Thursday, Jan 5, 2006: Riley Mason pic Robin Leach, Stuart Wall at the Smash Pictures booth Smash Pictures owner Dan Quinn, Robin Leach, Stuart Wall Dan Quinn, Robin Leach, Stuart Wall Ava Vincent at the Penthouse booth pic Heather of JCsGirls.com Heather, Tanya of JCsGirls.com Tanya, Pastor Mike Foster, Heather Sweet Rex Ryder and his fiance Rilee Ryder Naomi, Sunny Lane, Julia Bond Naomi, Sunny Lane, Julia Bond Jenna Presley, Lacey Heart Jenna Presley, Lacie Heart Shane's World Shane's World Paul Cambria, Jimmy Flynt Flashman Rebecca Love Cousin Stevie, Joe Diamond Penthouse Pet Melissa Jacobs Sunny Leone Sunny Leone XXXChurch girls Stephanie Swift Kelly Wells Mark Kramer, David Clark Nyomi Marcella, David Clark Delilah Strong Delilah Strong Christie Lee Christie Lee Tiffany Rayne Tiffany Rayne Chris Justice, Alana Evans Chris, Alana Gary Gray, Lainie Speiser, Cassia Riley Gary Gray, Juli Ashton Nikki Benz, Lucy Lee Nikki Benz, Lucy Lee Tory Lane, Hillary Scott Aurora Snow Aaralyn Aaralyn Tom Byron Sandy Westgate Lezley Zen, Lexi Bardot pic pic Justine Joli, Sarah Blake
Friday, Jan 6: Paris Paris Paris Kayden Kross Lanny Barbie, Howard Levine, Sunny Leone Lanny Barbie, Howard Levine, Sunny Leone Julia Ann Hannah Harper Hannah Harper Mike South, Layla Jade Memphis Monroe Joey Hart Joey Hart Savannah Samson Ruby Lacey, Lindsay Love Lacey, Lindsay Love pic pic Ashton Moore Austyn Moore Austyn Moore Lanny Barbie, Howard Levine, Sunny Leone Julia Bond Julia Bond Lacey & Lindsay Love Lacey & Lindsay Love Kinzie Kenner pic pic Jesse Capelli Sophia Rossi Kelsey Michaels Kelsey Michaels European director Denis Marti, Lauren Phoenix Denis Marti, Lauren Phoenix Montanna Rae Montanna Rae Montanna Rae Vivid girl Monique Alexander, Lexi Marie Monique Alexander, Lexi Marie Lexi, Monique Lexi, Monique pic Avy Scott Avy Scott Maya Hills Sarah Blake Courtney Cummz Chrissy Cums or Jasmine Tame? Jasmine Byrne Jasmine Byrne Dion Giarusso Dion Giarusso, Manuel Ferrara XXXChurch pastors Mike Foster, Craig Gross in front of their booth and Wally the Wiener Nicole Sheridan Rebecca Steel Rebecca Steel Montanna Rae Montanna Rae pic Justin Snyder, Buck Adams Anthony Petkovich, Dan Patrick Kelle Marie (Pet of the Year Runner Up ’03) Linn Thomas (POM 10/00) & Bella Star (POM 12/05) Martina Warren (POY ’05) & Kelle Marie (POY Runner Up ’03) Katsumi girl, Crystal Klein girl, Penthouse Pet Crystal Klein John Douglas, Ruby pic Holly Wellin Daisy Daisy Gina Lynn, hubby Travis Knight Gina Lynn, Travis Knight Dick Delaware with photos of the love of his life, Layla Rivera Derrick Pierce, Lexxi Tyler Derrick Pierce, Lexxi Tyler Olivia O'Lovely
Saturday night, Jan 7: Guest blogger Da Burglar, Luke Grant Michaels and his civilian girlfriend before the AVN Awards Mary Carey Mary Carey Mary Carey Playboy's model of the year Erica Campbell and Crystal Klein Erica Campbell, Crystal Klein Erica Campbell, Crystal Klein Erica Campbell, Crystal Klein Sofia, Anh Tranh of WantedList Voodoo, Nicole Sheridan Stormy Daniels with MTV guy DJ Scribble Stormy Daniels, DJ Scribble Loren Mizrachi, Angel Felon Loren Mizrachi, Angel Felon Missy Monroe Tee Reel, Estelle Jayman, Raven Riley Shy Love, Brooke Haven Shy Love, Brooke Haven Shy, Brooke Shy, Brooke, Jenna Presley, Nadia Styles Shy, Brooke, Jenna Presley, Nadia Styles Shy, Brooke, Jenna Presley, Nadia Styles Shy, Brooke, Jenna Presley, Nadia Styles Kamie Andrews Kami Andrews Gia Jordan, Cheryl Khan Gia, Cheryl Khan Gia Jordan, girl Kami, Gia, girl Pat Myne, Alektra Blue pic pic Roxy Rush (left) Roxy Rush (left) Exotica and Alexis Amore Exotica and Alexis Amore Joel Lawrence, girls Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Sunny Lane Kurt Lockwood, Samantha Ryan Samantha, Kurt Julia Bond, Sunny Lane Julia Bond, Sunny Lane Dick Delaware and the girls Dick Delaware, girls Dick Delaware, girls Ruby, Jeff Mullen, Sunny Lane Ruby, Jeff, Sunny Rob Rotten, Hillary Scott Rob, Hillary Scott Rob, Hillary Anna Mills Anna Mills Anna Mills, Daphne Rosen Anna Mills, Daphne Rosen Anna, Daphne Lizzy Borden Rob Black, Lizzy Borden Rob Black, Lizzy Borden Rob, Lizzy T.J. Hart T.J. Hart Aaralyn Aaralyn Aaralyn girl, Jamie Lynn, Charlie Lane Cassia Riley (Pet of the Year Runner Up ’06), Martina Warren (Pet of the Year ’05) and Melissa Jacobs (10/05 Pet of the Month) Charlie Laine (2/06 Pet of the Month), Cassia Riley (POY Runner Up ’06) Martina Warren (POY ’05) Melissa Jacobs (10/5 POM) Charlie Lane, Cassia Charlie Lane, Cassia, girl Charlie Lane, Cassia Charlie, Cassia Jamie Lynn Jamie, Charlie Jamie, Charlie Jamie, Charlie, Cassia Jamie, Charlie, Cassia Jamie, Charlie, Cassia pic pic Jamie, Bella Star Jamie, Bella Tiffany Mynx, Gina Lynn Penny Flame Spike Goldberg, bloke, Farrell Timlake Layla Rivera pic Taylor Kurtis, Johnny Barracco Taylor, Johnny Tia Erica Kole Nick East, Victoria Sinn Nick East, Victoria Sinn Heather Pink and her boyfriend Andrew Loraine Loraine Mika Tan Isabella Sky, Lisa Daniels Isabella Sky, Lisa Daniels Isabella Sky, Lisa Daniels Isabella Sky, Lisa Daniels Isabella Sky, Lisa Daniels Ruby Francesca Lee girl, Belladonna girl, Belladonna Belladonna Michelle B Michelle B Michelle B Michelle B pic pic Lexxi Tyler Lexxi Tyler Holly Randall's Pics Gia Jordan's Pics Viv Thomas Pics Tara's Pics
Show Notes
* Gia Jordan Day three Day One Mary Carey banned from the Venetian. Day One Photos AVN Post-Mortem Willie D On Saturday Willie D On Friday Den of CAVR reports. Kara Bear slits wrists. AVN Photos.
* About ten companies don't have their booths up in time because the company (connected to Gia Paloma?) they hired don't live up to their obligations. There's talk of bankruptcy and heroin. Companies put up their own booths. Some (such as Extreme's) don't become erect until Friday.
* After I snap a few photos of Robin Leach (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous) at the Smash booth, he says: "You can't publish those. They are only for your private use. If you publish them, you'll have a lawyer crawling all over you."
* Some booths show hardcore video with ejaculation and other booths pixilate out the penetration.
* The Venetian doesn't have adequate parking for CES, let alone the additional porn conventions. The place is a mess. People are delayed for hours.
* Sophie Dee is engaged to her black agent Lee Bang.
* Jenna Presley says I'm mean for making fun of her MySpace post that she was going to the Ivy to have dinner and if her fans wanted it, she could bring along 8x10s to autograph for them. "Twenty five fans showed up," she says.
* I meet Nyomi Marcella with director David Clark. "Didn't you do scenes with your sister Jade?" I ask. She blushes.
* Alana Evans says Gia Paloma claims she's hooked up with Alana's longtime boyfriend Chris Justice and become pregnant by him. Alana says this is not true.
"How's Gia Paloma?" I ask Chris later.
"Shut up," he says seriously. "If my girl [Alana] hears that, she'll flip."
Chris says he's "working a lot for Extreme Associates and getting paid very little."
* Christi Lee complains that Tiffany Taylor is stuck-up. Christy complains that Tiffany told her to "shut the ---- up."
Christi says she's a respected porn star of three years who always gives a hot scene and she's ready for a contract.
* I don't understand why so many directors have left Red Light. David Joseph fronted his directors hundreds of thousands of dollars. I hear Vince still owes David almost $500,000 and Erik Everhard and Mike John owe David close to $200,000. The directors will argue that they were not getting paid properly. There's even a story floating around from the director's side that David was "back-dooring them." That means that he purportedly sold stuff without it showing up in their royalties.
That's ironic because David levelled a similar charge against his brother Dion Giarusso two years ago.
* A couple of weeks ago, Vince Vouyer came to Red Light with bodyguards and lawyers and a subpoena for its accounting records. Vince's team copied the harddrives of the relevant Red Light computers.
* Red Light District accountant Miles Rennett is widely-hated by people ranging from RLD's directors (who cleared about $20,000 a month working for David Joseph) to make-up artists.
* I was told that Dion Giarusso was financing Tony T's new company through Dion's wife's brother, but Dion told me that was not true. I met Dion for the first time Jan 5.
* Keri Sable is not moving to the East Coast and going to school. She lives with her parents in San Diego and claims that she alone made the decision to quit porn.
* Wanker Wang repeatedly attacks me at the Circle Bar. He's dying to squeeze my nipples. I fight him off the best I can, and succeed in keeping him away from under my shirt.
Friday night he catches me by surprise and plants a sloppy wet bareback kiss on my cheek.
My roommate says she'll be my bodyguard but she's never around when I need her. Saturday night at the AVN Awards, a civilian comes up to me, says my name, then, when I nod, he punches me in the shoulder. Later, he spills a drink on a webmistress friend of mine.
My roommate is neither big nor tall but she's wiry and fights dirty.
* Erica Kole's husband Mark berates me Thursday for my bad photography. He berates the Venetian for charging him $300 for a room that night. He claims that others got their rooms for half of that price.
* I catch up with Buck Adams, 53, at the Venetian's Circle Bar Wednesday night. He says he's survived seven heart attacks and now runs six miles every morning.
Buck says that his girlfriend Chasey Lain is now clean and sober and that he was fulfilling his obligation to talk to me about ragging on her.
Buck says his sister Amber Lynn is the classiest woman he's ever known.
* A member of the Flynt family shook my hand and said that almost everything I've written on the family is true.
* Courtney Cumz tells me she's not a Cuban rabbi. She says she's Assyrian-Canadian.
* Thursday afternoon, Jan 5. I ran into a distraught Avy Lee Roth. She wasn't on the list for Mofo Girls and couldn't get into the AVN Expo. She wanted me to find Mike Ramone (AVN Editor). I didn't see Mike but after 90-panicked-minutes, Avy got someone else's badge and got into the show.
* Contrary to what I reported months ago, I'm told that Patrick Collins did not sell Elegant Angel (not to David Joseph of Red Light District, not to anyone). I hear Patrick borrowed about $200,000 from David Joseph and that Patrick has paid virtually all of it back.
Collins would like to sell Elegant Angel but he wants too much money for it, about $15 million. Russell Hampshire sold VCA for about $3.7 million.
* I try to say hi to Jenna Presley. "I'm on the phone with my grandma," she says. "I keep trying to tell her that I'm at AVN and I can't talk right now."
* Gigi Appleton (owner of Avalon Entertainment) gives me such a powerful hug (lifting me off the ground) that it pops something in my back. For the past three days, I've been hobbling around in agony.
Gentle reader, I'm fragile. I'm not into rough sex nor rough hugs. Feel free to express your deepest feelings via email, however.
* I heard there was a feud between XXXChurch pastors Craig Gross and Mike Foster but that was not the real story. The two longtime friends are always fighting in the way married couples fight but they've never called off their friendship.
* I spot Tony T hanging out in the Anabolic booth. There's obviously no falling out between him and the owner Chris.
* Internext was a ghost town. Some Wegcash Internext pictures, AEE, AVN Awards.
* Friday night. I approach Paul Cambria at the circle bar. He's talking to someone who doesn't like me. I ask the husky beared guy, "Did I write something bad about you?"
"Yes," he says. "But it was a long time ago."
It turned out to be John Kenney aka Bo of LGI Distributors.
* Thursday night. Circle Bar. "Webmasters are night creatures," says webmaster Adam Grayson of SearchExtreme.com. "Video people are 9-5. Webmasters do their business over dinner and over drinks. Video people do their's on the show floor. It's important to have a presence."
* "I respect Dion Giarusso," says Mike South, "because people pay their bills to him on time. And he pays his bills on time. When he was with Elegant Angels, I never had any issues. He was always straight-up."
* I chat with Vivid girl Lanni Barbie. Julian walks up and shakes
my hand. "Julian, do you know Lanni?" I ask.
"I'm married to Lani," he says. They hug.
* Derrick Pierce says Adam & Eve director Nic Orleans owes him $1,400 from a shoot a month ago. Nic is famous for late-paying. Derrick says Nic won't return his calls.
"He changed scenes on me the day before the shoot," says Derrick, who's had nine shooters. "And he asked me to reduce my rate after the scene was done because he wasn't happy after he changed the scene in the first place."
"I hear good things about you from Holly Randall."
"I love that girl. I love her mom. I love her crew. I love Chris, the cameraman."
* Mark Kramer looks happy. He says his hair is growing back and is no longer turning grey now that he's no longer working as head of production at LFP.
* David Gorman (formerly of LFP Video) has started a new porn venture with the son of Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko).
* My friend Harry says he saw someone who looked just like me getting a shoeshine. The one difference -- that man had completely grey hair. I guess he saw a ghost of my future.
* Platinum X Pictures has been folded into Red Light District. David Joseph runs the show. Jewel DeNyle's parents work in marketing.
* Keith O'Connor at Defiance Films tells me Thursday: "All anybody wants to see is a tranny. We've got Vanity coming Saturday along with Cindy Crawford."
* A Christian woman at the show tells me she won't take the no-porno pledge at the XXXChurch because it includes a no-masturbation clause. "If I masturbate while thinking about my husband," she says, "what's wrong with that?"
* XXX writes from Smash Pictures: "All Sat & Sunday Delilah Strong's mom was in the booth and she's a knockout. She's now a personal trainer and is smoking hot like a model, like actress Teri Hatcher. She's not an old wrinkled up MILF yet hot like on the show "Desperate Housewives." On Sunday mini me from Austin Powers came to the booth on his little cart."
* Tom Byron says he's lost 35-pounds and is returning to performing. "I quit smoking. I cut out refined sugars and carbs. I do cardio. We're rolling along at Evolution Erotica. We're knocking down any doors but we're doing all right. I'm looking at a lot of girls that I want to book when I get home."
Tom says that Sunny Lane has a Traci Lords vibe.
* Dion Giarusso writes on ADT:
I think theres a better chance of seeing Kobe and Shaq back together, before you will see me with Vince. I think Tom Byron is very talented, but I think Rob Black has some kind of Spell over the Icon. I would love to have Mike John, but he didn't return my phone call. I would like to talk to Jon Dough, hopefully he will call me. I live down the street from Pat Myne, he is a good guy, I like him allot, but he is with Zero and 3rd Degree, and the owner is a good friend of mind, I will leave that alone. There is some good unknown talent out there, and I hope to make something happen with these Guys or Girls.
Bill writes: "Based on a conversationthat I had with Manuel [Ferrara] this past week, he did leave RLD for a period of time. However, he has decided to return to RLD."
* I'm told that a Los Angeles talent agent has weekly meetings with an escort agency and earns a hefty commission for his porn girls who do that work.
* Tara posts to ADT: "Mari Possa is the new Adam and Eve contract girl. Keri Sable is a no-show for Wicked. Alektra is engaged to Pat Myne. Lanny Barbie is not retirng (I asked her point blank). All the Club Jenna girls seemed to be present on trade day except for Krystal Steal. It looks like Vivid has a new girl (I forgot to get her name.) TeraVision added Jasmyne Taylor from Australia."
* What was the crowd reaction to Rob Black winning the Reuben Sturman award? By that time, most of the crowd was out of it. At least half had left the show.
* For Best New Starlet, only five girls appeared on the nominations of AVN, Den of CAVR.com, and Roger Pipe of RogReviews.com: Sunny Lane, Flower Tucci, Hillary Scott, Jasmine Byrne, Taryn Thomas.
* Tony Malice's AEE 06 Pics - Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
* Ava Vincent (who signs for Penthouse) says there's a new magazine coming out from the editors of Maxim called Shock, which will profile her this summer.
* Saturday, 7:30pm. I go to the Circle Bar with my roommate. I see a small guy with a bald head and a wheelchair beside him.
"I wonder if that's Da Burglar, my guest-blogger," I say to my roomie.
"Go introduce yourself," she says.
I go up to him and say my name. He lights up.
It's the first time we've met.
We chat for ten minutes.
I didn't make it to the show floor on Saturday, instead spending my time reading, napping and walking the strip.
Looks like Jasmine Byrne has been doing her crunches. Check out that toned tummy. Damn.
Jenna Haze, still cute as ever, getting gropy with Naudia Nyce.
Here's Naudia again. She sure smiles real big. I like her new punk look.
Speaking of new looks, Flower Tucci must've started working out, cuz she's really toned up.
Riley Mason looked like she had fun. More pornstars should wear little hats!
I also dig Lexi Bardot's socks.
Check out Brian Pumper's bling. Lookit the size of that damn watch. Not to mention the giant medallion and chain. Ice on the wrist. Money ain't a thang, y'all.
Meanwhile, Montanna Rae stretches out in a racer outfit.
There's something about Hailey Young that makes her seem very approachable. But I wish she'd eat more pasta, get some meat on them ribs.
Who's the one on the left [Kylee Kross, Joanna's contract girl]? I like all the ink, makes her look real tuff! Guess Joanna Angel brought her...
Montanna Rae Montanna Rae Montanna Rae Montanna Rae Montanna Rae
I tell her I'll be putting this interview on lukeisback.com.
She starts laughing.
"Why?"
"I'm the last person you should be interviewing. I haven't done a lot of work. I've done a lot of print work."
She turns out to have the most to say of any porn girl I talk to at the expo.
"When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
"A police officer. A private investigator. I'm in school for that right now. I've got all my [general education] classes, all my science classes, taken care of."
"How much school do you have to do to become a private investigator?"
"Six years or something. There are so many different categories. You can't take them all at one school. I live in Nebraska. I can't do it all there."
"Why don't you live in Los Angeles?"
"It's too crazy for me."
"In highschool, what kind of crowd did you hang out with?"
"I was neutral."
"What attracted you to becoming a private investigator?"
"Knowing all. I am so nosy and I hear everything and I like to find out everything."
"You'd be a good reporter."
"I'm losing my voice. I know. I took pre-med classes and realized, no, I don't want to do that. I took pre-law classes and realized, no, I don't want to do this. Then I realized that if I put them all together, I could become a private investigator."
"How did you come to do your first nude modeling?"
"It was all about money. One of my girlfriends [started her doing nude modeling in July 2004]. I did print work for fashion and glamor."
"How has it affected your life?"
"Tremendously. It's broadened my horizons. I was sheltered for a long time. It let me see what was out there. I would probably have been married with kids by now but knowing what's out there now, it changes your perspective on life."
Montana has done eight boy-girl scenes, eleven girl-girl scenes and a couple of solo scenes. "I found it exhilarating. It's a crazy feeling. At first you're shy but after that it's awesome. It's another crazy feeling afterwards when it is all over the world. To see people follow you and watch you is crazy."
Montana gets signals to wrap up the interview so she can dance.
"What do you love and hate about this industry?"
"Hate. I know how men are truly."
She gives a bitter laugh. "I hate that. My dad raised me way different. Love. It broadened my horizons on my sexuality. I would never have been so crazy. I would never have tried so many things. I would've been too shy."
"How has it affected your dating and love life?"
"Ohmigod, it's horrible. It is so bad. You have your porned-out guys who like all this crazy stuff. You have your straight guys who are respectable and who care about you and who don't want you doing porn."
"It's adversely affected your love life."
"Bad. I was in a three-year relationship and [porn ended it]. My sexuality was rocked tremendously. Afterwards, I couldn't get enough."
"Can you date porn guys?"
"No."
"What type of guy do you find attractive?"
"I like my Southern boys. Respectable. Mid-West. They're more shy. They don't talk about [sex]. If you say 'cock,' they're embarrassed. It's nice."
I interview her at the Sex Z Pictures booth Friday, Jan 6.
Steel: "Shy Love brought me in [six weeks ago]. I've done about ten scenes."
Previous to porn she worked in retail.
In highschool, she played basketball.
As a kid, she wanted to become a model.
"What are you life goals?"
"Not only to make a lot of money but to have a lot of fun."
"How have your family reacted to your decision?"
"Not many members of my family [support her decision to do
porn], but my friends love it."
Nicole Sheridan Interview
As a kid, she wanted to be a princess. "Every year I had something new -- I wanted to be a firefighter, ballerina, psychologist, teacher...
"In highschool, I was in the gifted program. The majority of my friends were conservative, intelligent, not nerds, but good kids. I was also a cheerleader. I had a couple of friends in the jock crowd. I'm the type of person who has one or two close friends. I'm not a big crowd person.
"After highschool, I went to college. I have two degrees -- Human Development and Industrial Organizational Psychology.
"I started stripping in college to pay for my second degree. Waitressing wasn't cutting it. I started doing bikini grams. Then I knew I could make more money doing nude dancing. It was the normal progression from internet to magazines to film.
"I did my first mainstream porn film in February 2000."
Nicole has been married to Voodoo for five years. They've been together six.
"I love the freedom [of porn], that every day is something different. Whether you have a good day or a bad day, it was still different from the day before. I get bored easily, so I constantly need different stimulation.
"What I don't like about the porn industry is that it teaches people some bad habits sexually. I've noticed lately these 18 and 19-year old girls coming into porn and you can tell when you do a scene with them that they've learned everything they know about sex from watching porn. You don't have sex the same way on film as you do in your bedroom. There are probably a lot of guys out there who learned how to give oral through watching porn and their women are probably sorely disappointed because you don't do it [she imitates licking from the side, opened up to the camera] like this.
"My husband and I are talking about doing our own line and letting people go. We'd tell them, 'Don't do it porno style. I don't care if I don't get to see every bit of penetration. I want it to be real.'
"I don't want a wife to see a crazy anal piledriver and have her feel like she could never live up to that with her husband.
"I knew when I did my first movie that I could never undo that. So I decided that if I was going to do this, I was going to do it the right way and make it a career. At that time, I thought it would affect my life moreso than it has.
"There are people I get s--- from and there are people who will find out what we do and think it scandalous, but the majority of people we hang out with, when they find out what we do, they're totally cool with it.
"We're the aunt and uncle in the neighborhood to all the kids. The parents know what we do and they're cool with it.
"I was afraid when I got in that I would be viewed as a negative role model. But I think [the parents] can look at what we do and see that we keep it separate from who we are as people. We're responsible with our money and we're not on drugs.
"I don't think being in the industry affects our marriage. The key to our marriage is that we communicate. We've never lied to each other. That's a promise we made on day one. If we have an issue, we don't go to our friends and bitch about it, we deal with it together. Any issues we've had haven't had to do with the industry."
"What are your life goals?"
"To be happy. To skydive in every country with a drop-zone. I've been shooting production stills for two years. I'm spending more time behind my camera. I've gotten good reviews on my work. I've been published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine (I shoot for Playgirl and the NYT was doing a series on erotica for women and I had done a series on Jean Val Jean, and they chose that picture). I'd like to take that out of the Adult world. I don't know if it is too late for that."
He's the President of AVN (Adult Video News). I caught him on IM Wednesday morning and asked him about the show and rumors about his sex life.
PaulFishbein: Did you hear or write about all the latest about
who I am supposed to have been having sex with?
PaulFishbein: People are truly nuts
PaulFishbein: Supposedly I promised Sunny
Lane Best New Starlet
PaulFishbein: and she was taking care of me
PaulFishbein: so then she got the award and Sunny was left out
Luke: Normally I am up on your sex life.
PaulFishbein: My sex life has been so stable the last three years
that Amanda [Cherry Rain] loves hearing this s--- since it's very
funny. This stuff used to bother me.
Luke: Hey, you've got a problem with Lezley Zen. She feels like
you hate her. She feels like you had her blackballed from presenting
an award with her girlfriend Dani Woodward.
PaulFishbein: I don't understand. I don't really know her.
Luke: Did you blackball Lezley Zen from presenting an award? Did
you have sex with any of the Best New Starlet nominees or promise
any of them anything?
PaulFishbein: Of course I didn't blackball Lesley Zen from anything.
Lesley Zen won an acting award from us last year. Totally earned.
PaulFishbein: She's great, why would I blackball her?
Luke: Do you hate Lezley Zen?
PaulFishbein: She won Best Supporting Actress last January for a
film called Bare Stage
PaulFishbein: Of course I don't hate Lesley Zen. Have her call me
definitely.
Luke: Do you hate any porn star?
Luke: Do your feelings influence how porn stars are covered in AVN
or if they win awards?
PaulFishbein: If I did hate any porn star I wouldn't name them but
no, I can't think of anyone I hate. I couldn't inluence the voting
that much even if i did because we have over 50 voters and we are
expanding it next year.
PaulFishbein: There are plenty of girls I like who don't win so
I really only have one vote
Luke: Have you socialized/partied on a personal basis with any of
the Best New Starlet nominees over the past year?
Luke: Did you promise anyone, such as a Sunny Lane, an award prior
to the awards show?
PaulFishbein: No I didn't sleep with any of the Best New Starlet
nominees. I haven't slept with another woman in well over 3 years.
I've met plenty of the Best New Starlet nominees ove rthe past year
but I haven't partied with anyone. Met Sunny Lane at Red Light's
"Dark Side" premiere
PaulFishbein: She was nice and came in here a few times to promote
herself, but was not promised anything. She's a very sweet girl
who cares about her career so she came in to drop off movies and
stuff with her mother
Luke: Dani Woodward walked into the awards holding hands with your
wife [who held hands with Paul]. It looks to the world like you
guys are a threesome.
PaulFishbein: Dani Woodward and my wife are friends. We are not
a threesome
PaulFishbein: We like Dani. My wife's pregnant for God's sake...although
Dani does have a fetish for pregnant chicks
Luke: Were you surprised that McKenzie
Lee won Best New Starlet? Any other results that surprised you?
How did your peers react to Rob
Black winning the Reuben Sturman award?
PaulFishbein: about McKenzie, it was a wide open field. I thought
Keri Sable was a shoo-in
all year but when word got out she was leaving Wicked, I think voters
decided to vote elsewhere
PaulFishbein: I think any of the girls nominated could have one
and it would have been a good choice but McKenzie is definitely
the real deal
PaulFishbein: I am very surprised that I have not had negative fall
out on Rob. Perhaps the issue of the federal obscenity law actually
does trump any feelings people may have had about Rob.
PaulFishbein: He seems to be a reformed guy and I loved his speech.
PaulFishbein: I am a very forgiving person as you know.
Random Show Notes
* John Gray writes: "Luke- Had to leave the AVN convention early as I flew off to Costa Rica to purchase a strip club, the oldest one in San Jose Costa Rica called Kamur, I will invite you down when we take over on 1/31/06."
* Thomas Hope and Brianna Love gave me the cold shoulder when I tried to say hello to them and photograph them. It has something to do with the pictures I took here.
* Anh Tran (co-owner of Wanted List with his friend Danny Ting) has two porn girls fighting to be his date to the AVN Awards.
* I ask Rob Spallone about the exodus of directors from Red Light District. "Nobody else will give them a deal like David Joseph gave them," says Rob. "If a company gives the director a 70/30% split, that means the company pays for everything, and then gives you $7 for every DVD sold and the distributor keeps $3. A lot of distributors have this deal with their directors.
"What David Joseph did for these guys (Vince Voyeur, Mike John, Erik Everhard), you can't even imagine. David's books are wide-open. David gave them the money to shoot the movies and then gave them royalties on their movies. The directors had nothing to lose. They say David owes them money. They owe David money.
"David is a stand-up guy. He's one of the nicest, most honest guys you could ever meet."
* Mary Carey was fighting with her boyfriend around 3am Thursday at their room at the Venetian. She called security on him. She screamed at security and fought with them. Security tossed her and her boyfriend from the hotel.
Legend co-owner Jack got a call at 4am. He thought his house had burned down or one of his kids was hurt. No, it was just Mary Carey with her drama. Jack told Mary this is your last chance.
I hear that Legend paid Mark Kulkis of Kick-Ass Pictures about $30,000 to buy her out of her contract.
* I chat with Meredith Christopher, head of production at Adam & Eve. "I stirred things up when I took over [about two years ago]. The features aren't so girls anymore."
Adam & Eve has become twisted. They have such releases as Headmaster, directed by Toni English. Students fantasize about getting it on with their teachers. One schoolgirl (Tianna Lynn) blows a priest (Father Damian played by Randy Spears) while holding a crucifix.
"This is the movie you'll go to prison for," I say.
"It's fantasy," she responds. "It's not really happening. It's students fantasizing about their teachers."
* Stormy Daniels was treated a lot better by Universal on The 40-Year Old Virgin than by Fox on The Girl Next Door. Universal had her on set for four hours and paid her $4,000 and allowed her to reschedule when she had a funeral come up. Fox had her on-set for 15-hours and paid her $160.
* Derrick Pierce has shot about 60 scenes in the past four months. His girlfriend Lexxi Tyler shot 20 scenes in 2005, all girl-girl.
* Noon, Friday. Show floor. James Dean says he's still drunk from last night.
* XXXChurch pastors Mike Foster, Craig Gross in front of their booth and Wally the Wiener. They needed the help of ten people to get Wally up. Once they erected him, they got a huge cheer from the porners.
James Robison, tele-evangelist, paid for the XXXChurch's booth and Venetian accommodation for the XXXChurch team of about ten (and their families).
* Ben writes: "Is "Rilee Ryder" also known as "Keegan Sky"? It's Keegan Sky under a new name. Look carefully and in both pictures you will see that the two front teeth are whiter then the rest of her teeth. When you factor in the eyes and pronounced eyebrows I would say its safe to say they are the same person. She must have dumped her ex-husband who brought her into the business back in 1999."
* Ben writes: "Sophie Dee is a UK national and Lee Bang is a . . .ahem . .talent agent? I wonder where is offices are located and where is business license is registered at. Anyways, sounds like the old "you need a green card, I'm an American so lets get married" arrangment."
* David Gorman and company have bought a 10,000 square foot $6 million house and plan to turn it into their version of the Playboy Mansion.
James DiGiorgio's Notes From The Show
Although I didn't attend, a number of people told me the Tera Patrick party sucked. Also, that photographs were not permitted inside her little soiree... not even by any of porn's legitimate photo-journalists. What's wrong with that picture? Isn't one of the purposes of throwing a party to get some publicity? The next day (or maybe it was two days later-- keeping track of time ain't my strong suit), on the show floor, I happened to be standing in front of the Damaged Pictures booth when Tera came walking by. Someone raised a small digital camera to grab a shot but Tera quickly snapped at the would-be photographer, "No pictures!" she snarled in a most egregious way and ungraciously stormed off.
Some guy who was hired to put up the booths for Smash Pictures and others got busted for heroin and, consequently, Smash Pictures and some other company's booths didn't get erected until Friday or Saturday. Oh well! s--- happens, right? I guess hiring drug addicts ain't the smartest thing to do when so much is on the line even if hiring drug addicts ain't all that unusual for other, more common-place porn-related activities.
Rob Black got in my face for awhile, then he chilled a bit, then he spent about an hour explaining Rob Black to me. As a result, there exists a "detente" between us. I now have all Rob's phone numbers and he has all mine and if I'm going to talk some s--- about him I promised to run said s--- by him first to get his take on it and he promised to call me if he has a problem with any s--- I might stir regarding him or Extreme. I'm thinking keeping the lines of communications open is a good thing whether it's world politics or porn bulls---.
Vivid Twin Tease - Lacey & Lindsay Love
Friday, Jan 6. "We started out as an adult website," says Lindsay. "You could buy time with us on the internet. Not in person. Then we were offered a photoshoot for Genesis last August. We got the contract with Vivid last January. We've never done stripping."
The twins have the website twintease.com. In the movies, they always do the same guy but they won't do anything with each other.
"We've always wanted to be in Adult," says Lindsay. "It's really cool."
"What did you want to be when you grew up?"
"A vet. But then I thought about putting animals to sleep. I can't do that. Then I thought about model, but I was too short. So we ended up in this."
"We always wanted to do everything the same," says Lacey. "We're closer friends than ever."
"Were you competitive about guys in highschool?"
"When we were younger," says Lindsay. "She tried to steal my boyfriend."
"Yeah, in junior high, I tried to kiss her boyfriend," says Lacey. "I was jealous that she had a cuter boyfriend than me. So I started kissing him."
"How has this affected your love life?"
"Not yet. We live in Ohio," says Lindsay, "so nobody really knows about us yet."
"People in California know more," says Lacey. "They find out faster."
Paris Interview
As a kid, she wanted to become a veterinarian.
In highschool in Stockton, she hung out with a preppy crowd.
"I got into this industry [18-months ago] through my friend Summer. We did a girl-girl shoot in Hustler.
"I've only done girl-girl scenes (about 100) except for one, which I did with my boyfriend."
"What do you love and hate about this industry?"
"I love being f----- every day. I hate waking up so early."
"What are your life goals?"
"To make lots and lots of money and get f----- by every single guy out there."
In her spare time, Paris likes to party.
Kayden Kross Interview
As a kid, she wanted to become a lawyer.
She graduated from Ponderosa High School.
"I was working at a club in Sacramento [as a stripper] and the agent I work with now came in [three months ago] and recruited me."
Kross has done no sex scenes. She's pursuing a college degree in Psychology and has bought a house in Sacramento.
"Has working as a dancer and nude model affected your view of men?"
"Yes, but I won't say how. No. I've realized how they see life."
Buck Adams Interview
Thursday. "I'm doing a big 12-picture thing with Antigua Pictures," says Buck. "Antigua handles Jenna, Vivid. My movies fit right in the mix. I just keep my mouth shut and smile a lot nowadays. We shoot in HD (High-Definition). We buy our own equipment so we don't have to rent or deal with anybody. If JM or Vivid want to use our equipment, we can let 'em do that.
"I am in good health. I got to come up here and party one night [Wednesday] and I woke up the next day and still felt good. I'm horsing around all day today. I banged the hell out of my knee last night."
Buck looks at a man employed in a gay booth walking around in his underwear. "After seeing that, you can never bitch about your job again.
"I'm trying to stay not too serious with any one particular woman. I'm trying to keep as many around as I can.
"It's not like the old days where Buck could smoke crack all night and go through half a gallon of tequila. I can have a couple of drinks and not drop over dead. We're not trying to keep that to a minimum.
"Can we move away from the little guy in the glo-white underwear?"
We do.
"I only shot five movies last year. I'm going to shoot 24 this year. I've put together a nice production team. That way I just roll in and yell, 'Action!' and 'Cut!' and 'Can I have my decaffeinated coffee?'
"I have simple goals in life now. I want to make it to the end of the show without dropping dead or embarrassing myself, which I'm probably do. Give it a couple of days, Luke. This interview might get more exciting. Right now it's happy Buck and rather boring.
"When I was getting ready to walk in the door of the show, it was like, 'OK, let's do this again for the 20th time.'
"This morning this girl comes in the elevator. She's got on this little cute top. The door swings open. The guy is just staring at her. She's unzipped her top without thinking because she's so high or hungover. Her boobs are hanging out. The guy says, 'I like coming to these porno shows. What more could you ask for at 7am?' She was just coming back from the party."
"What kind of girls are you looking to meet? Civilians or porn girls?"
"I don't care. Any girls are good girls. Anyone smiles at me, I'm right back at you, babe. Damn glad to meet you."
"You're not ready to settle down with one woman?"
"I hope not."
Holly Randall's Convention Diary
Chris’ roommate is the only one in shape to drive home. Thank goodness. I lay down in the back seat and let their idle chatter and the background music wash over me. I roll onto my side and watch the scenery pass by me. I reflect on how my drive home how was so much different last year. Last year, the drive home was four hours with a man I didn’t know too well but fell in love with at the end of the trip. That’s all it took him—four hours to capture a heart which had eluded so many for 27 years. Not the case now—I lost him. I close my eyes. It’s much easier to sleep than think.
