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On Set With Rob Spallone, T.J. Hart

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"Why's your site all about Holly Randall now?" a jealous Rob demands.

"My Alexa ranking has dropped 900 places in the past three weeks," I say.

"That's why," says Rob. "It's become boring. It's horrible. Nobody's reading you anymore. As soon as they go on your site and see her name, they click off."

"Should I turn it into a Luke and T.J. Hart site?"

"I would," says Rob. "She's hot. Always was."

I take quick ride in Rob's new black Mercedes (S-class) to his home five minutes away. I meet his girlfriend Leah for the first time and Lisa, the wife for 25 years (though most of that time they've been separated) of Rob's brother Roy.

Lisa plays Rob's wife in his demo video for HBO.

"What kind of wife is she?" I ask.

"You don't see her," says Rob. "But you'll hear that mouth of hers."

Rob walks in the house and starts yelling at Leah and Lisa. He tells them to go to the bank and pick up his checks.

Leah says she's too busy cleaning.

"I gave you a direct command this morning," says Rob. "Don't raise your voice to me."

The other night, the three of them went bowling with Rob's two boys. Rob raised his voice to Lisa so she threw a bowling ball at him and pulled his pants down.

"I had to bowl with no pants on in a family night."

Lisa is in rehab for pill addiction (vicodin etc).

Rob yells: "Leah, come say hi to Luke."

"No," she yells back. "He's going to take a picture of me."

She finally comes out of the bedroom. We shake hands. She brings bottles of water to Rob and I. We sit in the backyard near the pool. Lisa lies out.

"You better let me have the Mercedes if you are giving me all these orders," says Leah.

"No, take the Cadillac," says Rob. "I'm buying you a Mercedes."

"How much are the tapes?" Leah asks.

"Why do you want to know?" says Rob. "Are you writing a book?"

Leah looks at me. "He's all bugged up. He's got a tape recorder. He's got cameras.

"Rob, I'll leave when you want."

"Are you showing off for Luke?" asks Rob.

"No," she says. "You are."

Rob keeps repeating himself about their need to go to Frys Electronics and to the bank.

"I'll get right on it, bossman," says Leah with a smile. "How many times are you going to repeat yourself?"

"Because I'm nervous you are going to mess this up," says Rob.

"Not everybody is retarded like you. If you were a good boss, you would've handled this before the shoot."

"Lisa," says Rob, "I'm going to shoot you.

"Didn't I graduate from anger management?"

"It didn't work," says Lisa.

"How did you guys fall in love?" I ask Leah.

"I thought he was rich," she replies.

"That's nice," says Rob.

They reminisce about their trip to Tennessee to meet Leah's parents.

"What a joy that was," says Rob. He goes into a Southern accent. "Would you like some jam with those biscuits?"

"Isn't it time you make an honest woman out of her?" I ask.

"Out of me?" says Leah.

"I'm not divorced yet," says Rob. "We had a problem with the paperwork."

"What kind of man are you?" I ask. "Rob, I want to know what your intentions are."

"Her father asked me that," says Rob.

"What are your intentions?" I repeat.

"A double wedding," says Rob. "Me, you, her and Holly. In Australia."

"Then we'll honeymoon together," I say.

"Absolutely," says Rob. "We'll switch and everything."

Leah wants to marry in Tennessee.

"Tennessee will never see me again, hon," says Rob.

"Will you move there?" I ask.

"No," says Rob. "She asked me that."

"It's a better life than pornography," I say.

"Anything's better than pornography," says Rob. "We're getting out."

"She's a nice girl, Rob," I say.

"You don't know her," he replies.

"She's been well brought," I say. "She's been very patient with you."

"They're alcoholics, these two," Rob claims. The girls disagree.

Rob yells at Lisa: "If you go anywhere but the banks and Frys, the bracelet will go off."

He turns to me. "I have them on the bracelet."

Lisa: "He's like my warden."

Rob: "Lisa has been with us three weeks yesterday."

Luke: "Is this like a trial separation?"

Rob: "No. It's a rehab. She hasn't seen Roy in ten years.

"She's a 50-year old crackhead."

Luke to Lisa: "Does it bother you the things Roy's doing in Costa Rica with other women?"

She doesn't appear bothered.

Rob: "He has other children. She's a stepmother to niggers."

Lisa: "He doesn't bother me one bit. He tells me."

Luke: "It doesn't bother you that he's making it with Costa Rican women for five dollars a pop?"

Rob: "Monkeys.

"Her boyfriend just got out of prison."

Lisa: "I like bad boys. It's exciting."

Rob: "She's a lunatic."

Leah: "I like bad boys, but I don't like what goes along with it."

Rob makes fun of her southern accent.

Leah doesn't want any pictures. She hasn't done her make-up. Rob forces her to pose.

"Thank you," I say. "Thank you. You guys look great. People get sick of just looking at Holly all the time."

"Holly's my other girl," says Rob.

"This house is nice and clean," I say. "It smells good. Rob, you've found a treasure. I hope you treat her like that."

Rob says he did it with Leah in the bathroom at Starbucks. A woman was banging on the door while Rob was banging Leah.

Spallone's psoriasis is better since he hooked up with Leah.

Rob: "Leah don't know kidding. When I tell her I'm banging other chicks, she flips out."

Rob's mad that he's been getting copies of The Los Angeles Times dropped off for free on his doorstep for the past three months.

Nobody in Rob's home reads the newspaper. In the livingroom, there's a huge TV but no books.

"You dirty bitch," Rob yells at Lisa as we drive off.

Rob rolls down the sun roof. He turns up the CD player. We listen to Frank Sinatra-type music. Rob sings along with some number about "bringing me into your life."

"I'm good to them," says Rob. "I cook for them. All they have to do is clean. As long as the house is clean, I don't yell.

"Passover must be soon. When I went to buy douches this morning, the lady in front of me had boxes of matza and eggs.

"Want me to have a Passover dinner at my house? I'll cater itfrom Art's Deli."

Rob sings, "I'm in the mood for love."

We return to the set.

"This was a nice drive," I say. "I feel closer."

"We bonded today," says Rob.

Rob's shooting seven scenes today for four movies.

T.J. Hart has done her solo masturbation. Soon she'll do Van Damage on the table outside.

I hear that staph infections are going around the business.

"Me and you don't have to worry about that," says Rob. "We don't have any staff."

"The white guy inside is getting ------ in the --- by a black girl," says Rob.

"What are you trying to express with that?"

"I'm just getting my frustrations out about things that I would like to do," Rob replies. "I'm teaching Kenny [Carolina, normally the production manager] how to shoot camera."

"Has Kenny become like a son to you?"

"More like a stepchild," says Rob.

Ron Sullivan's going to radiation every day (and has about 28 more days to go). He has one or two more chemotherapy sessions.

Ron tells Rob: "Tell [still photographer] Bill Diehl to shoot 60% of the stills he'd normally shoot. He's taking a long time..."

Rob: "He's only getting ten shots."

Ron: "Once he starts shooting he forgets that."

Rob: "We're not waiting for him today."

Ron: "I am. He's in there shooting my other girl. He needs to boom-boom and get out."

Ron talks about Antonio Benderass. "If he gets this much in his ---, and he cries..."

Rob: "---- him. He's getting ------ today. He ------ us last time.

"I called up Jim South. He yelled out, 'I have Rob on the phone. He needs someone to take it in the ---.' This kid says, 'I'll do it.'

"Three days later, they come to the shoot. Mia Smiles is to do him. Mia comes over and says, 'He's very nervous.' The kid says, 'I've never done this before.' I said, 'Have you done it in your private life?' He said no.

"How do you stand up in a room in front of people and say you'll do the scene when you've never done it before?"

Luke: "Who's the biggest idiot? Him or you for booking him again? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

"He's crying."

Rob: "I like it when they cry. It looks like a rape."

Luke: "You knew you'd have a problem. You're a drama queen. You're trying to degrade the human condition."

Rob: "These porno reporters are on the set all the time trying to make us look bad. Am I forcing that guy to take it in the ---?"

Luke: "You are facilitating his destruction."

Rob: "I don't know what facilitating means.

"I'm letting him do a girl today.

"I've got a cancer patient shooting my scene, drooling on the talent. That'll keep your dick up."

Antonio Benderass says he's a gourmet chef, but he works fulltime in the sex industry, assisting his girlfriend Cheyenne Hunter as she strips around the nation.

He's been around the sex industry for 18-months and done about ten scenes.

Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Antonio: "A cop. People tell me I have that look."

Antonio and Cheyenne drive to her feature dancing gigs to avoid airport hassles.

Delores videotapes us for Rob's HBO special.

Rob: "Luke, what do you do for a living?"

Luke: "I'm a journalist."

Rob: "For what industry are you a journalist?"

Luke: "I write about many different topics."

Rob: "Mainly?"

Luke: "The human condition."

Rob: "Nothing to do with porno?"

Luke: "Stuff about the great moral issues that confront our society."

Rob: "Who is one of your favorite characters to interview?"

Luke: "Rob Spallone."

Rob: "Why?"

Luke: "Because you're so colorful. Like a fairy."

Rob: "Sometimes you come to my sets and say, 'You're shooting ugly girls.' That's what I was hired to shoot. Today, they're not so ugly.

"I'm broke. I've got about $300. I'm driving a new Mercedes. I've got to make the payments. How do I make them? By making these movies. Do you have anything else I can do for a living? Luke, I went to second grade."

Luke: "You used to run a bakery. You used to deal drugs."

Rob reprimands me for failing to bring a gift to my friend's wedding Sunday. "At Roy's wedding," Rob says about his brother, "he gave a gram of coke to everybody who came, including my parents and grandparents. Nobody ate."

Photographer Bill Diehl gives T.J. Hart a big hug.

"Remember when you wouldn't even go near a model?" she asks him. "You've changed."

Rob used to be the same way.

"How many porn women do you think I've slept with in my ten years in the industry?" Rob asks me.

"Ten?" I say.

"Two or three," says Rob, proud of his abstinence. "How many could I have slept with? Hundreds, because I'm the boss and they want work."

Rob protests loudly that he's doing nothing wrong in producing porn.

"Why do you have to keep saying it if you believe you're doing nothing wrong?" I ask.

"Because you keep telling me I'm doing wrong," he replies. "I help more people in the porno business than I hurt."

"How do you know?" I ask. "How do you know the damage you have wreaked on individual psyches? The terror you have inflicted?"

"Luke just feels guilty for his participation, so he has to blame us," says T.J.

"Bill's not going to hell," says Rob. "Bill's one of the nicest people you can meet, as long as you don't touch his computer."

Bill says he went to Catholic seminary to study to become a priest.

I get T.J. to sit on Rob's lap after she finished her scene with Van Damage.

"I don't want Van Damage's man juice on me," Rob protests.

"Let's cut out the middle man and I'll say on your lap," says Van.

Rob: "I'm the boss. Who don't want to f--- the boss? They all want to f--- the boss because then they think they get more work.

"Am I nice to them? All of them? The fat ones? The ugly ones? The pretty ones? The diseased ones? I'm nice to all of them."

Luke: "You're a humanitarian."

Rob: "Is that my way of getting back, of trying to do something good for all the bad I do?"

Luke: "Yes."

Rob: "So I don't need a shrink. I just need to talk to myself.

"I don't think what I do is wrong because I don't force anybody to do anything."

Luke: "Drug dealers could say the same thing."

Rob: "I was a drug dealer. If I didn't sell it to 'em, they were going to get it anywhere."

Lady Armani walks outside. She hugs Rob and tells him: "I like working for you because I like crazy people.

"You're all business. It's not one of those sets where you hang out and lollygag."

Luke: "Why don't you drive?"

Lady: "I have my daughter who gets out at 11 a.m."

Armani's husband (together since highschool, eight years) is Derek Dick (married five years), a fellow porn performer. "In my household, nobody sit around and chill. Everybody got a job, even the kids. My oldest is an aspring model."

She's moving back to Miami in a week.

Rob: "In highschool, if your man f----- one of your friends..."

Armani: "I'd kill him."

Rob: "Now it's OK?"

Armani: "It's where we stand."

Rob: "You grew."

Armani: "I'm from the Bahamas. I can't go back because I wouldn't be able to get back in. I never applied for my citizenship.

"I'm 26. I had to grow up fast. Experience comes with maturity."

Rob: "When I was 15, I did things you'll never do in your lifetime. I was bad. I was in Studio 54 when I was 15 [1978]. I bought my first Corvette in 1980."

Rob (to Ron Sullivan's disgust) calls Dino Bravo and asks him if he'd do a scene late Wednesday. Dino says no. He's been doing a scene every day for a week. He wouldn't do good.

"You could not do a scene for a month and you still wouldn't be good," says Rob.

Spallone complains about the squeaky table T.J. and Van had sex on.

"There are squeaky tables in real life too," says T.J.

Delores, Ron Sullivan's wife and Rob's production manager, is shooting one-minute documentary shorts about Georgina Spelvin and Raven Touchstone for her community college class. "I've done my storyboards and I'm getting ready to do my location layouts."

Delores and Rob reminisce about the great girls they've shot. T.J. Hart is at the top along with Julie Meadows, who often brought a book to set and just sat quietly not bothering anybody. Delores says Stacy Valentine was great. Rob's experience was not good.

"She came to see me and Jim for 90-minutes about starring in The Sopornos," he says. "I thought we got along great. I bought her a watch from Barry, who's now dead. Stacy then told Russ Hampshire that she didn't want to be in it because she didn't think it was about her. Stacy lost her VCA contract soon after and Tabitha Stevens took The Sopornos starring role."

Rob boasts he can prepare for two movies in six hours and shoot them in 16-hours.

Cheyenne Hunter has done about 300 movies. She's been feature-dancing for years.

"I started dancing in Massachusetts," she says. "Someone came up and asked if I wanted to feature. I did. I explored other avenues."

She has the soundbytes down.

"I love the freedom. You can make your own schedule. I learned a lot more being on the road hands-on [as a stripper] than you can ever learn in a classroom about geography.

"The one thing I hate is the inconsistency. It's either feast or famine."

Bill Diehl yells at Lady Armani for using his computer without his permission. He raises his voice. "Don't you think you're being nervy?" he asks.

She apologizes.

"Where did you get the nerve to touch my computer and talk back to me about it? Walk away! You want to argue with me?"

She walks away.

Cheyenne and I say whoa. Is Bill yelling at us? No. We step away.

Luke: "How has it affected you to be in this industry?"

Cheyenne: "It affects you more when you first get in. You don't know what to expect. You make a lot of money quickly and there are a lot of things going on. When you're young, you've got parties, you've got work, you've got money, you've got toys... As you get older, you have to balance it out.

"The younger people coming in now are smarter. We've got computer. They're more knowledged. They realize they need to plan for the future."

Luke: "You've saved your money?"

Cheyenne: "I have. I've put some away for retirement. I've invested in some properties.

"I'm still working. I want to go for as long as I can because there are a couple of businesses I want to venture into."

Luke: "How has it affected your love life?"

Cheyenne: "That is the infamous question of every porn star and feature dancer. Everyone will tell you it does affect it. Either you can be married one time or five times. If they are not in the industry, they either feel they can convert you or you feel you can convert them. You try to work it together, but someone who has a regular job is with someone from this industry, you have nothing in common to talk about work. They can't relate to your work and you can't relate to their's. You're all over the board and they've got a foundation. They've got a structured life. It tends not to work. If you come into the industry with somebody, they have to be a strong enough person to deal with you being with different people every day. Even though it is a business, some people can't tolerate that."

Kendra Jade calls me. "I want to say something to David Aaron Clark. I am not competing with Holly for Luke's attention."

Kendra later emails me: "Jeez. The least u can do is properly quote my drunk ramblings!

"What I was trying to say is that I adore David Aaron Clarke, but I think he had the wrong idea. I'm not competing with Holly. I love her, and I totally think she'd be a great girl for you to be with. Just wanted to clarify that there's no competetion there."

Luke: "Enough about me. What's new with you?"

Kendra: "Hahaha ! Not much , still in Chicago.. Working on my grammar and punctuation so that you take me seriously and read my emails. Also , so Holly will like me."

David Clark responds:

Kendra is smarter than any three random porn starlets put together, brave as hell & refreshingly honest. I continue to think very highly of her, & therefore would never imagine her to be CHASING you, Luke. I'm just saying that you could do a lot worse than either her or Holly, & both seem to have a soft spot in their sorta porno-chick hearts for you & that full disclosure of your thoughts regarding them to the entire Internet is a dangerous game for you, indeed. Excuse me while I go pop some kettle corn & settle in to read the latest installment, no doubt entitled "Dad? I may Call You Dad, Humphrey, Right?"

Leslie writes me: "When it's sunny, always shoot them with the sun in their back or in the shade with the flash. The worst is with a low sun from the side or the sun right on top at noon over them. It reveals every little defects they have with their skin."