2/24/05

About 100 industry people turned out to the Laemmle 5 at 8000 Sunset Blvd Thursday night including Jesse Jane, Joone, Mark Kernes, Paul Fishbein and Cherry Rain, Flower Tucci, Cousin Stevie, Adam Glasser and his girlfriend Mari Possa, Sunny Lane, Chris Slater, Dani Woodward, Lynne LeMay, various people from Arrow including Bob "Straight Arrow" Verna, Jared Rutter (AVN), Tod Hunter, Don Hollywood and Brooke Hunter...

Karim from France Dani Woodward Dani Woodward Dani Woodward Dani Woodward Dani, Chris Slater Dani, Chris Dani Woodward, Cherry Rain Cherry, Dani Cherry, Dani Cherry, Dani Trina Michaels, Nadia, Britney Skye, Selena Silver Trina Michaels, NadiaStyles, Britney, Selena Trina Michaels, NadiaStyles, Britney, Selena Trina Michaels, Nadia, Britney, Selena Trina Michaels, Nadia, Britney, Selena Trina Michaels, Nadia, Britney Britney Skye Britney Lynn LeMay Brandi May Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Promise, Dee Promise, Dee Promise, Dee Promise, Dee Jesse Jane Jesse Jane Adam Glasser, Mari Possa Adam, Mari Possa Catalina Annie Body, Anna (ex-performer Billy) from London Dani Woodward, Paul Fishbein Eva Angelina, Mark Kernes Angie Savage Catalina Catalina Flower Tucci Flower, Selena Flower, Selena Mari Possa Flower, Mari Possa Dee Layla Rivera , Catalina, Max Hardcore Nikita Denise Nikita Denise Nikita Denise Eva Angelina, Tommy Gunn, Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Nikita Denise, Daria Aslamova Lynn LeMay Blonde, Grace (spokesmodel for Lifestyles videos)

I arrive at 9PM. I finally find parking on Sunset Blvd east of Fairfax behind a car with the license plate XRCO1. It belongs to AVN's Jared Rutter.

At the Laemmle, there's already a crowd of about 25 people.

I meet Karim. He says he left France "a year ago because I was really fed up. I tried to get into the porn industry. I did a scene for my friend D. Wise. It was s---. It was a lack of communication. It was a threesome which turned into a foursome."

I chat with mile-a-minute talker Dani Woodward, who comes with Chris Slater.

Dani: "I just shot a feature for Jerry [Tanenbaum] for Legend: Cocksucker: A Love Story. I play a porn star dating Evan Stone. Today was the last [of three] day of shooting. I shot a boy-girl with Evan and a boy-girl-girl with Dylan Maran and Manuel Ferrara.

"I was in Tokyo for five days for a shoot with Eva Angelina. The magazine is called Dick over there. Isn't that funny?"

Duke: "A hardcore shoot with Japanese guys?"

Dani: "With one Japanese guy who owned the magazine. Mahsu."

Duke: "Ahh, Mahsu. The famous Mahsu. What was he really like?"

Dani: "Shut up."

Duke: "Do you have anything scandalous going on?"

Dani: "No. How about you?"

Duke: "You don't have a gossip column."

Dani: "But I'm interested. I want to go to the source of the gossip instead of going to the website. What's really going on?"

Duke: "I'm exhausted from transcribing all these interviews. An interview [such as the one with Ira Levine] can take an hour-and-a-half to do, but it takes eight hours to write up. That's harder than doing double anal."

Dani: "I wouldn't know."

Chris Slater has been in porn three years, since he was a little boy bouncing up and down on Mark Kernes's lap.

Dani: "I'll be 21 next week."

Duke: "You can throw away your fake ID?"

Dani: "It was taken away from me last year by the police. I was pulled over for speeding. I opened my purse to give him my drivers license and he sees my fake ID underneath. He confiscated it.

"I was going 103mph in a 70. My car insurance is outrageous. I did a 93 in a 70. I did a 100 in a 70. I did a 63 in a 25 when I was 16. I got one for reckless driving for turning left through a redlight into the wrong way of a one-way street."

Duke: "Did you talk so fast before you got into porn?"

Dani: "Of course. Always. I'm from the East Coast. I'm from New York. It's expected there."

Dani turns and throws her arms around Cherry Rain, the fiance of AVN President Paul Fishbein who is following behind her.

Downstairs by the Coffee Bean, I run into black girl Promise, who's studying creative writing at college. I let her know she's yet to return my email.

She says she's been busy banging TT Boy every day (she didn't exactly put it like that). She's staying in LA until March 8 when she returns to school.

"I did think about you today," she smiles.

"But not enough," I respond, "to drive you to the keyboard, reply to my email and write, Dear Duke, Meeting you has forever changed my life."

No, not that much.

Redhead Brandi May has done two movies. Annie Body has been in porn on-and-off for five years.

Angie Savage, who has a big tattoo on her back, only does boy-girl with her husband.

Max Hardcore taps me on the shoulder and waves his finger at me: "No. The answer is no."

Shortly after 10PM, the crowd files into the theater. Bill Margold makes an appeal for Fred Salaff. Bill says we've only raised $600 to get him out of Panama.

Bill says Deep Throat was a real movie unlike most of what is made today.

Max Hardcore aka Paul Little, who oscillates between charming and bullying all night, starts yelling at Margold that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Bill is unfazed by the abuse. He mentions Max's drinking problem. "Next we'll be raising money to get you out of jail."

Max: "I'll get myself out of jail. F--- you, Bill."

Bill: "You could if you had a dick big enough."

Bill walks up the aisle to his seat. "What a happy bunch of children."

Earlier in the evening, Bill said, "So many people destroy themselves. I can't keep them all alive."

The biggest applause of the night comes during a scene where Dolly Sharp is receiving anal in the doggie position and another guy is eating her out. When the butt banger falls out, it appears for a second that the guy on the bottom has a dick in his face.

The movie has numerous funny moments and crowd whoops and hollers. One guy yells out at Linda doing deepthroat, "She loves it!"

At the conclusion of the 61-minute movie, a Ray Pistol-produced documentary begins but most of the crowd files out to the free champagne and refreshments in the lobby.

Layla Rivera asks me to take a shot of her with Max's girlfriend Catalina.

Layla Rivera , Catalina, Max Hardcore

Max yells at me that not only am I not allowed to write about him or photograph him, I'm not allowed to photograph anyone he is with.

Max says he will f--- me up if I write about him. One word. One picture. I'm finished.

Max gets right up in my face and chews me up.

It reminds me of the first time I met Max. It was at the FOXE Awards at the Mayan Theater on Hollywood Blvd in February 1997. After I tried to interview his girlfriend of the time Barbie (?), Max stalked up and cursed me out at length. Then he stalked to the bar and cursed out the help when they didn't have his favorite kind of beer.

Thursday night, after Max tires of me, he buddies up with AVN's Mark Kernes.

Catalina comes over and says that she tried to talk to Max to be reasonable with me. It was all good publicity but nothing she could say would make any difference in Max's attitude.

Max has hated me since 1998.

I talk to Lynn LeMay for the first time in nine years. She says she's seen me at various industry functions but avoided me because of the crap I wrote about her.