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'Incorrect Info!'
Ty Kirstein emails:
Hi Luke.
I work for L&M. We are a fully licensed replicator, probably the only one that is. You mentioned that "L&M is porn's largest replicator." Well being the larges replicator for the industry, wouldn't you think they would be watching us like hawks? We could NEVER be this large for this long. Obviously the brain activity is a little absent for you.
We have many loyal customers. Yes we have great prices. And of course there will be jealous types like yourself. I'm not sure where your getting your information from. It sounds like you might own part of a company or something to try and steal the business from L&M. Good luck! You and anyone else are going to need it.
As far as the customer service, I feel safe to say that I offer our customers excellent customer service. I run the credit and approvals dept. Most of us here have good rapport with several of our customers.
I also don't see the importance of race with the owners and any of our staff here. You seem scary to do business with since your so quick to racially judge and make comments that are absolutely untrue. Who cares what Danny wears to work? Are you all of a sudden the porn industries fashion police? I would love to see what you wear on a daily basis. Lithium huh? That was a good one. Danny being Israeli too! Even better. You better check your resources before you open your mouth and write your un-educated, un-knowledgeable, pathetic, useless column.
Get a real job! I wouldn't be surprised if you or whoever said this still does business with us. Have a great day!
A search of the Philips database for licensed replicators shows that only the Brooklyn plant of L&M Optical is licensed.
David at MyPornoReview.com writes:
Luke, it's only due time that the Feds seize L&M product or facility. Today they seized 20,000 DVD players from Cyberhome for neglecting to pay royalties to Phillips:
It's all fun and games until the FBI comes a knocking. CyberHome USA of Fremont, CA just had more than 20,000 of their CyberHome-branded DVD players seized from a warehouse by a task force which included local, state and federal agencies. Turns out they've neglected royalty payments to Philips, to the tune of millions of dollars. Their DVD players and other consumer tech is sold through outlets such as Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's, Target and Wal-Mart, and they happen to be "one of the world's largest manufacturers and importers of DVD devices." California has laws on the books that provide for up to three years in prison and fines up to $500,000 for dealing with more than 1,000 items bearing a counterfeit mark, which CyberHome seems to have been doing in spades ever since Philips revoked their license. The players were loaded onto eight tractor-trailers, and are worth an estimated $2 million at retail. We're not exactly sure what the police plan to do with all that tech, but we're sure it'll involve a lot of "Starsky & Hutch - The Complete Second Season."
John O. M-risano - Owner Of Danni.com, DHD
John O. M-risano has spent his entire 18-year career helping to build and run entertainment and media companies. From his first job forward, John has always found himself at the heart of a company's operations. John started his career at the Vista Organization, Ltd., a publicly-traded indie film company, and aided in its sale in 1989. After graduating from Pace University in 1989, he joined the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in its entertainment and media practice and received his CPA. In 1993, he moved to Paris to take over the European operations of Activision, a leading video game publisher. He subsequently moved back to the States and co-founded that company's biz dev group. John left Activision in 1995 and returned to NYC from L. A. where he served as interim CEO of Dewynters NA, a UK-based merchandising and licensing concern. In 1996, he joined forces with Tim Nye at Sunshine Amalgamedia. While at Sunshine, John has overseen the production of dozens of hours of television, numerous feature films, hundreds of hours of Internet content and a wide variety of other types of branded intellectual property. These included the development and sale of SonicNet to MTV, the positioning and construction of the Company's highly successful movie house - The Sunshine Cinema, Alltrue Networks and JetSet records, among others. John is responsible for the strategic positioning of SD's products. His expertise is in creating relationships that uniquely match the inventor's needs and talents to those of Sunshine Direct.
Pets can also embarrass their owners in other ways. John O. M-risano, a principal of Sunshine, a small New York investment company, recalls a breakfast meeting attended by Milton, his partner's now-deceased husky. When a visiting executive denied the dog a bagel at the boardroom table, the dog walked over to a row of briefcases, sniffed out the offending executive's and relieved himself.
More:
Alltrue.com was conceived by Tim Nye and John O. M-risano, founders of Alltrue Networks, Inc., a division of Sunshine Amalgamedia, Inc. "Reality-video, no doubt about it, is the most popular television genre in the world today," said M-risano, Alltrue president and co-CEO.
All clips are pre-screened by the Alltrue.com editorial staff. Clips containing graphic sexual content, hate propaganda or gratuitous violence against man or animal will be excluded. Everything else will be put up on the site and users will ultimately determine the content that rises to the top.
"I am, to my knowledge," says John M-risano, Alltrue Networks co-CEO, "the only Republican in the company -- and the only Republican, possibly, in Silicon Alley." M-risano is in his spartan office right next door to Nye's, in front of an eerily tidy steel-top desk watched over by two framed portraits of Ronald Reagan. (The first one he already had; the second was from Democratic colleagues intending to mock his devotion to the Gipper.) The Republican, says Nye, keeps this little multimedia-content company from coming unhinged. "It's taken discipline, and John just slaps me back into it." Not that M-risano was exactly eager to sign up for the job of slapping discipline into Silicon Alley's arty boy wonder. When he met Nye through a headhunter in 1995, "Tim greeted me in leather pants and had a roaring fire in his office. It was too like a scene -- and I am not a scene guy. But Tim is a charismatic guy. We started talking, and, you know, the way I always tell why Tim and I have hit it off and done fairly well together over the last few years is that guys like me do much better in the world with guys like Tim, and vice versa. I am a creative guy, but I am not the idea guy. Tim very much likes to be the idea guy and would rather have somebody else figure out if (a) is it executable?, and (b) how to execute it."
Banking on the soaring popularity of reality-based TV programming, Atlas Ventures yesterday announced it had invested $8 million in Alltrue.com, which the founders are building as reality-based video network.
"We'll have that video clip of the donkey chasing the guy with his pants around his ankles. That is the kind of content we will be offering on the site," said M-risano, one of Alltrue's co-CEOs.
M-risano said Alltrue's video collection will include pranks, scams, confessions, revelations, extreme action and other astonishing, but real, moments captured on video.
Just two years after paying a bundle to acquire music news and information pioneer SonicNet, Viacom-owned MTVi has pulled the plug on the Web radio network.
The streaming media play, which was co-founded by buddies Tim Nye and John M-risano as a bulletin board service for fans of modern rock, has had its share of corporate owners over the years.
Sasha Grey Interview
Sasha skipped a grade and was home-schooled, so she graduated early. She tried college and stripping before moving on to porn. She’s obviously smart, but talented as well. Already, there is a huge buzz in the industry about her. That’s odd, most girls have to wallow in obscurity for at least a month before there is some kind of adulation from on high in pornland. Sasha seems different.
...That’s when she dropped a bombshell on me…
“Do you have a steady boyfriend?”
“Yes, I do actually. We started dating Monday.”
“Do you think working in porn will affect your relationship?”
“You don’t let the business interfere with your personal life. And it is a business.”
Breach In Confidence
I have discovered that someone in my organization has been leaking information to Lurk Ford. That person has been fired.
I have made everyone in the company sign agreements (drafted by my Free Speech Coalition lawyer) that they will not talk with Lurk Ford, Gene Ross, clergy, or attorneys. It's the only way to protect myself against slander.
Where is Danni Ashe?
MrTee writes: "Luke, I heard that you asked the question 'Where is Danni Ashe'? Well, here is the email we all got from Misha (danni.com creative director) earlier this year with the half-assed answer to this mysterious question."
From: Misha Online
To: Video Bliss Inc Staff
Subject: Where is Danni Ashe?Hey, I just wanted to right a little note to everyone to let them know exactly what Danni Ashe’s involvement in the company is. Those of us that have been involved with Company for a long time, know Danni very well. Others, who have only been with us during the last year have not seen too much of her and may not be aware that she still consults on creative issues with me and Johno regularly.
As many of you know she is very active on the message boards…as well as meeting with me on a regular basis for updates about the company and upcoming projects. I seek Danni’s counsel a great deal when it comes to how maintain and improve upon the look and feel of Danni.com.
Many people in the industry are aware that Danni sold her company…but in actuality what Danni did was to bring in management and investment (Johno’s group from NY www.sunshinecompanies.com), someone who could run the company that she trusts, so she could step away to start a family and settle down in Montana while acting in a creative consulting capacity to me and the Company in general. Many of her opinions have impacted our decision making and the changes coming up this year…I’m looking forward to working with Danni even more come 2006.
That is Danni’s role and when anyone from the outside (models, vendors, freelancers, etc.) inquire, that should be what you tell them. As for subscribers, they need to feel that Danni’s involvement is 24/7.
I believe these allegations by Misha are nonsense. It seems clear to me that Danni.com employs people to impersonate Danni Ashe in their chatrooms and posting boards.
Felony Foreplay Interview
Felony Foreplay started off as a dancer in a club, now she is a feature dancer traveling around the country, putting on shows and entertaining her fans. The next step would be doing adult videos. Will she do it? She hasn’t decided yet, but there is ONE person who could give her the advice she needs, Jenna Jameson. Jenna, Should she do it, or not? She is waiting to hear from you!
AF: HI Felony. I hear you are in PITTSburgh! How is it?
FF: When I got in, I went and checked out the club and met some of the girls. I definitely love to travel and met new people. I am going to a Pirates Baseball game on Thursday. I’ve never been to an actual baseball game before.
AF: That sounds fun. So you like to travel, do you drive or fly?
FF: I mostly fly. I have driven to a few of my bookings but I live in Montana, so it is a long way.
AF: Tell me about Montana, that is somewhere I have always wanted to go.
FF: I live in Missoula. It is beautiful there. There is a lot of stuff you can do. I’m just not the outdoorsy, snowy person.
AF: Me either, I am from upstate New York. I hate snow.
FF: I love the beach and warmth and humidity, so it will be nice to get out of there. I am moving to Virginia Beach in November so I will be a little bit more central, so I will be able to drive to some gigs. Flying out of Montana is so expensive because we only have a few airlines.
AF: So you don’t mind the security and the delays and everything?
FF: I’m learning how to travel easier. I send all my feature stuff DHL, so I don’t have to worry about it. I don’t take a bunch of suitcases to the airport. So I am learning the tricks of the trade from other features I have talked to or just some of the bad things that have happened to me on the road.
AF: I get exhausted from traveling, changing time zones. I don’t know how you do it a couple weeks a month.
FF: Right now I am kind of exhausted because I have been on the road a lot. I don’t have any bookings after this one, so I can take a break.
AF: So what were you like in high school?
FF: I was honestly not very cute. I kind of matured into a woman, grown into my body and the way I look now.
AF: I think you are adorable. You look so young. You are the girl next-door type. In some ways you remind me of Felicia Foxx. Just naturally pretty, you don’t need a lot of makeup or big hair.
FF: I’ve seen some pictures of her, I am going to have to look her up.
AF: She has beautiful big real boobs.
FF: I don’t. I definitely had to pay for mine. I had a really bad car accident and one of them broke and they made me wait a whole year to get it fixed.
AF: You had to go a year with only one?
FF: The implant was still there, but it was slowly leaking. I had to wear tight fitted under wires to keep things looking okay. I still danced the year that my breast was broken. I still had to wait for four years to get my money.
AF: So what did you want to be when you were a kid?
FF: I don’t remember. I always wanted to be, and I still want to be an even coordinator. I have a severe case of OCD and I am very organized. I don’t want other people to make the plans. I always have to make the plans. So being an event planner is something I will be working on in the next year or two. Maybe get a couple clients and do some parties here and there and still feature.
AF: If you could have any superpower what would it be?
FF: I wouldn’t want to be invisible because I want people to see me. I’d probably want to fly.
AF: I would too. That would be my choice for sure. What made you become a stripper?
FF: I was eighteen. I was babysitting for one of the dancers. I went to an amateur night. It made me sick to my stomach. I threw up after I did it. I didn’t win. And then about two weeks later I went back and did it again. The money was so good. I didn’t leave.
AF: How did you go from being a stripper to a feature?
FF: I practiced a lot at my home club in Missoula and entered a contest Miss beauty Exotic Nights of Montana and Skylar Daze was there. And that’s when I decided I wanted to be a feature and changed my name and slowly progressed over a year until I got an agent and then did a showcase. And then I went on from there. I hit a lot of bumps in the road, but it’s going as smooth as I could wish it to.
AF: How did you pick your name?
FF: I was on a long drive to a contest. I used to dance by Chantal, and there was already a Chantilly Lace. So I wanted something crazy and wild, that people will remember me by, so I had danced with a girl named Felony, and I loved that name, so I tried a bunch of last names that would go with it and thought up Foreplay and that was it.
AF: Because of your name, I have to ask; how many times have you been arrested felony?
FF: Zero.
AF: How many times have the cops let you go when you should have gotten a ticket?
FF: Uhmmmm Maybe five times.
AF: What is the wildest sex you ever had?
FF: With a cop.
AF: (Both crack up) So that’s how you got out of the ticket!
FF: I met him in Vegas and fell in love with him. He came up for my birthday. We had incredible sex for hours. When I woke up my clothes were everywhere throughout the house.
AF: Who would you like to meet that you haven’t yet?
FF: I would love to meet Jenna. She really inspires me. I’ve never been all that interested in porn, until I read her book. You don’t pick up a book and laugh and cry at the same time. She is a woman with a lot of strength and courage. And her and I are so much alike it kills me. I’m not a stalker, crazy about her. I’d just like to sit down and have a cup of coffee with her and pick her brain.
AF: Have you done soft-core?
FF: No. I’ve had a letter for Jenna for a couple years and I was thinking of sending it to her on myspace and hopefully she reads her stuff and I can meet her sometime. If I were ever going to do videos I would be a Vivid girl and be contracted to Jenna, and no one else.
AF: Well maybe you will run into Jenna at a show. They are more relaxing shows are down here in Florida. Vegas is so hectic and busy. What are the best and the worst things about featuring?
FF: The best thing is that you get treated like an entertainer and you get to travel and be independent. The worst thing is when you get bit on your breast.
AF: Oh my GOD! That has happened to you?
FF: Just recently down in Houston. I beat him up though.
AF: My first reaction would be a huge slap across the face.
FF: Oh yeah, I beat him up pretty good. I try to control myself but it was so hard down there and so frustrating because I don’t speak any Spanish, and that’s all they speak down there. I couldn’t understand them.
AF: So what did you do to this scum-bag? I punched him in the head and then security kicked him out. Another bad thing about featuring is airport drama.
AF: When they go through your wardrobe and pull out stuff? Yes. They pull out baby wipes and paints and g-strings, it’s kind of funny because they are embarrassed.
IVD (International Video Distributors)
David at MyPornoReview.com writes:
Hey luke, IVD is so powerful and such the 800lb gorilla in the porn distribution business that I have been trying to get set up as a wholesaler for my brick and mortar video store for over 3 weeks and not a person has return my calls.
Luke, Clean Up Your Act
Drew Rosenfeld, head of production at LFP, writes:
Luke, you really need to be a bit more responsible about the things you post. You need to get your facts right and be sure that the information you post is correct. You never know who you may be insulting, and in this case (Suzanne Shumway story) you really come off like a piece of shit for posting this garbage. I find some of the things you post entertaining and in some cases informative. This story however, is just plain malice. Almost like you get off on it. Clean up you act and grow up.
Don Lemmon Obituary
From the Las Vegas Review Journal:
Donald Edward Lemmon, Jr., age 37, died in a single car accident outside of Las Vegas, June 10, 2006. He was born Sept. 4, 1968, in Newton Falls, Ohio, to Donald Edward, Sr. and Laura Pearl Weimer Lemmon. On Dec. 19, 2003, he married Asia Carrera in Koolina, Hawaii.
Donald grew up in Ohio. He served in the U.S. Army, then moved back to Ohio working as a personal trainer. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in a rock band. There Donald found success with a nutritional web site and he became a nutritionist and personal trainer. He was also a published science fiction author. Donald was a devoted husband and a loving father.
Survivors include his wife, Asia; one daughter from his first marriage, Carly of Ohio; one daughter from his second marriage, Catalina of St. George, Utah; one soon to be born son, Donald Edward Lemmon, III; mother, Laura of Ohio; one brother, Jeff Lemmon; and four half sisters and one half brother. Private family services will be held. Arrangements were under the direction of Moapa Valley Mortuary.
Cliff notes video of BrookeSkye and Melissa Midwest incident
For those who don't have time or can't download the whole thing. We put together all the important parts. This is not "proof" that melissa did anything wrong, but it's clear to see how many times Brooke dropped the "act" and asked to end this and was not allowed. Even you concede biggie, that Brooke was hurt during this incident. Melissa (who has a much larger body type) said there is no way she could take it.
A Fittingly Modest Proposal - Tax Asia Carrera!
A friend posts:
Most truly do I agree with your readers who decry $ demands by "AC" In fact, we could synthesize a lot of current issues by modifying Mary Carey's 2003 campaign promise to tax breast implants: instead we should TAX PORN BULLs---!
AC used the schtick for years that she belongs to MENSA, plays piano, whatever. So what happened with her alleged brain that she did not have life insurance, retirement savings? [lots of porners & strippers do not even have car insurance] How appropriate that her ex hobby "Bud Lee" says people should donate: where's his $$$? Isn't one of the kids his? Does he pay child support?
The porn bulls--- tax could raise a lot of revenue. Supposedly Tricia Devereaux had med school plans b4 hooking up with Stagliano & her medical knowledge got her AIDS. Supposedly [Nina Hartley] Marie Lousie Hartman Carr Levine has a nursing degree from SFSU [has anyone ever seen it?] And a few AIDS scandals ago she came out fully sucking up to the porn powers opposing condoms because "I hate latex"
Tax money could also flow from the many wannabe Porn to Rock acts from Hyapatia Lee to Midori to Kendra Jade, not to mention the Kerkoves, Bill Margold, etc. Mary Carey could use it in her new campaign and set a prime example by paying up her share from the phony lines about having natural breasts, not doing drugs, multiple dramatic breakups, Harold selling insurance and mortgages, and so on and so on and so on. Whoever gets elected governor could appoint Luke to chair the Porn Bulls--- Tax Equalization Board. No worries about car tax increases ever again.
Ira Levine (Nina Hartley's husband) writes:
Hi Luke,
Since you seem to prefer facts to flat-out lies as a rule, I thought I might take a moment to clarify some assertions regarding Nina Hartley made by a so-called friend of yours (whose splenetic style and general viciousness aren't hard to recognize).
What he said: "Supposedly [Nina Hartley] Marie Lousie Hartman Carr Levine has a nursing degree from SFSU [has anyone ever seen it?] And a few AIDS scandals ago she came out fully sucking up to the porn powers opposing condoms because "I hate latex""
The truth:
Since this individual has taken the time to assemble Nina's full legal name history from public record sources, he might also check out the public record proof that she obtained her nursing degreee from SFSU in the graduating class of 1985. She still has her diploma and the registrar's office there retains her complete academic history.
She did not "suck up to the porn powers by opposing condoms" during the 2004 HIV controversy. She has been and continues to be a strong supporter of condom use in porn, as anyone who has ever seen the Porn 101 tape (which she co-narrates) shown to new performers getting their initial tests at AIM would know. She did speak at the legislative hearing investigating the 2004 episode in opposition to an ill-conceived plan to institute mandatory condom use by law because she felt it would actually have led to increased STD risks for performers, not because she "hates latex." The minutes of that hearing are also public record.
If there is a tax to be assessed on the dissemination of lies and false claims made in the realm of porn, whoever sent you the missive you posted ought to be the first to pay up.
My friend responds: "I never read the 2004 thing to which IRA refers [by then I had long since lost interest. in her pronouncements] but it falls 10 years, and how many lives? too late respecting here earlier statements to which I referred. Margold has stated "Nina wants the glory of acting as a spokeman for the industry almost as much as I do." That begs the question on what he meant by "spokeman" -- as a leader or as a paid shill? A leader should lead and hold themselves accountable. As a paid shill I guess she does OK."
Fred writes me:
Who wrote the post on your website re taxing Ms. Carrera and expressing doubt about Ms. Hartley's academic credentials? Obviously, one is generally skeptical about claims by porn stars re academic credentials, but I always suspected that Ms. Hartley's claim to a nursing degree from SF State was believable (particularly since it is not exactly a degree from Harvard in nuclear physics). Did you think that this piece was a bit below the belt (in light of Ms. Carrera's current woes)?
Layne Thr-sher Fan Art
Susie Bright writes:
Hi, Luke! I had to giggle when I saw your photos that you posted of Layne Thr-sher in all his cheese ball shirt off glory. I got inspired and made you some fan art I hope you will post! Part Layne, part Danni Ashe!
She's doing girl-girl and solo work. She's shooting for Holly Randall.
A Melancholy Chat With An Old-Time Pornographer
Porner: "In my job, I get to flex my creative muscle by finding new ways to say anal."
Luke: "You don't make degrading porn."
Porner: "Some hold that any porn is degrading."
Yes, me, along the lines that all jokes degrade somebody. There's always a victim in a joke and there are always victims in porn, such as the girl getting the money shot (I don't care how empowered she says it makes her feel). I'm not claiming I am on higher ground. Many of my stories and interviews degrade their subjects. Just ask Eric Mittleman how he feels after Tuesday's lunch.
Porner: "Is porn a catalyst [for bad behavior] or a catharsis? I could've straddled the fence in the early days and argued either way. These days I feel like digging up Andrea Dworking and saying you were right. Things such as Donkey Punch are just violence against women masquerading as sexual entertainment. We are appealing to pedophiles and rapists. That wasn't true 15 years ago. We weren't making Barely Legal, Legal Pink, Teeny Bopper, girls with lollipops. We were making dingdong blonde girls with big tits. Maybe that pornography was the gateway drug to the logical end result -- the glorification of pedophilia and rape."
Yeah, well, what do you think your "harmless" porn was appealing to? The best in human nature? The work of Steve Hirsch, Holly Randall, Khan Tusion and David Clark has more in common with each other than it does with real moviemakers such as Woody Allen and John Cassavetes.
David Clark writes:
Well, gee, in this sense that none of us have presumably ever had an affair with our underage adopted daughter behind our wife's back, you're absolutely right. But I bet there's a pretty good chance Allen has wacked off to some or all of our porn. Which in the grand scheme of things makes none of our hands, uh, clean. Sometimes the reductivity of your stridently self-congratulatory moralism becomes just a tad insulting, oh "celebrity blogger."
Porner: "The stuff that I was aghast about ten years ago is now run of the mill."
Luke: "Rob Black and Jeff Steward."
Porner: "It's not the indictment. It's the trial. I don't think they realize what they are in for."
LFP Update
A source writes (and I emailed June 14 Angel and Susanne and did not receive a response):
The latest in the continuing saga of LFP is that Susanne Shermway, a mid-level employee who manages the one or two girls under contract, has been making overtures to colleagues that if you really want anything to get done at LFP she is the person who can get the green light.
This from an employee who has allegedly made reference that she has Liz Flynt wrapped around her little finger and that she can do no wrong with Larry. Her recent bragging rights include the firing of talent coordinator Marie. According to one source, Shermway added: "It is just a matter of time before I will be managing all aspects of talent. Liz hears from me that the two (now one) drunken slobs who deal with talent need to go. So watch and see I promise they will go."
"This is the easiest job I have ever had all you need to do is look cute for Larry and it is not that difficult to get Liz on your side. She needs constant praise and as long as I continue to let her think she is the genius I will run this place if I wanted to. I spend more time doing things I think will get me where I need to go. It takes very little effort to make sure the tramps Larry is shooting are behaving."
Quick to throw her corporate counterparts to the wolves, it is not uncommon to get Ms. Shermway to offer up her scathing opinions regarding the other talent managers with the company or anyone else for that matter. "I cannot believe Liz still donates to the charity of the overweight miserable team who show up to work still drunk and smelling like B.O. no wonder we cannot land any real talent for this company."
Apparently Ms. Shermway has laid claim to having significant influence with major directions for the company and has been forthright about her opinion that her relationship with Liz will only cement her future with climbing the ladder in the organization. Shermway started off as a temp and was answering phones for Mike Klein who runs Hustler TV where she has also made bold statements regarding her contributions in the success of her former boss and his role with LFP.
An inside tip: If there is business to be done with LFP the person who seems to think they are the new Sheriff is Susanne Shermway. As one source stated: "If you worked at Hustler and you showed up everyday looking like talent trying to look like you have money when you make less than 45k a year perhaps you could get the ear of Larry too."
The tacky 30 something walks around with an air of superiority. If this is the future of LFP an over made up gossip monger who looks like a cheap hooker trying to look expensive than it will be yet another fatal move by the czar of the industry. I am sure the way she attacks Angel who has been a veteran of LFP for several years and has singlehandedly kept the talent pool flowing would be happy to offer an opinion.
A Terrible Mistake
Today I received a list from a guy I know in the business who received it from a guy he knows (names omitted). The list probably has at least 2000 E-Mails or more but I still went through it with a fine tooth comb to take the hundred or so E-Mails that I already have. It was supposed to be a list of adult companies so I started copying and pasting the E-mails a chunk at a time with my pics and stats. Of course most of them weren't usable anymore so I got plenty of failed messages and hour E-Mail limits. Some people contacted back to ask for my rate and availability and some replied back with take me off your f---ing list you scumbag. I also got advice (as if I didn't know) to use to B.C.C. feature so everyone couldn't see who I was sending E-Mail to but I'm sure they have to be on your list to do that as I was just copying and pasting.
But what shocked the living hell out of me and damn near took my breath away is when I received a call from a very angry fellow who claimed that I sent his nine year old daughter that same E-Mail with my two naked pics. The first thought in my mind was why the f--- would a nine year old's E-Mail address be on an adult mailing list? The second thought was jail, so after reading this I'm sure everyone knows that this wasn't intentional as though I were stalking someones prepubescent daughter. I'm not a f---ing sick ass pedophile and I tried apologizing to the guy several times for the mix-up but he was heated as most people should be, I know I would. The first thing though is trying to get to the bottom of a situation and not just overreacting. He was telling me how much trouble I could get in etc. but I'm not so sure do to the circumstances. After I got off the phone with this gentlemen I called the guy who sent the list to me and told him what happened. He was shocked too and had not utilized the list himself as he was planning on going through it next week.
I know that there are several others who have the list as well but I don't know which E-Mail belongs to this guy's daughter and I would not want them to go through the same headache that I'm going through. I tried to call the gentleman back and his voice message picked up. The name on that message sounded familiar so I went through a list of contacts and found a director by that name who works for one of the biggest adult companies in the United States Period (name also withheld at present time). It's starting to make sense now if this is indeed the guy. I think that he tries to keep his personal life separated from his work as everyone should but sometimes they cross paths unexpectedly. I don't know how but it's just too much of a coincidence for him to be a director of adult material and his daughter's E-mail address just happens to land on someone's adult industry list. Although it may very well be his fault I still feel bad about the situation and have abandoned the list as there may be more mix-ups on it. I still can't help but to think that if he were to press charges that the courts may see the situation differently. I don't have any expertise in the area of law so I appreciate any feed back that anyone could give me at xtreme_talent81@yahoo.com thanks to all and be careful in this in this industry it's ruthless.
"Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation" P.E.A.C.E.!
Donny Long writes: "thats a wild story, but its sounds like to me that you got a director pissed off at your spam emails and is scaring you out of sending any more. think about it your story does not make any scence if you told me a father of a nine year old called is one thing but a director that has a nine year old i dont think so."
Director Michael Payne Blogs
I hate Los Angeles; the city of greed, adultery, and hypocrisy. The plastic city, the fabricated city of light. Sodom and Gommorah; and yet, looks like I perfectly fit in here; a nomad, a vagabond, a freak like me can fit in here, can hide in here, among so many faces, in so many places; and perhabs for one second, he can forget who he is, where does he come from, and what horrible things he has seen. like I said, I hate Los Angeles, it's so beautiful. I'm from a different place though, a different world, poles apart. I was born and raised in a ghetto in Armenia, one of the 15 soviet socialist republics of the former USSR. back there when I was a kid, a chocolate candy was a hard to get piece of heaven, and a used comic book was the most precious thing you could ever have, even though you couldn't even read the damn english words. it was natural for me and my generation to grow up with so much hatred and anger towards whatever and whoever we believed was responsible for our suffering: the government. I did what I believed was right, I joined a resistance group to fight against the government, to fight for freedom, and to build a better world. in April 1991, I was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured by the KGB for 9 months; and in December 1991, I walked out of the prison, and into a new world: The Soviet Union was dissolved, the communist government had failed, and the long dream of the better world was replaced by the grim and fearful reality of poverty, hunger, and civil war. I wanted to believe that things will change, that there is light at the end of the long tunnel; I tried to believe, and I failed. I left my country in 1994, and became a nomad with no home and no one and nothing to belong to. I traveled all across the Europe, and ended in Amsterdam; where I entered the underworld of pornography. at that time, I was 29 years old, and my faith in humanity, and the dreams of tomorrow were long gone. I wanted to open the door to my demons and embrace them, I wanted to indulge myself in something more carnal, more real, something that I could put my finger on; I wanted to get lost in the spare of the moment, and celebrate the truth of being mortal, the truth that I will die one day, and after that, nothing matters. and perhabs that's why I moved to Los Angeles. I am so many things, the revolutionary who lost his faith, the nomad, the clerk at the convenient store at the Paris's suburbans, the jobless man in Vienna, and the pornographer. in your eyes, perhabs one more disgrace to human society; I am a pig. too bad I no longer care.
Black Widow Productions Launches Talent Agency
I'm told they are just one of five licensed talent agents in porn along with Derek Hay of LA Directo Models, Seymore Butts of Lighthouse Entertainment, Tera Patrick, and I think World Modeling.
David at MyPornoReview.com writes me:
Out of the 5 agencies you stated that had licenses only 3 have them. LA Direct & Black Widow does not have a license. Check for yourself.
If Black Widow Talent wants to make a good first impression, take their template design by a 5th grader website down. Sometimes its better to not have a website up than to have one looking like that especially when they have only one.
Before Black Widow owner Ric Williams got into porn, he owned a mainstream talent agency. Over the years, he kept getting calls from his acquaintances in mainstream who wanted to book a porn star for their mainstream shoots. Ric figured he should get paid for it.
Moni Michaels is the first signed talent. Some contract girls should be signing for mainstream representation.
Mallou is still a Black Widow contract girl but she's not doing porn while she's with her boyfriend. They break up intermittently and she does some porn.
Adam Glasser aka Seymore Butts writes me:
here's the bottom line to this whole agency controversy cause the "s--- will hit the fan" eventually... david is correct, there are only 3 agencies catering to adult production companies that are licensed and bonded. mine, lighthouse talent, is one of them! obviously, alot of performers believe they are being represented by an agent and are not. the main difference between an agent and a "manager" is an agent is allowed to seek and procure work for its clients and a "manager" is not. performers being repped by unlicensed agents can run into problems a few ways including...when a dispute arises between performer and production company, an unlicensed agent is virtually powerless to help, leaving the performer to fight on her own. also, when a dispute arises between performer and "agent" the remedies available to the performer are greatly reduced and more time consuming. while it's a grey area legally, some will argue that under the right circumstances, production companies that hire talent from agencies they know or should have known were unlicensed, could be opening themselves up to legal action. unfortunately, i have been guilty of this up until recently, having assumed some agencies to be licensed without doing any homework. the good news is that performers who feel they have been wronged by unlicensed agents can recover every dime in commissions taken from them by the "agent" simply by filing a claim with the department of labor enforcement...6150 van nuys blvd. room 206/ 818 901 5315...you don't need to hire a lawyer and it won't cost you a dime! one other thing that i think has gotten "lost in the shuffle"...agents work for the performers, not vice versa! an agent cannot "fire" a performer!
Don't Be Pretentious
Dave writes me:
Taking your conversations with Holly Randall and putting them on your site is one thing. But when you take them, make sarcastic commentary about what she says and then place your morality standards on these casual conversations between two friends makes you look like the fool that you clearly are. Your position about pornography is clear and basically on the money as I see it. It's bad for most involved and continues to progressively get more vile with Max Hardcore's sickening legacy influencing the hardcore regions of the industry. But to say Holly Randall is bringing girls to porn, to sell their souls, destroying their lives is a falsity in almost every way. Eighteen or nineteen year old girls are the most driven, stubborn people on this earth. They will do what they want and in anyway they want, so talking them out of it is not really a realistic option. So what do you suggest? Holly shouldn't look for new models? So those models should go and meet with filmmakers who will do DPing films with her? Gag her? Spit on her? Whatever it takes for the girl to make it? She shouldn't get professional pictures done by a genuinely nice human being with actual talent? (Yes she takes pictures of naked women but the way she does it takes talent clearly). You sit their in your highchair making judgments on all but never define a realistic solutions to the problems with the porn industry. You can say Holly should take different kinds of pictures, or that porn should be banned and erased from the minds of all, but it won't happen. Porn is here forever, we want it in the same way we want drugs, prostitutes, or a glass of ice cold Coca Cola. All bad for us, but is embedded into our culture. Holly Randall is a buffer to the harsh realities of the industry. The sooner you realize this, the better off you will be. I'm a fan of your writing but you discredit yourself when you become pretencious and immature. Please don't get angry with me and take this as it is, one man's opinion. A man who found your site through Holly Randall's name. She clearly made you, don't let her break you.
"They refuse to deliver anything on time," grouses a pornographer about porn's cheapest replicator. "Nor do they provide anything resembling customer service. They make us miss release dates. They don't care. They give everybody the same bad treatment. Perhaps they've priced themselves so low that they are not able to afford competent customer service.
"There's an attitude among the people who work for L&M -- they're passive aggressive. You'll tell them a title you particularly need replicated and you'll get the titles you weren't in a hurry for and the title you begged them for, it just doesn't come. There's something weird and dysfunctional there.
"There's an attitude among the staff that customers are a nuisance while the putative owner Danni Skura (has an Asian business partner named David) is out hustling for business even though they can't handle what they have now.
"Danni has a slovenly appearance. He wears shorts and a dirty t-shirt. He's enigmatic.
"Maybe L&M has more demand than output ability?
"Effie, the plant manager, is an Israeli. He's a jerk.
"How is L&M 30% cheaper than anyone else? Because they don't pay the licensing fee that other replicators do? I'd guess they skimp on customer service."
They are the quintessence of a low-overhead operation. Sometimes they have machines replicating in the parking lot. Sometimes they have not had their customer records on the computer. It's on cards.
Futureworks (owner Jonathan Resnick) is purported to be as cheap as L&M. It is based in New York but has a West Coast branch and is reputed to have a DVD replication facility in China.
Email jeff_rosen@adelphia.net for more information.
Holly Randall Bestows Her Favors Upon Poor And Broke Alike
Like her mother before her, Holly supports a string of us broke and broken writers.
The young Miss Randall lives to bestow her favors upon those most in need. (For about six months now I've been sucking at the tit of suze.net and never missing an opportunity to plunder Suze's eldest daughter.) Nothing makes Holly happier than to give to others (though if her lentil casserole does not turn out as she intended, she'd rather you not blog about it).
After a week of icy silence, Holly calls me back around noon Wednesday.
She's in a good mood. "I wasn't going to talk to you anymore," she begins, "but I can't stay mad."
I was hasty and harsh in my writings a week ago about Holly's chosen field. At the time, I did not appreciate how Holly and company were giving young damsels in distress a marvelous opportunity to advance their social status through disrobing on camera and doing increasingly audacious things with other girls and boys and inanimate objects.
"I just snagged myself a new girl before any other photographer got her," she says.
"Yay!" I croak.
"I got a big lecture about how we need to get new girls first. And why are competitors shooting new girls before us."
Holly wants to help young women move ahead in life by shedding their outdated notions of morality. Holly has a newfound zealousness in helping these girls before anyone else can get to them. Holly doesn't want these girls to clutter up the welfare state or community college. Holly just wants the opportunity to first capture for immortality their inner beauty.
As her mom Suze (through her husband Humphry) wrote so memorably in her 1978 book Suze:
...But while doing my special version of the Charleston that September night [at the Playboy mansion], every now and then flashing a sexual lightning bolt, for perhaps five minutes I felt I was at the center of the world. Eclipsed stars stared, beauties gawked, caught off balance between delight and disapproval. Tongues froze, feet stopped. I was all the girls who'd ever danced on a table. I was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. I was a fantasy of sex and success come true. I was sexess.
Holly: "She's shot [for a couple of magazines and a catalogue] but for none of our competitors."
Luke: "Who are your competitors? I did not think you had competitors. Holly, you have no competition."
Holly talks about flying the girl out from the East Coast, a definite violation of the Mann Act (which prohibits the interstate transportation of people for immoral purposes).
Luke: "I got an IM last night that I had created a monster. That nobody had heard of you till I started writing about you and now there are all these threads on XPT about your evolving eroticism.
"I made you and I can break you."
Holly: "Harumph. Nobody thought you were a decent person until I let you hang around me. I made you.
"I want you to meet Bonnie."
Luke: "Who's Bonnie?"
It's Holly's new dog.
Holly writes on XPT about Ceara Lynch: "LOL, I love it... yeah I know she won't do porn, I already tried."
I email Holly: "So how does it make you feel when you try to talk girls into doing porn?"
All I receive in reply is an icy silence.
Holly emails: "I was kidding-- it was a misunderstanding where I thought she did hardcore (since I saw her pics taken at the JM offices) but I was mistaken. You know I never try to talk anyone into doing anything they aren't comfortable with."
What about the night you asked me to tie you up (or was it to pick up the check)?
"Oh you're different. I don't treat you as delicately as I do a little flower like Ceara. And quit being such a pussy."
Tara writes: "What did Holly do with her old dog, Poe? Why did she get rid of it? It was cute."
Holly still has Poe. Now Poe has someone to play with. Bonnie has the opposite personality of Poe. She's calm.
The Truth Behind Asia Carrera's Money Situation
Da Burglar writes June 14, 2006:
Asia is definitely BROKE. Here's the deal: Her husband, before he died, struggled to keep money away from Asia due to Asia's Gambling Addiction, which according to the little bird is "severe." Over the years ASIA completely pissed away the money she made in PORN.
One anecdotal story relates how at AVN, Asia typically had an "escort" or attendant whose job it was to ensure ASIA did not hit the Gambling tables while at the AVN awards.
Ceara Lynch - The Non-Porn Star
I'm still shocked and confused at the amount of attention I've got just for being some chick into porn. Or why anyone cares at all whether I decide to be a dirty cum sponge or not. I know some people don't. And that's fine, I don't blame them. Its not like there's a shortage of whores out there. I just have this weird fixation with porn. Not because it turns me on, because porn stopped doing that about 3 months into working at a smut shop 40 hours a week. I love porn that makes me laugh or shows me something Ive never seen before. I find a lot of entertainment in watching a girl use her body like a cum guzzling meat puppet. And yeah, Im usually watching it with a burning curiosity of what it must be like to be a performer. But I've been keeping a safe distance from it and have remained fairly content in my naive conception about what it's really like to DP on film.
Part of me thinks that if I go any further than I have I'm going to wonder pretty quickly why I was so attracted to it in the first place. The other part of me is a dirty uninhibited attention whore dying to exploit my orifices for all theyre worth. I dont know. I dont really match the profile of your typical porn whore; parents have always loved and supported me, happy childhood, no history of molestation, ability to maintain lasting and monogamous relationships. I guess all I can really say is don't hold your breath. I probably wont ever f--- on film (for money anyway), but I cant get myself to say never. I know if I ever do I'll probably find myself calling Jeff Steward, crying whilst confessing that my soul is broken and Im ready to work for him.
Isabel Ice Says She's A Normal Person
The word 'dating' in the UK is different than in America. From my understanding 'dating' in the US is a casual term for people who 'hang out'? Is that true? and then you go on to become 'exclusive' (information gathered from watching too many episodes of Saved by the Bell as a youngster) I have a boyfriend, and we love each other, and we do normal things together, the same as any other couple, we just work in the industry. I can only talk about myself, but I feel like a 'normal' person, whatever that is. Other than my job, I still behave in a socially acceptable mannor. I went to school, I don't swear in front of my mum and dad, my biggest fear is growing old lonely, or dissapointing the 'folks beond repair... all pretty normal 'aspirations' if you will... so why would my dating be different? Probably, it's difficult for some people to understand, because they can't separate love from sex, which is cool, but in general, yes, porners have feelings too, and fall in love too...
Cody Bangs from Digital Playground writes:
Yes, there are plenty of girls in porn who are looking for love, want kids and have a family of their own. I think a majority of the outside public have a problem separating love and sex. Believe it or not, some girls in porn as pretty as they are, they have a problem finding guys to date. And it's not because something is wrong with these girls either other than if you consider having sex with others wrong in a relationship. For example, I know of one ex-porn girl who his guy left her of 10 years because he can't handle the fact she was involved in an interracial scene with two black guys in a scene. So it can be tough for porn stars to find true love.
Mia Rose Gets A Nose Job Saturday Morning
I call her June 14, 2006.
As a kid, she wanted to be a photographer or writer.
What happened to those dreams?
"The photographer is still there. I want to be like Suze. I'm a closet writer. I write short horror stories."
Luke: "What crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"
Mia: "My sister. We were the sluts that nobody talked to because we were f---ing people outside of highschool. We just had each other."
Mia first had sex at 13. "It was my sister Ava's fault. She told me she had lost her virginity. I thought, 'I have to be just like you.' I said, 'Alan, take my virginity.' He did. I came home that night and found out she never lost her virginity [not until she was 16]."
Mia says she had 98 lovers by the time she turned 18.
Luke: "You have a really small mouth."
Mia: "But I give some of the best head in the world."
Luke: "Were you a good student in highschool?"
Mia: "I was extremely smart. I accelerated. I could sit there and tell the teachers what to do. I graduated a year early with my GED."
Roy G-rcia found Ava and Mia on MySpace and got them into porn.
"I hate him. He was three hours late picking me up for my second scene, a DP for Chico [Wang]. He yelled at me like I was a little kid. I hung up the phone and haven't talked to him since.
"My sister and I wanted the best. Every scene we went to, we heard about LA Direct. So we did. Derek is tough. He's a businessman. But he knows what he's doing."
Luke: "What's your relationship like with your sister?"
Mia: "She's my best friend. Without her, I would die. Without me, she would die."
They're competing against each other in American Sex Star.
Luke: "Did you lose any friends when you became a porn star?"
Mia: "I found out who my friends were. I was always an outcast. I'm really shy. I can get naked in front of 50,000 people and dance around but I can't start a conversation with one of them."
Luke: "It sounds like you did lose some friends when you entered this industry?"
Mia: "Yeah. And I don't even know why.
"My mother just found out. She supports us."
Luke: "How did your dad react?"
Mia: "He doesn't know. He's a pervert. I'm sure he's watching porn online and he'll find us one day. I don't really need to tell him. He's a very sexual person.
"Do you even laugh, Luke?"
Brothers Frank And Michael Koretsky Of IVD (International Video Distributors)
A porner tells me: "The brains of IVD is Michael Koretsky. He's the lawyer. You never see him in the spotlight or at a show. He operates behind the scenes. Frank is the front guy, the showman, the salesman, the workaholic. Both of them stay in New Jersey."
Asia Carrera Mourns Her Husband Don Lemmon
06/14 - Talked to the mortuary people about writing up the obituary (how do I fit a life as full and wonderful as Don's into just a few short sentences? The obit will be woefully inadequate I'm afraid, esp given my weak state of mind when he was asking me questions. But it will have to do, I guess.) When I looked at the prices for urns and keepsake jewelry for the loved one's ashes, I fliped out at the prices. Did you ever see "The Big Lebowski", where they want to bury their buddy Donny (!) but everything is just so expensive they wind up putting his ashes in a Folger's coffee can and tossing them off a cliff. I was pretty close to doing that myself... $220 for a little gold locket, $470 for a small wooden jewelry box... jeez, kick 'em while they're down, why don't ya... I finally settled on a green and brown box with wooden pineapples carved into it, to remind us both of the happy times we shared in Hawaii. Maybe when I die, one of our kids can spread our ashes out together in one of the KoOlina lagoons in Hawaii. If I do have and keep this baby in my belly (I was contemplating adoption at a forlorn moment of despair) I am thinking I want to change the baby's name from Devin to Don. He will be Donald Edward Lemmon III in respect to his father and grandfather, who Don loved very much. It's the least I could do. I feel like it's going to be a long long time before I can get through a day without collapsing in tears about every half hour. I hear it does get easier... doesn't feel like it yet though.
Mia Rose Not Gay For Pay
She emails:
Maybe this is not complealing and / or important, but I just want to point out how I feel about some things... Why I am writing you? Because EVERYONE and their geriatric mothers read your site like the bible. "including myself."
I have been getting emails says "Why don't you do girls Mia? Do you plan on doing it in the future?" Soo, here is that answer..."even though, you Luke, probally don't want to hear it."
Sorry... I do not "do" females because I am straight. Because I love penis. Honest to god.... I can not get off from a women. I have tryed, they "girls" have tryed." I am just not turned on by women. I do not hate women. In fact, I would PREFER to see a women naked over a man. Women are BEAUTIFUL... Men, eh not so much. depending on the guy. I am hoping to expand my horizens in the future and be a photographer. Mrs. Randalls pictures inspired me in fact. So why can't I be gay for pay? Suck it up? Because it is
1.) unfair to the girls who really enjoy being with other girls. "honestly ladies how many times have you got to set for a GG and the other girl was so anti GG that it turned you off to look at her" Not good.
2.) Unfair to Directors, ALL of you want a AMAZING drop dead award winning scene.... I know I can't preform at fullest unless I have a sexaul attraction to the other person. Even if its just a smidge.
3.) unfair to myself. I "for the most part" have figured out that I am MOSTLY internal orgasm only.... "I am young this could change" I want my scenes to be real... I can't fake that. No matter how beautiful the other irl is.
4.) Unfair to the consumer..... They want real. Dominatrix, Barely Legal, face f---ing, DPs, reg ol sex, something has to be simi real... "Or maybe I dug myself a hole with that one."
Las Vegas Escort 'Roxy' Died Last October?
Da Burglar, my guest blogger in early January, wrote about her here.
Getting Paid For Your Cable Sales
A porn company owner tells me: "You can sell a title to the TEN network for $10,000 but it will take you almost a year to get paid. You can sell your title to Playboy for $18,000 but they will demand worldwide right and also take about a year to pay you.
"Many distributors have catalogues. Let's say they order 50 pieces of your every title. Then they send you an email: 'We are about to do our catalogue. Advertising spaces are available. We expect you to advertise.' If you don't advertise, they'll cut their orders from 50 to five.
"With overseas rights, there's so much fraud, theft and piracy, you just want to sell your rights to a territory such as the UK or Australia or Europe. You're going to get your money upfront. If somebody pirates you, it becomes the responsibility of the person who bought your rights.
"The major companies that buy rights in Europe are Pabu (the equivalent of Adam & Eve), Private, Playhouse (Germany)...
"The biggest piracy problem today is not so much in replication but the internet. Almost anybody can rip a DVD on the computer and upload it to the web as a .wmv file.
"When a line starts to die, and doesn't generate sales, you bury it and start a new one."
Kevin Korey writes:
What's really funny about what is paid out for cable rights is that it's basicaly the same numbers as in '97. It would be REALLY nice to see what is made off pay-per-view, hotel feeds etc..I bet this is where the billion $ numbers come from. If the industry had some way of unionizing it's producers/directors and talent, there would be a force that could help regulate these numbers. I mean, come on guys, $18,000 for INTERNATIONAL rights?? The profits off that have to be amazing! I bet it wouldn't hurt them a bit to pay $50k+ for cable rights...even profit sharing...but nothing will ever change when the entire industry is a cluster f--- of undercutters and thieves. There are some very bright business men/women in the industry but they are helpless to the rat race. Focus on building unions, give people a reason to be members...talent=free testing, producers/directors= scale rates and I bet you can help control profits. I kow the union thing has been beat up over the years...but it's time already.
The Ballad of Heather Mills & Patti Petite
With porny shots and risqué revelations multiplying faster than our crack staff could post them, we began to feel sorry for Paul McCartney’s naughty and nasty estranged Heather Mills. Almost.
Until we Googled “one-legged porn starlet” and happened upon the sad story of poor Patti Petite.
From
1985 to 1990, Patti was a very active porn star, blazing her way through
dozens of X-rated films and videos like A Star Is Porn, Behind The Back
Door, Bi’ and Large and Best of Rambone (hey, they put “Strawberry Feels
Forever” and “Abbey Rude” to shame)According to the lively Excalibur Films website, Patti, like Heather Mills, “was one of the most rough and ready of all the 80's porno strumpets” and “a tenacious sexual athlete.”
Like
Heather, her “…blonde hair framed a striking face, a vivacious visage whose
sensual leers could raise the dead.”Like Heather in her photo shoots, and allegedly in her relations with old Beatle Paul, “Patti always brought tons of full-throttle energy to her on-screen sexing… Her passion and enthusiasm were palpable, and she especially liked it when things were at their wildest…”
And tragically, like Heather, Patti Petite’s sexy shoot paydays were cut short, when in 1988, “she got into a car wreck while driving with fellow pornstress Tiffany Lane. Tiffany Lane died in the carnage, while Patti Petite was so severely injured that she had to have a leg amputated. The loss of her limb also proved to be the loss of her carnal career, as there was little call for a one-legged porn starlet at that time.”
Five years later, porny model Heather Mills would lose a leg when she was hit by a motorcycle cop while crossing the road!
But
what a difference a few years, some brains, ambition, imagination and a
lonely old recently-widowed ex-Beatle make. Heather would find the loss
of her limb only helped in her walk to fame and fortune, leading to a career
as a serious spokesmodel, and in fact posing no hindrance-- and according
to some tabloid accounts may indeed have added some spice-- to her relationship
with and eventual marriage to Paul McCartney.All this, despite another bizarre coincidence: Leggy Mountbatten, manager of Neil Innes’ legendary Beatles parody group, The Rutles, “had lost a leg in the closing overs of World War Two!”
Heather,
it could have been worse. Join Tabloid Baby in lifting a legful to Patti
Petite, porn star-- the kind of the girl who makes the News of The World,
years before Heather Mills.
Philips database for licensed replicators.
I find it fascinating that porn's biggest replicator is not licensed by Phillips.
A search of the Philips database says only the Brooklyn site of L&M Optical is licensed.
Any replication done by an unlicensed replicator can be seized and large judgments made in civil court (and federal marshals can impound your product if it is illegally replicated).
I understand that L&M writes indemnities for many, if not all, companies who replicate with them (most of L&M's replication may be non-porn). Sometimes product has been seized and L&M has resolved the problem.
I've blathered on my site about replicator KBH-Blaine (owned by the people behind Damagedpictures.com). I was confused. KBH-Blaine is not a replicator. Companies such as KBH have dealt with L&M for years. KBH and company are middlemen. KBH and company will take the titles from ten studios and walk into L&M with an order for hundreds of thousands of pieces.
KBH's owner (not Kevin Beechum, but Blaine Hensler sp?) started as a middleman.
What does "KBH" stand for? Blaine Hensler (the co-owner of Damaged Pictures)?
While L&M Optical West is the king of cheap replication, the turnaround times can stretch to a month or more unless you have an in, such as KBH or you're Kenny Guarino. Does Guarino own part of L&M West? He intimates that he does. He likes to portray that he can get anything he wants from L&M or from Michael Warner's printing company Great Western Litho.
"It's a huge gamble to replicate with L&M West because they are not licensed by Philips," says a porn company owner, "but their price is so good. If you look through their plant, you won't believe the size of the operation. There's mainstream stuff there including Disney. Mostly mainstream."
Danni Skura is the Israeli behind L&M Optical West. He seems heavily medicated. You'd think he ingested more lithium than Larry Flynt. Danny seems totally out of it. He seems to walk around in a daze. You sit there and you say to yourself, "What the hell is this? Who the hell am I dealing with?" Danny Skura seems half-comatose. It's hard to believe he runs a huge business such as L&M.
Danny walks around in gym shorts and a t-shirt. His hair is a frazzled mess. Is it a front? Danny just does not look competent.
Plant manager Effie seems to know every single part of the operation.
If you can afford, them, Advanced Digital Media offers superb customer service (it's run by a woman, most of their work is mainstream) and turnaround times. Yet they are not licensed by Philips.
FB (Frank Barbarino) Productions. I'm told that porn is a minority of what they do. I'm told they work for Disney and Universal (at least that is the stuff lining their walls). A porn company will order 5,000 DVD covers for a title and Disney will order a million covers for a title.
Lux Kassidy - implants at 16
Letting your 16 year old daughter get implants is like naming her Allota Fagina, her chances of landing in porn increase exponentially.
...But the parents decision to allow her to get implants as a 16 year old junior in high school instead of impressing upon her that she is beautiful the way she is and that big tits aren't as important as saving your boob job money for something a little more meaningful like furthering your education or any other investment in her future is a mistake IMO. A 16 year old chick that gets implants isn't physically, mentally or emotionally mature enough to understand the effects it will have on her. Did the implants directly cause her to get into porn, maybe not, but it didn't help her stay out either. But for the rest of her years in high school she was the hottie with big fake tits that everybody wanted to screw. She was the chick that had the fake tits that everyone wanted to grab. Her tits became the things that she and everybody else identified her by. They became her "moneymaker". She became an object, a piece of meat and had no choice other than to dance on the pole or get naked on camera for money. And I blame the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lux Kassidy look what you did to your daughter.
Whatever Happened To Manager/Lawyer Lucky Smith?
He's out of managing girls and works with director/owner Michael Ninn.
The Career Trajectories Of Chasey Lain, Jenna Jameson And Juli Ashton
They all entered porn around the same time (1992). Chasey was the best looking but descended into drugs and oblivion. Juli Ashton did just fine. She did her last Night Calls radio show last summer and her last Night Calls TV show in January. She's now married and pregnant and living in Florida. She operates HeyJuli.com and may well be the happiest of the three. Jenna Jameson is the biggest star, a crossover cultural phenomenon. Why? I don't think it's primarily her beauty and the quality of her sex scenes (I've never seen one). I think it's her savvy choices. She listened to the right people and made the right decisions to become a star. She wanted it more and she sacrificed and she put the effort in on her book and she's porn great success story.
I don't think Jenna is seeking to have kids right now. That was a temporary obsession. I figured she'd succeed at that like she has at everything else. I even posted last year that I believed she was pregnant. Not the first time Jenna's proved me wrong.
Family Affair
Lainie Speiser writes:
Hey Luke, This past weekend three of my Uncles from Spain/Switzerland came to NY/NJ for the unveiling of my Aunt’s tombstone. As you know this happens when you’ve been dead a year. My Mom’s sister death was sudden, a stroke while she was at a Bar Mitzvah, it knocked her out dead. She was at the Bar Mitzvah with buffet food in hand right before she was going to sit down and eat and said, “I think I’m having a stroke” and that’s all she said. It was something out of Six Feet Under.
Anyway because it was so sudden none of the European clan (my Mother’s maiden name) could come, and now only three came. Its been nice though I don’t see them very often. They’re pretty religious, big Zionists, my cousin E. produces an internet radio show in Spain devoted to all things Jewish/Israeli because she says outside of Madrid there are hardly any Jews. They pretty much all only eat kosher, they knew all the prayers said at the grave by heart. Yet on the other hand they’re really cool about my job, they think its neat, and I’m taking J., his wife and their three kids (twins are 30 and E. is 27) to a strip club tomorrow night. They’re psyched!
But one of the Yenta American friends of my Mom and departed Auntie wasn’t so cool. She said she saw me on a website, I suspect it was yours (your jewish one) and she said, “It was about you working as a publicist for a certain magazine. I didn’t tell your mother.” I laughed and told her my Mother has known I’ve been in adult entertainment for nearly 15 years and she’s fine and supportive. “Well I hope you’re happy,” Yenta sniffed. “I’m extremely happy,” I said and thought, she must now be happy herself; happy I turned down one of her sons repeated advances years ago. Don’t think she’d want a porn peddler for a daughter in law.
Bud Lee Writes Freepornstarpix.com:
Hello, my name is Bud Lee. I would like to set you straight about Asia Carrera. I have just spent the most diffiicult 3 days of my life trying to comfort Asia. Don is dead. I have been with the coroner, gone through the wreckage and been helping her as much as I can. I know I will not be able to stop the pain she is in, but being here and loving her is the best I can do. If the best you can do is act the way you are and say what you have been saying, I would like to suggest you shut the f--- up.
I would be interested in being near you when your world crumhbles and see what you are able to do, say and respond too. Asia is in desperate straights due to the loss of her husband, best friend and father of her child and unborn child. Many times people in those circumstances do and say desperate things. She is unable to work, being 8 months pregnant and is looking at how she is going to raise two children and exist with out the man she loves so deeply.
Why don't you be a good boy and help someone in need instead of accusing them of scamming her fans. I would be more than happy to meet you in person anytime to futher discuss this situation. But I am sure youare like most blow hards on the internet and will hide behind the web to cover your identity as you act like a chicken s--- and attack innocent persons in their time of need.
Houston Don emails me:
Hi Luke!
I just got off the phone with Bud Lee about Asia to dispel the possibility that the entire matter might be a scam. I've been acquainted with him for years and his cell number is still the same as it was the last time we spoke. He confirmed the truth of the passing, he confirmed it was not a scam to rip people off (I knew it inside me but felt obligated to ask so that I wouldn't be another one of the naysayers), and he confirmed that she could use some help. If those who wanted to live tiny, cynical lives would just stop treating her like s--- and go back to pulling the wings off flies, the supportive fans will do the rest. The Coroner's office confirmed the death of the man I have long understood to be Asia's husband too and unlike some, I don't need a financial impact statement to contribute to a beautiful woman that has given me so much joy over the years.
I can appreciate that the green eyed monster so many of the haters have embraced causes them to act like a bunch of vultures but whatever her financial acumen in the past may have been, there are scores of reasons why she might need help at this moment in time. My experience in life is that we're all potentially one tragedy away from being destitute (something I know all too well from personal experience) and those that don't want to contribute to her assistance can show a lot more class by simply walking away from this one...preferably quietly.
Asia's a strong woman with many talents. I have no doubt that she'll land on her feet much sooner than she might believe to be the case. Still, with the tremendous stress of recent events weighing heavily on her mind, I don't think asking the vultures for a grace period that they leave her alone during is too much to ask for.
Tara writes on Freepornstarpix.com: "I am really sick of this 'Leave Asia alone'. No one did anything to her. She was the one who ran to the Internet with her situation and demanded money. This made her a topic of discussion and yes, things were said that she didn't like. But, she needs to grow up and worry about more important things other than mean people on the internet like how she is going to support her children, be less isolated from society, and taking steps to get psychological help for her social anxiety disorder. Furthermore, Asia's attack dogs Bud Lee and Houston Don do not scare me. Asia needs to grow a backbone and contact me directly if she has an issue with me."
Houston Don responds:
Tara, I was mentioned on your website in regards to being one of Asia's "attack dogs". That you took personal offense to any comments I made elsewhere, especially since I didn't mention you, your website, or even refer to it in passing speaks volumes as to how sensitive you must feel about anyone willing to defend a lady in time of need against what is most certainly caddish behavior. Why you would even suggest that Bud or I "don't scare you" since neither of us apparently threatened you in any way, is interesting all by itself. Still, I wish ill on no one and truly hope that you don't find yourself in a similar situation one day, pleading for help from an unreceptive audience.
If College-Themed Porn Were Real
Situation One: The Naughty Student Cindi, an attractive student with a large rack, walks up to the desk of her professor.
Porn:
Cindi: Is there anything I can do to raise this grade?
Professor: Some students do extra credit work.
Cindi: (has sex with him)
Reality:
Cindi: Is there anything I can do to raise this grade?
Professor: Some students do extra credit work.
Cindi: Like what?
Professor: A seven- to ten-page report about the economic principles behind
trade rules in a Micronesian country of your choosing.
Cindi: Oh. That makes sense and it is an appropriate extra credit assignment
for the course.
Asia Carrera: 'Why I Do Porn Even Though I'm Very Bright And Could Have Done Anything I Wanted'
I got awfully tired of telling this over and over, so I'm telling it for the last time - here it is.
OK, we all know I was an academically gifted little girl. What I don't publicize, is that I was not an especially motivated one. I was an overachiever only through a)genetic luck, and b) incredible pressure from my parents. My parents wanted me to go to Harvard and be a doctor or a lawyer, and I wanted to play piano and hang out with friends.
...The next day I took a bottle of vodka and got myself hired at all the local go-go bars. I then proceeded to work seven nights a week, and I saved a minimum of $1000 every week, and sent it off to various mutual funds. (ever hear of someone who still has the first dollar they ever made? That would be me!)
...As one of the highest paid dancers in NJ, I searched for a way to get paid even more money dancing. I discovered that girls who made movies or magazines got paid more than regular 'house girls' like me.
For years, I invested only in mutual funds, but finally I gathered the courage to buy some baby Berkshire shares right before the tech collapse. Go Warren!
...And when I die, I'm leaving behind a trust fund to provide help and shelter for abused and homeless children, so a little piece of me will live forever!
Jennifer Valentine writes me:
HOW DARE YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE TALK SMAK ABOUT ASIA CARRERA AND HER FAMILY DURING HER TIME OF LOSS!!!! ASIA & DON ARE GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE AND I'M A PROUD MEMBER OF LIES & PROPAGANDA (DON'S MESSAGE BOARD). ASIDE FROM SAYING HURTFUL THINGS ABOUT MY FRIEND, YOU ARE ALSO HURTING MYSELF AND MANY OF THEIR FANS! HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF I SAID HURTFUL THINGS ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY? THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK ASSHOLE!
Lunch With Playboy TV (American Sex Star) Producers Eric Mittleman, Derek Harvie
I show up to the Playboy TV studios in a 90065 industrial park in Glendale.
12:20 p.m. I walk up to the receptionist. She's on the phone. "He doesn't say on his voicemail that he's Hugh Hefner, does he?"
I sign in behind Hugh Hefner's brother Keith Hefner (about 60 yo) who does voiceovers.
Eric's assistant leads me on the long walk to his office past dozens of cubicles.
On Eric's wall, Sasha Grey and a couple of other girls are scratched out from the American Sex Star show. Most of the girls are from LA Direct Models and none have of them have dropped out.
Mittleman's on the phone. "This is a real voice-over just like the first one," he says.
Playboy TV's employees have the relaxed manner of most people in porn who realize they aren't rocket scientists and they aren't curing cancer. They're in the business of stimulating masturbation, about the lowest of artistic endeavors.
Derek Harvie joins me in Eric's office.
He says Ann Marie hosts the 30-minute Night Calls Hotline show which follows the regular three-hour Night Calls (hosted by Kirsten Price and Jesse Jane).
"It's half an hour of phone sex with Ann Marie," Derek says as he leads us on a tour of the studio. "We take a couple of girls from Night Calls and they take phone calls."
Luke: "Do you give spread-legged action? Girls going down on each other?"
Derek and Eric say that Night Calls and other Playboy TV productions are officially X (single girl action) with XX clips -- meaning everything but anal and a pop shot.
Derek: "Night Calls is single action except for special occasions."
Eric: "We broke down a wall last week."
Derek: "We had sex toys. We had the f---ing machine guys come in. Unfortunately the giant robot malfunctioned."
Only on clips is there a penis entering a vagina.
Next door are the Spice studios and they show hardcore (but not anal nor pop shots).
Eric: "When we go to porn sets to shoot the girls, we have to shoot it soft, Austin-Powers style."
Playboy radio (broadcast over Sirius, with over one million potential listeners, perhaps one or two thousand of them actually listen at any one time) studios are down the hall. They provide about 14 hours of original programming a weekday. Ann Marie hosts a show.
Christy Canyon and Ginger Lynn do three hours a night of Night Calls Radio.
If you have a Sirius subscription, you don't automatically get Playboy Radio. You have to call and opt-in.
None of the programming on Playboy TV or Playboy Radio is gay.
Eric, Derek and I have lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant. I eat some rice and tofu. I don't want to even name the strange little critters going into the mouths of my mates.
I want to develop on my theme from last week (and over the past decade) that porn is a refuge for the lazy (in many ways, I am lazy and slovenly and porn suits this part of my personality).
Luke to Derek: "How would you compare the stress levels of working at MTV and Playboy?"
My thesis is that all achievement comes through stress.
Derek: "Playboy is much more relaxed. At MTV, people were always fighting because everyone had conflicting visions and everything was subjective. At Playboy TV, we ask ourselves two questions: Do we have naked girls? Check. Are they naked? Check.
"A former producer at Playboy TV said, 'Give me a hot chick standing next to a bag of s---, and I'll give you a TV show.
"We had so many rules at MTV. At Playboy, the basic rule is no anal.
"I didn't think I'd be here [in porn] this long but at this point I can't see myself going back to the real world.
"My wife and kids are gone for six weeks. I'm going to turn my home into the Playboy Mansion - Encino style."
I ask the gents if Playboy requires drug tests. They say no. "But what if you were drug-tested?" I persist.
Derek: "I'm clean."
Eric: "Depending on the month."
Mittleman says he has a doctor's note to smoke pot. Derek says he's allergic and throws up if he smokes pot.
Penny Flame was interviewed on American Sex Star and on the first question she says she didn't finish college because of cocaine. She goes into detail about her drug problems.
She showed a level of honesty that can inspire all of us to be better people.
The girls take it hard as they get eliminated from American Sex Star. They start crying. They can become vindictive.
Codi Milo was balling up. Jenna came up to her backstage and hugged her.
Jim Powers plays the Simon Cowell role on the show, a porn ripoff of American Idol. He teased Angie Savage about the wing tattoo on her back.
Last year, one girl got a pail of water and was going to dump it on Jim Powers. She was intercepted by McKenzie Lee who ended up receiving the pail.
Neither Eric nor Derek fear obscenity prosecution for their work.
Many of the rockers who come on Night Calls end up with the porn stars. They have a higher rate of success with the ladies than the stand-up comics.
Eric's creepiest shoot for American Sex Star was at an extended stay hotel where numerous out-of-town porners reside. The hallways were lined with garbage and dirty linen.
Eric remembers a sweet little Playmate from the mid nineties who opened her purse and a .38 special popped out.
We discuss the explosive relationship between hot chicks and firearms.
Eric: "When I was in Scottsdale, I wanted to get footage of Jenna at a shooting range. Her brother owns one. Jenna's a phenomenal shot."
Derek remembers shooting at Taylor Rain's house. Taylor, the longtime queen of porn's potheads (though she may have brought this under control over the past few months, since her retirement, and gained 20 pounds) reached under the bed, and instead of producing the expected sex toy, came up with a shotgun three feet away from Derek.
Another time Derek took four porn chicks out to the desert and got video of them shooting off automatic weapons.
Eric says he wants nothing to do with porn stars and automatic weapons.
Eric: "I should add that question to their profile -- what kind of gun do you own?"
There's no pot smoking nor drinking at the Playboy studios.
Derek: "Our show is like a day off for porn stars. They don't have to have sex. We bring them in in the morning. We dress them up. We put them in make-up. We feed them. We have a chef. They play all day. We look after them. Our host arranges play time for them. It's like day care.
"And we pay them."
Eric: "It's like Burke Williams (day spa) for porn stars."
On the drive back to the Playboy studios, we stop at the lights and an army of kids in school uniforms cross the streets.
Derek says this afternoon he has to shoot Roxy Jezelle doing man-on-the-street interviews about anal sex.
I hope they leave the kids alone.
Miami Convention Finished
The eXXXotica Miami Convention is done. After months of preparations, and weeks of planning, Friday June 9th arrived, and before I knew it it was Sunday June 11th and I was home with a headache ( from loud music) and a sore throat ( from yelling over load music) and stiff and sore legs and feet (from standing, sitting, walking around the convention for hours). BUT THERE WAS SO MUCH IN BETWEEN! I arrived Friday to find that we didn't have one long booth as I thought we did, but more a whole section of booths in the back center of the convention with a 10'x20' banner that said Xcitement. Any one looking for us could find us from anywhere in the convention. That had to be the biggest sign in the whole place! The feature dance duo WildFire our cover girls for the Adult Fun 411 May/June issue were working at our booths dressed all sexy, handing out invites to their dance gig that night. They signed a ton of autographs and had their pictures taken with fans over and over again for the four hours they were there, standing they whole time on 5 inch heels, and staying cheerful and friendly with a smile on their faces. I don't know how they did it. After they left they had to go right to the club (Hotties) where they were dancing, and work for four more hours. It's gotta be their youth and vitamins, because I can't even stand up for 20 minutes anymore with out complaining that my back hurts!
No Funeral For Don Lemmon
06/13 - I am having him cremated and his ashes sent to me. I want to keep him in my house, close to me, where I can talk to him and feel him nearby. I have not contacted the press about his death, nor do I plan to. That is really the last thing I want to deal with right now. If you feel a pressing need to confirm his death for yourself, you can call the Clark County Coroner's office in Las Vegas and ask about my husband, Donald Lemmon. I am not going to post the phone number on here because they already called once yesterday asking who "Asia Carrera" was (they only had my birth name on file) and why they were getting so many calls about my husband. Thank you to all my fans who are supporting me through this, you mean more to me than you will ever know.
I Should Treat Gram Ponante Better
He gave me a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com for my 40th birthday.
gramponante: what, you think someone being nice to you is contingent
on your being nice to them? How Old Testament
Luke: thank you for showing me a better way
gramponante: that is all I can do. Holly said she got you a tea set and
I thought of doing something similar by getting you a gift certificate
to bed bath and beyond, but I figured that would be imposing my value
structure on you and you like the way you look with a book upside down
in your jeans.
Lux Kassidy Interview
After three weeks of playing phone tag, I finally chat to the Vivid girl (MySpace) Monday afternoon.
Her phone keeps cutting out and we don't develop a rhythm. But if you like heartbreak, there's a killer moment two-thirds through.
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Lux, 21: "A lawyer."
Luke: "Why? Were your parents lawyers?"
Lux: "Nope. Nobody in my family is a lawyer. It was just something I always wanted to do and something my family always thought I'd do."
Luke: "Were you argumentative?"
Lux: "No. It was just an interest to me. I think I would've gone into entertainment law. My older sister is a tour manager. I would've helped her. It was something I was looking into for a while."
Luke: "How did your ambitions change to bring you where you are today?"
Lux: "Law is something I definitely can't do now. I've ruined that chance doing what I do now. I've got to find something else to do later on."
Luke: "When you were in highschool, were you still thinking law?"
Lux: "Yes."
Luke: "Did you have fantasies about becoming a model?"
Lux: "No. Not a long time ago. When I was a freshman in highschool, I had a friend who sent in one of my pictures to Teen magazine. They contacted me and asked me to start doing modeling and I said no. From eighth grade to sophomore, I was a punk rock girl. Music was what I was most interested in -- going to concerts... If I did modeling, I wouldn't be able to do any of that stuff anymore."
Luke: "Were you doing crazy stuff to your hair?"
Lux: "Yeah. I've had my hair dyed every color. It's naturally blonde, so if I dye it blue or red, it's pretty bright."
Luke: "Were you always cute?"
Lux: "Yeah, I would say so. I've always been into make-up, since kindergarten."
Luke: "You like being a girl?"
Lux: "Yeah."
Luke: "At what age did you start having an erotic interest in boys?"
Lux: "Seventeen."
Luke: "You were a slow bloomer?"
Lux: "I dated guys back and forth but I didn't sleep with them."
Luke: "What kind of group did you hang out with in highschool?"
Lux: "Everybody. I got along with everyone. I fit into every group. Everybody in highschool liked me."
Luke: "And your parents loved you?"
Lux: "Of course. I've always had a good relationship with my family."
She grew up in Southern California.
Luke: "Did you have a consciousness of the porn industry as a teenager?"
Lux: "I didn't know about it. It was never brought to my attention. I never watched it. I never looked at magazines."
Luke: "Did you ever have a period of your life when you were promiscuous?"
Lux: "Never. I put a really high price on that. It's something valuable to me so I don't throw it around everywhere."
Luke: "How did you start posing nude?"
Lux: "[At 19,] I called up a friend of a friend who was a photographer [who became her boyfriend Kaden]. We started out doing fashion and artistic nude stuff. And then I stuck to Playboy-style stuff. Everything you see of me on the internet is basically Playboy-style. Then I made an exception and started working with magazines and doing explicit work."
Luke: "With girls?"
Lux: "The spread the legs stuff. Toys. Until recently, I was only doing Playboy-style stuff. No open leg."
Her boyfriend is Kaden of KadenPhoto.com. "He's my main photographer. His main work is fashion. He's in a lot of European fashion magazines. He started doing nudes when I first met him."
Luke: "How important is it for you to like the photographer you work for?"
Lux: "There have been a lot of photographers who were jerks. I've never walked off the set. I've thought, 'I want to hurry up and get this over with.' But I've never walked off a set if I'm getting paid for it. I don't think that's right. I'm going to give him the best I can. I'm not going to purposely look like crap so I screw him over."
Luke: "What are important qualities for a photographer?"
Lux: "That they have a good sense of humor. That they're not total sticklers on how you have to look and how you have to move. It's good if they let you do your own thing and they instruct you a little bit."
Luke: "What are the bad qualities that you sometimes encounter in photographers?"
Lux: "A photographer who pokes around and takes forever to do one set. Twelve hours to do it. I've dealt with those photographers before."
Who are these creeps? Lux won't name them. Perhaps my readers can? Email Luke
Lux: "If you just hurried it up, we could get this done in two hours. Photographers who poke around and talk too much. I've had photographers who basically just hire the girl for an all-day shoot and they sit there and talk to you for half the day because that's what they really want."
Luke: "That's pathetic."
Lux: "That's the biggest thing that annoys me."
Luke: "They deliberately just want to hang out with you?"
Lux: "Yeah. It's retarded."
Luke: "What about photographers who want to put you in painful poses?"
Lux: "Yech. That's ridiculous. I had this one photographer who has you sit there and hold this really uncomfortable pose and then they have to sit there and light-meter everything and then change the lights around for every single pose and stare at it for five minutes and make sure that they like it. And then they start shooting it. Then they have to look at each picture they take while you're holding this uncomfortable pose."
Sounds like Earl Miller to me but Lux won't say.
Luke: "Did you sense that they get a kick out of the power and inflicting pain on you?"
Lux: "I don't think it's that. I just think they're not good and they take forever to do everything. They're just not thinking about it because they're not the ones actually doing it. I don't think they get a kick out of it. I think they're just dumb."
Luke: "Are they successful?"
Lux: "There are successful photographers who do this. It just makes you not want to work with them again. They do high-quality work and get you into good magazines but at the same time it's just not worth it if you have sit 13 hours on a shoot and be really uncomfortable and in pain and be really annoyed. It's just not worth it."
Luke: "What percentage of photographers try to screw you?"
Lux: "I've had a few photographers try to hit on me. Sometimes it's just because they mistake my kindliness. I'm really nice to photographers. I have no reason to be a bitch to them. Some people mistake that and think, 'This girl likes me.' I've had about five photographers take that the wrong way and try to hit on me and ask me out to dinner."
Luke: "Isn't that true of guys generally? If you're the slightest bit nice to them many of them will think you want to sleep with them."
Lux: "I agree."
Luke: "What went through your mind prior to your becoming a Vivid girl."
Lux: "I decided on it when I was at AVN. I was signing at a booth. I was looking around. I walked past the Vivid booth and the Club Jenna booth and all the big booths. I was like, my still photography is slowing down now. Maybe I should take it to the next step. I went around to all the big booths. I talked to all the talent directors. I gave them my number. After I got home from AVN, I sent them all emails with a bunch of my pictures.
"Wicked and Vivid both really liked me. Of course Vivid was going to be my number one choice out of those two. Out of all of them, Vivid is number one. I set up meetings with Vivid. I met with Steven [Hirsch, the co-owner] a bunch of times. He just turned out to really like me. I told them I wasn't going to do any video stuff unless I was signed to a contract. They agreed."
She's done two shoots for Vivid. "Lux's Life was my favorite. I had so much fun. We had cameras set up where you confessed stuff to the cameras. I'd just go up and do something really weird and bizarre."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about being a sex star?"
Lux: "I love being published in magazines. I love opening up magazines and seeing myself in it. I love working with new people and meeting everyone in the business. There are a lot of great girls out there and a lot of really good photographers. I can't think of a downside of that. I guess if you're going out at AVN and people stop you every two seconds. I was at Lake Havasu and I got recognized and everybody was stopping me and asking for autographs. Sometimes it gets a little annoying."
Luke: "What do you love most? The money? The publicity? The attention? The fame? The glory? Looking pretty?"
Lux: "I love the attention and the money the most.
"It hasn't changed me. I still hold the same beliefs."
Luke: "Have you noticed a change in the way people relate to you, including people you've known for years?"
Lux: "Yeah. I've lost a lot of friends."
Luke: "How many?"
Lux: "All of them basically. Twenty."
Luke: "That's huge."
Lux: "Yeah. A lot of these people were really good friends I'd known for a long time. The other half I haven't even told them what I do and won't. This is a business that not too many look kindly upon. It's rough."
Luke: "Did you break down and cry?"
Lux: "I just figured that if you can't accept what I do and who I am, then you're not worth my time. I accepted them and what they do for a living. If they can't do the same for me, that's their problem. It does suck because I lost a lot of people I love but there's nothing I can do about it now. I can't give up my career because of them."
Luke: "Did you retain some friends?"
Lux: "Yeah, I have some friends, but they don't know the extent of what I do. They just think I model. I didn't tell 'em the rest of it."
Luke: "Do you have friends who know everything and have known you for years going back to highschool?"
Lux: "No, I don't. Now the only girls I really meet are girls on set. Of course they're going to approve of what I do because they're doing it too."
Luke: "Do you feel like you've stepped into a whole new world?"
Lux: "No. I see it as just moving on. Just going through life. This is what happens. You're going to keep friends and you're going to lose them. Consider it a big circle."
Luke: "You don't wake up screaming at 3 a.m.?"
Lux: "Nope. I'm still up at 3 a.m."
Luke: "What are your goals and dreams?"
Lux: "I want to keep modeling for as long as possible. I've started doing mainstream movies. I worked with Warner Brothers. That's something I could do later on. Kaden's teaching me photography. We run a photography studio in downtown L.A. I'm keeping my options open. I'm not sure exactly what I will do after all this is over."
Lux stands 5'7" and measures 34C-24-34.
Luke: "When did you get the breast job?"
Lux: "Five years ago."
Luke: "When you were 16?"
Lux: "Yes."
Luke: "What was up with that?"
We laugh.
Lux: "It was something I needed to do."
Luke: "Were you totally flat?"
Lux: "Yeah. My parents agreed to it but I paid for it."
Luke: "How did people at school react?"
Lux: "I think I became a legend at my school for being the youngest girl to get a boob job. Everybody was like, 'I want to see your boobs.' I'm like, 'No, get away from me.'"
Luke: "How many people did you show your boobs?"
Lux: "I only showed my close girlfriends, but everybody at school knew. That first day I came back to school, that was a tough one. Imagine all the stares. Everybody coming up to me, yech. It was hard the first couple of months but everyone got over it."
Asia Carrera Update
06/12 - Trying to pull myself together and take care of business today, put Don's bank accounts on hold (his ATM and credit cards are impounded with the destroyed vehicle and I don't know who can get to them), talked to some of his business partners about trying to keep his business continuing without him somehow, and I made a down payment on a nice little used car with a new car seat for Catty so we can get around town and try to take care of things the best we can. I'm using the money in the paypal account to buy this car, so I thank each and every one of you who donated money from the bottom of my heart. Please, if you can spare it, I have no pride, I'm scared and I'm asking for your help - please donate a lot or a little to me, Catty, and my unborn son Devin, due August 11th, to my Paypal Account, use address asiac@asiacarrera.com (that's asiaC, not just asia). I'm so scared that I won't be able to handle this newborn baby all by myself, along with Catty... I'm socially phobic, living alone in a state where I know nobody, afraid to leave the house by myself, without Don... every day is going to be such a huge struggle for the rest of my life. God this whole thing just breaks my heart, what happened to the perfect family I had a week ago? I was so in love, I woke up each day grateful to have such a good life, and in an instant... it's all gone. Don, I miss you, I need you, I don't know how I'm going to do this alone... *cry cry cry*
Rob Black Attacks Porn Industry
Tara writes on Freepornstarpix.com:
June 12, 2006 Rob Black appeared at last weekend's Cybernet Expo (an adult webmater conference). His missed the Friday panel where he was scheduled to appear, but did appear on Saturday at the seminar on 'Hot Issues and Problems', which was about legal problems faced by the adult industry. Rob had strong opinions on this issue.
"The Free Speech Coalition didn't do a thing for me," he said. He also accused the industry of be unsupportive of him in his legal battle with the expection of a few people. In addition, he felt that the industry was selective of the material it was willing to defend.
"Tom Hymes said that,'We'll fight for a Vivid movie, but we will not fight for yours.", said Black. Black also described himself, JM Productions, and Max Hardcore as 'easy targets' because of their edgy content. "If they were not going after the three of us, they would be going after someone.", he added.
Free Speech Coalition representative, Michelle Freridge, rebuttaled Black's accusation that the organization did not assist him in his legal fights. She explained that the Free Speech Coalition is not a legal fund, but is actually a trade organization that can start class action suits, etc.
Tom Hymes responds to my inquiry:
Luke,
Hard to believe, but I never made the statement attributed to me, nor (surprise, surprise) did Rob accuse me of making of such an oddly constructed remark. What I heard was that in the middle of the seminar Rob suddenly stood up and screamed, "Tom Hymes is the only a**hole who has ever had my fu**ing back!" But my source could be mistaken too.
Regarding the larger accusation, the attached amicus, quite brilliant by any standards, should answer any questions regarding the Free Speech Coalition's unambiguous support of Extreme Associates.
I get this email from a porner (not Tom Hymes) about Rob Black:
Of course we are unsupportive of you, you idiot! It is you who begged for all this legal trouble (in spite of everyone inside the industry telling you to shut up and clean up); It is you who has burned most everyone for money (do you really think those still holding your worthless checks are in a hurry to give you money?); it is you who loved to run around porn valley acting like some uneducated NY street thug; It is you who brought this entire industry into the Bush administrations radar. You fancy yourself as the next Freedom Fighter. Remember what happened to the one the award was named after? He went to prison, and so too will you, along with a couple others - and they will have you to thank for your efforts.
The industry is not led by a bunch of idiots. As a whole the industry might believe the 1st Amendment gives everyone the right to produce what they want, but they are smart enough to know that some things cause too much unwanted attention.
Dave Cummings emails me:
You should also know that after the seminar, panelists Rob, Michelle, Connor Young, Eric Bernstein, Jay (the seminar's Moderator) of YNOT, and myself met up afterwards in an unplanned get-together where we all casually and informally sat outside in the busy courtyard visiting and enjoying friendly conversation; many other attendees also stopped by and chatted. The sincere friendliness was like a close-knit family. Everyone relaxingly enjoyed the weather, the company, and the fun of friends casually visiting and informally chatting.