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Legend During the 1990s, Legend became one of porn's leading production and distribution centers. It is owned by the secretive pair Jack Richman and Bruce Mendleson. "Jack Richmon is the most fickle man in the business," says a porner. "One day he can love you and the next day he's down your throat wanting to rip your head off." Legend exec Jeff Steward releases his own lines of urination tapes, Liquid Gold, which sells only through mailorder. "I'd love to [add pissing footage], but [Legend owners] Jack [Richman] and Bruce [Mendleson] won't let me," Steward told AVN [1/00]. "But we've done it. Before I started putting out Liquid Gold, I put it in one of hte Perverted Stories tapes [Vol. 15]. This was probably about two years ago. And I didn't tell Jack and Bruce about it. And I also had it in one of the Puritan videos and I didn't tell them about it. "But then Max Hardcore started doing it," Steward continued, "and they heard about it through our distributors, so they kind of put their foot down, saying that we couldn't do this, and I never bothered telling them that we had already done it, but for whatever reason, it was never brought to their attention. However, when Max Hardcore did it, they were screaming bloody murder. "So...I told Jim [Powers] to start shooting me pissing scenes that I was going to put out for mail order only... I'd love to be able to distribute it through [Legend]... I don't feel like we're doing anything wrong with it, and I think it's defensible, and I think there's a huge market for it." (AVN 1/00) Legend PR man Nelson Ayala writes 1/13/00: It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you look. And JM Productions' Jeff Steward was looking pretty cool as he juggled three AVN awards and a bottle of Budweiser Seer. JMS highly imaginative, but often underrated, series Perverted Stories finally got its due this year, taking home the statuettes for Best Vignette Series and Most Outrageous Sex Scene (Perverted Stories #22: The Devil Made Her Do It). AVN also honored JM's The Violation of Katie Gold with the award for Best All-Girl Feature. "1t's a good day for perverts everywhere," Jeff Steward declared. "Our filth is finally getting the recognition it deserves. That could be the first sign of the apocalypse." Speaking of the apocalypse, Kid Vegas destroyed his Competition in the extremely controversial AWN Nudes Award Category. The award, which was frowned upon by humorless production companies, was given to the Kid for his film debut, Kid Vegas: The Whoremaster. Upon winning, the Kid jumped atop the Legend table to do his Kid Vegas Victory dance, but was pulled down quickly due to the numerous death threats Legend has received on the Kid's life. Kid Vegas took these threats seriously, employing a former CIA agent as his personal bodyguard and maintaining his nine millimeter close by at all times (that's until he sold it for drug money and cab fare). Still, the Kid was always cool and courteous, often times offering me X and whores in the same polite manner you offer someone a glass of water. Kid Vegas also informed me of some exciting news at CES. Kid Vegas has started a band! Kid Society has inked a deal with Nitro Records and will kick off a worldwide tour this summer in Belgium, where Kid Vegas is bigger than David Hasselhoff. Despite industry guffaws, Kid Vegas' new film, Trenchcoat Pornographer, will indeed be presented in Imax Resolution and DTS sound. We feel the Kid's Jesus Christ-like popularity will make this endeavor a huge success. Legend Video hosted a luncheon at the Venetian Hotel on Thursday and Friday. The event, which provided an intimate refuge from the madness on the CES floor, was a big hit. The food was delicious, the bartender talented, and you couldn't ask for better company. Among some of the ladies were AVN nominee and Max Hardcore f---hole Anastasia, Chloe, Julianna Sterling, the bubbly Allison Kilgore, Sana Fey, Naughtia Childs, the lovely Zarina, and the beautiful, former Playboy Playmate, Ten Weigel. Legend Video is proud to announce Ten Weigel's return to porn after a five year absence. Teri resurfaced late last year on the set of JM Productions American Bukkake #7. Excited by the debauchery she was witnessing, Teri flashed her big celestial set of hooters at Bukkake participants and, later, treated them to a peepshow by sucking her husband's cock. When producer Jeff Steward asked her to be in the movie, Teri leapt at the privilege. American Bukkake #7 will be released on Valentine's Day. Remember - nothing says love like American Bukkake. Ten Weigel will also star in the upcoming Legend release, Visions of X. The film is directed by Jerome Tanner and written by super-talented and Super-handsome new comet Nelson X (this guy's good!). Visions of X Will be Out in March. CES was a blast this year. The AVN Awards Show was short. The crowds manageable. And, the Rialto Bar in the Venetian Hotel was pumping. Max Hardcore entertained the ladies by playing the piano with the heart and soul of Ray Charles, but minus the talent. Nonetheless, Max was soon teaching some whore how to play his skin flute. There were confrontations. Legend's own Steve V. taught some jerk respect by bouncing the guy's head off a pillar. Jeff Steward took bets when a cat fight broke out between two starlets. He awarded the winner $50. And, of course, there was drinking. We drank till we were as bloated as Matt Zane's ego. 5/16/01 Jeff Mike Busted For Obscenity At Legend - Reminds Sunlove Of Nazi Germany I heard a ton of cops went to Legend and to Jeff Mike's (aka Jeff Steward) house to bust him for pissing tapes. Steward said members of the LAPD's organized crime and vice division stopped his car a few blocks from his home - "they were waiting for me" - and armed with the search warrant, searched his vehicle, his residence and later his office at Legend Video's headquarters in Chatsworth. Police also stopped and searched a separate vehicle containing Steward's wife and the couple's 15-year-old son, Steward said. Police seized three copies each of American Bukkake 11 and Liquid Gold 5 from Steward's office, he said. Kat Sunlove, lobbyist with the Free Speech Coalition, says the type of material seized is an attractive target because it would have the least public support because of the appeal of the videos is within a specialized group, rather than within the mainstream of adult consumers. "It's very distressing," she adds. "I think it's the start of much more on both the local and federal level. I'm reminded of Nazi Germany -- I really am. It's very sad." Video companies, such as Vivid and Wicked that produce titles that are more acceptable to the mainstream public will probably not be held to the same scrutiny, she adds. "This operates in a social context, so the police can only do those things for which they perceive they have public support," Sunlove says. "They would not have public support of they started busting Veronica Hart's titles." The end result, predicts Sunlove, will be a chilling effect over the industry, with production of such titles being stopped. Luke says: The chilling parallels of an obscenity bust against a producer of urination and bukkake tapes and the murder of six million European Jews should be obvious to any loyal reader of LF.com. Given the large number of Jews in porn, it is time that we ask - is a war against porn necessarily a war against the Jews? Jeff Steward is the man behind the creation of Kid Vegas. South1226: american bukkake is hugely popular Jeff Steward told GeneRossExtreme.com: "Then they followed me over to Legend because this is where the videos are. I told them I'm cooperating so I gave them three copies each and all the model releases for those videos. That's all they wanted. I guess they're going to see if they can build some kind of a case. I was explaining to them we're business people, we don't have to be treated like f---ing criminals. I didn't commit a murder. I shipped a video. They didn't have to put me in the back of a squad car to take me home. They didn't have to embarrass me in front of my neighbors. They had 30 officers at my house. There were 20 at Legend. As I explained to them there was somebody probably being killed down the f---ing street but, instead of paying attention to that, they were at my house petting my cat and looking at my furnishings." |