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Genesis Skye Returns

She retired for three days to be with her now ex-boyfriend and to concentrate on her singing. She posts to XPT:

This whore might be coming back sooner than expected! The only difference is that I plan to change the way I do my scenes. I want more control of what I'm doing. There's things I do in my scenes that don't turn me on but I do them because it's my job. I don't want to do that anymore. I know that I have the right to say no to things, but I'm stupid. I admit to that. A lot of us girls do things we'd never do off camera simply because we're afraid to stand up for ourselves. I also quit doing all drugs including smoking pot. I'm going to completely turn my life around and be the person I was when I got in. When I make my return I'm sure you'll all be happy with the changes!

Genesis tells me at PSK that she's broken up with her boyfriend of the past two months. "I only quit for him and he wasn't worth it. And I wasn't getting turned on in my scenes. I'm going to open my big fat mouth when I'm working."

Have you ever been to the Tampa Show?

The Tampa Awards Show is Sunday night, October 9.

Tricia Devereaux writes on ADT:

I personally had an absolutely horrible time there, but I think fans enjoy it. It gives them a casual atmosphere to hang out with porn girls. The porn girls who like to party and drink a lot seem to have a pretty good time too, as it's a week away from home staying in a cheap motel with a bunch of other porn and stripper girls.

I hung out with Dee and Juli Ashton, but because they were there with Playboy, they had a lot of work to do, and often needed to be away from the rest of the group.

Do they actually give out official hotel info to people who aren't part of the group? I know that was one of the biggest complaints of people like me and Juli and Tera Patrick. We wanted a place where we could go to get away from it all, and it was almost like we had people knocking on our doors at past midnight.

For the talent end of things, I try to make the best of situations, but honestly, I would have had a lot more fun if I decided ahead of time to chip in some of my own money and stay away from all the other girls. The amount of drama was just more than I could tolerate - pregnant or not.

My non-LA roommate invited her boyfriend to stay in our room. I ended up having to kick him out. Then she invited some other guy in the room for when she was doing X and GHB and god knows what else. One of the times I went into my room, she was passed out and drooling. The boyfriend came back and tried to break into my room. I had to run to Seymour for help, and he protected me from the psycho boyfriend guy.

The non-LA girls that year, especially Bianca Trump, were also more than I could handle.

Christian writes: "Bianca Trump was crazy! She was on the balcony screaming at some male stripper who called her fat."

Dirty Bob writes:

Trish: I believe that you were a little too harsh on your opinion of the Tampa Show. You stated that you didn't really hang out with everyone and, instead, hung out with Juli Ashton. Nothing wrong with that, but I suspect that you may have missed some of the fun of "hanging out" with the others. Also, being in your early stages of pregnancy at that time, and being in hot Florida, may have made things a bit more difficult for you. Regardless, you never gave me any inclination (before reading this post) that you didn't fully enjoy the Tampa Show - and I was surprised after all these years (you were there back in 2000 - 5 years ago) to read it posted here.

Also there that year (2000) with you were: Tera Patrick, Juli Ashton, Ron Jeremy, Inari Vachs, Anna Malle, Hank Armstrong, Bianca Trump, Alana Evans, Randi Storm, Felicia Fox, Loni McKenna, Trinity, Layla-Jade, Lovette, Brittany O'Connell, Angel Cummings, Drew Hurley, Racquel Divine, Seymore Butts, Kaylee O'Toole, McKayla Matthews, Dee, Julie Rage, Marissa Malibu, Krystal Summers, Nakita Kash, Renee LaRue, Shaena Steele, Anita Cannibal, Trinity, SaRenna Lee, Coral Sands, Samantha Silk, Shelly Berlin, Sky Chandler, Zack Miles, Mike South, and others. Sounds like a party to me!

Since then the event has grown tremendously as evidenced by those I brought in to this invitational event last year: Felicia Fox, Tim "Suit" Case, Ron Jeremy, Selena Silver, Stephanie Swift, Layla-Jade, Jesse Jane, Regan Anthony, Mike South, Lisa Sparxxx, AnnMarie, Kelly Erikson, Darla Crane, Alexis Amore, Dayton, Devon Michaels, Bridgette Monroe, Karina, Austyn Moore, Elizabeth Starr, Avy Scott, Pat Myne, Stormy, Lori Alexia, Olivia O'Lovely, Vicky Vette, Gina Lynn, Austin Kincaid, Hannah Harper, Rio Mariah, Charlee Chase, Jenna Jameson, Krystal Steal, Lexi LaMour, Jezebel Bond, Katie Morgan, Aria, Carmen Luvana, Tyler Faith, Cheyenne, Anna Malle, and others (unofficially) like Nakita Kash, Dennis Hof, Wankus from KSEX, etc. Many of these are repeats!

Wankus writes:

It's always hard to explain The Tampa Show, in fact, I didn't really get it until I was invited three years ago.

Yes, the stars go around to a couple of clubs and meet the fans and yes, there's an award show and s---...but what makes The Tampa Show special is they bring a bunch of stars out from LA, get them together in one hotel and for some reason, there's no drama. Just about everyone gets along and leaves all the childish LA s--- behind. Jesus, Mike South was placing bets on how long it would take me and Kent Silver (Selena's man) to get in a fist fight last year and nothing came of it.

The fun you have at the Tampa Show is up to you. If you hang with the group at the pool, in the bars, at the parties...you'll probably have a surprisingly good time. But, if you keep to yourself in your room (like many stars do), don't participate in events and blow off some of the required appearances...then you probably shoulda just stayed in LA.

I'm looking forward to this year...but I hope it's not in the same hotel as last year. The mold, bugs and disgusting food at that rundown old hole is not worth a second visit. The year before was nice but I think we got banned from that hotel for poolside nudity.

A Warning for TT Boy

Dimitri writes:

TT Boy shot in Colombia for one of his DVD series and that DVD has been copied and is selling on the streets of Colombia for $2 USD.

It's a big deal down here and the people are pissed. I mean really upset. It has made the evening news in Cartagena and you are now a wanted man here.

Come back here with EXTREME caution because you have some pissed off boyfriends and the policia looking for you. From what I understand the scene where you have the girl say "I am stupid whore" really got them pissed off.

Way to go. Not only is it your ass they want but you just made my job really f---ing difficult. All the girls are scared of the gringos making pornos now and the policia are on the hunt.

I'll be in Cali in a few days (where you shot) and I'm hoping it's not as messed up there as it is in Caragena. Of all the countries you don't want to be wanted in, Colombia comes to mind as being at the top of the list. Home of the "Colombian Neck Tie" and militant groups who kidnap gringos, cut of their fingers and mail them to their parents in hopes to get a ransom.

Gina Lynn Hurt in Motorcycle Stunt

FRESNO, Calif. - Gina Lynn was just trying to please over 3,000 screaming fans by participating in a risky stunt Saturday at the Motocross Mayhem show, but a freak accident with a giant rubber band left her with a swollen eye and busted lip.

Anyone know how to get video of this?

Porn And Alienation

A Ph.D. student in Philosophy writes:

Porn is a fantasy that seeks to be acted out. It is also a fantasy that is unattainable. By definition, it must lead to despair.

But assume for a moment that it is possible to attain the fantasy, and that we would want it if we attained it. Assume that women became hyper-socialized automatons, who spoke only as a bridge between liaisons. Assume that twenty minute coitus was normative, and not tedious. Assume that you could actually be attracted to a woman who would copulate with any sentient being in the room. Assume that you wouldn't leave a porn encounter with a vendetta against reason, and take every possible drug to avoid living with yourself. Assume That the scene would abruptly change after climax, and you wouldn't have to be faced with that horrid "what now"? Assume that onanism was everything you always wanted. Assume that Women would not hate or resent you for subjecting them to every manner of contortionist novelty. Assume that you would never conceive a child.

Are you living fantasy yet? No. Something remains. Even in this state, what are you? A performer You are doing what you have seen: you are acting. This is your show. You are not in love, but on stage. The self who copulates is someone you observe and ogle, rating his performance, admiring his power, fearing his failure. The woman is not your lover, but your audience, and your porn persona is alone on stage. Your true self watches from the balcony; a petty critic, alienated and alone.

Joanna Angel's Love Life

I call her Tuesday morning. "How's your boyfriend James Deen?"

Joanna: "I woke up this morning to a really angry message from him. Angry because he found that interview on your website where I was talking about him. I guess somebody sent it to him.

"Come on. That's so four weeks ago. He went through every line that was about him and said what was real and what was fake and what I was making up in my head. How I have mental problems and how I need to stop talking about him. I guess it was not the first time that I talked about him to the 'press.'"

Do you want me to call him?

"No. I'm not giving you his phone number.

"Whatever it was, it isn't anymore."

I'm sorry I hurt your relationship.

"It was never a relationship in the first place. We just talk on the phone. I guess I got deluded. I was stuck in my apartment editing Joanna's Angels. I had to watch a scene where him and I were having sex again and again and it made me feel like we were spending the summer together, but I guess it wasn't really him. It was just an image of him on the editing screen.

"I'm too scared to call him back. He gets really angry.

"I always get myself into trouble. I'm a writer. I make up things in my head.

"There's a story on my blog in late January about the most expensive date I've had. It was about me going home with this guy [her last boyfriend]. He ripped my stockings and his dog ate my $75 thong. I tallied up how much the night cost me and how it would've been less expensive to get a male escort.

"It was funny. Half of it was true and half of it was exaggerated.

"I guess he went to work and somebody photocopied that story and put it all over his desk.

"He was just some random guy I went home from a bar with, but we ended up dating.

"When he read the story, and I didn't write his name in it, he got upset.

"His dog was so dirty. It was one of the things that made me realize what a scumbag he was by how little he took care of his dogs.

"I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. James Deen isn't even his real name. When I use that name in a story, I'm writing about a fictional character.

"He told me he would never have sex with me again if I wrote about him once more. So I tried to stop writing about him.

"A couple of guys wrote songs about me. I've never called them and said, 'That's not true. I'm not like that. You need mental help.'

"When I interviewed Marilyn Manson a long time ago, I asked him, 'What's real and what's fake?' He said, 'Marilyn Manson comes from Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. I made a fake name from two fake names.'

"Anything he does, he can't be held accountable for."

Like Joanna Angel.

"But Joanna's real and Angel's fake. When my stories are fake, that's the Angel side."

How many boys have you lost because you've written about them?

"A lot. It's been happening to me since sixth grade when I wrote a poem about making out with a boy outside school. I won a poetry content for it. He broke up with me because of it. I guess he didn't want other people to know that."

When are you coming out to LA?

"September fifth. Do you want to pick me up from the airport? I'll be out there for 20 days if James Deen doesn't kill me."

Have you been talking to him every day?

"Yeah."

Maybe you and James can pitch a tent together at Eon McKai's house?

"No. I think I should just move on to someone else who doesn't care that I write stories about them or tell lies about them on Lukeisback."

Let me talk to James. I'm a kind and considerate guy.

"I know you are, but you're on my side.

"He's got all these mean friends. I may be making that up. Sometimes, when I'm on the phone with him, he'll say, 'No, that's not true.' And he'll turn around and there will always be someone there to make sure that what he says is right and what I say is wrong."

How old is he?

"Fifteen. I'm 36. I shouldn't be wasting my time with him.

"My little sister just went off to college. She's dating three boys at the same time. I'm so proud of her."

What drugs do you take before doing a scene to make the pain go away?

"I don't do drugs before a scene. I do drugs when I'm not doing scenes. Doing scenes makes me happy. When I'm not doing them, I'm miserable."

What have you been reading lately?

"I bought the Diary of Anais Nin."

Do you feel like you are following in her footsteps?

"Yes. She dated assholes. Henry Miller was a jerk."

Does he remind you of James Deen?

"I guess Henry Miller was a little bit like James Deen.

"I need to stop telling lies and start telling truths. I want to get married and have kids one day. If I keep doing these interviews, and screwing things up, that's never going to happen."

I feel like I've played a role in your downfall.

"That's ok. I feel like it was probably for the best.

"He said there was no way he would be jealous."

Even if you did three black guys.

"He wouldn't care.

"I heard this song, 'Damn this foolish heart.' I want to get that tattooed on my arm. We could get matching tattooes.

"Do you enjoy interviewing me?"

Yes. I wouldn't do it so often if I didn't.

"Am I disappointing you today?"

No. You're fine. Do you feel like I'm constantly pumping you for fresh material?

"Yes."

You've had so many men.

"You're next.

"I'm going to get a bagel."

Don't forget to say hamotzi.

Why Was Tim Connelly Brought Into AVN?

A source writes:

Paul wanted to take AVN on to the newsstand and he thought Tim could do it (as the magazines Tim ran at Knight Publications were for consumers). There was initially talk of putting adult DVD trailers onto a DVD and selling the magazine with the trailer DVD as a bonus. For whatever reason it never flew, which didn't matter to Tim, who got drunk on his newfound power.

After pissing off a lot of AVN's biggest advertisers Tim was kind of shoved to the back of the bus and told to shut up. He had a contract so they couldn't just let him go even though eventually that's pretty much what happened in the end, he is still getting a salary from AVN but he won't be back.

It's a good bet this would have happened sooner had guys like you and Mike South not kept running the rumors of his demise.

DOJ Coming After Porn

From Law.com:

When FBI supervisors in Miami met with new interim U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta last month [pictured], they wondered what the top enforcement priority for Acosta and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would be.

Would it be terrorism? Organized crime? Narcotics trafficking? Immigration? Or maybe public corruption?

The agents were stunned to learn that a top prosecutorial priority of Acosta and the Department of Justice was none of the above. Instead, Acosta told them, it's obscenity. Not pornography involving children, but pornographic material featuring consenting adults.

Britain Seeks to Ban Violent Internet Porn

LONDON - Ever since Jane Longhurst was killed two years ago by a man obsessed with violent Internet pornography, her family has campaigned for the British government to outlaw the viewing of extreme sexual material on the Web. On Tuesday the government agreed, announcing plans — the first, it said, by any Western country — to ban the downloading and possession of violent sexual images.

Police and anti-porn campaigners welcomed the proposal but free-speech groups called it censorship, saying there was no proven link between violent imagery and violent behavior.

Email Glitch

I haven't gotten any email from this site in about a week. So if you've emailed me, try again at hanka444 at aol.com.

Bill Margold Interview

I ask him about the Tim Connelly meltdown.

Bill: "I'm not completely versed on it because it is so muddled with what you wrote, Mike South wrote. I don't want to say anything until the facts are brought out. I feel sorry for anyone with a drug problem. I lost Viper because of drugs. I have a big ache when it comes to drugs and I'm unable to deal with drugs.

"There's a lot of pressure to live up to that type of position, and some people need something to mollify that pressure.

"I'm blind to drug problems. Maybe I avoid them because I don't want to handle them. If any organization can deal with what Tim is going through it would be AIM. God knows that if anybody is going to be empathetic to a drug addict it would have to be Sharon Mitchell. If anyone knows what beats in the heat and soul of a drug addict, it would be Mitchell.

"The movie I did for James Avalon (Darkside) is having a screening Wednesday night. I'm excited to see what I did. It was not as much fun as I thought it would be. Trying to remember those lines that wouldn't make any sense between reading them, remembering them and getting them out my mouth.

"I don't know if you've been invited to the screening. You don't seem to be making the same kind of trouble you used to make. Maybe the problem we all have now is that apathy rules.

"The kid that I'm highest on now is Sunny Lane (appears in Darkside). There's a lot of fire there. She can be a contender if she's handled properly.

"James Avalon (as Kent Smith) is part of the original XRCO (along with Bill, Jim Holliday, Jim Dawson, Lonn Friend). We then named Jared Rutter as chairman. We needed a voice of sanity.

"PAW exists on a month-to-month basis. Thanks to that poker night, that keeps us open through the year. In January in Las Vegas, I'll put on a show and that will give us more money. Then I'll do a car wash."

How's your living situation?

"I survive with only one cat instead of two."

How's your health?

"I'm still here."

Pirates Trailer

Janine, Jesse Jane, Devon, Jenaveve Jole...

Not The Ramones Friday Night

Kurt Lockwood replies to my inquiry:

Show was amazing fun. The girls were amazing hot. Plus, we raised $4000 for AIM HEALTHCARE DETOX BED PROGRAM and we were approached by major management based on our original songs. Rock n roll. (Started late because Fayner's opening band cancelled due to his bass player breaking his arm in a car accident the night before the show) Why weren't you there, Fluke Bored? O yeah, I remember now, 'coz you are one of the useless, parasite, bottomfeeders of the adult business who disgustingly and ashamedly makes his living off publicizing the sad, misfortunes of others and as being the slimeball, jealous wretch that you are, you probably would've gotten that well deserved karmic beatdown you've had coming. What's the matter? I guess it's ok for you, you bastion of journalistic integrity you, to write about OTHER PEOPLE'S bad times and make a cheap buck off of it, but you don't wanna cover your OWN come-uppance? C'mon Fluke, think of the hits you'll get! The banner revenue! Gossip Dirt+$$=Fluke's true god. Right? Fluke, you are delusional. "Dirt" Merchants suck. Seek help and f--- off. Have a nice day.

Joe writes: "A quick peek at the King James Bible, Exodus 20:8 or Deuteronomy 5:12-15, may give him a clue."

Monstar writes:

I'll check in on other people's Porn News sites and some appear to take great glee in promoting Drama & Gossip. ...and I'm like "why?" Why be around this business if only to inflict it with venom at every opportunity? What kinda contribution is that? I know, I know...spiteful gossip = more readers = more ads = more money.

This is a misconception. The publications that make the most money (AVN, Knight Publications, LFP) snuggle up to the industry. I could've made far more money over the years by being nice to the powerful. Gene Ross made far more money when he toed the company line at AVN then what he makes on Adultfyi.

I don't make any money by writing about Tim Connelly. Aside from a few industry members, nobody cares about Connelly. I write about Connelly because it is an important story (the dramatic rise and fall of a drug-ridden paranoid).

Bob writes me:

I know you won't really be upset by the comments of a Lockwood or Monstar, but neither one of them probably really has a clue what you really do or all that you do. Lockwood (and many others) don't want the light of day to shine on their shenanigans and Monstar seems a nice guy but starstruck.

I see no malice in the stories you report...and a good sense of humor about lighter subjects. Your stuff is in sharp contrast to many of the other so-called porn journalists who seem to be motivated by bitterness and revenge on the one hand or strictly humor on the other. Hang in there.

I call a friend. "Heard any scoop?"

"I've been too self-absorbed to hear any scoop," he says.

"Kurt Lockwood. A man who makes his living with his penis is calling you a scumbag."

HBO - The New Playboy?

Phatzane writes on GFY: "I wondering has HBO become the new playboy. Real Sex, Porncopia, Katie Morgan Special, Cathouse....and I just finished watching Entourage and Jesse Jane and Teagan were on it. Teagan that's a name that hasn't been mentioned here in a long time."

Any Ludwig Von Mises fans here?

$5 Submissions writes on GFY: "This guy is a freakin' genius. I wish his ideas were implemented here in the Philippines. I'm sure it would lead to less poverty, corruption, and bulls---."

Warlock writes:

Big fan for a few years now! I don't agree with everything the Austrian school teaches, but I do believe it beats Keynesian by a long shot.

I think he may be one of the most underated people in history. During WWII not only was Nazism, Communism, and Fascism pushing socialism but so was the United States. Following the war the entire world could have easily slipped into a s---hole if people did what all of the "intellectuals" in the ivory towers were preaching.

If you want a good economics book read "Economics for Real People." This book lays out how economics works in black and white & is very easy to understand (unlike your standard college economics course.)

Pornutopia Party August 27

Erin Moore, Kris Slater, Mike Ramone Erin Erin Moore Erin, Kris Erin, Kris Deja Daire Deja, Gavin Deja Erin, Kris Billy Glide Erin, Kris, Billy Mr. Chris Kinzie Kenner, hubby Kinzie Kinzie Kinzie, Tiana Lynn Kinzie, Tiana Kinzie, Mike Ramone, Tiana Brooke Haven Ben Fisher, Dillan Lauren Deja Daire, Gavin Deja, Gavin Barbara Summer, Brooke Haven, Havana Ginger Barbara, Ben, Brooke, Havana Havana Havana Kylie Worthy Kylie Kaiya Lynn Nikita Lea, David Grossman Nikita, David Nikita, David Taylor Kurtis Taylor Taylor Dillan Lauren Dillan Dillan Dillan Dillan Dillan Dillan Nina Hartley, Ira Levine Nina, Ira Lucy Thai, Nikki Benz Genesis Skye Sydney Capri, Brooke, Missy Monroe Sydney, Brooke, Missy Brooke, Missy Brooke, Missy Dillan Dillan Dillan Dillan Missy Missy Quincy, Monstar Crissy Cums Missy Monroe, Mike Ramone Missy, Mike Kinzie, Tiana Kinzie, Tiana Nick East Jezebelle Bond, Justin Snyder Jezebelle, Justin Jezebelle, Justin Jezebelle, Justin, Anna Mills Anna Mills Anna Mills Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Genesis Skye Genesis Skye Genesis, Erin Genesis, Erin Jezebelle Bond Sunny, Nick Sunny, Nick Kinzie, Tiana, Nina Kinzie, Tiana, Nina girls pic Oliver Ware Serena Marcus Serena Serena Serena, Brett Rockma

We (Duke Hunter, myself and other media) don't get in until 9:40pm.

I overhear an excited fan after getting a photo with Dillan Lauren: "I grabbed some tits."

Monstar's wearing eyeliner. "I'm just like Liberace," he says.

Nick East says he only appears for a minute in the documentary The Salvation of Barry. The producers of the film broke their promise to promote his book.

Khunrum writes:

Luke ...I'll wager Mr. East's tome was self published? There seems to be a discriminatory distinction between the self published offering and one say, from Random House.

When the late great Al Aronowitz left this Vail of Tears it was noted in his obituaries that the books he wrote on the Beatles and Bobby Darin were "self published." Snobbery perhaps but I believe the self published author is not taken nearly as seriously as the, emmmmm! legitimate ones. eh! what?

Nick, clutching Sunny Lane, says to me: "I remember when I first met you ten years ago you were wearing a yarmulke. You were uptight. You were dressed in a suit. You used to be all about professionalism. The porn people have reformed you and turned you into one of us. Look at you. You're wearing a t-shirt, faded bluejeans, white sneakers, your hair is down, your eyes are half-bent, you've obviously been doing something fun tonight. We corrupted you. But I think you're happier."

Sunny agrees I look happy.

Nick says that when's he performed with Sunny, he's fallen in love with her and had to shake it off on the drive home.

Nick: "She's an incredible girl until she gets jaded."

Sunny: "That's not going to happen."

Genesis Sky says she's stopped performing in porn (it was exacting too great a toll on her) to concentrate on her singing.

Orgies Behind the Scenes of Reality Show

From Radar Online:

Hollywood- The hot-blooded stars on E!’s Kill Reality series are supposed to be filming a horror movie, but the scenes backstage may be more fitting for a triple-X booth. While their on-screen debauchery has already earned the series impressive ratings, a source close to the show claims the real reality action took place at the stars’ communal Malibu beach house.

“The whole cast was drunk or wasted throughout the taping, and everyone was having sex with everyone else,” says the insider. “Not only were there orgies, but at one point someone relieved himself on Trishelle [Canatella, of Real World: Las Vegas and Playboy fame] in full view of the cameras—and, from what I saw, she loved it.” In another booze-fueled bacchanal, we hear Tonya Cooley, the lusty blonde of Real World: Chicago fame, begged co-stars to do lines off her genitals “because it turns her on.”

A source who would know writes: "Very funny. 90% inaccurate, but close. Probably 3rd hand info in a game of telephone."

Fight Club Peter North-Style

Jack writes: A friend of mine told me this story about a buddy of his that is in this group that is like the movie Fight Club, but they wrestle instead of bare knuckle fight.... Anyways, at a recent get together, a new guy shows up to wrestle... He won't let anyone take his picture and insists on wearing a mask during his match.... Several guys there immediately recognize him... Peter North. The guy who wrestled him said that Peter was sprung the entire match. No one really wanted to wrestle him after that. Check out Disco Machine in this picture.

Michael writes:

Disco Machine isn't Peter North. DM is a somewhat well known Southern Californian indie wrestler who every SoCal regular has seen without his mask numerous times. He's been working for about seven years.

Taryn Thomas flaked on a mainstream shoot

Sportswami writes:

This April she was hired by a Mainstream cable show to shoot a small movie that called for a threesome scene. Before she was with Spiegler, she was going to be paid $5,000 for the movie, flown to Howard Stern to promote it and then be pushed as one of the stars of this reality cable show. They set up a glamor shoot in May in Scottsdale where she lives and were going to pay her $500 dollars for a two hour photo shoot. Not only did she flake on the shoot, but she also never returned their calls or their emails. The producers are now being sued for $15,000 by the financial backer while Taryn gets to make money doing porn.

Jennifer Osborne's Role In Tim Connelly's Downfall

The coauthor of The Other Hollywood was Connelly's girlfriend for about two years. As AVN Publisher and Editor, Tim gave his girlfriend's book not only massive coverage and favorable coverage, but coverage entirely disproportional to any book coverage in AVN before.

Here's a lengthy Q&A by Jared Rutter. Here's Jared's glowing review (fully deserved in my view, because the book is terrific), which took up three pages in the February 2005 issue of AVN.

The Other Hollywood (and its two main authors Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne), in turn, gave major props to AVN, Tim Connelly and Connelly's ex-lover Sharon Mitchell.

Connelly provided pictures and contacts for his girlfriend's book. But when he could no more for her, she dropped him. This precipitated Connelly's latest downward spiral into drug abuse.

Both Connelly and Osborne have been coke fiends.

Sales for The Other Hollywood were disappointing and Regan Books remaindered (sold at a reduced price) many of its copies.

The Rise And Fall Of Tim Connelly

I need helping telling this story.

Why did Paul Fishbein hire him as AVN Publisher and Editor?

Tim (who signed a three year contract with AVN, which is why he wasn't fired earlier) had these advantages:

* A genuine porn insider (for 25 years).

* Plenty of connections. He has sales skills.

* Good eye for layout.

But Tim is no journalist. Editing Adam Film World required no journalism skills. His AVN copy was consistently a mess.

His meltdown at AVN was no surprise. He's often had drug problems, fueling his paranoia and ADD. He's had a turbulent personal life. He's power-hungry and vindictive.

When he took over at AVN, most of the staff and much of the industry was happy. Within months, he started alienating people. Powerful pornographers who'd recommended his hire to Paul Fishbein now turned against Connelly. Almost the entire AVN staff hates him.

Porn Actress Michelle Thorne

She's one of the best-known faces in the British porn industry.

Howard Stern Vs. Opie & Anthony

Tricia Devereaux writes on ADT:

I would never have considered Howard. He's just as likely to make a fool out of the porn people as not.

Opie and Anthony, while also very sarcastic, don't seem to have it as an agenda to do everything they can to make porn girls seem even more stupid than they would normally.

Someone at Stern tried to get one of my friend's contact information. I told them to get lost.

Murg 2318 writes: "Stern is so important to some that Tawny Roberts was seen outside the Stern building a few weeks ago two days in a row trying to get on the show- who was making a fool out of who?"

Alaina F-orante Departs Hustler.com

The Hustler Tattler writes:

Hustler.com editor Alaina F-orante departed LFP last week. Well-liked and respected by LFP employees, F-orante was at the top of Bruce David’s “enemies list."

According to Mark Cromer, in an interview on Lukeisback.com:

But the fact is that Bruce despised Alaina because she had previously filed a formal complaint with Human Resources against Bruce after he told her he wouldn't hire a woman (and specifically her) for an editing job that was open.

When a position came open, Alaina applied for it. Bruce David made the mistake of openly telling her, 'I don't want a woman in that position. I want a man. This is Hustler and that's a man's job.'

Well, Alaina went immediately to Human Resources and reported this. That's illegal. Consequently, Alaina was taken out of Bruce David's bailiwick and given another job (at Flynt Digital).

Alaina is persona non grata in Bruce's world and a suspect for leaking information.

What did happen is simply this: Bruce David, along with another editor named Tom Farrell, spread a rumor around the staff that I was intimately involved with Alaina F-orante, who worked down the hall on Flynt's websites. The rumor wasn't true at all. I was a work-friend of Alaina and we talked a lot, but that's all it was.

After that Nixonian plot failed, Bruce the Misogynist Bully tried another scheme to force Alaina out that has not been made public until now.

On company time, Bruce enlisted the help of Hustler Features Editor Carolyn S-nclair who “innocently” asked co-workers about Alaina F-orante and Lisa Jenio in an effort to dig up dirt on both of them. One staffer says, “I thought it was pretty obvious what Carolyn was doing. I refused to talk about (Lisa or Alaina) and she has been cold towards me ever since.”

While Alaina had to pay her dues as an editorial; assistant, Carolyn leap-frogged from pizza deliverer into an editorial staff job. Carolyn wrote a handful of weak freelance articles including an “American Woman in Thailand” (Hustler, June 2004) which amounted to a three page whitewash of the notorious Thai sex trade industry. Her “in-depth” article didn’t mention how thousands of Asian children are sold into sex slavery in Thailand.

Instead, this “new direction in journalism” was a how-to-guide for overweight, old, Bruce Davidish men looking to score with submissive Asian slaves. No doubt there’s probably a nine year-old-girl somewhere in Bangkok screaming out (her thanks to Carolyn?) Credit should go to then-Managing Editor Tim Keneally for trying to kill the article at the time, but Bruce’s geriatric pecker overruled him.

With fewer than five articles published by Hustler, Carolyn credits her rapid promotion to Features Editor to “good karma;” which is apparently a new euphemism for “Bruce David’s erection.” Buddhists of the world, please take note.

Alaina did outstanding work despite Bruce’s thuggish cowardly backdoor attempts to sandbag her repeatedly. Bruce David is the only employee who makes 85K a year for trying to push his fellow employees out the window, that is, unless you count the mafia.

Tom Sizemore Sex Tape Review

At a Glance: Not since Limp Bizkit auteur Fred Durst's camera phone puked onto the Internet has a celebrity sex tape been less welcome. Tom Sizemore famously dated and famously beat the s--- out of celebrity madam Heidi Fleiss - an act I think anyone who has ever seen an interview with Fleiss can easily forgive - so the fact that he f---s hookers and films it really doesn't come as a huge surprise. Expected or not, this elaborate and expensive (in more ways than one) collection of homegrown porn is redolent with the intertwining stenches of failure and humiliation. Sizemore explains he is a "grower not a shower" and then spends minutes complaining about how he can't achieve an erection because of a looming court case. His drug-fueled soliloquies about how he is "not smart, but not really stupid" or his explanation of a squirt gun containing his semen will loom like storm clouds in the mind of any casting director. The proverbial truth is out there: Tom Sizemore is a giant idiot.

Nation of Origin: Hollywood, a nation unto itself.

Languages: The stumbling semi-coherent language that only booze and opiate addicts speak mixed with the harpy-like squawks of paid escorts.

Sexual Content: Time Sizemore eats more assholes than a giant alligator set loose in Washington.

AVN Buys Lunch

On January 30, 2005, I started running those text ads on the lower left. Now I'm getting my first check -- $37:87. Lunch is on me, fellas.

Who's The One With The Chemical Imbalance?

PanamaDH writes on ADT:

After reading Skeeter's rants, it made me wonder if Bridgette Kerkove is experiencing chemical imbalance after reading about her outbursts at actresses she's directing.

Leah Luv writes: "I just have to say that Bridgette does have some type of chemical imbalance. Personal experience is all that is."

Skeeter Kerkove writes on ADT:

In an interview, Bridgette gave to L-ke Ford in 1999, she told Luke, she met a girl named Angel, Angel hooked Bridgette up on her first porn shoot. Bridgette met Angel at the Club Starlight, in Los Angeles, California, a dance hostess club that caters to Asian men in October of 1998. Bridgette found the job herself in the L.A. Times. Angel introduced Bridgette to a pimp named Duke who lived in Reseda, California. Bridgette did some clients for him, then he lined up Bridgettes first shoot with Sean Michaels, Erotic City # 6. That was in October of 1998 when Sean Michaels worked for Elegant Angel. The scene was shot in Sean Michaels backyard, by the pool. Bridgette did anal with toys. That is how Bridgette really got into porn.
We met Mark Spiegler, he hooked up Bridgette with Metro, she did a D.P. for Air Tight # 5. Julian St. Jox hooked her up for Gang Bang Bitches # 23, where she did double anal, all in her first week of porn.
The other stories are just porn folklore.
I did drive Bridgette to jobs sometimes, she did not own her own car yet. Sometimes, she would just drive my 1995 Ford Crew Cab dually.
As far as money, I bought my first home at 6277 Blanchard Cyn. Road in Tujunga, California 91042,
in 1988, 9 years before ever meeting Bridgette [Patrica Lynn Felkel]. The house I bought was a brand new 2 story home, small, however big enough for myself, girlfriend and very soon to be born son.
My oldest sons mothers name was Shalaura Lee Hartwell. She was a real nice person, Period, not a violent bone in her body.
Bridgette Kerkove reported to the police and DCFS, I was responsible for her disappearance. I did not kill Shalaura Lee Hartwell, she is alive and well, living in Cerritos, California.
It broke my heart Bridgette told this outlandish lie about me, however, it was by far not the first time, that completely false allegations would be made or filed.
I know I have a bad past, Bridgette has tried to use it against me since June 11th 2003.
There are over 20 differant girls in porn, who have been completely degraded and verbally abused by Bridgette Kerkove on her Metro sets. Leah Luv is being honest, she had the poor little thing crying on her set. Leah Luv called her agent Mark Spiegler and told him, about the verbal abuse she had suffered from Metro director Bridgette Kerkove. Missy Monroe cried, Dillan Lauren was completely disrespected, little adoreable Hillary Scott was treated very badly. These girls are not lying.
Kelly Wells received a horrific phone call from Bridgette.
I believe in my heart, Bridgette will start treating the girls better. I am sure Metro is not happy with the complaints.
As far as my first directing jobs, it had nothing to do with Bridgette or money she had earned. I owe it all to Metro. It was their idea, not mine. It was their money spent, not Kerkove money!!! April 2002, was my first Metro movie, Quasarman, Danny Gorman, Sam Nelson, Greg Alves and of course Kenny G.[Metro owner] they are the ones who get credit for my start of my directing career. Bridgette and I get no credit, it was their idea. It was a lucky break for me.
Bridgette was 2 weeks away from her 20th birthday, the day I met her. We had sex that night in my truck on a dirt road in Tujunga. I cummed in her pussy, she became pregnant. I know that I am a very unattractive man, however, that did not matter to Bridgette who was then known as Patrica Lynn Felkel. She loved sex, that is why we had sex that night, it was her idea, not mine.
She had been having sex for years, before I ever met her. I don't know why Bridgette ever liked me, I guess it doesn't even matter. Bridgette really does love sex, so do I, I guess we were just both easy sluts in the past!
Skeeter Kerkove - Porn producer, director, performer. I am a huge fan of hardcore porn.

[Re: Using Gene Ross to get his story out.]

It was the only way to get my side of the story out there. All of May and June, Bridgette demonized me on all of her porn sets, to the crew, make-up artists and many male and female performers who post on ADT!!!!! She made sure it hit the internet thru other people!!! She called up companies I work for and told them horrific stories!!! That is how she got it blasted all over the internet, the first sixty days, It was calculated by Bridgette telling the biggest gossiping girls and guys in porn, that is eactly how she did it. Many, many people called me, telling me all of the crap, Bridgette was spreading about me on her porn sets and by calling people. I was at one persons house one time, when Bridgette called, I was several feet away, hearing Bridgette rant!!!

Bridgette did indeed slug me in the back of the head with a closed fist, on the red carpet, at the AVN awards. Many people witnessed it, Joey Wilson owner of 3rd Degree films witnessed it, he physically stopped her from slugging me again. Anthony Simone from Defiance Films witnessed it, Kelly Erickson, Ric Williams owner of Black Widow Productions witnessed it, Janie L. Metro's publicist witnessed it, maybe Gauge did, I do not know. After that, Bridgette started yelling and screaming at Gauge and Kelly Erickson, and Metro staff had to calm Bridgette down. It was a rough night, however, things got better and later that evening Bridgette and I started planning our next baby together!!!

Ramsey writes: "At this point I don't care much for this whole soap opera. All I want to see is Bridgette back infront of the camera because I think she's simply awesome, the perfect pornstar in my opinion."

Random writes:

+1! Well said! God knows there's nothing more important than porn and it's lowly consumers! Idiotic. Just flat-out idiotic.

I don't know who did what in this Skeeter/Bridgette saga, but I will say when a court of law determines the truth, somebody better end up in jail. Whether it's Skeeter because he's found guilty for what he's been accused of, or Bridgette for lying, somebody better be rotting in a cramped cell for a very long time.

Tiffany Summers writes:

I may be new to the business, but as an outsider this seems all wrong.I worked for Bridgette on a movie called Bottomless. She seemed like the most normal professional director that I've worked for. And that was just a few weeks ago. I never heard her talk about anyone named Skeeter. I read a few pages back how Leah Luv was talking bad about her. And I think Leah was a little to high on that day, to remember that the monitor was in the makeup room and WE ALL watched her awful scene.She just layed there making the same sound over and over!Prior to the scene she kept complaining about doing the scene with Cris Mountain,and repeatedly walking back and forth from the living room to the makeup room scetching out on something. I think everyone should know that Leah and Hillary Scott are good friends with Skeeter.And the only time I've heard that guys name mentioned was by Leah,at AIM. From my sober observations on that day Leah, you seemed like the one with the chemical problem.

Pornutopia Party August 27, 2005

Erin Moore, Kris Slater, Erin Erin Moore Erin, Kris Erin, Kris Deja Daire Deja, Gavin Deja Erin, Kris Billy Glide Erin, Kris, Billy Mr. Chris Kinzie Kenner, hubby Kinzie Kinzie Kinzie, Tiana Lynn Kinzie, Tiana Kinzie, , Tiana Brooke Haven Ben Fisher, Dillan Lauren Deja Daire, Gavin Deja, Gavin Barbara Summer, Brooke Haven, Havana Ginger Barbara, Ben, Brooke, Havana Havana Havana Kylie Worthy Kylie Kaiya Lynn Nikita Lea, David Grossman Nikita, David Nikita, David Taylor Kurtis Taylor Taylor Dillan Lauren Dillan Dillan Dillan Dillan Dillan Dillan Nina Hartley, Ira Levine Nina, Ira Lucy Thai, Nikki Benz Genesis Skye Sydney Capri, Brooke, Missy Monroe Sydney, Brooke, Missy Brooke, Missy Brooke, Missy Dillan Dillan Dillan Dillan Missy Missy Quincy, Monstar Crissy Cums Missy Monroe Missy Kinzie, Tiana Kinzie, Tiana Nick East Jezebelle Bond, Justin Snyder Jezebelle, Justin Jezebelle, Justin Jezebelle, Justin, Anna Mills Anna Mills Anna Mills Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Genesis Skye Genesis Skye Genesis, Erin Genesis, Erin Jezebelle Bond Sunny, Nick Sunny, Nick Kinzie, Tiana, Nina Kinzie, Tiana, Nina girls pic Oliver Ware Serena Marcus Serena Serena Serena, Brett Rockma

We (Duke Hunter, myself and other media) don't get in until 9:40pm.

I overhear an excited fan after getting a photo with Dillan Lauren: "I grabbed some tits."

Monstar's wearing eyeliner. "I'm just like Liberace," he says.

Nick East says he only appears for a minute in the documentary The Salvation of Barry. The producers of the film broke their promise to promote his book.

Khunrum writes:

Luke ...I'll wager Mr. East's tome was self published? There seems to be a discriminatory distinction between the self published offering and one say, from Random House.

When the late great Al Aronowitz left this Vail of Tears it was noted in his obituaries that the books he wrote on the Beatles and Bobby Darin were "self published." Snobbery perhaps but I believe the self published author is not taken nearly as seriously as the, emmmmm! legitimate ones. eh! what?

Nick, clutching Sunny Lane, says to me: "I remember when I first met you ten years ago you were wearing a yarmulke. You were uptight. You were dressed in a suit. You used to be all about professionalism. The porn people have reformed you and turned you into one of us. Look at you. You're wearing a t-shirt, faded bluejeans, white sneakers, your hair is down, your eyes are half-bent, you've obviously been doing something fun tonight. We corrupted you. But I think you're happier."

Sunny agrees I look happy.

Nick says that when's he performed with Sunny, he's fallen in love with her and had to shake it off on the drive home.

Nick: "She's an incredible girl until she gets jaded."

Sunny: "That's not going to happen."

Genesis Sky says she's stopped performing in porn (it was exacting too great a toll on her) to concentrate on her singing.