I Dream Of Chasey
11/23/04
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Khunrum writes:
I hate to be redundant but all you ever post are pics of porno people fully clothed. How about some shots of them "on the job"?....you know, the o'l boom-sing.....that's what they do for a living NO? Why so shy? Why the censorship? Come now Duke, you can do better for your readers.
I am chagrined... Brave journalists are risking their lives to bring us news from such dangerous addresses like Fallugah. What do you offer up? A photo of some lout named Dick Delaware sitting on a couch......for shame! for shame! How can you refer to yourself as a professional journalist? Get us some nudes of porno chicks doing the nasty and we may forgive you.
I arrive at 11am. Scene one -- Cheyne Collins (husband to porn star Chennin Blanc, they've been together 18 years, married eight) with Chasey Lain.
Cheyne shoots something into Chasey's mouth. She spits it out and it lands on the cameraman's (Justin Fawcett) leg. He freaks out and runs off to clean himself. He says it was the first time in six years he's been nailed like that.
Justin's girlfriend has been working behind the scenes for about a year. I ask her what is the most shocking thing she's seen in porn.
She says it wasn't in porn. It was when she was 15 and at a stable. The seven-year-old girl she was minding asked her what that man was doing to her pony. She looked up and saw a guy buggering the pony.
Director Rick Davis used to partner with Corey Jordan, who is now married to Jill Kelly and has his own production company. Corey's brother Dale Jordan works for Rick. He stands over 6' and weighs over 250 pounds.
Scene two is Monique Fuentes and Grant Michaels.
Jorge, Monica's fiance, tells the still photographer that if he lets her go through her poses, he won't have to say anything (thus negating the translation problem, as Monique's English is not good).
Monique spends much of the still shoot on her knees. She sighs loudly with relief when told that it is finished. She rubs her sore knees.
When she feels under pressure, Monique has two veins that pop up in her forehead. One runs straight above her nose into her hairline. The other one curves left over her left eye.
Grant asks if Jorge is her husband. She gets a funny look on her face, looks at Jorge, and says not yet.
Grant says she looks like a young Sophia Loren.
I ask Cherry Boxxx co-owner Alan Gold, how's business?
He replies, "Thank God."
That's a Jewish thing to mean that everything is in God's hands and so far it is ok.
I ask Alan what's new with Cherry Boxxx. He says they are going for a new look.
"How so?"
"We're looking for a woman that makes you go..."
"Wow?"
"Yes. That's it."
Cherry Boxxx's niche has been the 18-year old look.
John Douglas comes on set. I ask him for the name of the last book he finished. It was XXX-Communicated.
John wonders how I achieve such a gauzy look to my photography. "I've always assumed," he says, "that it is because you are breathing so heavy that you fog up your lenses.
"Or you rub Crisco on them. Or you don't wipe the KY Jelly off your hands before you use your camera."
I chat with Monique Fuentes (after her scene with Grant Michaels) and Jorge Fuentes.
From Colombia, she's been living in Miami for four years. She has a three-year old daughter. She's 29yo, 5'10" with a shapely body and D-cup implants (from Colombia three years ago).
She speaks to me partly in English and then Jorge (also from Colombia) translates the rest.
Her journey into porn began a few months ago when she posted some pictures to an Internet modeling site (1modelplace.com). She says she had no intention of getting into porn.
"Never. I come from a traditional [upbringing]."
Luke: "Did he get you into pornography?"
Monique: "Yes. For him."
Jorge: "I asked her. From the moment that I met this girl [18-months ago], I knew [that she was going to be a porn star]."
Monique: "We're a team. I'm here."
Luke: "Because of him?"
It's not clear.
The next morning, she received 120 emails in response to her pictures. A lot of people told her that she was a porn star.
Jorge says she has a porn star mentality. "She can be happy in the business."
Monique told her parents she was working in porn. Initially they were aghast. Now she says they are ok with it.
Monique: "My father says, you always make good decisions. Trust your intuition."
Before meeting Jorge, Monique was with the father of her daughter for nine years. She stayed home and he paid for everything.
Jorge: "She's a person who thinks things through. I planted a seed in her mind [and a year later, she decided to get into porn]. She could see that people were very interested."
Luke: "Is this more a fulfilmment of your fantasies or his fantasies?"
Monique laughs. "Both."
Jorge: "She doesn't lie. If it was not the case, she would tell you."
After her first scene for the Web site Eighthstreetlatinas.com, Monique became widely recognized. She had to change her gym and her hair salon.
Monique: "Latin people think that if you work in porn, you are a prostitute.
"Before, people knew nothing about me. Now... Everybody was like kaboom. I'm famous."
Monique says she hasn't had any bad experiences in porn, just some unpleasant ones. "I don't need a man who's beautiful or handsome. What is most important for me is that he is clean."
Jorge: "She has a problem that all these guys fall in love with her. They want to make love to her. They want to kiss her. They want to do things that are not professional. This gentleman today [Grant Michaels, ex-boyfriend of Kim Chambers] was very professional. He was clean, nice, considerate. He was asking if she was ok."
Monique agrees.
Jorge: "In the beginning, guys were pushing her to do more during the stills and breaks. She didn't know better."
Monique says she doesn't like to kiss strangers. The act is too intimate.
A few days ago, Monique had sex with a black man for the first time (with Justin Slayer). "It was a special situation. I knew him. We had good chemistry. He paid me well. He was clean. He took me to dinner and dancing."
Jorge: "One of her limitations was no interracial. She met Justin at the World Modeling office. He was cool and nice. They connected as friends. She felt comfortable. She felt like she was working with a buddy."
I asked Monique if she played a role in killing Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. She laughs hard.
Jorge says when most male performers meet Monique, "they freak out. Because of the way she looks. She has an intense look. Look at her nails, hair. They get intimidated. Sometimes they cancel shoots because they can't perform or they can't pop. This happens 80% of the time. This guy today had problem popping."
Monique and Jorge were scheduled to fly back to Miami Tuesday night after a week in LA.
Alicia looks about 20 years old. She says her fiance's parents think she's celebrating Thanksgiving with her family in Flint, Michigan. Instead she's about to do her third scene in porn. Her fiance knows about her work and approves of it.
Dick Delaware is still suffering (physically and psychologically) from his break-up with Layla Rivera. He punched his wall and his door during upsetting phone conversations with his ex and he's got the scars to prove it.
Dick has an Ultimate Fighting Championship match December 9th. A documentary film crew is considering a movie about his professional combo -- porn and fighting.
He looks worn down. Even the toughest guy in the world can be reduced to tears by the woman he loves.
In an emotional state, Delaware has shown up a couple of times to the Jim South shooting house (in the past three weeks) where Layla has stayed the past few weeks (though she spent three nights with Dick within the past week). Dick was highly emotional both times (though he didn't hurt anybody). He showed up Monday night looking for Layla. She wasn't around.
It's been suggested to Layla that she move out. So she's going back to Arizona. She says she's into "cholos," not white guys.
I interview Chasey Lain shortly before 3pm. She's just completed her second sex scene of the day (a girl-girl with Cherokee), had a smoke and eaten lunch.
She says she's not tired and she seems in high spirits. She showed up to set 90-minutes late. Director/producer Rick Davis normally gets his six sex scenes completed within nine hours.
To Chasey: What were some of the highlights and lowlights of your year 2004?
Chasey: "I've been working a lot. Just getting back to shooting again because I had not been shooting for a while. It's been fun to see everyone."
How did you get signed to Cherry Boxxx?
"I've known Kevin [Beechum, co-owner of Cherry Boxxx with Alan Gold] for years.
"I've always been contractually bound [to shoot for only one company]. Now that I'm not, I'm able to shoot for all those people who, over the years, I wanted to work with but couldn't."
Lain began her porn movie career at age 21 in 1992.
What are the major changes in the industry?
"More condoms now. When I started, it was unheard of. It's become more mainstream."
Who are your best friends in the industry?
"I don't know. I get along with most of them."
Are you in a relationship now?
"No."
Do you prefer to date inside of or outside of the industry?
"Outside. If I date at all."
Chasey says that guys usually find out quickly that she's a porn star. Once they find out, it's hard for them to view her as anything but a porn star.
Do they want you to stop?
"No. They want to take over. Then they got to go."
What's the longest relationship you've had?
Chasey laughs. "None have lasted long."
Does that make you sad?
She giggles. "No. I would be sad if they were still going on."
What do you love and hate about the industry?
"Obviously the money is good. It could be better. It beats McDonalds. You get to meet a lot of cool people. You get perks because people know who you are."
Lain went eight years without doing guys on camera.
What do you do to keep yourself centered?
She laughs. "Am I really centered?"
When Lain's not working, she likes to spend time with her six-year-old son, ride horses and shop. She owns over 800 pairs of shoes. "I like purchasing real estate and cars."
She says that being a mom gives her "focus and purpose. I don't think I'm as wild as I was."
Asked if she follows the Internet, Lain says she stays away from it at all costs. "We're forbidden to even look at it or we'd be in the office crying every single day! Steve Hirsch over at Vivid forbid us to look at it. He was, like, don't come to my office crying. You're not allowed to look at it. Someone go confiscate every girl's computer. Else there'd be dead bodies in trunks everywhere!"
Lain's well aware that she's been the subject of many gossip items.
I asked Lain about what happened at AEE and the story that she OD'd. "It wasn't me," she says. "There was another girl at the show that Digital Playground had got in. My badge was from Pleasure Productions that said Chasey Lain. But there was another girl that Digital Playground had gotten into the show and her badge said Tiffany Chase. My real name is Tiffany. They assumed it was me."
"I heard you really got bent out of shape over that," I tell Lain.
"I was livid," Lain replied. "I was dead, supposedly. I have a six year old child. They had heard before I had heard. And so my son's father was calling. I was crossing the state line back into California when one of the escort agencies I work for in New York called and said did you know you were dead? I said no. But Tim Connelly over at AVN, I went straight to his office. They did print a retraction."
Lain said at the time of the incident she was with Heather Hunter and Hunter's manager. "They were doing a live promo at a club and I was with them at the time- on video. It's documented. And Circus Circus is where all the Pleasure girls were staying," added Lain noting that the news story had her staying at The Venetian. "And so they [AVN] didn't look into it. They didn't check. They just took somebody's word for it that it was me. It didn't even involve me. I'm dead, yeah. I couldn't believe it."
Fourth scene of the day is Dick Delaware on Alicia. Next, Laura Monroe and Anthony Hardwood. Six, Chasey and Trevor Zen (husband of Lezley).
