Saturday, November 18, 2006
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Britain's Top Male Porn Star Of Late 1950s, Early 1960s
Sverre Helgesen writes:
Hi Luke, mate.
I've lived in OZ, 35 years ago, ok? I speak 'strine. Been out surfing glam-girls/porn so my eyes are popping out. You can go blind doing this! I've checked out a few of your blogs 'over the years' and find that you are doing a good job. Impartial. Tell as is. My first impression is that most of the guys and gals are a bit screwy, nobody deliberately fucks for a living and on camera if they're halfway sane. Mind you, I worked in the London theatres, the Mermaid and the Garrick, for a couple of years, '60-'62, and a lot of stage/film/TV stars are a bit screwy too!
I'm out researching my murky past, hence the porno-surfing. I've been in touch with a few people in the biz, so to speak, enthusiasts, collectors etc., you'd be suprised what people are into for a hobby. For I used to be Britain's top porno-star. Nobody knows of me though, back in the late 50's, early 60's porno was very much under the covers and only rich people had projectors anyway. The films were mostly made to order, not sold under the counter. David Sullivan, the newspaper-magnate sold a lot of piccies under the counter, though. I vaguelly recall him. But even these were only available for wealthy customers, your average hairy-arsed worker barely earned enought to eat. So it's all gathering dust up in dusty lofts in Belgravia, why we can't find anything yet. Found a few girlfriends though. There were so many girls you can't but recall only a few. Luckily a lot of them were glam-models for Harrison Marks. Sometime, somewhere, some pics or a film will turn up.
Never saw any of it, you see. Would like to. I'm an' ol' git now, living on fading memories. I never earned a penny out of it. Lunch and free girls was it. It wasn't all work though, I do recall having a lot of fun, most of the girls were great. It actually started out helping Harley Street professors research sexual development and what sex was. Never been done before, you see, taboo subject even in medicine. The pill was on the way and they knew there was going to be trouble and needed to preempt any problems, psychological mainly. I wound up doing sex-shows, pics, and films for a while. I now understand it wasn't all research, somebody was making money out of this! Namely Harrison Marks, Sullivan, and the doctor seconded to do the research (so the others weren't obviously involved, they could be jailed not to mention struck off) Dr. Stephen Ward. He was expendable...
Miller, Asher (Jane's dad), Cilento (Diane's dad) Archie Macindoe (a silent partner, he agreed with the principle but daren't be associated, or struck-off, his burn-patients always came first). There were others who's names I can't now recall. We also were associated with forward-thinking people who formed a women and child-abuse support-group: Mary Whitehouse, Lady Astor, Mary Bell-Mills (actor John's wife) Claire Raynor (M.B-M's cousin) Honda roadracer Jim Redman's wife, Marlene, Lady Jacqueline Rufus Isaacs of Reading (lady-in-waiting to Anne) and, it later turned out, several of my teachers at school! One's wife started the group, went to school with Claire Raynor etc., etc., it grew from there. Both Mary Mills and Claire came over sometimes when I was making a sex-education film with Mandy Rice Davies, Claire more interested in our mental health. She quickly saw we needed no councilling, "This is a job, we volunteered for it, we bark at each other, yes, but we also calm down and talk our way through it, the sooner we do it - properly - the sooner we get out of here and back to a normal friendship," (for we decided we liked each other, we had a lot in common anyway, both well-read and intelligent people. And she had no real friends.... but via me began to make a few).
A lot of the dancer/singer/actresses in the theatres had to moonlight in Soho, the pay was very bad. Everybody knew, there are no secrets in showbiz. Meeting Gerald Campion (Billy Bunter?) who ran a streetside bar on Shaftesbury Avenue inbetween jobs, I often mulled over how we could buy a pub/restaurant/hotel for the girls to work in, thus avoiding working Soho. None of them liked it, though the stripping was apparently fun. Mmm...how to make money? Then one day Eddie Constantine visited (French gangster B-film actor). He was a lovely guy. He took me to lunch and told me the Cosa Nostro had asked him to offer me One Million Dollars to make a hardcore in colour, 35mm, for big cinemas all over Europe. Yippee!! But we couldn't find any cameras! The Brit industry used to borrow cameras from each other as it was, on a 'we need it back tomorrow to shoot OUR next scene', basis, 'and can we borrow one of yours as well?' On rainly days the phones ran hot with offers of cameras on hire, to make up the losses in not being able to film!
Me and the girls were all agreed we would make a costume-film that would knock your socks off. I can't recall the original titles but 'Cabaret' and 'Irma la Duce' were serious contenders, and also 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Cat on a Hot Roof', 'A Kind of Loving', and 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (the last two might not sell well abroad, but go a 'reet treat oop north'). All were agreed that it was a joint-effort, we would share equally according to what workload we each had (I would be writing the script and producing and would be paid a fee for this, on top of my acting fee). We decided that we would make about 3-4 films, then quit. By this time we all would have 20-40,000 Pounds each (depending on production costs) and being paid from a Jersey company ( I had access to top accountants who suggested this, all the rich do it to avoid tax) over a period of time would keep most of it. That's a couple of mill in todays money, enough to live well on the rest of your life. But there were no cameras available! I could get 16mm Jap cameras (met a guy from Canon, via David Bailey, who was into porno back home and was keen to do some films with me and some Japanese girls 'on tour in Europe'. I wasn't into bondage and I had no money for that, so it ran out) but the mafia moaned about that, my million was for the big film. George Raft said 'The Mob' were also interested (did you know he was a flamenco dancer of great repute, even in Spain? I liked him, he was a good man).
Well, to cut it short (it got very messy too) it all ran out in the sand. I still maintain that with half-a-dozen Jap 16mm's and some good lighting and equipment we could have made some good quality films and enough money for all. I even knew a mercenary (Black Jack Schramme from Katanga, the guy who bust the UN's ass and almost won the insurgance) who hired a chateau in France every summer for a training camp for his men (mostly ex-SS) and for his girls to kick back and sun themselves (he owned the redlight area behind Le Grand Place in Brussels). We could have made the films there. The guys would have made an excellent film-crew, disciplined, organised, trained to work together as a unit. Protection too, and extras, not all were gay.
Under organised conditions the girls in porno wouldn't be used and abused. But via your blog it sounds like the girls today would need good councilling even as normal citizens, let alone as help in the sex industry! The difference with us was that we were one tight, cohesive unit, living and working in the same town, we shared each other's problems, it was the only way for the girls to survive. Many outside that system, in the backstreets of London and other huge, dirty, towns in a depressed Britain, didn't have that. A lot died young. I saw the same thing in Sydney.
Attached is a pic of me as a lad. Ignore the 'Kungalv'. Also an interesting mag cover we've found. Printed in '63, there is an article using the notoriety of the Profumo Scandal to sell copy. The interesting thing is this: the pic is taken by Dr. Stephen Ward, the infamous sex-doctor of the scandal, as are the pics inside, it would seem (not seen them all yet). Somebody took either the negs or pics to the USA at about the time of the scandal. Lots of his stuff was sold or 'dissappeared' after his death, but when was this mag published, exactly? There is a problem here: the man entering the right of the lower right picture, the one with the car...is me. Why I know who took the pic (and a lot of other details involved). But...I also have been sent by a contact a photo of the cover taken with a digital camera that has vastely better resolution. The face of that man I say is me...isn't me. Somebody has forged the photo with another man's face. Why? The mag was only sold in the USA where nobody would notice little me as such? I understand the need to forge my pic if it was available in Britain, I would be recognised, the press would wonder who I was and try and trace me etc. I've had the pic looked at by 'certain people' (sorry, the www isn't secure) and they say it's hard to say definately from a copy of a copy of a...well, you get it. They would just love to see the original photo, somebody's done a really pro-job. But they do suspect the head of the 'subject' (me) is slightly suspect. I KNOW it is!
I happen to know who's head has been transposed over mine: Peter Rachman. The real Peter Rachman. 'Rachman' was an act, the little bald, fat guy most people know about, the one who died, was his double. Rachman's real name was actually Ilan Ram'el. If that figure was really Rachman he would tower over all in the pic, he was 6 feet 5 inches in his socks! The lad, me, is barely the height of a rather tall Maxine Miller (the girl in green) maybe 5 feet 9 inches (I got to 6 feet one later, I'm only 15 years old here).
I'd love to get pics taken from the same roll of film, the car shot was the last on that reel and the one's prior to it were hardcore from the night before. But it wasn't porno, not for me, not for the bearded guy in the pic. He was a war-hero, a captain on a warship that ran into a German cruiser in the North Atlantic one stormy day, both's radar not working what with the icing. Suprised, neither backed-off. The German was either sunk or was severely damaged, enough for the Navy to run him down. The British ship looked like a corkscrew, blown apart, burning, half the crew dead. Despite being raked by scrapnel all over his body, his cock and one testical blown-off, barely alive, the man in the pic, laying in agony on what was left of hid bridge directed his sailors how to sail a ship barely afloat back to port, not resting for a second the entire time. He got a medal for that. Then his wife left him, 'half a man as he was', and he only ever saw his daughter when she wanted money. A successful businessman now he was working himself to death. He was also going crazy. He still had an enormous sex-drive...but no cock. The top psychiatrists of the day, Professors Richard Miller and Richard Asher, aided by Dr. Stephen Ward, used me to find out how to give this man the orgasm he needed to relax. It's all in the head, you see. Tests with Ward (into alternate medicine) showed you could create orgasms using acupunture but this wasn't good enough, the poor man had to be able to do it himself, in his head. One of several times this picture on the mag cover was taken the day after such a session with Terry, Maxine and me (we used other girls too). The professors went home in the early hours, hoping they weren't seen, to mull over their observations. There were 2,000 others in Britain alone who were like this. The Captain was worried about MY well-being! I grunted rapidly "You fronted up for us when called for and paid a high price for it, why then, should I not front up for you now? Nobody's shooting at ME, forchrisssakes!"
I waited until I was alone at home and then cried.
I'd do it all again, just for that.
...Ta, mate. Beautiful piece of writing, if I say so myself, no wonder Ustinov was nervous of me. My failing is that I can't make things up, I need a basis to work off. Never did get going, we moved abroad and it would have taken years for me to adapt to the local scene, language etc. Got a job instead. I recall a very tall, slim Aussie that worked part-time for the mag Private Eye, owned by a good friend of mine, Peter Cooke (we shared the same zany repartee, wind us up and we went for hours!) a bloke from Kew in Melbourne, weird name of 'Berry' Humphries. He was a goer for the gals, but last time I saw him he was wearing a gold-lamee dress and into serious drag. Knew Lewis Morley so well he refuses to contact me. He has masses of piccies of me...and not all alone, ahem. I was the first model to pose in the 'Keeler Chair', for example, in the spring of '62. 'Berry' turned up and watched. It was difficult as I was at least 4" taller than Chrissie and didn't fit the pose as well as she later did.
I missed sending you my only pic from Australia, Berwick south of Melbourne. Big file from a slide.
Feel free to use any of my works if it fills a space. All I ask is that you ask around about the pics and films I suspect either Peter Lawford and/or Frank Sinatra took home with them. There are pics of Marilyn Monroe taken by Ward, and a film taken by Harrison Marks. They'll be safely locked away, but walls talk? My other contact in the US has been rather silent for a while, I can but hope they are still digging.
By the way, a friend of mine, Gary, overheard a conversation at Heathrow the other week. A bunch of guys from the USA were on their way to Uri Geller's house in Reading (west of London) for a conference and were deeply engaged in a chat about the black occult. Gary, a serious fan of the occult (having personal experiences he's trying to come to grips with) was suprised to hear Stephen Ward's name come up. He and Tommy Cooper (the entertainer) were high members of a secret masonic sect and are still talked about in awe by people in 'the business'. I knew about that, Gary now knows about that, it's how we met on the www. What shocked him was that they also mentioned ME. And they got my name right. I was refered to as 'the Ward Clan's sexual plaything.' Gary also said there were inferences that indicated that I was used for more than the black occult rituals I now recall being used for. This equates with the porno. He didn't know about that, other than Mandy. He was distracted and thus not sure, but he thought that I was known 'in the biz' as Sven. Sounds logical, my real name used to confuse people!
Joanna Angel's Feeling Down
I call her Nov. 16. "Your mom is so funny [on Jewcy.com]. I love her."
Joanna: "Really? I feel bad. I'm never going to have anyone to interview her again. She whines too much."
Luke: "She's such a nice change from the parents who say, 'We support whatever they do.'"
Joanna: "My mom doesn't really get it. It makes her feel better to think that people are forcing me to do this instead of me doing it on my own will.
"They edited the interview in a weird way. I hope it doesn't come across that I'm racist."
"I feel stuck in my career. I made this movie and handed it in to LFP and they thought my [bald] co-star is too ugly to be on the boxcover. I don't know what to do because I think she's beautiful. I was crying about it. It's my artistic vision."
She's serious.
Do Holly and Suze Shoot Blacks?
We've shot many "black folks". Mr. Marcus, Deep Threat, Sean Michaels, Maxx Black, Heather Hunter, Giana Taylor, Promise, Marie Luv, Nina Bonet, Lori Alexia.... I can name more if you really want me to look through my site. Why do you have a such a problem with black people?
Black Lust is publishing my Lori b/g, Leg World and Gallery published Giana Taylor, Fox bought a set on Promise, and I know my mom sold all the sets she shot on Heather Hunter back in the day.
MyPornoReview posts: "Every porn nigger thinks the Higher to be Jews that run the porn industry are out to get them. That they don't deserve the recognition that is owed to them. Maybe their product sucks. Maybe all nigger porn sucks cause the majority of them are unbearable to look at let alone masturbate to. Maybe there are better "white" directors that are more deserving to win."
AVN Editor Mike Ramone emails: "And maybe you’re a little punk bitch tossing off N-bombs from behind the cloak of internet anonymity. Actually, scratch the “maybe” part. And no, I don’t believe for one second that you have the balls to N-bomb someone to their face. Of course, if I’m wrong, why don’t you just reveal who you really are?"
MPR replies: "mike, this is luke's site not AVN so you don't have to be so politically correct and kiss ass by using a suger-coated synonym for nigger, "N-bomb". I'll call a nigger a nigger when provoked but i'm not going to go around calling niggers nigger for no reason. Would I invite a nigger over to my house for bbq? No. As I stated earlier, niggers come in all races and sizes. Unfortunately most niggers are black. i'd call Kevin Federline a nigger, wannabe or not. Would I call Condi Rice a nigger? No. And I definitely do not hide behind internet's anonymity. Luke, i'll be in Valley this sunday if you'd like to sit down for coffee with me."
Mike Ramone emails:
Can me, Albo and Tony T join you? Just let us know the where and the when homey.
Very revealing that you apparently can’t comprehend that there are many whites who aren’t racist like you (I assume you’re white) and hence find the N-word odious. If I believed in the concept of the human soul, I’d say that yours is pretty f***ing diseased dude. You sound like a really ugly person.
Mike Albo emails:
Huh? I don't see a name other MyPornoReview attached to any of this stuff. Am I supposed to believe this is somebody's real name? If it is, I can understand the anger. But hasn't this one of the major problems with the Internet from Day One? Idiots posting their pathetic little rants and attributing it to some fantasy alter-ego or lame-ass pseudonym?
As for MPR's statement, "Would I invite a nigger over to my house for bbq? No." Hey, buddy, if you have such a need to keep black people away from your trailer, it seems that barbecue would be the last thing you'd want to be cooking. Just sayin'.
Mike aka MPR replies:
Niggers have made me an ugly person. Niggers have made America an ugly place. People talk and bitch about the illegal Mexican's in the US yet Mexican's contribute more to the American society than niggers do. I would trade in the 34 million legal Niggers for 11 milllion illegal Mexicans. Mexican's do low paying jobs that niggers think they are too good for. I'm tired to Niggers wanting everyone to do everything for them instead of doing shit themselves. I respect Mexicans, Asians, and Jews. Why? All have been oppressed in history and all have taken the oppression with their heads down and worked hard to get out under the oppression. Jews and Asians have the highest median incomes in the US. Jews and Asians are the most accepted into Universities in the US. Niggers have been in America for over 200 years and yet they are still decadent. Slavery blah blah blah. Jews experienced the same anti-semitism and prejudices and Asians experienced the same discrimination from everyone including Niggers themselves.
Furthermore Mike, the word Nigger wouldn't have a racist connotation if everyone wasn't scared of using it to described Blacks. Everyone wants to be political correct and not call blacks Niggers. I'm also tired of the reverse racism niggers have towards all races. Is it okay for niggers to be racists because they were once slaves 10 generations ago? Not one nigger living today has been a slave or sat behind the bus, but yet when they open their mouths everyone owes them something. Niggers have carte blanche to be racist? Can you imagine all white universities? No. Then why the hell are there all black universities in the land where niggers fault so hard for desegregation and civil rights.
Mary Carey Parties With N'Sync's Chris Kirkpatrick & Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard
Picture of Mary Carey with Chris Kirkpatrick (Mary emailed it to her ex-boyfriend Harold).
Mary Carey goes to the Magic game.
I call Mary Thursday morning.
Her voice is wrecked from too much drinking and not enough sleeping. "I've missed four flights. I'm stuck in Florida.
"I went back to Chris Kirkpatrick's house. I got myself in a sticky situation because I mentioned where Chris Kirkpatrick lives. Dwight Howard just showed up at the door [at 4 a.m.].
"Say hi to my mom."
Mary's mom: "Hi Luke."
Luke: "How are you feeling?"
Mom: "Pretty good."
Mary tells her assistant Amelia: "Tell Luke everything. Every detail.
"Oh, wait, Luke, did you see my nominations?"
"No."
"Crossover star of the year. Contract performer of the year."
Amelia: "She'd been drinking. We were supposed to get up at 5 a.m. to make it back to Fort Lauderdale for our flight. I couldn't wake Mary up.
"Dwight Howard came over with one of his friends. Mary stranded him. She didn't want Chris to be mad at her and didn't want Dwight to be mad at her. She was talking to both.
"Dwight came over and didn't know anybody but Mary. She left him in the front hallway. 'Amelia, keep him busy while I go see if Chris is mad.'
"Dwight seemed really shy. He was texting on his cell phone. He definitely wasn't mad. Everybody involved was just confused. She was telling people's secrets. She was telling me to run over and ask Chris this and that.
"Chris didn't think it was a good idea for Dwight to come over at 4 a.m. when we had to leave at 5 a.m.
"At 5 a.m., Mary was passed out. She wouldn't wake up.
"She got all decked out for the Magic game. We had to go to Will-Call to pick up our tickets. She just asked Dwight for tickets [a couple of hours before the game]. She said, 'If it's seventh row or above, I'm not going to stay.'
"Our tickets were on the 100 level, row W, the the third-to-last row. She was pissed off. She's used to getting courtside tickets.
"We sat down near the floor and then the season-ticket holders came in the middle of the second quarter and we had to leave. Mary caused a scene. 'These tickets were given to me by Dwight Howard.' The head of security came over and said, 'I don't really care. Sit where you are supposed to sit.'
"We ended up leaving, which was stupid because we got tunnel passes for after the game and meet all the players. But she was too embarrased to sit in row W for the second half.
"She says that Chris feels she disrespected his home by inviting over someone he didn't know. But everyone in Orlando loves Dwight Howard."
Luke: "How are you holding up?"
Amelia: "I feel like all my days are running together. She expects me to stay awake while she does and she's up all hours. The last six days, she's gotten three hours of sleep total. She wants me to not sleep and to get up and drive back to Fort Lauderdale and then party with her."
11:47 a.m. Mary calls back. "Luke, so much more to tell you but we were with my mom.
"I was also nominated for Best Sex Comedy. I called up Legend to see if I could get some congratulations on my nominations and they were too busy to talk to me. It took me two days to get a mazal tov out of Jack [one of the two owners].
"Amelia and I partied with Dwight Howard in Orlando. It was called, 'Nomination, Domination, Celebration.'"
Amelia: "Mary has been taking lots of laxatives. We were in these hillbilly bars in Tennessee and she'd have to ----.
"This guy said to Mary, 'We don't think you're cute.' All of a sudden, she went from normal to psychopath. She took all this food and drink and threw this coffee table.
"She picks up a frying pan and chases this guy with it. She picks up a guitar and swings it. 'Who's that motherf----- who says I wasn't cute?' She smashes it into the wall and shatters the guitar.
"They wanted $1,000 for the guitar. Mary starts crying. 'You can have all my money," she says. She only had $400.
"She wrote up a contract that she'd pay the money.
"The cops show up. Mary talks and talks and talks, making all these false accusations.
"We got back to the hotel. Mary didn't sleep the rest of the week.
"She told Chris that she had a surprise for him. She put on this jungle outfit. He has a stripper pole room in his house. She goes out to find Chris. There's a full party out there. They go, 'Chris had to go to a baby shower.' She was in an outfit for no reason like a retard.
"Mary and I were drinking all day. We were in the hot tub. Mary didn't think she was on her period but she was bleeding everywhere. Mary wouldn't wear a tampon."
Mary defecates in the hot tub.
Amelia: "These guys found Mary's clothes and there was ---- all over them."
Mary: "Joey Fatone [of N'Sync] came to the party. I told him, 'You f---ed two of my friends [Kendra Jade and Jessica Jaymes].'
"Later, someone said to me, 'Aren't you friends with Chyna?' Yeah. 'Make that three.'
"Kendra and Jessica are fine but Chyna's scary.
"When Dwight [Howard] showed up, I didn't know what to do because
I thought he was a very good Christian.
"When we went in the bathroom, he wasn't acting Christian-like. I
was like, 'I thought you were really religious.' He started laughing and
pulled his pants down. I was like, 'I can't do this here. I'm with Chris
[Kirkpatrick] here.'
"He's like, 'My dad's at my house.'
"I talked to Tawny [Roberts]. The baby's coming out in two weeks. She's had no complications.
"I've been forwarding a lot of my pictures to Harold. My Dwight pictures. He used to make fun of me. 'You've only hooked up with loser players.'"
"I feel like Legend is trying to trick me into an extra boy-girl scene."
Luke: "Are you promiscuous?"
Mary: "No. Never. I'm a good girl."
"AMELIA! We're going to Kevin Federline's."
Eli Cross Wants A Crowbar For Christmas
Dude, why don't you and Albo just get a couple of crowbars and beat Luke to death and get it over with?
Then you can remember you've got a smokin' hot girlfriend, and you're one of the evil rich who's taking advantage of Bush's tax cuts. Oh yeah, then you'll go hunt down everyone who voted Republican....ever.
When Kylie asks what you need for Christmas, tell her "a life."
Eli Cross responds:
Well, actually, "I-Only-Joined-MySpace-to-Reply-to-This-Post" Joe, I think EVERYONE who votes is a total sap, and if Luke wants to appear on my doorstep and hold still for a few minutes, I'd be glad to oblige him.
Now, when Kylie asks me what I want for Christmas, I can say, "A crowbar."
Joanna Angel's Mom
Joanna’s Mom: When she was in college, Joanna was out of control. I first realized how bad it was when I was in her apartment during Passover and I saw all these pictures and they made me sick. I’m not sure why she is so proud of what she is doing. She was profiled by The New York Times and she was so proud of it. I don’t know why.
...Once is enough to make you slide down to the bottom. She kept on doing it because she told us that she was making a lot of money. She was out of control at this point. And all the psychologists and therapists that we invested in were helpless. I tried everything. All those people with their degrees are garbage. They couldn’t do anything. It just got worse and worse and no one could help.
A reader to Jewcy.com posts: "Give me a break, puh-leeze! The Jewish Girl who can take 5 cocks up her ass at once...what a talent!!! All the "hip" Jewish rags are astounded with Ms. Angel's skillz...aren't there other Jewish women, you could be profiling, who are doing worthwhile things or does the art of a rim job top any achievements Jewish women have ever obtained. Thanks for keeping us down!"
Joanna Angel: [Laughs] I was doing tashlich on Yom Kippur and I raised my hand to throw bread into the water. And she was like, Oh my God. What is that? I was going to tell her but I didn’t want her to be upset.
Joanna Angel: I don’t like pissing off my mom. I used to like it when I was little. And the only time I really thought that if my mom could see me, she would cry—and this is going to sound really fucked up—is when I did my first porno with a black guy. I was thinking, this right here is my mother’s worst nightmare. This is not what a nice Jewish mom wants her daughter to do.
Stormy & Eva Pajama Party Pix
MoronBoy posts on XPT: "Monstar (or whoever took these pics), thank you for not making these girls look like drug-addled, $10 per hour, scuzzy, nasty, bottom-of-the-barrel prostitutes like a certain other person who takes pictures at these big porn get-togethers(hint: his name rhymes with Puke Gourd)."
Holly Randall posts at 1 a.m. Thursday on XPT:
I just got home, and I have to say that I actually had a really great time, even though I had to bribe the valet guy to park my car because they were full to capacity. Since I was late I closed up the red carpet by being the very last person on it, but from what I say this was actually a bevy of hotties, unlike some photos from a party that we all saw very recently.
I joined Monstar to watch Sunny Lane do an AWESOME burlesque dance, I know he got some pics of it. And also Monstar thank you SO much for rescuing me from that guy who was blathering and spitting all over me, and who was also very much in danger of dumping his scotch all over my front. I am saddened to say that I only caught a fleeting glimpse of Jenna Presely's dance when I walked by, but it looked pretty damn hot. I of course would expect nothing less from her.
Tod Hunter and I decided that we are going to have a contest to see who can name the most amount of male performers by their penis alone. I fear he has quite an edge on me, so I plan to brush up on my research. I want to WIN, dammit!
I introduced Gia Jordan and Casey Parker (actually Casey pretty much introduced herself) and I noticed they were getting along quite well. Please tell me you took her home Gia, I'd be tickled pink. (No pun intended, haha)
I took pics but I can only download them at the office, and since I'm in the studio tommorrow I can't post them until Friday. But Gia and Monstar, I know you took lots... got any to share?
Fisting Scenes In Corruption Worry Buyers?
Some buyers are returning the movie because they don't want to be prosecuted for peddling obscenity.
Publicist Jeff Mullen replies to my inquiry:
Hello Luke, I spoke with Bo Kenney of Sex Z Pictures this morning regarding your comment on alleged Corruption DVD returns. We’re not quite sure where that is coming from as ironically the exact opposite is happening. With the more ‘family friendly’ version of Corruption set for a store release the week after Thanksgiving, orders from a number of large distributors who did not wish to re-order or even pick up the current version of the title due to swirling controversy have now placed large orders for Corruption.
The box has been redesigned to reflect reviewer’s comments and clearly show that it is an altered version of the movie. Bo Kenney feels very strongly that the public should be allowed to see the director’s original vision but is offering this newer version to eliminate any questions about purchasing this combustible lighting rod of a movie. Corruption is but a mirror on contemporary society and politics in general and is offering what mainstream Hollywood has been offering for years.
Any time a movie as powerful as Corruption is released, it creates many degrees of shockwaves which permeate through numerous layers of society generating both positive and negative responses.
Den from CAVR.com emails:
Luke, Eli Cross sent me an email and a portion talks about fisting in the movie Corruption. It is a pretty interesting point he make. He gave me permission to attach it to my review.
As for the fisting, I remember Tampa Tushy Fest well, and I wrote AVN's on the set of The Fist, The Whole Fist, etc. I'm not familiar with your tape, but the thing you're forgetting about the two shows you've mentioned is that they are both gonzo. In order to be found obscene, a video must have no redeeming social importance, i.e. it must be artless.
Whether you like the story or no, the amount of obvious work that went into the story and feature parts of the movie would make it a very difficult prosecution.
SexZ's lawyer from Paul Cambria's office viewed the movie and felt it was very unlikely to be targeted for prosecution, and was eminently defensible if it were for precisely those reasons. However, for the very few retailers who do not want the version with the fisting and gunplay, we are making a slightly toned-down normal XXX cut available. Apart from DVD Empire and Movie Gallery, there isn't much interest.
Sandra buries her whole hand into Kylie’s snatch and goes to town. It continues into anal and eventually DP fisting. Ariana also spends some time fisting herself. This stuff is as lost on me as the piss action. I don’t find it erotic, entertaining or even all that impressive. It certainly doesn’t add much to the movie because the orgy is still going all around them. It might be different if the fisting were an event of some sorts, a punishment perhaps or something resembling a crescendo to this sexual symphony. That isn’t the case though. It’s just another series of images in a very long orgy scene. To be honest, I think I am as bored by this as the Senator looks sitting in the corner. The fisting feels very much like something they threw in just to throw it in. Perhaps it was to add controversy to the project, perhaps it was to set off red flags with those who come after these things, but what it does is bring the whole party to a screeching halt faster than finding a turd in the punchbowl.
Seymore Butts was prosecuted for obscenity by the City of Los Angeles in 2001 and got away with pleading a misdemeanor.
Stevie Why emails:
Perhaps Eli Cross should talk to a few more lawyers first before making broad generalizations about obscenity law; just because a film isn't "gonzo" doesn't automatically disqualify it from an obscenity prosecution or investigation, especially at a local level. While it certainly wouldn't be considered under federal obscenity laws, there continues to be many crazy local obscenity statutes on the books. IF (and that's a big if) some local prosecutor gets a bug up their butt to file such charges, they will likely not be directed towards Eli or Sex-Z Pictures, but rather the business or local store selling and distributing such title. Even if a film is not obscene in the legal sense, that won't stop a holier than thou prosecutor (who generally have little knowledge of the application of the law).
Furthermore Paul Cambria's own "Cambria List," though now a few years old, specifically warns against fisting and multiple penetration scenes and their use especially in box covers and footage...you'd think his office would have given a sterner warning.
If anything, a porn feature film about a "powerful," "deceiving," "murderous," "greedy," "perverse" up and coming Republican senator (words used in the promotion of the film, not mine, and my understanding is Cross does play the said Senator Helms himself) from the "disgusting liberal bastion of the People's Republic of California" no less, who turns to murder might not rub people in conservative circles, in the fluffiest way. Though the film was released weeks ago, the political and social landscape has changed drastically since November 7th. While the rumored continued DOJ obscenity investigations might just be slowed due to the political tsunami in Washington, there remains many conservative activists and politicians at the local level vengeful and looking for blood. Where better in a porn film that ridicules their existence and leaders (with allusions to people like Mark "Hole"y, Ted "Fag"gard, Randy "Puke" Cunningham)? I imagine any obscenity prosecution would be motivated over the portrayal of Republicans and story; the fisting and violence would be a lesser motivation in my opinion. Personally I'm incredibly surprised the film hasn't received much more media attention at the national level; and you know what type of attention pornographers get when they're in the national headlines.
Or then again, Cross can claim this his work is just a ridiculous, hardcore work of impossible fiction: I doubt California will be turning to a Republican Senator anytime in the next millennia.
I email AVN's legal affairs correspondent Mark Kernes: "Do you think those fisting scenes are likely to trigger an obscenity corruption? Do you think buyers will think twice before stocking this movie?"
He replies:
As someone has already pointed out, the storyline and production values of “Corruption” should preclude any obscenity charges based on the fisting. Fisting in and of itself is not a basis for an obscenity charge, although in the Los Angeles area, due to an agreement worked out in, I believe, the early ‘90s, movies with fisting were not supposed to be sold. But after the city’s failure to go to trial on Seymore Butts’ “Tampa Tushy Fest,” and its settlement for a “donation” to a “victims’ restitution fund,” that local prohibition should probably be assumed to be dead. In fact, the city tacitly agreed that fisting, in and of itself, is not prosecutable when it agreed that Butts could continue to sell the tape/disk as long as he also made available a version with the fisting removed. Of course, I’m not a lawyer, but I wouldn’t think that a retailer should have any more problem with “Corruption” than he/she would with any other hardcore storyline disk.
American Bi - Boys and Girls Blowing Boys
Starring: Tory Lane, Roxy Jezel, Isabel Ice, Shy Love, Venus, Jason Crew, Park Wiley, Mark Slade, Jean Val Jean, Scott Wilde, Riley Morgan, Adam Gabriel, Josh Carter
Is porn girls blowing gay porn guys scandalous (considering that half of the male performers in homosexual porn have HIV)? Does sucking cock with homos soil the soul?
Would you let one of those girls blow you after that? How long of a cooling off period would you need? Twenty four hours seems to be the consensus on the Chatsworth street.
"See how adult film star Shy Love screws over everybody in Jamaica."
Let's Stay Positive About Jewel DeNyle's Mom Going Anal
De'Bella posts on ADT: "I JUST STARTED DOING ANAL AND DP'S ABOUT A MONTH AGO, I ENJOY THE SCENES AND WILL CONTINUE TO PERFORM AS LONG AS DIRECTORS HIRE ME FOR ANAL AND DP SCENES. KIND REGARDS, DE'BELLA"
It's sad when children won't accept and respect their parent's decision to do anal and double penetration on camera.
I wish people weren't so judgmental.
DeBella posts on ADT: "I have been asked to be on the Jerry Springer Show, What do you think? I'm going to be on The Howard Stern Show Nov. 29th. I am only thinking about going on. But only as De'Bella, not Jewel's Mom. If they would bring it up i will change the subject. This is about me not Jewel. I love her and would never say anything to disrespect her."
Bono writes: "To be perfectly honest I wish you wouldn't do it. I've seen that show a few times and it truly is a big circus and it only gets worse depending on the topic. The audience I think is not there for a frank discussion on what ever "issue" Jerry has on tap, no it's to watch grown people do very foolish things so they can laugh. I'm all for you being proud and happy with what you're doing now but I don't think the Jerry Springer show is the place you want to go and promote that, that is if you want a truly honest discussion rather than the 3-Ring circus that show is. I make no judgements beyond that, I'd just hate for you to go on there in good faith and then get totally screwed over by him and the crowd."
Pauloh writes: "Go for it. People are too hard on Jerry, it's not his fault that some of his guests behave badly. You can buck that trend. By comporting yourself with dignity, this would be a great chance for you to broaden your exposure and build your fanbase. You have to grab such opportunities when they come along."
I won't go on either. But Springer that takes the cake I wouldn't go on there ever they even offered me a huge amount of money and I still wouldn't lower myself to such classless realm of people. As I feel I've tried to make a difference for women in this business not to make a joke of them. But I wouldn't expect anything else from my white trash mother.
How pathetic could someone be to even have to ask if they should go on Springer. I mean how desperate are you?
I really don't care what any of you have to say about this as it's not your mother and if it were then how in the hell would you feel??? You've not been in my shoes and don't know the half of what my parents have put me through so don't comment on things you know nothing about. I have every right to be disgusted with this situation and no mother in hell has the right to discuss her porn life with their daughter it's just gross and crude. She's done things to get attention that are out of line and I won't have any part of it. She's hurt me deeply and my whole life my parents have only thought of themselves no matter what I've done for them.
I don't care if my mom wants to promote her career but every time she's done a promotion it's involved me. I have a problem with that, as she should be a mother to me and leave her career out of our relationship. She's crossed the line and for that it's unforgivable. And Ramsey my dear you've never liked me and whatever it is I do you do the opposite and your comments make me laugh now as you've become the hateful vindictive one. Enjoy my mothers work so be it but don't smear my career and all I've stood for as a hard working woman into a circus act of a desperate mother trying desperately to get attention. I'll have no part of it.
De'Bella posts:
As for my daughter I just love her so much, she does not realize what this is doing to me. The only thing she reads about me is on these threads, I do not mention her name to promote myself, I can not help that people who write articles know who I am and they write about it. I refrain from mentioning her at all, even though I am so proud to say that she is my daughter. I have all respect for her and what she has accomplished. Someday things might be like they use to be. I will never say anything to disrespect my daughter. I love her with all my heart.
I have not spoke anything wrong, I do not bring up the topic of my daughter, others do and I respond. I have that right. I am my own person and I am a grown woman and make my own decisions. Would you let your children choose your lifestyle when you have already raised them? I would speak with her in private if she would be willing. But she is not, so how do you talk without personal communication? I know that she reads these threads and that's the only way i can say to her how I feel.
Stormy Daniels posts:
I have to agree with Jewel 100% on this one. (Although the personal stuff with her mother is none of my business and I have no comment on it.) NOTHING good can come from doing Springer (or any similar show). It is terrible not only for the performer on the show, but it is detrimental to all the women in our business and therefore a very irresponsible thing to do. I feel that to do a show or publicity stunt like this (or acting like a moron while running for governor) is a very selfish act. These people eat it up...and not because they like you. They do it to make fun of adult actresses and portray us all in a bad light. It is the producers sole agenda to get ratings by creating controversy. People who watch shows like Springer are not interested in hearing how intelligent, talented, or business savvy we are. They want to hear about our substance abuse problems, abusive childhoods, and what whores we are. One negative clip on television can undo so much hard work that ladies such as Jewel and myself (and many others) have done.
Here's a little more on the special O release. It will be pacakaged in leather-like box trimmed with studs and closed with a ring. Inside, there will be an accordian-pleat "file" containing the the actual 160 minute feature (and the hard trailer for it) plus a second disk with a custom-shot BTS almost as long, following the development of the project from first costume fittings on through the entire production. There are also separate interviews with Carmen and Ernest, an extended photo gallery, a special set of images from my Anal Kinksters series and two bonus scenes. That ought to keep everybody happily busy through many hours of viewing pleasure. I'm not sure how many of the collectors' packages they're going to do, so I would order early if I wanted to own one.
As I understand it, the whole first duplicating run of O will be in the collector packaging, so it should go out to wholesale buyers as well as to the adameve.com Web site and to their catalogue dept. However, I'm not entirely sure about this, so if you're absolutely determined to get your hands on the limited edition, I'd go with the company site. And thanks for the congrats on Cinekink. It's quite an honor and one of the rare times I've seen Ernest get really excited by an event. He's never seen one of his pictures on a big screen in an actual theater, and the Cinekink audience is particularly important to him, as the validation of fellow kinksters means a lot from his POV. The showing is scheduled for ten p.m. October 21.
On cable maybe. But it's still way too hard to play in arthouses and I can't imagine being able to cut it back even to an R rating. I know Ernest wasn't thinking about that when he shot it. Carmen is naked with clearly visible, strategically placed whip marks throughout most of the movie. And the hardcore, which is plenty hard, makes up a huge percentage of the running time. The Rocky Horror Show it isn't.
Just thought you all might want to know that O - The Power of Submission got a terrific, multi-page write-up in the current issue of the U.K.'s market-leading fetish/BDSM/kink slick magazine Skin Two. The article, which goes into the long and complex history of the novel, is a terrific read and there are lots of great pix from the show. Give it a look if you happen to be near a newsstand or bookstore that carries Skin Two, especially if you're unfamiliar with this first-rate pub that sets the pace for serious-minded kink-world coverage.
You can't read the whole piece on their site, but you can order the magazine from them directly at www.skintwo.com.
>>>>I thought many things about the film were great, but i expected to see a more graphic piercing scene at the end and was a little dissapointed. That would have made for a very convincing conclusion. Was Ms Luvana approached with the idea of doing one?
Actually, no. She might have gone for it, but we felt we would lose more of the audience than we would gain. She also had to shoot her key sex scene on a subsequent day, which would have been out of the question with a fresh piercing. Having shot actual piercings on a couple of occasions, it's been our experience that, to be done safely and correctly, they require a good bit of careful preparation and aren't all that dramatic to watch in real life. We felt it was more important to preserve the drama of the story than to stop the action dead for a long stretch of fussing with needles, Pennington forceps and clamps.
Well, as many of you know, we got pretty well shut out of the AVN noms. Just one hard-earned nod for Tommy Gunn's poignant work as Best Supporting Actor and a couple of bones for Adam&Eve's spirited marketing. But as for the picture itself, evidently the folks over there just didn't take to it. We'll never know why, although I'm sure they'll eventualy run a review in the magazine that may reveal some clues. What remains true is that O - The Power of Submission is a terrific, hot, enjoyable picture. It got three reviews here - two five-stars and one four-and-a-half, picked off a tough prize at Cinekink and got raves from Gram Ponante on three separate sites. Hustler rates it 100% erect on The Petermeter. Can't ask for much more than that. I still love it and I still think most of you will too if you give it a look. In the meantime, I hurt not only for my husband, but for Carmen, who started this thread, who worked her pretty butt off in the part and who deserved to be recognized for pushing against the limits of what a "porn star" is suppoed to be all about. We love you sweetie and we're pulling for you in the categories for which you were righeously nominated. Personally, I look forward to working with you again on any future project.
My instructional series, while backed by the undeniably mainstream Adam&Eve, has never received much notice from industry "opinon makers" and still managed to sell close to 600,000 units. Likewise, Ernest's BDSM pictures get an occasional specialty award from the folks at AVN, but they've been little advertised and their rather astonishing sales are almost all a result of favorable comments from within the community. Of course, one difference between our approach and yours is that we stil depend on conventional producers to fund and distribute our work. Neither of us has much inclination to build a whole production company from the ground up and, unfortunately, existing producers tend to look at things like AVN nominations when they decide what projects to back. It's much easier shopping new deals when you can simply wave your list of noms in the air and not depend on busy company execs to sit down and actually watch what you've made. Ernest and I remain convinced of the quality of O and hang onto our hopes that it will find an audience among independent viewers who look at a variety of sources before making buying decisions instead of rushing out to grab the latest artificially hyped title anointed by the gods of AVN this week. And one very, very good feature of working with Adam&Eve is their exteremely strong retail marketing operation, where O is already doing some pretty impressive numbers. Unlike wholesale, which tends to peak and fall off pretty quickly (with notable exceptions like Fashionistas or Pirates), retail stays out there for new audiences to discover. If there's one thing the two of us have learned from over twenty years in this medium, it's the virtue of patience.
The Pornography of Poverty
I just watched the second dvd in a series from the Japanese AV company Natural High (part of the Soft on Demand group)called "Naked Continent". I find the series innovative, exciting and quite shocking all at the same time. The first movie in the series is reviewed here. It involved a Japanese adult actress flying into the middle of Africa (Ethiopia, from memory) to visit a remote village and f--- one of the local tribesman. Now, the first movie was clearly not what it made itself out to be - the so-called tribesman was clearly not a local, and was most probably a tout or doorman from Roppongi or Kubuki-cho in Tokyo. The second movie was a bit more genuine. A Japanese AV star was flown to Papua New Guinea to travel up the Kokoda Trail and screw a local fuzzy-wuzzy angel. The bulk of the sex scenes, like the first film, involve the JAV star having sex with her film crew and the interpreter (who, although dark-skinned, appears to be an American who has spent a lot of time in Japan). In between the sex scenes the girl visits a family in a remote village. She witnesses various traditional dances and weaponry demonstrations, joins in a big hungi feast, and takes her top off to blend in with the locals. Now the good part starts. The JAV actress has sex with a genuine local amateur. He is a local tour guide (and even shows his tour guide licence and driver's licence to the camera). He is very nervous and has difficulty maintaining an erection, particularly whenever they put a condom on him. His scene is mostly endless repeats of the girl sucking him until he is hard, putting a condom on him, him then almost immediately going flaccid, taking the condom off, sucking him until he is hard, condom on ... etc. He finally comes all over himself in a poorly timed cumshot. As a pure sex scene it sucked - but as a genuine pro-am scene in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, it was FANTASTIC. There should be more of it!!! The JAV actress also spoke a lot of English in the movie, even during the sex scenes - which is very rare in JAV. I do wonder to myself, however, whether such a film amounts to what Bob Geldoff would call the "pornography of poverty". Rich Japanese people getting their kicks at the expense of poor villagers in remote locations.
If you ever thought porn was a freak show ... here's the evidence!. As far as I can tell, only Sasha Grey escapes unscathed ... though I haven't looked at them all yet. Sweet Jesus! Why does anyone go to these things knowing the Digi-Cam of Dorian Grey lurks in the shadows? Aiyeeeee! Extreme Makeover: Luke Edition ... I'm meltiiiiiiing!
I'm not sure if Luke's camera reveals the truth or if his camera reflects his own warped soul instead ... But I can't say anyone who poses for him has their best interests in mind. It sort of shows you the funhouse distortion of porno's offset afterlife ... How people who f--- for a living can appear to be so utterly unf---able is amazing. Sheer genius.
Harri Patel posts: "Which Woody Allen movie was it that had all the grotesque extras in the background of so many of the scenes? Stardust Memories ? Those photos really remind me of that."
Open Your Own Video Store To Get Into Porn Shows
Bill, a moderator on ADT, writes:
Back when I used to go to the East Coast Video Show, it was an "industry only" event with no fan hours. So I "opened" my own video store and registered by mail. They mailed everything to me and all that I needed to pick up my badge was my driver's license. A few years later, when someone who worked at a local video store convinced me, last minute to go down, registration was a little more difficult, but since we had planned ahead, it wasn't a problem. For on-site registration, they wanted a business card. The store that he worked at had some generic (no name on them) business cards, which we had brought with us for such a request. Had the ECVS had "fan hours", I probably never would have "opened" a store. But, since it was the easiest way to get in, that's what I did.
The ECVS went downhill every year that I went there. The first year, it was held at the Trump Taj Mahal. It was great. Girls were flashing all over the place and everybody hung out at the bar in the Taj. The following year, they moved the show to the old Convention Center. All the flashing disappeared, but at least people were still hanging at the bar in the Taj. After that, people realized that staying at the Taj Mahal wasn't really any more convenient than staying at other hotels and the partying spread out. Around then, I started going down as a day trip. Then they moved it to the new convention center which is nowhere near the Boardwalk. The first one there sucked. It was the last time that I went. Subsequently, they moved the show to Baltimore.
Last year, I had a head cold just before I went to AEE. I was pounding Sudafed to in attempt to unclog my sinuses. The combination of the dry air and Sudafed made my mouth so dry on the convention floor, that the moment I finished drinking a bottle of water my tongue felt like sandpaper on the roof of my mouth. It was a little better at the Circle Bar, where I avoided that problem by never having an empty glass or bottle in my hand.
Kami Andrews posts:
I'm not around people much and I get super sick every year in vegas. buy like 3 tubes of airborne and the strongest bottle of vitamin c you can find take the airborne 4 times a day, and take like 2000mg vitamin c every morning, wash your hands as much as possible and don't touch your face. The air conditioning will dry you out, bring chap stick. and also like Jewel said, don't sweat on the girls.
Tricia Devereaux posts: "I bring a humidifier with me for my room, cause I tend to get bloody noses overnight by the last night. Last year, I didn't... so I went to Target to buy one. Best $25 spent all week."
JennaRulez2006 posts:
I had a blast my first time this past January. Although I never got to meet my Fav Jenna Jameson, I screwd that up. I didn't know how long the line up would be for Club Jenna, how long I would have had to wait in line and so I figured seen as i was going for two days, Sat and Sun, I would meet as many as i could on Sat and then just line up in the beginning on Sun to meet Jenna. She was not scheduled for Sun. But I met over 70 girls. Will make it a point to meet Jenna first thing this coming January...oh ya I am going again. But man the girls are mostly great. Given the fact they have been signing, taking pics for hours on end, they still are so down to earth, talkative and personable. I really enjoyed meeting fellow Canadians who are performers like the girls of Doghouse Digital, Lanny Barbie and Jesse Capelli. Ashton Moore was very down to earth, in fact her and I were talking about her last visit to Toronto to dance. Taylor Wane was a riot, talking to me about where she loves to go to eat when she has been to town, and Jenna Haze was fun and also just sweet. Asking her if she will come up here to dance and she says "Only if you promise not to throw Toonies and Loonies at me" which is what we call our $2 coin-Toonie, and $1 coin-Loonie. Right then and there she was my favourite meeting. Nicole Sheridan was like talking to someone you have known for years. Great sense of humour and oh so hot in person. As for meeting the stars you may never have heard of, just be yourself to them and talk to all the girls as regular people as they are just that. After about the 5th girl I met, the nervousness was not there, mind you I am not someone who gets nervous much meeting stars of any sort. They are just regular people to me. Oh and if you are going solo like I have and will, people will take the pictures for you. I ask the guy in front or behind me and they do it, you will be asked many times as well. Some security personell at some booths will, some won't. Alexis Amore's security did, he was a riot. I do hope to meet up with some ADT members, I am booked already at the Imperial Palace for Thu-Sun 11th-14th. Will get there late Thu. Will got to the AEE Fri and Sat.
Director Eli Cross Objects To Luke
I object to his abject lack of talent; his bland, uninteresting prose, his artless photography, his patently absurd -- and now abandoned -- claims to some form of journalistic integrity. I object to his arrogant and ridiculous posturing as the sole occupant of some moral high-ground. I object to his constant whining and public wallowing in manufactured self-pity to engender the false support of others. But most of all I object to his self-appointment as arbiter of the ethical constraints under which he feels the adult industry should be forced to exist. I object to the laughable charade of this self-hating Jew who externalizes his self-loathing as scorn, derision and disapproval of the entire adult industry, all the while making his living from it.
AVN's Mark Kernes posts:
Not enough people take the time to call out this asshole for what he really is: A gossipmonger who, while indulging his pseudo-religious beliefs, gets some perverse thrill from attending industry events, hanging out with industry people and even interviewing them, then going home and posting s--- about them as if he's never heard of the concept that "nobody's perfect." It's perverse enough that he claims to be religious while frequently leveling insults at people who he deems to be insufficiently "saved" -- good thing he's "jewish" rather than "christian," so "cast the first stone" doesn't apply -- but he's also a poon hound who has no trouble putting the moves on various industry women (and apparently occasionally scoring) while spending pages and pages putting down their profession, their friends, their employers, etc., as if it makes no difference ... as long as he gets what HE's after! However, what's most saddening is that as many times as he's admitted that he hates porn, some people who should know better refuse to believe that he means it.
Is religion incompatible with the adult industry?
I'm pretty new to the industry and was cruising through some threads and got to looking at this battle with this Donny guy. There was a lot of hostility there. I'm just wondering if this is "We hate them because they hate us" thing? Or is it maybe like the way that atheists tend to be religious people who are angry at god so deny his existence. Are there a lot of porn industry people who were raised religious and get sensitive because deep down they feel that they are doing something wrong no matter how they try to deny it? I just saw a lot of anger like someone poked a sensitive spot.
Conky Loves Luke
I love Luke. I love the fact that here's a guy who claims to have noooooo agenda whatsoever, yet fills his site with the least positive aspects of an industry which was never that nice to begin with. He relies on unsubstantiated gossip and innuendo, rarely gets round to apologizing and earns his crust from the business he slams. Truly, a parasite among parasites, but at least he's honest about it. True, I'd prefer things if he got back on the whole gossip and news wagon; no disrespect intended to Holly, but the public jerk-fest that was this summer's LIB left me cold. And then there's the whole "more Jewish than the Torah" thing to contend with... oi vey. Basically, if it's on LIB, you can take it to the bank. The bank of Why Let The Truth Get In The Way of a Good Story. And if I'm honest, I still read him, if only to find out just which member of staff at AVN is pissed with him this week!
Kelly Wells Attacked Via Mass Email By Ex-Boyfriend
This email went out to the industry Tuesday.
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH OF THIS IS TRUE!
I would like to find out what is going on here.
It appears that an ex-boyfriend of Kelly's has determined to destroy her life and career.
Here's an excerpt of the email:
...This is not a slander email, we are just concerned about our industry...
I've removed 99% of the email (the morning of Nov. 15), that I published in full the night of Nov. 14.
Mike Albo emails: "You're familiar with the old expression about shutting the barn door after the horse has escaped, right?"
Monstar posts: "from what i hear, it's the ex-boyfriend on a smear campaign. whomever was in her phone book was caught in the crossfire."
AVN's Mike Albo emails:
Another super job of investigative reporting, Luke! Minus, of course, any real investigation and actual reportage. But way to hedge your bets by posting, "I HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH OF THIS IS TRUE!"
Just a thought--and it's a crazy one--maybe you could actually try to verify some of this stuff before throwing it up on your site. Of course, that would require a bit of effort, and between the tendonitis, the CFS, and cultivating your "sources in law enforcement," you probably have better things to do with your life.
I would like to apologize to some of the girls my ex named who should not be on the list. These girls were in my phone book because they are either friends or just industry contacts for scene purposes, just the same as having a company's phone number stored. I had my phonebook on a Word document which he got from my computer.
Holly Randall Needs Help
You want to hear something sick? I can actually tell who a guy is by his penis ALONE. I had a friend who was reviewing a flick for Cheri, and he had to pair which girl was with which guy in each scene. Even though there was a cast of performers, it didn't specify which guy was with who, and the guys' faces were never in the frame. So he would show me a scene, give me a list of the guys that were in the movie, and I would tell him which guy it was by simply looking at their penis. I was right EVERY TIME. Scary.
Tod Hunter emails:
I can relate, I have the same problem. When I was the only person reviewing blowjob vids at That magazine, I could tell who the guys were just from their dicks and they weren't even billed. "Dick Nasty again?"
Unlike Holly, this doesn't bother me, I just look at it as an adjunct to my work -- like John Barrymore being able to perform large chunks of Hamlet long after he had played the part.
If I were a fan and could tell the guys by just looking at their cocks, that would be different. Any amateur who is watching that many porn videos has a problem of some kind.
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Email Luke photo IDs.
A porn girl who comes through says she's with World Modeling.
"World Modeling is no more," yells a photographer.
"I know there's a little sale going on," says the girl.
All night I wonder about the identity of the sophisticated blonde at the end of the line wielding a video camera.
Finally I tell her I've not seen before at one of these events.
"And I hope you'll never see me again," she says.
She's with ABC's Prime Time and they're following Sophia Lynn and Sunny Lane around for a few months for a piece that will air in January.
It looks like Tommy Gunn and Rita Faltayano are separated.
Bryn aka director Eli Cross (he writes a good blog as far as porn blogs go) said that if I showed up to his Nov. 11 party, he would make a big scene and leave. That it was either him or me. That if I was allowed to come, he would not show. That if I showed, he would throw me out.
Well, I showed up, snuck around, took a few pictures, and then when Bryn arrived with his girlfriend Kylie Ireland, I hung around for a few minutes and then left. The old Luke would've taken their picture and looked forward to a confrontation but the new Luke is a peacemaker.
I didn't realize that I had unfinished business with Bryn.
I guess Bryn, like me, likes to nurse his grievances over years and let them grow monsterously huge, but keep them in check until just the right moment to let them explode.
Bryn has a huge temper and uses it to get what he wants in life.
Each of us is struggling in life. It's ridiculous to argue which one of us is more successful. We're both in the porn sewer. There are no meaningful gradations in the sewer.
Do you think that if Warner Brothers offered Bryn a $50 million movie to direct, he'd turn it down so he could concentrate on shooting porn? Of course not. If I was offered something good in mainstream, I'd hang-up my porn gossiping immediately.
Bryn and I would prefer to work in Hollywood than in porn. So what's the big deal with either of us claiming to be better than the other? We're shleppers. If we were any good, we wouldn't be working in porn.
So Bryn's made some good porn films and I've broken some good porn stories. Big deal.
Back to the party Saturday night in my pedestrian prose that Bryn detests: Porn star and AVN photographer Gia Jordan is nice to me. She gives me diet tips. Yay. One more person I can feel safe with at these events.
Oh no. Mike Albo is going to accuse me of writing like a girl. But I can't help it.
Mike emails: "No, I’m going to accuse you of writing like a 12-year-old, socially inept girl...who lacks wit and style."
I can't fight this feeling any more.
I have an intense insecurity complex because my camera (when the flash is on) will only take pictures every five seconds while the pros next to me knock off many photos (with flash) per second. I'm intimidated by their superior equipment.
Luke, I saw you taking photos tonight and you seemed hesitant on certain shots. Please don't second guess yourself. You have your own style and I love it! You're even getting better. You're the Terry Richardson of porn event photography without even trying to be Terry Richardson. And the fact that you didn't know who he was -priceless! In the words of Journey, don't stop believing. Please continue shooting, with the exception of me, of course because there are some things you never want to know like what day you'll die and if you can pass the lukeisback litmus test.
Rob writes: "Maybe it's not your photographic skills that make these "stars" look so terribly homely. Maybe these people are just terribly homely. Without a penis in their mouths most of these ladies wouldn't rate a double take if you saw them at the mall. Average at best."
Kris writes:
The only thing I dont like about your photography is the blown out highlights, its like really bad spelling and grammar - part of the visual syntax you ought to get to grips with. But then who am who am I to talk. Neither yourself gia jordan or holly are gifted photographers, but I like your attempts better. You seem to visually admit your failing, not really care about it, other than when you feel set upon and insecure, no doubt wanting to get it over and done with, maybe fearing the stress will set off a panic attack. In that there is quality, it gets at an aspect of an affected state of mind and perhaps wider humanity.
Chico Travieso emails:
Hey Luke, My phone address book got hijacked when I got a weird phone call with my own phone number on the caller ID. To make a long story short, my models have been getting random phone calls from a person claiming to be able to get them work. On a few occasions, he claimed to work for me. I do not have anyone else working for me or making claims that they represent the company. When I asked Violet Ward, who is the newest girl to the agency and brand new to the business; what the phone number was, she said 310-207-2534. I googled that phone number and Regan Senter's name came up. Another girl saved the voicemail message and on that message, 310-207-2534 and the name Beautiful Models International were mentioned. Several non-porn friends of mine have also gotten the same phone call. If anyone else in the business has gotten thses calls, they are not from me. My cell phone number appears on the caller ID on a few occasions. I do not know if Regan is behind it or not, but if he is; he is a slimeball. He doesnt have the greatest reputation to begin with. Regardless, I have spoken with Cingular and the police. They are investigating.