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ExtremeAssociates.com Loses Its Credit Card Billing
CCBill has pulled its processing.
Forkbeard writes on GFY:
Hey, Rob, have you had any assurances from CCbill that they'll continue to process for you? I'm asking because I've promoted several fairly extreme sites (mostly BDSM) in the past that billed through CCbill, and each of them has had CCbill yank their processing. Which of course broke all my links, making me gunshy about promoting extreme content that bills with CCbill.
Second data point: A year ago at the Phoenix Forum, the CCbill bigwigs were being grilled on a panel, with lots of questions asking them what sort of stuff was too extreme for them to promote. Nobody named your stuff by name, but from the hypotheticals, it was clear that you and your case were on everyone's mind. And the CCbill bigwigs were quite adamant that they wouldn't process for "stuff like that" -- meaning the extreme gonzo stuff you do.
So, when I see you starting a program with CCbill, I'm wondering whether it's worth messing with. Are we sure the links won't all break in a month when folks start hassling CCbill about billing for you?
I figure that Rob either got assurances (which he presumably could share with us) or he didn't. If he didn't, I'd assume it will be a shortlived billing relationship, given CCbill's habit of dumping controversial sites.
Dear professor, If you had to pick one academic conference for us to have our first make-out session right in the middle of things, which one would be best? I know this is wrong but I don't care. I'm leaning towards Levinas.
"Well, of course it would have to be the Levinas conference -- it's all about the face to face. And I would be making an important contribution to Levinasian scholarship by creating a space for the erotic."
Kendra Jade Update
Friday afternoon. KJ's in Chicago.
KendraJade: I'm on with the airline because I missed my flight
Luke: hung over?
KendraJade: Nope.
Luke: Tough week in Chicago?
KendraJade: Yeah , it was a hard week for sure.
Luke: I bought a $3 black bow tie for a friend's wedding Sunday.
KendraJade: I'm currently driving to Springfield , Il.
Luke: My gift for the wedding is that I will blog it.
KendraJade: I'm listening to Air Supply.
KendraJade: You're a terrible gift giver.
KendraJade: By the way , do you take me more seriously now that I write
correctly. KendraJade: We should have Torah study together with Mary Carey.
KendraJade: Wouldn't that be fun ?
Luke: umm
KendraJade: When I went to church the other day , it made me feel more
spiritual.
Luke: good, I'm going to a black church Sunday morning
KendraJade: I want to get closer to God.
KendraJade: You should go to the church I went to. It was something else
!
KendraJade: The rock-n-roll church.
KendraJade: You should not be dating yet.
Luke: dating gets me out of my head and helps me think about others and
involved in their lives and out socially
KendraJade: But you don't truly involve yourself in their lives.
KendraJade: Where do you meet these ho's ?
KendraJade: Even non-porn chicks can be ho's , Lukey.
KendraJade: Dating fans is bad.
Luke: My fans are cool.
KendraJade: They never see you as anything other than a fantasy, and no
one can ever live up to a fantasy.
KendraJade: Its doomed from the start, really.
Luke: my fans and your fans are different
KendraJade: And FYI - I hardly think anyone who is a fan of yours (you
write gossip about horrible people ) , is cool. Maybe I'm just being judgemental.
KendraJade: How are they different ?
KendraJade: They care about porn and the people in it.
KendraJade: I noticed you spent some time with my dear friend Rob Spallone
the other day ?
Luke: always good material
KendraJade: I hear his girlfriend is quite pretty ..
Luke: she's a lovely person
KendraJade: Rob has proven his friendship to me more times than anyone
else I met during my time in the business. He's always ,ultimately , had
my back.
KendraJade: There are very few people I can say that about. I know Rob
would protect me from anyone or anything if I needed him to.
Luke: This is one chat that is not going up on my site
KendraJade: I am happy that he is happy though. He spent a lot of years
very unhappy KendraJade: This is a new Luke !
KendraJade: The not-stepping-over-the-line-luke !
KendraJade: Well gotta get back to driving here !
Jassie writes: "The idea of a bunch of stoned pornstars studying the Torah is an unsettling admixture of amusing and repulsive."
That's how the Jewish Renewal movement started -- take drugs, have sex, study Torah and discover awesome insights.
Kendra Jade responds: "Tell your friend "Jassie" I don't get "stoned"...and I've already studied the Torah in great depth. She should get educated before speaking."
Jassie responds:
I knew I'd get flak for having such a stupid name. Anyway, drug use isn't so much the appalling thing about a pornstar studying the Torah (in-depth, for that matter), it's that she'd believe that studying the Torah is an honorable venture, worthy of praise, when not coupled with an active desire and (more importantly) a striving to become a better person. I don't believe education has anything to do with hypocrisy -- after all, I don't question how much empirical experience I have before putting my hand over a flame, I just know that it is stupid and bad (insofar as it harms myself) to do so.
Holly Randall got a new Volvo SUV Friday afternoon.
Britney Rears changing to Jessica?
David at Mypornoreview.com writes: "It looks like Britney Rears is tired of her exclusive contract with Hustler and is venturing into independently. She just got listed at Gold Star Modeling as Jessica again. She looks better as Jessica then she does as Britney Rears."
Tiger Woods Targeted By Nude Wife Attack
Burt Kearns at TabloidBaby reports:
On the eve of Tiger Woods’ rare sitdown interview with Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes, the world's most famous athlete has been targeted by an Internet email sex attack, as email boxes across Hollywood and the world are being flamed with alleged naked photos of his beautiful Swedish wife, the former swimsuit model and nanny Elin Nordegren. The pictures have surfaced before, but why they're flaming across the Net now is a mystery.
Be warned: As far as we know, their authenticity has not been verified.
The pictures could be photoshop fakes. And Elin has an identical twin sister, Josefin-- so the woman in the photos could even possibly be her.
One clue: A tattoo in one of the shots:
E mail us here if you have any knowledge.
In any case, Tiger has had enough problems, like his father’s cancer, throwing him off his game. (He’s having a bad day at The Players.)
David at Mypornoreview.com writes: "Those pictures are her. She was a nude model before becoming a nanny and before marrying tiger. She also has a twin sister. When she married Tiger, Tiger's camp played it off as her twin but in fact it is her by the tattoo."
Paul writes: "Tiger's wife pictures are fake. As you said on the site they've been doing the rounds for years, but in their previous guise they were always said to be pictures of footballer Luis Figo's wife, another Swede, Helen Svedin (google the name and you'll find the pics on the first page), it is in fact a third woman, some random model. The two women (Svedin and Nordgren) look fairly alike. I don't think they look that much like the model though."
Hot Teacher Headed For Playboy
Of all the very attractive school teachers who wound up getting arrested for having sex with young male students in recent years, Debra Lafave is by far the most beautiful, sexy, confounding and sympathetic, especially after we were subjected to the appearances by her curiously fey husband, who coped with the pain of wearing the horns of the cuckold by divorcing her and teaming up with a documentary company.
Owen Lafave has got interesting material to work with (and if he’s stashed away a honeymoon sex tape in one of his closets, all the more power to him). This a great story. It's bigger than his fetching ex-wife, and still hasn't been handled as it should.
We were close, though. During the brief lamented return of A Current Affair, the Lafave case was always a priority.
The show’s executive producer Peter Brennan saw the teacher-student sex phenomenon as a major issue across the nation, and actually made an attempt to get past the sensational aspects to find a way to understand why Lafave and other women were responding to abuse or mental illness by having sex with teens (most all of these women acted like school-age “girlfriends” of the kids, looking up to their “boyfriends”). Surely, these women differed from the male sexual predators. Surely, the effects on the victims were different and there's a reason for the "double standard" applied here. Surely, there is a rich story amid the shouting. Unfortunately, at a time when a show like Entertainment Tonight takes a break from vomiting studio p.r. to throw a wedding for sad Mary Kay LaTourneau, we don’t expect anyone in television to rise above Geraldo’s or Diane Sawyer's shtick. We’ll wait for Vanity Fair.
Meanwhile, Debra Lafave says she wants to be a journalist.
Welcome aboard.
She also denies she’ll be posing for Playboy (she already posed for police, who took graphic photos of her to corroborate the kid's story). Time will tell. The clock is ticking. Her portfolio can be found here.
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but the eldest son of veteran humorist Dick Smothers of the Smothers Brothers says his life's ambition is to become "the Orson Welles of porn."
Late last year, Dick Smothers Jr., 38, shocked his father by embarking on a career path that so far has included acting in several porn films, developing a Web-based X-rated game show and launching an adult entertainment Web site.
In fact, the younger Smothers, a self-professed exhibitionist who says he has "an incredibly overactive libido," made his porno film debut as the star of an adult movie titled "Bad Influence," playing the Dustin Hoffman-inspired role in an X-rated send-up to "The Graduate."
...Of course, his father, renowned as the bass-playing, straight-laced half of the Smothers Brothers comedy duo, was stunned at first. "I think he told me after the fact," Dick Smothers Sr., 64, recalled in a separate interview. "My first reaction was, 'What name are you going to use?' ... He says he's going to use his name, and I said, 'Wait a minute. That's my name. I had it first.' "
The elder Smothers stressed he does not condone his son's current career path but doesn't condemn him either. He said his son has always been a firebrand and has tried to break into show business for a long time.
Dick Jr., the second of six children and the eldest son from his father's first marriage, even appeared once with his old rock band on a short-lived revival of the Smothers Brothers' TV variety show.
I got an email from Dick Smothers Jr. (born in 1964) Friday morning. It was perfectly spelled and punctuated. Impressed, I asked him for an interview.
We begin our telephone conversation at 8:37 a.m.
Dick: "Am I correct that you don't like people [who do bad things]?"
Luke: "I'm just a reporter, so the bigger the scumbag, the bigger the story. I don't get emotionally involved."
Dick: "Randy Detroit is like a minor-league scumbag. He's not terribly fascinating.
"Back when Randy and Pamela Peaks did their first Pamela Peaks In The Kitchen? cable TV show. Kat Kleavage called me up. She's a friend of mine. She doesn't have a mean bone in her body. Neither does Pamela. She's just stupid.
"I did the show as a favor. They told me it was just going to be on local cable. But then a year later, I got a message from Pam asking for me to sign a release so they could sell it on DVD. There was no way I wanted that out there. I didn't bother to answer the phone call.
"I ran a search on it and sure enough she's selling the thing without a release. I contacted both of them. I said, 'You broke the law. You can settle with me or I will sue you.' Here's Randy's response: 'I'll give you a $100 for your IDs and your release.'
"I emailed back: 'You had your chance. I'll see you in court.'"
Pamela Peaks emails me: "We have the release."
Luke: "So what are you doing these days?"
Dick: "I left penetration performance in porn the day they announced that AIDS broke out [April 2004].
"Because I can act, I will now and then get offered a movie. They'll cast me in the lead and they'll edit in the stunt.
"Obviously the business isn't overflowing with competent actors. It's worth it for them to do this with me. You can't train a seal to fly.
"I've got some job opportunities up here in Northern California. My family's all up here on my mom's side. I've been out of touch with them for a long time."
Luke: "How do you feel about your time doing porn?"
Dick: "I got out of it all that I could've without immersing myself in the culture. From a purely adolescent viewpoint, the bragger's rights will follow me for the rest of my life. When civilians find out what I did, I'm elevated in their eyes to heroic status. That's the best part out of it.
"From the press I got, I was able to parlay it into some other jobs. I was selected to host a pilot that never aired for Howard Stern Productions and Pilgrim Films to do American Chopper and this sci-fi show Ghosthunters."
Luke: "You must've paid a price?"
Dick: "Emotionally it was not the easiest. It was more work than I thought it would be. When suddenly f------ is a job, it's just not fun anymore. And if it's not fun, what good is it?
"I'm not the person who can just lapse into a mindless animal state, which is the space you need to be in for sexual performance on camera. I'm more cerebral than that. After the initial excitement wore off, I found I was becoming distracted. I would find my mind wandering. I'd try to remember if I had set the VCR.
"Unless I liked the girl I was working with and I could tell that she liked me, I didn't want to do it. I was like a punk. They'd be like, 'Do this!' And I'd be like, 'No!'"
Smothers did about 40 hardcore scenes.
Luke: "What did you come to love and hate about the industry?"
Dick: "I loved the acting. Many people made the assumption that I got into the business because I was a failed actor. I'd never acted in my life until I did my first [porn] movie. I knew that I could and I always wanted to.
"Cash Markman handed me the script and I learned it and I went out and did it.
"I like the friends that I made -- Cash, Tony Tedeschi, Nick Manning, Randy Spears, Layla Jade."
Luke: "Do you own an adult website?"
Dick: "No. I don't own any of the titles. If I'm going to earn a living, I'd rather be given a defined task with set hours and a guaranteed pay check every week.
"If I'm going to run an online store, it's going to be for my music, and that's enough of a nightmare."
Luke: "How did your time in Adult affect your dating and love life?"
Dick: "I made a conscious decision when I entered the industry to not date while I was in it. I didn't bother dating any porn girls. I didn't bother asking out civilians. I knew they weren't into it. It was too difficult for them to handle even if they were attracted to me. At some point they are going to think, 'OK, what happens when I introduce him to all my friends? And they ask what he does.'
"I didn't date at all during the two years I was in the business. The only sex I had was on camera aside from a hairdresser. It got lonely."
Luke: "That's a stiff price to pay."
Dick: "It is. Unless you are going to immerse yourself in the culture, but it was not a culture I wanted to be involved in. Swinging etc is not what I'm into. I still have a problem going out with a girl or having emotions for a girl who gets gangbanged for a living.
"If I was going to have sex in a relationship, I would like that to be the one part of my life that is just mine. Something exclusive. If you are going to date someone else in the industry, you aren't going to have exclusive anything.
"When the AIDS things came out a couple of years ago, it prompted me to make a decision that I wanted to make anyway. I was not into it anyways, and then [stuff] like this starts happening, no, I don't think so."
Luke: "What about the prices you've paid since leaving the industry? I imagine that half the female population would not date or marry you because you've done this?"
Dick: "No. Having it in the past is not nearly as unacceptable to them as doing it now. I started dating right away when I got out. I've had a fulfilling dating life. I had one girlfriend for about three months. That ended for issues that had nothing to do with the porn industry."
Luke: "Have you ever been married?"
Dick: "I was married when I was 20. It was, technically, for four years but we were only together for two years."
Luke: "What's the longest time period you've been monogamous for?"
Dick: "Two-and-a-half years."
Luke: "Do you think you are capable of monogamy?"
Dick: "I prefer monogamy. I love having an intimate exclusive relationship but I'm finding that a lot of the girls I'm dating don't want that. That's what usually ends up ending the dating. I don't date more than one girl at a time. It saps my energy. I want to be intimate with somebody.
"The vibe I get from the culture in America is that everybody wants to leave themselves open for something better. I'm not good enough? Fine, keep hunting bitch.
"Any last vestiges of that ego-motivated promiscuity that existed before I got into porn were burned out of my psyche during my time in porn. I came out of it valuing monogamy more than when I went in.
"It's analoguous to people who were beaten by their parents. They either grow up to beat their own kids or they become the best parents in the world.
"The same thing with porn. People either become extremely jaded or refine their values. I'm definitely the latter. The highest, most satisfying sexual expression we have is to do it with someone you love, or, depending on your old lady, with one of her friends now and again. That's never happened to me."
Luke: "Did you learn anything about the media from your time in the media spotlight?"
Dick: "To maximize any heat you generate, a lot of energy has to go into it. I did it all on my own. I didn't have a publicist. It could've been more properly exploited if I had had an organization behind me.
"When it came to getting straight acting gigs, it didn't matter how good my reel was. They were not interested. As far as they were concerned, the [porn] work I had done was not legitimate. They didn't even give me the time of day.
"It wasn't so much that they were hostile against someone who was in porn. They viewed me as having no experience even though I did 40 f------ movies. Sometimes I did 30 pages of script. When we did The New Devil in Miss Jones, I shot for ten days. There was a lot of acting. I've got a great reel. I turned in some really really good dialogue scenes.
"They don't shut anybody out for having done porn but they don't take it seriously. I heard a lot from porn actors, 'They're just jealous.' I bit my lip. I wanted to say, 'No, it's because you act for s---. You don't have what they consider legitimate experience.'
"If you have studied and done some commercials, then they'll take you seriously."
Luke: "Did you exploit your father's good name for nefarious ends?"
Dick: "Hell yeah. I don't consider it nefarious and I don't consider his name that good. Did I exploit his name for my own ends? Absolutely.
"It's about heat. Heat is recognition factor. Brand recognition. It's celebrity. To generate heat, you have to take heat from somewhere else. If you want to start a fire, you can't do it just by thinking about it. There has to be some ignition source.
"I've been a musician for a long time. Primarily I'm a singer. It's a nightmare trying to get musicians together. It's like herding cats. If you can't pay them, forget it. You're lucky if they show up at all.
"I knew that if I was going to take a stab at having a career in entertainment, I was going to have to generate heat. My father and uncle being 30 years past their relevancy [as The Smothers Brothers], even though they are still out there gigging, but as far as being big stuff, it's been a long time. Their heat has diminished greatly over the years.
"For me to light myself on fire for the world to see, I needed to douse myself in gasoline. Dick Smothers Jr going out and releasing a CD of his music is not news.
"The closest you can get to breaking the law in the eyes of the public, without actually breaking the law, is to do porn.
"Since I knew people in the business going back 17 years... I got into the business because I was dating Mia Powers, who's long been out of the business and is still a good friend of mine in her civilian life. I had a relationship with Jeanna Fine when she was out of the business.
"I was almost 40 years old when I got into porn. There was nothing to ruin. I was working as a manufacturer's account representative for six years. I lost my job for the worst reason possible. I let my employers know that I caught them doing something unethical. They fired me.
"I said, 'I want to take a stab at something. I want to feel more in control of my own destiny.'"
Luke: "How did this affect your relationship with your father?"
Dick: "Not a bit.
"He was a little worried at first but then they saw that the media was coming to them.
"The only time it affected it was when we did Inside Edition. He kinda lost it.
"They asked me what it was like growing up having a celebrity for a father. I was honest. Celebrities will have people who work for them who become territorial and jealous towards the entertainer's family. I've talked to other people who experienced the same thing.
"It's humiliating when you visit the house you grew up in and some woman is following you around like you are going to steal the silverware.
"My dad said, 'That's because you stole that case of wine when you were 14.'
"I said, 'You're pulling the gloves off? OK. Let's get real, people.' I responded with a litany of things that I had done bad.
"How about you?
"My dad is not topical being off-script. He had what he thought were prepared responses to obvious questions and I took him out of his comfort zone. He was florid. The veins were standing out. He was screaming.
"Aside from that, it didn't affect our relationship. We've never been the closest family."
Luke: "Any similarity in the feedback you've received from others over the course of your life?"
Dick: "A friend of mine for 23 years told me the other night, 'You have always been consistent. It's always been easy being your friend. You've always been the same person. You never went off on kicks. It wasn't like you suddenly found Jesus. You never pulled any weird s--- on me.'
"People who knew me when I was younger, and then I ran into them after I did [porn], they said it didn't surprise them."
Luke: "You've described yourself as an exhibitionist."
Dick: "Not a pathological exhibitionist. I'm not one of those people who always has to have everybody's attention wherever he goes. But I like having attention. I like performing. I was asked, 'Do you like going to nightclubs?' 'Yes. If it is crowded, I'm o the stage and everyone is paying to see me.'
"I don't like being part of the crowd. I like being separated, whether that is being elevated above them and having their attention or being isolated from them... I'm not a super-social person. That whole Spring Break mob mentality has always pissed me off. If I have a girlfriend, I like going out and doing things. But by myself? No.
"I love to perform. I love to create and project a persona. David Bowie is my one idol. That's what he was all about. When he's a character, he doesn't try to pass that off as who he really is. I can't stand the whole celebrity vibe where I am always a star. No, you are not. You get the runs like everybody else. You get halitosis like everybody else.
"A friend has a good line for these guys, 'Save it for the stage, asshole!' That's my philosophy.
"Being on stage or on screen is a great feeling. Having that kind of attention is a nice feeling. Fortunately it is not one that I am addicted to or have to have all the time."
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Dick: "A paleontologist. I love dinosaurs. Then I found out that paleontologists just dig up bones and realized it was boring. I like dinosaurs with the flesh on them. I wanted to be a sea biologist for a little bit because I had this fantasy that I was going to discover a sea monster.
"I collect comic books. I read science fiction. If you looked at my interests on paper, you'd think you were looking at a guy who played Dungeons and Dragons.
"Once I picked up an instrument when I was 14, from then on, that's what I wanted to be. From before then, as soon as I discovered KISS. I wanted to be a rock star."
Luke: "What did you love and hate about your upbringing?"
Dick: "I love that I got to experience things that other kids didn't. If it was Christmas and my father and uncle were performing at Harrah's Tahoe, we'd spend Christmas with them. The tab was picked up. We got picked up at the airport in a limousine. We stayed in a suite that was three stories high. There was a 20-foot Christmas tree. There was a cook and a maid. All this stuff we didn't have at home. I grew up in normal middle-class surroundings in Santa Cruz. We didn't have maids. I had to do chores. I got $5 a week allowance.
"In one sense, I liked that my dad was adventurous. He bought this converted trawler, 67-feet long, and he thought he was Jacques Cousteau and that we were going to sail around the world.
"My father was impulsive. This is what we're doing. No advance notice. No discussion. We just find out that we're going to be sailing around the world. We were scared. I didn't want that. I was eight years old.
"My dad found some beds he thought were cool. If he liked something, he'd think you'd like it. He thought he was doing something cool for me and my brother. We came home and found out our beds were gone and they were replaced by these bunk beds made out of dinghies.
"Dad's like, 'Isn't it great?' We said no. His feelings were hurt.
"My dad was the only celebrity in Santa Cruz. Everybody knew who I was. Other kids are prejudiced. They think they know who you are -- you're spoiled, you've got everything you want, you think you're better than everybody else.
"The reality was that I did more chores than most kids I knew. My mother was much stricter... They had freedoms I did not have. I had the worst of both worlds for a bit. I did the time without enjoying the crime. I was never bought a new car. My brother (18-months younger) and I shared a car. My dad bought us a used Volvo station wagon. We almost killed each other. Two teenage having to share a car. We lived outside of town. We couldn't take buses down into town. We couldn't ride bicycles down into town. If we were to get where the women were, it was the car.
"It was almost like Greek myth. 'Here you go, work it out.'
"I wish that I would've grown up in LA and I'd been around my own kind, other kids who dealt with some of the same issues that I had. I would've been part of the entertainment industry culture rather than have been isolated from it. I would've been part of the industry. I would've worked in the industry.
"My father only worked in the industry. He showed up like a guy to a 9-5 job. Aside from that, he didn't have anything to do with it.
"I was clueless about the industry. I grew up in Santa Cruz, which was hippies, lesbians and surfers. When I wanted to be in the industry, I didn't know anybody. There was no red carpet waiting for me. 'Oh yes, we've been waiting for you, oh son of Dick Smothers. You have returned.'
"No, it was, 'Yes? Who are you? What do you want? What do you have for me? Nothing? Well, nice talking to you.'
"I'm grateful that I know what it is like to be a normal person. I know what a normal person's life is. I've had to live that life. I didn't have an example of how to live that life. My example was a guy who told jokes for a living, did TV shows, screwed girls and all kinds of fun stuff. I thought that would be my life."
Luke: "How do you think your father's promiscuity affected you?"
Dick: "He and my mom would get together and break up, get together and break up. It was like a yo yo. They were divorced and married to each other twice. We lived together as a family, and then apart, so many times. I saw how it affected my mother emotionally. You're a kid. All you know is that your mom's mad. I had anger towards my father for that.
"Since then, I've made an effort to understand my father. He was only 20-years old when his ship came in. When that happens, you don't have a lot of incentive to grow up. You can be impetuous. You can act on whims. There are people around you who are more than delighted to enable you.
"If it was me, I don't know what I would've done. I would've been off the hook. I would've been f------ everything that moved.
"My father wasn't promiscuous as much as in love with romance. He didn't just bang chick after chick. He'd see a woman that he liked and he'd wine her and dine her and be very romantic. Then, when they'd want too much of him, he'd cut them off and find another one.
"Wife and family was a comfort zone that he would return to when he felt he needed to. It wasn't a place that he made the focus of his life. When things were tough and the world was getting to him, he had his family to come to. When things were going good, he was off doing his own thing.
"I've seen a lot of growth in him over the past ten years. He's tried to be more of what he thinks a good man is. It's made it easier for us to get along.
"My personal issues were different from his. When I was in my early 20s, they were identical. My wife left me because I was screwing hookers."
Luke: "Why were you screwing hookers? Because you could?"
Dick: "Excitement. I was a kid. When things started feeling old, they just weren't fun anymore.
"The way we got married was different. We didn't have an engagement and send out invitations. We were drunk and in Las Vegas. I was 20. She was 19. We'd been having great sex for four weeks. She's like, 'Let's blow everybody's mind and get married.'
"We wound up falling in love and staying together [for two years], but still, she was more mature than I was. I lived with my mom when I married her.
"Because I was a jerk in my marriage, I wasn't holding up my end. My wife was stripping. I was managing an apartment we lived in in San Francisco. It entailed vacuuming the hallways once a week and rotating the cans underneath the garbage shoot.
"She busts her ass wearing high heels and make-up all day with these creepy guys drooling all over her, and when she gets home, the place is a mess and I'm lying there watching TV.
"She became an authoritarian figure to me, which contributed to me not being attracted. I turned her into that. I wasn't like that before. She was wild about me. She was very sexy. I was dumb s---. She was hot. She was a great woman. I just wasn't turned on by her anymore.
"My mom died the same week my wife left me [in 1986]. I don't have a religious upbringing, but I felt, 'Dude, somebody up there is really angry at you.'
"My wife wasn't some awful woman who found another man. I drove her away.
"As far as my mom goes, that wasn't my fault. She got run over by a car."
Luke: "In some ways, you were trying to recreate your dad's life."
Dick: "Yes. I wanted to be like my dad. I wanted to be a bigshot who did whatever he wanted and had money and had fun. He had fun. He was wined and dined and he bought cars and went skiing in Switzerland. The thing that sucked about it is that we weren't really in on it.
"I've never been to Europe. We went to Mexico. I haven't even been to Canada. I had friends whose dads weren't celebrities and they went on vacations [overseas]. My dad was more like, 'This is mine, man. You've got a house and s--- that I paid for. Leave me alone.'
"Who wouldn't want to be like my dad? He raced cars. He had his own TV show. My dad was cool.
Burt Kearns writes me: "Dick Smothers Jr made his debut in "My First Time," the softcore series we did for Showtime."
Paul Tagliabue (NFL Commissioner) For Porn Dictator
"See, with non-guaranteed contracts it becomes less of a risk for companies and allows performers to be paid on performance, we all remember the fiasco of Cindy Crawford '03, it crippled Jill Kelly Productions, I'm all about making it fair for both companies and performers."
Bizarre Video's Keith Gordon's Organized Crime Pals Charged With Stock Fraud
NEW YORK (AP) -- Members of the reputed Colombo and Luchese organized-crime families have been charged with manipulating the market for penny stocks as part of a broader racketeering case in Brooklyn, federal prosecutors said.
In an indictment unsealed Thursday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn alleges that at least six of 10 men the FBI arrested on Thursday on racketeering charges secretly controlled up to 15 branch offices of brokerage firms in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island.
Through those branches, prosecutors claim they ran a scheme to artificially inflate the price of penny stocks. Many of the branches were in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District, within blocks of the New York Stock Exchange.
Prosecutors described it as a classic "pump and dump" scheme, in which licensed and unlicensed brokers misrepresented the prospects of certain stocks to potential investors, in exchange for large commissions.
The 10 men arrested are: Joseph Baudanza, 61; Carmine Baudanza, 63; John Baudanza, 36; Jerry Degerolamo, 34; Arthur Gunning, 40; Craig Leszczak, 31; Craig Marino, 36; Robert Podlog, 32; Ronald Giallanzo, 35; and Vincent Rossetti, 40.
Porn star Dayton and ex-porner Kenny Gallo know several of these Baudenzas as well as Craig Marino.
Keith Gordon is friends with John Baundanza, who hung out with Keith in Atlantic City. Craig Marino hung out at Keith's Bizarre Video booth at the AVN show in 2003.
Belladonna, Dayton, Kenny hung out with John Baudanza (John Goggles) and Craig Marino at the strip club Privilege in New York. There was a fight. John Baudanza and Craig Marino fought. Arthur Gunning gunned for Playboy model fitness girl Cori Nadine.
According to the urbandictionary.com: "john goggles noun: 1. an altered state of mind in which sub-par individuals seem to appear striking. Also known as enjoying being the wing-man/grenade. John Ngo has john goggles because he thinks Margaret Cho is a 7."
Chaim Amalek writes me:
A man is at risk of being put to death in Afghanistan, just for converting to Christianity from Islam. And you seem not to care.
In fact, so far as I can tell, nobody in your kehilla (that would be porn) cares.
Please, use your influence to light a fire under our pitifully accommodating president.
>Cori Nadine. Nude model. Pursued by the Mob.
Got that but who is she? So why is she worthy of my attention? Breasts not real. You are not talking sense or making proper use of your time on earth. 40 approaches.
Porn Industry Centers
There are only three centers of pornography: Los Angeles, Budapest and Prague.
Porn movies are shot everywhere. I even worked in Israel, Turkey, Serbia and Chile and many other places, but you can't call them a center. Except Florida for Internet content.
The three cities I've mentioned have the big advantage that they have a perfect infrastructure of agencies, locations, technicians and equipment to rent. So everybody goes there. Talent as well as producers. Many male and female talent who work in this three cities come from abroad.
Lazerus posts: "Historically, it's always been about the legal issues. Porn becomes an industry any place where you're not being hauled off to jail every couple of days for making it. Given a lenient legal attitude towards its production, everything else--facilities, talent, agents, producers (money)--will follow like a dog chases a bone. This was true in the early days in places like Denmark and SF, and it's true today in places like LA, Brazil, and Prague."
How Much Money Is There In Porn?
We have looked on the e-net and found some general parameters and Quasarman used an average female figure of $1000. It seems $1500 is on the upper end for women and for men it is well below $1000. Also if you look at the bios of some of the hottest, most prolific stars you will find a few with 100 titles in a one year period when they are really hot and seem to be on every boxcover. Kami knows a lot and she claims she saw a "C" grade female whose tax forms had $500k declared. These numbers do not make sense since I'm thinking $100-$150K from videos in a year is the high end of that piece. Steph said websites don't make much so lets call that $10k max. Club appearances have potential for name stars, but maybe 10 a year at $2k per gets another $20k. Escort services are possible and probably can produce good income for those willing. Magazine layouts .... there can't be that many of those ... 2 or 3 a year max. I would love to see a breakdown of that $500k tax form income that Kami referred to because I don't get the math to work up to that. It seems to me it is verry harrd for the people who star in the videos we watch to get rich based on this math. I think the $billions we see reported must be heavily weighted toward the distribution and those who own the films and rights to recuts and compilations. If you look at any porn stars filmography you will find 30-40% of titles are compilations of former scenes for which the stars have already been paid.
Niterunner writes:
I would venture to say that with strip clubs, websites, videos,-75,000-100,000, maybe be in the ballpark for an adult star who isn't a big name in the business.
As a gay man, who has delt with sexual abuse growing up, who has been hospitalzed for depresstion and on the "breek" of death a few times, the lack of empathy and compassion people have for people in the adult industry is a little insulting.
Director Chico Wang writes:
It's not alot of money that these girls make. And when they do make money, it only lasts for so long. You know how many girls I know that've been around for a couple of years or more that are still barely eking by.
Many of them have been shot out or made so many bad decisions in their lives that now they're in a hopeless state. The problem with porn sometimes is alot of girls think the money trains will keep on rolling when the problem is most producers are looking for the newer, hotter, nastier girls once they've shot them. It especially becomes a problem in work ethic as well. You shoot five scenes a week at a sizeable chunk of change and plan your finances based on those five scenes. Suddenly there are weeks where you shoot four, three, two, one, none. Of course it's after you've spent all your money. Where do you go? Especially with no education, no work ethic and all you know is taking a big dick up your ass. It is a vicious cycle especially when you're young and naive.
In this world, every girl is expendable. Sad but true but they're adults and they bring it upon themselves.
Monstar, a publicist writes:
a girl has hired me to write some Press releases for her, no problem....but getting what i need from her, information, pictures, etc, is making it a fucking chore. that's why pretty much i have only been working with my "inner circle" because i know, they know, to take this shit seriously.
i totally appreciate that i go to taryn's pad and she is there with her photoshop out trying to learn it, or how benz is learing html...
Lazerus posts:
While you're calculating what performers make in the business, don't forget to take out agent commissions, travel to and from LA (many are not local), rent (in the highest priced area in the country), transportation, STD testing, and--oh yes--clothes. In one recent video, the director told a new girl to take her first couple of checks and buy some clothes to wear on shoots. "Bring your own lube" should be the motto for a lot of these productions.
Also consider that in 1986, the average girl made 750-1000 for straight boy/girl--no anal, no facials, no DP, etc. Now adjust for inflation, and consider the current gonzo rates twenty years later. Today, talent is paid less to do more while having a career half as long.
There is a lot of money in adult entertainment, but working as talent doesn't seem much different to me than working as a waitress, secretary, or as a clerk in a video store. As in any industry, the people who make the real money are the people you never see. Talent in porn, like in any other service job, sit at the bottom of the food chain.
Chico Wang posts:
Doyle, sorry bro but nobody is going to help out these girls and there are so many scumbags in the industry that act like vultures that you should consider twice how much you really care when you are neither in a position to nor know how to.
Jasmine Tame just left my house this morning and she's a rarity; she has a tremendous business acumen and genuinely loves what she does. But for every Jasmine, there are a 100 stupid ones who spend 15K for every 12K they make monthly.
And if people really think these girls make a crapload off their websites, you guys have something coming. Most of them don't have one or the money made is a pinprick compared to what they make on just one scene.
Gen Padova posts:
Everyone including adult preformers have endured some form of traumatic experience in their life whether it be recent or long past, gone and done. Each individual handles traumatic experiences differently by supressing, post traumatic stress, acts of revenge, violent behavior and I'm sure the list can go on and on forever.
Any form of negative experience we live through in our lives may affect our decision making and desires in the process of living forward. Including how we live our social lives, interact with family, business/corporate world, even romantic-like relationships. It doesn't just effect the choices made in porn and the mistakes that have been made and why. Those experiences could be taken negative or positive. Some may even learn from those impacting endeavors.
I wouldn't say that every single performer is in this industry because they were abused somehow or another. Every person has their story but many choose to not open up enough and confess their underlying reasoning. Some may not even know their reason because they choose to avoid it or simply haven't approached a point in life where they question themselves "WHY AM I REALLY DOING THIS? AND WHY NOT SOMETHING ELSE? HOW WOULD IT BE DIFF. IF I DIDN"T DO THIS? AM I HAPPY? WHAT AM I GONNA DO LATER DOWN THE ROAD? WHATS THE BEST WAY TO MANAGE MY MONEY, Etc."
We all do our own form of self-searching at different times of our lives. It's not like we reach the age 25, suddenly realizing what is truly best for ourself.
My childhood friend, David and I shared very similar interest and goals, such as fundamental sciences in grade school, struggle to not get picked on for trying or be outspoken, wanting to go to college where we both wanted to attend the same university. While making an attempt to get a so-called education, I was tossed between the Arts (not performing) and the biological world, both that have always caught my interest. David himself started out with goals of Biomechanical Engineering studies, hated that, got into computers, couldn't tolerate that, learned to enjoy studying English Literature and then later finished five and half years later with a double in English Lit and Chinese. Only to transfer immediately after to NYU to get his masters degree and still to this day he struggles with a decent paying job, isn't sure what he wants to do. Is somewhat unhappy because he can't figure it all out.
Even a college educated man can become unhappy with their choices and struggle with their options to fall back on. Currently he wouldn't find it worth working somewhere thats' going to make him miserable, become a victim of stress and be slave driven by pennies and unhappiness. Instead rather as a "side boy" working at the administration office of the universities campus. I understand some people have the drive to live life working amongst an atmosphere they dont solely care for but we all are so entirely different in how we handle situations.
I know that a lot of the girls in the industry tend to blow their money very easily living paycheck by paycheck because I've seen it done (Lain who rented a room from me; only paid when she could) but there still is that small percentage of people out there who do happen to use whatever smarts they have in them to manage their money decently. I firmly believe that we all make some kind of major mistake in our early adulthood, hit rock bottom to then somehow eventually get back on our feet.
Porn just happens to be one of some peoples way of hitting rock bottom, we've seen it happen time and time again before our eyes. The only difference is the rest of those who aren't in porn, their mistaks aren't put out for the world to see so you wouldn't know if your next door neighbor's daughter hit rock bottom and that gives you no chance to criticize them.
I see nothing wrong with doing porn so long as you're doing so in a healthy state of mind. When things are no longer exciting and become tedious then a brake is more than necessary (not necessary to say you retired and then come back later looking like an idiot), try it again and if its not doing it for you anymore, seek another avenue, meanwhile making a personal promise to save a percentage of all your checks in case any emergency or lack of employment occurs. It's really not that difficult, it just requires having a little self respect and desire to take oneself into proper care/consideration.
I'd imagine its hard to get an average of what a performer makes because while so many companies pay within a certain rate for each act, there are companies who pay less and girls take the gig, some gigs pay tons more. Never does a typical girl in the biz have steady work all the time. Its unpredictable its so rediculous. Which I think is why its always best to work just a few times a week at the most from the very start because not only will your work not run out so fast but if you do your job well by setting a good reputation for yourself, building decent relationships with the business people of it all, then there will always be a job offer out there for you that week somewhere. Of course that will run dry but at least it lasts a hell of a lot longer than just a year or two.
I think many in this industry will sound insensitive due to encountering such a wide variety of male and female from so many backgrounds, upbringing, lifestyles, different cultures, experiences, etiquette, etc. in such a short period of time and soon thereafter become jaded to a degree.
Also, no one can help another unless they're intially willing and wanting the help. Yet most importantly they need to make effort in helping themselves in the process in order for a positive outcome.
This is really an on-going topic that will never be solved, that's the sad part so basically the only thing people can do is just try to at least make the best choices they can for themselves at the time and try not to self-destruct.
Chico Wang writes: "Quasar, you believe everything everyone writes [Jasmine Tame]? Locked up in a hotel room? There were alot of other issues involved, some involving deceit from the other side of the table and people trying to lowball rates with 50% chances of bounced checks, etc. Frankly I don't want to get involved in that sort of namecalling horseshit. Jasmine is the same girl that signed for your beloved company in Vegas and she hung out at my house too. Same person with a heart of gold."
Quasarman responds:
I think Jasmine's awesome Chico but in 16 years of working in this business I know that it's within every porn performer, heart of gold or not, to be completely dysfunctional irresponsible, irrational and utterly insane. That statment includes some of the male performers as well.
Don't fall in love Chico, they'll only break your heart.
Chico Wang posts:
It's funny Quaze but there is a double standard. I mock porn whores and I'm labeled a mysogynist. I laud a girl and then I'm falling in love. I've been around 4 years and I agree you never know what you get with a girl. Outwardly they may seem great but there may be demons lurking inside. Don't sweat me brother. My relationships with girls have a half life of about two weeks. Eee hee. I win!
MyAdultGroups2 posts:
For most girls, it just makes sense for them to have a domain name, a VOD affiliate, and some affiliate links to their movies or porn galleries because it is simple enough for them to do on their own and not have to deal with others who want to rip them off. Jezebelle Bond's husband said that hers only brought in $400-700 a month in profit. Not every girl can be like Jenna Jameson with a website that generates a huge income.
Tawnee Stone and Melissa Midwest who are 'internet models' make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. Melissa Midwest does all her html and site programming herself.
I think that an average girl can pull in $100k the first year doing scenes, dancing, and doing privates without trying very hard. Its doing the privates that really brings in the big bucks. After the first year, it can be downhill from there, unless a girl knows how to play her cards right.
Old Pueblo Distributors Update
Arnold Stein replies: "I want you to know that I did not have my assets seized by the IRS, it is a complete lie, wondering where you got the info. Old Pueblo is doing better than ever and growing faster than I can imagine."
9:17 p.m. Thursday.
I hear voices in the background. Then Kendra (in Chicago) comes on the line. "Did Anna Malle die?"
Luke: "Yes."
Kendra: "Ohmigod, how did I never know that?"
Luke: "Because you don't read lukeisback.com."
Kendra: "Hold on a minute, Cynthia. I'm working. Someone came to my job and said, 'You did a movie with Anna Malle and she's dead.' I'm like, she's what? How did she die, Luke?"
Luke: "She turned around on a highway and got hit by a car and cut in half."
Kendra: "Ohmigod. Where?"
Luke: "In Las Vegas where she lived."
Kendra: "Ohmigod, that's the most horrible thing I've ever heard. Who will look after her kids?"
Luke: "Her husband Hank."
Kendra: "Ohmigod, that's pretty awful, Luke. She was one of the first people in the business who was even nice to me. At the time when the whole Jerry Springer thing happened, she told me, 'Keep you head up. Don't let everybody get you down.' She was cool with me.
"What if that happened to me? How could somebody die and nobody knows it? What if I died tomorrow? Would people know I was even dead?"
Luke: "The people who read Lukeisback."
Kendra: "Luke, honestly, that is the most horrible thing I've ever heard."
Luke: "Tell me your memories of her."
Kendra: "I can't tell you right now, honestly, because I'm drinking.
"OK, Luke, I have to go to work.
"This is going to happen to me. I'm going to die and people will never know it.
"Will you call me later?"
Luke: "Yeah."
I Keep My Distance From Porn
I don't own any porn. I don't have any porn in my hovel. I have almost no friends in porn (and the ones I have I don't introduce to my real friends except on the rarest of occasions).
I write about porners but I don't hang out with them (except to write on them). I don't have any porners on my MySpace Friends list (except for one who does not mention porn on her MySpace page). I don't pose for pictures with porners (except on rare occasions).
I understand when people are trying to establish themselves in fields outside of porn, and when I can, I keep their full real name off my site (unless they are essential to my story).
I am middle-aged. I am not thrilled that the majority of my income over the past decade has come from my research and writing on the porn industry. When I post on porn-related chatboards, I usually use an easily identifiable pseudonym (so the industry and those in the know will recognize me and others won't).
I work hard at establishing myself in fields outside of porn. I empathize with others who do the same yet need their porn income.
A pornographer writes me: "Take X's name off your site-- he's really trying to keep the adult work he does separate from his [other] work. He's trying to get into [Y] and to have his real name associated with adult would really, really upset him. I told him that you would never post his real name. I assumed you knew he didn't want the association. But please... he'll just die if he finds out it was on your site."
This same pornographer has X on his top eight friends on MySpace, posts under his porn name to X's page (posts that he sees X every week), and hosts numerous comments by X on his porny MySpace page.
I checked out the MySpace page of this guy who supposedly does not want to be associated with porn. Many, if not most, of his friends are clearly and publicly identified porners. He posts under his real name and with his real picture on many porn-focused MySpace pages.
So give me a break. I once took down your name as having attended a party with porners. Since then you've taken many an opportunity to put your face and full real name in porn.
I understand and embody the ambivalence that many in porn feel towards porn. I understand that they want to use their porn work to their advantage while minimizing the price they must pay for it. But if you want my help in keeping your name away from porn, demonstrate care for yourself. Do not ask things from me that you do not ask from yourself.
"Luke, please. If he even knew he was on your site he'd freak out. I NEVER ask you to censor your posts, please, PLEASE do this one favor for me."
OK.
Are My Fans Creepy?
I've never had a bad experience. Everyone I've met who's read me in depth and loves my work has been respectful.
One guy saw me on a date in Redondo Beach. He didn't intrude. He just emailed me later that night. I got to know him. I met him and his wife. He helped me several times with computer issues.
It'd been about four years since I heard from him, but he emailed me Thursday night with a story tip and a compliment: "Hi, Luke. Enjoy your work, or shall I say your life, as always. Judging by the photos of you and the Penthouse pets, I take it you're still living at the same hovel I visited five years ago to help you get your then-new computer hooked up to cable modem."
Portrait Of A Stripper
Lisa Hay writes in the book Surviving Crisis:
She tells me her fiance knocked her out after she accidentally called him the name of an old boyfriend. Her voice begins shaking like the ice cubes in my glass. "I went to the women's shelter, but they wouldn't let me stay 'cause I had no ID. I didn't have no money so I had to walk home." She downs a shot of Jack. "While I was walking I got jumped by some nigger. He hit me in the face, and raped me... I got the cops and they took me to the hospital. I tried to press charges but they arrested me instead for being drunk."
..."Stripping is hard on your body," she says. "I have to go to a chiropractor three times a week, and I have tendonitis in both ankles now. I fell off the pole and fractured my shoulder so now I have to and get cortisone shots."
..."Some men come in for conversation. Their wives don't give it to them, they are having problems at home, they just need someone to talk to that they don't know, and why not go talk to a beautiful woman? I could be a psychiatrist...because I've been doing this for four years, and because they tell you things that you would not believe."
Dating Advice For Luke
* Wear two rubbers
* Bring a gun
* After you have your way with her refer her to suze.net and don't forget to ask Holly your finder's fee!
* Don't forget to ask her what crowd she hung out with in high school. You really should trademark that one, Luke.
* Holly won't go for a finder's fee. I say sell her to the Chinese or hand her over to Max Hardcore.
I call her Thursday afternoon.
Mary: "Don't post that last email. I was drunk on the plane yesterday [to Kokomo, Indiana]. I drank for the first time in a week. I got depressed. Harold and I were fighting.
"I landed at the strip club. The club pressured me to be a high energy fun drunk party girl. They wanted to take me to bars. I'm good at playing that even when I'm sober. Harold thinks I'm acting like a retard.
"They were the first club I've landed at that wanted to take me straight from the airport to a bar. Harold hates it when people encourage that bad behavior.
"Harold's sister lives in Indianapolis. She knows I'm Mary Carey because I accidentally sent their 13-year old daughter an email with the tagline marycarey.com. It was awkward. When I hung out with her over Christmastime, she looked up to me. She was emailing me to send her pictures of me so she could show her friends. She thought I was pretty.
"Eversince then, the little girl hasn't contacted me. If she isn't mad, I'd hate for her to think it is cool to be a porn star."
Such a thing as being stressed while smokin a bowl?
So I was nice and loaned Mr Marcus my piece. All I asked was for him not to leave with it. No problem. Hour later our office is packed and the phone is non-stop. I go to get my bowl and he's gone. Hour or so later he shows up. So I start smoking with him and there is this new girl assistant. Forgot her name (not important) and she starts in with how she's a princess and gets what she wants.
...She comes right back in, grabs my shirt, then pushes me towards the door and says "Go!" while smacking me on the back!
I time traveled last night! Most people call it blacking out. I remember the ride to the bar, being at the bar (which was really cool), then in a car, then woke up on a couch (time travel). WTF is going on? Last weekend I drank the most I have in a long time. I'm not depressed or anything. In fact I've been really good. You think after drinking for 14 years I would know my limit. Oh and apparently I was an asshole too! Those of you that know me know I don't every get violent or angry when drunk. Guess my sarcasm got the best of me. Best yet I may never know what went down! Here's to drinking heavily in moderation!
Rob Black Launches Extreme Associates Webmaster Affiliate Program
We just finished are afilate program and its up and readey. I dont know how to send you there beacuse it wont let me post the url so just go to extremeassociates you know but the thing in afterwe are paying 25.00 first joins and a 50 50 split on all members after that for life. Were doing evreything threw CC bil. So I dont even touch the money. That way no one thinks they will get f---ed for legal bills. The program is basic we dont have fancey s---. You sighn up to ccbil put in your code and put it in the linking code. We dont have the fancey s--- that atomaticley does it for you,sorry. Like I said its real basic but the galleries and s--- are good crazey s--- and converts beacuse were doing great on are web site by are selfs. We will also be up dating the galleries and the other s--- weekley. If you join up with extreme the members get the other sites that are part of the network. Slaphappygirls.com,Asseatergirls.com, hotpornstargirls.com, oralgangbanggirls.com, heshegirls.com. We are in the process of doing those programs which will be coming out in the next couple of weeks. We also have a Vod system exvod.com. We will have a program for that also in the next week or so. I' still new at all this s--- so bare with me on evreything.Were also going to have promo content for webmasters web sites. Daley video clipd and jpegs. As we go on and as I understand s--- more stuff will be geting better and better. I like to thank all the people who have supported me threw the years and I hope I can make money from all of you and you can make money from me.
Mike South posts: "Slob has shown time and time again that given the opportunity he will f--- you. He is an illiterate scumbag who consistantly has bounced checks, f--ked over everyone who worked for him and exposed the entire industry federal action. If you guys are smart you will tell him not to let the door hit him in the ass."
Jace posts: "Search anywhere for anything pertaining to Ron Black and you will see a hideous past. HE is the prime example of why porographers get a terrible reputation."
Rob writes:
As producers of porn we run the risk off having these kinds of legal issues. we the producers are open to it not anybody promoting are s---. We dont attend to lose were waiting to here from the supreme court. We think they will take the case we wont know untill summer and if they dont take it we then would stand trial for the case. Remember thers 1 count conspreicey, 3 counts sending obscece videos in the mail and the big ones 6 counts of sending obscene images threw the inter net. Thats somthing that affects all web people wether its tame stuff or not. But if we stand triel it will be in the court room of the same judge that threw the case out the first time so we would have the upper hand,to fight the charges how erv we had to. It would also be up to him when it goes down so it could be 2 years from now if its not in the supreme court. So all is good. We think the supreme will here it and we will win. Wether its me or some one else it was coming from this adminastration it was just who and wen. I had the loudest mouth. That I admit. But I will tell you this any body elese in this bizz would have made a deal and coupted a plea. Thats a fact history shows it. From Goalie,to seemore butts. I could have made it go away it was offered twice but I said no we fight on so. They would have then came threw with steam rollers. So with this long rambling email no you cant get in trouble and Ram i might go to the phenix thing. I'm trying to move around some s---. If I dont go I will be going to all the other ones trying to get out the word thank you very much guys for even giving a s---.
Yo no more wrestling it basicley ruined my life at that time. Its a very sour subject we dont talk about it. But I would not be who I am now if it never happened. When you are so high and on top of the world. You just dont give a f--- about anything and any body. So I did a lot of stupid s---. Then when we lost evreything it humbles you and you go soul serching. And at the end of the day I have become a better person both bizz and personal. So theres my speech. It is true evrey one you see on the way up you see on the way down.
Poly writes: "Hey Luke, Do your part and help promote the Rob Black/Lizzy Borden legal defense fund, I mean, Stop the Canadian Seal Hunt Fund! If I were facing 50 years and mounting legal bills, I know I'd be trying to raise money for baby seals!"
Consumers Complain About Faith's Fantasies
I don't understand why you would put Jesus, the name of the father that dies for your sins, in a movie. I am forever SCARED just from seeing the trailer. I'm sure it will turn many fans away.
Not only does it have repercussions in the spirit realm, but it is detrimental to your business and fans. There are plenty of Christians who struggle with porn. Is this a way of letting them realize what they are watching or are you that insensitive to the holy spirit?
I will never watch a Tyler Faith movie. I never have but I really never will now. May God bless your soul. Whoever put in the line, "who wants to f--- Jesus" needs their souls blessed.
AVN Editor Mike Ramone writes: "I always have to laugh at PORN fans, of all people, being offended by blasphemous scenes. Like if you're so religious, how do you rationalize watching porn in the first place? As for me, I can't wait to check it out. I love blasphemous scenes, of which there are, well, damn too few. Sounds like a definite pre-nom for Best All-Girl Sex Scene (and somewhat similar to nasty nuns Roxy Jezel and Katja Kassin pounding each other's holes with a crucifix dil in Belladonna/Evil Angel's My Ass is Haunted, which was nominated by us last year for Best All-Girl Sex Scene). Of course, probably the most blasphemous scene of all time, at least that I'm aware of, is Zupko's Ass Clowns (2001) for Extreme, in which, after getting air-tighted by multiple demon cocks as the Book of Revelation is read aloud, Kendra Jade tears up a Bible and shoves the pages up her ass. Good clean family fun."
Whatever Happened To Jake Steed (Jason A. Okezie, DOB 8/7/70)?
Jake was an outspoken black performer and director who was skilled at martial arts and beat up a few people.
According to this report, he skipped bail in 2001:
Jason A. Okezie had been charged with one count each of corporal injury on a spouse (Pen. Code, § 273.5, subd. (a)), making a terrorist threat (Pen. Code, § 422) and false imprisonment (Pen. Code, § 236).
On June 7, 2000, appellant, Ranger Insurance Company (Ranger) posted a bail bond in the amount of $500,000 through its agent for the release of defendant Jason A. Okezie from custody.1At the initial date set for arraignment the defendant appeared and requested a continuance to retain private counsel. The trial court granted his request and reset his arraignment for September 18, 2000. On September 18, 2000, the defendant appeared with private counsel for arraignment, pled not guilty to the charges, and denied the special allegations. The court set a pretrial conference date of October 10, 2000. The defendant appeared at the pretrial conference. At its conclusion the court ordered him to appear on November 15, 2000, the date set to hear his motion to dismiss under section 995.
The defendant appeared as ordered on November 15, 2000. The court apparently continued the hearing on his section 995 motion, set another pretrial conference date of December 11, 2000, and ordered the defendant to appear. The defendant appeared in court on December 11, 2000. The court continued the hearing on his motion to dismiss to December 14, 2000, and ordered the defendant to appear on that date. The defendant appeared on the continued date and the court heard and denied his motion to dismiss. Thereafter, the court set a trial date of February 20, 2001, and ordered the defendant to appear. On February 20, 2001, the court trailed the case to February 22, 2001. On February 22, 2001, defense counsel requested a continuance because of a family emergency. On both occasions the defendant was present in court as ordered. The court granted the requested continuance, set a trial date of April 16, 2001, and ordered the defendant to appear. On April 16, 2001, the defendant was not present when the court called his case.
The defendant did not appear the next day on April 17, 2001. The court declared bail forfeited and issued a no-bail bench warrant. Notice of bail forfeiture was mailed to Ranger the same day.
On July 30, 2001, Ranger filed a motion to vacate the forfeiture and to exonerate the bond.
According to various sources within the industry, Jake moved to South America.
According to this Google search, Jake is the custodian of records for many companies who use his Jake Steed Productions material.
Kenny Gallo: 'I do not work for the FBI or get any money from them.'
I do things because I get bored and this is funny. I can tell you I never wanted to be made or Italian. If I was going to be anything I would have just followed in ancestors footsteps and gone with a real family like the Yamaguchi-Gumi.. Real gangsters who run a country. Don't you know every associate and made guy today was a wannabee? I was around to kill time. I enjoyed it.. It was not just a job, it was an adventure!
On Set With Rob Spallone, T.J. Hart
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"Why's your site all about Holly Randall now?" a jealous Rob demands.
"My Alexa ranking has dropped 900 places in the past three weeks," I say.
"That's why," says Rob. "It's become boring. It's horrible. Nobody's reading you anymore. As soon as they go on your site and see her name, they click off."
"Should I turn it into a Luke and T.J. Hart site?"
"I would," says Rob. "She's hot. Always was."
I take quick ride in Rob's new black Mercedes (S-class) to his home five minutes away. I meet his girlfriend Leah for the first time and Lisa, the wife for 25 years (though most of that time they've been separated) of Rob's brother Roy.
Lisa plays Rob's wife in his demo video for HBO.
"What kind of wife is she?" I ask.
"You don't see her," says Rob. "But you'll hear that mouth of hers."
Rob walks in the house and starts yelling at Leah and Lisa. He tells them to go to the bank and pick up his checks.
Leah says she's too busy cleaning.
"I gave you a direct command this morning," says Rob. "Don't raise your voice to me."
The other night, the three of them went bowling with Rob's two boys. Rob raised his voice to Lisa so she threw a bowling ball at him and pulled his pants down.
"I had to bowl with no pants on in a family night."
Lisa is in rehab for pill addiction (vicodin etc).
Rob yells: "Leah, come say hi to Luke."
"No," she yells back. "He's going to take a picture of me."
She finally comes out of the bedroom. We shake hands. She brings bottles of water to Rob and I. We sit in the backyard near the pool. Lisa lies out.
"You better let me have the Mercedes if you are giving me all these orders," says Leah.
"No, take the Cadillac," says Rob. "I'm buying you a Mercedes."
"How much are the tapes?" Leah asks.
"Why do you want to know?" says Rob. "Are you writing a book?"
Leah looks at me. "He's all bugged up. He's got a tape recorder. He's got cameras.
"Rob, I'll leave when you want."
"Are you showing off for Luke?" asks Rob.
"No," she says. "You are."
Rob keeps repeating himself about their need to go to Frys Electronics and to the bank.
"I'll get right on it, bossman," says Leah with a smile. "How many times are you going to repeat yourself?"
"Because I'm nervous you are going to mess this up," says Rob.
"Not everybody is retarded like you. If you were a good boss, you would've handled this before the shoot."
"Lisa," says Rob, "I'm going to shoot you.
"Didn't I graduate from anger management?"
"It didn't work," says Lisa.
"How did you guys fall in love?" I ask Leah.
"I thought he was rich," she replies.
"That's nice," says Rob.
They reminisce about their trip to Tennessee to meet Leah's parents.
"What a joy that was," says Rob. He goes into a Southern accent. "Would you like some jam with those biscuits?"
"Isn't it time you make an honest woman out of her?" I ask.
"Out of me?" says Leah.
"I'm not divorced yet," says Rob. "We had a problem with the paperwork."
"What kind of man are you?" I ask. "Rob, I want to know what your intentions are."
"Her father asked me that," says Rob.
"What are your intentions?" I repeat.
"A double wedding," says Rob. "Me, you, her and Holly. In Australia."
"Then we'll honeymoon together," I say.
"Absolutely," says Rob. "We'll switch and everything."
Leah wants to marry in Tennessee.
"Tennessee will never see me again, hon," says Rob.
"Will you move there?" I ask.
"No," says Rob. "She asked me that."
"It's a better life than pornography," I say.
"Anything's better than pornography," says Rob. "We're getting out."
"She's a nice girl, Rob," I say.
"You don't know her," he replies.
"She's been well brought," I say. "She's been very patient with you."
"They're alcoholics, these two," Rob claims. The girls disagree.
Rob yells at Lisa: "If you go anywhere but the banks and Frys, the bracelet will go off."
He turns to me. "I have them on the bracelet."
Lisa: "He's like my warden."
Rob: "Lisa has been with us three weeks yesterday."
Luke: "Is this like a trial separation?"
Rob: "No. It's a rehab. She hasn't seen Roy in ten years.
"She's a 50-year old crackhead."
Luke to Lisa: "Does it bother you the things Roy's doing in Costa Rica with other women?"
She doesn't appear bothered.
Rob: "He has other children. She's a stepmother to niggers."
Lisa: "He doesn't bother me one bit. He tells me."
Luke: "It doesn't bother you that he's making it with Costa Rican women for five dollars a pop?"
Rob: "Monkeys.
"Her boyfriend just got out of prison."
Lisa: "I like bad boys. It's exciting."
Rob: "She's a lunatic."
Leah: "I like bad boys, but I don't like what goes along with it."
Rob makes fun of her southern accent.
Leah doesn't want any pictures. She hasn't done her make-up. Rob forces her to pose.
"Thank you," I say. "Thank you. You guys look great. People get sick of just looking at Holly all the time."
"Holly's my other girl," says Rob.
"This house is nice and clean," I say. "It smells good. Rob, you've found a treasure. I hope you treat her like that."
Rob says he did it with Leah in the bathroom at Starbucks. A woman was banging on the door while Rob was banging Leah.
Spallone's psoriasis is better since he hooked up with Leah.
Rob: "Leah don't know kidding. When I tell her I'm banging other chicks, she flips out."
Rob's mad that he's been getting copies of The Los Angeles Times dropped off for free on his doorstep for the past three months.
Nobody in Rob's home reads the newspaper. In the livingroom, there's a huge TV but no books.
"You dirty bitch," Rob yells at Lisa as we drive off.
Rob rolls down the sun roof. He turns up the CD player. We listen to Frank Sinatra-type music. Rob sings along with some number about "bringing me into your life."
"I'm good to them," says Rob. "I cook for them. All they have to do is clean. As long as the house is clean, I don't yell.
"Passover must be soon. When I went to buy douches this morning, the lady in front of me had boxes of matza and eggs.
"Want me to have a Passover dinner at my house? I'll cater itfrom Art's Deli."
Rob sings, "I'm in the mood for love."
We return to the set.
"This was a nice drive," I say. "I feel closer."
"We bonded today," says Rob.
Rob's shooting seven scenes today for four movies.
T.J. Hart has done her solo masturbation. Soon she'll do Van Damage on the table outside.
I hear that staph infections are going around the business.
"Me and you don't have to worry about that," says Rob. "We don't have any staff."
"The white guy inside is getting ------ in the --- by a black girl," says Rob.
"What are you trying to express with that?"
"I'm just getting my frustrations out about things that I would like to do," Rob replies. "I'm teaching Kenny [Carolina, normally the production manager] how to shoot camera."
"Has Kenny become like a son to you?"
"More like a stepchild," says Rob.
Ron Sullivan's going to radiation every day (and has about 28 more days to go). He has one or two more chemotherapy sessions.
Ron tells Rob: "Tell [still photographer] Bill Diehl to shoot 60% of the stills he'd normally shoot. He's taking a long time..."
Rob: "He's only getting ten shots."
Ron: "Once he starts shooting he forgets that."
Rob: "We're not waiting for him today."
Ron: "I am. He's in there shooting my other girl. He needs to boom-boom and get out."
Ron talks about Antonio Benderass. "If he gets this much in his
---, and he cries..."
Rob: "---- him. He's getting ------ today. He ------ us last time.
"I called up Jim South. He yelled out, 'I have Rob on the phone. He needs someone to take it in the ---.' This kid says, 'I'll do it.'
"Three days later, they come to the shoot. Mia Smiles is to do him. Mia comes over and says, 'He's very nervous.' The kid says, 'I've never done this before.' I said, 'Have you done it in your private life?' He said no.
"How do you stand up in a room in front of people and say you'll do the scene when you've never done it before?"
Luke: "Who's the biggest idiot? Him or you for booking him again? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
"He's crying."
Rob: "I like it when they cry. It looks like a rape."
Luke: "You knew you'd have a problem. You're a drama queen. You're trying to degrade the human condition."
Rob: "These porno reporters are on the set all the time trying to make us look bad. Am I forcing that guy to take it in the ---?"
Luke: "You are facilitating his destruction."
Rob: "I don't know what facilitating means.
"I'm letting him do a girl today.
"I've got a cancer patient shooting my scene, drooling on the talent. That'll keep your dick up."
Antonio Benderass says he's a gourmet chef, but he works fulltime in the sex industry, assisting his girlfriend Cheyenne Hunter as she strips around the nation.
He's been around the sex industry for 18-months and done about ten scenes.
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Antonio: "A cop. People tell me I have that look."
Antonio and Cheyenne drive to her feature dancing gigs to avoid airport hassles.
Delores videotapes us for Rob's HBO special.
Rob: "Luke, what do you do for a living?"
Luke: "I'm a journalist."
Rob: "For what industry are you a journalist?"
Luke: "I write about many different topics."
Rob: "Mainly?"
Luke: "The human condition."
Rob: "Nothing to do with porno?"
Luke: "Stuff about the great moral issues that confront our society."
Rob: "Who is one of your favorite characters to interview?"
Luke: "Rob Spallone."
Rob: "Why?"
Luke: "Because you're so colorful. Like a fairy."
Rob: "Sometimes you come to my sets and say, 'You're shooting ugly girls.' That's what I was hired to shoot. Today, they're not so ugly.
"I'm broke. I've got about $300. I'm driving a new Mercedes. I've got to make the payments. How do I make them? By making these movies. Do you have anything else I can do for a living? Luke, I went to second grade."
Luke: "You used to run a bakery. You used to deal drugs."
Rob reprimands me for failing to bring a gift to my friend's wedding Sunday. "At Roy's wedding," Rob says about his brother, "he gave a gram of coke to everybody who came, including my parents and grandparents. Nobody ate."
Photographer Bill Diehl gives T.J. Hart a big hug.
"Remember when you wouldn't even go near a model?" she asks him. "You've changed."
Rob used to be the same way.
"How many porn women do you think I've slept with in my ten years
in the industry?" Rob asks me.
"Ten?" I say.
"Two or three," says Rob, proud of his abstinence. "How many could I have slept with? Hundreds, because I'm the boss and they want work."
Rob protests loudly that he's doing nothing wrong in producing porn.
"Why do you have to keep saying it if you believe you're doing nothing wrong?" I ask.
"Because you keep telling me I'm doing wrong," he replies. "I help more people in the porno business than I hurt."
"How do you know?" I ask. "How do you know the damage you have wreaked on individual psyches? The terror you have inflicted?"
"Luke just feels guilty for his participation, so he has to blame us," says T.J.
"Bill's not going to hell," says Rob. "Bill's one of the nicest people you can meet, as long as you don't touch his computer."
Bill says he went to Catholic seminary to study to become a priest.
I get T.J. to sit on Rob's lap after she finished her scene with Van Damage.
"I don't want Van Damage's man juice on me," Rob protests.
"Let's cut out the middle man and I'll say on your lap," says Van.
Rob: "I'm the boss. Who don't want to f--- the boss? They all want to f--- the boss because then they think they get more work.
"Am I nice to them? All of them? The fat ones? The ugly ones? The pretty ones? The diseased ones? I'm nice to all of them."
Luke: "You're a humanitarian."
Rob: "Is that my way of getting back, of trying to do something good for all the bad I do?"
Luke: "Yes."
Rob: "So I don't need a shrink. I just need to talk to myself.
"I don't think what I do is wrong because I don't force anybody to do anything."
Luke: "Drug dealers could say the same thing."
Rob: "I was a drug dealer. If I didn't sell it to 'em, they were going to get it anywhere."
Lady Armani walks outside. She hugs Rob and tells him: "I like working for you because I like crazy people.
"You're all business. It's not one of those sets where you hang out and lollygag."
Luke: "Why don't you drive?"
Lady: "I have my daughter who gets out at 11 a.m."
Armani's husband (together since highschool, eight years) is Derek Dick (married five years), a fellow porn performer. "In my household, nobody sit around and chill. Everybody got a job, even the kids. My oldest is an aspring model."
She's moving back to Miami in a week.
Rob: "In highschool, if your man f----- one of your friends..."
Armani: "I'd kill him."
Rob: "Now it's OK?"
Armani: "It's where we stand."
Rob: "You grew."
Armani: "I'm from the Bahamas. I can't go back because I wouldn't be able to get back in. I never applied for my citizenship.
"I'm 26. I had to grow up fast. Experience comes with maturity."
Rob: "When I was 15, I did things you'll never do in your lifetime. I was bad. I was in Studio 54 when I was 15 [1978]. I bought my first Corvette in 1980."
Rob (to Ron Sullivan's disgust) calls Dino Bravo and asks him if he'd do a scene late Wednesday. Dino says no. He's been doing a scene every day for a week. He wouldn't do good.
"You could not do a scene for a month and you still wouldn't be good," says Rob.
Spallone complains about the squeaky table T.J. and Van had sex on.
"There are squeaky tables in real life too," says T.J.
Delores, Ron Sullivan's wife and Rob's production manager, is shooting one-minute documentary shorts about Georgina Spelvin and Raven Touchstone for her community college class. "I've done my storyboards and I'm getting ready to do my location layouts."
Delores and Rob reminisce about the great girls they've shot. T.J. Hart is at the top along with Julie Meadows, who often brought a book to set and just sat quietly not bothering anybody. Delores says Stacy Valentine was great. Rob's experience was not good.
"She came to see me and Jim for 90-minutes about starring in The Sopornos," he says. "I thought we got along great. I bought her a watch from Barry, who's now dead. Stacy then told Russ Hampshire that she didn't want to be in it because she didn't think it was about her. Stacy lost her VCA contract soon after and Tabitha Stevens took The Sopornos starring role."
Rob boasts he can prepare for two movies in six hours and shoot them in 16-hours.
Cheyenne Hunter has done about 300 movies. She's been feature-dancing for years.
"I started dancing in Massachusetts," she says. "Someone came up and asked if I wanted to feature. I did. I explored other avenues."
She has the soundbytes down.
"I love the freedom. You can make your own schedule. I learned a lot more being on the road hands-on [as a stripper] than you can ever learn in a classroom about geography.
"The one thing I hate is the inconsistency. It's either feast or famine."
Bill Diehl yells at Lady Armani for using his computer without his permission. He raises his voice. "Don't you think you're being nervy?" he asks.
She apologizes.
"Where did you get the nerve to touch my computer and talk back to me about it? Walk away! You want to argue with me?"
She walks away.
Cheyenne and I say whoa. Is Bill yelling at us? No. We step away.
Luke: "How has it affected you to be in this industry?"
Cheyenne: "It affects you more when you first get in. You don't know what to expect. You make a lot of money quickly and there are a lot of things going on. When you're young, you've got parties, you've got work, you've got money, you've got toys... As you get older, you have to balance it out.
"The younger people coming in now are smarter. We've got computer. They're more knowledged. They realize they need to plan for the future."
Luke: "You've saved your money?"
Cheyenne: "I have. I've put some away for retirement. I've invested in some properties.
"I'm still working. I want to go for as long as I can because there are a couple of businesses I want to venture into."
Luke: "How has it affected your love life?"
Cheyenne: "That is the infamous question of every porn star and feature dancer. Everyone will tell you it does affect it. Either you can be married one time or five times. If they are not in the industry, they either feel they can convert you or you feel you can convert them. You try to work it together, but someone who has a regular job is with someone from this industry, you have nothing in common to talk about work. They can't relate to your work and you can't relate to their's. You're all over the board and they've got a foundation. They've got a structured life. It tends not to work. If you come into the industry with somebody, they have to be a strong enough person to deal with you being with different people every day. Even though it is a business, some people can't tolerate that."
Kendra Jade calls me. "I want to say something to David Aaron Clark. I am not competing with Holly for Luke's attention."
Kendra later emails me: "Jeez. The least u can do is properly quote my drunk ramblings!
"What I was trying to say is that I adore David Aaron Clarke, but I think he had the wrong idea. I'm not competing with Holly. I love her, and I totally think she'd be a great girl for you to be with. Just wanted to clarify that there's no competetion there."
Luke: "Enough about me. What's new with you?"
Kendra: "Hahaha ! Not much , still in Chicago.. Working on my grammar and punctuation so that you take me seriously and read my emails. Also , so Holly will like me."
David Clark responds:
Kendra is smarter than any three random porn starlets put together, brave as hell & refreshingly honest. I continue to think very highly of her, & therefore would never imagine her to be CHASING you, Luke. I'm just saying that you could do a lot worse than either her or Holly, & both seem to have a soft spot in their sorta porno-chick hearts for you & that full disclosure of your thoughts regarding them to the entire Internet is a dangerous game for you, indeed. Excuse me while I go pop some kettle corn & settle in to read the latest installment, no doubt entitled "Dad? I may Call You Dad, Humphrey, Right?"
Leslie writes me: "When it's sunny, always shoot them with the sun in their back or in the shade with the flash. The worst is with a low sun from the side or the sun right on top at noon over them. It reveals every little defects they have with their skin."
For the baby shower of Paul Fishbein's wife, I'm bringing a home alarm system.