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I meet Joanna Angel for the first time. I get her to put me on the phone with her mom, an Israeli. (Joanna's dad has a PhD in Jewish History, but works in business as a consultant, and Joanna was raised Orthodox).

I ask mom what she thinks about Joanna's porn career. Her mom hates it. She says that Joanna fell in with a bad crowd and that's why she made such a bad decision. "She doesn't understand what she's doing is wrong."

Joanna's receiving make-up while we talk.

Mom: "What can I do? There's nothing I can do. I love her. I respect her. I can not give my daughter up. We're all crazy about her. Her two sisters, my husband, tried hard. We can't blame ourselves. We do everything not to lose the relationship.

"We all thought it wouldn't continue long but it does. It becomes more and more serious.

"Nobody knows where she got this from. I believe it is very dangerous. I'm very sorry about it. I've very ashamed about it. It's not our way.

"She did me a favor. She stays away from the people I work with, the synagogue I go to.

"She loves me. Usually people like that never see the parents. We do. I don't know when it's going to stop.

"I think it's the money.

"We did everything for her. We paid for Rutgers. She's the only person who went in that direction. I don't know if there's something wrong with her. She seems like a normal healthy girl."

Luke: "I think it's the attention."

Mom: "She gets plenty of attention. I've never seen a person who doesn't like Joanna.

"Maybe you'll be the one to convince her that what she's doing is wrong."

Luke: "I try. I'm [a certain thing]."

Mom, pleased: "Oh, you are? Keep it as a secret. We'll give you money if you can convince her. Any somebody tells her that what she's doing is wrong, she won't talk to him. She's got a thousand people agreeing with her. She's in the wrong crowd.

"I tell her that these people don't give a damn about her. It's good for him and not for her. The people who work with her are destroying her."

Luke: "She's a star in this world."

Mom: "She could be a star in any world. Why does she have to choose this world?

"I don't know what to tell you. My only wish is that at least she use her money to help the Jewish people. But she doesn't. Everybody tries to suck as much money as they want from her.

"I'd do anything for her."

Luke: "Why did she go to a secular highschool instead of a Jewish school?"

Mom: "That was very bad. I tried to fight it. My husband couldn't pay the money for a Jewish school. He was the only income in the house.

"What she's doing doesn't take any effort.

"She loves to write. She doesn't want to take money from her parents. She has something to live on [via porn], but she doesn't have anything to live for.

"I can't live without my religion and culture. It's not just something to live on, but something to live for. She does one thing for the money."

Luke: "She wants to feel like a star."

Mom: "She can feel like a star without doing that."

Luke: "But this is the easiest."

Mom: "She can write about anything."

Luke: "But that would take effort."

Mom: "Why does she have to write about this subject if she has the talent?

"She loved [doing Jewish things] but she didn't have a friend. When she left the house, that was a problem. The people she surrounded herself had no values. That's why she ended up here.

"I asked her to go to my country [Israel]. My brother could help her. She could be the representative of those people. But she can not go down to their level.

"She's so smart that she managed to convince her sister and my husband [that what she was doing with burningangel.com and porn] was ok. I was against it. He's a PhD person. He says, 'Oh, that's nothing. Oh, she's stuck.' But then she gets sucked in more and more."

Luke: "How does your husband deal with what Joanna's doing?"

Mom: "He always thought that this was not the only thing she's doing. She's doing other things. She models. She does entertainment. Nobody can believe that she's still doing this. Everybody says, 'Don't say anything or you'll lose her.'

"I used to think that being smart was the most important thing. Joanna is so smart. Now I don't think that being smart is so important.

"I wish she'd come home. She can come home anytime. But it doesn't seem like she will. Why do this when her parents will support her?

"I hope you're not going to ruin your relationship with her by telling her..."

Luke: "She knows what I think. I don't preach at her."

We say goodbye after more than 20-minutes on the phone. Joanna has been looking at me much of the time, amusement and concern alternating in her expression.

When I summarize the conversation to Joanna, she laughs. "I'd do this for free," says Joanna. "For a date with Malachi Ecks [production manager]. For macaroni and cheese."

Eve Mayfair: "Better than for a puppy."

Serena Sinn told me a few weeks ago that she was going to do anal so she could buy a puppy. I've heard more jokes about that than anything I've ever written.

I ask Joanna if she was molested as a kid.

"I wish my dad molested me," she says. "It was the other way round. I was ignored. I would've loved for my dad to molest me. He wouldn't even talk to me."

Malachi tells me: "You've got more material than you can use."

Neu Wave Hookers is the first feature VCA has released since LFP bought it. The movie has four times the budget of Eon McKai's previous movies.

Dirty Harry, a former bus driver, got his nephew T.T. Boy (whose brother Talon is also a porn performer) into the business in 1992. Harry's sons work in porn too. One is a cameraman (who occasionally has to shoot his dad having sex, but they're both professionals, so it's no big deal) and another is a PA.

Harry's been doing scene for two-and-a-half years. "I retired [from driving a bus]. I traveled around the world. I bought a business. It went broke. I had to get into something, so I got into porn. I PA'd [production assistant] for a while and then I thought, why don't I do talent? I had done a few movies for T.T. Boy in 1997. It pays more money and it's more fun.

"I introduced T.T. in 1992 to Elliot Spegal from Western Visuals. From there he went to Jim South's office.

"My son Jacob (in porn since 18, he's now 25) shoots camera exclusively for T.T. and he shoots me in the movies. My other son Sean is a gaffer. He's been in the business since he was 18.

Sean is the scariest looking guy you'll ever see (with 'Today I kill, tomorrow I'm king' tattooed across his shoulder) but behaves in a gentle way.

Both sons are heavily tattooed.

Harry, 54, says if it wasn't for porn, his sons would be gangbangers. "Talon is my nephew."

Luke: "Is he still in the gay industry?"

Harry: "No, he never did that."

Luke: "Is he in the straight industry now?"

Harry: "He's in the straight industry."

Luke: "What's it like doing a scene when your son is doing camera?"

Harry: "The first time, I thought about it a little bit. Once we got going, I forgot all about it. My son is a professional. He just does his job.

"I hate that I got into porn so late. I work with a lot of young girls. It's kinda hard for them because I'm a lot older.

"I can't say anything bad about the industry. It's done fine for my kids and me and T.T."

Harry and Joanna do a non-sex scene on the bed. He touches her all over and she acts like she doesn't enjoy it.

"Boy, that was creepy!" says the still photographer when it's over.

Eon McKai is working on the creepy angle just like Greg Dark did with the original New Wave Hookers.

Eve Mayfair says she's going to show this movie to her mom. She's that proud of it. "I don't think she would freak out but my brothers would. And you can't tell her anything without everyone finding out."

I take a break from relentlessly pumping people for scoop and enjoy The Anti-Chomsky Reader.

Joanna sits near me and reads Blender magazine. While I read a chapter entitled, "Whitewashing Dictatorship in Communist Vietnam and Cambodia," Joanna reads about rapper Kanye West. While I study Chomsky's support for holocaust deniers, she delves into rock 'n' roll. While I read an essay called "Chomsky and the Media: A Kept Press and a Manipulated People," she reads an essay called "Drugs, Hookers and Drinking in Class."

She used to be a smart girl. That's what her mom tells me.

I had an SAT score of 1135 while Joanna's was about 1460 yet I pursue a life of the mind while Joanna wallows in the gutter of pornography.

Joanna describes to an ingenue that Lukeisback is like Cosmo magazine with fashion and beauty tips, exercise and health, how to plan your wedding in less than 20 days, advice for the lovelorn...

A guy says: "I thought women had their weddings planned since they were little girls."

Joanna: "I know I have."

I should title this column: "Luke talks to Joanna's mom and makes everything all better."

Joanna's mom saw a poster of The Repenetrator, a hardcore film Joanna made that is filled with blood and gore.