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Chairman of the Boards

A friend took me to lunch on Friday. "You are the hero to the cardboard set," he said. "The people who hold up cardboard signs by the road looking for money. You are the biggest schnorrer ["One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others; a parasite"] of them all. You get people to pay for your lunch, your trip to Europe, your HBO. Just as businessmen idolize Jack Welch, schnorrers idolize you."

Asia Carrera Is Back?

She writes: "Don asked if I want to go back to making movies, AND if I want to have another baby, BOTH of which are a lot of food for thought, so I will get back you in my NEXT bulletin with my thoughts on those topics..."

The Strippers Are Coming...

to Church, that is. I met with Heather and Lori from JCsGirls.com Monday afternoon and concluded that you can take the stripper out of the strip club, but you can't take that ditzy funny blonde attitude out of the ex-stripper. She and her friend got badly lost and were too embarrassed to call me for help. I ended up calling them and guiding the lost sheep home. They are the subject of a documentary by Bill Day and are exploring reality TV possibilities.

What's Going On With Sarah Blake?

Her website www.sarahblake.com is down. Where's a john to go?

Apple iPod delivers "iPorno" revolution

It hasn't taken the adult industry long to figure out how to transform Apple's iPod into the iPorn.

Sites from the dark side of the Web are already rushing to buy QuickTime Pro licenses so they can create viral transmissions intended to pounce down the broadband pipe into Apple's new media players.

Protection From Piracy

A mainstream guy writes:

I'm pondering how a company like mine will be able to protect DVD profits from Bit Torrent and E-Mule, etc and it occurred to me that the adult industry tends to lead in digital technology, and so I am wondering what the consensus in adult seems to be regarding the pirating that now goes on, in other words, how will Stagliano, Jordan, Wicked, Vivid, Red Light District, etc, etc, deal with the Bit Torrent threat? Have any of the big adult content producers discussed this publically?

I think of it this way, if I am anything to go by, my entire adult life I've been pumping approx. $5k a year into the music industry, but in this past year, with Bit Torrent ---I never really liked the early iterations of this sort of software like Kaazaa and Lime Wire --and there was never anything I was looking for. No longer the case, Bit Torrent works like a dream and the stuff IS out there for download (including, I might add, our films!) --well, this past year I've spent about $50!

So I am am anything to go by, my spending habits are down to 1/2 of 1% of what I spent just one year ago? I'm the music industry's BEST FRIEND, or I was last year. Surely porn hounds are renting and buying less and Bit Torrenting more, especially in the past 12 months. Have you heard of any effective methods of combating piracy or read any articles that discuss what the adult industry is doing about this quite serious threat to their bottom line?

I'd be very curious to hear what the San Fernando Valley porn braintrust has to say on Bit Torrent. It takes but a day for most xxx to appear on the BT sites or in the newsgroups (or the new way the kids in the office do their down loading, via the chatrooms, which might be the best) and if someone can download porn for free, that means no rental, no sales. 10,000 pieces out the door turns into 700 out the door (and wait till those same 700 people get a broadband connection). Porn is much more disposable than other forms of content and most consumers are probably not that discerning, either.

It's a real problem, like the lake is being drained. In terns of DVD profits I see the feeding through moving further and further away from the entire "value" chain's collective mouth, from DVD producers and content owners, to the chains like Tower and Virgin (witness how much space that used to be for retailing CDs and DVDs is still left at the remodeled Virgin Megastore in Times Square, it seems to be more about selling new "vintage" rock tee-shirts) all the way down to the rental stores.

The industry says sales are up? Nonsense, *sales have sprung a major leak* Read the Variety reports on Shrek II and Sith's DVD sales. Lucas is deliberately shipping fewer units, that's significant. He's worried (VERY SMARTLY) about the returns. And it's only getting worse.

When a 40 year old can DL stuff as fast as a 20 year old computer whiz kid, it's all over! If you can DL *the movie* or *the music* who will care about anything else in the near future? It's like you're paying $16-$20 then for a CD booklet or DVD wrapper?

In in the iPod era, REALLY, WHO CARES? No one. No one at all. Even guys with the most extreme collector geek mentality are rethinking a lifetime's spending habits. At that point, chasing digital content profits is going to be like catching rain in your hands. The bottom seems poised to fall out of the way content has been financed since the days of Desi and Lucy, that much seems obvious, doesn't it?

Paris Hilton Caught in Lie About Sizemore

Bobby Simmons writes me: "Has anyone else noticed that Vivid seems a bit desperate lately floating these outrageous rumors about Mike Tyson and Paris Hilton? Does the fact that Paris Hilton took a Polaroid with Tom Sizemore somehow verify that they had sex? And besides, who cares if they did have sex? Unless Vivid has a tape of it, why do they care? It reeks of desperation from a sinking enterprise. If they are the "biggest and best" adult studio, they should be above such tactics. Vivid's PR department is reprehensible."

British Pornographer David Sullivan

You'd think that British porn stars Michelle Thorne and Cathy Barry regularly shag pornographer David "Diddy Dave" Sullivan (owns the Sunday Sport newspaper in Britain and worth nearly a billion dollars), they appear so often in his publications.

A lot of people hate David Sullivan because they say he owes them money.

Various girls have said that they appear in Sullivan's publications regularly in exchange for shagging him regularly.

I've heard it said that Sullivan's golden rule is "a blowjob or no job."

Cathy Barry writes me: "Thank you for pointing out this page no it is not true and i have passed this on to my solicitor and will be taking legal action."

Tampa Show Notes

Mike South tells me: "Most of the businessmen in this business are in this business because they would fail in real business. From my background in real business, most of these people would not stand a chance. They're not professional enough. They have no business sense or business ethics."

Heather Pink says her mother describes Canadians as "sophisticated Mexicans."

During a recent trip to Amsterdam, her father asked her mom, for the first time, for a blowjob. The mom refused. She's never given a blowjob in her life.

Mike, 47, has The Beverly Hillbillies tune on his cell phone.

He boasts that he has sex with women half his age and gets paid for it.

I ask Cheyenne if she felt cheapened by fluffing Mike before a scene. "Hell no," she says. "What's a blowjob between friends?"

During Saturday afternoon's car wash (Oct 8), Lori Alexia got up on a black Ferrari in her highheels and wore away the paint. The owners got free tickets to the awards show.

Friday afternoon, the hotel's concierge, during a walk from the front of the hotel to the back, was told by ten different people that girls (Cheyenne and Heather Pink) were topless by the pool (while kids were around). The girls put their tops back on when they were asked to.

Also Friday, a memo went around to all hotel employees that they were not to socialize with the guests.

Saturday night over dinner, I ask Mike how the parents of Korean stripper Rachel would react to him.

"They'd like me," he says, adjusting his baseball cap, which reads "asshole."

"I'm respectful."

Mike says he's friends with the parents of a lot of the women he's worked with in porn. Jenny St. James's father said that ever since she was a little girl, she could point out on the TV who the hookers were. "She was always going to work in porn," he said. "I'm glad she hooked up with someone who would treat her fairly."

A couple of years ago, Mike told a big black male friend, Isaac (a DJ at The Doll House for 17 years, now a manager of clubs, and babysitter), that there was nothing wrong with him that a nice little Asian girl couldn't fix. The next day, Isaac introduced Mike to Rachel and the rest is history.

Mike: "I'm doing my best to further foreign relations."

Rachel giggles: "Now he wants to conquer Japan."

Isaac: "Mike is the greatest redneck pimp I know."

Cheyenne sits with her head in her hand. She can't believe she's stuck at the table with me.

Haley, Cheyenne, Mike and company complain about the poor service while this cute little blonde waittress, Kaylin, hussles back and forth, doing the best she can.

A couple of hours ago, Mike smeared red lipstick on Rachel. "Oh great," she said. "Now I look like a whore."

She went home to change and arrived to dinner 40-minutes late.

Is Rachel usually late? Yes.

Mike points to her and yells, "Best dancer in all of Tampa [according to Nightmoves magazine]."

Rachel slaps him and tells him to shush. There are families all around us.

Isaac tells Rachel: "You need Jesus."

Rachel: "I've got Jesus in my heart."

When Will Serena Sin/Lexi Bardot Get Her Puppy?

On June 7, Serena told me: "I'm doing anal so I can buy a puppy."

Sunday she writes me: "The status of puppy ownership is currently on hold. I am forever grateful that Mark Davis and Joey Ray let me stay at their house when I'm in LA, and with the 3 of us and a puppy it would be too much. Also I'm getting very busy while I'm here and I wouldn't have alot of time to devote to being a good puppy-mom."

What's Up With Genesis Skye?

She's reinventing herself, writes Guapo.

Ivan writes on XPT: "I shot her for Dawn of the Head. She was a great sport and we have some cool BTS with her. Ironically I had her popping fake pills before the blow bang, for the storyline. She even made a joke that some pics. of her with pills with surface on the net. I used some of those stills for the BTS gallery on the DVD."

Jack Hammer Seeks Female Penpals

Paul writes: ""Jack Hammer" (Troy Mainwaring) recently posted an ad on www.writeaprisoner.com. in search of female penpals...His address is: TROY MAINWARING #T-90327...Mule Creek State Prison...PO BOX 409060, C-14-207..Ione, CA 95640."

Jack was busted back to prison for violation of parole (he left threatening phone messages to a woman). He was initially imprisoned for several years for robbing a bank.

David Aaron Clark writes on ADT:

You guys can say what you want but at the top of his game Jack Hammer was an outstanding performer -- & fearless enough to not give a shit about industry homophobia regarding transsexuals. He was also the best natural actor I ever directed. I'm not going to make excuses for some of what he's said & done at the points in his life where his demons have kept taking him down, but he's seen, done & gone through more than I strongly suspect a majority of those posting here -- myself included -- have had to deal with in their lives. I'm not ashamed to call him my friend. He's certainly no "role model," but then again neither are the cardboard stand-up "bad-boy" directors who like to strut & flex like they've paid a fraction of the dues this guy has. & hey, at least he's NOT on the Megan's Law site.

Jack always had my back, & he knows that if I'm still around this harrowing planet myself in 2013, I'll be glad to buy his first round as a free man. I happen to know the story behind his "third strike." He was thoroughly railroaded by yet another one of those carpetbagging "I'm gonna do a documentary about porn" wannabes & the literally schizophrenic porn chick the guy used to rip off Jack and several other porners. She lied on the stand about Jack's efforts over the phone to collect money due him & others, but of course the prosecutor had a hard-on for an ex-con porn star with elite biker ties.

Jack Hammer represents the end of era when porn really was an outlaw industry, in the best of ways. Now it's an "alt-industry."

Quasarman writes:

Troy used to scare me, but he was a good performer and somehow when he wore his glasses, a button-down shirt and tied his hair back he looked like he could work in a library. A very tragic figure from what I recall. He used to carry copies of his "legitimate" acting resume' around with him. I don't know the specifics of why he went back to jail but to me he was always a good guy and hell, if Scott Peterson and the Menendez brothers can get marriage proposals behind bars, surely someone can drop this guy a line.

On Set With Cherry X

Cytherea yells out after her scene with Dick Delaware and Cheyne Collins.

"Shut up whore wife," says Brian. "You just took five loads on your face."

"I was thinking of you the whole time," she responds.

Cheyne says his wife Chennin Blanc is coming back next year for a year or so.

Delaware says he's been drug-free for four-and-a-half months. He remembers a time about a year ago when he'd done cocaine for two days and emerged disoriented from his bedroom and sat next to his roommate Dick Tracy.

"Would you mind if I sucked your dick?" Delaware remembers Tracy asking him.

Dick got upset. Then Tracy, according to Dick, told him he was just joking.

Such petty misunderstandings can ruin an otherwise beautiful friendship.

"I was all drugged out," Delaware remembers, "and I wasn't paying attention until he said he would suck my dick.

"I said, 'What did you say to me?' He said, 'Dude, I was kidding.'

"Dick Tracy is my good friend. It was a little startling. What was that all about? He said he was joking with me."

Cheyne: "At least he didn't say, 'Nigger, I want to suck your dick.' That would've been upsetting."

Brian rehearses Delaware for their KSEX show Oct 19, 2005. "Go after Harry Weiss," says Brian. "Then, when Gene [Ross] writes it up, you and I are cool."

He yells for his wife: "Cytherea, evil pirate hooker!"

Luke: "Just a normal term of endearment between porners."

"I just saw five loads of endearment in the other room," says Brian.

I hear Corey Jordan and Jill Kelly (they were/are married) are still trying to work things out.

Cheyne protests the growing commercialization of pornography, such as girls who say, "I do anal." They should say, "I love anal."

Veronica Jett is asked if she does anal. She says she does anal. She's asked if she does double penetration. She says she's not sure. "I'm 92-pounds. I can't take that much in me."

Only if you're really nice. Only if you say please.

"As long as I don't bleed, I'll be fine. As long as I can work tomorrow."

I ask her how long she's been in the industry. "Two years too long," she says.

Luke: "When are you leaving the industry?"

Veronica: "Whenever I get old and stuff starts to sag. Whenever everyone starts to hate me."

Delaware says Mr. Criminal from High-Powered Records is coming on Cytherea's KSEX show that night. "Mr. Criminal is writing a song for my walk out [at Dick's next fight," says Delaware.

Dick has had his drivers license suspended after he got a jaywalking ticket outside of World Modeling on Van Nuys Blvd and then didn't show up for his hearing.

Mia Bangg has quit the industry. If a nice girl like that can't face another day in the porn trenches, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Lezley Zen, Holly Halston and Lexi Bardot on a bike. EBay.

I meet Bailey Brooks, 19. From Seattle, she's been doing porn since January, appearing in about 20 scenes.

"I wanted to do runway modeling [she was working at Quiznos]. I put up a portfolio online. Then I got a lot of comments from people wanting me to do porn. They offered me a lot of money and it sounded like fun. The people seemed to be really cool."

Luke: "Was it what you expected?"

Bailey: "I forgot what I expected. It's probably better than what I expected. I probably thought it was going to be more low. But it's really professional."

Luke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"

Bailey: "I didn't really like crowds. I guess the skater crowd, gamers. We partied all the time. We were the cool crowd. We weren't the preppies who thought they were cool."

Luke: "Were you a good student?"

Bailey: "No. Not really. I knew the work. I was always good in school when I tried. But then I just stopped trying. I could do good on a test but I never did my homework. I averaged a C-."

She graduated.

Luke: "What did you want to be when you were a kid?"

Bailey: "A model."

Luke: "What do you love and hate about porn?"

Bailey: "I love and hate the people. They're fun and cool and laid back and open sexually. But I also hate them because they're shallow and they look at the girls as a dollar sign."

Aside from her occasional scene, Bailey doesn't work. She hangs out. Her fiance lives in Seattle. "He loves me and supports me in whatever I do. He knows it's just a job. I don't think of it as anything else."

Luke: "Does your family know?"

Bailey: "Yes. My dad's scared for me. My mom is too. They sorta accept it now. They know I'm a big girl and I can handle myself and I'm going to make my own choices in life."

Luke: "What are your ambitions?"

Bailey: "That's a hard question. Eventually I want to go to college and get a degree in business or computers. I took every computers and business class my highschool offered. I went pretty far in accounting. It's easy work and it makes good money.

"I'm getting married next June."

She stands 5'9", weighs 115, and measures 36A-25-35.

I meet stud Buster Good. In 30-months in porn, he's done about 200 scenes. "I always fantasized about being in the industry but I was afraid. What if someone saw me? Then I realized that I was old enough, 36 at the time, that it didn't matter what anyone thought.

"I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. I knew Jim Lane. I knew he was in the business. I saw him at a friend's funeral. I didn't say anything to him then. I'd called him once before and hung up. I was afraid.

"He said, 'Why don't you come down to a set?' I came down. Ashley Blue was getting DP'd. Where do I sign up?

"I went to AIM (Adult Industry Medicine). A week later I did my first scene with Ava Devine. She was perfect to work with for a first scene.

"I like girls who like to have sex. Girls who don't like to have sex can be difficult to work with. I like kissing. That keeps me hard. Some girls are like, 'I don't do that.' I'm like, 'It's ok to stick my dick in your ass and into your mouth but you won't give me a kiss to keep my dick hard?'"

Luke: "How did your family react?"

"I told my sister. She's cool with it. I haven't told my mom or dad. I always ask that same question, primarily to 18 and 19-year old girls. 'Do your parents know?' They say, yeah, yeah, they're cool about it.

"There's a time and a place [to tell his parents]. Maybe they'll know.

"I want to get into shooting. I've spent a lot of my money on photography equipment and light set."

Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Buster: "A fireman. I like helping people. Sometimes I see people in serious trouble on the street and I'm always the first person to help. I saw a homeless guy set himself on fire last year. That was heavy.

"I pulled over. I had a fire extinguisher. I put him out. He reignited himself. I didn't know he had poured gasoline on himself. I was able to get a hose and direct people to call 911.

"I worked in a psych ward for eight years. I dealt with a lot of emergencies. If I see someone having a seizure, I know what to do. I saw someone who had come into my gym late at night. He'd gotten stabbed. I made sure someone called 911 and I started to help him.

"I went to Calabassas High School, an upper-middle-class school. We were lower middle class. It was frustrating. When I finally started getting into the punk rock and being a stoner, I smoked weed before it was hip to smoke weed... I started to discover my individual self."

Luke: "What do you do in your spare time?"

Buster: "I'm heavy into weightlifting. I like to skateboard and snowboard. I like to fight my age.

"I had a chemical dependency problem when I was younger -- drugs and alcohol. I got sober when I was 21.

"I had ended up homeless on the street.

"That previous year, I had gotten $50,000 in a motorcycle accident. That exacerbated my problem. I'm grateful for that. I see many people today, their drug and alcohol usage has been prolonged. I've had a lot of close friends, girlfriends, roommates, who are no longer with us because of that.

"A lot of people look at people who don't drink or do drugs anymore as some sort of choirboy. I'm a perfect example that you can be sober and have a good time."

Luke: "How has porn affected your love life?"

Buster: "I'm honest. I've never lied to a woman to get in her pants.

"I explain to the women I meet that I'm not looking for a relationship now. And this is what I do. I explain to them about the testing. I have not had any problems. I've been able to hook up with some hot girls from the gym.

"Relationships are very difficult. I'm close to my ex-girlfriend. She just had a baby [conceived through artificial means]. I was there for the birth. I'm the godfather of the baby.

"Her and I do not have a sexual relationship anymore but I love her and I love her baby. Love and relationships aren't about having to f---. Just as sex outside of the business can be better because you don't have to open up for the camera. There's no one standing there. You can do your own kink on the side and not worry about being judged.

"Although I've done some kinky things in front of people in the business. I'll have a girl pee in my mouth and drink it. Oh, you're making a funny face right now. Rod Fontana is in the same boat. He takes [the kink] a step further. But if I'm really attracted to a girl...

"It's cool to individualize myself as that. I don't do it for attention. But at the same time, I'm not ashamed. It's fun. I know it sounds weird."

Luke: "Different strokes."

Buster: "Yeah. Sometimes people have other fetishes that I'm not into.

"I've always been sexually active. Before I got into this business, I had all the old porn on VHS. But two-and-a-half years ago, I didn't know what DPs [double penetration, one penis in the girl's vagina and another penis in her anus] were. I started watching it and I said, 'I don't know if I could ever do that.' But it's just something that I do now. It's part of my job. But I've always been nasty. I've always been into making girls gag. I'm still the same person."

Veronica Jett walks up. "Hey Buster, how's the work going? Are you still at the mental hospital?"

Buster, talking about the psych patients: "They can be violent. They can bite and punch and kick."

Luke: "It sounds like porn."

Buster says he prefers the older girls, the ones in their 30s, the ones who are worn out, a bit flabby or imperfect in some way. "I'm tired of the perfect girls."

Veronica's leaving. "I'm feeling fine. I'm going to get lunch, cash my check, and go home and smoke some pot."

Buster says he used to read a lot: John Steinbeck. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Herman Hesse.

Then, with all the dazzling new technology, he stopped reading books.

A producer wants a girl to pee in Buster's face.

Buster: "It has to be the right moment."

Producer: "This is the right moment."

Buster: "I'd do it."

Dazzled In Dallas

Mike writes:

Luke, There I was; not so innocently surfing "favorite links" off of various porn blogs. Mostly either airheads complaining about their lives, pets and the Justice Dept. or studio PR monkeys whoring out their latest bit of sub-standard porn (using words of two syllables or less so as not to confuse the discriminating Net-Wanker )....

Then it was as if I had struck gold... I was about to give it up & put my computers to some positive societal use (I.e. resume editing / rendering / burning Cybernet.com S&M videos to DVD) when I saw a link to lukeisback.com @ The Floating World. It's name was too close to Taylor Rain's real website (I assumed it was her's since the only site where she actually shows her personality via the site's author's stories) to not be related.... Since I had really enjoyed the humor / sarcasm @ l-keford.com I gave it a click.......

I am sure you have heard this before, but DAMN can you write / interview / tell a story. I have only had the chance to read the full story arcs of the Joanna Angel interviews & "Dead Porn Stars" over the last hour; but if they are in anyway representative of the rest of the archives, I am very impressed. Both of these stories were examples of the honest, sarcastic, keep digging at the burn wound's scab, journalism that I have ever had the pleasure to read.

Your ability to capture your subject's personality & feelings in your interview w/ Joanna Angel was amazing. By the end of the piece, I felt like I was hearing the conversations on a speaker phone instead of reading it...Very visual..."Dead Porn Stars" should be required reading for anyone wanting to either get into the Industry, patronize the Industry, profit from the Industry or prosecute / persecute the Industry. No pure victims, saints, sinners or sluts on any sides of the debate (but apparently plenty of bastards).

If you really are some sort of world-renowned author / journalist [link] that I just never have heard of, I apologize for stating the obvious. But if you are not, why not ? Even if some old biddies (of whatever gender) have issues with the source content (porn), the stories so compelling & well written that the characters overwhelm the source material. Hell, I would bet that even my 63 year old Baptist prude of a mother would enjoy these stories (as long as I leave a vowel out of each dirty word)....

Joanna Angel Reflects On Her New Literary Status

Gram Ponante writes: "Tom Wolfe is a snappy dresser, is all. JA was wearing trendy boots. It's not like she was wearing a white suit or looked like an old man."

Joanna writes me:

I think he wrote the electric kool aid acid test. I don't know what he looks like... I've been compared to marissa tomei a bunch, but I think that's just because she played a new yorker in my cousin vinny who didn't know what grits were. I think people think I'm like that. But Tom Wolfe? Hmmmm. Well if I'm tom wolfe then gram ponante resembles joyce carol oats! I'm sorry that my reading didn't empower you. You should propose to Carly that she put out a sequel to naked ambition featuring 31 males who are changing pornography. Then the 31 males can have a jello wrestling match with the females and that will determine who really changed porn.

Kelly Wells Broke Her Jaw On A Belladonna Shoot A Month Ago

I believe she received about $10,000 in compensation.

A few days ago, LA Direct Models sent out an email announcing that Kelly Wells was available for work again after her recent health problems.

I call Kelly Friday afternoon. "I heard you got your jaw broken," I say.

"I don't want to talk about it," she says. "It's a shame journalists don't do more research before they write about things."

"So you don't want to talk about it?" I say.

"Absolutely not. I just want to be about my day."

Gene [Ross] reported this first: "Wells wasn't beaten up. But her jaw was broken during a scene on a Belladonna set a couple of weeks ago. The matter has been kept hush-hush, and I've heard that Wells was allegedly offered $10,000 to keep her mouth shut. Which isn't a hard thing to do because her jaw is presently wired. The accident happened when Belladonna was allegedly swinging Wells around, and Wells' face came in contact with an object."

Tom Sizemore Interview

Gail Harris introduced me to him at Hustler Hollywood Thursday night.

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Gram Ponante writes: "That is the best picture of me I have ever seen on your site or any other. Holly Randall is a genius. It is erotic but also female-positive and empowering. May I steal it?"

I arrive at Hustler Hollywood at 7pm. The first person I see is Variety reporter and contributor to Naked Ambition, Dana Harris.

"Hi Dana," I say.

She doesn't respond.

"Here's trouble," says Carly Milne.

I look for friendly faces. Carly is busy. I see Joanna Angel, who flew in for the event and is flying out Friday.

Eon McKai called me late Thursday on Joanna's behalf, asking me to come to tonight's show. I immediately called Joanna. She asked me to just write about her tonight.

Joanna introduces me to her roommate in LA, fellow model and porn girl Dana DeArmond. Dana was one of the first girls to appear naked on Joanna's site BurningAngel.com. Dana is doing a female domination video Friday, strapping it on and taking it to a guy.

Dana is Joanna's new best female friend in LA. Joanna crashes at Dana's place.

Dana grew up in Orlando. Her parents wanted her to have the option of going to college. She went for a semester and hated it. She became a stripper at 18.

Luke: "Did your parents want you to become a stripper?"

Dana: "They wanted me to be happy."

Her friends started taking photos of her naked. The rest is porn history.

Joanna says she stopped taking speed "a little while ago." She won't be exact.

Aly Drummond looks happier now that she's out of AVN and working with Rick Muenyong (TheBestPorn.com).

I talk to Xeni Jardin and Violet Blue. I asked Xeni how long they've known each other.

"A while," says Xeni.

"You're so mysterious," I reply.

"Around you you have to be," she says.

Carly is the first reader. She says the porn industry forced her to grow "spiritually."

Whenever a secular person uses the word "spiritual," I usually assume that they want the benefits of organized religion without paying that price.

Carly says she entered porn because she believed in the teaching that you should pursue what you fear.

Public readings are rarely compelling. It's much more interesting when someone gets up and talks to you.

From what I heard, the best chapters come from Violet Blue, Dana Harris, Joanna Angel (who got the biggest laughs) and Holly Randall (she has a degree in English Literature from UCLA).

I estimate there are a hundred people in the crowd.

Violet Blue the San Francisco writer (not Violet Blue the porn star) says she's been a "professional" porn reviewer for eight years and a pistol-packing machine artist for ten years, producing the most dangerous shows on earth, most of them illegal.

Violet says she had a big fight with a female editor at AVN (Heidi Pike-Johnson?) about Violet's prospective book on porn movies. The editor told her to remove everything in the book addressed to the female audience.

Katie Smith, a marketer for Playboy, didn't want to speak. She reluctantly gets up at Carly's invitation. She tells us not to expect anything good from her. Her body language screams that she doesn't want to be doing this.

Then Katie delivers an excruciating Horatio Alger-style tale of her progress through porn, her every career triumph. It's typical business biography stuff and completely lacking in wit.

The most entertaining parts of the evening are when the speakers share their disappointments and failures, and the most boring are when they list their credits and triumphs. I tired many years ago of hearing from porners how much more sexually evolved they are than regular folks.

Dana Harris (a tall slender journalist of a dozen years) recalls going out one night in Cannes (circa 1995) with the Wicked crew and how Mickey G got her on to the dance floor and tried to grind her. Dana fled for her drink and later told friends that porners were vampires.

A female webmaster says that through phone sex work she learned to accept the feces-eating fetish.

I feel no joy in hearing about the sex lives and fantasies of women I have no interest in sleeping with (the overwhelming majority of the readers).

Gail Harris rescues me two-thirds of the way through the reading. She invites me to take some photos of Tom.

Tom turns out to be Tom Sizemore. He's standing with Jason Tucker, his manager. We're joined by Gail and Aly.

Tom says he spent $234,000 at Hustler Hollywood last year.

I take some photos of him. He asks me to play them back on my camera and he has me delete a couple he doesn't like.

Luke: "How has this [porn] tape affected your life?"

Tom: "Hmm. The fortunate thing..."

Tom turns to Aly Drummond. "How would you say this without being crude?"

Aly: "You can be crude to Luke."

Tom: "Could you do this for me?"

Aly: "Sure. It makes him really popular with the ladies."

Tom: "Because..."

Aly: "He has a massive penis. A big cock."

Tom: "Anyways, it can't be bad for me. Can it?"

Luke: "Have you lost any friends over it?"

Tom laughs.

Aly: "It depends on one's definition of friend."

Tom laughs. "It really does depend on one's definition of friend. I've gained a lot of friends. I've gained a lot of ends too."

Aly: "A lot of girls want to be friends all of a sudden."

Tom: "I like girls a lot. They're pretty. Cute. They smell good. I don't want to hang out with anyone with a dick anyway. I've got a dick."

Luke: "What kind of frame of mind were you in when you were doing all these?"

Tom: "Ecstatic. Curious. Put under that.

"I was also trying to figure out people's names. Just kidding.

"They were lovely girls. I knew these girls real well. I lived with them. In all seriousness. It's just one night. I was going through a lot of hell with these court cases.

"And by the way... I don't want to spring it on the world. I'm not gonna. Things are going much better.

"Three of the girls in there had lived with me for two years. It wasn't as if it was some type of carnal experience. These were girls I had relationships with in, what do you call that?, an experimental type of situation. It came to an end. It had to because I fell in love with somebody. At the time, it was a lot of fun."

Luke: "How have your peers in Hollywood reacted to you about this [porn tape]?"

Tom: "I don't, frankly, give a f---. But they all like it. In all seriousness."

Jason Tucker: "We had one director call up. He was concerned about it. He made his way watch the video. She came out with a big smile and it was fine."

Tom: "That's exactly true. He was kinda concerned. Then she came out with a big smile and f----- the s--- out of him and he hired me. That's a true story. You keep saying right, right, right, and I'm telling you the truth. I'm doing two big movies right away. And I'm doing a show with VH1. It hasn't affected my career at all.

"Do you know what affected my career? That stupid f---ing bitch [Heidi] Fleiss. She affected my career. And she couldn't even f--- worth a s---. And not the one you're thinking of. Not Heidi Fleiss. Heidi Nice. I can't help it."

He turns to Jason: "What's her name? Heidi Ice?"

Luke: "What caused you to?"

Tom: "Go with Heidi? Everything that was behind her. Not her ass.

"I love Heidi. I think. I was very lonely when I met Heidi. It was a bad time in my life. I had a really nice time with her. I didn't think it was that acrimonious a separation. She obviously thought it was that acrimonious separation. She was extremely vindictive. Goddamnit, Jason, tell him what's going on."

Jason: "We just found out today that the writ of Habeas Corpus was signed off on and in 45-days, the time of the hearing, everything is going to be reversed."

Tom: "Absolutely reversed."

Jason: "He's going to be found innocent [of charges he beat Heidi]."

Tom: "I don't know if you know what a writ of Habeas Corpus is?"

Luke: "You have to be read the charges against you."

Tom: "It's a pre-appeal. That's the Miranda rights. Your attorney, if he does an appeal, brings out points in things you've been convicted of, that he takes issues with, and brings in facts. A witness, a plastic surgeon, was missed by my other attorney. The judge wrote that if you can produce this plastic surgeon, then I will reverse the conviction on this. Well, we have produced these people and he has decided to..."

Jason: "Reverse the conviction."

Tom: "Period. The end. We're very excited about that. It's official. It's not going to be publicly official for 45-60 days, which will then mean this: 'I didn't do anything wrong.'"

Luke: "Right."

Tom: "Hang on a second. This is very important. Don't interrupt me. This means she fabricated evidence. Which means she committed perjury. Now perjury is the most important law in the goddamned country. The oath goes like this, 'I solemnly swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.'

"If you are allowed to say that and then get up on that stand and tell anything but the truth and bulls--- and lie and fabricate and all that s---, then the whole goddamn system falls in on itself and the building falls down and we should go home.

"Our whole criminal justice system is built upon one principle -- that you tell the truth. We have proven and it will become public, and it will become public in a big f---ing way, that this bitch lied.

"What did she do to me? I lost $14 million. I lost my house. My siblings had to drop out of college. I was homeless. I was living in a garage where the former tenant was a car. I made it livable. All because of three letters and three words: '9-1-1. He hit me.'

"Fourteen months ago, I never seen that bag of bones bitch. A. B. No hospital visits. No one ever saw anything. No one ever heard anything. No family member said she ever complained about anything. Absolutely no evidence and an overzealous prosecutor who's stupider than an average cocksucker, I've heard.

"I didn't do it. It will be publicly announced I didn't do it. Well, where's all my s---? And where's the three years and six months of f---ing mental torture they put me through.

"When I was arrested, I was making a quarter-of-a-million dollars a week on [the TV show] Robbery Homicide Division. I worked my ass off to get there. I was getting five million dollars for a f---ing movie. Those days were over for a while but they're coming back. And you know why? Because I want them to. I decide when it's over.

"I told those motherf---ers from the beginning, and I'm sorry to be so graphic, don't do this to me. I didn't do it. I will fight you till the end of time. I will spend every goddamned nickle I have and I did to defend my goddamned good name. Because I can not live with 'Tom Sizemore, convicted batterer.' Because it simply was not true.

"If it were true, all they had to do was produce Tara Dabrizi, the woman Heidi Fleiss claimed too the photograph of her on April 13, 2003, when she claimed that on April 9th, I did these things to her. There were three other times when she claimed I did things to her, things I was found not guilty of.

"They can't produce Tera Dabrizi because she doesn't exist. I spent $1.7 million looking for this woman. There isn't one. Then I took the photograph they used at trial and guess what? It's not an original.

"It took me three years and change to undo what took her ten seconds to do to me.

"Who is accountable for what happened to me? Obviously she's part of it. But isn't it the authorities? Isn't it their due diligence, and just for your readers, porno is the bomb. I like porno a lot. I like sex. If you don't like sex, you should go see a f---ing doctor. Sex is the way people get here. If you don't like f---ing, don't do it then. If you don't like to watch f---ing, watch someone else f---. If you don't like watching me f---, turn it off.

"OK, enough about that. Sex is easy. Sex is the bomb. Sex is fun. By virtue of that you make people by having sex, it can't be wrong.

"The porno is about me hanging out with the girls I was hanging out with at the time, having a lot of fun, messing around, passing the time in a pleasant way.

"But to the issue at hand. Why she did this to me was that porno. Not that porno, but my lifestyle. It was a lifestyle I had before I met her. It was a lifestyle I had after I met her. She, like a lot of people in life, men and women, meet someone, they fall for them, and they go, 'I'm going to make this person change.'"

Aly blows her nose.

Tom: "God darn it, what are you doing?

"These are my pals. Is there something stupid you wanted to say? Is that why you dropped in?

"When that person doesn't change for them, even though I was extremely fond of [Heidi Fleiss], I was straight up with her. I don't lie about sex. I used to. I'm being straight up with you. I used to say, 'I'm going to be this. I'm going to be faithful.' I never said that [to Heidi].

"When things became a little goofy in the relationship, and things became unpleasant, and we were having problems, I've learned from having been married, I'm 42, I'm not a child, that when things start to go wrong, there's a period when you can try to fix it, but you know what I mean, when things are not working, you should get out of it. Both parties should get out of it because you are wasting each other's time. You're just going to cause each other pain. And you may really love the other person but this doesn't work. It's a completely saddening situation. That was the situation with Heidi and me.

"So I said, 'You know what? It's over.' I don't think she was used to that.

"Think about her boyfriends. Ivan Nagy. He's 35-years older than her. Bernie Cornfeld, the first boyfriend. He was 40-years older. Then me."

Luke: "What attracted you to her in the first place?"

Tom: "I've liked her."

Luke: "What about her?"

Tom: "She's very charming. She can be very charming. I know Heidi in a way nobody else knows. Heidi and I were best friends and lovers. It was after prison, after she had been chastened by this whole horrible experience... I thought she was very harshly dealt with. I think that what the criminal justice system did to her was approximately as unfair as what they tried to do to me. But they can't do it to me, motherf---ers, because I didn't do it.

"Now Heidi did engage in certain things that should be legal. But where were the other girls? Why didn't they get in trouble? What about all the johns? Heidi didn't do it all by herself. She didn't stand by the streetcorner? She was in her house and girls called and said, 'I want to f--- for money,' and guys called and said, 'I want to pay for it.'

"Heidi was publicly excoriated and she didn't deserve it.

"When she got out of jail, I started to go around with her because she was so down. She lived with a big W on her chest. She lost three years of her life. She lost all her money. I was just trying to make her feel good. We used to go get icecream together, go for walks.

"You don't pick who you fall in love with. One day at Cherry Garcia, we were walking by Gower, and I turned to her and went, 'I love you.' She said, 'I love you too.' We were living together a month later. We had a lovely time in the beginning and then it didn't work, like a lot of relationships."

Luke: "Do you think you're attracted to people who can hurt you?"

Tom: "No, because she's the only person who has hurt me in that respect. I've been hurt in relationships before but not like that.

"I was incredibly good to her. I would never have done anything to harm her. I don't feel [negative] towards her. I don't think that what happened to me was unjust as much as a mistake. When she called and said, 'He's done X, Y, Z...' I hadn't seen her for nine months. Well, I'd seen her a couple of times in the previous months because she had threatened to do that. I had met with her and said, 'Why are you doing this? What do you want?' It wasn't money so much. She wanted me back. The one thing I couldn't give her was me."

Gail Harris comes up to Tom with Adam & Eve contract girl Austyn Moore: "You complain I never introduce you to girls. Tom, this is Austyn. Austyn, this is Tom."

Tom to Gail: "Give me a second. I'm not done here."

He turns back to me. "Once she called the police and got the ball rolling, there was no stopping it. With her or without her, they would come after me. Why? I don't know. I have my ideas. I think Robert Shaw, the prosecutor, is a C-student who wants to be on TV. He's a knucklehead. He thinks that going on TV will give his life meaning. What will give his life meaning will be to have his ass kicked for doing this to me and he has to explain to somebody why he didn't authenticate the picture.

"He thought he was going after a celebrity tough guy. I'm not a tough guy. I'm an actor. I pretend for a living. He's a halfwit."

Gail interrupts. Tom tells her to hold on a minute. Austyn's getting antsy to go.

Tom talks to her. I snap some photos.

Tom: "How old are you? Because I'm 19."

Austyn giggles: "How old do you want me to be?"

Tom returns asks me my name.

Tom looks at my pictures of him and Austyn: "I heard he was good. These are good ones, Luke."

Jason: "Luke's bookmarked. When I wake up in the morning, that's one of the places I go."

Tom: "I don't like the one where I look like I have a pair of titties. I don't need that.

"They're really good pictures, Luke. I gave you a lot on that interview.

"I don't think Heidi wanted to testify, but there were pressures from the powers that be that wanted her to testify."

Luke: "Which powers?"

Tom: "Who do you think? Shaw. The C-student. He's an average mediocre cocksucker. His IQ couldn't fit in a thimble.

"Can I get sued for that? Run that back."

Luke: "Hi Holly. Holly, do you know Tom Sizemore? Tom, do you know Holly Randall? She's the daughter of Suze Randall."

I take photos of them.

Tom: "You've got to run that back. I can't say all that s--- about Robert Shaw."

Luke: "Yes you can. It's constitutionally protected free speech."

Tom: "Bulls---."

Tom tells Holly: "He thinks I'm dumb."

Holly: "He thinks everyone's dumb. Welcome to the club."

Tom: "Welcome to the dumb club?

"Tell your mother that I am a very big fan of her's. She's wonderful."

Tom says goodbye to Holly and turns to me. "Let me hear the last part."

Luke: "It was an opinion. It can't damage you."

Tom: "Yeah, right."

Luke: "Why did you decide to trust Jason Tucker with this deal?"

Tom: "He's an old friend. He helped me out when I had lost everything.

"Someone call my girlfriend and tell her I'm not here.

"What the authorities do to Heidi, I don't care. I'm the one guy I know who could've endured this. They raided my house over 20 odd times with machine guns. They knocked my door down. I lost my house. I lost my money. But I'm the toughest motherf---er you're ever going to meet and that's the goddamn f---ing truth. If you punch me in the face and you're a girl, I'm going to suck your pussy.

"Jason tells the truth. I told him, 'I need someone. My career's f---ed up, but I haven't forgotten how to act. I need someone to help me get in front of the people I need to get in front of.'"

MysteryMan writes on GFY about XXXTom.com: "The next Paris Hilton goldmine... don't you remember?"

The Alexa ranking is 72,000.

Jason Tucker writes on JBM: "XXXTOM members know and a release from Vivid today should shut that up. In side of the site there are pictures of Tom and Paris [Hilton]...kind of hard to argue that you dont know a guy who you are standing with at his house. Maybe she was too f--ked up to remember..."

I chat with Regina Lynn, who spoke publicly about her desire to get it in every hole and have her hands full of cock as well. "I couldn't work out if you were trying to be insulting," she says about our interview a few months ago. "I wished that you had either been more insulting or less."

Oystein Wright's lawsuit against his former partner Jason Tucker over Playa Solutions has been dismissed. The company belongs to Tucker.

Jason manages Sizemore and they have a mainstream TV production deal.

Joanna Angel says she fasted on Yom Kippur. "I got a call from my mother saying, 'You better fast. You have a lot to repent for.'"

Joanna's parents have been hanging out at a local Chabad house.

She's wearing four-inch pink heels, which cost her $400. "I only have to write five more chapters and I'll pay for them," she jokes. "Publishers bring it on."

Angel makes six times as much for giving a blowjob ($300) on camera than for writing a chapter for this book Naked Ambition.

She repeatedly signs the book, "Enjoy my ass and my writing."

I chat with up-and-coming director Van Styles, the next Jules Jordan.

A couple of Asian girls walk in. Dana DeArmond checks them out. Joanna hassles her. Dana (a bisexual with a boyfriend at LFP) returns fire. "Girl, don't you f--- with me when I'm checking out Asian girls."

Gram Ponante blogs:

Lurk Ford laments that women have done no good for the adult industry in last night's entry on his site. He did, however, take several pictures of them. I asked if he and Joanna Angel, who is looking more and more like Tom Wolfe every day, have learned to love each other now that she, too, is a literary lion and understands the delicious ache of words the way he does.

"I don't think so," he said (the suffixed "mate" was implied).

On the HBO show Going Down in the Valley: Women on Top Thursday night, Jim South said that contract stars, at best, make $50,000 - $75,000 a year from their porn contracts [with companies such as Vivid, Wicked, LFP, etc].