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New Organization Aims to Protect Adult Industry’s Image
Carlos Martinez writes for AVN.com:
Xbiz publisher Alec Helmy has established the Best Practices in Adult Video organization or BPAV, in an effort to protect the industry’s image and reputation and improve business practices.
Kenny Gallo's Porn Career
I had to leave Florida because I was not wanted by the State. They did not want me to transfer my parole. That was it and that was the end of my work there. I did learn a lot and I had fun. Billy taught me a lot and introduced me to a whole world of characters. I packed up my stuff and drove home.
Th... OC had changed very little. The cocaine biz was dead, because there was no real money to be made and you could get real time. My pal Jerry [Zimmerman] had turned on me after all the things we had done together. He gave me so much information and did so many things with me. He was really nothing more than a drugged out surfer. He used to do lines of cocaine across the table. He banged girls with us and he was down. I would find this often in my life of crime. I learned that you could depend on nobody but yourself. It would be many years before I would see Jerry again, but he would cause me grief. I still did things with Jerry because he made money.
I was shooting porn all the time in the valley. I was working with this guy Chuck Martino who was talent. Chuck was a hustler so he would get new girls that we could shoot them. I had made a couple of Video’s early on that were sold to this guy named Kevin Beechum. Kevin had a small place that was next to AFV. K-Beech was the name of his company. Kevin was a big guy who could bang. He was a nasty drunk. Kevin was also a fun guy to be around. Kevin made money and he had a secret. The secret Kevin had was that he had helped bomb and vandalism some video stores.
Mickey Fine who was an associate of Reuben Sturman came to Kevin for help in forcing some bookstore owners to pay Rubin. Kevin hired some of his biker friends to carry out the bombing. There is plenty online about this. A man was killed on the way to the bookstore when a bomb went off. Kevin made a deal with the Feds and Mickey Fine would now die in prison. Chuck was good friends with Kevin, so we were around him a lot. Kevin even loaned Chuck money for a liposuction surgery!
Chuck and I began shooting Jill Kelly like crazy. We were either shooting her or she was working in a Buck Adams film. Chuck was in love with Jill who was still married. Jill had separated from her husband and had an apartment on her own. Cal Jammer was becoming more distraught by the day. One night he went to her apartment and he killed himself outside with a gunshot to the head. Chuck and Buck would claim they spoke to Cal before and a lot of people blamed Jill. Jill was in a bad way and she let Chuck take advantage of her. Chuck and I shot her a lot to help her out with cash after that.
The telemarketing rooms brought in a huge amount of cash. We were handling so many charges because we had so many rooms giving us there charges. The reason there were so many charge backs was because the “vacation Package” was not great. It was a two night stay at a fort Lauderdale Beach front hotel and a two day cruise. The hotel was the smallest on the strip and the ships were not so great. They guys inside the rooms would sell these mid-westerners the vacations over the phone or with doctored pictures. We also used to bang out the people cards at a later date. Some people paid by check to be on the safe side, that made it easy. We would make a copy of the check and pass it. Things were going smoothly until someone in Mexico noticed how much money we had going through our accounts. They demanded more money or fee’s, and we paid them. They got greedy and came back for more, so we paid again. Then it became a demand for more money so we told them no way! That was it! They seized our office equipment and froze our accounts. That was it, we lost 86,000 and we were kicked out of the country.
The loss of the Mexican business hurt, but we had to step it up to keep going. I was shooting porn down in Florida, so that brought in cash. I also had my bad check business going strong. I was flying back to California all the time so I kept up things there. I would come back and Black Dave would drive me around. I was shooting porn movies and then I would trade them for product that I would sell in Florida. This was a good way maximize my cash. Most porn companies are slow payers. They drag payments out or bounce checks. The bigger they are the longer they take to pay. They figure you should be happy to work with them.
I started hanging out with PJ Sparxx a porn star. PJ was very pretty, when she was slim, she would get bloated. She was a dyke and I think she hated men. I liked her and she introduced me to a lot of porn girls.
Jerry had come up with some scam where they were able to get a truckload of Televisions. I guess they were being dropped at off at this guy Paul’s warehouse and things got screwed up. Jimmy Caci was around when this was going down. He had an argument with Ori and he slapped him. Ori turned white and almost started to cry. Paul ended up getting arrested for the TV, fiasco and Jerry bailed him out. I had met these Chinese and Vietnamese guys who were chipping cell phones. They showed me how they chipped phones so we could make free calls. You could get two months back then before they shut you down. I went out and bought a box and chip burner so I had my own business going in California. I used to charge 50 or 100 dollars a phone to chip a flip phone. There was zero risk back then because the coppers did not know a thing about it. I would drive around and grab data to burn my chips. I showed some guys I knew well how to do it so they could make cash for me when I was in Florida.
Kenny Gallo writes April 30, 2006:
The porn business has always been centered around the Valley. They distributed it in NY because that was where they had the greatest concentration of people. LA is the natural place to film it because there are so many failed movie industry people in the town. Thousand of pretty young women want to move to LA to be a star in the movies. Most will never be. The people in porn convince them that it will lead to bigger things. Once you shoot a porn movie its forever. That video or film will be out there forever. The porn biz is a dead end. The LCN life is also a dead end. There is no future in being a gangster. You cannot be succesful and be an LCN guy.
This is a primer on how porn movies are made. I made hundreds when I was in that business. I shot them, I produced and I directed them. The first thing that people should know about that business is that it is a dead-end. Most of the people are the walking dead. They live in this alternative world where they convince each other that what they do is okay. They stay amongst themselves and they have their own award shows to further enforce the legitimacy of there so-called work.
The talent must have an HIV test which is done every 30 days. This is a DNA-PCR test which is supposed to be the most accurate. The flaw in this system is that, lets say you have a film to do tomorrow. Tonight you go out and bang some chick or dude with HIV , you go to the set and bang two girls. They look at your test and the producer okays it. You still exposed them to HIV. They try and convince the talent that it is safe.
When you shoot you need at least 30 mins of raw footage to edit down to a full sex scenes. A lot of the companies also shoot a soft sex scene at the same time. That means you must to the real money shot and then the soft pop. There are people all over the set. You have a still photographer who takes action shots while the sex is going on. He will ask the talent to hold a pose, lift a leg etc. There is no romance. The girl may or may not be into it. The guy must get wood and keep it until he is asked to pop. Guys always think it looks easy, it is very hard. They have to keep wood in front of a lot of people even if he thinks the girl is a skank. Most girls they bang are not hot. They are dirty and smelly. These people are the lowest on the totem pole of porn. They think they are important but the are just images. The guys who own the companies make out like bandits because the talent signs away their rights for a few hundred dollars.
Kenny Gallo writes April 23, 2006:
Jack Rausch the German...wanted to make a porn film and [with] some of his cash. Jack had his own script he wanted to do. So I set up a meeting with my guy Vinny Rossi. Jack picked the dates he wanted to film based on his witchcraft. Then he told Vinny he wanted it dark and Vampire-like. We found this porn star named Madison to be the lead. We were shooting at this sound stage in Arleta it was the 4 play studio.
There were two of these so called agents in the porn biz. One is Jim South at World Modeling and the other is Reb, this old biker type. They try to make people pay at the time 50 dollars per girl that you shoot. We never got our girls through them and they would do nothing for their agents fee.
So Reb told me we had to pay him something like 350 for the girls on my set or else. I just laughed at him. We were standing in the parking lot of the sound stage taking a break in between shots, when Reb pulls into the lot with two guys. I was standing with Vinny Rossi, two Columbians, two Hoover Crips, my friend Chuck and this big wrestler Mat. I looked at the guys standing their and everyone had a pistol.
Reb walked up and tried to speak to me. I just told Chuck to tell him to leave. I said Chuck tell this guy this is a closed set and he is not welcome. Reb tried to speak to me and I just said tell this old loser we have no business with him. We all just laughed at him until he left. We made money on this film when we sold it to Russ [Hampshire] at VCA. We were still moving cocaine to our customers, but we were keeping a low profile.
I put up some more cash with Peter North so we could shoot two more films. This is where I met Savannah aka Shannon Wisley. I could not get over how stunning and sexy she was on the set.
I couldntn't understand how a girl that good looking was in porn. I was around her all day and I soon figured out why she was there. She was a bitchy, selfish girl and she had a mean drug problem. She told me she was doing a lot of cocaine. She was kind of a rock groupie. I liked her and I thought she was fine.
I decided at this point to go my own way and not work with Peter North. He was lazy and I just could not take him. He showed up at 5pm on the set and then he wanted to be paid as a director plus talent! The guy never helped us sell the films; I was doing it by then. We also had a falling out over the fact that he was a GAY pornstar named Matt Ramsey. I did not care that he was a cock smoker. He made a big deal because I was buying the master of one of the films he did as Matt. It was all business and it was cheap.
I had this guy directing films for me named Vinny Rossi and he was making me cash. So one day Vinny calls me up scared and he tells me he can no longer work for me. I ask him why and he tells me Butchie Perrano wants to kill him! I was making 10 grand a month from this guys work, so no way was I going to let Butchie mess with my guy. He told me Butchie came to one of my sets and threatened him. I wanted to bring a motorcycle up there and take care of the Butchie problem. Cooler heads prevailed, so I called Jerry Zimmerman who spoke to Big Tony Perrano, Butchie's father.
We set up a meeting in Mike Esposito and Tommy Sinopoli's office. Butchie claimed Vinny owed him 50 grand. I told Vinny that no way was he going to pay Butchie a cent. So got my friend Keith to come up with me. Keith was to sit in the car outside the office with our guns. Keith was always game for anything and I used him often. We had the meeting in Tommy's office. Butchie was there with his Father. Jerry Zimmerman was there for me because he was close to Sonny Franzese. I went into the meeting with it set in my mind that I would not pay him a cent. I just told Butchie that Vinny was with me. Butchie started screaming that if he was with me I owed him the cash. Big Tony asked what the cash was for and Butchie explained that it was for some films. Big Tony told him that Vinny had given him the films when he was locked up and he did not owe the money. Butchie was pissed at me but he looked at his father.... We shook hands and we walked away. I walked out and jumped into the car with Keith. There was no way I was going to let Butchie have any of our cash. He was just a blowhard that was nothing. He did own Deepthroat and later we became friends.
I was up in Porn Valley all the time because we were filming a lot. I was up in the Chatsworth area one day, so I stopped by my friend Frank Rubin’s office. Frank was a former Bookie/ Head of the Projectors Union and he owned a company called Dreamland. Frank’s partner was a guy named Perry Ross. Perry was a big steroid guy who was an asshole. One day I was seated in Frank’s office and he came charging into the place screaming. The guy was big, but he was not what he thought. He never touched me or anything in the office. Later Perry would be given a hot shot in Amsterdam where he was collecting some cash. That was no lose to the world. So Frank introduced me to Jerry Zimmerman a huge guy, but funny and good-natured. Jerry was 6’5 and 300 pounds easy, but he was a smooth conman. I liked Jerry right away. Jerry was from New York where he had run with Sonny Franzese. He had just gone through the whole Gas House Gang RICO case with his Sonny’s son Michael Franzese. They had made a big budget motion picture in Miami that was called the Knights of the City. Michael and his guys had also stolen 300 million in State and Federal Gas Taxes. Michael had not put out his book Quitting the Mob yet so Jerry was just another New York wise guy hustling in LA.
We made a good profit from the two porn films we made with Peter North aka Matt Ramsey. The problem with Peter was he was lazy. He also did not like telling people he was in the porn biz. So he had all this guilt or something and he could not sleep. Peter is a Canadian Citizen so he traveled to Canada and was arrested because he had warrants. Ramon bailed him out. I decided to get more involved because I knew we could make cash if we worked it. I was given a company and a name by a friend, so I drove up to the valley.
The company was TGA and the guy was Mike Esposito. TGA was Teddy Gaswirth and Associates, but Teddy left for Florida. Mike was a cool guy who had a lot of the same friends as I had. Mikes Father Sal had been a driver for Tony Ducks the boss of the Lucchese Family. Mike Had grown up in Italian Harlem by Rao’s restaurant. I liked Mike right away, so I knew we would do business. It is funny but when I got into porn, I did not know much about it. I had never really watched the films and I didn’t care about magazines. I did buy them when I was in Military school, but that was a while back. I was one woman guy and I was faithful to my girlfriends. So while Ramon and Phil might have gotten into porn for the woman, I did not. I had not even gone to our sets when we were filming.
Peter North had brought us to this guy who produced films named Jim at West Coast Films. Jim was a nice guy who would take our cash to shoot films. Later on Jim would be known as Uncle Roy in a popular Amateur video series. I brought the cash up to the set which was located at an Avocado farm. The set was known as the Avocado farm and it was past the valley. I was with my friend Chuck who later would became a Vago MC member. The first person I met on set was Christy Canyon and she was half naked. I was a little shy because I had never been around a woman like that in person. She took me to the set where they were already filming a sex scene. Jimbo was behind a monitor with headphones on watching the action. I handed Jimbo the sack of cash and he handed it back to me. Jimbo asked me to pay everyone so I could figure out how everything worked.
Kenny Gallo writes April 16, 2006:
My life changed on Thanksgiving Day 2004 that is the day I walked away from my old life. I was over all the petty jealousy and the grade school like games. Everyone calls everyone a rat. They all try to take what is everybody elese rather than build there own. Really the state of the LCN mirriors the state of our country. We have become a country of winmps and crybabies. Our kids play games where there is no winner or loser. They cant play dodge ball! Two men cannot fight anymore. If you just prefer to being around your own ethinc group you are a racisist. These feel good people have ruined us.
Wise Guy writes April 14, 2006:
There's a federal gand jury in New York investigating the bankrupt Jill Kelly Productions, which Keith Gordon partnered with for a year. As Kenny Gallo worked for JKP and for Keith, it is likely that Gallo's reports started that grand jury investigation.
Keith lived across the street from Edward Garofalo's uncle Manny, who's married to one of Keith's relatives. Keith frequently fronts for Eddie Garofalo. Keith is the nice-guy front for the Mob.
Teddy Persico Jr was headed to become the boss of the Colombo family but Gallo took care of that. Gallo is now running for his life. There are a lot of people who want him dead, including Donnie Shacks, Jimmy Caci, and Eddie Garofalo. Teddy Persico's attorney Joseph Corozzo, whose uncle is Gambino capo Nicholas (Little Nick) Corozzo, says the testimony of Kenny Gallo is unreliable.
Kenny Gallo writes April 12, 2006:
We soon decided to do some business with Peter North, so I had my guy Ramon bring him the cash for two movies. We took him the cash in a Carls Jr paper bag, we had changed it all to 20 dollars bills. We had been getting paid in real street cash, so just getting twenties was miracle. Peter knew that all our cash was coming from cocaine, but he didn’t care he just wanted to make cash. We had decided to shoot to films back to back so that we could maximize our profit. We used the same location and crew for both films. They films were National Poontangs Sex Vacation and Haunted Passions, which we filmed at comedian Sam Kinison's home.
...I found this on Jerry Zimmerman! Jerry is speaking to me on Wiseguy speak on the site. An (NYC) FBI investigation of organized crime's inroads in movie industry examined; surveillance of "Cry of the City" executive producers Jerry Zimmerman and Michafrankestese cited as example Scenes, starring Sammy Davis, Junior, shown. Zimmerman's and Franzese's criminal background and their reputed membership in organized crime family, the Colombo Mafia family, discussed. Alleged control of organized crime's role in movie industry said attributed to John "Sonny" Franzese; details given. "Deep Throat, Texas Chainsaw Massacre" reported allegedly financed by and with profits going to the mob. [US attorney Rudolph GIULIANI - believes Michael Franzese is following in father's footsteps.] Vatican noted issuing special blessing for Zimmerman and Franzese in Miami, Florida. [Miami Beach Mayor Malcolm FROMBERG - presents Franzese with key to city and special police pass.] [FRANZESE - dismisses FBI claims he's a member of Colombo family.] FBI's later arrest of Franzese on racketeering chgs. detailed.
Kenny writes about accused mobster John Baudanza: "My old pal John B or Cool as we called him has some friends out in Los Angeles. John is a Lucchese Capo who is facing something around 115 years! Cool friend has some porn companies in the Valley. Cool was big in the stock game on Maiden Lane and Pine St in the city. I guess he will not be in Los Angeles anytime soon."
From the Dec 4, 1997 Business Week magazine:
Law-enforcement officials say Joseph Baudanza is a son of a reputed Colombo family member and a cousin and close associate of 27-year-old John Baudanza, an alleged up-and-coming member of the Colombo family. John Baudanza is described by law-enforcement sources as working with his cousin and other kinfolk on the Street. Neither John nor Joseph Baudanza returned BUSINESS WEEK's calls.
The Baudanza ascendancy is in sharp contrast to the fate of another alleged Mob figure from recent Wall Street history--reputed DeCavalcante family capo Philip Abramo.
Acacia Update
Farrell Timlake posts on Oprano:
We are still fighting them but it has been a lot easier for us since the mainstream big media companies were pulled into the same court, same judge - who now has ruled against them twice in the "Markmen hearing" phase of the process. As a result Acacia has had to back off of one of their major claims which means all the subsequent claims based on that one are untenable positions.
They will appeal of course just because they are idiots that way but looks like we will all be out on non-infringement before anyone can say "Ron Levy dropped his pants for Acacia".
This means all the "smart business decision" companies that settled will be paying still for 20 more years or so.
>How so? It's standard language that if the patent is invalidated etc, then the license agreement is no longer in force correct?
No, because there is a difference between "invalidation" and "non-infringement". We are likely going to be out on non-infringement - meaning we don't have to go the extra long mile to get an "invalidation" of the patent. Conversely, everyone who signed and agreed to the patent validated it as applied to their own business.
I know all those who settled thought that we would spend all the cash to invalidate it while they sat back thinking they made the smart biz move. They will still have to pay. And pay, and pay, and pay...
I just hope everyone takes their business to the companies that fought this from day one. Here are a few of them: Homegrown Video, Video Secrets, AEBN, ARS, Lightspeed, Gamelink.
I won't really be able to truly gloat until the full truth comes out about some of the companies that settled and what they did to friends, partners, affiliates in the name of trying to save their own asses.
She also operates GingerLynn.com.
The Rise and Fall of Shyla Foxxx
She was the hottest wildest girl in the business in her prime - 1996, 1997 - but gained weight, gained druggie friends, and became a bad make-up artist.
Born December 21, 1972, she grew up in Puerto Rico.
We were on Entertainment Tonight February 8, 1999. She talked about becoming a judge.
Now she's fat, with short hair, glasses and the looks of a housewife.
Kenny Gallo's Adventures In Mob-Porn Land
I have written about this garbage pail Ori Spado before and today I will begin to tell the story of Ori. I was home on one of my trips back to LA from Florida, when Jerry [Zimmerman] called me. He told me to drop by because he had something for me. I knew It was a score because Jerry always had something good. Jerry was at his office with Ori when I came by. Ori had gotten a hold of a porn film that was shot by a guy who worked on Michael Franzese’s [1986] breakdance movie Knights of the City. It was worth about 60,000, but Ori had the masters, the releases and the stills. The split was to be three ways, so I was to get 30,000 for the thing. Ori needed a check for 1,000 to hold something so I gave him one from my production account. He promised he would not cash it. The next day I check my accounts and I found that I was down a 1,000. I knew Ori had tried to put a move on me. So I called up this Israeli porn guy I knew and I sold him the film for 10,000. I only took 10,000 because that is what I had coming. I gave my friend Keith a grand to find Ori and hurt him. I was out looking for Ori at the same time. Ori heard I was looking for him. He tried to call me a couple of times. He was hiding out at his Swall rent a place. He tried to get the film back but that was gone. I have a way of dealing with guys like him. I say this once it goes into my pocket, it never comes out. Yes I burned Ori and look he could do nothing.. You can hear him making threats like a bitch under the Tough guy sound on the site. That fat Moe looking limp dick tried every threat and I just laughed at him. He had Billy call me, Jimmy called me, Jerry called me. I told everyone no way would I do anything with him. I just said I would hurt him. Jimmy [Caci] finally asked me to meet him. I did because I had nothing to fear from Ori “the Capone Turd”. Jimmy asked me to make peace with Ori. So I did because I made money with Jerry and those guys.
I also met Jill Kelly at a strip club before she was Jill Kelly. I went with my Porn Lawyer Mark to a club owned by a friend of Jimmy Caci and Louie Gelfuso. This guy Mike owned a couple of clubs in LA and now he owns one in Las Vegas. I saw Jill on stage when we were seated by the stage, so I waited for her to finish her set. I asked her to sit with us and she did. We got along real good right away. The next day I was in the Video Exclusives office and she walked inside. That night I was at a party at Lawry’s and she was seated next to me. That is how we became friends. I had to leave LA for Florida, so I just took her number and told her I would call her when I came back.
Jerry Capeci's GanglandNews.com will have an update Thursday on the porn-mob connection of such players as John Baudanza (New York accused mobster), Dayton, and other former friends of Kenny Gallo.
Eric Mittleman (emittlema@playboy.com) Returns To Playboy
He calls me back Tuesday afternoon. He's producing Jenna's American Sex Star reality show after six years out of porn.
Eric: "It's American Idol for porn stars and the prize is a year-long contract with Club Jenna.
"My challenge is to bring more mainstream elements into it, more elements of reality TV. The shows last year seem too fantasy-driven.
"I've known Jenna Jameson for over ten years. She worked for me at Playboy. I referred to her as the Jenny McCarthy of porn.
"A friend of mine ran into Jenna at Fashion Week in New York a couple of months ago. She said hello to me through him. It got me thinking about her career. If people want to talk about the mainstreaming of porn, she's a case study.
"She's a cultural icon but she doesn't carry herself like a cultural icon. The only thing obscene about her was her watch. It was big, gold, jeweled. I'm sure she worked hard for it."
Luke: "Why did you come back to Adult?"
Eric: "I had a hole in my schedule. They met my quote. There's no reason not to go back. I had left Playboy under strange terms. Now that I have perspective, it was nothing against the company, but it was a conflict with another producer. I was warmly welcomed back.
"I've spent the past couple of years working with sci-fi icons such as William Shatner and Mark Hamill. Jenna is an icon. I run into 23yo girls on MySpace who are obsessed with Jenna but have never seen a movie. She's like Hef was in the fifties."
Luke: "Weren't you glad to be out of Adult?"
Eric: "I was hugely glad to be out of Adult. You need a balance in your life. One of my favorite quotes is from Ice-T: 'Life is rated XXX, not R.'
"I've produced a thousand hours for Playboy TV that I can't undo. Producing four more hours is not going to destroy me."
Luke: "What happened to your mainstream career?"
Eric: "I have a bunch of mainstream projects in the works. When I did The Scorned movie and Kill Reality TV show last summer, it knocked me into another league. The projects are bigger but they take longer to come together."
Luke: "Will this hurt your mainstream career?"
Eric: "I hope not. It took a lot of thought for me to come back and it took a lot of thought for me not to use an alias."
Luke: "Is this show primarily masturbation fuel?"
Eric: "When I left Playboy TV, the producing and editing styles were all aimed at shows you can masturbate to. A Jim English thing. The network now is more about interesting sexy TV. I tried to masturbate to one of the shows and was not terribly successful. It did eventually work and I thank Brea Bennett..."
Luke: "You want to make entertainment that people can watch with their pants up?"
Eric: "They can watch it however they enjoy it most. HBO doesn't tell me how to watch the Sopranos."
Luke: "You don't feel you're sullying your soul by doing this?"
Eric: "My soul was sullied a long time ago. We're not pulling a waitress out of a restaurant and making her an Adult star. All the contestants in the show are already in the Adult business and want to be contract girls. Morally, I'd have a problem taking some waitress and convincing her she should be a porn star."
Luke: "How would you compare and contrast reality stars and porn stars?"
Eric: "Porn stars are easier to deal with. There's a short list of reality stars who would be porn stars if it weren't for reality TV. Different things drive both groups but the common thread is the desire to be seen and noticed. Porn stars are more fun and reality stars have more issues.
"There are many types of porn that are the ultimate form of reality TV. Even on Kill Reality, people were obsessed with who was sleeping with who. You just weren't seeing it, unless you had the raw footage like we did. On the Real World, same thing."
Luke: "Do you think Jenna Lewis was in on her porn video?"
Eric: "There's a constant level of game play with reality stars, even in their day-to-day lives. Jenna had me convinced at times she had nothing to do with the distribution of the video but you can't deny that reality stars are good liars. I hope she made a profit from it. Otherwise, that just makes her dumb.
"We're going to cast the show in the next couple of weeks. Any porn star interested in competing should email me at emittlema@playboy.com. The show airs in July."
Angela Stone Interview
1/7/05: I meet Angela Stone, 23, with Joey Silvera. She's been a dancer for four years but has natural breasts. She got into porn about a year ago and has done 20 movies. She's repped by LA Direct Models. Angela threw discus in high school.
8/3/05: Alex Devine, Tiana Lynn, Angela Stone Alex Devine, Tiana, Angela Stone Tiana, Tiffany Taylor, Alex, Angela Tiana, Tiffany, Alex, Angela Tiffany Taylor, Tiana, Mary Carey, Taylor Wane, Alex Devine, Angela Stone
She (her MySpace) calls me back Tuesday 11:18 a.m. She's done about 200 scenes.
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Angela: "I wanted to be an Olympic athlete. But when I was going through puberty, I wanted to be a porn star. I watched a lot of porn when I was a kid, starting at about 15. I had a fake ID so I would get into the Adult store and rent movies. The account was under my parents' address. They never found out. I was always good about keeping that a secret. I would always hide my stuff in the car."
Luke: "How did it affect you to watch all those pornos at such a young innocent age?"
Angela: "It just captured me. I loved it. I wanted to do those things in the movies. Where I'm from, Iowa, it's hard to find guys who will f--- me in the ass. I had to manipulate this guy who was five years older than me. He wouldn't even watch porno let alone have anal sex with me. I had to make him. I wanted to do all these things and be experienced in pleasure.
"It's a good thing that I'm doing what I'm doing now because otherwise I'd think there was something wrong with me. For a long time, I thought there was. Then I got into porn and thought, 'Wow, these people are just like me.' It was therapeutic.
"I lost my virginity on my 17th birthday."
Luke: "Did you watch porn alone?"
Angela: "Usually. I had a best [female] friend in highschool. We would watch it together and laugh and I'd try to initiate a lesbian thing. I'd ask her if she wanted to do anything and not tell anybody. That we're not gay or weird. But she wasn't into it. I tried but she wouldn't budge."
Luke: "Did you give oral sex before you lost your virginity?"
Angela: "Of course. That's my favorite thing to do in my whole life. I don't even know how old I was when I started doing that. [She was probably about 12.]"
Luke: "Which form of sex do you find most intimate?"
Angela: "Anal sex. Oral is the most romantic because you're at a man's mercy. You're on your knees and you are worshipping him."
Luke: "When you are with a man, are you dominant or submissive?"
Angela: "It just depends on where the guy wants to take me. I'm very open-minded.
"With women, I tend to be more dominant, but it depends on the situation."
Luke: "Do you get more pleasure out of being dominated?"
Angela: "If it's done right. If they know how to hit and what to say.
"A guy isn't going to go out of his way to beat the crap out of you. To me, that's not erotic. It just means he's got some personal issues. I've never had that problem. Guys tend to know what to do. They know what they want. They know their limits."
Luke: "How has being in the industry affected your sexual tastes?"
Angela: "It's taken it to a level I could never describe. There are so many fetishes. It's so open-minded now. There's no way I could've done that [without porn] or had the courage to expand my mind. I'm really kinky."
Luke: "What do you love and what do you hate about being a part of the porn industry?"
Angela: "I love the men and women and directors in porn. I love people who love what they do.
"I hate the jealousy. When someone says, 'I hate her and you have to hate her too.' I don't get into that highschool stuff. When people don't get along, it's not fun.
"Being a porn star has certainly affected my personal life. I've been a dancer [since age 18], so I've had that stigma my whole [adult] life.
"If you don't like it, it's your problem, not mine. They only hate it because they want to do it. People don't like it because they're not getting f---ed."
Luke: "How has it affected your personal life being a porn star?"
Angela: "I don't really have a lot of time to have sex in my personal life because I work all the time. I don't really have a personal life. I just work all the time. I don't party. I don't go out too much. I don't have time."
Luke: "What was your reputation in highschool?"
Angela: "Shy. Kept to myself. When I don't know people, I'm very shy and keep to myself. I just clam up.
"I was a jock in highschool. I played a lot of sports, but I didn't really hang out with girls who played a lot of sports. They were too brutish for me. I had one best friend and hung out with her. I wasn't a part of any group. I was a loner."
Luke: "How does a shy girl be a dancer and a porn star?"
Angela: "When an animal's locked in a cage for so long, he just rips out. I wasn't like anyone I went to school with. When I went to college, I hung out with these strippers. I was with boring people."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about your life now?"
Angela: "I love having sex every day. I love beautiful people who love to have sex. I love my job.
"It just gets a little lonely sometimes. I don't really have time to go out because I work every day. I can't go out and drink and go out the next morning and do a squirting sex scene. So I'm at home a lot. I get bored."
Luke: "What do you do in your spare time?"
Angela: "I work out. I'm on the computer a lot. I write stories, my own erotic fantasies, different fetishes. If I want to share them, I'll probably make a film. I want to be a director."
Luke: "What do you like to read?"
Angela: "Erotic stories. BDSM."
Luke: "You lead a pretty erotic life."
Angela: "I try to."
Luke: "Were do you see yourself in five years?"
Angela: "I'd like to direct."
Luke: "You have almost 8,000 MySpace friends. Did you add them all yourself or do you have an assistant?"
Angela: "It's all me. No assistants. No publicist. Just me."
Luke: "What have been the highlights and lowlights of your porn career?"
Angela: "The lowlights -- agents. I got brought in hard. The agent I have now -- LA Direct Models -- is the best. He'll always be the best. I went through a couple of agents who were not good at all -- Naughty Modeling and Nasty Models.
"When I met you the first time, I'd been with Dick Nasty. How many scenes did I have in a year? Twenty. They didn't get me any work.
"When I originally came to LA, I would only do girls. I wanted to build my career. I didn't want to be a tease. I love cock. But I wanted to be in the business for a long time and I didn't want to get shot out.
"'No, you have to do boy-girl.' I had to do things I didn't want to do. Now I'm more of a freak. If I would've gone with LA Direct Models at first, I would've had clear sailing."
Luke: "What sort of things were you pushed to do at first?"
Angela: "I wasn't told... I just got thrown in to these scenes. I didn't know there were three positions and a pop. I had no idea what I was doing.
"My first girl-girl scene was The Violation of Gia Paloma. I was this little girl from Iowa and she's got me in piledriver and she's slamming me with a strap-on. I started crying because I didn't know what was going on. It was too much."
Luke: "What have been the highlights of your career?"
Angela: "Squirting was a huge highlight. During my first scene, I finally discovered what had been going on. I'd been doing it and not knowing it. I had the hardest orgasms ever.
"Another highlight has been shooting with Legend and some of the best performers in the business. I'm a fan. When I get to work with people I watch, it's cool.
"I've shot for Andrew Blake. I'd love to shoot for Suze Randall."
Luke: "Did you lose any friends and any relationships with family members because of your decision to become a porn star?"
Angela: "I lost a lot of friends, especially with relationships. I lost a lot of respect from people. They expected me to do medical school."
Luke: "How do you like living in Los Angeles?"
Angela: "I love it. I don't think I'll ever live anywhere else, except perhaps for Vegas."
It was a very nice evening and I had fun. No angry directors threatening to gut my entire family over a C rating, no totally hot contract girls debating into the night about animals “emotions” and no porn journalists blasting me in the package. Throw in a beautiful date and a moderate amount of alcohol and that’s what I call a great evening.
Nina Hartley's Book
Her husband Ernest Greene aka Ira Levine posts April 26 on Nina.com about his absence from the chatboard:
First there was the matter of Nina’s book. Unlike magazines, where the operative word in deadline is “dead” should you miss one, due dates for books are a bit more ambiguous. Nonetheless, there is always a date certain beyond which press times, ad campaigns, signing tours and everything else upon which success depends are thrown out of whack if the manuscript doesn’t get where it’s supposed to be. Though the first draft of Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex was originally promised for Labor Day, I think we all knew the real delivery date would be closer to New Years. We just didn’t realize how close, or how little time that would leave us.
In the final phases, Nina and I were working virtually around the clock. We pretty much skipped the holidays and, while continuing to do shoots and crank out magazines, put on a third shift nights and weekends. It was not exactly fun, but it got the job done. She wrote raw copy during the day. I edited far into the night. She revised the next day and gave me new copy to attack.
Meantime, we had to sort through stills from Nina’s Video Guide line for images soft enough to make the cut at Barnes and Noble, get the pix photoshopped, and work out an original cover concept for Olivia to work from. I’m still a bit incredulous that all this happened in time for us to load the car and head off to the annual orgy of self-congratulation at The Venetian.
I’m equally amazed that the manuscript was so well received by our editor at Avery, which is the division of the might Penguin Group empire over which she presides. Everybody there seems quite happy with the outcome, and Nina and I feel pretty good about it. Now, if only about a million readers agree, it will all have been worth it.
It would have been understandable, even to a workaholic like me, if I had come back to a couple of weeks off, but nooooo, that was not to be. While at the convention I got to talking with our producer and Adam&Eve about 2006. I really had no clue about what we would be shooting, other than a couple more Guides, but the producer in question, who has the inner resources of ambition and determination to run a major mainstream studio, wasn’t about to let me get away with that.
“There must be something else you want to do,” she dared me. Well, yes, there was. Of course, I insisted that it wasn’t for a cautious company like Adam&Eve. It was something dark and edgy that I’d been dying to shoot every since I got into this business, but I was sure it wouldn’t work for them. Try saying that to any real producer and you’ll never get out of the room without a deal.
By now, of course, regular readers here know that this project was to be a feature freely adapted from the ur-text of D/s lit The Story of O. This book had been a burr under my saddle, and the dreadful soft-core film adaptation of it from the Seventies even more so, literally for decades. As a lifelong kinkster, I had always felt that this slight novel, which so many of my friends regarded as a sacred text about the romantic underpinnings of BDSM, was both deeply flawed and fascinatingly perceptive.
Sometime back, I think I posted a bit of history about the original book here that we needn’t go back over r now (this isn’t a lit survey class, thankfully), but the backstory is that the book was originally written as a sort of sardonic birthday gift by a well-known French author, writing under the name Pauline Reage but near the end of her life to reveal herself as Dominique Aury, who was in love with a man whose particular perversions she didn’t share. Nonetheless, she insisted, she was perfectly capable of writing the kind of book she believed he would like.
The setting for O is postwar Paris, a place of grim austerity overall, defeated, disgraced and, worst of all, dethroned from its position as the center of art and letters it had been before the war. But as the high culture that had dominated pre-war Paris faded away, a vigorous popular culture rose to take its place. The films of the Nouvelle Vague, the radical reinvention of high fashion by Coco Chanel, the edgy, experimental fiction of Jean Genet and Albert Camus dug themselves from the ashes of a bitterly humiliated nation that, after all, had not much left to lose. It wasn’t long before a new, harsher version of the Belle Decadence that had characterized the Paris of Degas and Toulouse Lautrec emerged - more glamourous but considerably less gentile than its earlier incarnation.
Modern pervy folk like to imagine that the kinds of things we consider products of our own hip invention belong to our own era, but the truth is that there has always been a BDSM scene of some sort among a certain class of sexual adventurers, even before Sade gave it half a name. He was largely reporting, however unreliably and hyperbolically, on things not far removed from what he saw during his nights out on the town. His, after all, was also the era of England’s infamous Hellfire Club. There’s plenty of birching and bondage in the classics of Victorian literature and by the first quarter of the Twentieth Century, kink had kicked its way out of the closet all over continental Europe. Entertainment as explicitly perverse as anything we see today was ordinary nightclub fare in pre-war Berlin, much to the chagrin of the Nazis who couldn’t wait to crush the lively sex culture that produced it. Somehow, the bloody upheavals of the war years only seemed to create a more powerful appetite among an even larger population for recreational deviation.
Thus it was that in the Paris of the Fifties, and subsequently the swinging London of the Sixties, kink kicked its way out of the closet. It was of that scene that M. Aury, a passionate but sexually conventional soul, proved such a keen observer. When I first read Story of O in my teens, I had hardly begun my own experimentation with BDSM, although I was certain it was my particular thing. But I already knew she’d gotten a lot of things wrong in her description of it, and some uncomfortably revealing things right about the people who do it. I’m sure I’m not alone in finding her observations of the players more fascinating than her somewhat skewed account of the game itself. Earlier attempts had been made - some pretty good and most perfectly dreadful - to address the core material in different media so as to liberate the vision of a way of life Aury had seen all too clearly from the febrile imaginings she projected onto the sexual practices around which that life revolved and of which she knew only second-hand.
We can all be grateful that the lover for whom she wrote it, the author and critic Jean Poulhan, insisted that the book be published and that Olympia Press owner Maurice Girodias knew great smut when he read it. It took years to get the O past the censors in France and years more for it to see the light of day over here, thanks to the courage and determination of Grove Press’s Barney Rosset.
That being said, however, I think O has been misread, misunderstood, decontextualized and turned into a bad example of everything it isn’t by people who wanted it to be what the author had never intended - a love story about passion taken to the extremes. I’ve always viewed it as a sort of dark comedy of manners about trendy, yuppie deviants who, contrary to the insular view of their contemporary counterparts over here, were around in great abundance in the author’s time and well before. She may not have known just exactly what they did in their bedroom, but she knew them as people all too well. And it was as people, not avatars of romantic perversity, that I found them the most compelling.
But I digress. Whatever weird motives were going through my head at the moment, I blurted out my desire to do an O-based explicit feature, even though I had sworn years ago that I would never shoot another X-rated feature of any type, knowing from past attempts how frustrating it was to try to make anything resembling a real movie with the resources available in porn. I was really half hoping the producer would laugh in my face. Of course, I instinctively knew that telling a producer some piece of material just isn’t right for his or her company is the surest way to convince him or her otherwise, and as it turned out, this particular producer had been a fan of the book since high school also. “You had me at the title,” she pronounced, instantly committing more of the company’s resources to the project than I had ever expected to see for anything, much less anything so completely out there as this deal.
Of course, if we were going to get this done in time for AVN awards consideration in the fall, work would have to commence immediately. Having just finished a three-hundred-plus page book, I would now have to sprint home from Vegas, crank out an issue of Taboo that was on hold, and then produce a forty-five page script that would have to be shot within sixty days. Fortunately, having spent two decades thinking about what I would do with this material, the writing part was fairly easy.
I had already made up my mind to update the story to a contemporary L.A. setting and to completely reinvent the characters so that there inner selves would be more consistent with their outward behavior.
One of the things that always drove me nuts about the source material was the insistence that it wasn’t really about BDSM. The women derived no physical pleasure from the whippings, bondage, piercings, brandings, etc. and endured all these things to prove their love. Likewise, the men supposedly inflicted all this on their partners not for the enjoyment of doing so but rather as proof of their own power over them. This is all just bull----. Nobody does BDSM at so intense a level to demonstrate some abstract principle. Indeed, the book itself would fail as erotica in a way it does not if these acts weren’t treated as inherently sexual.
Therefore, I re-set the action among modern kinksters who acknowledge that these activities are clearly recreational, and I made sure to use players where I could who are BDSM oriented and know how to enjoy giving or getting a good whipping, etc., in conjunction with hot sex. I made it clear in both the writing and the way I directed it that nobody involved would be a martyr for love. I hate that whole concept and felt it was essentially a cop-out appended to the book in Poulhan’s intro to give it a superficial respectability. My characters wouldn’t feel the need to make such excuses for their own desires and you’ll see them getting off merrily on everything that happens to them.
The interesting exception here is Carmen Luvana herself, who is more dommish by nature and doesn’t really like to be on the receiving end. However, she has the dark intensity beneath her playful surface that I thought would make her excellent for the lead. In fact, of all the performers in the business, she was the only one I would have seriously considered for this role, precisely because there is something fierce just beneath her easy-going public persona that seemed just right for the new, liberated, self-determined O I had in mind. As it turned out, I couldn’t have drawn luckier on that bet. Carmen took on those 45 pages, in which she’s in nearly every scene, like an aspiring triathlete. While insisting that she had problems with dialog and might need help, she memorized the whole thing and did virtually all of it off-book in wide masters with minimal cutaways. I told her afterward she could have quite a career for herself doing telenovelas for Spanish-language TV.
All our other casting choices were equally fortuitous. Justine Jolie made a lovely, modern-type sub-babe who loves a good thrashing almost as much as she loves her Ipod. Kiley Ireland, Shayla Laveaux and Adrianna Nicole were terrific as the worldly members of what I called The Second Wives Club - girls who like to get kinky, preferably with successful older guys who can afford to show them a good time in luxury.
Evan Stone made a perfect Steven - now revealed as a tough, ambitious criminal lawyer with a sly sense of humor - and Tommy Gunn as Ray was an excellent foil - a spoiled party boy who uses the successful kink mag his brother Evan finances for him to facilitate his access to lots of hot babes. When he hands O off to Steven in order to pursue one of O’s models (played quite charmingly by Monica Sweetheart), we can believe that he has no clue why O would be upset, not by his infidelity but rather by his impetuous bad judgment in failing to let O seduce her for him first.
We also had terrific locations, including a Frank Lloyd Wright house for Marie - the wise older woman who orchestrates the action (played with chilling hauteur by Nina in a black wig in what I hope will be the non-sex performance of the year) and a truly hideous all-white marble, concrete, glass and steel McMansion in the Hollywood hills for our version of the chateau.
Our ace production manager Jim Steel assembled the best technical crew any director could hope for and we did not stint on props and costumes, with modernized O dresses in latex from Andy Wilkes at Syren, who made all of Michelle Pfieffer’s Catwoman outfits, and top-of-the-line lingerie from Agent Provocateur (note to Joe, it was A.P. who supplied the black w/pink trim opera gloves in which Nina does her flogging). No detail, however minor, was left to chance.
With all this meticulous planning, you would think the shooting itself would be virtually effortless. Hah! This kind of feature is heavy lifting under the best of circumstances, and in the week before we rolled, I get a major double whammy in the form of a malarial flu, complete with 101.5 fever and a throat so sore I could barely whisper, much less shout across noisy sets to give directions, and the news that my 89-year-old dad had suffered a heart attack just days before we were to roll. Nearly delerious, I contemplated the staggering difficulty of having to push back the production if I needed to jump on a plane for Denver while we awaited word from the hospital.
Fortunately, my father is a very tough old bird who was out of the hospital in four days despite a triple angioplasty and wouldn’t here of my coming out there, although he did, somewhat reluctantly, acquiesce to my older brother’s flying out from D.C. for a brief visit. One day after getting home, he was back at his desk, taking business calls (“I get bored,” he explained). I told him I hoped whatever it was that made him that way, I hoped it was genetic. He warned me not to count on it.
So, with all this drama in the background, we managed to get through five unbelievable days of shooting the most beautiful material I’ve ever had the privilege of creating in two decades of making pictures. Everybody worked their fool heads off and the results, I think, will be plain to see.
We didn’t just make an adult movie, we made a movie for adults. The sex is smoking, but the erotically charged, dramatic atmosphere of the non-sex scenes (in which Carmen is generally naked, whip-marked and tattooed), are almost as bonerfic as the “commercial” material.
I say all this without fear of coming off as self-congratulatory, because I don’t really feel I had much to do with it after the process began. I take credit for fixing the story and hiring the right people, but the heavy lifting was done mostly by the cast and crew. Particularly, and I don’t think this will surprise anyone, I credit Nina, who acted as a superb AD (running lines with performers and wrangling sets and props) when she wasn’t on camera, setting the perfect mood and tone in her performance as the omniscient narrator who knows what’s really going on in the heads of all these complex and contradictory characters.
At the very least, we’ve made a visually rich movie with plenty of fine stroke material and at best we’ve done something new, different and interesting with the XXX feature genre - making the story elements as much a part of the erotic atmosphere as the hydraulics. I’ve always considered the stop-the-story-dead-so-we-can-throw-in-a-sex-scene method of making features the genre’s greatest weakness, and I hope we overcame it. Now we’ll see if the viewers agree.
I admit that I’m a little concerned about how my loyal fan base will react to this generally noirish take on a beloved kink classic. It’s a very unromantic treatment of the material and goes abrasively against the grain of most of my work, which has always presented BDSM in a candy-coated, fun-loving light. This show is on the dark side, reflecting what I know to be a real aspect of what we call The Scene.
Nina’s and my playmates tend to be fun-loving bohemians like the character Justine plays in the movie, but we also know plenty of yuppie players for whom erotic power exchange is just another extension of their avaricious consumerism, a beautiful sex slave just another luxury item totemic of their success, rather like a Ferrari or a Rolex. We know those people too. They’re the ones who make the movies you see in mainstream theaters and secretly retain my services to install fancy dungeons in hidden rooms in their Beverly Hills pallazzos in the dead of night. I tried to mix up all these different types to give a fair perspective on the world I know.
Nina Hartley writes on Nina.com:
I've only ever changed my mind about a scene once. Usually, I can get through any scene once. If the guy really doesn't do it for me at all, I'll just never work with him again. But I was going to do a reverse gang bang with TT Boy a few years back, for "Sorority Sex Kittens III," for VCA, along with twelve other women.
Up in the dressing room, I saw TT and playfully slapped him on the butt. Equally playfully, I then turned my butt to him and said, "your turn!"
Imagine my shock and dismay when he hauled off and hit my ass with all of his strength. He's a trained boxer and very strong, so you can imagine how hard that was. I was speechless, nearly in tears, as I've never experienced physical violence in my life. Of course, I took myself out of the scene with him.
Even if I had been the only woman in the scene, I would have backed out of that one no matter who raised what fuss. But, since there were twelve other women to ---- him, no one missed me.
It takes a very strong (or ----ed up) woman to refuse a scene, as no one wants to spend the time or money to replace either person.
When a performer has an out of date test, I've also refused to work with him, but I got him the next time when his test was up to date.
What was the final resolution on Acacia issue?
Gonzo writes on Oprano: "The latest I had heard was they have for all practical purposes bailed. The patent s--- that held the blackberry hostage has brought it under scrutiny."
Serge writes: "I wonder if people pay them or not. I see their stock is on a high side."
JR writes: "It's because they have been buying more and more patent portfolios in addition to licenses sold outside of adult. It has nothing to do with adult stuff."
MikeW writes: "They sent out another round of shakedown letters approx. 6-9 months ago, I remember getting mine (the 3rd since this whole thing began) and throwing it directly into the trash."
Porn Star Escorts
Kris Roc posts on XPT: "Check out these rates! Any of you XPT'ers can afford this? I'd love to get with Gigi but her price is pushing it!"
Christian writes on XPT: "They are pretty legit. I used to go with lovette every once in a while and make sure she was okay. the price is so high because the company takes like 50 percent of the fee. some of the girls aren't ever available, but for the most part its legit."
Christie Lee writes:
A friend called and told me about this post and the fact that i was on an escort website.. i am very pissed off to think that people can just throw up my pics anywhere online. i DO NOT escort. as soon as i was told this i called body miracle and demanded they take my pics off. i was told my pics should be off the site in 24 hours! sorry guys, you cant rent me out. but you can release your loads by renting or buying my movies.
I found out how my pics got on body miracle..they were sudmitted by my ex roomate who is not in the biz and who is a total bitch! she did it to cause confontion between me and the guy im seeing..this is not the first time she has tried to pull ---- with me..anyway, i dont have anything against girls who escort. its thier body, their life. its just not for me. im a whore in a different way, just wanted to clear that up.
Porno Dan writes: "I am good friends with several of the girls who use Body Miracle as their booking agency. All the ones I just saw on the site all work for them. There are other agencies that do the same thing."
The King writes: "Wow, Kaylynn, Katja Kassin and Selena Silver almost make me want to part with some of my money. Luckily I live too far away to be tempted. Still, I'm surprised with the amount of work these girls get and the money they earn that they still choose to hook. Oh well, naivety is my bliss."
Phlogiston writes Christian: "What exactly are you doing while a girl is "escorting"? I like Lovette and am not accusing her of anything, but the gist of everything I've read is escorting = prostitution. Are you in the next room waiting to storm in if there's a scream or something?"
Christian writes: "You hit the nail on the head. Hey, her idea not mine."
Chico Travieso writes: "This takes me back to my driver/security days. I use to monitor the girls with a two-way radio. If there was a problem, the girls would use a code word and I'd have to handle some business."
Sexy City writes Christian: "It didn't bother you that your girlfriend worked as an escort?"
Christian replies: "That's a ridiculous question."
Holly writes: "In terms of modesty, my mom does turn 60 in 2 weeks so she's not exactly prancing around nude, but she's still as spirited and crazy as she was back in the day!"
Hammer writes:
Holly, I just took a quick romp through the May postings. It seems like your mother is really taking a step back from shooting. Is that true, or is she just have having a little down time away from the business? I think you and Rifter are great shooters, but I always will feel a certain degree of allegiance to Suze.
It's the Holly show these days.
The ignorant slimy bastard award of the day goes...
Let me preface this by stating that there were many creeps to choose from today. I'm of the opinion that May 1st should henceforth be proclaimed National Imbecile Day. But of all the charmers I've encountered today in person and online, I proudly present today's award to the pop radio DJ schmuck who thought it refreshing to make ethnic slurs on air. Worse yet, the same despicable dolt will be on air tomorrow and likely make another bigoted remark, at which he will undoubtedly laugh like the raving moron he is. In tonight's instance, said nitwitted excuse for a radio personality was speaking to a woman he thought to be Hungarian (not quite sure how he came to this conclusion - perhaps just wanted people to know that he does in fact know the name of one country other than his own). The caller corrected him and told him that she is in fact Turkish. This well-versed charmer's response was: "Oh well - same smell, different bathroom."
Ah yes, such educated statements make getting out of bed every morning worthwhile. Besides the reality that Hungary and Turkey are close neither geographically nor culturally, the mere fact that this sap would use a bathroom reference to describe people is disturbing. And what's even more disturbing is that he actually thought he made a witty remark. Here's to you, moronic pseudo radio host for contributing to the already intolerable xenophobia in this country. Your reward is having to listen to the garbage music you play on air for all eternity. Now, my one quarter Hungarian ass is going to find the Listerine to get the bad taste out of my mouth.
Shay Laren Interview - June '06 Penthouse Pet
I call her Monday afternoon.
Shay, 20: "I'm sitting in the airport in Maui. I'm heading out to LA. I'm working with Nicholas Sage for Penthouse."
Luke: "Is he a still photographer?"
Shay: "Yeah. I don't know exactly what it is for. They just said they needed more stuff of me."
Luke: "How did you get into nude modeling?"
Shay: "Crystal Klein is my friend and neighbor. She got some pictures of me and she sent them to Stephen Hicks, who flew me out to Los Angeles in January and then presented the pictures to Penthouse. Here I am."
Luke: "How did appearing in Penthouse affect your life?"
Shay: "It's not like I'm on the cover. Not everyone is going, 'Ohmigod, I saw you on the cover of a magazine.' My family and friends know about it. They're all very excited for me."
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Shay (the oldest child of four, her siblings are six, eight and 13): "I always wanted to be a model or an actress. I've done theatre since I was ten. I've always wanted to be in the spotlight. The attention and all that stuff."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about being a nude model?"
Shay: "I hate that I have to travel every couple of days. I hate airports.
"I hate people labeling it as pornography.
"Everything else is positive. I love doing it."
Luke: "What were you doing before?"
Shay: "I worked in a high fashion boutique. I did sales and ran the store."
Luke: "How did your friends react?"
Shay: "Most of my friends have reacted positively."
Luke: "How has it affected your love life?"
Shay: "Not at all. The magazine just came out."
She says she's single.
Luke: "What type of men are you attracted to?"
Shay: "Confident guys, not cocky. Funky, nerdy, quirky, spontaneous. I don't like the big buff macho guys. I'm really attracted to intelligence and humor."
Shay divorced eight months ago after a one-year marriage. She lost her virginity to that guy at 16 and they were together for three years.
Luke: "Did you get crazy after the divorce?"
Shay: "I got a little wild."
Luke: "How do you know Crystal Klein?"
Shay: "We met on Halloween. Here in Hawaii, Halloween is like Mardi Gras. We've been good friends eversince. We recently became neighbors. We see each other every day."
Luke: "She's really sarcastic. Are you sarcastic too?"
Shay: "Of course. We go at it all the time. We try to outdo each other."
Luke: "What are your ambitions?"
Shay: "For the next couple of years, I want to work on the website shaylaren.com. I want to go back to school. I want to study philosophy and literature. I don't know exactly what career route I want to go down."
Luke: "What classes were you best in in highschool?"
Shay: "English literature and science. I was awful at math but for some reason I got science down."
She loves to read.
Luke: "What are your favorite books?"
Shay: "Anything by Deepak Chopra and Dan Brown. I love the classics too, such as The Great Gatsby and any of the books that you had to read in highschool."
Laren is a military brat and grew up around the world. She went to highschool in Germany for three years and was in many honors classes.
Shay has mainly male friends. "Girls on this island are territorial over guys. I have lots of guy friends and they totally respect me. I totally lay down boundaries. If you are going to be my friend, don't try to become my boyfriend."