Home

Back to Essays

On Set With Gabriella Banks, XBiz Video Party April 6

Freddy Elle Freddy Krissy Krissy Krissy Krissy Krissy Krissy Freddy Elle Freddy Tony Eveready, Freddy Tony, Freddy Tony, Freddy Alyssa Anderson Alyssa Alyssa Alyssa Alyssa Alyssa Alyssa Alyssa Gabriela Banks Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Banks, Billy Banks Gabriela, Billy Gabriela, Billy Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela smokes Gabriela smokes Gabriela smokes Gabriela smokes Gabriela Gabriela, Billy Gabriela, Billy Bill Diehl, Alyssa, Julian St. Jox Leah Stevenson Leah Stevenson Leah Stevenson Leah Stevenson, Regan Senter Leah, Regan Leah, Regan Leah, Regan Regan Senter Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Gabriela Larry Schwarz, Debbie Larry Schwarz, Debbie Gretchen Gallen, Matt O'Connor XBiz's Gretchen Gallen, Matt O'Connor, Kristen Gretchen, Matt, Kristen (L-R) Sue, Kristen from XBiz Tu, a Vietnamese-American civilian Tu Tu Su Mac Su Amy, Kristen D-Money, Jon Berg, a V.P. over at Red light District, runs their online division Darren, Jon Su, Mike Hayes, Kristen Su, Mike Hayes, Kristen Su, Mike, Kristen Sue, Mike, Kristen (L-R) Michael Atkins from NorthStar, Lynn Ayala from Platinum X, Marcelle from Pureplay Rebecca Weinberg and Autumn O'Bryan from Topco Rebecca, Autumn LA Direct Models LA Direct Models Christina, Sugar DVD owner Jack Christina, Jack Christina, Jack Christina, Jack LA Direct Models Roy Karch Roy Karch Tu, Anh Tranh Tu, Anh Tu, Adam Grayson Tu, Adam Tu, Adam pic Sunny Lane, Christina Sunny Lane, Christina Sunny Sunny Lane Amy, Jennifer James Amy, Jennifer James Amy, Jennifer James Carrie Ann Carrie Ann Carrie Dean Sussman, Carrie Alyssa video on the trampoline Alyssa video on the trampoline Gabriela Banks smoking video

On Sunday, April 2, Ron Sullivan (hpachard@sbcglobal.net) fell and broke his right leg. He got five pins in it. He'll be in a wheelchair for at least another month.

"He was leaving a place in Santa Monica where he was working," says his wife Delores. "He missed a step.

"Because of the chemo, he's fragile."

Luke: "I guess he can't shoot porn."

Delores: "He can shoot dolly shots."

Bill Diehl says he stepped on a porn set the other day and heard, "April is the cruelest month." It's a line from T.S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland.'"

Julian St. Jox lost his $3,000 digital camera. He lent it to B, who shot for West Coast and Paul Little. He'd landed a gig.

Julian: "He went to the set in Hollywood. The guys who he'd talked to on the phone. It was a set-up. They called him up. They said a girl in the business, Victoria, recommended him. They took him to the fourth floor. They brought him into the bathroom and put a gun to his head and took the camera.

"B's going to pay me $2,000."

Alyssa Anderson has been in porn for a year. She's done seven shoots.

Rob Spallone says a porner owes him $3,000. Rob wants to be paid back by the guy's wife doing three scenes.

Rob bought a book (on the Mafia) the other day for the first time in years.

Rob traded in his ex-wife's Escalade and leased her a new car (Chrysler Pacifica) for $350 a month and no money down.

Rob bargained over it for a couple of hours before he got tired of talking. He went to his car and collected sex toys and pornos, then came back to the dealership and started handing them out to employees and customers. To get Rob out of the place, the salesman gave him the car at the price Rob wanted.

Rob: "This one gay guy, I gave a dildo. He sees a box with a double in. He wanted that. I said, 'That's for your friend tonight.' They started leaving.

"The salesman said, 'Rob, you gotta leave.' I said, 'Then make the deal.' He said, 'The deal's done.' I left."

Freddy Elle (Beautiful Models) has been in porn for a month and done six scenes.

"I was with Regan a year ago. I was only in town for a month and then moved north. I came back down and decided it was something I wanted to do. I enjoy being on camera. It's all just acting."

Luke: "How your scene with Regan?"

Freddy: "I did that a year ago. I haven't repeated that. God no. Nothing against Regan. No harm, no foul. But yeah, it was kinda awkward."

Freddy says she graduated from culinary arts school but her employers took advantage of her. "During the holiday season, I got burned out. I was sleeping three hours a night working two different jobs at catering. I had two days off.

"They always want to put me in the front of the house, not the back, because I'm a cute chick and they're speaking Spanish right in front of me, talking about the white girl. I know Spanish."

Freddy worked as a loan officer at a mortgage company but realized it just wasn't worth it considering the hours she put in. She's studying to get her real estate agent's license.

In third grade, Freddy wrote about becoming an underwear model.

Before she entered the industry, she had created a collection of her own porn. "I had different make-up, wigs. It was with my boyfriend. We started off with one camera. Then we had two. I had fun doing it. When I started to explore what it was really about, that's when my boyfriend and I broke up. He wasn't keen on that."

Another relationship (with a sugar daddy) broke up after their viewing and discussing the 2002 movie Unfaithful.

Freddy says it is not her style to cheat.

I meet Leah Stevenson, who's been in porn since 1997, when she was 18. She's appeared in about 50 scenes. She'll come in for a month and then leave. She's also worked on the name Ashley Love.

Her agent is Regan Senter of Beautiful Models.

She met Regan in 1998. She was scared of him. She finally signed with last August.

Luke: "How was your compliance video with him?"

Leah: "The promo? Pretty good. We've done more than one. I love working with Regan. He's fun. His attitude is good."

Luke: "What keeps bringing you back to the industry?"

Leah: "Mainly the money, but I do enjoy doing sexual acts with different people."

Luke: "What do you love and hate about being a part of this industry?"

Leah: "There's nothing I hate. I have to warm up before doing an anal scene. It's not like I'm warmed up from the beginning. If I don't warm up, it can backfire on me.

"I like that the people are easy-going. They understand if I need a break.

"I was working in a factory with grinders on metal - cutting, sanding. I tried painting houses."

Luke: "How has porn affected your real life?"

Leah: "Nobody has ever come up and recognized me from porn, so it has not affected me."

Luke: "Why have you done so few scenes?"

Leah: "I'd be in it for a month and then I'd get out of it because I'd get into trouble with the law and end up in jail. I went to jail for doing speed. I was a drug addict for a long time. I kept getting locked up. I spend three months in jail, then two months, then a month."

Regan met a girl at the gas station and tried to recruit her into porn. She gave him her modeling card and he carries it around.

Production manager Delores takes a look at Leah and says, "Somebody told me they're shooting a bubble-butt line."

After a woman broke his heart, photographer Bill Diehl was chaste for about eight years. He's since loosened up.

"Is that chastity or anger?" asks Delores.

Gabriela Banks says Silvio owes her $300 from a scene she did for him about a year ago (she says he paid her $300 then). I call Silvio but he won't talk about the matter.

Rob Spallone has booked 19-year old Crystal Clear to do the world's oldest gangbang with a bunch of men over 60. She's booked to appear on the Howard Stern show April 21 at 7am.

Luke: "Congratulations Rob. You must be very proud."

A real Hollywood guy: "A real cinematic achievement."

Rob: "What am I going to do next? Only I could put this together."

Rob's proud of himself. There's a new strut in his walk. "Whichever company picks this up is going to get a ton of publicity," he says. "How much publicity did that Kat Kleavage fat gangbang get?"

Friend: "How much are you going to pay the guys?"

Rob: "I don't pay them. I give them ten free DVDs and they get to ---- a 19-year old girl. How else would they ---- a 19-year old girl?"

Rob's going to use porn girls in nurse's outfits and old guys in wheelchairs sucking on oxygen masks. There'll be an ambulence on set. "Hopefully one or two of them will die," Rob says.

It's a dull overcast day. The sun occasionally peaks through. I sit outside on a lawnchair and finish The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution. I then proceed halfway into Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports.

I stay on set until 3:40 p.m.

At the XBiz party at 11916 Ventura Blvd Thursday night, I'm asked why I don't put up press releases. "I don't help people," I respond. "I only hurt people."

Porno Dave Micheals married 15 years ago at the porn convention in Las Vegas. He and his wife were fans. They they started videotaping interviews. Dave's wife held the camera. Many girls preferred to talk to her because she was young and cute.

Terri Redor (TheFloatingWorld) loses his voice after 20 minutes. The poor guy's got a masters degree in classical languages, a face for radio and a voice for painting.

I ask Christina of SugarDvd.com who she hates about the industry. "Not being treated as a professional," she says. "I'm treated as though the next day I will be in the porn, not just directing."

The youngest of four says her siblings give her a hard time about her porn work. They don't see much of a difference between directing porn and performing in porn. "If I weren't directing, someone else would,' she responds.

"If my mother knew what I was going, she'd die," says Christina.

Sometimes Christina, 22, feels bad about the girls. Some of them come in wired on drugs. She wants to save them but realizes that they won't remember her in an hour.

XBiz parties and publications have the relaxed low-key personality of their own Alec Helmy. He does not appear to give much thought to AVN. He concerns himself with extending his own business models and industry relationships. He doesn't interfere with the editorial process (except to set strict standards of what type of language is acceptable).

Derek Hay walks up with three girls from his agency LA Direct Models. One of them is under 21. "We're leaving," he announces and they walk off.

Derek runs a tight ship and tries to keep everybody in his agency on the same page. One for all and all for one. If one girl can't get in, then they are all leaving.

Luke: do you know if this website is actually run or affiliated with Devon? Devonunleashed.com?
Luke: I almost had two accidents on my drive home Thursday night, both my fault.
Luke: I was barreling down laurel canyon to susnset blvd, i heard sirens at last minute so i gunned it and almost smashed into two police cars coming eastbound on Sunset. I slammed on my brakes, as did they, then they went on their way and me mine
HollyRandall: was there some awesome porn party last night or something?
Luke: have you ever read lukeisback?
HollyRandall: not today
HollyRandall: or yesterday
Luke: I'm fine-tuning my LIVES ON THE EDGE book...last chapter ends with our story, ending NYE. If you'll approve, you might give me some pics, if you have them, of some of the main characters. It's my best porn star profiles/interviews.
HollyRandall: that book sounds really interesting, are you cramming your idea for "The Last Shiksa" in the last chapter?
Luke: yes
HollyRandall: can't wait to read that last chapter, oye
HollyRandall: so my members really like Kendra
Luke: Just sent you the book
HollyRandall: via email?
Luke: no, the hardcover version by UPS
HollyRandall: i didn't realize you had my address
Luke: of course by email, i dont have your address
Luke: which always stumped me when I tried to send flowers.
HollyRandall: now that's funny
Luke: I just gave up.
Luke: The book won't come out for a year or two unless I self-publish, which would then be six months approx
Luke: yeah, so bits that might seem a bit raw now, with time, won't matter as much. It's not like putting it on the web.
HollyRandall: is this just basically all your blogs on me put together or did you add a lot of writing to it?
Luke: 40-50% new?
Luke: I'm going to sculpt it, sharpen it, try to look for more parallels with the chapters that went before, so I'm revealing that I am a life on the edge too like the people I interview.
HollyRandall: do you think this will be your best book?
Luke: No, I think my memoir is.
Luke: I reconstructed much of our dialogue from the Nightmoves awards from memory, so it might be distorted.
HollyRandall: how many times do you accuse me of being drunk in it?
HollyRandall: i'm printing out the chapter on me, of course. Is my chapter the longest?
Luke: Yes
HollyRandall: I feel so important
Luke: Wait till you read it. I just looked at my tampa report [Nightmoves awards] and I did not mention you (included lots of pics of you) because I did not know how you'd handle being written about, you said you heard I was a shark, and I did not want to ruin what could be a good thing.
HollyRandall: yes i remember reading that after we got back you did refer to me once or twice but only i would pick up on that
Luke: I was determined to show I was not a shark.
HollyRandall: Do you think you succeeded?
Luke: I did the appropriate thing, waited to gauge your tolerance for being written about and always accommodated your requests.
HollyRandall: you've got a hell of a lot of back-handed compliments here, mister
Luke: I didn't write a word with you as the reader in mind.
HollyRandall: yeah, no kidding
Luke: I don't like to think of consequences when I write.
HollyRandall: it would muddy your skill
HollyRandall: damn i didn't realize i was such an awful person
Luke: I think of consequences 99.9% of time when I speak
HollyRandall: yeah you express a hell of a lot more in writing
HollyRandall: "my flab melted into a woman's curves"?
HollyRandall: lol that's funny in an incredibly insulting way
Luke: I might've left the love out of it...i find it hard to express affection in my writing.
Luke: i fear being sappy, easier to be dispassionate
HollyRandall: yeah so far most of it is you trying to sleep with me
HollyRandall: wow i just got a message from a guy who is going to have his nephew tattoo my work all over him when he gets out of jail
HollyRandall: i told him to send me pics when he does
Luke: your photos of chairs or what?
Luke: did you plead with not to do it or did you offer your body?
HollyRandall: yes my photos of chairs and tables, all those photos of furniture i take
Luke: your beaver shots are good honey, but you're best with furniture and dishes.
Luke: You bring out their inner beauty.
Luke: That's why I believe in you.
HollyRandall: i just want someone to get a picture of ME tattooed on them
HollyRandall: it would just be funny
Luke: You find amusement in someone's mutilation?
HollyRandall: you know i hate tattoos
Luke: I'm gonna tattoo your face on my head
HollyRandall: that won't make the mark that your last chapter in your book will on me
Luke: "Here comes Holly!"
Luke: I'm rewriting it and putting in the loooove.
HollyRandall: so far, your intentions are far from honorable and you seem to be wondering why you are spending time with a drunk.
Luke: Everyone wants to know if I banged you last Saturday night.
Luke: Can't a man and woman have a cup of tea and look at photos of furniture without stampeding off to the clitoris?
HollyRandall: not in the porno world
HollyRandall: we're all nymphomaniacs with no sense of self-restraint, remember?
HollyRandall: oh yeah and we do shots at dinner
HollyRandall: in between our glasses of red wine
HollyRandall: why didn't you just write that i carried a bottle of vodka with me everywhere?
Luke: Some things have to be kept sacred.
HollyRandall: or better yet, i was hooked up to an IV that pumped me full of liquor 24/7
HollyRandall: hell i could use one of those now