Junior.
Alex from MTV's Jackass show calls. He wants a superfat girl to sit on a midget.
Jim: "I can't find any fat girls."
Junior: "I yanked them off the site."
Jim: "When Rob Spallone was here, we'd get blimps coming to the office and Rob would give them work."
Jim's throwing around the f-word. It throws me. Normally Jim is a clean-spoken man. What kind of world do we live in where the legend of porn talent agents uses profanity?
Jim gives fatherly advice to Samantha: "You really need to be in the Valley. Why did you get a room in Hollywood?"
Junior: "Samantha South was supposed to be down here this morning for a shoot."
Ryan Knox and Junior step outside and smoke the peace pipe.
Luke to Junior: How can you have your lips on the same pipe that Ryan's sucked on?
Neither are phased by this lip-to-lip embrace where the pipe is but an excuse for intimacy.
Is this homoerotic a result of Brokeback Mountain or is it inherent to the use of illegal mind-altering substances?
All these people I know, some of them intimately, who bond over pot.
Now that Holly is gone from my life, I want her to be with Ryan Knox (if his civilian girlfriend doesn't mind). They share pot and stuff in common. I fantasize about them passing the peace pipe back and forth. Mmm. V. hot.
Junior breathes out an illegal cloud. "Gotta go," he chokes. "The phone's ringing."
His commitment to duty is admirable.
Jim Sr. is not interested in smoking dope. "There's a reason they call it dope," he says.
Jim tells Rick Davis: "Ricky, I love you like a son, but you're asking for trouble when you set a call time that early (7:30 a.m.). You'll have to send someone to pick her up at 6:30 a.m."
Jim loses his connection to a porner on a cell phone.
Jim hangs up. "I hate cell phones," he says. "I'm going to start up a gossip column, make a lot of money and retire."
Jim talks to a bureaucrat in Sacramento about his agency bond and license. Jim gets his lawyer to join in the conversation. They work things out.
I hear Junior calling a girl and letting her know that Holly and Suze Randall want her to stop by for test shots.
Junior's chatting over the computer with Hailey Young, who has a nasty cold. Hailey says she's too sick to go in for test shots for Holly Tuesday.
World Modeling displays a photo of Kelsey Michaels on the wall (along with 50 others). She called a few weeks ago to re-sign with them. They told her to repay the money she owed them. They have not heard from her since.
Jim says about Lela Star: "She's backed off the interracial and the A."
Junior gets an email from a model (Francine from New Jersey) stuck in Africa. The model sent her check to her New Jersey boyfriend to cash. She says he absconded with the money. Now she can't pay her hotel bill. Will World Modeling help her out? If they will, she offers to work for World Modeling and to stay with Junior and take care of him.
Jim and Junior say no dice.
I look at her MySpace profile. She seems hot. Poor lost white girl in dark Africa.
Jim complains that FilmLAInc, the new film permit office, is taking forever to get back to him to issue shooting permits.
When Jim gets someone from the permit office to call him back, Jim says to him: "God bless you, my son."
Junior says he's uploaded Lori Lust's new shots. "They're sizzling hot, she says," notes Junior.
Lori calls up to complain that Jim has not gotten her work. Jim says to tell her to get another agent if she's not happy.
Bethany Sweet cancelled a week's worth of shoots to appear unpaid on the Jerry Springer show (cable version) with Bill Margold and another girl.
Jack writes: "World Modeling is incredibly good at taking the worst possible shots of their models. I remember they made Tylar Jacobs look hideous, and she's an incredibly beautiful girl and a Penthouse Pet."
Les responds: "Believe me, that's the way it should be everywhere. I got screwed once by Hal Guthu of his long gone agency. I went in person in L.A. and chose a girl in his book. The girls all had the same 4 studio shots...the size of 3 post stamps. I hired one. The shooting day, she arrives on location (Santa Barbara). Jeezzz! Never in my life would I have hired that girl if I would have seen her in person.Worst, she was 23 Y.O. and had a 6 years old daughter. From her pregnancy,she had horrible strech marks on her belly. The shooting has been a nightmare. At least at World Modeling, what you see is what you get!"
5 p.m. Junior looks at me with sympathy. "Your biggest scoop was me smoking pot with Ryan. Sorry to disappoint you. I'll have to bring some heroin next time."
Chaim Amalek writes me:
If bird flu hits, you will want a person like Holly in your life. You could ride out the plague in her family's Malibu estate, living off the land.
I see myself desperately trying to flee the plague, and finally making it up the road to your shelter, only to be shot at by the entire Randal family, giggling at my plight.
You could become the new Boccaccio, writing a new Decameron. Imagine the scenes of debauchery you would witness at the Randalls'.
>We would not shoot you.
You would not, but what about the Boer? Or Holly's sister? I believe that to spare yourselves, you would.
And then some band of Koreans would spy my carcas and eat it.
Why didn't Jews turn to suicide bombings after WW2, you know, to kill Germans?
Anyway, keep Holly in the "friend" column, just in case you need to flee your hovel.
Contrary to the lazy poor, I am utilizing my bout of unemployment to augment my skills. I'm learning Morse code. Soon I'll be able to get a job at the telegraph office.
Genesis Skye Returns
She writes on XPT: "I said when I made my return you'd all be happy with the changes! Here they are! I've dyed my hair black for one... new pictures will be on Foxxx Modeling soon! I've gained some of my weight back! YAY! I feel better then I've ever felt in my life. I'm not with my boyfriend anymore. Therefor, I wont be doing coke anymore. I'm going to take this time to apologize to everyone. I was rude to some of you and I'm sorry. You guys are who make me a great porn whore. I slid down the wrong dirt road! (Pun intended) Genesis Skye is back with a vengance!"
Willie D writes: "You were drugged up because you were dating a certain guy? Seems to me you have a personality which allows itself to being run over, the crack being a mere defenseive byproduct. If you wanna have another go at it, knock yourself out and good luck, but be very careful. Porn seems to have chewed you up and spit you out several times, I'm wondering why you'd go running back to that."
Robbye Bentley Asks For Webmaster Advice
Since Matrix Content has determined my domain names (robbye.com and robbyebentley.com) are company property...I need some help building my new websites!!! If anyone can offer some guidance/assistance, please contact me!!! BTW, when the domain names were purchased, we were just sitting around (as husband and wife) farting around with buying domains...purchased with our credit card, and considering the company is partly owned by me (until I'm bought out), how do I not keep these domains? And, what are they going to do with them? IT'S MY NAME!
His divorce attorney said there would be no problem with my keeping my domain names...now the story has changed. They are keeping them out of spite, and we all wonder why I'm full of hate...and it's not because I'm fat. I can go to the gym for that.
Kami Kami Kami Kami Kami Chameleon
Holly Randall posts on XPT: "The dreaded drunk dialing mishap has now been outdone by the drunk typing trend. I can think of several posts I've read on this board that were admittedly written by the poster in a highly inebriated state. The internet can be a dangerous place to rant and rave when you've had a few, I would know!"
Smut Mutant writes on XPT: "Kami is totally cool and will always be a part of the board's success. One of the few porn hoes who stood by XPT at a time when most sluts wouldn't touch this place with a 10 ft dildo. Sadly, idiocy drove her away from here and there's only so much abuse one can take though she has no ill will despite it."
Cobalt60 writes: "...[I]f you miss her so much, why not try to actually correspond with her like a normal human being and try to persuade .. oh, never mind, that would require effort beyond just bitching and moaning and wallowing in cynicism, misantropy and ennui."
Howard Stern Reviews Tabitha Stevens' New Mainstream Movie
03/13/06. 9:05am Howard let John go and said that he watched Tabitha Steven's first non-porno movie over the weekend and it was unwatchable. He said that Supertwink was actually better. He said that she's naked in some scenes but she's not doing anything sexual in the movie. He said he didn't know what the premise was and the whole thing was insufferable. She was being haunted by some voices in her head as she was walking around. There was some guy who looked like Ron Jeremy following her around and controlling her or something like that, he's not even sure. The scenes went on way too long like when she was walking through the desert for 15 minutes. Howard said he watched the movie and still doesn't know if there was a plot to it. Artie aid that another movie that he saw that was just bad was ''Saw.'' Howard said that movie was actually good though. This movie that Tabitha made wasn't, according to Howard. He said that it must have been a pretty big budget movie but it's crazy because it was so bad. He said he had to turn it off when he saw her getting hung by meat hooks.
Tabitha called in and tried to defend the movie. Howard told her that it may have been the worst movie he's ever seen. She said it wasn't supposed to be a porn or anything. She said it's supposed to be about her going on a vision quest to try and get out of the porn business. Artie found out that she put up her own money for the movie and then asked her what the f--- she was thinking. Tabitha said that she put up about $100,000 of her own money for the movie.
News about the Girls of Marc Wallice´s Outbreak
On another site, someone wrote that Jordan McKnight had returned to her home state and shortly after that, started escorting.
Nena Cherry actually popped up on RAME for a few years after everything happened and had a huge flame war with Brandy Alexandre. Nena claimed to not to have HIV and said that she was married to a well to do man, did not have to work, and had a three month old baby. Brandy stated that she had done an 'investigation' and that Nena's claims of a hubby, child, and non-working lifestyle were false.
Kimberly Jade was in a hospice in Hawaii for a while, according to the LA Times.
I saw Brooke Ashley interviewed and looked very worn and weathered beyond her actual age. Does anyone else have updates?
Ironically, Wallice seems to have landed on his feet and actually got non-performing jobs in the industry after what he did.
Rollin writes: "Brooke looks worn and weathered because of her continued drug use. last i heard she was in serving time in Hawaii and yes she shot a scene for Ed Powers last year. Gross!"
Keith O'Connor's (Defiance Films) Past
LAguy writes:
Click on "Offender Search" on the left side, then click "Accept" and put in Keith O'Connor in the search box and you will see his profile.
It is my understanding that he was selling product on the internet and not delivering, and other activities on the internet. Theft by Deception is commonly defined as someone intentionally obtaining property of another by deception.
Keith responds to my inquiry: "It's correct. Was related to something that occured in 1993 with a federal case. I plead guilty to the federal offense in 1998 and in connection plead guilty in a state case. Had no relation to the adult business, was computer related and a lifetime ago."
Keith apparently served time in prison -- from June 19, 2000 to January 3, 2001.
Khan Tusion Interviews Dana Vespoli & Nikki Nievez
The scene is available through Khan's portal site www.meatholes.com.
The video starts with Khan gently choking Dana, 32.
Khan: "How long have we known each other?"
Dana: "I have no idea."
Khan: "A year?"
Dana: "Yeah."
Khan: "How much quality time have we spent?"
Dana: "None."
Khan: "Three minutes."
Dana: "Oh, at that party."
Khan: "That was high. We had a tiny little moment."
Dana nods her head.
Khan: "And then something happened and it dissipated. And we were both slightly titillated and slightly ashamed."
Dana smiles and nods. "Why is shame sexy? Why is degradation and humiliation sexy?"
Khan: "Isn't it great?
"You comport well in all social circles?"
Dana: "Yeah, if I'm not glued to the wall."
Khan: "You know why you comport well? Because you know what the word 'comport' means when nobody else in this business does.
"What happened?"
Dana: "I stopped worrying about being marginalized by the rest of society. I had wanted to do it for a while."
Khan: "That's bull."
Dana: "You talk about filling a void? I was absolutely filling a void."
Khan: "A lot of terrible things have been written about me."
Dana: "Why?"
Khan: "Because I give girls what they want.
"All those turds who want to come to your door with flowers, tell them what you need."
Dana: "I need to be heard."
Khan: "Did you say 'hurt'?"
He grabs her by the neck.
Dana: "I need to be hurt sometimes too."
Khan: "Do you need to be degraded?"
He squashes her face with his left hand.
Dana: "Absolutely."
Khan: "Do you need people to spit in your face and call you [nasty names]?"
Dana: "Sometimes."
Khan: "Then tell them what you are."
Dana: "I'm a dirty whore and I need to be treated like a dirty whore."
Khan: "Like a piece of..."
Dana repeats it reluctantly.
Khan catches her hesitation and yells at her.
Dana says her parents are disappointed in her porn choice.