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Sin City Shoots The Bachelor
2003-05-04 19:59:50

Hannah Harper makes her debut for David Sturman's company.

Devon Sapphire wrote today's script.

Due to my spiritual influence, Bud Lee and company did not shoot one sex scene during my seven hours on set Sunday, 5/4/03 or on Monday 5/5/03. Instead they concentrated on dialogue, eating and joke telling.

The location was a mansion in Bel Air with a gorgeous view to downtown Los Angeles. It was a shame to bespoil the pristine beauty with vile pornography.

I arrive at 9:30AM. Hannah Harper is in make-up. Her friend Derek Harper sits on the couch talking on his cell phone.

I chat with Mike Horner, who's only on hand for 30-minutes to help his live-in girlfriend of two years, who serves as the caterer. Mike puts out the snacks in fancy containers.

Mike is starring in a six-day Wicked shoot Space Balls, directed by Johnathan Morgan. Cash Markman and Marc Wallice (and Ralph Parfait aka Jason Sullivan) are also helming big-budget pornos today.

The owner of the house walks in and the caterer, Monique, is all over him. It turns out they used to go to swinger parties together.

Mike makes all of his income from the porn industry. He still works as a performer as well as an assistant cameraman, production manager and all-round handyman. He frequently helps his girlfriend cater.

Today's catering is lavish. There are high-protein fully kosher Balance bars. I love those things and I eat three. It's the first time I've seen them on set.

I eat two donuts and strawberries and watermelon.

Horner plans to return to Hollywood. He gave up 15-years ago because he was told a porn star could never make it in Hollywood. Over the past few years, he's met so many encouraging producers and other Hollywood players, he's ready to give it a shot again.

Mike fears what the Bush administration has up his sleeve for the porn industry.

He says his girlfriend doesn't like to cook much when they are alone at home. It's frequently frozen pizza or take-out for dinner.

A photographer, Ben (tattooed, about 40-years old) tells me about hanging out with Asia Carrera at her place last week. He says she makes everyone who comes to her house take an IQ test first. He scored 142. Asia scores 156. He then shot photos of her for her website www.asiacarrera.com.

Ben says he's been in porn for six years, the last 30-months almost exclusively. He finds porn much easier than mainstream where you have to chase jobs, deal with clients, etc...

I lie on the floor during Steve St. Croix's shooting of dialogue and almost fall asleep. Maybe my medication level is too high?

I chat with Jace Rocker, who's renting to Bud Lee and company his camera equipment, about the Haunted Nights, Arabian Nights trilogy of the mid-90s for Wicked Pictures.

Jace: "It was the first successful comedy farce... Because of Haunted Nights, AVN started a whole new comedy - sex comedy."

Luke: "Those films revealed us to ourselves."

Jace: "Everything starts with the script. Steven and Johnathan were both faithful to the script."

Luke: "How does the porno scribe adjust in these recessionary times?"

Jace: "Working as crew. Every once in a while, someone gives me a directing job. Jim DiGiorgio doesn't any more. I think you made him feel uncomfortable."

Luke: "The egos are so fragile in this business. The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small."

Jace's ex-wife, porn star Britt Morgan, has married and moved out of state. She had a baby six months ago she named Montana Danger.

Luke: "Is Stephanie Swift still with her 20-year old boyfriend?"

Jace: "Yes."

Luke: "Does he perform with her?"

Jace: "No, he stands back and gives her moral support.

"Directing gigs are fewer and far between because there are too many dogs at the feeding bowl. Everybody that has a $3000 toy camera is now directing. They're not good quality but our business accepts that now. They wouldn't have five to ten years ago.

"I shoot the interviews at the AVN Show. All the talent that stepped up there, 85% of them now have their own lines. That makes it tougher for us old guys. You evolve or die.

"Most people would love to do what we do, to be surrounded by naked beautiful women. We're still dressing up and playing. Who wouldn't want to do that? Or write about it like you do?"

In 1992, Jace Rocker and Britt Morgan were married and Francois Clousea lived below them.

Jace: "I was walking downstairs one day and he stopped me and said, 'I've got all these qualifications working in films and I hear you are a director and I'd love to get some work.' He told me about all these mainstream movies he worked on in Europe. I said, 'I can only you work as a PA.' He took it.

"He drove around on a scooter. He did PA work for a couple of months. He became a gaffer and within two years, he was directing and shooting camera.

Francois and Hannah Harper live in the same apartment building.

Hannah was talking to Legend about resigning for two years. Then six weeks later, after they had tentatively agreed to that, Legend called her in and said they had shot her too much and they weren't going to shoot as many features any more and they wouldn't need her any longer.

So Sin City snapped her up.

Director Bud Lee has chopped twelve inches off his hair but he remains as telegenic as ever.

Bud: "I'm a genius. I shot a porno without one sex scene."

Steven St. Croix does his mantra before his scene: "I'm gorgeous. I'm gorgeous. I'm gorgeous."

Steven: "[Male performer] Joey Ray is giving me attitude because I didn't want to go camping with him. Nor hiking."

A crew member: "Don't go camping with him."

Bud: "It will be the best blowjob you've ever had."
Hannah Harper has four models living with her. Two have disappeared.

I meet Roxy, who lives with Hannah. Roxy and Hannah are the only porn girls on set today.

Roxy: "I went to Australia for six months and worked in a massage parlor. There was this customer who liked to spank me and he'd say, 'Who's your daddy? Tell me, who's your daddy?'

"I'm going back to Brisbane June 3rd and heading up towards Cairns and Darwin and down to Adelaide and through to Canberra and back to Syndey.

"I worked at a massage parlor on the Gold Coast called Good Sensations. They got closed down. Then I worked as a stripper at Dynasty."

Luke: "When do you have to be back at medical school?"

Roxy: "I don't. I'm studying philosophy and ethics at the University of North London. I've finished two years on my degree and I've got one more year to go."

Luke: "What did Socrates have to say about pornography?"

Roxy: "I'm not sure."

Luke: "How do you philosophically explain getting into porn?"

Roxy: "I can't. I just did it.

"I spent a couple of weeks in Rio getting to know the head of the drugs cartel."

Luke: "Did he get you some good material?"

Roxy: "Yes but it was too strong. Delivered to my hotel door. Coke. Then I went to Santiago, Chile, then I traveled up to Argentina and then I got sick because the air is too thin to breathe up there."

Luke: "How does such a tiny, demure fragile flower like yourself go on all these adventures?"

Roxy smiles. "Up until last April, I was engaged. I was with him for four-and-a-half years. Completely monogamous."

Luke: "Was he black?"

Roxy: "No. He was half-Irish, half white, 6'4" and big blue eyes."

Luke: "Have you ever been with a black man?"

Roxy: "Yeah, in film [Lexington Steele and Johnny Depp], and once in normal life in Rio. I tried to do Mandingo but it did not work out. He was huge."

Jason: "What did you do before you traveled abroad?"

Roxy: "I studied at uni. I worked in Soho London [an area notorious for vice]. I worked twelve hour shifts seven days a week in clubs. I was conning people into clubs to part with all their money.

"I'd greet them at the door. 'Strip tease, five pounds.' Then they'd come into the club. I'd sit them down and while they're sitting there talking to me, they're being billed 425 pounds an hour plus a 25 non-members fee. Obviously no one is a member. And then a 25% service charge and then a VAT (Value Added Tax) on top of that. They are not allowed out of the club until they hand over ID. We tell them we're going to take them to court for their money. Then we take whatever money they have on them.

"Our security guards take them to the nearest ATM and withdraw the rest of their money."

Luke: "And this is after studying ethics at university?"

Roxy: "They were mainly tourists - Australians and Americans."

Jason: "They deserved it is what you're saying?"

Roxy: "They came in thinking it was a brothel so... We took the money off them saying yeah, you will have sex after, we have rooms in the back. Then you take the money off them and they get their other bill and they will want to go and they will want their money back. And we'd respond, yeah, right mate, whatever. They'd scream and shout and the bouncer would take them out back and gave a go at them."

Luke: "The bouncers would beat them up?"

Roxy: "No, not all the time. Just give them a slap to intimidate them and most of them would just pay."

Shawn the gaffer says that since he was a kid, he's wanted to make pornos. He's living his life's ambition.

Later in the day, there's a discussion about what Shawn's doing. He's missing from the room. Jason says he's trying to figure out how to leave his gang without being jumped. I accuse Jason of racism. I didn't realize he was serious. Shawn is trying to figure out how to leave his gang without being jumped. Shawn's brother Spud, a cameraman, was kicked out of his gang. The brothers are Puerto Rican.

Shawn says you can't just leave his gang. They will come after you. A member of the gang was killed in the last month and this has left everyone jumpy.

Jason and I return to interview Roxy. He wants to ask her sex questions but I want to know her opinions on Socrates. Until she tells me, I can't achieve satisfaction.

Roxy talks about philosopher-kings. Jason offers to show her his sword.

Remi Channel notices that almost all writers in porn over 40 wear glasses.

Luke: "Does porn exacerbate eye strain?"

Jace: "You notice how he's always working that negative angle, always looking for something bad to write about porn. Seeking some sort of payback for being in pornography.

"You hate porn. You enjoy it. You want to destroy it wherever you can because you love it so much.

"I've sworn off females."

Bud Lee: "A Catholic doesn't have any problem with guilt because they can go to confession but for a Jew, it tears them apart. Paul Thomas is the perfect example - guilt-ridden little Jewish kid from Wisconsin. Stop! Put the dress back on and relax."

Jace: "The Jack the Ripper theory is that he killed prostitutes because he loved them so much. He felt guilty that he frequented prostitutes until he couldn't stand it anymore."

Luke: "I identify with that."

Bud: "I can get into heaven if I kill some hookers."

Jace: "If he kills pornography, that's his payback for loving it so much. You are the Jack the Ripper. You rip pornography."

Luke: "I feel that by so doing it exculpates me."

Steven St. Croix cracks up cast and crew and himself all shoot long, probably doubling the amount of takes needed and slowing the production.

Steven: "Times are so tough in this industry I think I'll go bar-tend at a [rundown] Mexican bar in Topanga."

Luke: "Didn't I put that on my site once?"

He gives me the look and everyone laughs.

Shawn tells me to stop calling him the scariest PA in the industry. He's the scariest gaffer in the industry.

The crew talks about a guy (Brett Webster?) who used to own a lighting truck in porn who became a woman called Cynthia and now has a boyfriend.

Bud Lee introduces Roxy as his "next ex-wife."

Steven St. Croix holds a rose and pontificates: "What makes high-end porn? Flowers."

The crew reminds Bud to take his pills. He does and then says, "Guys, this will take effect in about 30-minutes."

DUC to Bud: "You're still married to Asia?"

Bud: "No, we're divorced now."

Luke: "Oh, I can ask her out for lunch."

Bunch laughs.

Ben: "You have to take an IQ test too."

Bud: "I walk in and say, 'I see she's already kicking your ass in pool.' And he says, 'Yeah, and I already took the IQ test.'"

Bud, as he prepares for the next take: "Let's not have any noise and no doors slamming in the background."

Crew member: "But then it won't match with the rest of the movie."

Bud: "I know it's scary, but we can go out there."

Steven St Croix, preparing for his closeup: "Do you have the Barbra Streisand filter?"

Camerman: "For you, I'm going to need the Phyllis Diller filter."

Bud walks in the room and says "Sir." I turn around. Bud playfully punches me. "Why would I call you sir?"

The owner's daughter (in her early twenties) walks in and casually mixes with the porners and shares their catered lunch.

Max writes l-keford.com after viewing photos of The Bachelor: "While the guys in the Valley keep getting buffer, the girls keep getting fatter. What's going on? Are the girls waiting in a restaurant while the guys are in the gym? This blondie really needs to get it together. No wonder they are often over the hill at 25."

Posted by Porn Fan in SD writes: Aurora is still f-cking hot. She looks exactly the same as the day she got into the biz. Which is saying a lot. Most chicks after 100 movies look like totally different people. Don't know Hannah much, but she's pretty hot too. Jesus I need a girlfriend.

Mr Todd writes: I took the pics for www.l-keford.com. If you want more, I'll send them up. I thought Hannah was absof-ckinglutely gorgeous. I couldn't keep my eyes off her. What can I say about Aurora, she has always been great to photograph. These were taken within the last two days.