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During the course of her work with Butler, Hart supposedly fell deeply for the porn star while developing great animosity for Jerry's wife of the time Lisa Loring, whom she widely and accurately denounced as a heroin addict. "I had the good sense
not to "fall in love with" Jerry Butler," Hart wrote to me 10/98. "What
The cousin of Veronica Hart's husband Michael also scripted a few good sex vids such as 1993's Anonymous. "Give a porno Oscar to Ariel Hart, formerly Cathy Tavel, who wrote the screenplay and to Ashlyn Gere as Diane and Steve Drake as Anthony." (Bob Rimmer) Judy Blue aka Paul Thomas directed Dominoes. Rimmer says that Hart's script reflects her Catholic schooling and search for a lover. Ariel wrote the Passages series for Thomas. "Passages 1-4 included intensely personal snippets of my libido which I squashed into the scripts for all to see," says Hart. "Yes, it was Canyon's luscious lips which uttered that the times she had a cock in her mouth were the only times she really felt she knew what she was doing (Passages 1), but they were my sentiments. Canyon's detailed blow job description (Passages 3) was my patented, tried-and-true formula." (HEVG)
Hart says that when Paul Thomas asked her in 1992 to write a dramatic female-buddy vehicle for Canyon, she was not enthusiastic because she thought Christy a lousy actress. "I made the mistake of dismissing her as some big-boobed bimbette on the comeback trail... When I watched the final cut of Passages, I was floored. Canyon was the tough girl who wanted to be loved, but was afraid of being hurt. There were the deep brown eyes of someone wounded by life. There was a big-boobed version of me." (HEVG) Slight and cute with short hair and an oval face, Ariel stands 5'5". Born (1959) and raised in Brooklyn, where she still lives, Hart told Guantlet #14 that she "had a typical Catholic upbringing. I was a very awkward adolescent. And I had a lot of conflicting feelings about sex and right and wrong… I always knew that every once in a while my father went up to the Deluxe Theater, which played porn movies…" Ariel attended Catholic day school for her first eight years of formal education. She hated it. "I felt the nuns were so oppressive. Most of the time I was scared out of my wits. "I'm a lapsed Catholic. I find a lot of the dogma very hypocritical. For example, they condemn AIDS, then they'll have healing masses for people who have AIDS." Hart did most of the interviews with Jerry Butler that make up Raw Talent. "Jerry was born in Brooklyn and his mom lived not far from me. So we met one day and started doing the tapes. The book was recorded on tape and I broke it into chapters and tried to lasso him in because he talks in wild fascinating circles. His mind jumps from one thing to another; he'll start a sentence and then start another one, or fail to complete a relevant thought. In one interview with him, I said trying to interview Jerry Butler was like trying to capture a hurricane in a plastic bag." Cathy Tavel blames the book's failure to sell many copies on the few bookstores that will carry it "because of its sexual content. Book stores will carry all these fictional sexual books, like Danielle Steele, but that's not real sex, it's fabricated. I think that people get freaked out because this man is saying, I had sex with 500 women, and this is what this one smelled like and sounded like and felt like." Ariel estimates that she's written more than 100 porno films. "I've done a lot of intro to gang bangs. John T. Bone, the director, said to me, these people are great at the sex, but how do you give ten people a reason to have sex. They walk into a room…and there's a moment of awkward stupidity. So he would hire me to write two pages of intro to give these people a reason to have an orgy." Hart says her husband accepts her porn work. "He wishes society would think of what I do as legitimate. It's also awkward not being able to tell people because the crux of my writing is adult…" (Gauntlet #14)
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