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I meet Tina and Greg Cherry. Greg says that Larry Flynt's pilot gave Tina my book A History of X and she read it in one night. Like many porners, Tina and Greg expect me to be old, ugly and fat. Greg and Tina run a porno mailorder house 1-877-XXXFLIX. Their website is www.gnkadventures.com. Greg: "We deal directly with the consumer. We place ads in many of the magazines... We didn't want to get into the wholesale game because it seems that it seems like it is pretty set up. You can make enemies doing that. People have had customers forever... When we first checked into the wholesale, that seemed to be the name of the game. Everybody was lowballing each other. They really whore the product. And you don't have to. You can sell a couple of hundred pieces of $34:95 each... "I had a real indepth conversation with Mark Carriere about the ads. He was trying to sell me on the mailing list but we get a way better result placing ads. "We started in February. And after the first five months, we'd covered the start-up costs and after that it's been profitable. "We're originally from Tennesse but we came here from Florida. We made really good friends with Peter North in Tampa and he inspired us to move out here. "In 1993, we came out and shot stuff for Mark Carriere so Tina could have boxcovers. Carriere would shoot her in a couple of scenes and Carriere would get 20 boxes out of it. He's the king of that. "She was dancing and for her to book into the clubs and be billed as a porn star was $1000 a week... And we had fun doing it and met a lot of cool people. But we never fathomed that we would come out here and do it consistently. And we've had a crash course this past year. "Tina's done at least 50 scenes this year, about 35 of them for Metro. Since her contract [with Metro] ended with the Mexican vacation, she's been shooting for Michael Raven at Sin City and Nic Cramer and Chuck Martino... "She didn't start working with other male talent until Mexico. And she was uptight about that and it was cool because Scott Stein did a good job of putting the right people together. There was good chemistry there. Everybody was comfortable. And to get that many people in this business in one concentrated area and getting along, that was an undertaking." Luke: "Did you get paid by Metro? I've heard they've bounced many checks on people." Greg: "I've heard that rumor too. As a matter of fact, my office is located inside a production company in Van Nuys and I know they've had problems. We've never had problems. It was a five digit check they paid her at the end of the week [after the Mexico trip] and it cleared." Luke: "How did you guys meet?" Greg: "I walked into a club in Memphis, Tennessee and sat down and bought a dance from her. We had a long conversation. She confessed she was a 17-year old runaway. Three months later, she was living in my apartment and a year after that we were married. "Six months into us living together, I insisted on her contacting her family and letting them know that she's ok. 'I met this guy and I'm not dancing anymore.' I was gainfully employed and she stayed home at played housewife. "I was working research and development for a company called Competition Cams. And my first year out of college I was working in my field as a mechanical engineer. And I worked in the field for three years until I burned out. We made valve components for race cars. It was a fun job at first. You fly out to the races on the weekends, shake hands, make sure everybody is using your product, talk to the engine builders... "After I convinced Tina to contact her parents, she told me that they lived in the same small town that we lived in. I couldn't believe that we hadn't bumped into them in the grocery store. Then she told me, 'I drive your car during the day and I've seen them out. And usually they don't notice me in your car.' "Not long after that, she invited them over to the house for dinner. I expected the worst. I figured this girl had come from white trash in a trailer park... And they turn out to be the most charming people I've ever met. Educated and well-to-do. Her mother is vice-president of the second largest courier company in this nation. And her father owns the largest fiber optics networking company in the South East. She comes from good people and it was kinda a rebellion thing. And she really got a taste for the sex industry and wanted to see how far she could take it and how far it would take her. And here we are talking to Luke F-rd. "She got her first boob job in 1993. We took a loan out on her car. Actually, she did it. I gave her a car as a wedding gift. And she wanted a boob job. And she was overweight at the time, from staying home, cleaning house and cooking. And I told her, 'Lose a few pounds and we'll see about getting you a boob job.' And she lost the weight... And a week later, she says, 'I got the money.' Then she told me a couple of days later that she took the title of the car to the bank and got a loan. "I flipped out but they've more than paid for themselves. And seeing it boost her self esteem. Seeing her as soon as she could get up out of bed after she first had the operation, it was like the Tina Cherry Fashion Show. I sat on the couch and she would come out of the bedroom with every piece of clothing she owned. 'Look how much better this fits me now!' And it was cool. I guess are the same way about their boobs as guys are about their dicks. The bigger the better. And this has been a good ride for her. She has really met some good people. Anything negative we've heard about the industry I file away with urban legend because so far it has been great. And the people in the industry have been cool. "In her first operation, they put an 800 CC bag in her [breasts] and they only filled it the first time with 450 CCs of saline. And then six months later she went back and they filled her bags up the rest of the way. Because they were so large, they didn't want her skin to stretch. She's had them for a while and she's ready to get them changed. Now that silicone is legal again, and it's much lighter, she wants to go for silicone. She moved from a B to a D to an E. They're not big to us. We're used to them... When you see her standing next to other girls, then they look large." Tina Cherry measures 32E-24-28. She stands 5'2" and weighs 105 pounds. Greg: "That's the only plastic surgery she's had. Though she wants to get her nose done. I don't think she needs a nose job." Luke: "So Tina got back into dancing in 1993?" Greg: "She went to London to do a photoshoot for John Graham and he got her a ton of magazine covers and layouts from a week's worth of shoots. He shot her every day. And when the magazines hit, the agents started calling, wanting her to feature. So, the magazine modeling doesn't pull that good of a draw, only a few thousand a week. And it seemed like the porn girls were really making the good looking money... So at that point we decided to get some boxcovers. "We talked to a couple of [dance] agents... Charley Frey... Yeah, we went through the ringer. Charley was a never ending series of lies and deceit." Chuck Martino walks up wearing a mask over his nose and mouth. He wants to avoid getting the flu. Greg Cherry: "We just got a new home and were moving all night. This morning I couldn't find shoes or anything. Or socks. I dug through several boxes and gave up... The home is way beyond our means but so is everything else out here. "Tina drug me into this business kicking and screaming because I was so unsure about it... I was sure there was no way we could make a living doing this. I was so sure I was doing the right thing: education, work in your field, 401K, get all the benefits from a big company... But this is way more fun." Tina: "And we have more time for each other. "We set up the mailorder in Florida but we just didn't like living there. So at CES, we knew a guy Roy Alexander who placed a bunch of ads for his videos with all of our information... He directed all the sales to us." Greg says he was nervous about performing sex on camera in Mexico because for the first time he was working with women aside from his wife and "there was a huge audience for every scene. All the tourists there would see the lights being set up and converge. Ok, there's going to be a scene here. And other people would see people converging and there would be a chain reaction. Adams and McCormick were very professional about not losing it with the crowd. "And these tourists would all have cameras and McCormick, when it was time to get stills, would say to the crowd, if any of you guys want stills, go ahead. And they just ate it up. Tina and Greg Cherry tell me how much they enjoyed shooting for Mike McCormick and Mike Adams of Metro. Tina: "They are fun to work with.. They are hilarious. They make the sets go so fast because they are always cracking jokes." Greg: "They were the first people we worked with outside of Carriere. "Yes, I now work with other girls. I did a scene a couple of days ago with Allyson Chains." Tina: "While I was under contract to Metro, I decided to write a script because they have some really good key players there. Ron Jeremy, Houston... And one day on set, there was this behind the scenes guy, a gaffer... Who wore cargo shorts and a safari type hat. And we were making jokes... Who are you? San Fernando Jones? "So we kicked around some ideas. Then Greg and I went home and wrote a script. We did it in two weeks. It's a movie within a movie. It's about all of their [Metro's] lines, Blowjob Fantasies... Backseat Driver... "We want to do an ongoing series. Greg [Alves, Metro general manager] liked it. We're going to do a series eventually. We'll call the first one, "San Fernando Jones and the Temple of Poon." Houston will be the High Priestess of Poon and Ronny will be San Fernando Jones." Greg: "He's an explorer and he's heard all these myths and urban legends around the valley about this temple of poon." Tina: "Metro gave me my own line, "The Ultimate Squirting Machine." I can sit down in a tub of water, suck it up and spray it about six or eight feet. So we did the first one in February and it had the greatest sales... "We shot the second one in Mexico. We got some great shots in the pool where I sucked the water up and sprayed it directly into the camera. They had an underwater camera." Greg: "We'd been married a couple of months and we were taking a bath together. And she raised up out of the tub and sprayed me right in the face with all this water." Tina: "I didn't even tell him..." Greg: "I told her, 'It's too bad you can't do that on stage. You'd make tons of money.' Then the candle thing. We were backstage one day with a girlfriend and she said, 'Have you ever tried to blow out candles [by expelling air from the vagina]. "If you've got a dildo that has ridges on it, you can get that into her and actually pick her up. Up to her shoulder blades. You can't get her fully suspended. She's got these great kegel muscles that just grip. And if she's not real wet, she can hold on to it..." Tina: "If I'm too horny, it doesn't happen." Tina has just started doing anal. And she wants to do a DP, off camera first. Luke: "Do you do interracial?" Greg and Tina say no. Greg: "All our friends in Tennesse are black. We lived in Memphis which has a 68% black population. I ran a nightclub there. And it was pretty much all black clientele. So it's not that. I guess it's pretty much a preference sexually." Luke: "Because it will hurt your dancing career?" Tina: "Well, I would hate for my father to ever see that. Because he's like really cool. He'll call, when I talk to him, and say, 'Oh yeah, I saw you on Spice the other day...' I think if he ever saw me doing that he would be really really hurt. I love my daddy and I wouldn't want to hurt his feelings." Luke: "What if your dad wasn't involved?" Tina pauses. "The guy would have to be really really good looking. I like Tupac [the dead rap star]..." Greg: "You'd like Mark Anthony. A perfect gentleman." Tina: "He's very nice." Luke: "Do you do black men off camera?" Tina: "No..." Luke to Greg: "Do you do black guys off camera?" Greg: "No, no, not at all. I've done a lot of asian girls." Tina: "I did Dee. She's awesome." Luke: "So you'll do black girls?" Tina: "She's Puerto Rican.... She's sexy and a sweetie." Luke: "How's the reality of the business compared to your preconceptions?" Tina: "There are a few whacky people in the business...but a lot of really good people. And that's made it ok. There are normal people like us in the business." Greg: "We're finding more and more of them everyday." Greg was born Jewish but converted to Roman Catholicism to marry Tina in a church. Here are photos from today's Martino shoot "Big Titty Girls From
Outer Space" (script by Devon Saphire) for Coast to Coast, starring
Tina Cherry, Oliva Wendy Knight, Eric Price:
3/14/01 Nici@Nicisgirls.com writes on BigDoggie.net: XXX Star Tina Cheri is visiting NYC 5/4-5/10 & Philadelphia 5/11-5/17! Full, ripe breasts, rippling abdominal muscles, and taut, toned gams. That will give you a clear mental picture of Tina Cheri. This lady has the body of a dancer and the persona of a nymphet. What man wouldn't be enthralled? Tina's boundless energy and attitude gives her quite an edge in the feature performance category and we all understand why she's such a favorite. Tina can be seen in some very steamy XXX videos, as well as her numerous gentlemen's magazine layouts. This erotic feline has everyone clamoring for more Cheri! But, if you really want to win her over, try and find a collectible Barbie. If you do, she just might be your doll. On the home front, Tina loves spending quiet time doing whatever comes to mind. She has a boundless love for animals, especially cats. If you are one of the lucky individuals who get to meet this pretty young thing in person, you'll realize what a rare and wonderful individual she truly is. Tina will be available for incall/outcall at a rate of $1,500 for the first hour and $1,000 each additional hour. Please make your appointments in advance.
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