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Off camera and on, Al has sex with numerous female performers. Tammi Ann was his girlfriend for a year. He also dated Savannah and made her last film Hustlers. The youngest major producer of X-rated movies got his start financing Buck Adams. "We went to a $5,000 video, $10,000 video and so on until it ended up being an $80,000 film called Hustlers," Al told AFW. "I shot Butt Hunt. Mark Carriere of Leisure Time Entertainment loved the title so much, he launched a series about it. I own the title and we made a deal, but he's still releasing under that title. I don't care, but he still hasn't paid me the money from it." Typical of a new guy on the porn block, Al voices many complaints about the industry. "Tammi Ann and I met on a movie called Naughty in Nature. I made the movie and sold it to Pleasure Productions. I made five movies and I couldn't settle on a distributor because everyone else had f---ed me, so I went with Pleasure."(AFW) Al gets many of his actresses from Jim South's World Modeling. "Guys are loyal to him but the girls aren't. When a girl has to make money, she'll do whatever she has to do. I didn't want to pay Jim South $60 when he didn't even call the girls for me, but now I pay him. I find that's the best way to do business." (AFW) AVN 8/96: "The distribution deal between Al Borda's Bella Pictures Gold and Legend Video lasted less than three months...came to an explosive parting of the ways, as is par for the Borda course. "Legend, per their usual practice, refused any comment other than a terse "good luck" to Borda. Borda, on the other hand, had plenty to say, shouting "I've never been so angry at a company in my life"." "I'm a rebel," says Al. "A trendsetter and a leader rather than a follower. I'm pushing the envelope, especially in marketing. I'm in your face with nasty names, no airbrushing, no copy on the back of my boxes, just lots of hot pictures. I'm not afraid of anybody, and I'll make my point with violence if I have to - it's a dog-eat-dog world out there. If I thought there was a finish line out there, I would've already crossed it by now." AVN 3/96: "Stepping on toes. Getting in faces. Getting in fights. Never talking softly when shouting will do. Al Borda not only toots his own horn, he hires all 76 trombones and 110 coronets right behind, and he courts controversy and confrontation like mother's milk." Borda directed the loop carrier Girly Video Magazine 1. "Missed opportunities," writes AFW. "That's all I kept thinking as I watched this tape. Director Al Borda has lined up two sexy pros and one cute newcomer, yet has no idea what to do with them. Kim Kataine has a great body and Borda f---s her all over the backyard of some mansion. Yet, it's all much ado about nothing since Borda just bangs away at her no matter where they're standing. " Al stars as Sinboy, the heir apparent to the throne of Max Hardcore, who dies in a swimming pool at the beginning of the video. "While Max sometimes comes off as smarmy, Al's cut from the cloth of Lucifer." (AFW) AFW gave erotic ratings of Volcanic and Boiling Pig Fat to the first two editions of Slut Hunt. "If you're a whacker teetering on the edge of acceptable social behavior, be careful with Slut Hunt 2 because slipping this display of all-twat excess into a VCR asks for damage to vital brain synapses, and could fling a fragile psyche to dementia. "In the beginning, there is pussy - seven beauties around this big room in a fancy house. The women are in chairs or on the stairs or just standing, masturbating. It's like strolling in a museum of fine female finger play, deciding what sculpture you're going to come over." Borda has generally reduced the number of sex scenes in his features from five to three longer scenes. Because three intense scenes can usually be done more quickly and efficiently than five regularly scenes, the motive is obviously economic. Borda blames distributors. "I don't even try to make the best product I can anymore," he says. "My distributors want to pay the same amount, order the same number of pieces, no matter what. ALl I can do is save money, and try to keep my features consistent." (AVN) AVN 3/96: "While his features may be consistent, it's not hard to spot a minor inconsistency between Al's most megalomaniacal pronouncements of how he's the best in the business, and his free acknowledgement that he isn't even trying to do his best, unless you grant that Borda's throwaway efforts are better than than, say, Seymore Butts's, Max Hardcore's or Patrick Collins's best."
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