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6/21/05

Heeb Magazine's Hollywood Stories

Joshua Neuman, Editor and Publisher of Heeb magazine Sklar Brothers From ESPN Sklar Brothers Stephen Glass Stephen Glass JElvis, Stephen Glass Stephen Glass Lori Gottlieb Author Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb Lori Lori Gottlieb Jelvis, Sklars Jon Kesselman (writer/director of The Hebrew Hammer) Jon Kesselman Jon Kesselman Two Queer Eye Guys make a rare public appearance at a heterosexual event (Random) Author Aimee Bender Aimee Bender Aimee Bender Aimee Bender Wendy Spero (Comedy Central's Premium Blend) Wendy Spero Wendy Spero Sklars Sklars Eric Friedman

About 200 people jammed Three Clubs at 1123 North Vine Street in Hollywood.

The last time I was here was May 26. The occasion was a VCA party for DEZ'S DIRTY WEEKEND #3 starring Krystal Steal, Alaura Eden, Naudia Nyce, Sky Lopez, Tory Lane. I had brought a civilian girl. It was our first date.

June 21, Heeb gathered three times the crowd that the Dez's Dirty Weekend party mustered.

The first performer was novelist Stephen Glass, the protagonist of the movie Shattered Glass. He describes how he was warned in seventh grade Hebrew school about dating non-Jewish women. In public school, he was warned about venereal disease. In Hebrew school, shiksas.

"In Hebrew school, they took all the conspiracy theories about Jews and invoked them about Gentiles. They principally relied on the [myth] that Gentiles controlled the media...put out images of the shiksa [as the ultimate love object] and that Jews would end up dating shiksas, marrying shiksas, having non-Jewish babies, and soon there will be no Jews and Hitler's work will be finished.

"I was always wary of conspiracy theories, except for the one I would tell."

Stephen lives in Los Angeles with another novelist-lawyer -- Julie Hilden:

Julie Hilden grew up in Hawaii, went to high school in New Jersey, and now lives in Los Angeles, where she is beginning a career in screenwriting.

Julie is a graduate of Harvard College, Yale Law School and Cornell University's M.F.A. program.

Her memoir, The Bad Daughter, was published by Algonquin Books in 1998.

Julie writes a column on First Amendment law:

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Can Bloggers Invoke the Journalist's Privilege to Protect Confidential Sources Who Leak Trade Secrets?

Stephen describes his highschool relationship with Heather, a 6'0 platinum blonde who went to another school and therefore "had no idea of the depths of uncoolness she was reaching into."

Glass stuck Good Morning Vietnam tape in the VCR, returned to the couch, and suddenly she was all over him. "She did not want to steal our children and give them over to Christ. She merely wanted to embrace me. My parents liked her."

Then she went away to summer camp and afterwards she wanted nothing to do with Stephen. "She refused to process with me." Heather fell in love with a guy named Roy in "Ten Commandments class."

Lori Gottlieb was next. Never married, she's in her late 30s. "This is what I did after I broke up with my boyfriend last summer.... I decided I'd cut out the middleman and sign up a sperm bank. There was no sperm bank that was the equivalent of JDate, say JSpunk or JSperm..."

She had several coffee dates with a Harvard graduate. She wanted his sperm delivered directly to her ovum.

Lori says that "What a person does in his private life is his own business" is a Gentile attitude.

Gottlieb is a few weeks pregnant with a baby boy.

Director Jonathan Baruch Kesselman takes the stage. "To relax you should imagine your audience naked. And I've got you two people in front of me." He points to an old couple.

Porn Star Karaoke At Sardos Bar

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I arrive at 11pm. I meet Erin Moore. In the industry for two years, she's back from a two month hiatus.

Billy Tyler has been in porn for about 30-months. His regular job is teaching retarded kids at a middle-school. "I'm going to write a book about it," he says.

Duke: "I bet they gave you a lot of preparation for working with pornographers."

Billy: "Not really. Two different worlds."

Duke: "I've always thought that a lot of pornographers are handicapped, at least morally."

Billy laughs.

I interview Amber Peach, who's with Tee Reel (Red Light District contract performer and director). In porn for two years, she's done about 60 movies.

Duke: "When you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Amber: "Hugh Hefner. I wanted to own a mansion and have beautiful women running around.

"I had a girlfriend before I had a boyfriend."

Duke: "Are you more into girls or boys?"

Amber: "It's about the same."

She's from Alabama but her family wasn't religious.

Duke: "What were you expected to become?"

Amber: "As long as I went to college it was cool. I tried college. I lasted a year. I gave up. But I'm coming back."

Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"

Amber: "The freaks. I was a goth girl. I went to Catholic schools. I wasn't a great student."

Amber first had sex with a boy at age 14. She can't count the number of guys she was with before turning 18. "I never had a steady boyfriend. It was always friends with benefits."

Amber says the most shocking thing about porn is how uneducated people are. She says there are a lot of bad guys in the industry.

Amber is saving her money to buy a house back home.

Duke: "Do three anal scenes and you can buy a house in Alabama."

Amber: "I want to be a housewife."

Kimmy Lee is exhausted from her big orgy scene today. Around porn for two years, she's got about 15 movies out.

Duke: "How many black guys does it take to satisfy you?"

Kimmy: "How many did I satisfy today? Quite a few. [Director] Mark Anthony even jumped in there to see what everyone was talking about.

"I do a lot of the chubbier-girl stuff, which does sell. Until I drop the weight off."

Genesis Skye likes being choked during sex. Tonight, while posing for a picture, Genesis gets choked and she blacks out and collapses to the ground. A few seconds later, she comes to. She's ok except for some scrapes and bruises.

A couple of years ago, Stephanie Swift had big plans for her own production company. She got investors. She got a distributor -- Wicked Pictures -- where she used to be a contract girl.

Then she says her investors took over and wanted to renegotiate the distribution deal. They weren't content to let her run things. So they ran off with the master tapes. Stephanie retains the releases and can buy back the tapes for $30,000.

She's ready to move on from porn to study psychology. She's been with her boyfriend for five-and-a-half years. "We're married in the eyes of God," she says.