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Director Chuck Vincent tried hard. He tried to mainstream porn by telling real stories about real people such as Roommates and In Love. He introduced porn to persons who'd never otherwise watch it, and sparked cable TV's sex explosion.

Chuck's most erotic film was 1979's Jack 'N Jill. A technically excellent director, Vincent gets heat out of Samantha Fox and Jack Wrangler. Strip poker, an exploration of the swinging world and Annie's Sprinkle obscene phone call add to this early Moonlighting effort. By contrast, Holliday calls the sequel Jack 'N Jill 2, 1984, "the least erotic big budget film ever made from a superior script. It goes downhill after the traditional trick opening. Chuck made brilliant movies but this original is his hottest."

In 1979, Chuck Vincent directed Misbehavin'. Lesllie Bovee celebrates her 13th divorce at a swank social outing attended by the hippest of New York society. Her future plans cause of wager of a thousand souls between an angel and the devil. Will she marry for love or money? They agree not to interfere with her plans.

Another Chuck Vincent comedic farce - This Lady Is A Tramp - appeared in 1980. Samantha Fox recounts her life from rags to riches during adultery proceedings. It's a witty story coupled with solid sex.

Critic Kal Lahue named Tramp as film of the year. Ron Jeremy gives himself head and Veri Knotty does her lip tie specialty. Samantha Fox won the best actress award for her portrayal of Dana Sue Dewars.

Chuck's most acclaimed film Roommates - an X-rated attempt to cross over to mainstream - appeared in 1981. Though widely celebrated by critics, it didn't connect with theater audiences.

 

Bob Rimmer thought Roommates the best adult film ever, but he's a soft touch for a soft touch.

"A couple of lesbian friends took it home," says Veronic Hart, "and they said that the last thing they wanted to do afterwards was to have sex."

Roommates features a complete plot and fewer sex scenes than normal in a porno, but those scenes, according to Rimmer, are realistic, adventurous, frequently romantic, beautifully photographed and well acted by Hart, Jerry Butler, Samantha Fox, Jamie Gillis, Kelly Nichols and Bobby Astyr.

Former high-price call girl Billie (Fox) tries to leave the business and start a new life. She makes television commercials which are worked into the plot. To cover the cost of her expensive apartment since she's not making enough money on her new job, Billie advertises for roommates. She gets Joan (Hart), an aspiring actress who has just arrived in New York, and Sherry (Nichols).

"Chuck Vincent has interwoven the sex lives of these three women with the story of their triumphs and failures. Joan finally finds real love with Eddie (Jerry Butler), a guy who thinks he's gay, but succumbs to her country-girl freshness...

"Beyond the interesting story, Chuck has created one explicit sex breakthrough scene after another... Chuck has created many beautiful precedents, cinematographically as well as psychologically, in a film which will be a sexmaking guide to R-rated movies and X-rated filmmakers for a long time to come." (Bob Rimmer, The X-Rated Videotape Guide, p.125-126)

A theatrical failure in both mainstream and porn theaters, Roommates finally found its niche on cable TV and on videotape.

In Love appeared in 1983. Holliday calls it one of the landmark films of the '80s, made in the grand sweeping Hollywood mold. The closest adult films have come conceptually to a Gone With The Wind type film. One of those adult films you're supposed to see because "they" all say so.

In Love is a better sex film than Roommates.

It chronicles a chance meeting between Jill Travis (Nichols) and Andy (Butler) in a Florida bar. Following a passionate weekend, he goes back to New York and she heads for California. His marriage to Veronica Hart and his business ventures leave him unfulfilled. Kelly spaces out with hippies in the San Francisco commune scene. Twenty years go by before they meet again.

Kent Smith gives a man's view for Adam of 1983's In Love. "In Love is the most successful failure of recent years. Heaps of praise should be piled upon Chuck Vincent for what he attempted to do, and a swift kick in the pants for what he overlooked. But first, the praise. This is the X-rated industry's first really big attempt at telling a swelling romantic love story. Both Jerry Butler and Kelly Nichols perform wonderfully. But the film never makes up its mind whether its a grand erotic film or a badly made romance."

Steffani Martini gives a woman's view. "In Love is a couples movie about three dimensional real people who love and hate as opposed to merely lust."

Overall, Vincent's movies fails as both porn and film.

His best attempts include Jack and Jill, Bon Appetit, Fascination, In Love, Puss 'N Boots, Bordello, Voyeur, Sex Drive and Sex Crimes 2084.

Through his noble failures, Vincent helped turn porn in the opposite direction of his approach. Instead of more story and character development, X-rated cinema since Chuck Vincent has concentrated on nasty f---ing and sucking.

In 1987, Chuck Vincent said: "I'm not interested in making sex films anymore. Many people I have talked with have been turned off by watching them. The sophistication of the American public is acute. The sex industry has to take this into account. I'm trying to put class in the product."

As porn moved into the video age, Chuck quit making X-rated films and turned to making R-rated exploitation and horror movies. He frequently used X-actors such as Veronica Hart.

"I was in 22 of Chuck's movies. Whenever he had a crazy character that he didn't know who to give it to, he'd call me in. He was hysterical and the world's worst director because he was a fan. He thought I could do anything. He never told me what to do. He let me do whatever I wanted to do. I loved Chuck. He was a good guy. I miss him.

"People always talk about the films they were going to make. Chuck was the only person I know who didn't talk about them, but he made them. He was a terrible businessman. He ended up owing a lot of people money. It's rare that someone stops talking and starts doing."

Chuck directed Veronica Hart and Jerry Butler - billed under their real names Jane Hamilton and Paul Siderman - in the 1987 R-rated Deranged, based on Roman Polanski's Repulsion - a far-out look at a mentally deranged woman.

Raped by her father Jamie Gillis, Veronica goes crazy. Most of the film's 90 minutes occur in her New York apartment where she becomes increasingly insane "as she mingles past, present and fantasy in dreary, confusing sequences during which she is either pregnant, trying to convince herself that she still is, or fantasizing that she already has a child. Even the flashback scenes with Daddy Jamie committing a bloody suicide in the bathtub don't create the horror that keeps you entranced. Veronica acts her heart out... Throughout most of the film, she screams bloody murder, kills three people, gets beaten up by a masked intruder, and suffers a miscarriage." (Bob Rimmer)

After leaving the adult genre, Chuck made numerous low-budget T&A movies for the Playboy Channel such as Wimps, Young Nurses in Love, If Looks Could Kill, as well as erotic thrillers and horror films. The homosexual died of AIDS at the end of the '80s.

Veronica Hart

Veronica Hart ranks at the top of adult film actresses. Sam Frank dedicated his book Sex in Cinema to her in hopes that she'd achieve mainstream success. She hasn't.

Veronica started in mainstream entertainment at age 15. She acted, modeled and danced.

Hart lost her virginity at 15. The guy she was seeing at the time was sixteen. "I had heard about sex so much, and I knew all about it from an early age. I have a lot of older sisters, and I used to read their little books on what your body is and how it works. At that time, I hadn't done much petting. I'd kissed but little fondling.

"I decided it was time. I knew it was going to happen but he didn't know. I got dressed up for it, put on my hippy-dippy get-up, veloured myself out. I suggested that we stop by a friend's place, and I dragged him into another room and that was it.

"I was proud of myself. I was so in love and romantic. I felt wonderful. I talked to him on the phone the next day, and said how he was my boyfriend and asked him if he'd ever done it before. He said, "Yeah." I said, "What?, how many times?" He said "Twelve." I was heartbroken. He'd been with twelve other girls before me."

Veronica waited three months before doing it again.

"I was in the school talent show. I've always danced. I started taking dancing lessons when I was seven. It was the time of hot pants, and I was running around in a pair. I thought I was hot stuff. This guy came up to me, a nice looking guy, and he tried to put the make on me. I couldn't be bothered. I was snippy, very short with him. A few moments later, I found out that he happened to be the lead singer in the rock group that was playing around town. All of a sudden, it was, "Hi, how are you? Can I help you pack your instrument?" He let me help him pack his instruments, and I went home with him. When I went to his house, he wouldn't let me go. He dragged me into the bedroom. My panty hose got down to my knees and he gave it to me. It wasn't anything I was into. It wasn't fun for me, but he sure taught me a lesson. It taught me not to tease men if I didn't mean it. Also, it taught me not to be such a s--- towards people. Where did I get off thinking I was so much better than him? He was the same person whether he was a lead singer or not. It doesn't make any difference what people do.

"We stayed friends," says Veronica in 6/96. "Although it was a horrible experience, I bragged that I'd been with him because he was a minor rock star. I'd go up to him at a concert and say, "Hi Wayne, remember me? Remember me?"

"And he'd say "Hi" and walk away. We were both in theater in college and we were both at the same level. It was important to me that I go back and f--- him because I was so bad the first time. And when I went back, I found out why it had hurt so much because he had a big dick. On our first time, I had no idea. I probably didn't even touch it. I didn't know what was going on.

"He turned into a fan of me. He won't stay at parties too long where I'm at because he gets frustrated. He still plays music but he hasn't had a big career."

Veronica stayed sexually active through her late teens because "it was a way of getting accepted. I knew I could make men feel good. The two things I have always been interested in is acting and making love. The X-rated business is a natural place for me."

The ex-porn star describes her new views in 1996. "We all want to be liked, loved, adored... And sex was a way for that, especially when you were really bright. Being bright when I was growing up was not positive. So you did a lot of things to be accepted such as drugs and sex which I embraced whole heartedly. Getting married was great because it taught me that I could have relationships with men and still not have sex. Usually, before if I had a relationship with a guy, I went to bed with him. It followed. Being married taught me that I was valuable as a person and I had worth besides the bed. But I'm still sexual. Now I like sex because I like sex. It's not just to get liked or appreciated."

Veronica graduated from college at age 19 and moved to England for three years where the 5'6 combination of brains and beauty modeled. "You don't need to be tall to model there."

An accident with a coffee urn changed her life when it spilled scalding coffee on her side. "They didn't know about packing you in ice then."

Veronica was in the hospital for two months.

"You don't have to be a psychology expert to see why I got into porn. I've always liked sex but my life would probably have taken a different turn without that accident.

"People in pornography are usually rebels or are trying to make up for some kind of deficiency or defect. It could be in their character...or they could've been beaten or sexually abused in their childhood...or their nose is crooked or some other physical defect. That's where it [motivation for entering porn] used to come from but now everybody gets everything done [surgically] so it's not so much the case.

"At one point in the hospital, I felt that I'd never be able to take off my clothes in front of a man.

"On the first night I spent with my English boyfriend after getting out of hospital, he turned off the lights. And I like to make love with the lights on. So that really hurt."

Veronica rarely appeared naked in her scenes. Instead, she usually wore lingerie to hide her scars.

Veronica Hart got a BA in theater, spent some time in modeling and straight films, and then got into X.

"I was disillusioned with the straight film business. I had moved out to New York with a legitimate casting director. He was nasty. I got out of that. Two music deals fell through for me. I was forced into becoming a temporary secretary.

"It's tough to live on a $100 a week anywhere and in New York it's extremely tough. I was renting a room from a gentleman, Roy Stewart, and he had done X-rated films. He saw my modeling pictures and my acting credits. He said "You're an asshole." I said, "Yeah?" He said: "You're selling your brains, your time, your organizational ability, everything, for not much money.

" And I've always been sexually active. I enjoy sex. There wasn't any big moral thing with me that I had to get over. So I tried it. I didn't go in thinking I'd be a big porn star, but some people told me early on that I could be.

"Most of the people I became acquainted with who did legit films, the supposedly moral people of our world, I found to be the most degenerate. Porn has its share of good and bad, too, but compared to legit people, they're more real and down to earth.

"He [Roy Stewart] and I were f--- buddies. He'd get the girls to come to the films. He never could perform [on camera] but he'd try again and again. We did a week a live sex shows. And I literally blew my brains out. That was tough to fake with no hard on. And he continued to try.

"My first [adult] film was with a guy [Lenny Curtman, who used the porn name Leon Gucci, directed Tara Tara Tara, The Seduction of Cindy and Princess Seka] who had a reputation for f---ing all his actresses, which he did with me.

"I was having sex with a guy who was predominantly gay - Zebedy Colt. It was hard to get him up. After an hour of shooting, Lenny takes me aside and asks if I want to finish the scene. I didn't know what to say. So eventually I said "Sure." So Lenny bends me over, unzips his fly, penetrates my vagina, pumps me twice and cums all over me."

"I didn't know much about the adult business at the time but I knew that wasn't right. Actors are paid to perform and that directors don't stand in for cum shots. He got to f--- all his actresses that way.

"We run an upright business. I knew the big difference between a director and an actor. Actors are hired to f---. Not directors. It wasn't professional. It was the only time I felt like s--- in porn.

"I ended up feeling sorry for him. If that was his only way of getting laid, that's sad.

"I'm not a dumb woman, but most people don't have any guidelines when they first get into this business... Seka told me what I had to do, which is that no one has to do anything that they don't want to do... The producers will try to get away with as much as they can. To get as much out of an actress for the least amount of money. And that's strictly business."

Veronica first performed sex in front of theater audiences on Broadway. She did live sex shows for a week and found it ok.

"Even after I'd made a couple of films, I went back to doing the live shows. But I would never do them again now, because I respect my body too much. If you make love from four to six times a day, you lose some sensitivity."

Veronica enjoyed sex in front of the camera.

"Film is the illusion of truth. What might look good on film is not necessarily what feels good. Still, I believe that the hotter you are, the hotter it's going to come across to the audience. A lot of girls in this business aren't into sex, or they aren't into making it with another girl. They play at it, and their coldness comes across on film. The more you can psych yourself up to be hot, the hotter it will appear on film."

Veronica Hart is bisexual.

"I love the warmth and tenderness that you get through ladies, but you can have that with a man, too. I love pussy and I love cock. Everybody is basically bisexual. People are turned on by feeling good. Screwing is wonderful, and its fabulous in itself, though there is more to life than sex. Love is also wonderful."

Veronica wants more character development in porn. "Have the story tell how the couple gets to f---ing. A lot of bad porn has f---ing every other scene, and that's not how it is in real life. You don't f--- every second. There should be some buildup, a relationship established before sex. A good porn movie is one you could take all the sex scenes out and still have a good movie."

This is the opposite of Al Goldstein's view - "The plot of a porn film is like the frame of a painting. You don't look at the frame."

Veronica: "Porn is one of the worst things an aspiring actress can do. What angers me is that if I were up for a straight part, and I was just as good as someone else, that I've done porn would stand in the way. It's the kind of hypocrisy that prevails in America. Everybody loves to make love, but nobody wants to admit it. Everybody loves a girl who loves to be screwed, but they still think of her as a slut. I'd see guys f---ing all day on a set, and people would say, "Wow, what a man," and "Isn't he wonderful?" A chick will get f---ed all day and they'll say, "God, she's really great, but what a slut!" So, you realize that you've got to be the best slut there is."

"A magazine ran a shot of me from a movie where this guy was behind me. It wasn't an anal. The magazine printed: "And Veronica yelled: 'f--- me where I s---!'" That is not a turn on to me.

"I've done a lot of anal intercourse scenes. When I'm hot, I'll take it any way I can get it. I just want it. I wouldn't say I like it more or less... It's just a different sensation. I think a lot of straight men would like it, but they may be afraid to do it because of the homosexual thing.

"This business is in transition. People are trying to do different things, and make it more realistic. The women's market is untapped.

"There are films that I dearly love [Amanda By Night, Scent of Heather, and Roommates]. They've been criticized and aren't played in theaters because they don't have all the open cum-shots. They're not considered explicit enough.

"Amanda by Night was like a TV movie with sex in it," Veronica told me. "You [Luke] look at it as before he [director Robert McCallum] was comfortable doing sex and I look at it as when he was a real filmmaker."

In Amanda, Hart plays a hooker who breaks free of her pimp and cares about her clients. Despite this cliche of the hooker with a heart of gold, the film's mixture of sex and violence keeps your interest to the romantic ending.

Hart quit doing explicit sex scenes after four years in the biz, but she still makes cameo appearances in porn. She and Kelly Nichols appeared in 1995's Latex.

Veronica's mainstream career has been disappointing. She's mustered only small roles in big movies and only big roles in small movies.

Like numerous other former adult stars such as Linda Lovelace, and Richard Pacheco, Veronica is married with children. She produces under her real name - Jane Hamilton - at VCA and directs as Veronica Hart.

"Loving someone is one of the closest ways to get to God.

"I worship God and I thank God for every minute of my life. There's a lot of people who don't agree with me and that's fine. I'm not a good one to follow a discipline. I know how I have to talk to God and worship him.

"As for work, I don't have to kiss ass to a boss. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do. I get away with doing a lot less and getting paid a lot more than most ladies ever would. That's why I can't consider myself a feminist. I'm a people-ist.

"There was an anti-porn thing, for example, in New York. What it really was was a bunch of dykes getting together hating men. That's not my idea of a good time.

"I make pornography because I can...and because mainstream isn't beating down my door.

"A writer from one of those classy women's magazines wanted to know what changes women had made in the business. And I said "None."

"Maybe there's a genre that hasn't been developed yet. There are two women making sex videos for women. We've been neglected. You've either got the slut who loves f--- films like the guys or the woman who never wants one of those films in the home. Most women are in between. They do enjoy sex but they need to be courted...with production value and romance. And there are also guys like that.

"I believe there's a whole niche for sex stores like Victoria Secrets with vibrators and selected videos...

"I loved the The Big Easy with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. When his hand disappears behind her and you just see her face. That got me so hot I had to turn it off and ask the kids to go in the other room because mommy was having a moment. That is much sexier than open-heart surgery.

"It's always been an easy thing to say - "I've done porn films, they won't let me cross over." There are a lot of things that won't let you cross over. If you hadn't done porn, you'd still have no chance to make it.

"I remember Lasse Braun on the set of American Desire. He'd always say, "Let me see the tongue." He'd gotten a straight crew to work on it. That's how I met my husband Michael. Lasse told the crew to stay far away from all the actors because they were sick people.

"In the mean time, he was busy banging every girl except me because I wasn't his cup of tea.

"I chased my husband. I was either going after him or the lady, Carol, who wrote the film. He was there with his little light meter down by my pussy and I was coming on to him. He was either going after me or Carol. We had the same taste in women which I thought was a good starting point.

"Michael works behind the scenes in both straight and adult. He writes all the stuff that I shoot.

In New York he knew everybody. It was his town. I forced a move out here to LA and it's been difficult for him to get reestablished. He works freelance. He writes porn scripts under the name Michael Hunt. He's now working on a science fiction novel. We've written a couple of [mainstream] screen plays which we hope to produce. For Lighting and Director of Photography work he goes by Clint Torres. For audio, he's Mike Stick. He's not aggressive but I am.

"Samantha Fox lives in New York and is so bitter about the industry. She wishes that she'd never gotten into it. She's a victim. She said all this on a Phil Donahue we did last year. She's in a twelve step program for alcoholism. I had no idea that she was that much of an alcoholic.

"Coming off the Phil Donahue set, I said to Samantha - "One thing I never thought that I'd have to do was defend myself against you. I just feel sorry for you. I never knew what great pain you were in."

"In the middle of the Phil Donahue show, I felt like saying, "Samantha, you looked like you were really enjoying it when I was eating your pussy." She was just vicious.

"I was livid. I couldn't believe it. It also reminded me of why I don't do talkshows anymore. They just want to rehash old stuff. They don't want to hear about the new stuff we're doing. They want to hear about f---ing. I understand now. My husband explained it to me. "If you've got an astronaut whose been to the moon, you don't want to know what he's doing now. You want to know what the moon was like.

"Linda Lovelace is making money. When she worked, she hardly got paid anything. And a lot of people have made a lot of money off her. I don't blame her for trying to make some of it back, but her method is stupid.

"Porn is not hooking. I was hired as an actress. Maybe on a straight film the director f---s the actress but it doesn't happen in this business. Nobody has to come in here and do me to get a job.

"That's why I hate to get lumped in with the rest of pornographers.

"I took great joy in this business because I was hired to f---. I never had to f--- to get hired.

"It's sleazy to f--- to get somewhere. Believe me, I've tried it all over Hollywood. It doesn't guarantee anything.

"Everybody who doesn't f--- the actresses takes great pride in that. They feel set apart. They don't feel as sleazy as the next guy. I had a two year fling with Harold Lime. That was my choice. I've never f---ed anybody in this business to get a job.

"I take pride in my high standards. No actress comes into VCA and f---s anyone to get a job. I hate to get lumped in with the Rocco Siffredis and Max Hardcores. Women should be treated with respect - not slapped around, spat upon and dunked in toilets.

"I'm happy to hear that such nasty material hasn't changed your [Luke] ideas about women. I worry about my sons seeing videos like that. Would they think that's the way to treat women? And by you telling me no, that you realize it's a fantasy, that makes me feel better about it. But I always know that when people go out against pornography, they bring up child pornography and animals and denigration of women. Our biggest sin, if we sin, is that we trivialize sex and make it boring.

"I maybe idealistic, but I want everyone to get off and be happy in my pictures. I don't want it to be an act that's imposed on the woman but is enjoyed by the woman and sometimes initiated by the woman."

Veronica directs and produces under the name Jane Hamilton. VCA has released about 20 of her sexvids. Jim Holliday calls her the hardest working woman in porn.

Kelly Nichols

Kelly Nichols entered porn in the late '70s, left in 1986 and then returned a few years later for several performances in bondage and domination flicks.

The brunette began modeling nude at age 18 and broke into flicks a few years later in Chuck Vincent's Bon Appetit. Vincent's favorite actress, Kelly did five of her best films with him - including Games Women Play, Roommates, Puss n'Boots and In Love.

Nichols also appears in The Mistress, Society Affairs, Dixie Ray, Hollywood Star, Public Affairs, Dirty Girls and Sexcapades II.

A member of SAG, Kelly also appeared in several R movies such as The Toolbox Murders. Nichols was Jessica Lange's stunt double in the remake of Hong Kong.

She spent most of her five years performing married to Tim Connelly - a musician, writer and ex-performer who edits Adam Film World under the name of Jeremy Stone.

Kelly moved to New York in 1979 to repair her first marriage. "I was with my ex-husband and it was one of those desperate emotional moves. My ex introduced me to Chuck Vincent, who was looking for a female lead and male lead in an X movie. Chuck wanted me but not my ex, but I did it with his [my ex's] blessing, which was important to me. And then down the line he freaked and left for Texas and that was the end of him.

"Chuck offered me $12K and two weeks in Europe. I said "wow, I'll take it." And beyond needing the money - which I did, badly - it was a chance to make a new start. And then there was that they wanted me - they wanted me - to be the lead in a picture. I was at a point where I had no confidence left and this helped restore it. They had seen my two Penthouse layouts and decided they wanted a new face.

"I didn't have to think about having sex in front to of the camera. I was used to taking my clothes off in front of a camera, and I did enjoy that, but I realized this was going to be a whole new ball game. But they shot the film in such a way - we did all the European shooting in two weeks, then waited a month, did a week of straight scenes in New York and then crammed all the sex scenes in one week. When I was finally confronted with a week of back to back sex, I approached it like a football game - I go from here to here, and at the end I get the rest of the money. But by the end of the week I started enjoying myself, to feel professional and to have as much fun in front of the camera as I did as a model.

"My first sex scene was funny because they threw at me Jack Wrangler [gay porn star]. Jack and I are friends now, but then I didn't know what to expect. They'd set up the whole situation, like, "He's gay, so be kind." We were supposed to have sex in a car. I knew I should probably get him hard, but he said, "Don't worry, I'll take care of it myself." He got himself hard and said, "Now, when I say now, I want you to put your head down there, right around it, and I'll just come in your face." It was all done for me.

"You can be vulnerable in porn, as much as you think it's only acting. I had just met Jerry Butler and he was very studious. He wanted to act well and he helped me be more serious about my character - 'cause I was laughing at her the whole film [In Love]. And our loves scenes had to be tender. I'm a sucker for romance anyway, and with Jerry it hit a nerve. He was a good fit. You've heard porn stars talk about "They shut off the cameras and we kept going?" Well, Jerry and I did. And it started to scare me a bit. I was thinking, "Come on, don't be too uncool, you've got this old man at home, just calm down and enjoy it. But God, this guy's hot.

"I have this prima donna thing I'm known for. Whenever I do a sex scene, I chase everybody out of the room except for the cameraman. I don't want any distractions."

Kelly felt troubled by the attention she earned for spreading her legs. "I didn't know I had a pretty face and I hated my body. So how did I think I was a porn star, making my body naked and putting on makeup and being called beautiful.

"I'd go to shoots and drink because I needed to feel calm. I think 25 was a watermark year, because you're a quarter of a century old, and you think, "What do I do when I grow up? In five years I'll be 30, and people aren't going to tolerate this..."

"On Society Affairs, Harry Reems had been away from porn for ten years, and all of a sudden they throw ten of us girls at him - ten sex scenes. We were holed up in Sacramento at this wonderful rancho-racquetball place five miles away from this huge mansion we used for the shooting. And Harry was having problems throughout. You've heard the expression "fluff"? I had never been on a set before where fluffing had to be done. But Harry's scenes were going on way longer than they should, they were behind schedule.

"So all of us girls became friends and started helping each other out. If Laurie Smith had a scene in the morning and I was in makeup and didn't have a scene until that night - which would generally happen, I'd go in and help her get Harry together. And they would help me. It was hysterical because we ended up fluffing Harry through the whole thing, to the point where the girls would take him home at night to get him ready for the next day.

"And that was the first time I ever did anal on screen. Harry was with me and Laurie Smith and we were teasing him, trying to make him feel sexy. Someone had told me he was into anal, so I started feeding him lines like, "I bet you'd really like it in my ass." And he says, "Yeah, I would." Wham! (Laughs) And I end up on my knees! OK - guess we're gonna have an anal - no choice here. (Laughs) Producer came back after seeing the dailies - "Oh my God, we got an anal! I didn't know you could do that! You saved the show.!"