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On Set With Rob Spallone

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Kenny Carolina (production manager) and Ron Sullivan (director/cameraman) arrived on set at 9:30 am. The first scene was scheduled for 10am. I get there at 10:20. There's no talent.

Rob calls Lisa Marie and leaves a message. But he doesn't hang up the phone right. On her answer machine, Lisa got to hear a member of Rob's crew trashing her. This guy says she doesn't show up half the time and they shouldn't book her. Ron Sullivan defends her. Upon hearing this, Lisa feels like turning around and heading home. But she shows up to the set anyway and doesn't mention to the crew that she heard them trash talk her.

"I'm not in this business to make friends," is Lisa's attitude. She believes that if you are going to talk trash about someone, you should hang up the phone right.

Lisa and her ex-boyfriend Tommy X were drug addicts. They were leaving in their car. They had a bad car accident. They were desperate. Lisa and Tommy leafed through the LA Weekly for models wanted. She saw one for World Modeling. Next day (10/20/02) she was doing her first porno. "Ohmigod, look at this check I got."

Tommy was Lisa's second lover but first love. They broke up in January 2004 around the time of Lisa's birthday.

Rob is happy that Sopornos 8 got four stars from AVN and praise for his performance.

Last night, Rob told his anger management class that he can picture his ex-wife sucking cock and it doesn't bother him.

"I've got four [classes] to go, baby," he says to me. "Then I go to the judge.

"Last night, I said to the teacher, I'm not going to be here next week. I've got a meeting. He said, I could send this into the judge. You are only allowed to miss three and you've already missed nine.

"I said, 'You wanna send it in, douchebag, send it in.

"I said, my wife is such a c---. He said, what? My teacher doesn't like me to use the word c---. I used it 40 times. He doesn't like 'bitch' either.

"I said if you hear this story, you will think she is a c--- too.

"She hates me because when she asked for a divorce, I didn't cry. I said I had enough. I'm forty years old. How many years do I have left? Ten?"

People who knew Rob as a kid didn't think he would live to be 18. "That's how bad it was.

"When I dropped out of school, I was in seventh school. The teacher told my mother, some kids just don't need school. He'll do fine. I was the only kid in school who was allowed to go out for lunch.

"When I was 15, I made about $2000 a week. I had a teen disco. I made $4 off every kid who walked in the door. Saturday and Sunday afternoons. I was in Studio 54 three nights a week when I was 15."

Rob boasts that he bought a brand new BMW when he was 17.

"But you were a coke dealer," says Ron.

Thursday Rob goes to the funeral of Russ Hampshire's wife Betty's sister's daughter.

Kenny is so depressed by the election results that he's contemplating shooting heroin. Though it is still in the AM, Bill Diehl (still photographer) sips on a cold beer.

Ron: "I don't like to drink until noon. It must be noon somewhere."

I drive to McDonalds with Rob. He orders ten hamburgers for the cast and crew. He variously describes the help and the people passing by as "fat," "gooks" and the like.

Back on the set, Rob removes two of the buns, makes his burger a double and Atkins-friendly.

I hear that blonde porn star Holly from England is marrying an American guy Saturday so she can stay in the country. She paid him $10,000.

Her mother calls the house looking for her. We don't tell her what her daughter is probably out doing today.

Rob Spallone was taken with Vanessa (she looks amazing for 50yo), who has her own Web site at sexyvanessa.com. She played the older woman to Lisa Marie's engenue.

Originally from Argentina, Vanessa says she doesn't have sex with black guys.

She did some Internet shoots in Florida. She's recently moved to Las Vegas. She has a dungeon in her home. She does fetish shoots. She just flew to LA and did a boy-girl scene yesterday.

"That's ok," says director Ron Sullivan. "I don't have sex with black guys either.

"I married a black girl but I don't recommend it. When a white girl is mad at you, she yells at you for 90-minutes about what is wrong. When a black girl is mad at you, she kills you."

Ron says the best porn star lay he's ever had was Nikki Sin.

Lisa Marie lived in this house for six weeks during the HIV-crisis. She came home one day and saw three naked people coming out of her room. They'd just done a scene in her bed. They didn't even change the sheets. One of the guys had been on the HIV-quarantine list.

She freaked and moved in with Dick Tracy and his girlfriend Kasey. Then she moved in with Jezebel Bond and her boyfriend.

Bill Diehl complains, "What has it gotten me not touching the girls? They should say, Bill, that sleazy guy, he's always touching the girls."

Ron was shooting interracial a few weeks ago. He had guys doubled up on some scenes. He went out and purchased the ingredients for fake cum -- Mylanta, mineral oil, and a drop of olive oil. Ron uses a Gerber nasal aspirator to shoot the ingredients. The package says, "angle-tipped for baby's comfort."

"Let it fall where it may," says Ron.

"This from the man who bought kitchen wipes to use as [hand wipes]," says Kenny.

Bill shoots Vanessa and Lisa. He tells Lisa to put her panties around her neck.

"Are you like this in private life?" I ask him.

"I'm much worse," he says. "Never less than three girls."

Lisa complains of a burning sensation from the use of dildos. Ron says they must not have been washing off thoroughly after being cleaned with detergent. There's special cleaning stuff for dildos.

After the scene, Lisa says her mouth and crotch burn.

I hear that porn photographer Richard Montford doesn't like to touch anything that has been previously touched by porn talent. Sullivan, by contrast, says every single thing that a human being can excrete has been sprayed on him at one time or another, and the day he can't accept that anymore, is the day he quits porn.

I hear talk about a male performer who has gone out of his mind and claims that his girlfriend is his property and that he owns her. People are scared that he might come to a set and kill everybody if she is on it. I say that I want to interview said performer. I'm looked at as though I'm crazy. But I just want the scoop.

I walked into the home of John Douglas aka press release publisher Saturday night. He gets into Halloween. His front yard was covered with skulls.

"Are you making a snuff film?" I ask.

"Yeah," he said. "That's why I invited you. You know much I could get from Hustler for that?"

I hear that ex-porn star Tiffany Million graduated from the Nick Harris Academy for private detectives two years ago and has a Yahoo group under her real name, something like Sandra_Margot_PI.

On the other hand, a PI named Robert Gomez began investigating the porn industry for clients and ended up as a porn director. Not sure of his porn name.

A French journalist who's written extensively about porn, Emmanuelle Richard, is now in training (three month course followed by a licensing test) to become a PI.

I wonder why I haven't run into many East European girls on set in the past two years. I learn that it is because American pornographers fly over to Europe to shoot. So there's no need for them to come here.

Harry Weiss stops by with slender brunette Alexis Duval. Harry has 27 girls under his management. An agent just books jobs. A manager is supposed to guide someone's career.

I look at Rob's spellings for today's scenes. He always spells "Felix" as "Filx."