Dick Tracy Interview

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We talk Tuesday afternoon (6/28/05) on the set of Ariana Jollee: No Holes Barred.

We're standing outside. There's a group of porners around us who chime in at times or laugh or look askance.

Our interview turns into a performance.

I should've gone Ali G and asked Dick what he'd like to say to his large gay fan base.

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

Dick: "A baseball player."

Duke: "What did your family expect from you?"

Dick: "This. My dad said to me, 'You get so many girls over you might as well do porn.'"

Tracy lost his virginity at 14 and he says he had sex with about 200 girls by the time he was 18.

Duke: "Was it your good looks or your personality?"

Dick: "Probably."

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

Dick: "A lot of surfers, skaters. Your typical Orange County people."

Tracy graduated highschool in 1993 with a 3.8 GPA.

Duke: "What happened to your once-promising future?"

Dick: "I went to UNLV for four years and got a degree in computer science. I owned my own website company. Made half-a-million dollars a year. I got divorced (after three years) and I started doing porn."

Duke: "How does your ex-wife feel about you being a porn star?"

Dick: "She never shuts her big f---ing mouth about it. I have to talk to her. I have a child."

Duke: "Does she like your career in porn?"

Dick: "She has some of my movies."

Another guy: "She likes the money you send her every month."

Duke: When will you return to computer science?

Dick: "I've designed a couple of science but I don't plan on going back to that."

Duke: "Do you think pornography is a more promising future than computers?"

Dick: "It was for me. I'm not sitting in front of a computer screen all day long listening to people's stupid cracks. This is a lot easier for me. I like having sex and I like being paid well. [Porn] has its pitfalls."

Duke: Such as?

Dick: "STDs. You can't have a regular relationship with somebody outside of the business. Most of the time people say they can handle it, then they can't stand you packing your bag every day and going off to f--- some other girl and then coming home. They like the pay check but there's always that five minute spot when you leave. 'You're going to f--- your whore today.'

"I tried it. It didn't work. So I don't date outside the business."

Duke: "Who do you date inside the business?"

Dick: "Lots of people."

Duke: "What are the joys and sorrows of dating porn stars?"

Dick: "The joys are you have an adventurous sex life. And if the girl you're with is a decent name, that'll make you money. You'll get more work that way."

He seems defensive. "That shouldn't be the reason you're doing that.

"The downside is that you have people who are supposed to be your friend who, if they're not f---ing your girlfriend on-camera, are trying to do it off-camera.

"A lot of the women turn into the hooker mentality where it's almost like if you want to have some intimacy with your girlfriend, you have to buy them something or take them somewhere."

Duke: "How did you transition from computers to pornography?"

Dick: "Craven Morehead. I met him in Orange County when I was 14. We played in bands. After I got divorced, I went to a concert by a friend of mine's band. He was there. I was an amateur bodybuilder. I had a reputation in Orange County for being not small in the penis department. He remembered that. He said, 'Dude, you should do porno.'

"He gave me his card. I looked at his card for two weeks before I called him."

Tracy did his first porn scene in 2000. He's done close to 600 scenes since.

Duke: "What do you love and hate about working in porn?"

Dick: "I love girls like Ariana Jollee and I hate girls like Kelly Taylor [his ex-girlfriend]."

Duke: "Who's Kelly Taylor?"

Dick: "Some blonde bimbo with a bad tit job and a bad nose job."

Ariana: "Be nice."

Dick: "I love being able to set your own schedule. You can work as much or as little as you like. The money is good. I hate the gossip and rumors. I know you do your thing... When people hear a lie and automatically assume it's the truth. That sucks. You don't automatically have a chance to defend yourself. One person says something and it goes everywhere."

Duke: "How did your family react?"

Dick: "They were cool with it. The only one who wasn't, and I thought she would be, was my sister. She got mad because she and her husband rented three pornos pay-per-view in their hotel room and I was in every one of them, so they couldn't watch. She called me up all pissed off. 'You ruined everything.'"

Duke: "Which part of your work do you find the most meaningful?"

Dick: "Meaningful? I don't know. I can't really say that it's meaningful."

Steve Turbo returns triumphant from his first scene.

Trent Tesoro says that when he was a kid, he wanted to be a writer.

Dick says he probably could've become a professional baseball player. "I was the top pitcher in Orange County for four years. I had USC try to draft me into a full scholarship. I had a band that had a record deal at the time and hair down to my ass. I didn't want to cut my ass. I thought I was going to be a rock star like a dumbass. I chose that [rock] route. I got quickly f---ed over.

"I wanted the money and the glory without the work [of becoming a professional baseball player]. I threw my arm out a couple of times."