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Big Top's Leave It To Cleavage
2003-10-01 19:31:25

Sunday, September 26, publicist Jason Sechrest, the only publicist who invites me to sets these days, sent me an email invite to the Wednesday shoot.

I reply: "Yes, I want to come to this... So I can meet Robyn."

Jason replies: "Robyn will only let you come if you actually cover the shoot for your site! hehehe"

I interviewed Robyn Powers over the phone a few weeks ago and I enjoyed her wit.

After a fancy lunch in Westwood, I arrived on set at 3PM. First person I recognize is Gene Ross, who I have not seen in two years.

I start asking everyone for Robyn Powers. I'm told she's a blonde with a baseball cap and braids.

We meet. We're both looking forward to this. She wears jeans and a t-shirt. She's cute and wholesome except for her tattoos and her job as a pornographer. The tattoo on her neck is the Chinese characters for God.

I see Kayla from Kaylacam.com. She's doing her first bigtime video scene today. She gives me the long involved story about how she kept bringing clothing to the set to help her friend Lisa Sparxxx, who celebrates her 25th porn birthday Saturday night. Eventually Kayla was asked to do a scene.

Kayla yells at me not to leave my underwear behind today as I did at her apartment a few months ago.

Steve Drake is the production manager and assistant director. He yelled at me in May 1998 for publishing his real name. We're cordial today.

He wants to shoot some close-up shots of a scene. Robyn says they don't have time. She keeps the show on the road.

Ian Daniels was the male lead today. He did not show up.

Then Matt Bixel couldn't sustain an erection with Lisa Sparxxx, dragging the scene out to four hours. It was supposed to be a double penetration but the man shortage reduced it to regular boy-girl.

Rachel from worthamillion.com reprimands me for making notes about Bixel's problems. She thinks I'm mean. She asks Sam Xavier if he's going to allow me to publish about Bixel. Sam's taken aback. I never tell him how run his business and he never tells me what to write. It's a good arrangement.

I spot an attractive busty laughing blonde in professional clothing sitting outside. I recognize her but I can't put together who it is.

Half an hour later, we're in the same room together and I realize it is Lisa Sparxxx who I met a few months ago at KSEXradio.com. She's lost 30 pounds and is more dressed up than then.

She has a playful ebullient personality. That means I like her.

Lisa Sparxxx gets a check for the double penetration rate. She leaves and then comes back, pointing out she's been paid too much.

Robyn: "It's the Cleavage family. We're all honest people."

Powers has never seen an episode of Leave it to Beaver but she reads about it on the net, has heard about it for years, and pounds out the script in five caffeine-enhanced hours.

Robyn Powers introduces me to the owner of the company, Sam Xavier.

Luke: "Hi."

Sam: "Hello."

Awkward silence.

Robyn: "If I had known that was all you were going to say to each other, I wouldn't have introduced you."

Luke: "Did you hate my article?"

Sam: "Only the bit where you made stuff up and dragged Christian Mann and Steve Hirsch's name into things. Why did you do that?"

Luke: "To liven things up."

Sam is of medium height and has a bit of a beard, much of his hair, and a small pot belly. He's calm and gentle. He's doing the bookkeeping today, probably not the best position for him. He has two gold earrings in his left ear.

He started out in porn in 1970 at Paul Wisner's Parliament News. He rose to West Coast advertising director. He noticed that magazines featuring big breasts sold far better than anything else. He decided to start a company devoted to big breast pornography.

He's tried to make a name for putting out premium product at a premium price.

Robyn yells out her instructions with her headphones on. "Was I screaming?"

Sam: "You always sound like that."

I meet Holly Body.

Holly: "I have a lot to say to you."

She's laughing and playful. Lucky for me.

Other reporters chuckle. "You must get that a lot," they say to me.

Holly says she started in porn in 1992. She's usually been a busty brunette. She did her first scenes for Leisure Time. She says they look awful because she was drunk for most of them.

Her family found out early. She quickly learned to not discuss her porn career with them. She's left the industry several times, including the 1998 HIV-crisis.

She came back a few months ago. She's been reported to have passed out on GHB on several sets. I remember a DP Tonight Show she was scheduled to appear on but never arrived. I heard snide remarks (not from Digital Playground people) about her having a drub problem.

I follow Kayla around.

Luke: "If you had to choose between your animals and your boyfriend (a working actor who lives with her)?"

Kayla: "Men come and go. Any man who does not like my animals is not the right man for me."

Luke: "A year ago, you told you didn't do videos. Why the change?"

Kayla: "I wasn't supposed to do a video today. I came here to drop off pants for Lisa. I was supposed to then go home. Then she didn't have shoes that were right. So I went back to my house for shoes. Then I started running little errands here and there. Then I was going to be behind the scenes to promote Kayla Cam. Then as I've already shot a boy-girl video for Score, I figured what the hell."

Luke: "You don't think you're compromising your standards by being here today?"

Kayla: "Sweetheart, I'm Kayla. I have no standards. You know better than that. What are you talking about? You know me better than this. I'm the girl who pissed on the boat [at the Internext show in Florida a few months ago]."

Luke: "Do you have second thoughts about that urination episode?"

Kayla: "Hell no. How many people had nothing better to do than talk about that for the next three weeks?"

Luke: "How did that make you feel?"

Kayla: "Amused."

Luke: "You seemed more annoyed."

Kayla: "The first week I was amused. The second week, it got annoying. By the third week, I was like, build a bridge and get over it. I'll donate the f---ing lumber. At that point, I was tired of hearing it."

Kayla gets on the swing in her towel.

I follow her with my camera. "I won't photograph you if you take off your towel."

She takes off her towel and I walk away. The other photographers descend like flies.

I ask Robyn if various types of scenes are disrespectful to women. I finally ask one time too many.

Luke: "Did you feel that squirting scene was disrespectful to women?"

Robyn snaps: "What is it with you and being disrespectful to women? I think the only one around here who is disrespectful to women is you. You won't stop."

I meet Brad Baldwin who plays Beaver. He's done about 20 movies since returning to the industry under a stage name, rather than his real name. He has a handsome wholesome muscular look.

I meet Tony Sexton from Melbourne, Australia. For days, I've been hearing about a guy who boasts that his asshole is the cleanest in the business and tastes like honey. I guess this is him.

He worked in Aussie porn for 18 months before coming to the US for the AVN Expo in Las Vegas in January 2003 and he's been working steadily in LA eversince.

Tony says a girl (Jewels Van Saint) posted lies about him on l-keford.com, alleging that he gave her herpes. The girl has produced no tests showing she's contracted anything. She never called Tony.

Tony: "She's crystal-clean just like I am. I'm the cleanest and the sweetest guy in the business. A girl's tongue in my ring... I've got the cleanest butthole and cock in the business. Like a candy bar. Those are my hygiene standards. That needs to be cleared up."

Luke: "Why did you get into the busines in the first place?"

Tony: "I worked as a carpenter for 15 years doing framing. My back got a bit sore. Let me see what else I can do. I started going to swingers parties five years ago. I started breaking out of my shell. I started having two girls go down on me in public. I thought - I quite like this. It's exciting to be an exhibitionist.

"From listening to California Vacation on my radio, I couldn't handle it anymore. I packed my bags to get a taste. California has its good days and bad days. On good days you work with beautiful girls who are into their scenes. Then you have bad days where you work with dumb stupid whores like Jewels Van Saint and Crystal Ray who talk trash.

"Jewels, if you are reading this, get your facts straight because I am the cleanest and the sweetest of them all. I defend my title."

Luke: "What do you love and what do you hate about the business?"

Tony: "Meeting the limited amount of people who are cool and down to earth like us Australians. What I hate are stupid dumb sluts like Jewel Van Saint that make negative comments."

Robyn walks up.

Luke: "She will be your director today."

Robyn hands Tony a folder with his model release, script and paperwork where he can promote himself on boobsville.com and in the DVD.

Robyn: "You're based on Wally Cleaver."

Tony complains: "Ohmigod. You could've picked a better name than Wally."

Robyn: "All right. You're Wally Cleavage though. You were clean-cut as a kid but you've grown up to be a drunken bum, a criminal..."

Tony: "A bad boy for love."

Robyn: "You're going off to prison tomorrow."

Tony: "Oh sh--."

Luke: "He's the one that ran over children?"

Tony: "Oh no."

Robyn: "You ran down a bunch of kids in a school zone."

Tony: "Don't say that!"

Robyn: "It's fine. I've decided to keep your Australian accent. You're using it to pick up chicks. There's all kind of Australian slang right? Tucker and sheila and all that crap?"

Tony: "Yeah, right."

Robyn: "So that's what I want you to do. It says here that you use a lot of Australian slang to describe your pathetic life. Make it yourself too Australian."

She giggles.

Robyn: "Look, I wrote my own Australian line. How do you like that?"

We read it - "Well, isn't she a tucker piece of pussy."

Tony laughs.

Luke: "Tucker means food."

Robyn: "Oh it is? How do I know?"

Tony: "People say gash or furburger."

Luke: "There are books on Australian slang."

Robyn: "I didn't have time to do research."

Tony: "What kind of scene am I going to be doing?"

Robyn: "It's a four-way. You'll be doing one girl. Holly [Body] has to stay with one partner."

Luke: "You're going to be having sex with a guy? Do you mind?"

Tony: "Yeah I mind."

Robyn: "And a DP."

Tony: "I'm not really into the DPs. I more prefer threesomes - two girls and me."

Robyn: "Mmmmm."

Tony: "Like Rocco. Reverse gangbangs. I'm not really into sharing pussy. I like pussy for myself."

Robyn: "We'll keep you with the same girl."

Tony: "I don't like sharing."

Robyn: "I don't have to have a DP."

Tony: "Cool."

Robyn: "It was not originally scheduled [for Tony]. All right then. I don't want you to... You weren't booked for it. We're people here. You're not a whore. You're not a whore."

Tony: "Same with Nicole London. I have the ultimate respect for her. People tell me I'm too friendly. I scare the girls off. How come the girls don't want to work with me? I'm just a friendly guy. Maybe when I get to a set, I should just get down and stare at the ground like a dog and not say anything to anybody. That's how it is in California.

"She said, 'F--- them. You don't change a thing. You stay as friendly as you are.' I have the ultimate respect for her. She had me for a boy-boy-girl scene. I said I didn't like to do that. Bang, she changed it to two girls same day."

Robyn: "Well, great."

She's not quite sure how to handle this overly-friendly boisterous Australian. She just wants to keep a calm orderly set.

I snap photos of her talking with Tony.

Robyn: "You don't care that there is another guy on the set? He's doing his girl while you're doing yours."

Tony: "That doesn't bother me at all."

Robyn does the motion of a guy banging a girl standing up, swaying her hips and arms, getting into it. I snap away.

Robyn to Luke: "You can't get that on a picture. I do that a lot, don't I?"

Yes.

Robyn's ex-husband Nick has worked for Big Top for eight years. He's on set weilding a camera to capture behind the scenes material.

Robyn: "Uncomfortable talent does not come across well."

Tony: "I'm very sympathetic. I like to keep directors and producers happy. You can throw another girl into the scene. It doesn't bother me."

Robyn: "It's basically a foursome. We just won't do any DP. You don't care about swapping girls?"

Tony: "I can swap. But my forte is eating pussy. Eating a girl's pussy after a guy has penetrated her, it's like me sucking his dick. I'm not into it."

Robyn: "Holly wants to stay with the same guy."

Kayla asks me to hold her dildo. I refuse.

Robyn tells Nick: "Whatever you want to do."

DUC to Nick: "Was she that pliable while you were married to her?"

Nick's silent.

DUC to Robyn: "Is it true you asked Nick to marry you?"

Robyn: "Did he tell you that?"

Luke: "Yes."

Robyn: "I never asked you to marry me. Not technically."

Nick: "Not technically."

Robyn: "I asked you if you wanted to get married. You said ok."

Luke: "How come you didn't ask your dad's permission?"

Robyn: "Because he probably would've said no."

Luke: "I'm sorry. This is none of my business."

DUC to Robyn: "You've just come out of three years of retirement to direct another feature. Why?"

Robyn: "We were not getting the quality... I shouldn't say that. We were sitting at a business meeting. I have a staff meeting every Monday. The video capture guy is always coming up with great titles. He suggested, 'Leave it to Cleavage.' I thought it was a great idea. Then I thought - who's the best person to shoot this movie. Sam wanted me to shoot this movie. I had a lot of trepidation because I haven't shot in three years. I prefer to be on the business side of it. I don't want to be on the set anymore. I'd like to stay segregated from it.

"But we talked and negotiated and I decided to do it."

Luke: "Did you get a good raise from the boss?"

Robyn: "No, I'm getting no money for it."

Luke: "Why did they immediately think of you as the one to direct this?"

Robyn: "Because it needed to be campy, over the top, good sex, good dialogue, that's what I do."

Luke: "Which Hollywood director would you most compare your style to?"

Robyn: "Because I'm wearing a hat, today I'm Steve Spielberg."

Luke: "I see the resemblance in your previous work."

Robyn: "No, Mel Brooks. I'm not trying to emulate anybody."

Tony bought $90 Harley Davidson biker boots for the movie.

Robyn: "We should point out in the scene that you bought those boots for today."

That's what I always appreciate in a big boob movie - nice biker boots on the male performer.

Luke: "You should walk on a girl's back with them.

"You could kick the crap out of someone with those [steel-toed] shoes."

Robyn: "I think you should. Why not?"

Sweet Robyn, immersed in pornographic slime, now promotes senseless violence.

Tony: "What am I getting paid? My rates... I've been working for peanuts for a long time."

Robyn: "That's up to Steve. He books all that. I don't know. Did he go through an agent to you?"

Tony: "Yeah."

Robyn: "I don't know what he booked you at."

Tony: "Steve is a cool guy to work for. I'm cool with Steve. I'm starting to change my thing. Nicole told me. I put down $400 on the thing. She goes, 'Tony, what are you doing? Why so small?' Ok, $500 then. A lot of guys get $500.

"For BJs, a lot of guys get a $100. Seymore pays me $200 because I have big cumshots like Peter North. So I changed my rates."

Robyn: "I don't know what he booked you at."

Tony: "We didn't discuss it. In June, he paid me $400. It'll be cool."

Jason Sechrest walks in with a boobsville.com webmaster: "How did I know that I would find [DUC] chasing Robyn Powers?"

Luke: "Jason, we've made such important breakthroughs today. She's transformed her relationship with her ex-husband."

Jason: "Are you recording?"

Luke: "Yes."

Jason: "Of course you. You would never talk like that unless you were recording."

Robyn: "He's been following me around all day. He won't leave me alone."

Jason: "Did you get my message?"

Robyn: "No."

Jason: "I called your cell to say that if anybody bothers you, to please call me and I will take care of it immediately."

Robyn: "Oh, that message I got."

Jason: "The list of press people. I knew you'd want to know if [DUC] was coming...

"Gene Ross just left. He was very happy with what he saw."

Robyn: "Oh good."

Jason: "He said that the first scene he saw was really great and then there was some down time.

"Yes, I'm sober today."

Luke: "I wasn't invited to that Sin City press luncheon."

Jason: "Who doesn't invite [DUC]?"

Luke: "You're the only one who does."

Jason: "And not all the time either. I can't let. People aren't bright enough to know what to say and what not to say to you. Robyn is smart. She can take you on."

Luke: "Doesn't she have a certain yodeling in the Swiss mountains quality to her? Swiss Miss."

Robyn: "That's me. We need to do a Swiss Alps in Boobsville."

Robyn reverts to her pelvic humping routine.

Luke: "You've got sex on the brain."

Nick: "When I first learned to ride horses, I was with an older woman. She told me, 'It's like f---ing.'"

Jason and Robyn walk off alone to discuss if the press has eaten all crafts service and other important issues.

Later, Robyn tells me she's come up with a whole new opening for the movie.

While sitting in my chair, I tell Robyn she has a wonderful way of conceptualizing scenes on the fly.

She walks over to me and looks down. "Does your mother know you're this patronizing?"

6PM. Minor crisis. Sam Xavier, the bookkeeper on the shoot, has not been getting photo IDs. He did not know he needed to. Robyn says, I told you Sam was the wrong person for the job. The leaders of the shoot (Sam, Robyn, Steve Drake) huddle and figure out a way to resolve the problem.

I'm getting antsy to leave but I want to wait until the traffic relaxes.

I hear people speculating on whether Lee Stone uses steroids. He's certainly a ripped body building monster.

Kayla weilds her dildos. "You never know what is going to happen in my life. I've had so many things like that happen click, click."

Luke: "Do you think it is divine intervention?"

Robyn: "I do."

Kayla: "If I believed in God, it would be. I'm not going to get into this religious conversation with you. We did that last time and I won."

Robyn to Luke: "You can't get anything on her either. Why don't you interview the two of us together. Then you'd be really sunk."

Kayla: "It doesn't matter because I don't keep any secrets. I live my life online. I update my diary twice a day. I can't a secret to save my life.

"My hobbies are cooking, crochet, sewing. I do volunteer work at an animal shelter. I'm active with a children's theater group."

Luke: "And you invite strange men over to bathe in your hottub."

Kayla: "I fed you first."

Luke: "You ate ham omelet. I had a salad and then a refreshing dip in your tub."

Kayla: "I wore the most conservative bathing suit I could and then the top opened. I couldn't believe it."

6:15PM

Robyn: "We've had no anal so far."

An existential crisis on a porn set.

Kayla: "Are you volunteering?"

Everyone speaks Spanish to Sah from Madagascar but she only speaks French. She's double-booked today. She's working a grueling schedule.

Tony, who's done about 100 American movies: "When a girl licks my bum, I know she loves sex. I'm the sweetest of them all."

Brad: "Honey nut cheerios."

I hear about a white male performer who wears a biker chain around his neck. He doesn't do interracial. Many women do not do interracial but it is rare for a man to refuse any opportunity for sex.

Many people comment on my new Nikon D100 camera. Rachel Worth wonders why my pictures aren't better. "Because I'm a lousy photographer," I reply.

I run into Dave Michaels, formerly of talkingblue.com. He's lost about 75 pounds in the past two years. He's married and has a regular job. He used to look like John Douglas, his old partner at his old website. Dave no longer works on camera. I remember one time he and John were talking about doing scenes. I'm glad they chose wisely.

Dave, when he goes around on his straight job, pitching projects, often gets recognized from his Talking Blue cable TV gig.

Jason talks about how smart Robyn is. Then I overhear her talking with her webmaster about the conversion rates for her $3:95 trials. I make an allusion to Franz Kafka's novel The Trial. She doesn't get it. She has little knowledge of literature.

I want to chat with Robyn (who, aside from being mired in a life of sin, is a wonderful person) all day. I interfere with her work. Steve Drake shoos me away when they discuss pay rates.

Having sex is public but pay rates remain very private.

When I leave, Robyn's intently watching the monitor while a scene if shot. She has her headphones on. I wave goodbye to her. She does not notice me. I leave.

Leave it to Cleavage will be available on Boobsville.com

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Gene Ross has an interview with Holly Body. He asks about her flaking from shoots.

Holly: "Not flaking, actually I took GHB. I don't anymore and I would never do it again. But I was so nervous and it was so hard. And the whole anal thing- I hadn't done that in awhile and that's what I was doing. This one time I tried to go to the bathroom and try to put this thing."

Body did many of her early movies with Lance. "Oh my goodness, he had his penis enlarged. Then it got infected because he didn't let it heal. I think he started off with 7" and ended up with 4". And the worst thing I heard he gained a lot of weight like 300 pounds or something."

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Kayla Cam writes on GFY: I just did the opening scene for a feature porno movie! I promised Lisa Sparxxx ( http://www.lisasparxxx.com ) that I would drop by the set of the feature porn movie she was to film today with some pants she could borrow. I did (although I was late, damned traffic!)but then she needed more appropriate shoes. The movie is a spoof of Leave it to Beaver, so the shoes needed to be 'period'. I told who I THOUGHT was the wardrobe person that I had what she needed at my place and that I could get them for her if she had an hour (round trip). She said yes, so off I went! Turns out, the 'wardrobe person' was the DIRECTOR of the film! She thought I was a porn star! I was tres flattered that someone would think that, but I am just a cam girl. She wanted to write me in to the script, but my PCR/DNA paperwork is not current, so I could not do a scene with anyone. Another girl showed up without proper shoes and borrowed another pair from me. Robin (the chickie director who is TRES cool) says, "Hey Kayla, get with make up and we will let you promote www.KaylaCam.com in the 'Behind the Scenes' footage! So I went to make up and got all done up. Then Robin says, "I can pay you a couple hundred bucks to do a bit of solo masturbation as bonus footage in the DVD features, if you are interested." I was like, "Money?! Oh HECK yeah!" So I did my behind the scenes interview and then my solo masturbation stuff. As I was filling out the release and such, Robin comes to me and says, "I have a GREAT idea...go BACK on to the diving board with your dildo and masturbate for a few minutes and we can use that as the opening scene, shoot the other characters coming in to frame behind you, over your shoulder at the far end of the yard and you will get film credits, too!" So, I did! LOL

NEVER did I think that loaning out a pair of pants would end up getting me SCREEN credits and MONEY in a FEATURE film! So when "Leave it to Cleavage" comes out, I will be in it! I got three more scene offers that I need to talk over with MyDavid. w00t!

Pad writes: Cmon sweetie why would you expose your naked body to thousands? to be included in a pornographic film i'm sure you're cute but seriously, keep your self privacy secured.. you don't know what kind of sick werdios are going to watch you get yourself off.. the couple hundred bucks is cool at this time but 15 years from now you'll regret showing yourself off in that manor.. and that's coming from an immature 17 year old!

And your chubby friend Lisa Sparxxx... she should do something better with herself. The all american average male can't get a job in pornography unless he has a 7+ inch cock! but if a skanky fat ho has a twat she allows to be stuffed with random std risking cocks comes along, welcome abord! my fat skanky friend shauna whored herself out in boston and made hundreds a night (but spent it all on her crack addiction like a fat ho should). my point is; ugly girls can prostitute themselves or be in pornography to make quick rock bottom loot but men can't... unfair!

Lisa Sparxxx writes: Chubby? Over 65 films in under a year...I guess there is a market for it. Yes my mom is proud. I know I am not like your 15 year old girls on your playground...but I am a woman.

You are all right when I started I was huge. So I figured I would hit all areas..I will start off and knock out the big girl stuff and lose my weight back down and do the regular girl stuff. I guess my plan is working. I know you dont have one but keeping eatting bon-bons and getting bigger and bigger and the hair on the back getting longer and longer...

You can talk your sh-t..I honestly dont care I actually like this..so come on lets have fun. I bet at any adult convention though you could not say I was big to my face.

Not a whole lot of talent? You try f-cking Ron Jeremy or Ed Powers and act like you like it, and they say pornstars cant act.

Carrie writes: Kayla, do you think there will be any backlash from your members when they find out you're no longer officially "amateur"? It might've just been toy play but being in an opening scene and being listed in the credits definitely qualifies you for "pro".

Kayla replies: No, I am not. It was a decision I had been toying with for a while...going in to porn films (girl girl scenes only at THIS point) and it has been openly discussed with my members all along. The only surprise was that I shot a solo scene YESTERDAY!