On Set With Melissa Lauren 11/8/04

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When I arrive on set at 9:45am, I join Melissa and a group of guys in the backyard of Dick in Woodland Hills.

Melissa says it changes the dynamics of a relationship once a director sleeps with his talent. It makes the talent less likely to do what he says. Dick says he's never slept with a porn girl. Aside from that blowjoy a few years back.

About 18-months later, the girl called him. She wanted him to tell the LA Sheriff that her husband knew she was working in porn. Why? Her mother-in-law had hired an investigator. They couldn't find the gun. What gun? The gun he used to kill himself.

Has Melissa, born in 1980, ever heard of the pop group Air Supply? No.

Bono, a reviewer on ADT who flew in from Arizona to be on the set, says his parents bought him the LP Lost in Love when he was eleven. He asked them if Air Supply would ever be as big as the Beatles.

I recite lyrics from Air Supply's song, Making Love Out of Nothing At All.

John Knowles, co-owner of NJ Films with his buddy Nelson, says "making love is something my girlfriend does while I'm f---ing her."

I ask John if his biker friends would throw him out of their clique if they knew he was making porno. "No way," says John. "They all have their own meth labs. I don't have a meth lab. I just make porno."

John and Nelson had a song in the Rod Lurie movie Deterrence (1999). They also had a deal with an independent record label. Then there came a day when their music died, and they concentrated on making porn.

John is the financial guy behind NJ Films while Nelson, who used to shoot stills for Playboy.com, is the creative guy. Nelson says he keeps an eye on the books but he won't let John touch the camera.

John's funniest moments in porn:

* Getting an offer of a BJ from the trannie Vanity

* Working with a girl who'd had a stroke and was left with little sense of balance. She fell over during a scene.

John bought Alex De Renzy's last three features after his death (from Alex's widow).

John says Alex's shooting style influenced Dick, who watched his movies and copied him. Alex said to find the girl's face and hole and keep the camera on both.

Dick outlines the scene scenario to Bono, Melissa and Lee. Melissa plays Bono's wife. He wants her to get harmonica lessons from Lee, who appears to be blind. She plays the harmonica while Lee takes it to her.

Dick tells Bono after the first take -- "you are on your way to stardom. Just do one little thing for me -- don't look in the camera."

I ask Melissa what language she likes to talk dirty in while making love. She says English. French was too elevated a language. It would be gross. But English is perfect for talking s---.