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Kami
Andrews' Broken Heart Over Ivan, Heidi Joy Pike's Ecstatic Reviews
For Her Friend Ivan
Kami replies 3/16/06 to Heidi
Joy Pike (who Kami accuses of ruining her 18-month relationship with
Ivan of IamIvan.com in addition to unethical journalistic practices) on
AVN.com:
Ok this is the last thing I'm saying on the matter. I swore that before
but you won and I responded, and damn it now I'm doing it again, but
after this (and yes I realize there will be a ton of after this) I'm
just going to forget it.
I have always been painfully honest. Yes, I had a speed problem. After
a year in the biz, I suddenly had a self-image problem about my weight,
ya go figure. Some girls can handle a key in the morning, I couldn't
and it got away from me. I quit last April.
I'm sure I have doee a ton of things in the last year to call out,
but I have never lied about what drugs I do. Too bad we can't all be
that honest huh?
Pointing out the painfully obvious doesn't hurt me it just confuses
people who don't know the back story.
You said every one you cared about or mattered to you knew the truth,
then why are you using AVN to tell people you don't care about?
I'm not going to check the responses. I am the only one in this thing
who is using my name.
You ruined a year and a half relationship and your pissed because I
hurt your feelings. I'm not going to sit here and call out you did this
you did this because I said before you ever posted this that I was done
with this, and dang it I am this time. I have a life outside porn and
while that may seem weird people wanting to destroy it seems weird to
me.
I wish I could live in a fantasy internet world behind an anonymous
name but that's not who I am. I do what I do. I'm honest about it and
I deal with the consequences, and most importantly I try not involve
innocent people. The fact that this is our industry magazine speaks
for itself.
Ivan at IamIvan.com responds:
Friendships are give and take. But sometimes it becomes as someone
is truly taking advantage of it whether it's on purpose or not or just
out of desperation.
Kami's friendship was taken for granted and abused. She has always
been honest and up front. With her you get what you get without other
agendas. About the messing around business. Nothing ever happened except
two friends hanging out.
But that wasn't even the main issue. It was a culmination of many things.
A year and a half relationship was severely damaged over this mess.
And a person I love and care for more then anything got hurt.
People need to let cooler heads control their emotions and leave all
this alone. I am sorry for this mess, hopefully this will be the last
we all have to deal with this.
On his website IamIvan.com, Ivan (who once advertised with Lukeisback.com)
prominently displays his positive reviews from AVN. Guess who wrote those
AVN reviews? Ivan's friend Heidi Joy Pike, the one Kami's mad at for taking
her man.
On his page for Dawn of the
Dead, Ivan publishes: "AVN Magazine (February 2006) "Spotlight
Pick" Pre-noms. Best Sex Comedy, Video Best Packaging Best Oral Scene
(Genesis Skye)".
Heidi
Joy Pike reviews Dawn of the Dead for AVN.com:
In this latest brilliant creation from horror porn maestro Ivan, Gia
Paloma, Alias and Chris Justice play leaders of the ZIPS Patrol, and
they protect the residents of Chatsworth from evil, lusty drug-addled
zombie chicks, who can only be quelled with that ultimate healing elixir
- semen.
This is funny, funny stuff, and the sex is hard and good. Zombie Genesis
Skye does an inspired, appropriately psycho-feeling blowbang. Paloma
gets violated and turned into a zombie by dyke zombie Tiffany Holiday
and then fucked by fellow officer Justice.
Pre-nom for Best Comedy, Best Packaging and the Skye blowbang for Best
Oral Scene - Video.
Retailing: Place next to Ivan's Texas Asshole Massacre and watch 'em
fly out the door.
On his page for Texas Asshole
Massacre, Ivan publishes: "AVN AWARD Nominated: Best Sex Comedy
Best Actress Video, Kami Andrews Best Supporting Actor Video, Dirty Harry
AVN Magazine (July) "July Editor's Choice" "Clever Title of the Month".
Heidi
Joy Pike reviews Ivan's Texas' Asshole Massacre for AVN:
Review: This super-cute comedy parodies the Tobe Hooper-directed horror
classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, giving it a porno twist. Here,
Kami Andrews stars in her first feature as Texas, a crazy matriarch
of a crazy family, who, via infomercial, lures porn stars to her ranch
so she can make them into chili. It's rare that a movie with fucking
this hard is this funny, and director Ivan shows great skill. It's a
fun commentary on the whole mainstreaming of porn phenomenon with the
victims/porn starlets being told that they can just say no to extracurricular
sex and become more than the anal whores that they are. "I will make
you something better, by any means necessary!" Andrews emotes.
Heh.
It's an Evolution vid, so there's a damn lot of anal, and it's all
pretty good with the highlights being Kelly Wells anal bout with Sascha
and a hilarious threeway with "five time best anal scene nominee" Gia
Paloma, begging for cock in her ass, and Andrews and Sascha not allowing
it.
Pre-nom for Best Comedy, Kami Andrews for Best Actress - Video and
Dirty Harry for Best Supporting Actor - Video, the Wells/Sascha for
Best Anal Sex Scene - Video and the Andrews/Gia Paloma/Sascha scene
for Best Threeway.
As
Heidi says on the AVN blog: "Yeah, he makes movies and I have
reviewed a couple of them. Whatever. Not a big deal in the cosmic sense
and me hanging out with people who produce porn isn't me abusing anything."
I wonder where the idea came from to make Heidi the heart-on trophy girl
for the XRCO Awards? Did she lobby for it? Why?
Ivan states clearly that he did not have sex with that woman Heidi Joy
Pike, which I believe puts an end to this discussion. Now we can all get
back to the important business of running the country. Good night and
good luck.
Ivan at IamIvan.com emails me:
Hey Luke, just saw your article and it's an interesting story. Just
wanted to clear a few things up and give you actual facts if you are
interested. E-mail with any questions.
BTW, the person Kami was talking about in this quote "The fact that
you go away with and date people whose movies you review shows how you
use your position." is not me, you can ask her yourself.
I have shot numerous movies with Heidi reviewing one (Dawn of the Head)
after we became friends and only two in total. If you think that the
review wasn't warranted compare it to others on the net to see if it
was a bias piece.
I would never do anything to harm Kami as in my eyes she an amazing
woman; smart, intelligent, and creative. She is exactly what I am looking
for in a life long commitment. I love her and care for here and would
do anything for her.
...Kami said "go away with" like leave town. That was not about me.
Ivan blogs Feb 28:
"This past weekend I hurt Kami. It was a great Saturday turned upside
down and from that point on has been an emotional roller-coaster. Some
people try to blame her but it's not her fault. She was caught off guard
reading in this public journal that I had dinner and a movie with a friend
[Heidi Joy Pike?]. I wasn't the one to share this information, she read
it here in livejournal. I didn't hide it but that wasn't the point. The
point was Kami and I share a bond of certain things meant only for us.
I disrespected that. And she responded as any person who's emotions just
have been ripped apart. She is not to blame for this and reacted in a
way many would."
I Am
Ivan.com
Growing up in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Ivan and his family
made a journey to the United States at his ripe ol' age of eight. His
High School years were spent in many art classes honing artistic skills
and winning Art Scholarship Awards.
After being accepted to Otis Parson's Design School, Ivan chose to
take another path spending the next few years collecting a Commercial
Art Diploma and Film Theory and History knowledge. It was time to move
on as he was accepted and attended a historic Photography/Film Institute.
While attending the school, Ivan amassed much experience working on
almost 60 projects from student to hollywood features, along the way
winning the Eastman Kodak Scholarship...
In August of 2003 Ivan was approached by Kevin K. and Tom Byron of
Evolution Erotica about joining their team.
Ivan's MySpace page.
Kami
Andrews Won't Quit
She emails me 3/17/06:
When all this happened I really lashed out, at Ivan and at Heidi and
all of AVN, playing the part of the tragic victim who had been wronged
by every one. And you know what I still feel like I was, but that's
not really who I am.
Ivan is the one that got hurt most. He has not only lost his relationship
with me but his relationship with AVN. He really is an amazing director,
in fact he is a genius, I really believe that. His movies are super
awesome and deserving of all the praise they get even when it's spoken
with a forked tongue. I think her reviews are tainted across the board
but I think people already know what reviews to actually read and who
to avoid. If it were a real magazine with real journalists they would
probably say if you have a personal relationship with some one you ought
to let another staffer review their stuff. I'm not saying she can't
be friends with porn people but how can she honestly be impartial?
I told Ivan when they first started being friends to ask her not to
review his or my movies. The thing I was referring to was her going
away last weekend to Vegas with another male director (who also has
a girlfriend). How can you share a room with a man for a weekend away
then have your ringing endorsement on the box. The thing is I think
that dude is a great director also. I don't think he needs her endorsement.
At the end of the day AVN is just a magazine we all read so we can
see our own pictures and see our names. It's a world we have created
to validate ourselves and glamorize what we do. It must be OK look at
the weight of this paper! And Glossy! I'm totally confortable with porn.
It has been very good to me, but I can also step back and see it for
what it is. Ivan got stuck between a jealous unbalanced (on a good day)
girlfriend and a needy editor who feels like she has something to prove,
he never had a chance.
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