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Jared Paul Stern's Gossip Meltdown
In the summer of 1999, I was publishing on lukeford.com about the corruption of New York's gossip game, in particular the New York Post's Page Six, Richard Johnson and Jared Paul Stern.
Here's a January 24, 2000 article by Iain S. Bruce in the Scottish Daily Record which followed up on what I was publishing (chiefly the work of my friend Mark Kramer):
Headline: "Celebrity Cover-up: How the American showbiz establishment closed ranks after the body of a pretty 19-year old was found in a New York hotel room."
IT is a mystery that has hung over New York for five years, another unresolved tragedy in the city of a million heartbreaks.The naked body of pretty Leigh Zurmuhlen, an aspiring 19-year-old actress, was found dead of an apparent drugs overdose in room 1610 of New York's Mayflower Hotel on October 27, 1995.
She had checked into the room in the early hours of the 25th with a mysterious Hollywood television producer - signed in as Dean Sche- - who slipped away from the hotel two days before her corpse was discovered by security guards arriving to tell the couple that their lease had expired.Showbusiness insiders racked their brains as to who this mystery man might be, and newspapers across the city had no luck in locating him.Despite enquiries across the California TV industry, no trace of anyone called Dean Sche- could be found.But there is new evidence the phantom producer was the hotshot Darren Star, creator of Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place and Sex In The City, which starred Sarah Jessica Parker.
Star was in New York at the time of the death working on another TV series -- Central Park West -- which was being filmed only a few blocks from the hotel.
Now investigative writer Mark Kramer has alleged that Sche- is, in fact, Star's original name, and he was the man who sneaked out of the Mayflower.
That fateful night, Leigh had gone to the trendy celebrity hangout, the Bowery Bar, where Darren Star had hosted his 33rd birthday party a few months earlier.
She called her mother at 4 a.m. to say she would be staying with a friend, then travelled to the hotel room where she would die.
Now Kramer has alleged that a group of glittering stars blackened the memory of a dead teenager to save one of their own.
"A dead blonde used to mean something in this town, but the Leigh Zurmuhlen overdose made clear that New York's gossip junta exhibited a contempt for their readership that would have been comprehension were it not so transparent," he says.
Changing your name for the sake of fame is not unusual in Hollywood, particularly if having the name Sche- identified you as the son of disgraced funeral director Dean Sche- Sr, who had mistakenly removed a living woman from a nursing home instead of her deceased roommate in 1988.
Star has been profiled in top magazine Vogue by Sex in the City co-writer Candace Bushnell. But now it is believed that most of it is fictitious.
When Star fled the scene for his Los Angeles home, his lawyer acted as intermediary with the New York Police Department.
Star -- described by the police, who referred to him as Mr. Sheu, as a "friendly witness" -- was interviewed by telephone shortly before he sped off to Hawaii on holiday.
The producer had told the police that Leigh had been asleep when he left the room, and that he had gone because she had been "acting irrationally." They decided that no action against the Hollywood power player was required.
But Leigh's mother Kathleen said: "If she was acting irrationally, why didn't he dial 9-1-1? He didn't call an ambulance, he didn't offer her a cab home, he didn't try to call her mother -- he only thought of himself."
But Star was worried about the impact the death would have on his career.
Although reports appeared on newswires and in the Zurmuhlen's local newspaper, mentions of Star were scarce in the city newspapers. A wall of silence was thrown up around the incident.
But Baird Jones, an assistant on the New York Daily News gossip desk at the time, claimed his bosses -- celebrity columnists George Rush and Joanna Molloy -- covered up for Star.
He said: "I remember the week the Star thing went down. George and Joanna were going crazy on the story -- not trying to report it, but trying to bury it."
Molloy did finally report the story, but not until over a fortnight later, when, unaccountably, she removed all mention of Star's name.
On the New York Post, it was a similar story.
Columnist Richard Johnson, who writes about the "handsome Darren Star" and "sexy scribe Candance Bushnell" is married to publicist Nadine Johnson who was Press consultant for Star's favorite haunt, the Bowery Bar.
"There is no doubt in my mind that these people conspired to completely remove any reference to Darren Star by any name from the story of Leigh's death," said Kramer.
"They knew exactly who that man in the hotel room was, but chose to ignore this because, as a constant source of celebrity gossip, he was worth more to them than a dead teenager."
Leigh's parents then had to live with the shame of having their daughter's name blacked in the Press.
An article in the New York Press by Jared Paul Stern alleged: "Leigh Zurmuhlen was a celebrity hunter whose stalking ground was the Bowery Bar's maining dining room."
He printed claims from the publicist of Star's friend and novelist Brett Easton Ellis that Leigh was "an extremely obsessive fan."
He said Leigh had harassed him at a book signing weeks before her death, begging that he took her telephone number so that they could meet. Leigh's family was outraged. Her uncle, Kurt Zurmuhlen, said: "Eight months before she died, Leigh was just another decent, bright young girl living in Saratoga Falls. Nobody who knew her believes that her character could have changed that drastically."
Her father, Edward, was horrified. But having lost another child -- Leigh's elder sister -- in a traffic accident shortly before, he was too distressed to take action.
Edward Zermuhlen died within a year of his daughter, but not before presenting what he saw as the truth to local newspaper, the Saratogian.
This was a very different picture, one of an active intelligent young woman who excelled in her school swimming team and shone academically.
He said: "Leigh was a very confident young woman. She had a good social life, lots of friends, and made the school honour roll every year."
Kramer agrees: "Leigh Zurmuhlen was a Nineties American Pie, and the day they found her corpse at the Mayflower Hotel was the day the music died, dead of Darren Star-related causes.
Daily News gossip columnist Molloy refuses to talk about her involvement in the cover-up.
Jeane MacIntosh, a former report on the daily Post, said suggestions of a cover-up are "hysterical." She said Stern was acting in good faith when he failed to link Star to the death.
"I don't think Jared knew it was Star, because I asked him and he was genuinely clueless," she said.Star's brother Marc, a California pornography journalist, physically attacked publisher L-ke Ford when he refused to remove details of the case until the producer had proved his innocence.
Neither Darren Star nor his agent Nancy Josephson would comment, staff saying that the pair were "unreachable."
But lawyers for Star have since said that all allegations against him are "completely false."
Star's career and social life have carried on regardless. He was seen at Brett Easton Ellis's annual festive party together with Jared Stern.
And as Sex in the City basked in the publicity generated by its loose moral stance, Star celebrated by hosting a party in which himself, Sarah Jessica Parker and Easton Ellis were spanked by a dominatrix hired for a joke.
But Leigh's relatives are not going to forget what became of their daughter.
They still want to know why the last man to see her alive was allowed to escape virtually unquestioned.
A few days after Leigh's funeral, a letter arrived at her mother's house from the State University of New York -- where she had applied to study acting and writing.
"It was a letter of acceptance," Mrs. Zermuhlen said emotionally. "It just came too late for her to read it."
Don't read this because I don't want you to know me
An ex of mine, the love of my life and still a good friend, said a strange thing to me the other day. He said that he didn't really know me. We dated for 10 months; if one would refer to my track record -- 3 months is my average -- that's pretty long. I was surprised, because I feel we are so alike, I thought he knew me. But he doesn't get me, which got me to thinking.
The Return Of Ron Sullivan (hpachard@sbcglobal.net)
He replies:
I'm getting all kinds of call and emails from people who read about me on your site recently. That's a good sign for both of us, huh? I'm doing okay, I guess. I've never had a broken leg or cancer before. But I'm feeling bored and anxious about things. That might be a good sign.
This Is Why the Second Temple Fell
The Rabbenim agree that the Second Temple fell because Jews were just not very Christian towards one another, but which I mean that they just were too aloof and unfriendly for God's taste. Jews of Los Angeles, don't make this same mistake again. Show some charity to Poor Luke, a man so poor that he cannot afford to mount a Passover seder on his own -- not even for one lonely old bachelor. Luke desperately needs to be invited into the warm and loving home of some Jews in the Pico-Robertson area (or further afield, if you would be willing to house Luke for the first few days of Passover). Please, look into your heart and find the love with which to make this lonely Jew's Passover a special time.
Otherwise, it might lead to the fall of the Third Temple because God hates Jews without charity in their heart.
I've got my first seder set-up. Now I need a place for the second night.
James DiGiorgio writes: "How about when they attempted genocide against the canaanites under the leadership of the likes of joshua and gideon and others? Of course, some might say ruthless military offensives, in the name of god, *is* very Christian-like."
Am I Selling Email Addresses?
Brian writes:
Hey Luke: All of a sudden I started getting spam everyday from Suze Randall. I have requested everytime to be removed by following the removal link, even sent messages to abuse and I still get mail everyday from her company. I never have been to her site and the only thing I know of her is she is Holly's Mom. Are you selling email addresses to them for spamming? If they don't stop I'm taking this further up the ladder and they are going to be paying me some damages.
Hey Luke; Here is the latest spam. It's signed Holly. Will you please get me off this list? I'm really getting pissed off about this. There is no place they could gave got my name other then you. I've requested at least 10 times to be removed from the list.
I don't sell email addresses and Holly says suze.net & co do not spam.
Hans posts on the suze.net chatboard March 28, 2006:
Hi, I'm a member at Suze for years now, and I'm getting pissed of now with spam from you. Since weeks I'm getting spam mails from you, I cannot cancel this mails, and I'm very annoyed. The mails look like this:
Hey, Hans-Werner! I wanted to share with you one of the favorite photos I've ever taken - is Jessica Jaymes a drop dead beauty or what? She's just perfect all around, and nobody is naughtier than Jessica - believe me! I hope you enjoy this sneak peek! There's more Jessica here....
When I try to cancel this shit, I'm getting a non-delevery message. So what's on here? I wrote you, that I'm on Linux and cannot use this DRM-shit. So please stop your spam immediately, or I must take some severe measures.
Holly responds: "Hon, you must've signed up for the mailer list, and it's very easy to remove yourself. Just click the link at the bottom. If you don't want these emails, it reads at the bottom: Reply to this message with the word REMOVE in the subject line. Please include the text of this message."
Hans responds: "Holly: Well, this is the point. When I reply to the message, I always get mail is undeliverable. I have tried your link and it says: Removed. I made exactely this some weeks ago, and the result was: spam does not stop."
Brian writes: "Well I am getting SPAM from Holly and I never even heard her name before other then on your board."
I don't pull anyone's email address from anywhere, you must've accidentally signed up? Anyhow if you click the link at the bottom of the email, it should remove you from the list, or you can reply with "remove" in the subject title, or you can email/call customer service. But I have no problem taking care of it personally for you-- email me at hollyrandall@suze.net and I will have you removed from the mailing list immediately. We've set up a new system (there are a lot of changes going on with my site, please forgive any small bugs that might need to be fixed) so if there's some kind of issue with removing oneself from the maliing list I most certainly want to know. Contact me personally and we'll talk about it.
I Am Your Brother
I had a dream that in the middle of the XBiz party Thursday night, I dropped trow, unfurled my circumsized wand, and waved it at the crowd while announcing, "I am your brother Luke who you sold into slavery. You meant it for ill but God used it for good."
On Set With Gabriella Banks, XBiz Video Party April 6
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On Sunday, April 2, Ron Sullivan (hpachard@sbcglobal.net) fell and broke his right leg. He got five pins in it. He'll be in a wheelchair for at least another month.
"He was leaving a place in Santa Monica where he was working," says his wife Delores. "He missed a step.
"Because of the chemo, he's fragile."
Luke: "I guess he can't shoot porn."
Delores: "He can shoot dolly shots."
Bill Diehl says he stepped on a porn set the other day and heard, "April is the cruelest month." It's a line from T.S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland.'"
Julian St. Jox lost his $3,000 digital camera. He lent it to B, who shot for West Coast and Paul Little. He'd landed a gig.
Julian: "He went to the set in Hollywood. The guys who he'd talked to on the phone. It was a set-up. They called him up. They said a girl in the business, Victoria, recommended him. They took him to the fourth floor. They brought him into the bathroom and put a gun to his head and took the camera.
"B's going to pay me $2,000."
Alyssa Anderson has been in porn for a year. She's done seven shoots.
Rob Spallone says a porner owes him $3,000. Rob wants to be paid back by the guy's wife doing three scenes.
Rob bought a book (on the Mafia) the other day for the first time in years.
Rob traded in his ex-wife's Escalade and leased her a new car (Chrysler Pacifica) for $350 a month and no money down.
Rob bargained over it for a couple of hours before he got tired of talking. He went to his car and collected sex toys and pornos, then came back to the dealership and started handing them out to employees and customers. To get Rob out of the place, the salesman gave him the car at the price Rob wanted.
Rob: "This one gay guy, I gave a dildo. He sees a box with a double in. He wanted that. I said, 'That's for your friend tonight.' They started leaving.
"The salesman said, 'Rob, you gotta leave.' I said, 'Then make the deal.' He said, 'The deal's done.' I left."
Freddy Elle (Beautiful Models) has been in porn for a month and done six scenes.
"I was with Regan a year ago. I was only in town for a month and then moved north. I came back down and decided it was something I wanted to do. I enjoy being on camera. It's all just acting."
Luke: "How your scene with Regan?"
Freddy: "I did that a year ago. I haven't repeated that. God no. Nothing against Regan. No harm, no foul. But yeah, it was kinda awkward."
Freddy says she graduated from culinary arts school but her employers took advantage of her. "During the holiday season, I got burned out. I was sleeping three hours a night working two different jobs at catering. I had two days off.
"They always want to put me in the front of the house, not the back, because I'm a cute chick and they're speaking Spanish right in front of me, talking about the white girl. I know Spanish."
Freddy worked as a loan officer at a mortgage company but realized it just wasn't worth it considering the hours she put in. She's studying to get her real estate agent's license.
In third grade, Freddy wrote about becoming an underwear model.
Before she entered the industry, she had created a collection of her own porn. "I had different make-up, wigs. It was with my boyfriend. We started off with one camera. Then we had two. I had fun doing it. When I started to explore what it was really about, that's when my boyfriend and I broke up. He wasn't keen on that."
Another relationship (with a sugar daddy) broke up after their viewing and discussing the 2002 movie Unfaithful.
Freddy says it is not her style to cheat.
I meet Leah Stevenson, who's been in porn since 1997, when she was 18. She's appeared in about 50 scenes. She'll come in for a month and then leave. She's also worked on the name Ashley Love.
Her agent is Regan Senter of Beautiful Models.
She met Regan in 1998. She was scared of him. She finally signed with last August.
Luke: "How was your compliance video with him?"
Leah: "The promo? Pretty good. We've done more than one. I love working with Regan. He's fun. His attitude is good."
Luke: "What keeps bringing you back to the industry?"
Leah: "Mainly the money, but I do enjoy doing sexual acts with different people."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about being a part of this industry?"
Leah: "There's nothing I hate. I have to warm up before doing an anal scene. It's not like I'm warmed up from the beginning. If I don't warm up, it can backfire on me.
"I like that the people are easy-going. They understand if I need a break.
"I was working in a factory with grinders on metal - cutting, sanding. I tried painting houses."
Luke: "How has porn affected your real life?"
Leah: "Nobody has ever come up and recognized me from porn, so it has not affected me."
Luke: "Why have you done so few scenes?"
Leah: "I'd be in it for a month and then I'd get out of it because I'd get into trouble with the law and end up in jail. I went to jail for doing speed. I was a drug addict for a long time. I kept getting locked up. I spend three months in jail, then two months, then a month."
Regan met a girl at the gas station and tried to recruit her into porn. She gave him her modeling card and he carries it around.
Production manager Delores takes a look at Leah and says, "Somebody told me they're shooting a bubble-butt line."
After a woman broke his heart, photographer Bill Diehl was chaste for about eight years. He's since loosened up.
"Is that chastity or anger?" asks Delores.
Gabriela Banks says Silvio owes her $300 from a scene she did for him about a year ago (she says he paid her $300 then). I call Silvio but he won't talk about the matter.
Rob Spallone has booked 19-year old Crystal Clear to do the world's oldest gangbang with a bunch of men over 60. She's booked to appear on the Howard Stern show April 21 at 7am.
Luke: "Congratulations Rob. You must be very proud."
A real Hollywood guy: "A real cinematic achievement."
Rob: "What am I going to do next? Only I could put this together."
Rob's proud of himself. There's a new strut in his walk. "Whichever company picks this up is going to get a ton of publicity," he says. "How much publicity did that Kat Kleavage fat gangbang get?"
Friend: "How much are you going to pay the guys?"
Rob: "I don't pay them. I give them ten free DVDs and they get to ---- a 19-year old girl. How else would they ---- a 19-year old girl?"
Rob's going to use porn girls in nurse's outfits and old guys in wheelchairs sucking on oxygen masks. There'll be an ambulence on set. "Hopefully one or two of them will die," Rob says.
It's a dull overcast day. The sun occasionally peaks through. I sit outside on a lawnchair and finish The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution. I then proceed halfway into Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports.
I stay on set until 3:40 p.m.
At the XBiz party at 11916 Ventura Blvd Thursday night, I'm asked why I don't put up press releases. "I don't help people," I respond. "I only hurt people."
Porno Dave Micheals married 15 years ago at the porn convention in Las Vegas. He and his wife were fans. They they started videotaping interviews. Dave's wife held the camera. Many girls preferred to talk to her because she was young and cute.
Terri Redor (TheFloatingWorld) loses his voice after 20 minutes. The poor guy's got a masters degree in classical languages, a face for radio and a voice for painting.
I ask Christina of SugarDvd.com who she hates about the industry. "Not being treated as a professional," she says. "I'm treated as though the next day I will be in the porn, not just directing."
The youngest of four says her siblings give her a hard time about her porn work. They don't see much of a difference between directing porn and performing in porn. "If I weren't directing, someone else would,' she responds.
"If my mother knew what I was going, she'd die," says Christina.
Sometimes Christina, 22, feels bad about the girls. Some of them come in wired on drugs. She wants to save them but realizes that they won't remember her in an hour.
XBiz parties and publications have the relaxed low-key personality of their own Alec Helmy. He does not appear to give much thought to AVN. He concerns himself with extending his own business models and industry relationships. He doesn't interfere with the editorial process (except to set strict standards of what type of language is acceptable).
Derek Hay walks up with three girls from his agency LA Direct Models. One of them is under 21. "We're leaving," he announces and they walk off.
Derek runs a tight ship and tries to keep everybody in his agency on the same page. One for all and all for one. If one girl can't get in, then they are all leaving.
Luke: do you know if this website is actually run or affiliated with
Devon? Devonunleashed.com?
Luke: I almost had two accidents on my drive home Thursday night, both
my fault.
Luke: I was barreling down laurel canyon to susnset blvd, i heard sirens
at last minute so i gunned it and almost smashed into two police cars
coming eastbound on Sunset. I slammed on my brakes, as did they, then
they went on their way and me mine
HollyRandall: was there some awesome porn party last night or something?
Luke: have you ever read lukeisback?
HollyRandall: not today
HollyRandall: or yesterday
Luke: I'm fine-tuning my LIVES ON THE EDGE book...last chapter ends with
our story, ending NYE. If you'll approve, you might give me some pics,
if you have them, of some of the main characters. It's my best porn star
profiles/interviews.
HollyRandall: that book sounds really interesting, are you cramming your
idea for "The Last Shiksa" in the last chapter?
Luke: yes
HollyRandall: can't wait to read that last chapter, oye
HollyRandall: so my members really like Kendra
Luke: Just sent you the book
HollyRandall: via email?
Luke: no, the hardcover version by UPS
HollyRandall: i didn't realize you had my address
Luke: of course by email, i dont have your address
Luke: which always stumped me when I tried to send flowers.
HollyRandall: now that's funny
Luke: I just gave up.
Luke: The book won't come out for a year or two unless I self-publish,
which would then be six months approx
Luke: yeah, so bits that might seem a bit raw now, with time, won't matter
as much. It's not like putting it on the web.
HollyRandall: is this just basically all your blogs on me put together
or did you add a lot of writing to it?
Luke: 40-50% new?
Luke: I'm going to sculpt it, sharpen it, try to look for more parallels
with the chapters that went before, so I'm revealing that I am a life
on the edge too like the people I interview.
HollyRandall: do you think this will be your best book?
Luke: No, I think my memoir is.
Luke: I reconstructed
much of our dialogue from the Nightmoves awards from memory, so it might
be distorted.
HollyRandall: how many times do you accuse me of being drunk in it?
HollyRandall: i'm printing out the chapter on me, of course. Is my chapter
the longest?
Luke: Yes
HollyRandall: I feel so important
Luke: Wait till you read it. I just looked at my tampa report [Nightmoves
awards] and I did not mention you (included lots of pics of you) because
I did not know how you'd handle being written about, you said you heard
I was a shark, and I did not want to ruin what could be a good thing.
HollyRandall: yes i remember reading that after we got back you did refer
to me once or twice but only i would pick up on that
Luke: I was determined to show I was not a shark.
HollyRandall: Do you think you succeeded?
Luke: I did the appropriate thing, waited to gauge your tolerance for
being written about and always accommodated your requests.
HollyRandall: you've got a hell of a lot of back-handed compliments here,
mister
Luke: I didn't write a word with you as the reader in mind.
HollyRandall: yeah, no kidding
Luke: I don't like to think of consequences when I write.
HollyRandall: it would muddy your skill
HollyRandall: damn i didn't realize i was such an awful person
Luke: I think of consequences 99.9% of time when I speak
HollyRandall: yeah you express a hell of a lot more in writing
HollyRandall: "my flab melted into a woman's curves"?
HollyRandall: lol that's funny in an incredibly insulting way
Luke: I might've left the love out of it...i find it hard to express affection
in my writing.
Luke: i fear being sappy, easier to be dispassionate
HollyRandall: yeah so far most of it is you trying to sleep with me
HollyRandall: wow i just got a message from a guy who is going to have
his nephew tattoo my work all over him when he gets out of jail
HollyRandall: i told him to send me pics when he does
Luke: your photos of chairs or what?
Luke: did you plead with not to do it or did you offer your body?
HollyRandall: yes my photos of chairs and tables, all those photos of
furniture i take
Luke: your beaver shots are good honey, but you're best with furniture
and dishes.
Luke: You bring out their inner beauty.
Luke: That's why I believe in you.
HollyRandall: i just want someone to get a picture of ME tattooed on them
HollyRandall: it would just be funny
Luke: You find amusement in someone's mutilation?
HollyRandall: you know i hate tattoos
Luke: I'm gonna tattoo your face on my head
HollyRandall: that won't make the mark that your last chapter in your
book will on me
Luke: "Here comes Holly!"
Luke: I'm rewriting it and putting in the loooove.
HollyRandall: so far, your intentions are far from honorable and you seem
to be wondering why you are spending time with a drunk.
Luke: Everyone wants to know if I banged you last Saturday night.
Luke: Can't a man and woman have a cup of tea and look at photos of furniture
without stampeding off to the clitoris?
HollyRandall: not in the porno world
HollyRandall: we're all nymphomaniacs with no sense of self-restraint,
remember?
HollyRandall: oh yeah and we do shots at dinner
HollyRandall: in between our glasses of red wine
HollyRandall: why didn't you just write that i carried a bottle of vodka
with me everywhere?
Luke: Some things have to be kept sacred.
HollyRandall: or better yet, i was hooked up to an IV that pumped me full
of liquor 24/7
HollyRandall: hell i could use one of those now
Porn As Art
Cristobal Senior writes:
You wrote recently: "Pornography is the lowest form of artistic expression. Almost all pornographers with artistic talent wish they were doing something else but they can't make a living creating any form of art but porn."
Would you be so kind and enlighten me as to where to find this artistic expression, however minimal, in say: Sean Michaels Up your Ass series, or North Pole 1-55, or Lex Steel XXX, or Ed Powers's Dirty Debs,or such and such Gang Bang, etc, etc,?
Or maybe show the art in anal double penetrations, or throat gagging of defenseless women, or cum swapping, or or assaults of five to one woman or ass to mouth sucking and other female degrading porno activities? In case you haven't noticed, (shock!) porno has drained eroticism out of the industry which has been taken over by the raincoaters who produce only for other raincoaters.
The porno industry is in danger but from within and is has to be rescued from its present enthusiasts so that the erotic element can be restored to it and a minimal claim to "art' can be claimed. I promise I'll nominate you for a university chair in art criticism if you deliver a convincing essay.
Jeff Steward writes on XPT: "I heard her parents put her away in a loony bin."
Max Hardcore responds: "Yeah, it's true Catalina 'snapped' a couple months back, but she was only held for evaluation for about 2 weeks. I'm happy to report that she's been out since then, and doesn't need to take medication. She's good girl, but for sure a little loopy. But who isn't in this business? I don't think she's coming back into the business, as her folks found out what she did, and of course blame her breakdown on porn. But she was wacky before she took her first cock up her ass. She was a great sidekick, and we'll miss her, but we all have to move forward."
The Deep Meaning Of Luke's My Space Profile
Luke: Everybody keeps asking me for the meaning of the deer in the wedding
dress photo. I don't have one except that it is creepy. What deeper meaning
should I unspool?
HollyRandall: a symbol of the how blindly people enter into the state
of holy matrimony?
HollyRandall: you could compare the bride to a "deer in the headlights,"
meaning she's blinded by the bright light of a promising future
HollyRandall: when in reality it's a car coming full speed at you to knock
you down and probably kill you
HollyRandall: like that?
Luke: wow, that's good.
HollyRandall: i'm taking a bow right now
God-Fearing Porn Critics May Not Want to Throw Stones
For years, I'm been hearing sexually repressed religious right types throwing around the concept of "porn addiction," which earlier this week led me to posit (see Kudos to Kernes blog) - why don't we ever hear about religious addiction, if indeed such a thing exists? Apparently it does. Or at least the argument can be made that it does. Some quick Internet research turned up numerous links/articles on the topic.
There's nothing wrong with being addicted as long as one is addicted to good things. There's nothing wrong with hatred as long as it is directed towards things and persons worthy of hate. There's nothing wrong with violence as long as it is directed towards those worthy of violence. There's nothing wrong with sex so long as it is in the right context (one example of sex in the wrong context is rape).
Mike Ramone writes:
But who determines who is worthy [of violence]? History is strewn with the bodies of millions and millions of innocents, including the six million, who died because of thinking like that. Then again, maybe this is your way of announcing that you've joined Al Queda. You want to perhaps re-think that statement?
No. It's common sense is evident to those who want to see it. Everything is a matter of judgment, whether it is determing who is worthy of death or who is worthy of life. If O.J. Simpson and Mike Ramone were both drowning, I'd save Mike.
Mike Ramone responds: "Well, thank you, but your analogy is off-point. It's one thing to make a choice as to which one of two persons you're going to save from drowning; quite another to take it upon yourself to determine who is "worthy" of aggressive violence against them. I know conservatives like you don't the concept of relativism - but that's exactly what it comes down to in this instance. The Nazis thought the Jews were "worthy" of extermination; Al Queda believes Israel and the West are "worthy" of the same fate. Hard to believe you can't see the dead-end folly of you position, which I think you may have posted as a quick, maybe emotional reaction to my blog before really thinking it through (same with your statement that there's nothing wrong with addiction as long as one is addicted to something "good.")"
That's why one needs the right transcendent moral code (Al Qaeda have a transcent moral code but obviously it is an evil one) to guide one's choices. That the Nazis wanted Jews dead and I want Al Qaeda terrorists dead does not make our desires morally equal. One side is right and one side is wrong. How do we determine which is which? There's only one way - by referencing a time-tested transcendent moral code.
Nobody is free from the agony of moral choice. If someone was about to kill Mike Ramone or some other innocent persons, and the only way to stop the murder was by killing the would-be murderer, I hope Mike Ramone would kill. I hope Mike Ramone supported our war on the Taliban in Afghanistan or our war against the Nazis in WWII. Sometimes killing is right. Sometimes killing is wrong.
Mike Ramone writes:
And sometimes, perhaps even most times, killing falls within a gray area. What about the war in Iraq? Or the Vietnam war? Supporters and detractors of both those wars believe they have the high moral ground. So did the Nazis. So does Al Queda. Sometimes there are moral absolutes. Sometimes morals are relative. Life, the world and morals are considerably more shades of gray than the overly simplistic and arrogant black and white you and your fellow conservatives espouse. There is no such thing as an all-encompassing "time-tested transcendent moral code." The Old Testament advocates the death penalty, for instance, for anyone who curses his or her parents. Any contemporary person who would advocate that position is quite obviously a lunatic.
Ira Levine responds:
Luke:
Though I rarely agree with you about anything, I seldom have occasion to dismiss an idea of yours as utterly meritless and nonsensical, and even more rarely feel motivated to comment on those of your views I find disagreeable. I respect you for your intellectual rigor regardless of the subject under consideration.
Today, however, you crossed over into the land of formal non-logic with the following statement: "There's nothing wrong with being addicted as long as one is addicted to good things."
Addiction is, by definition, harmful. It is that very quality that defines a specific repetitive behavior as addictive. Below, please find Webster's definition of the term: "Addiction is considered to be compulsive use of an element known by the subject to be harmful. Both impulse - control disorder and addiction involve loss of control, preoccupation with activity, developed tolerance and withdrawal symptoms following activity cessation" (Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1992)."
There are no "good" addictions. We might reasonably contest the matter of what behaviors could accurately be characterized as addictions, but once so defined, no behavior can logically be considered in a positive light.
Addiction is not a cafeteria from which we may choose healthy or unhealthy selections according to taste. It is a specific pathology offering no benefits whatsoever. To characterize it otherwise out of personal preference for a particular form of compulsion fails the test of intellectual integrity.
That's not the only meaning of "addiction." That's "addiction" understood as "pathology."
From dictionary.com's second meaning for "addiction":
The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something. An instance of this: had an addiction for fast cars.
I remember when I was addicted to jogging every day. I know some people who are addicted to helping people and volunteering in soup kitchens and the like. I am addicted to reading books. These are good addictions.
Any time you develop a habit, you are developing an addiction.
Ira Levine responds:
This is what I call "The Humpty-Dumpty Approach" to lexicography. If you define any sort of habit as an addiction, we're all addicted to oxygen.
This way of thinking trivializes the devastating consequences of true addictions and strips the term of of its deserved gravity, which is one reason I cringe when I hear it applied to everything from shopping to ice cream to porngraphy.
When I see someone fall down, vomiting in convulsions, from the denial of any of these things, I'll be more inclined to see the word thus construed.
I have no experience with these types of pathological addictions. I've never had people in my life who use or abuse drugs.
The Cost Of Strippergate
Former Cheetah's owner Mike Galardi is currently on the stand in our local Strippergate trial over his claims to have bribed elected officials in ways regular and novel. Galardi complained from the stand: "It got out of control. I just had everybody in town hitting me up for money."
But don't feel too bad for him. In passing, "The Review-Journal" reports on what Galardi's testimony reveals about the legal stuff Cheetah's did to earn money for all those bribes, which involved far more than cash from the customers' cover charges; the dancers were not paid by the club but were paying a house fee and most especially there was the ATM machine in the club that tourists had to make frequent runs to thanks to all the various pricey markups:"A bottle of Budweiser cost the club 75 cents; Cheetah's charged $6. Aside from the alcohol, the club made money from strippers, who paid a house fee of $60 to $80 to work a shift. 'If you have 500 girls working a day, that's a lot of money," Galardi said. Revenue was also generated from ATM machines; managers split a $7 surcharge for each transaction."
Who Are The Leading Duplicators Of Porn DVDs?
Who duplicates for LFP for instance? Davenport?
Major porn duplicators include:
* Newport Technologies
* L & M West Replication
* Poso
* IDM (International Disc Manufacturers in Westminster)
* KM Digital is owned by Mike Rubenstein
Mark Kernes Defends Porn Industry
Last night, on CNN's Showbiz Tonight, he knowledgably, dispassionately and deftly countered the anti-adult, anti-First Amendment and ultimately anti-American disinformation spewed by religious right Morality in Media President Robert Peters (who ironically looks like a classic raincoater); the usual rot about porn "addiction" - question I never hear discussed: can people get addicted to religion? - and unenforced obscenity statutes.
Religious zealots like Peters ultimately do not believe in democracy or a free and open society or tolerance for views that differ from theirs, which is why their propaganda that America was founded as a Christian nation is such an obscene piece of 1984ish doublespeak revisionism. That’s because they stand for much that is counter to the secular values on which this country was founded.
I can't think of a better person to defend the Adult industry on television than AVN Senior Editor Mark Kernes.
A new venture capital investment opportunity recently popped up on Silicon Valley discussion boards according to Institutional Investor Magazine: "Not every venture capital firm has a website featuring lingerie-clad models tugging on each others' G-strings, and animated narration delivered by cartoon minxes in push-up bras and dog collars." -- Institutional Investor says, in its article titled Risque Reward (February 2006 issue).
AdultVest.com does indeed deliver a little more excitement than your traditional investment advisors daily stock picks. AdultVest.com is the first and only investment market place servicing the $57BN/yr adult industry and currently has approximately 60 adult businesses, 200 institutional & 600 private investors registered on their service, with numbers growing daily.
Although skimpy on detail, AdultVest executives state that they have a number of deals in the pipeline with high profile Adult Companies and big name adult Stars, but seem to be most excited about a technology driven, adult company that is launching a massive adult social networking website. AdultVest, Inc. is also in the process of raising a $100 million dollar BDC/Venture Fund (the Bacchus Investment Fund) that will invest in 4 main segments of the adult market: production, distribution, technology, and real property with proven cash flow (i.e. gentlemen's clubs).
It seems that AdultVest.com has re-introduced "The Worlds Oldest Bull Market" to Wall Street. Interested Investors can simply create a free account on the AdultVest.com website to review business plans and offerings from adult companies that range from start-up all the way to large companies that net over a billion dollars a year.
JMT presents the week's pithiest comments
#3: "I think MySpace is ruining lives." (Dakota Cameron)
#2: "No cats, no ipods, no yoga." (Amalek)
#1: "You’ve traded one piece of horse---- for another." (unknown ex-SDA
PK)
She blames her ex-husband for her doing that softcore movie.
Jim South Jr posts: "Ya so my day at work was so slow I had time to email each picture from my phone, photoshop something, and post it. My camera is a huge POS but enjoy."
Jews, Please Take Pity on Lonely Luke
Word has gotten out that I've as yet no invitations for sharing a meal with my fellow Jews on Passover, and like jackals circling their prey, the Jews for Jesus have been bombarding me with offers of companionship all week long. "Luke, we would be honored to have you as a guest, and not only that, but there are a few young women we'd like to introduce you to." I know that J4J are more about the Nicean creed than they are about the Oral Law, but even so, there is only so much loneliness that a man can take.
I feel like a solitary piece of coal, growing cold, while not a few yards away is a warm roaring fire of Torah and Yiddishkeit that I just know I could contribute to -- if they would but have me. Jews of Los Angeles (and I don't mean you transgendered Jews who think I'm an easy mark - Luke doesn't care for those back door shenanigans), it would mean so much to me if you invited me to your seder, especially if you live within walking distance of Pico - Robertson. Don't push me into the arms of the Christians or the Muslims or the haters. Please, please PUHLEEEEEEZE, ON MY KNEES, invite me into your home for Passover.
In other news, I'm proud to say that I've hired a Life Coach. His name is Chaim Amalek.
Amalek writes me:
If you don't get an invite, where will you be for your seders? I predict that you will be inside Holly. And that's not a bad place for a man to be.
Damn Negro, you cut and paste fast.
I think you should goad Holly into preparing a Passover Seder for you, with me as an invited guest.
She'd do it, and she's got the money to do it too. In fact, you could invite all the Jews in your internet life to this: myself, Putative Marc, that lawyer guy Fred. Won't that be a happy dinner!
>Did you hook up?
Hookup? Luke, I couldn't get a "hookup" if I were flashing a roll of Benjamins in a room full of hungry crack whores.
This old broad is 38 (she says, so really she's in her forties), and she's screening guys for their politics.
This is why you must date the youngest, freshest women you can while you can.
>I do.
But you have to seal the deal before the deals dry up. You think it won't happen to you? It will. And soon.
I want a nice comfy seder with hot chicks and a spiritual ambiance. Not too expensive.
A fan writes: "Luke, you attention-thirsty weirdo. You're an embarrassment to all us ex-SDA PKs [preacher's kids]! You’ve traded one piece of horse---- for another. (Don’t you know that nobody likes overbearing, eager-beaver converts? Didn’t you learn anything growing up? Oh, wait, you never grew up. I forgot.) Btw, wtf have you been smoking? None of what you write makes any sense."
Holly's Favorite Phrase Before Doing Something Fun
"I'm going to regret this."
For the first five months I knew her, I found it insulting. How could anyone regret doing something holy with a sturdy character such as myself?
In retrospect, I see it was just her own little Tchaikovskyian overture before the fireworks.
I heard it again Saturday night before she poured out her heart about her near-nude photoshoot at age 14.
I email Holly:
Hey mofo, I'm chillin in me hovel with me bitches and smokin some good bud and watchin cartoons.
I'm glad you made it home safely the other night after those two lemon zingers. I figured they'd knock you prostrate on my floor and then what would I have done?
She replies: "You are such a dork! I'm going to a Dodger baseball game in a bit, my brother is in town, yay!"
The Disappearance Of Lydia Schone's Boy-Girl Scenes From Suze.net
Holly Randall writes on her suze.net chatboard: "At Lydia's request, we took down all boy/girl shoots involving her."
Born August 09, 1975 in Montreal, she was the Penthouse Pet for the January 1995 issue.
There are 66,000 results for her name on Google (about three times the number of results for "Holly Randall") and hundreds of nude photos of her floating around but none of them picture her having sex with others (that I could find).
Holly replies to me:
I think this is the third time this has happened. One of the women became a preacher's wife!
BTW your posting about this indirectly led me to a website that is selling our content for mobile wallpaper. Illegally, I'm 99% sure, but I'm double checking before go after 'em.
I can only imagine how it would screw with a relationship to have pictures floating around of you having sex with another man. I know that Holly says she'd never date someone who had sex on camera because it would be too upsetting to have to look at such pictures.
Holly wished she'd never seen the photos of me in my underwear getting whipped by Tina Tyler (photos by Axel Braun that first appeared on lukeford.com). She could not get them out of her head. She teased me about banging various porn stars. I teased her about such photos as the one where Kurt Lockwood waves his wand next to her face. The thought of Lockwood or Ron Jeremy ploughing my old lady made me reach for my clonazepam.
How much would it screw with your relationship if you had published about your previous sexual encounters? If you had been a Sex in the City type columnist? Not as much as performing in porn (the visual tends to have more emotional impact), but writing about your sex life would have to significantly reduce your dating and relationship options (as many of these female college sex columnists will find out).
Sex is casual at college papers
This story is about sex and the campus. But no, we're not talking about having sex. We're talking about sex columns in college newspapers, which have been multiplying like jack rabbits.
From "Between the Sheets" at Tufts University near Boston to "Sex at the Beach" at California State University in Long Beach; from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta to Oregon State University in Corvallis; and in heartland states such as Kansas and Illinois, college students are talking about, dispensing tips and offering advice on sex, dating, sex, love, sex, relationships, sex and sex.
Vibrators, cross-dressing, oral sex, multiple orgasms, masturbation, bondage — no topic is too hot to handle. And while some say the columns are supposed to educate, others say they're raunchy and irrelevant. Either way, the emergence of such columns puts a public face on a generation coming of age in a society that has grown more open about sexuality.
It can be fun to write about intimate details of your life but it comes with a huge price. Most people, be they religious or secular, believe that sex is a private matter that should be conducted behind closed doors and the details not broadcast to the world.
This is an issue I struggled with in crafting my memoir, eventually, reluctantly, coming down on the side of disclosure.
Dion Giarusso Returns With Combat Zone
I call him Wednesday afternoon.
Dion: "There's more product than ever. It's about pricing and relationships. There's not just a few companies making good stuff. There are a lot of people making good stuff.
"I've been able to resume most of my relationships. I don't think I'll be able to get the numbers I did at Red Light."
Dion created Red Light District and made it a monster gonzo company. Then he had a fight with his brother David Joseph (who was funding the company) in December of 2003 and was forced to leave the business. After two years, David agreed to let Dion return to the industry.
Dion's first title comes out April 24. His directors include Rick Davis, Melissa Lauren, Mr. Pete, Mark Wood, Zach Wilde, Tony Ribas, and Joachim.
Giarusso owns all his own product. He pays the directors a fee and then he can sell the product for what he wants.
"Now I have to compete with many of the guys I created."
Dion's duplicator is FB (Frank Barbarino). Dion has lunch with Dion every Wednesday.
Frank has recovered from his car accident of a couple years ago, but fell down and hurt his neck this past weekend on his boat.
Grooming Instructions for Playboy TV Talent
Monday, I have to attend a party for "the girls of Playboy TV" edition of Playboy magazine in Atlanta, GA. These are the requirements for hygene that were emailed to me and all of the models.
All talent is representing Playboy and Spice. Playboy is a universal brand representing the most beautiful women in the world. We hope you take the time to follow the guidelines provided for you. All talent will be reviewed and if it is found inappropriate individuals may be asked to modify their make up and/or dress. HAIR Freshly washed, colored and styled.
NAILS Toes and fingers should be filed, clean with fresh polish For the purpose of the party a French manicure or Red polish only.
MAKE UP Talent is considered to be celebrities so make up should be classic and applied with consideration of time of day and lighting. No Goth or punk, please. Talent should be camera ready.
SHOES Shoes should be comfortable and sexy but appropriate to the outfit. Please bring an extra pair in case feet begin to hurt. NO BARE FEET WILL BE ALLOWED.
PROPER HYGENE Please cover any bruises with body makeup. Panty hose are allowed to enhance look of legs. Shower before hand and clean face and skin and wear deodorant.
All talent should have emergency make up, an extra pair of hosiery (if wearing them), extra shoes, and feminine needs.
Age Discrimination
Fred writes:
Some thoughts re Nina's comments concerning age discrimination. When do women encounter age discrimination? When they are 18 or when they are 38? Isn't it a fact that the attention they get at 18 is discrimination. It's just that they perceive that discrimination favorably.
Query: Do men treat older women any worse than anyone else that they lack sexual interest in? I don't think so. Is lacking sexual interest in someone a form of discrimination?
Gary Kremen Glad To Be Out Of Porn
He sold sex.com a few weeks ago. Now he's recreating his life outside of porn. He does not miss Steve Lightspeed. He does miss Aly Drummond, Farley Cahan, Gretchen Gallen. He still hasn't found the right woman.
Kremen plans to visit Israel later this month.
Kendra Jade Learns To Love Herself
I'm dead sober. I'm working out. I'm going to church. I'm listening to music. I'm praying. I'm loving the people I should be loving and trying to forget those I should not remember. I'm nurturing my sisters because they need it. I'm chillin with my dogs. I'm watching movies. I'm making amends. I'm building bridges. I'm writing. I'm reading. I'm seeing my therapist.
Luke: Are you learning to love yourself?
Kendra: Yeah, and also to re-parent myself. That's the hard part.
I IM'd some porn friends to see if they are learning to love themselves.
Gramponante: I have loved myself
since the day this industry welcomed me.
Gramponante: I'm trying to channel the words of someone dear to me: "I
love myself, and my friends love me. I think I'm beautiful and I get to
the gym all the time (list machines, weights, repetitions here). If people
have problems with the way I am that's their ----. I know that I am honest
and well-respected in this industry. I don't know why people waste their
time trying to hate me. I am universally respected." Gramponante: Feel
free to add that Gram has a well-hung ego. I hope today's posts make you
huge money.
Felicia Fox: "Felicia has learned to love herself, Tim, her dogs and cats and birds, her new house in Ohio, her family and friends, and Mike South. Tim has learned to love Wankus."
JasonSechrest: Eh, I don't
know that that's so much of a problem. I love myself. What I'm learning
to do is walk with the wisdom. I can comprehend it and I can translate
it and write it seven ways to Sunday, but my actions don't step up to
the plate and represent enough.
JasonSechrest: I find I'm having to really detail my belief system lately.
Like the idea that we are all "one." I mean, I think for me personally,
the revelation that this rock that fell from the mountain was still made
up of the mountain was so inspiring to me that I forgot it's also still
a rock and different from any others that fall.
JasonSechrest: I was just looking at it as "I am you, you are me" -- but
if you carry that to its enth degree that means I am responsible for all
darkness in the world, doesn't it? That's Catholicism. Born of sin. And
I certainly don't support that.
JasonSechrest: So it's not, "I am you, you are me." It's about being individuals,
but not alone in this because we're made up of the same stuff.
Luke: It's a bit grand for my tastes. I don't worry about such sweeping
philosophical things. I believe we are separate from others and the world,
though we do have some connections, we are not coequal with another or
a rock.
JasonSechrest: I guess I'm concerned with it because I find it very sad
that humankind has not accepted that it can choose mastery of one's own
life. And I feel like in order to have mastery over mine, I need to truly
define what I believe in.
JasonSechrest: You can't sing along very well if you don't know the key
the music is written in.
Girls Gone Wild Released Back Into Civilization
"At first, the girls were disoriented," said Janet Ottley, director of the South Padre Island Wild Life Rescue Foundation. "They were frightened by the absence of familiar comforts such as overt male attention, binge drinking, and camcorders. But over time, we've seen improvement: so far, no reports of nipple exposure, so we're very hopeful."
Critics of the program argue that girls, after they've gone wild, can never function at the same level as girls who remain tame...
"Let's face it, they were in the wild too long," said Fort Lauderdale car-show organizer Daryl Dykstra. "At best, they might become spokesmodels, but only through hard work and constant validation." Dykstra reluctantly conceded that they might have some use as Hooters waitresses or tanning-salon clerks.
The Prestigious Thane Rosenbaum
When I read his books, I noted he kept mentioning he worked as a lawyer for a "prestigious" law firm. A Google search of his name and the word "prestigious" mentions he wons the "prestigious Wallant Prize for Elijah Visible."
Enough. If you feel your old firm or literary prize has prestige, simply state the name of the firm or the prize. The definition of the word "prestige" is: "Widely recognized prominence, distinction, or importance."
If your law firm or prize is not prominently recognized, then it probably does not have the prestige you claim for it.
Frankly, I have never heard of either Thane's old law firm (New York's Debevoise & Plimpton) or the Wallant Prize.
If you feel you have the truth or the fact, simply state it, do not give it advanced billing (E.B. White). If you feel you or your accomplishments have prestige, simply state them, do not give them advanced billing as "prestigious."
Tia Brodie Officially Divorced April 5
She lives in England. "I'm very happy," she says. "It's weird. We've been separated for years now but it feels like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders."
Babydoll Update - Michelle St. Marie
She blogs on MySpace Nov 13, 2005:
I am a couple weeks away from homelessness. I will be putting my worldly possessions into storage in a couple of days and after that, I will be open to relocation and paid work pretty much any place I can afford to get to. I've kept this information to myself because I figured I'd sort it out before it came to that. I need a few things and I'm reaching out to my network of friends at this time for suggestions or connections or whatever. I need paid work. I can do lots of things.
Here is a smattering of stuff I've done. I've mostly included things I've done for a sufficient period of time. I've been to college for art and English. I've been a model and actress, I've been a pro switch; a retail manager; a merchandiser/art director; a bookkeeper; an office manager; managing editor and calendar editor for an art magazine; shipping manager; vault manager for a wholesale jewelry company; I've done video camera work for adult sites; writing and editing for adult and events web sites; I've managed my own adult site including doing updates, some site design, image editing, link exchanges, marketing., etc...; worked in restaurants and soda fountains; I am a master Photoshopper, I've been a cook and housekeeper; I've done maintenence and updating of toplists and other marketing type stuff. I have musical and artistic abilities and a ridiculous knowledge of trivia and a knack for research and fact-checking.
I'm people friendly, outgoing, and make friends pretty easily. I am smart, discreet, kink-friendly, honest to a fault, and I work my ass off. I'm dedicated and (probably way too much so--) loyal. This is embarrassing, but if you can't reach out to your network, what the ---- good is this Internet anyway? If you want to respond privately, please write to babydoll@babydollbound.com Hello Universe!!! I'm offering myself up to you!! Show me your stuff!!!!
Nina Hartley writes March 23, 2006: "Babydoll is, for the moment, living in New Mexico with her mother and step-dad, and is trying to find work. I don't know when she'll get to come back to Los Angeles. She had wanted to maybe live here but, without a car, it's really impossible to do so. It totally sucks, as I don't get to see her! We do the emailing thing, and I wish I had a job to offer her, but I just don't."
Nina Hartley writes March 30, 2006:
There will be no union in porn, at least not in our lifetimes.
Yes, the business is very crowded, but that's really not the problem here. One problem is the structure of the business: an ever-churning population of eager women and a dismissive attitude toward them. It's hard enough on one's ego when a womanis barely out of high school, and it gets worse the older she is when she enters. You should hear some of the stories that Vicky Vette has to offer about her early days in porn and the rejection she got for being over 35, and she's willing to shoot b/g hardcore.
Babydoll, through no fault of her own, ran into that implaccable force of age prejudice. Few people can triumph over that. There would be no way in hell that I would enter the business after thirty. At 25, I was almost too old, which is why I took two years off my age for the first 15 years of my career.
My mom's little dog is dying.
He is very old (120 human years). He's been my only steadfast friend since I was exiled here. I'm the only one who can get him to come out from under the bed. He can no longer control his bladder, and the vet says his quality of life is not very good. He doesn't seem to be in pain, but he does get very embarrassed and hides when he has an accident. We don't want to put him to sleep. I've been crying all night long.
My fingernail fell off this morning--I've been mutilating them so badly and this one finally just ----ed off.
I like my solitude so much that it really wears me out when I have to be social all the time and I tend to need to drink to become gregarious enough to do it.
Fox Dramatic Series Faceless About LA Crime, Porn
Series Regular; Langdon Fox: 40s, feral, smart, wealthy, confident, with the messy haircut only serious money can buy, Langdon is a criminal attorney par excellence, specializing in working the system in favor of the criminal hierarchy of L.A. - in particular, Bailey Hughes, the owner of a huge pornography empire whose interests are well served by Langdon - who may not be working for Bailey but above him. Expert at pulling strings at all levels the criminal spectrum, Langdon handily gets both Lucas Reynosa and Bailey out of hot legal water.
Residentially-based Porn Companies Face Restrictions
XBiz.com reports: "PALMDALE, Calif. — In what could create a potential domino effect for California-based adult companies, city officials are looking to restrict the operation of adult businesses in residential areas and plan to beef up local ordinances to account for changes in technology."
OTTAWA, Canada — Jim and Jenni Deans have lived in a quiet Ottawa suburb for more than 10 years and have operated the amateur adult website TheHiddenWife.com and affiliate program MyWifeBucks.com for three years without incident — or even a single chargeback, they say.
But all that changed recently after a neighbor joined the site, recognized features of the Deans’ home and decided to launch a campaign to harass the couple out of what Jim Deans describes as a postcard-perfect small town.
Random's 10 questions: Janine Lindemulder
Do you orgasm during scenes?
I worked for VIVID, of course not! J/K. Because it was girl girl I did… A LOT! Girls can get the job done fast lol!
What do you think about the whole Jenna Jameson-Scientology thing?
Wow… that’s sorta a touchy subject. Let me try to answer in the most diplomatic way possible. Let me start off by saying I respect anyones religious beliefs. But when those beliefs change a person for the worse that’s when it bothers me. Jenna is very preachy now and passes out Dianetics to anyone that she gets to know at least fairly well. Jay her husband does not support her scientology affiliation and I know its causing a lot of problems between them. Hopefully she’ll straighten out and get back to being the girl I love.
Does it bother you to know that if Sandra Bullock’s home burnt down, you’d be considered the prime suspect?
LOL!!! I would never burn her house down. I can get far more done with a really sharp knife!
So what’s with the Negro-love after all these years?
Honestly, money. I like black men and have had several in my personal life but I’m from a different era and in that era it was considered a HUGE step down to sleep with a colored man. It took a lot of reassessing to make the decision.
Why do you live in Butt ----, Oregon?
I’m a simple gal and I like the simple life. Also because of my career choice I'm more comfortable with my son attending school here because people are a little more tolerant. Instead of him hearing "your mom is a whore" from A LOT of yuppie brats he’ll now only hear it from a FEW toothless yokels lol!
Do you think the quality of girls has gone down since you entered the business?
YES! This is a real sore spot for me. It might sound goofy but there DID seem to be a hint of glamour in the biz when I first started. Now a lot of girls are barely of age and not very sexy. A few years ago I saw this one girl who looked like a pterodactyl and I just wanted to scream in horror. I can't remember her name... Gen somethingoranother.
Do you regret all the tattoos?
There are times… usually when people complain about them on boards like the one this interview will be on. Its the only time I hear complaints. Its not like anyone ever comes up to me and says "wow you really look like ----". Some of its insecurity on my part too, ironic considering that insecurity was part of the reason I got them in the first place.
Would you ever consider doing a Donkey Punch movie?
Does it pay more than f’ing the coloreds?
Janine replies to Random on XPT: "Hey Random, Janine here. I understand tryin' to livin' up this place but please don't post ---- that isn't true. I never said those things and I'd really appreciate you takin' it down. Thanks so much! Peace."
Two Fights Among Civilians Break Out At Porn Star Karaoke
Tara has photos of the evening.
Jeff Steward, owner of JM Productions, writes: "Genesis your a nice kid and I have always like you which is why I told you to go back home and leave LA before it eats you up. Some people can handle this lifestyle but girl, your not one of them. If I didnt care about you I would spend your money and do drugs with you like your other so called freinds. If being real with you makes you hate me, well, then so be it."
First of all, I never said I hated either of you. And NO I wasn't at a party a few weeks ago saying I was on coke. I find that extremely hilarious! Everyone believes what they hear... Well, hear this from me. I'm not a hateful bitch by any means... and I understand what you're saying Jeff. I'm just sick of you all poking fun at my situation. I admitted what I did... and this ----ass over here talking about how I should commit suicide... well guess what you piece of ----, I spent my New Year's in a mental facility for trying to do JUST THAT! So go ---- yourself sideways.
Tony, that's not all the things you've said... I'm more hurt by the fact that I'm actually off the drugs and everyone is still making their stupid assumptions. Ask anyone who's been around me lately if I've been high on anything other than pot. I'm gaining weight back like a mother ----er. I'm not a toothpick anymore. And why is that? Because I stopped using drugs! You guys don't understand that your ---- talking and putting people down makes them want to use drugs so they can forget about how ----ty their life is. And here you are just reminding them day after day. My life does suck... but guess what... I've finally grasped why I'm alive... and I'm gonna go with it. In the 3 times I've tried to commit suicice, I'm still here. I must be here for a reason! So, after all that... ---- ANYONE WHO WANTS TO TALK ---- BECAUSE I WONT HATE YOU! IT WILL COME BACK ON YOU FOR BEING A HATEFUL LITTLE BITCH!
ChickenMaster advises Genesis: "Hook up with the dorkiest guy that you can find that has a nice car and doesn't like to smack you around or give you drugs and hold onto him for dear life. Love the blue lingerie by the way."
Al Snow writes: "That may be some of the best advice I've ever heard on this board. What it's doing in the Cage, I'm not sure, but fantastic advice nonetheless."
Ivor Biggun writes: "Maybe because those of us who are grounded enough to see through the soul-destroying, self-indulgent circus of the porn world are drawn to the cage as the appropriate forum to ridicule it."
Holly Randall writes Genesis: "Good for you for kicking the addiction (if you really have). I don't know you, but I know what it's like to have a substance abuse problem. If you can stop it at your age, before it really destroys you, then you're 99% better off than most people in this industry."
Chuck Spears writes: "I know I have not been here as long as some of you, but I am noticing that the phrase "I quit" doesn't mean the same thing on this site as it does everywhere else in America."
Ivor Biggun posts:
It's an unspoken rule in the world of porn - genuine retirements go undeclared, melodramatic announcements are usually just publicity devices.
In Burg's case I believe "I quit" may have meant "I intend to stop acknowledging the other people on the board and communicate only via hit-and-run postings and lukeisback.com."
Holly welcomes Jessica Drake to XPT: "Give my love to everyone at Wicked-- which in my opinion is the most honest, reputable "big" company in this industry. Steve O is one of the nicest guys I've met in adult, I adore him. How is your new girl, Carmen? I was supposed to shoot her for Cheri but it never happened....which doesn't mean it won't, I'm quite determined!"
Kurt Lockwood - Renaissance Man
On his revamped website, he bills himself as "Actor, Model, Musician, American Hero." Check out Kurt's Art page.
Jed writes:
I've been aware of Lockwood's site revamp for a while now and had been waiting for you to pick up on it. My favourite part has always been in Lockwood's bio where HE gave the finger to Hollywood!
I beg to differ, I think Hollywood might have given Lockwood the finger. However, after reading Lockwood's LA Vice script I've been tempted to steal it and submit it to the Nicholl Felowship in screenwriting, something of that quality should at least break the quarter finals.
Lockwood's 'artistic' pictures show even more promise, it reminds me of a time when I'd just bought my first digital camera and felt the need to put obscure ---- on record, light coming in a window, droplets of water and some out of focus crap that I thought looked cool, luckily I had sound enough judgement that I'd never show them to anyone and then eventually deleted them.
I'd love to comment on Lockwood's lyrics, but I just couldn't be arsed reading through them. Lockwood still has that artistic wonder most people left behind at 15.
Angela Devi passed away?
Rafe writes:
I heard that the busty adult model Angela Devi (real name Shinali Dhringa) has passed away? There are some rumors on the web. Her official site reports no statement but someone has posted on the FreeOnes board under her name just yesterday.