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Lynne L-patin entered porn in 1974 as an 18-year old nude magazine model. She worked before the camera and in the office for the biweekly newspaper LA Star before moving to Paul Wisner's Parliament News in 1977 where she worked in magazine design and distribution. In 1979 she quit, moved to Boston, and worked her way through college stripping in clubs. In 1983 she graduated the University of Massachusetts with a degree in Management and she returned to the LA porn biz in 1989. That same year she married Bruce Walker who worked at Wisner's Parliament News/Gourmet Video. Walker began in the video business as a manager for a Westwood branch of the 20-20 chain which stocks mainstream and adult. Then he worked for Russ Hampshire. In 1998, Lynne and Bruce formed Casino Productions with executive producer Conrad Forrest. They made Tales From the South Side for Video Team and Indigo Moods for Adam & Eve. They're currently finishing up Little White Lies for VCA. Indigo stars colored performers Dee, Extacee, Obsession and Montana Wett. According to the press release: "A departure from traditional ethnic fare, Indigo Moods is a series of erotic video valentines, well paced and classy, without a "ho" or "gangsta" in sight." Walker says, "We were tired of not seeing product for people like ourselves - adutls with positive, heterosexual relationships." "I think an adult movie can be sex-affirming as well as spicy. There's no reason to sacrifice raw passion to make the movies comfortable for women to watch, but movies need to reflect a mature sexuality for couples to watch together. Women aren't happy with Hollywood feature films which reflect the tastes of adolescent boys, let alone erotica. "In my teens and twenties I was either wildly promiscuous or (frustrated and celibate...), but at least spent a few years in a sub-culture which accepted it, so it was fun instead of guilt-laden. "My porno has always been about things which are pleasurable to me,
which I've personally done hundreds of times and which were always
enjoyable for me and my partner. But I always make sure my performers
are completely comfortable with what they are doing. For example,
they all have the choice of doing anal, but not a one has ever said
"sure, fine, let's" so until I find one who does, no anal. I ask all
men, "Are you comfortable working with a condom?" There's plenty of
guys out there who are and I'll hire "Of course I love cum. What an adorable little gift! Six spurting cocks onto a receptive belly, perfectly manicured hands rubbing it up and down, onto breasts, lipsticked mouth licking an elegant finger iced in cum...Cum is wonderful, especially in slo mo! "A woman's mouth is not a place to be aggressive with one's cock, and so many women are uncomfortable with a cock near their face, let alone at the "moment." One "Max Hardcore" encounter can traumatize a woman for life re oral sex! (Can traumatize her, period.) "I'm enough of an exhibitionist to love performing and, under my current circumstances it would be the best way to have the safest casual sex possible, but I don't have the urge to be high maintenance right now and besides, the tattoos really do limit working for other people." 7/12/99 Veteran porner Bruce Walker died Sunday night of kidney failure. He's battled cancer for a year. In February, 1999, he suffered a stroke. He's survived by several children and his porn producing wife Lynne L-patin. Walker was taken to the hospital Wednesday night suffering from kidney failure. After managing a video store in Westwood in the early '80s, Walker entered porn through Russ Hampshire's VCA in 1983. During his interview, Russ asked Walker about his work background. Bruce said that he'd spent most of the previous ten years smuggling heroin from Asia. Russ immediately knew that he'd found the right stuff, porn gold, just the right person to work for VCA. Birds of a feather flock together. Hampshire's partner at the time, Walter Gernert, had a huge cocaine problem, as did most of the industry. I visited Bruce Walker at his home April 22nd, 1999. Revisiting Child Porn With Lynne L-patin, Bruce WalkerWednesday morning I stopped by the North Hollywood home of porners Lynne L-patin and Bruce Walker. After months of struggle with cancer and a stroke, Bruce appears better. He walks around the house with Lynne and I, even venturing outside. Lynne says he owes his turnaround to her nurturing and his numerous smokes of marijuana. Here's a 1974 picture of Lynne at age 18, on the cover of LA Star newspaper. Lynne on Ted Nugent's limo in 1975. From the book Sex, Drugs and Rock n'Roll. L-patin worked on the magazine Ooh. We glanced through old issues of Lynne's magazines, including Finger #8 [1975?], which was put together by, among others, Lynne, Willem de Ridder and Max Lobkowicz, hubby of Dr. Susan Block, the ethical hedonist. Finger#8 had a section entitled "Kids." Like most of the magazine, it's written by a reader. "Lance Carlson" writes: "I just had to write you a short letter in response to Phil, the man who has his little 5 yr. old daughter sucking his cock. I'm a pedophile & I think its great a man is having sex with his daughter! I'm single, but every once in a while I have sex with a willing little girl. I wish I were married & my wife approved of us having sex with my daughter! "Since I didn't get Finger #3, I didn't get to see the stories & pics of family sex. Would like to see pics of nubile girls making it with their daddy, but realize its too risky to print." Phil adds: "We have sex with our children an average of four nights a week they love it!!" Bruce asks: "Where do we draw the line?" Lynne defends the contents. "We don't know if this was true. The only truth we have is that this was published... Children are sexual creatures. We can't deny them this expression. I had sex at 14. I can't say that a 12-year old should not have sex." Lynne has kept a stack of letters (late 1975) from a pedophile. He writes: "I majored in early childhood education and child psychology in college though I only went for about a year. I may go back and finish someday. I want to work in a nursery school so much. It's just that every time I manage to wiggle into one, they get to suspecting and out I go. The last one I only lasted three days. But BOY, what I saw in three days! About 30 naked 3-5 year old girls. It was part of the aide's job to help them change in and out of their bathing suits. Just imagine peeling the bikinis of those sumptious little rumps. It's enough to make you drool just thinking about it." Later he writes, "I've never had sex with anyone over 6-7 years of age. I spent last Friday evening with a most enchanting four year old nymph..." Finger#3 features nude photos of prepubescent children, some with their legs spread by adults, as well as graphic drawings of children having sex with adults. The artist? Dan O'Bannon, a Hollywood screenwriter. Dan draws one blonde young girl, who appears about seven, sucking on a big cock. Her face is covered with cum. Another picture shows a smiling child about four years of age sitting on a man's penis, while a woman and another man fondle her. I won't post any of these pictures, concerned that they might violate the law. Lynne confirmed to me that the artist credited as the creator of several of the drawings depicting hardcore acts of pedophilia is none other than Hollywood powerhouse Dan O'Bannon. According to www.imdb.com, Dan's real name is Daniel Thomas O'Bannon and he was born 9/30/46 in St. Louis, Missouri. He wrote the following mainstream movies:
... aka Bleeders (1997) Finger#8 features an article L-patin entitled "I Really Love You Mick [Jagger]." Lynne writes: Dear Mick, I fell in love with you on November 17, 1973. I had just arranged an abortion in accordance with the ultimatum handed down by the father of the child. I felt alone, lost; I had no one from whom I could get support or assurance. And then I saw "Performance," and fell in love with...you. One week later, the last thing I saw before the anaesthetic took effect was your face - and when I woke up, you were holding my hand. I put up two posters of you, and I told my lover that when he could give me as much as you were giving, the posters would come down. And when he decided to exercise what he assumed to be his rights - I would shut my eyes and make-love to you - and when he would finish I would turn away, look at my pictures, and make love to you, when I came I would call you, and we would sleep together, as if the man who shared my bed did not exist. I leaned on you, I loved you. You were my confidant, my lover, my friend. He isolated me from the world through you. My lover was committed to a mental hospital. I was confused, frightened, but you were there and you gave me strength. When he was released, I tried to see him again. He took me up in the hills and would not let me out of the car. And the next day I bought a plane ticket and went to London. I wanted to find the essence of you. I went to places you had played, areas in which you lived... I owe you so much - my sanity, my life, I could never hope to give back what you've given me. All I can do is love you. Forever Lynne. .................................. Bruce's widow Lynne writes: "We'll send donations [for prostate cancer] to PSA c/o Ira T. Berkowitz Acctncy Corp., 20750 Ventura Blvd., #208, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 with memorial services pending cremation. Anyway, I think this completes my work for the day other than going over to the mortuary to sign paperwork. Part of my husband's legacy to me was working together to establish a business for my support and protection now and, if exploiting his death will further that aim (or prevent someone else from dying a nasty, premature, preventable death), I'm sure he won't mind too much. "[I intend to] set up a not for profit agency to, firstly, educate the adult industry community and via medium of porn, gay and straight, reach out to our customers as well, regarding prostate cancer; and, secondly, provide low or no cost PSA testing to the members of the adult industry community here in SFV, at least to the performers. "It looks like there will be four services, one for family here, one for family in Arkansas, one for friends here, one for industry I think in Las Vegas at CES. "My husband was in the prime of his very full life and died an awful, ignoble death because a test wasn't ordered, because prostate cancer was considered an old man's disease and he was only 50. And Bruce was at the early end of the baby boomer generation -- we can look forward to years more of increasing cases of prostate cancer unless we get the testing into place pronto." Lynne L-patin, Gene Ross, Dave Hardman 9/15/99 Lynne writes: This is what I requested of him [Gene Ross] today after reading his coverage of my latest adventure. Slightly more grammatical for your reading pleasure. "Please amend your coverage to note that not only have Lynne and Dave been involved in a relationship, Lynne and Dave are involved in an unfinished movie. We started shooting the end of June. If I can wrap it next week in a day and a half, it will represent a Casino Productions' investment of $19,992.00 plus a few more post-production costs. "Relationships" aside, this is the issue. I am the producer, director and production manager on this movie and had good reason to pursue Mr. Hardman further when he stopped returning my calls. "If David did this to Jim Powers or Rob Spallone, they would be extremely upset. David would be blamed. But because I have had sex with David (along with about 3,000 other women) I can be f---ed with? He can treat me, as a producer and moviemaker, differently because I am a female? "Maybe it is because I am a female that I'm not mouthing off about how I'm going to "kill" David. Cops are circling. At least the dog isn't barking. Oliver is supposed to pick up flyers from Indigo Moods and a burger & milkshake for me to help make up for what I have to charge back as a "kill fee." He came in with a wicked story from Jim Powers' set last night about David that made me feel as though David is not coping with this as happily as he thought he could. Let's see if Gene gets it." Lynne: You might want to clarify that in porn people seem to threaten each other with violence over nothing, and threaten violence very casually. Otherwise the authorities will continue to hold the position that I brought that gun intending to do violence to David rather than protect myself at night. I want to make it perfectly clear that although men in our industry often make horrid threats to one another, I have never threatened Dave Hardman. My opinion is that Dave Hardman is as iconic to modern porn as John Holmes was in his day. Dave Hardman deservedly won a "Male Performer of the Year" award a couple of years back. After spending a few hours with Dave on a slow set, I was convinced that he was a porn star for the ages; after experiencing David's talents first hand, I was ready to commit resources toward a video project which would showcase his special abilities, as we shall discreetly call them. Why would it bring me "no solace whatsoever" to know that Dave Hardman is making a movie? He's a valuable commercial property and I want him out there and working as long as that's what he wants to do. I'm making a movie about how David's special place in the porn industry is, not about how he's unemployed (fortune forbid). You've typo'd my name, Jeannie. Gene sez: "That would end the relationship on a slightly sour note." What would end the relationship? The professional risk of the loss of a serious investment? Getting tossed in jail? Picking up trash for twenty da ys? Or not returning my phone calls to start with? And "end?" It's not over 'til the fat lady sings...and hits a sour note, I guess. Lynne P.S.: As a veteran of many years' participatory porn, I agree with all possible enthusiasm: I think bukkake is porn for the millenium. I've not seen it edited and on tape, only shot, and it's a real celebration of diversity at the very least. 9/17/99 Lynne writes: Below is the complete text of my response to "Dear Gene" based on this morning's reading. "...She set herself up to make it look like she was a stalker." Actually, the court no longer considers me a "stalker," based on David's statement to the police that we'd never had a fight or physical altercation or previous report. My public defender, a woman about my size and shape (I'm 4'11" and down to 102 lbs.), considers it obvious that the gun was there for the reason I said it was: for my personal self protection while driving around after dark by myself. "Before Bruce [Walker] died she was all freaking out," Hardman recalls. "Her thing is that every guy on this planet wants to f--- her. Maybe a couple of guys. When the cops took her away she said she didn't have any panties on. They probably just thought she was 5150. That's probably why they took it to that extent in court. They don't want people out there loose." Lynne: Before Bruce died and after his death I was indeed "all freaking out." Dead husbands do that to a girl. Bruce felt that, as a new widow with notoriously bad taste in men and money to invest, I would be taken advantage of by every slimeball in the porn business. When one's ten year marriage ends in the long, tortuous death of a spouse, it can take years to get "back to normal." I am afraid of men who develop "the wrong intentions." I really don't want to f--- just anyone right now, nor do I want to be in the position of having to say that often misunderstood word, "No." Let's get this part clear: When the cops took me away, THEY asked what I had on under my dress. They said, "Do you have shorts on under your dress?" I didn't understand the question. Why would someone wear shorts under a dress, unless they meant boxer shorts? Doesn't make any sense. I said, "I have nothing on under my dress, just bikini panties (lilac cotton ones, to be exact, though I didn't tell the cops that), and no bra." The cops then said, "Oh, we can't search you then. If you had shorts on we could ask you to pull up your dress." Nothing to do with anything other than police procedure. Nothing to do with me or my purported crazed sex drive. I don't know what a "5150" is, but in court the other day, the public defender wanted to treat "the situation" like an obvious miscommunication with unfortunate consequences. The 20 days Cal Trans/30 days in jail are at the low end of the mandatory sentencing requirements. They are taking it seriously because of the "gun problem" we have in Los Angeles County -- if the gun had been unregistered or if I had a record, they'd be asking for a year in jail, period. There are no charges pressed against me by David, but he will probably have to attend court and tell the judge personally that a mistake was made and that there's no need to issue a permanent restraining order against me, or I'll have that on my record, too, and won't be able to attend any industry functions in which David might participate. "Hardman says he's been preoccupied trying to get a house so he doesn't have to rent any longer. "I'm sick of moving every year. I've been living in these big houses renting them out for porno shoots. I got over that. You don't want people in your house f---ing all over the place - these anal scenes going awry." Hardman says his goal is to achieve the American dream through porno. "Hardman said L-patin always wanted to make a Dave Hardman movie. "She thought she could make a lot of money off my name," Hardman noted. "Plus she likes me and I like her." Lynne: Because I do like David, and he does like me, I thought WE could make a lot of money off the proper exploitation of his name and abilities. I've got a good porn business background and am good at handling money and perhaps could find a way to put some aside in David's name, so that he can have his house or pay his taxes or whatever. David has little to show for all the amazing work he's done over the past few years, and he knows why. "In retrospect, Hardman says if he shot a movie, he would never shoot with the girls included in the L-patin project. Just his personal preferences, of course. He said he would have hand-picked the women. "When I do a movie with my name, I'm generally the director," he pointed out. Lynne: When David shoots a movie with his own money, he can be the director and can hire whoever he wants, of course. In this case, I am the director and he is only the assistant director, and this movie is a collaboration and therefore something different. This movie showcases David. The girls are almost irrelevant -- I don't want viewers focused on the girls. If they want to see David f--- young girls up the ass, they can rent a Zane Cherry Poppers. This movie is about Dave Hardman and aimed at the widest possible viewing market, so it's going to be different than the standard format hardcore porn video and I hope something very special. As to the cast, David chose both male performers, Lucky and Byron Long. He selected and I agreed on Cumisha Amado, who not only is a fabulous comedienne, she loves f---ing David. Cumisha picked a new Asian woman, Kiyani, for a G/G ending up as a B/G. I don't know if Kiyani is eighteen, but she is young, cute and Asian, and my executive producer/partner was happy as a double clam watching the girls eat each other and David plow them both poolside in the back yard. I selected Angela D'Angelo, formerly "Sukoya" and a heroine of mine. I wanted her to play a comedy part where she pushes people around, plus I know she can meet any man more than half way during the sex. David always tells me he likes f---ing tall, athletic women, and after the scene he said she was a great f---. The two black girls were cyphers and could have been played by anyone -- David, the only white participant in the scene, is the star. Everything and everyone else is just "blackground.". Eve Eden, the hot redhead David remembers, was a gift from heaven (or at least Regan Senter.) The part called for a bitch, and the bitch I'd hired cancelled. Eve, who's apparently already out of the business, is a stunner. David makes her squeal and moan through multiple orgasms, and her milky white, perfect skin and untrimmed natural red bush are a visual treat. "Hardman said he thought the project would never get off the ground until L-patin told him she got the money and it was green-lighted. Hardman says the timing was extremely good because he was working on getting a house and needed the extra dough. Hardman said he was told he'd get $2000 for his work in the project. "That's pretty good for me." he says. "At first it seemed like, wow, a lot of money. But she wanted me to sit through editing. I don't mind doing a couple of hours of pick-ups, but sitting through editing isn't my bag unless I'm really into the movie. As far as doing pick-ups I don't know what she wants me to do." One of the reasons I green-lighted the project, even after discussing it with Bruce (who was still with us at the time) and against my better fiscal judgement was that David wanted money for that house. He did get $2,000 for two days work. I'm sure once he sees the footage, which is now in rough edit, he'll be into the movie just fine. It makes him look great. We don't have to sit through massive hours of editing because we've got a great editor in Slammy, but occasionally I have to fight for what I want rather than accept "porno convention." And as far as David knowing or not knowing what I want to do....gee...why did he think I was calling him? "She became in control of everything," Hardman continued. "They were going to tell me who to work with. I said whatever." Hardman remembers one hot redhead he worked with, then there was Cumisha Amado and Eve Eden - "She was the best one," Hardman recalls. "None of the girls were like pigs or anything, but if I'm going to shoot my own movie I'm going to get perfect little 18 year-old, brand new girls. Lynne wanted it to be real funny. I like to be funny. For those two days I put my heart and soul into that movie. They paid me. Then the house deal got postponed so I just spent the money on other things." "Hardman said there was a stretch of time where he didn't have any peace. "It's not like that Lynne bugs me. I like her as a friend. I've enjoyed sex with her. I f--- blow-up dolls and s---. I like f---ing Lynne. It's just that she was more into it than me. I've got a job to do and she kept pushing, pushing, pushing. " Hardman: "The whole thing with Lynne is you can't just call her up and talk to her for five minutes. It turns into a 45-minute phone conversation, then five, 45-minute phone conversations per day. I'm afraid to call her." Lynne: There is no "they." I am in control of everything. Vertical, horizontal, white balance, static. I am the writer, director, producer, production manager, investor and a few more things besides. Now that my partner, Bruce Walker, is dead, I am Casino Productions. Pushing a movie through production takes self confidence and all sorts of unfeminine behaviors -- tremendous amounts of energy, chutzpah, and strength. Sometimes it slops over into my personal behavior, for which I'm sorry. It's hard to turn that sort of strength off and on, and I know it gets a little overbearing at times, but I have to watch out for myself these days. Occasionally I need to be f---ed into total submission, but there aren't many men who can outf--- me and besides, now that I've experienced Dave Hardman, my standards have gotten very high. I've f---ed hundreds of guys over the past thirty years, but David is just the best, the absolute best, hands down, no contest. After having had "personal" sex with David, I find the idea of having "casual sex" with a stranger totally unappetizing. I'm just an ordinary, average, sexually over-amped mature forty-something woman, but Dave Hardman is an icon for our times. I understand the nature of his work. I understand that sex is often the last thing he wants. I try not to ask for it, even though having sex with David is like being a kid cut loose in the biggest candy store of all time. I know that having sex with Dave is, for all intents and purposes, like having sex with every porn performer in the industry and therefore very risky. I have to be PCR-DNA tested every month, plus have regular tests for all the other STD's, just as if I were doing scenes or being promiscuous. My late husband, Bruce, loved David dearly, and Bruce was a very private man, not given to having people in the house. David was very special to Bruce. Bruce trusted David. When David and I speak with one another, it often does turn into a 45-minute conversation. He shares all his troubles with me, I share mine, etc. I sure wouldn't waste that much time on anyone else. As a professional, I can get off the phone instantly if need be, and the same with sex. I'm just as happy getting off with one minute mutually orgasmic blow job as I am with a two hour multiple orgasmic f---. "She wants to promote this movie," Hardman says. "She thinks it's going to go on Comedy Central. Maybe she's got the deal. I don't know. I'm not going to get anything off that." Lynne: David has not discussed future royalties or payments with me, and unfortunately the weapons charge will cost a lot of money which I would have preferred to spend on making movies. The dog I got to replace the gun is going to cost plenty of money, too. Then there's the $140.00 plus 22% interest Dave owes me for going on line and taking care of his delinquent domain name payments. The upcoming movie is my loving view of Dave Hardman, brilliant comic, astounding f--- of our time, intended for television and the widest possible market. Nothing would make me happier than to to be able to set up Dave with money and publicity so that he can do his own line with those cute little eighteen-year-olds, bless his heart. But ultimately, how can I solicit interest and financing for a series of projects involving Dave Hardman if he can't be counted on to participate? 10/20/99 Lynne L-patin Explores Alternatives Porner Lynne L-patin received only community service hours for her Tuesday conviction for carrying an armed gun. Luke talked to her Tuesday afternoon as she considered life after Dave Hardman. Her alternatives include lesbianism and bestiality. Lynne L-patin writes: Tuesday October 19, 1999, Casino Productions' adult video director and producer Lynne L-patin is expected to plead "no contest" in Los Angeles Municipal Court, San Fernando Branch, to a weapons charge resulting from a performer's breach of contract. Adult porn stud Dave Hardman, who not only performed in "Lucky Star" but also directed several scenes, apparently decided to break his contract with Casino Productions beginning in mid-August, when he first refused to return calls from producer L-patin. After two weeks of attempts to reach Hardman by phone, L-patin tried to contact him at his home, where she'd previously been a welcomed visitor. Concerned about Hardman's recent depression and health problems since her husband's death just six weeks before, L-patin searched the house and grounds to make sure Dave was not at home alone and in trouble. Meanwhile, refusing to acknowledge her presence, Hardman called the police reporting "an ex-girlfriend stalking," resulting in L-patin's arrest in his driveway over the .38 Smith & Wesson she carried for personal protection. Civil action against Dave Hardman is under consideration pending further assessment of L-patin's financial damages. Fortunately, through two re-writes, the movie was completed within budget following a month's delay. "Lucky Star," with Dave Hardman and co-starring Cumisha Amado and an interracial ensemble cast, is scheduled for release in a few months in various cable formats prior to its release on videocassette. For further information contact Lynne L-patin @ (818) 769-0398 or BDWLCL@worldnet.att.net "If a Klingon visited me and wanted to have sex," says the pansexual Lynne, "I wouldn't tell him, no, you're not human. I can't. "I'm not speciescist. I don't discriminate on the basis of species or race..." Luke talked to Lynne around 2PM Tuesday about her court appearance that morning. Lynne: "I cried and cried and cried and they brought me tissues and they brought me water. And I'm a major criminal and I have a major criminal record. And I didn't do anything except put the bullets in the gun. "I have a three year probation during which time I cannot have any contact with law enforcement. They can't book me... I have to go around and coverup graffiti for 18 days from 7AM - 3PM which will really help me earn a living. I get to erase graffiti instead of picking up trash on the freeway. And a restraining order to keep me away from David until the year 2002. Like, if I go to CES and he goes to CES, then I am supposed to leave. And I've been demonized. It hurts. "So I'll probably take pharmaceuticals and so forth for the next few days to deal with the hurting. I have contacted Adult Video News. I want them to rereview my movie Indigo Moods (which AVN only gave two stars, perhaps because the movie features blacks). "I'm taking a soft rough cut of my David [Hardman] movie down to cable this week. He [cable exec] told me, 'I don't see you as a pornographer. I see you as a filmmaker.' Gee, I thought my job was to make photocopies for Gabor. "Luke, if I'm that one percent who defies all your rules about porno and sleaze... There is erotic art. From your position as a person who has trouble being touched, something that celebrates the ability to touch and to give, that's sacred too. "My sexuality is neutral... I'm not allowed to think evil thoughts of Dave Hardman. I'm not allowed to mention that I am upset with him. I am not allowed to discuss how I feel except to my lawyer. I may not have any contact with him except through my lawyer. And I have to sue him and tell his sister all these things, and market the movie. And I am not allowed to think of how I feel about him. At least I am not allowed to express it. And if you think about all that stuff, and you don't express it, that can make you very anxious. "I'm trying not to do too much driving because I am under the influence of too many pharmaceuticals (prescribed drugs), let alone a glass of champagne. "The legal issues that affect my career are complicated. If David and I are both on the stage at CES for any reason, I'll be in jail for a year. My lawyer was really sweet. He said, Dave Hardman no longer exists. But what about my heart? What about late at night? How do I make him not exist? How do I do that when I'm watching footage of him? Shall I become a lesbian for a few years? Shall I leave porn all together, cancel that movie I've got in production, take that $20,000 I have left, and move to a small town in Oregon? "My Dave movie... You can't tell if it is a real documentary about people in the porno business or if it is all fictional and we're making it up. I've set it up like a sitcom with titles... It's like The Blair Witch Project. "Half my mind is still in gear and half my mind is so overwhelmed with emotion that it wants to take drugs. So I'm going to take drugs until I feel better, and then the half of my mind which has always remained in gear will eventually take over and get on with it if my self esteem is ok." Luke: "I hate drugs..." Lynne: "But doesn't it say, all things in moderation? Isn't that one of the blessings of being Jewish that there is no extreme? You've chosen one but where I came from, enjoy the poppyseed cake, just don't eat the whole cake. Enjoy a glass of wine but don't become an alcoholic. That's my Reform Judaism. Isn't that in the Bible?" Luke: "There are statements like that, but you shouldn't be moderate in all things. You shouldn't murder moderately." Lynne: "What if you are a member of the Israeli army?" Luke: "There is justified killing." Later.... Lynne: "If I listen to heavy metal, I want to drink beer and kick things. If I listen to classical music, I want to lie back on a grassy knoll." Lynne yells to somebody: "We'll find it. Maybe we'll even go buy a CD if we don't get too smashed to drive." Lynne: "I didn't get to see your bestiality stuff and I wanted to... I had a love affair with a rat, so I know. It was a few years ago. His name was Archie and he was in love with me." Luke: "Did you guys ever have sex?" Lynne: "We couldn't because the physical limitations of our two species. For the male rat, his penis is a quarter of an inch long and the experience is over in ten seconds. So for him it wasn't about sex, it was about being in love. I could tell he was in love with me and I was in love with him but there was no sexual component. "I get all my endorphins from sex but now with this thing with Dave Hardman, I don't even want to think about it. And how can I be a pornographer and make good movies and not think about sex? When I think about sex, I think about David and I am not allowed to think about David. There's a restraining order." Luke reads Lynne excerpts from the 1/20/77 Washington Post article on child porn about Lollitots magazine which featured sexually explicit photos of children down to four years of age. Lynne worked for its distributor during the 1970s, Parliament News, owned by Paul Wisner, formerly owned by Milton Luros. Parliament News has now turned into Gourmet Video and is virtually extinct. Lynne: "I remember Lollitots. I remember a story on TV... I thought it [Lollitots] was exclusively sold in Southern California. "I remember going by Circus of Books in Hollywood and seeing child pornography for sale in the front door. "I joined Parliament News in 1977. Luros was not active in the sense of coming in and spending an eight hour day there. But he came in every few days. He looked at the books and picked up the receipts... He and his wife were in poor health." Luke: Stanley Fleischman says that Parliament News was not Lollitots publisher. Lynne: "Untrue. Actually, American Arts Enterprise was the graphic arts shop that built the magazine but Parliament News was its distributor. And American Art was owned by the same people who owned Parliament News even though they may have wives rather than husbands on the paperwork. That was my first job for Parliament News, shredding those photos [of child pornography]. Shredding all the 8x10s that were in the files because we were getting ready to move from Chatsworth to North Hollywood. And they had me shred thousands of photos. All the nudist photos [fo kids]. All the Lollitots photos. I saved a few at the time but I got rid of them by 1979." Excerpts from the Post article: Take the case of Lollitots magazine.The masthead
leads one to believe the magazine is a coast-to-coast operation -
published by Delta Publishing Co. Inc. in Wilmington, Del., and distributed
solely by Parliament News in Sun Valley, Calif., just outside Los
Angeles. But according to Delaware authorities, Delta Publishing is
a fictitious front. Parliament News, however, Phil Wilens, chief of the Justice Department criminal
division's government regulations and labor department, said he "almost
retched" when he saw Lollitots. "But the only federal statute
involved is in interstate transportation of the magazine. Posing,
recruiting the girls, is all a state offense and how do you get back
to the source? I haven't any idea." He would not give the name of the agent. Luke says: So just in case there's any doubt, here's a small list of pornographers who created and distributed child pornography: Paul Wisner, Milton Luros, Reuben Sturman, Parliament News which morphed into Gourmet Video, Circus of Books and the list goes on and on and on. And folks like the revered late Stanley Fleischman led the charge defending child pornography and obfuscating the issue of child porn. The only reason that pornographers do not create and sell child pornography today is that they can no longer get away with it. Lynne: "As far as I remember from the news reports on TV at the time, it [Lollitots] was all shot here in Southern California and it was definitely printed on Parliament presses and it was definitely distributed by Parliament. And today I don't think you will find anybody to cop to it. "I was 14 when I started having sex. And if you had told me then that I shouldn't have sex, I would've been really upset. So 14 is one thing, but Lollitots was people who were five and six [years of age]. And they cannot give consent. So what was happening was that the moms were giving consent and back then $500 was a lot of money. "Paul Wisner has located himself at what used to be Star World Modeling, Gourmet Video. They sold most of their [video] masters to Adam & Eve and all they're doing now is printing mag packs for World News [part of the former child porn distributing Parliament News]. And they don't even want any real magazines. They wouldn't take them for free. Like Russell [Hampshire]. He wouldn't take a movie for free if it didn't fit his formula. Gourmet is dead. "A mag pack is two magazines on the outside that you might be interested in and one magazine in the middle, like an old Penny Saver. They're sold in liquor stores, three porno for $9:99." Luke: "I bought those in my teens." Lynne: "They're all old. They haven't run a new photo set in ten years. And Howie Wasserman's son Ronny is still there with the CD Rom business Glowing Icon, on Raymer Street. It's a dying thing. Howie lives in Las Vegas. "Barbara Spallone is so proud of you. You don't equivocate. You say what you feel. You don't measure things by, will this upset Chris Mann or whoever..." Luke dedicated his book "A History of X" to "his buddies Joe, Rob and Barbara Spallone." Joe Spallone backed Paul Wisner for years with Gourmet Video and Wisner kicked him out of the building with two days notice. Lynne: "When I was 17, in 1972, I was a runaway hanging out in Hollywood. And you could buy kiddie porn at any of the newsstands. And the kiddie porn I am referring to is Lollitots and Moppets [distributed by Paul Wisner's Parliament News]. And there were others, and most of them were from Mexico and most of them were from India. And then a couple of years later, when I went to work for the LA Star, I got a better handle on what was out there and what was available and what the attitude was toward it. And the first thing we noticed was a story on TV that there were five year old being paid to do these magazines. And it was all over the news. "So they [Parliament News] were probably told to cease and desist. We were approached... Mickey Leblovik (Dr. Susan Block's husband) knows this stuff intimately. He was getting busted. They came to us and said stop. But I don't remember anybody being threatened or prosecutions... Lynne: "I have a hard time with the age of consent. I don't know if it should be 12, 13, 14, 15, 16... I don't know. Maybe it should be 35. But I have a real hard time with any case of people two or three years apart. I don't see that as child abuse. I read Lolita many times. I do see a problem with a person at the age of five not being able to consent to much of anything. I see a person at the age of 14 in a different position. I'm not sure if 14 represents a child or unspoiled womanhood. I know if when I was 14 you told me not to have sex at least once a week, I would've been really upset. But under puberty, you've really got to stay off of that, First Amendment and all the laws aside. "I have a turtle and the turtle can't consent. The dog can consent. The dog is sentient but little children are not. We don't allow them sexuality. Think of your own situation. You weren't allowed any idea of sexuality. And that's extreme but that's more similar to most children's upbringing... Were you allowed sexual thoughts before your dad was a heretic?" Luke: "No, you weren't supposed to do that." Lynne: "But once your dad was a heretic, you got to go to a normal high school. Everybody had sexual thoughts and then you could too." Luke: "I looked at a lot of pornographic magazines in my teens. I was able to buy threepacks, they put two good ones on the outside..." Lynne: "And my job was putting them packs in them stores... In by the pallet, ship them by the pallet..." Luke: "And I bought them and I jerked off to them." Lynne: "Good." Luke: "It left me permanently warped." Lynne: "No they didn't. The religion left you permanently warped but the masturbation... You can't let anyone else touch you so at least you give yourself some touching. I get all my endorphins from being touched. And now I'm afraid, really afraid. I understand the drugs can only take it so far, and the dog... I'm just glad she's a dog." Luke: "Have you ever had sex with a dog?" Lynne: "I had oral sex with a male dog once. The dog had this owner and the owner was stupid. The dog was not. "If a Klingon visited me and wanted to have sex, I wouldn't tell him, no, you're not human. I can't. "It's just like with every human. Not every human is a potential partner. Every dog is not a potential partner. Every horse is not a potential partner. I have not had the chance to be around horses. I would love to be around horses or f---ing around horses. I had a rat and we were in love. And when we were in love and he died, I contacted some of the animal channels on the internet and I wrote a homage to Archie because Archie loved me and I loved Archie and we would've made it. But it was physiologically impossible." Luke: "Do you still have that?" Lynne: "No, but I can write about my disillusionment with humans and my desire to pursue animals." Luke: "Yeah, that would be beautiful." Lynne: "The dog [Toby] is wagging her tail. I missed that whole thing you posted about animals." Luke: "Yeah, I had great pictures of what looked like Christy Lake doing a dog. But my sponsor made me take the pictures down... The dog was smiling." Lynne: "Animals. We justify all sorts of things about thing to eat them or skin them. But certain animals are as sentient as we are. My dog Toby is female. Which brings up another interesting question. Is one attracted to the species? Do I remain heterosexual? I'll respond to anything but there's something about that masculinity, that approach which says, I want to take you, surrender. "With me and the dog it is really weird because she's a female dog... If a woman comes to me this weekend and says surrender to me, you need the love, does that make me a lesbian? I say that I'm either omnisexual or pansexual. I can respond to anything. Your intellectual stimulation creates an erotic response... "Would I like to have sex with animals? Would I like to live in Amsterdam? Would I like to live on a big farm with zillions of animals? Oh yeah, I don't like the city. I'll go to Australia and live on a ranch with six million sheep." Luke: "Some horses are really hung." Lynne: "Some men are really hung." Luke: "Get a good stallion..." Lynne: "Get a good stallion that is in love with you, that you've brought up from a child..." Luke: "Right, that you've had a relationship with." Lynne: "That you bonded with totally." Luke: "That you share something in common. You can look into each other's eyes and read their soul." Lynne: "Yeah. Oh yeah. There's a big in the Amok catalogue which talks about how you bond with an animal that transcends any acceptable relationship. I would love to write about my relationships with animals, especially if we could put them in context. I can make it, whether I should become a lesbian or whether I should get a German Shepherd or become a nun. So I can evaluate my sexuality but in a way that doesn't violate my restraining order and say anything negative about Mr. Hardman. I can't say anything that would make you want to punch him." Email Luke your suggestions on which direction Lynne should take. Lynne: "I can't feel out loud." Luke: "Maybe Eddie Nash could take care of him?" Lynne: "The reality is is that Dave Hardman is psychologically scarred beyond belief. So let's just deal with it in civil court and try to get some publicity. I can understand his psychological motivation just like when I read your column and understand where you are coming from. Yes David had a f---ed up childhood and his only reaction to being loved was to destroy it. "Ok, it's 3PM now and my decision is whether I want to abscond to a tropical island with my bank account or make a porno movie with a bunch of black people. 10/21/99 Porner Lynne L-patin phoned Thursday morning. Lynne: "Today may be my big day. After all my years in the porno business, I say that's enough. I'm just looking at numbers. And if I have $20,000, is porno really the thing I most want to spend it on? You, as Luke F-rd would say..." Luke: "GET OUT!" Lynne: "If you have $20,000, why spend it on porno? That's what Luke F-rd would say." Luke: "There are things in life worthy of sacrifice and devotion, but not porno." Lynne: "And every little thing you do, whether it be scrubbing toilets or redecorating your house or making a bird house or shoveling dog s---, has some value. And some porno has some value. But there are better uses for my time. It is my argument against using me to paint graffiti. Why don't you use me to file in an office or something? "And making porno at this point, there's no message for me to get out there anywhere. There's money to reach with any political statement or message... For me to make the type of movie I want to make takes more money than the market can provide. And I don't want to make the other kind of movie. I want to make art or at least a movie. "The David thing damaged my cash flow to the point where I can't shoot again until that movie sold. That means I need to do something else. Not work in an office... "I don't want to think anymore about it until I get the hard screener and I take it to Stephanie [Ross at VCA] and let them look at it and tell me what it is worth. And if it is worth enough to bail me out of my financial depression, I still need to rethink... But I won't be under immediate pressure and give me bad dreams. "I can make a porno movie on the 30th and cover my monthly expenses, and then I'm broke. I don't think I want to do that. Adam & Eve will not commit [to a sequel to Indigo Moods] because they weren't really thrilled about that lack of an AVN review [AVN gave the original Indigo two stars, a low rating]." 10/29 Lynne L-patin, recently arrested and convicted for carrying a loaded weapon without a permit, is now a Hustler Jail Babe. Lynne told Luke Friday morning: "I'm an official Hustler Jail Babe for having gotten David [Hardman] upset, and carrying a gun. And I've got tattoos and I f--- a black guy [Lucky, a big dicked black man who lives with her] on a concrete floor. And I'm 44 years old and in good enough shape to do it. Now all decent people can despise me and demonize me again. "The interesting part of it was the journalist." Luke: "Journalist, what's that?" Lynne: "There's a journalist that sets these things up. Mark Cromer." Luke: "I thought he was fired?" Lynne: "Is he not a journalist? "Well, he's still getting blown." Luke:"Really?" Lynne: "Usually he pays the performer a couple of dollars extra to blow him. Which is ridiculous but it gives him what he needs... I blow journalists for free. I'm not a slut. I'm a writer. People who can read and write, I'm happy to blow them. "Of course that demonizes me completely. It makes it absolutely impossible to go out and get a hamburger. It's ok for him to stick his dick in my face and it's ok for me to suck it but it's not ok for me to call him afterwards and say, 'I enjoyed sucking your dick.' That's stalking. That's why women don't ask men out because men get upset and treat you even worse. "It was a good scene. It was a catharsis... It confirmed my suspicion that I have no interest in sex whatsoever. It doesn't mean I can't have orgasms. It does mean that I'd rather be shopping. And when you met me, you wouldn't say that about me. "If you find somebody who has a brain and you meet them in the context of porno, they're forced instantly to despise you because you're a woman and they wouldn't be there if they didn't have an issue with women. I have all these intergenerational relationships with young men so I can say, this is a mommy - son thing, not a sex thing. "It all goes back to, how do I get a guy to take me to a movie without letting him know that I am interested? "I was scheduled to work with Jack Hammer but he couldn't make it... Lucky has an extremely large black man's penis... But he doesn't hurt me... "I've done a scene before with Jack Hammer and he was a little rough... So I thought I should call him so we could practice... I haven't had any sex since August. So I called him and said that it would be a good idea to practice. And he said, oh, ok, I'll call you back. Of course he didn't. So I called him again and then he cancelled. It helped me feel like a real criminal monster to get out there and know that I am that scary. "They're expecting some 5'9" acne-scarred Harley-riding bulldog and they get me [Lynne is tiny]..." Lynne: "I met Kid Vegas at [Jim Powers'] bukkake. And he and Lucky made a deal to go to some club later... And he's standing there talking to Lucky and talking about driving. And I drive. It's my car. Lucky has no car. So I said, excuse me but you need to be talking to me because I'm the one who's driving. They hate that. "I drove back to my house and he followed me here. And he and Lucky went to some party in Hollwyood. I stayed home in bed... And Lucky says that Kid Vegas's opinion of me was that I am a space cadet. He thought that was pretty funny being that I am not. "Kid Vegas abandoned Lucky at a club so he had to get a ride home from a stranger. "I don't think any young male 25 or so has any business forming an opinion about me whatsoever because I am 20 years older than he and he can't possibly know what I know. And having a penis doesn't give you knowledge, wisdom, experience. In fact, if anything it tends to discourage those things and make you impetuous. "Then I looked up Kid Vegas on the web, your site I think... And he can't spell... So I figure when he called me a space cadet, he meant something like "c-a-d-d-e-g." "Cute kid though, and I can see why the same group that patted you [Luke] on the head, like him. Brings out the faggot in everybody. "I was explaining this to Lucky, how did this guy get to be so important and get his name all around... He's a cute guy and these people don't want women... "I start my community service Tuesday. And I'm going to see if I can make a deal with David [Hardman]'s sister Cynthina, I won't take any drugs for an entire month if she will lose 20 pounds. I don't think she can do it. I know I can do anything I want. And I'm just down to some really bad pot and some occassional champagne." 11/01/99 Lynne L-patin Jail Babe Lynne L-patin writes Luke: My "Jail Babes" experience is even funnier in print. Thanks. The big bruise on my left hip, from f---ing on the concrete floor, is starting to fade. This is the kind of thing that confirms my opinion that most pornographers have little or no experience with real sex -- I'm supposed to be howling "Harder, deeper," and because there's no resililency to concrete, my partner CAN'T go harder or deeper, because my spine can't flex and my hips can't get any leverage to thrust back. So there we are on the concrete floor, having lousy sex, in uncomfortable positions, and I'm supposed to "act" (key word here) as if it is good sex, rather than simply having good sex and documenting it. Maybe the audience can't tell the difference. Maybe they've never had sex themselves. So is it deliberate? Setting up a sexual situation in which the woman will be guaranteed injury of some sort strikes me as either very misogynistic or very stupid, take your pick. And the more I think about it, the "blowing the journalist in the bathroom" scenario is hysterical. What does it say about a guy when his sexual thrills come from being blown by a slut in a bathroom? (I'm not really a slut -- I just play one on TV. But it seems to work for men who aren't interested in the difference.) Does he make his wife dress up like a whore and blow him in the bathroom? Or does he have lousy sex with his wife, because good girls lie there like cold fish, and need the other because he married someone he coveted who could care less about his sexual needs? Maybe he's even afraid to share them! And the big ol' scary Jack Hammer. Took my roommate to work yesterday at a T. Bone shoot, where he worked with Jack, Kitten and some others doing dialogue. Jack couldn't even acknowledge my existence as the shoot broke up and Tobi and I came to pick up Lucky. Makes me wonder whether all those "I'm connected with the Hell's Angels" stories are true. Such a tough guy should have nothing to fear from a nice little middle-aged Jewish lady. I'll bet he did prison time for something major, like breaking into vending machines or puking in the back of a patrol car. Speaking of Lucky, people seem to think he's my "boyfriend." He is not. I do not have a boyfriend. I do not want a boyfriend. My husband died a few months ago, and I was in love with him. David Hardman treated me atrociously, and I was so incredibly close to David that the damage he did still resonates throughout my being all the time I'm conscious and sometimes in my dreams. At the bukkake, the security guards referred to Lucky as my "boyfriend." At his shoot for Bowen, he says people did the same. I am not having personal sex with Lucky or with anyone else. He may be my roommate or my friend, and I think he would make a fabulous boyfriend for the right woman, whom he is totally welcome to bring home (I've given him the kingsize bed Bruce and I shared which I could not sleep in alone.) I'm not ready for a boyfriend. How could I get involved with someone in a respectful fashion, when I still have a gaping emotional black hole where Dave Hardman left my life? Didn't smoke any pot at all since Friday morning, and didn't take any Valium or Xanax until this morning. I did my workout this morning and then realized that I really felt like screaming hysterically in emotional agony, instead of spending the day writing like I'd planned. So I took a Xanax (fast acting, good for a couple hours) and then a Valium (slow acting, but longer lasting). I don't want to smoke pot for at least a few weeks, as I've had some respiratory problems that lead me to think my lungs could use a break. And I've tried to translate the emotional agony into a letter to my friend, Lukey, who understands what it means to be "obsessed" with sex and yet not want to be physically touched, and I sublimate my craving for physical contact into hugging and kissing and wrestling with my beautiful dog. How am I supposed to make porno when the thought of sex still makes me want David, David, David....? I can't even masturbate without thinking of David. So I guess I'm going to start planning my exit from porn after all these years... It's time for a new life, I think. Please don't think less of me. 11/09/99 L-patin Says AVN Promotes Racism, Misogyny and Stupidity Lynne L-patin, the producer of the all black adult video "INDIGO MOODS," would like to know if the "powers that be" over at Adult Video News are racist, misogynistic, stupid or all of the above. "Either they completely ignored my movie because they're afraid that they'll be punished by their regular black entertainment advertising customers, or they are racist, or both," L-patin said, reflecting upon the October 1999 AVN review of "Indigo Moods." "Or perhaps they're just so ignorant that they didn't notice that this is the first porn video on the market in many years which treats blacks with dignity and respect." "Indigo Moods," which was released on videocassette by major mail order company Adam & Eve and broadcast on Spice Channel during September, was L-patin's deceased husband's last project before he died of prostate cancer in July, 1999. "Indigo Moods" was good enough for a premiere mail order house, for television and for a three year contract with a cable agent, but AVN refers to it in a one line review as "solid sex wasted by lackluster production values and direction," L-patin complained. "In a market with little enough black product of any kind, AVN declines to mention that "Indigo Moods" is an all-black production, let alone one that is suitable for black couples. And I don't see how the first movie with all ethnic performers to play on the Spice Channel could be 'lackluster' and worthy of only a two line review." L-patin attempted to get AVN to re-consider the review, but was unable to get a response from managing editor Bryn Prior. "I don't know if this is plain vanilla racism, in that AVN only approves of black videos which please whites with sick fantasies who need to see blacks humiliated, or if it is reverse racism in that, because my husband and I are white, we should not be permitted to produce pornography featuring black performers. "However, knowing that AVN reviewers dislike any adult videos which posit sex as an enjoyable heterosexual experience, I'm inclined to think that their ignorance as to how special this movie truly is is just that -- ignorance. "My assumption is that "lackluster production" refers to the lack of anal sex in the movie, as neither Bruce nor I ever had any interest in documenting unwanted anal sex." "After working for Heatwave Entertainment, where we were not allowed to move into production as had been agreed upon when we accepted jobs there, Bruce and I knew the current state of black adult entertainment very well. Pimps and "ho's" and gangstas. Bruce's radiation oncologist, who happened to be black, knew we were pornographers and asked us for a video. We couldn't find one which wouldn't have been insulting to him so, over the objections of our partner (who really wanted to make movies with white people), we made "Indigo Moods." "Indigo Moods" happens to be the very first all ethnic movie to be broadcast on the Spice Channel, so I doubt it is really 'lackluster' in any way. In fact, everyone I've shown it to has really enjoyed it, especially women," said L-patin. "The women I show my movies tell me that they've never seen any other adult productions which they enjoy watching, but the opinions of real consumers obviously have no relationship to those expressed by AVN." L-patin adds that, despite her anger, she can understand how "Indigo Moods" came to be so poorly reviewed in AVN. "You have to remember that most of the people working for Adult Video News are very unhappy with their own sexuality. Normal heterosexual behavior really disturbs those folks. Their idea of sex is extremely limited -- they hate vaginas. Only women who appear very asexual and who endure painful anal sex for money appeal to them. All blacks are "Freaks, Ho's and jungle bunnies." They can't imagine a marketplace which includes sexually active men and women with self esteem, let alone blacks with dignity. "Just thinking about a normal, middle class black woman enjoying vaginal sex is totally beyond their comprehension," said a bitter L-patin. "These Adult Video News people have problems with women in general, let alone black women. They truly believe that black couples are not entitled to good sexual relationships, and that roles for black people in pornography should be limited to Mandingos, clowns, whores and other stereotypes for the white consumers. "My husband's goal was to get "Indigo Moods" out to a black audience which included women and couples. The review in the October issue of AVN ensures that the movie will be completely ignored by those retailers which have a black clientele. "Of course, given their pattern of deliberately ignoring those movies produced by my husband and myself, I can only speculate as to whether AVN feels it is important to deny blacks adult videos which treat them with respect, or if this is just some sort of personal slight based on my husband's refusal to blow Gene Ross. "Or maybe AVN is too intimidated by their regular advertisers to give my movie a fair viewing..." L-patin and her deceased husband, Bruce Walker, produced one movie in 1998 for regular AVN advertiser Video Team. It was called "Tales of the South Side," and was based on the classic 1940's "Amos & Andy" radio show concept of an all-black community in which everyone, from judge to cabdriver, is black. "At the time, Chris Mann was so worried about whose "side" we were taking, Rob Spallone and Star World or World Modeling and Jim South, that he deliberately destroyed our movie in editing because we'd shot it at the Raymer Street studio. "My husband was a defendant along with Rob's father, Joe Spallone, and Howard Wasserman and the recently deceased Paul Wisner in a federal obscenity case prosecuted in 1992," explained L-patin. "When Rob offered us credit at the studio, it never occurred to us to refuse it. My husband didn't roll over to the federal government when they asked him to testify against Wasserman, Wisner and Spallone. We certainly weren't going to roll against the Spallones on account of Chris Mann and Video Team. And Jim South, whom I've known for ages, appreciates that -- he knows I won't roll against him, either. "Bruce and I shared a love of African-American culture. In fact, it was the posters hanging in his office advertising soul music concerts from the seventies that encouraged me to first date him. We always agreed that blacks never received the recognition they were due for their contributions to American culture, and wanted this movie to be a special gift of love and respect to people of color. Bruce would be upset if he knew that Adult Video News chose to dismiss his labor of love as "lackluster," but he would be horrified to know that AVN deliberately refused to identify the movie as a black video, let alone one suitable for both men and women. "If I were to evaluate my twenty-five year career in porn by Adult Video News' coverage of my work, I'd feel like a real failure, but considering what I know about AVN, it's probably good that they ignore my work, since they've done more to destroy the adult business than anyone since Ed Meese and the Justice Department. When pleasing AVN became more important than making product which people bought, video sales dropped dramatically. The people who run that magazine are really in the minority, since most heterosexual men want to sink their dicks in pussy, not pseudo-homo assholes." Rodger Jacobs writes: "Luke: When Lynne L-patin dismisses the "current state of black entertainment (in porn)" as profiling characters that are "pimps, gangasters and ho's" and accuses AVN of looking down on videos that do not portray people of color as "Mandingos, clowns, whores, and other stereotypes for white consumers" she displays just how sorely out of touch she is. Videoteam's Afro-Centric series has been going strong for many years now, and quite a few of the titles are carried by Adam & Eve, as well as making a stong showing on the Playboy Channel. For the most part these are lush and beautifully produced videos that never bow to sterotype or cliche in their portrayl of African-Americans as sexual beings. To strut around like a demented peacock, crowing to anyone who will listen that "Indigo Moods" is the greatest sex video to happen to black culture in many years, is to demonstrate an ignorance and a pomposity that is simply hard to swallow." Mike South writes: "Lynne L-patin. Luke, This broad should definately shut the hell up, she constantly uses terms that she obviously does not know the meaning of. Like Racist." Lynne L-patin writes: Sometimes people forget that I worked for Video Team's umbrella company, CPLC Distributors, way back when Chris Mann began Afro Centric Productions. I remember My Baby Got Back #1, Dominique Simone and some of the other good stuff from those days. Another company which does a lot of black product, Heatwave Entertainment, got its start when Gabor purchased the movie "Black Jack City" from Video Team. VT decided that the movie was a little too violent to release following their legal troubles in Dallas, Heatwave got a great deal, and the movie itself is pretty good. Video Team is just one company on the market that makes black adult videos, and my husband, Bruce, sold their tapes for many years. We even watched a few before we shot "South Side." We thought we could do a better job at making videos for consumption by blacks, especially women and couples. We wanted to give it a try. If the movie had been edited by someone with a feel for comic timing, it might have been okay, but cutting it with a heavy-handed machete didn't work very well. I'm very happy that, despite our personal differences, Chris Mann is running a successful business, because I'm not a vindictive sort of person. I'm sure some of his movies are great, and some of them, to be polite, are not. There is plenty of room for other auteurs and their viewpoints in an open marketplace. Chris has his, I have mine, the customers have a choice, and everybody is happy. But as to the state of black adult video, I'd like to quote from the October issue of Adult Video News, page 148, in the review of Sin City's "Black Diamond," "...the storyline, which features the usual mix of nasty pimps and crooked coppers..." My point is that black adult video has become "the usual mix." Bruce and I wanted to do something different -- we wanted to show loving couples of color having non-exploitative sex. I think we succeeded. Curiously enough, the same reviewer who gave an "AAAA" rating to Sin City's tale of a streetwalker and the troubles she has with "the usual mix" also reviewed "Indigo Moods." This AVN reviewer likes black product with streetwalkers, pimps and cops. I would never want to make such a movie. I'm avoiding "the usual mix." This reviewer does not care for videos of romantic black men making love to their girlfriends and wives. Obviously someone else should have reviewed my movie, which I tried hard to arrange with Adult Video News to no avail. "To strut around like a demented peacock, crowing to anyone who will listen that "Indigo Moods" is the greatest sex video to happen to black culture in many years, is to demonstrate an ignorance and a pomposity that is simply hard to swallow," says Jacobs. If Mr. Jacobs wants to continue speaking about me in this vein, he'll find himself in court with a slander suit, since promotion of one's own product does not make one ignorant, pompous or demented. Because we know that Luke doesn't edit much of his material, I would never blame Luke for publishing the hurtful things someone else seems to feel the need to say. In fact, I'm sure Luke F-rd would be the first to testify that I am neither ignorant, pompous nor demented, nor do I strut or crow. And that's why, when I do say something, smart people listen. Both of them. Rodger Jacobs, who frequently wrote scripts for Video Team, responds: "Luke: Lynne L-patin knows better than to imply that the opinions of one critic ("the usual mix of nasty pimps and crooked coppers") reflect the editorial policy of an entire magazine. She viciously and carelessly slaps Adult Video News upside the head with baseless allegations of ignorance, racism, and misogyny in a public forum simply because her film did not receive a favorable review, and now she wants to label me as one who has employed slanderous and defamatory words against her? How rich. This business and its deluded, self-absorbed occupants never fails to amuse me." David Sturman, Edward Wedelstedt, Howie Wasserman, Christian Mann, Hans Schmall (Reuben Sturman's European connection), and about 100 porners were at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Griffith Park for Paul Wisner's Jewish funeral. It was officiated by a Rabbi Tupper. It was really weird to hear this child pornographer praised as an icon. Many porners were there simply to do business. Edward Wedelstedt gave a speech saying what a wonderful man Paul Wisner was. Pallbearers included Hans Schmall, Ron Braverman, Al Robles (World News, porn distributor). "I got to meet David Sturman," gushed Lynne L-patin Tuesday evening. "He's CUTE! I told him I was Luke's friend Lynne. How many friends does Luke have named Lynne? "He said he read your column when his name is in it. I told him to read your column every day even if his name isn't in it. Because I'm in it. "I saw all the people I used to work with. And I cried. And it was Jewish. And you should've been there. "We did a Jewish thing. We threw dirt on the grave. And I did that. I said goodbye. Not just to Paul, but also to an era, and also to Bruce [L-patin's late husband]. If I hadn't gone back to porno [in 1983], I would've never met my husband. "And in 1994, when they [Wisner] finally fired him, and I was like, I want to be a veternarian and itching to do something else and he said, how could you dare something else? Leave me behind in this outcast world? "It was really weird to hear this guy who did kiddie porn being spken about as a paragon. It was the most massive display of hypocrisy I've ever seen... He got every respect. He got buried on sacred Jewish ground, at Mount Sinai. He got buried with the real people. "They sorta discussed the First Amendment but nobody got up there and said, 'yeah, the guy was a kiddie pornographer. And let's bury him today.' "But as far as I could tell, the man was good to every other man. And being that I am not a man, I don't count. Eddie W. said Paul was the greatest. The IRS took everything Eddie owned and Paul fronted him the money to go back to work. "Paul was the greatest to men. To me? I asked him for $900. He said no. I lost my house and I lost my kid. I had to give her to her father and I never got her back. L-patin: "I was living in this cheap place in Reseda [in 1988] and this guy was breaking in regularly. This guy kept climbing in the window and I asked for $900 [to get a new apartment] against my paycheck and Paul said no. Apparently I was the only person Paul ever dissed. "And part of the child support payment [Lynne received], I had to give him [ex-husband] all rights to the house. "My ex alleged [in the child custody battle] that I had made kiddie porn, because I had worked for Parliament News and Parliament had made kiddie porn. And when I took this to Paul, they walked away. "I wanted $900 to move my kid to a two-bedroom apartment because they were coming out to investigate. Because I only had a one bedroom apartment, they assumed I was having sex with my daughter. Because white people don't have one bedroom apartments. "In Christmas 1989 they came out and said, 'we hear you've been showing your child pornography.' I said no, the only thing I've shown my child is this feminist book called "Our Bodies, Ourselves." To show her where the vagina is. But my ex alleged that I made kiddie porn, and showed her [Lynne's five year old daughter] kiddie porn and that I might make kiddie porn with her. "And I lost the kid because I couldn't afford to keep her in a safe place. I gave her up to her father because I didn't think an apartment with every Mexican traipsing through was right. It was a bad neighborhood. So I gave her up to her dad and moved in with Paul's nephew. And I never got my kid back. "I haven't seen her in over a year. They moved to Seattle when she was 12 years old. They threatened to file child sexual abuse charges if I tried to stop them. So I didn't try to stop them. They were going to charge Bruce's kids with sexual abuse. "I don't want to see her because all she will do is hurt me. When Bruce was alive, I couldn't have her anywhere near him because she could say, 'oh, his kids are molesting me.' It wasn't true, but I didn't want Bruce, who was dying, to have to deal with that. "When she was two, my ex threw me out and threatened to kill me. We lived in 29 Palms. He was a marine and he had a weapon and there was a big desert out there. He kept threatening to kill me. "But it was really totally weird to hear this guy [Wisner], that you wrote up as kiddie porn... Oh he was great, oh he was loved. You see people at the funeral and you know they are only there for business. I went because it was closure. "I went because I had nothing but respect for Rita [Paul Wisner's widow]. Rita was his girlfriend for umpteen years until finally his wife divorced him and then she married him. And she was 100% all the way. She worked for him for 30 years. They were married six years and four days. Rita sacrificed all her jewelry for him. I'm a woman. I know what that means. "If you and I were married, and you got sick, I would write your column for you. I would do your job and clean your room and anything you needed. And she did that for Paul, except for when some man came to town, he had the meeting. At one time, she pawned all her jewelry for him because he needed the money. That is what you do for people you love. "I saw all the people I used to work with. We were together because we could be caught. We could be hurt. "Paul's son Alex didn't show... We did the service in the temple, then we went up the hill to the graveside... The rabbi said, 'Rita, Jamie, Alec...' And he wasn't there. "I'm telling myself, it's time to get out [of porn]. Paul got out! I guess it's time. "You know how Jack Hammer likes to say, 'my guys in Europe...' No, no, no. The real Europe guys were there [at the funeral] and one of them was a pall bearer [Hans]. "People I would normally never speak to, I spoke to... I spoke with Howie Wasserman and his son Lonnie. It was the last of the old guys." Luke: "What about Bobby Genova?" Lynne: "Yeah, but he's been crazy for years. "I talked to people I normally would've killed... Five years ago, I would've run over them... And it didn't matter today because it wasn't the place for it. The old days are ended, the new days are here. Hooray for Adult Video News. "Bryn Pryor told me that he would refuse to nominate my tape for a year-end award because I complained about the review [on l-keford.com]. And if I'm out of the adult business, I'll screw them. I wrote Paul Fishbein... If I get into marriage and family counseling or any kind of psychological counseling, I will crucify you if you hurt women. So you should get worried. I hate it when they hurt women. "Like your friend NJG. She's not in porn... They hurt her. They tell her boyfriends, 'f--- her up the butt and if she complains, she's a crazy girl.' And if I get to the point where I can talk to these people in f---ing court about what is heterosexuality and what is not... "This is crazy. We never did that. We only wanted to call them 'Teen Babes.' We didn't want to call them 'Teen Sluts,' and f--- 'em and throw them on the trash heap. "The idea that pornography is nasty and dirty is now part of the culture. What you saw as illegal criminal mafia is now legal. You can find titties anywhere, in ladies magazines. We used to airbrush out pubic areas and make little panties. All the stuff we were so scared about in 1970 is now legal. And now they're just a bunch of faggots, they're in charge. "Bryn did not call me until they put your thing on his desk. He left a message, 'By the way, I got Luke F-rd's page on my desk, so I called you. I couldn't call you before because I couldn't find your number.' He did not respond until you printed with what you printed. Now he's saying, 'we'll work hard to arrange a meeting.' And if he doesn't, I'll sue him for $5,000 [in small claims court]. "And I can get that. God forbid I should have black judge. Is this movie [Indigo Moods] so bad that no black person should be able to see it? "I'm sure that when I go in to see Bryn, he'll say, 'there's no sex in it until six minutes in.' And I'm going to say, 'most women take 10-20 minutes to reach an orgasm. We don't want sex three minutes in and we're not ready to be f---ed.' "You said they were bad, they were bad, they were bad, but you never nailed it. And the company that released my movies [Adam and Eve] will not release anymore because AVN gave it [Indigo Moods] a bad review. "I don't know your version of Judaism but I didn't know we weren't allowed to be sexy. We weren't allowed to have a good sex life." Luke: "You're supposed to be married." Lynne: "That's just orthodox. Reform says you can try it out first. You can take it for a test drive. "It was a beautiful four hour service... All these people I've seen and never learned their names, like Hans Schmall... You know how Jack Hammer likes to say he's so porno, so Hells Angel, so Europe... That's bulls---. But Hans Schmall represented Reuben in Europe... "Afterwards we got drunk. And to stop from throwing up, we had to buy reefer. "I hear the recitation of the Kaddish [Jewish prayer said by mourners] and it makes me know I am a Jew. That's a strange feeling. You decided to be a Jew but you didn't get that s--- when you were seven. When I hear it, it's, oh yeah, that stuff. I remember that stuff. I should be one of those people. I don't know if I can go back to it. "Will you still be my friend if I'm not in porno?" Luke: "Yes." Lynne: "God forbid I go totally straight. We don't have born again, do we?" Luke: "No, but we have 'ball teshuva,' returnees to religion." Lynne: "Returning to belief in God or returning to religion?" Luke: "To observance of Jewish Law, the Sabbath, Kosher, etc..." Lynne: "Jews don't have to believe in God. You have to go, but you don't have to believe. The precious thing about being Jewish is that you can talk to God directly. 'Are you there?" Not answering? Catholics go through a priest, an intermediary. But we've always been permitted to question. "I plan on doing two small claims suits. I'll sue David [Hardman] and I'll sue AVN. They told me that because I complained about their reviews, they would not submit Indigo Moods for a nomination. I don't get it. Gabor can call them up and scream all he wants, but I call them up, 'I don't like this,' and they say, ok, we're not nominating you. This is misogyny. "Women are not to be hurt. That is not sex. But David is really cute. Lukey, you did not tell me [how cute David Sturman is]. You said he had grey hair. "Paul Wisner is a hero. He straddled the line between legal porno and illegal porno. Eddie Wedelstedt mentioned that he [Paul Wisner] went to North Carolina [in 1992 to face federal prosecution for trafficking in obscenity] when everyone else rolled and they fought and they won. And my husband [Bruce Walker] stood in that dock with Paul. My husband was asked by the federal government to roll and he did not. "The funeral marked the passing of an era and now it is business as usual. And I do not want to see a bunch of misogynistic anal sex movies. I only want to see happy women. "When I first got into it, I thought I could help people like you. They don't want me to. I thought I could help people who were sexually inhibited expand and grow. Be happier. But that's not what they want. They just want to celebrate their own disinterest in women. "Paul Wisner would never deliberately hurt a woman. He came from another era. They did not believe in equal pay back then. They believed in marry a man and pay the man. And my man died... We never called magazines 'Choke the bitch and f--- her.' "We had magazines like 'Teen Babes.' We never said anything like, 'look at this stupid slut spread her legs.' We gave her a name and made up a personality and call the magazine something reasonably respectful so we wouldn't get busted. I remember when it was my job to look at every picture and make sure there was nothing weird in here. So, ahh, let's take the sword out. And the garden chairs... Compared to Max Hardcore, Paul was a gentleman. And we didn't have to sue people. We could just deal with it. "The OG (Old Gangsters) all had wives. Mark Kernes [AVN journalist] does not. That's the first I have to ask Bryn when I go in for our meeting. 'Have you ever had sex with a woman?' Second question. 'Has anybody ever rammed anything up your butt?' Then you don't know what it feels like, do you? You don't know it hurts, do you? And now that we have contraception, there's no reason for it, is there, unless you are a faggot, which you are. "We never hurt women. We may have chained them up to radiators but we didn't ram dicks up there butt. It was all acting until Mr. Faggot Stagliano, who is a faggot for Chrisk sake, that anybody got hurt. "So I'm standing there with all the OGs (Old Gangsters) and we're all saying, I'm glad we got out. I'm glad we're not in it now. Who wants to see women being ass f---ed? "Al Robles is my enemy because he tried to sell me to these Canadian guys. Which would've been totally ok with me if somebody had told me. But he didn't. Then he tried calling the next, 'I thought you were coming to our room.' Oh gee, I didn't know that. And I am so easy. If somebody says, 'I'll give you $500 to go to someone's room, I'll do it. "They sent me to this VSDA conference in 1991. And Al Robles promised these Canadians that I would go to their room. The Canadians were good people. Not their fault. "Alec Wisner [Paul's son] tried to throw me out of the CES... And Al approached another man who my friend, and said, 'hahaha, I bet you guys had a hot time last night.' And the other guy, who was married, looked at me and said what? But at a f---ing funeral, you have to bury the hatchet. "I complained to Paul and he said, you never go to any other convention again. I went away for the Adult Video Association. I told Bill [Margold] that I would run the booth while he watched his Lions game. "I think you [Luke] got abused before you were two. Someone did something weird to you..." Luke: "I lived with a dozen different people in my first four years. I got passed around a lot." Lynne: "If you get attached to somebody, what are they going to do? Pass you around. It's really f---ing deep in you. If a man or a woman holds you, she's going to give you up. You're still reacting on that gut level, I can smell that. I can smell your fear. You may never heal. But that's my job in the next ten years is to heal people. I tried to do that in porno but they wouldn't let me. They just decided it is all about hurting women. "In the '70s, it was about helping people explore their sexuality, have what they like, and have it in a safe way. Lynne writes: "I have, in my lap, a genuine Gideon bible. New Testament. Corinthians 13. My dog gives me all this. I'm not being facetious. Tobi gives unconditional love. She would be a great teacher. Find a pet. You need the love. You DESERVE the love. There is no forever on this earth. No one can promise to stay with you forever. Bruce and I had ten years. I feel lucky. "I am here with you" is the most powerful thing I can say to myself when I'm afraid. But it is not "God" talking to me. It is just a human construct. We have the capacity. Dogs and cats don't." Lynne L-patin writes: "Anyone who was offended
by the maudlin, drunken ramblings I made after Paul Wisner's funeral,
which Luke F-rd fairly accurately transcribed and published, please
accept my apologies. I didn't realize it would become a eulogy for
Paul. Not that there shouldn't be all sorts of memories of people.
Mine are only mine. By the way, if anyone at Adult Video News had
bothered to inform me they were in "nominations week" we might have
evolved a different way to deal with my movie review. I had to learn
it from Luke F-rd (he's good for something, see). Luke, you print
far too much of me. Get a life. Work Harder."
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