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The video clips were taken with my tiny DiMage X31 (cost about $250 two years ago). There's no sound.
As I walk up to the LFP studio May 16, a guy stops me and asks if I work here. I say no.
He says his friend, pointing to a Latino guy covered with tattoos, has a ten inch dick and wants to work in porn to make money. "He just got out of jail. He's on the phone now with his pregnant girlfriend."
I say that I doubt LFP is looking for guys [though they are starting up a gay line called His, run by Jim Steele].
I go inside.
I meet the beautiful new assistant Grace. She's hotter and younger-looking than any porn girl. LFP's head of production, Drew Rosenfeld, tells me to be nice to her. It's just the third day on the job for his wife's sister.
I sit down with John E. Depth and boom across the room: "OK, Grace, watch a master at work."
She gives a little smile, the kind you give to guys who are hitting on you and you want to politely tell them to buzz off.
I look earnestly into John's eyes, wish they were Grace's breasts, and say: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
John, with equal earnestness: "That's a good question.
"I wanted to play sports."
Luke: "What did your parents expect you to become?"
John: "They just wanted me to go to school and graduate college and after that the ball is in my court."
I look up. Grace is paying me no mind. Sheesh, even with that LA Weekly cover, my street cred (she's got tats so she must be ghetto, right?) is zero.
Luke: "Are your parents together?"
John says yes.
I about fall off the couch. "Not many people in porn have parents who are still together."
John: "That is correct."
Luke: "You had a happy childhood?"
John: "Yeah."
Luke: "Are there any similar things people have been saying to you your entire life?"
John: "People always thought I was entertaining. I was a practical joker. I was into the arts, writing poetry. This was destined to be."
Luke: "What crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"
John: "Guys who were into music."
Luke: "The band?"
John: "Oh no. This was the age of hip-hop."
Luke: "Was there a hip-hop band at your school?"
John: "No. Hip-hop hadn't hit the mainstream yet."
John says he graduated from college with a degree in "English. Media journalism. North Carolina Central in Durham. An all-black college. It was like the [1983-87] TV show A Different World.
"If only it had more variety of people, a mixture of white and asian, it would benefit you more in the corporate world.
"When I graduated college, I became a flight attendant. That's where I got my training in different cultures."
John says got into porn on a dare. "I just wanted to do the layouts in the magazines with the girls. One thing led to another. Here I am."
Luke: "How are black people treated in the Adult industry?"
John laughs. "You're going to open up a can of worms. As a black man in porno, you're treated better than in corporate America... I did the law firm thing. I was a paper pusher.
"The advantage of being a black man in the industry is your penis. You got a big penis and you're black, pretty much good."
Luke: "How did your family react to your getting into porn?"
John: "My Mother didn't like it because I'm the youngest."
John's girlfriend of the past two years is Diana DeVoe.
Luke: "Do you do interracial?"
John: "Yes."
Luke: "It doesn't interfere with your feature dancing bookings?"
John: "No."
I wander outside and run into Hillary Scott and Jasmine Byrne. I snap some photos. As Jasmine raises her top, Hillary tells her, "He doesn't put pictures of naked boobies on his site. Nor profanity."
I go into the dressing room.
Kat says she hasn't had a boyfriend since she entered porn two years ago. "They'll try to take advantage of you. They think you're stupid and that you make a lot of money and they stop paying for you. I drop them. I don't like relationships."
Naomi, Kat and Victoria are working on their seventies dance movies.
"You were alive in the seventies," Naomi says to me. "How did they dance then?"
Victoria is married to male perfomer Sean Rivera, whose mother worked as a secretary for Western Visuals a decade ago.
Alana Evans is a swinger. She used to be much less discriminating with her sexual partners until she had a nightmarish situation in 2001.
Alana: "She [ex-performer Cheryl Dynasty] told her boyfriend that she was going to leave him and move in with Chris [Alana's boyfriend of almost seven years, they are about to marry on their seventh anniversary -- November 14] and I. We had no idea. I had already kicked the chick to the curb because she was a loony bin.
"She bailed on him. One morning, he parks outside our house and blocks our car in and asks for her. I say, 'Dude, I haven't seen her. We're not friends anymore.' He said, 'Oh, that's cool. I was going to come over and kill you.'
"He opens a backpack and pulls out a gun and holds it by the handle. He said he was going to kill Jules Jordan because Jules had just done her first boy-girl scene.
"After that incident, I told everybody I knew what she had done. She got kicked out [of performing]. She now works behind the scenes for one of the major companies in the business.
"I don't want to deal with nutty little chicks."
Alana's asked why her relationship has lasted so long.
Alana: "We have rules. If a chick is totally psycho, he's not going to f--- her. If a guy is totally disrespectful to him, I'm not going to have sex with that guy."
Have you ever fallen in love with one of your co-stars?
"No."
I interview Naomi. She says that as a kid, she wanted to become an attorney. "I almost finished law school. I worked as a legal analyst for four years before I got into porn."
Luke: "How far did you go in law school?"
Naomi: "Four-and-a-half years."
Luke: "How much more do you have to go?"
Naomi: "About a year-and-a-half. I was an apprentice, so it is a longer degree."
She says she got her undergraduate degree in Political Science.
Jeff Mullen (credited as the director Will Rider) walks in: "This is the scene where Britney and Jasmine are walking down the hall. They don't realize they are in 1974."
"It's like Goodfellas," says Jeff about his set and movie. "Only not quite as good."
He turns to a girl. "You can wear panties."
Naomi: "I chose it over Liberal Arts because Political Science is the study of the way things work. So no matter what happens, your degree doesn't out-age itself."
Luke: "Were you a good student in highschool?"
Naomi: "I was homeschooled, so of course I was good. My parents taught me. I graduated when I was 13."
Luke: "Why were you homeschooled?"
Naomi: "Because my parents don't believe in governmental systems."
Luke: "Are they anarchists? Christians?"
Naomi: "They're Jews. When they came here, they were highly disappointed with the country. My father is from Israel. My mom is from Slovakia. My dad wants us to go back to Europe because of the war and everything."
She has five brothers and sisters. "I'm the oldest daughter and the second oldest child."
Naomi got her first boyfriend at 13. They married when she was 18. After about six years, they split ten months ago and Naomi immediately got into porn.
Luke: "How old were you when you lost your virginity?"
Naomi: "If you consider complete penetration, I was 15."
Luke: "Did you get into porn as revenge on your ex?"
Naomi: "Oh no. I consider porn to be a great thing.
"I've always been a sexual person. I consider [America] to be so close-minded [about sex] and outside of the industry it's not openly talked about. I thought if I could be one person in a group of people enjoying sex, exploiting sex, and talking about it and being a symbol of freedom..."
She hates her seventies outfit. "The thing I hate the most [about porn] is wearing ugly clothes. If I don't feel secure in how I look, it's hard for me to perform confidently in my scene."
Luke: "How did you like your scene with Khan Tusion?"
Naomi: "It was funny. He was trying hard to diss me because I'm a Jew and he's Jewish. It was so phony. Because I knew what he was doing, it wasn't affecting me. But the girl I was doing the scene with was crying. Both scenes I did for him.
"He was offering me money to feel sad and to cry. I said no."
She says she's done at least 100 scene. "I work almost every day."
Naomi says Victoria in her afro looks black. "You're a beautiful black girl," says Naomi. "There's nothing wrong with that. My dad has a jewfro. It looks just like that only he's Jewish. My hair was always permed straight."
Though she went to school for it, Naomi never got a bat mitzvah.
"I want to take care of my family so they never have to worry about poverty."
Luke: "How did your family react to your getting into porn?"
Naomi: "They're very supportive. They love me. They trust my judgment."
She says her ex has not reacted well to her becoming a porn star. "I left him but he knew it was coming."
Luke: "How long did you know you were going to leave him?"
Naomi: "Probably two years. I still love him but he makes bad choices and he chooses not to change. It was eating at my heart and my soul being with him. The stronger and stronger it was for him to go in the wrong path, the stronger was my decision to leave him. Finally, I just did it.
"I don't date now."
Luke: "Did you lose any friends over it?"
Naomi: "I don't have any friends. From being married and taking care of my boyfriend and husband all those years. I have my family and my ex."
Johnny Castle, 26, from New Jersey started in porn last May. He moved to Los Angeles in February. He loves it here. He's done over 100 scenes.
"What I love most is the freedom. I have a lot of time on my hands. I pick my own schedule. Usually, at most, you work a couple of hours a day.
"What I hate most is that it's not accepted. It's more accepted out here. There's a big family of people who all do the same thing.
"I've always been in long relationships. It's good to have my own time. It's tougher to have relationships when you're working in this industry."
Later I overhear Naomi talking with Kat and Victoria and other porn girls about how they spend their money. Naomi is the most emphatic about using hers to take care of her family but the other girls sound a similar note.
I ask Hillary Scott if there's any drama in her life.
Hillary: "I had an assistant living with me. A person that was a close friend. He was HIV-positive. He's a former drug addict. I let him live with me. At the time, I was directing, so I needed a PA on set. He was like my best friend. I totally trusted him. One day he disappeared. I called him and called him for two days. Finally I reached him and he's in Chicago. He just split.
"He said, 'I don't like the way you treat me.' I said, 'What are you talking about? I got you off drugs. I gave you a job.' He tried to pull the act that I was a bad person to work for.
"As soon as I realized what happened, I looked at my bank account and sure enough he's been writing himself checks [to the total amount of $2,000]."
This HIV-positive ex-friend (her gay cousin's ex-boyfriend) gave Talon, T.T. Boy's brother, a blowjob.
Hillary says that if a penis is over ten inches long, she charges more for an anal scene.
Luke: "How much do you charge for Asians?"
Everybody laughs. She says she's never worked with an Asian. "It's not anti-Asian discrimination. I don't know. I never seen an Asian man's penis."
To help Jeff Mullen get everyone's attention, Hillary shows her breasts.
I look away to avoid the moral pollution. When I get married, things are going to be special in a way that porners will never understand.
There are three behind-the-scenes cameras rolling around the set and and several still photographers (Bill Diehl shoots the boxcover) and several press photographers and several journalists, including Gram Ponante and AVN's Carlos Martinez.
A source says: "The story of why Jessica Sweet is no longer Britney Rears is a much better story than Hillary Scott is now Britney Rears."
Jessica is still doing scenes while putting herself through beauty school.
The ratio of porn DVDs sold to VHS is now about 80/20.
The Dominos pizza guy drops off about 20 boxes of pizza. Alana Evans says to him, "You sure there isn't some other way we can pay for this?"
Jeff Hawkins (the head of LFP Video) brings his girl Ora (of the past three-and-a-half years) to her first porn set. She brings a beautiful Israeli friend.
"I'm in charge of the big picture," he tells her.
The two women get tired of the set quickly and leave.
I interview Melissa Martinez. In porn for five months, she's done about 25 scenes. Before that, she was a stripper and wrestled nude in hot oil. Before that, she worked for over a year in retail (Forever21).
"I don't make a good stripper. I don't like asking guys if they want a lap dance.
"I don't like 9-5 [regular jobs].
"I was a good student in highschool. I ended up with a 3.89 GPA. I just didn't go to college. I would love to. Right now, I have to settle some things out, move out on my own. Take care of myself and then jumb back into it. That's the good thing about porn. It's so easy to go to school, do [porn], and still make a decent living."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about being in porn?"
Melissa: "I hate that it's so repetitive. This is my first feature. I have a small part but it's still better than the gonzo.
"I love sex. I love meeting new people every day."
Luke: "How's your family reacted?"
Melissa: "They don't know. My sister knows and my girlfriend knows but everybody else thinks I'm modeling. I eventually want to tell my family but not while I'm living at home. If I'm not under your roof, I can do what I want. It's hard not telling them. I hope they'll understand. For any parent, it's a shocker. It's a risk I'm willing to take."
Luke: "What crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"
Melissa: "I didn't hang out with anyone from highschool. Everyone I talked to was outside of highschool. I chose not to associate with people from my school."
Luke: "Were you with the stoners?"
Melissa laughs. "I still am. I'll never let them go."
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Melissa: "I wanted to model. I wanted to do something in fashion. I hope that is still an accomplishment within reach."
Melissa stands 5'5".
Luke: "How would you compare porn to stripping and wrestling?"
Melissa: "As stupid as it sounds, it's more of a career move than working at a strip club every day. You see girls doing lapdances to pay the bills and feed their kids and it's sad. Porn is an actual business and an actual career and I can see myself going somewhere, whether it be further in the porn business or in modeling. This way is easier for me to expose myself and exploit myself."
Luke: "What are your favorite and least favorite parts of your body?"
Melissa: "I've wanted to like my boobs, my small boobs. I've wanted a breast job of course. But being naked and hearing, 'They look nice on you. Don't get a boob job.' I've learned to like them and I think they're my favorite part now.
"My least favorite is my butt because I don't have one. I need to work out. I need to do some squats or something."
Luke: "How does it affect your love life?"
Melissa: "It doesn't. I have a girlfriend. I've been with her for a year-and-a-half now. It's easier than having a boyfriend. She shot with me once. Other than that, she's not in the business."
Melissa works with guys on camera. "I've only done one or two girl-girl scenes in the business."
Jeff Mullen's All Media Play business partner Scott has owned hair salons in West Hollywood all his adult life. "He's the only straight hair dresser in West Hollywood," says Jeff.
As I sit on the couch with Johnny Castle, he rubs his penis through his shorts. Call me old fashioned, but it makes me uncomfortable, though not to the point where I stand up and move away.
Britney Rears? The fact that I can say that name with a straight face tells me I really need a vacation.
The Texas Legislature is now out of special session and I'm completely out of material to write about, until the next NSA wiretap/phone tracing/massive government intrusion scandal breaks. I've been reduced to writing about how much I hate The Da Vinci Code. No Mary Carey news, nothing about about her gubernatorial bid? No imminent threat of an ass herpes outbreak in the adult biz?
By the way, nice work with the video clips. Were those taken with a secret, undercover, hidden Lukecam on your lapel, or did they actually let you on set with a Handicam? And the pictures of Kat, priceless. She's much too cute to be in porn. She should consider a career move to teachers assistant at a community college. Or a blogger's wife... but then she really wouldn't be making the kind of money she's used to.
Jeff Mullen of All Media Play responds:
Luke,
Let me set the record straight regarding the Britney Rears franchise of movies. It was quite amusing to read that your source said that there ‘were plenty of nice paydays for All Media Play and that she (the actress who played ‘Britney’ in the first to movies) never got paid for any of it”.
Wow, and I thought that I was a good fiction writer!
I along with Scott David and my staff created the entire Britney Rears project and All Media Play/X-Play own all rights, copyrights and masters to the name, likeness and title.
Jessica Sweet is an actress who agreed to play the role of Britney Rears back when she was hustling for scenes as a new actress. She made two successful movies for us playing the part of ‘Britney’, shot 6 sex scenes, and participated in a number of high profile promotional dates and was paid quite handsomely for her services.
Jessica is as sweet as pie and we love her, however, there was always a ton of promotional work available, most all of it paid that she really didn’t want to do. The truth is that she no longer really wanted to be a porn actress and she will tell you that.
Of course, with all of the visibility of this project nationwide, Jessica had ‘many people’ talking to her advising her about the fact that she should be a millionaire by now. Obviously, those people must not work in the same adult entertainment industry that I do because if those monetary figures were anywhere in the ballpark, I would wear the wig and sing the damn song myself.
Like the original Britney movie, Britney Rears 2 is a major smash hit and we just completed principal production on ‘Britney Rears 3: Britney Rears Gets Shafted’ which will be the biggest of all with Hillary Scott playing the role of Britney. We know exactly how much money was paid to Jessica Sweet over the past year and a half and it was more than many make working full time job. Jessica was never under any exclusive contract with our company or with LFP as she was ALWAYS free to continue to shoot scenes with anybody that she wished. She just could not use the name Britney, Britney Rears or wear the wig.
We are thrilled to be working with Hillary Scott who is one of my all time favorites and perfect for the part and we just want to have some fun and continue the goofy adventure that is ‘Britney Rears’. By the way our new movie ‘Britney Rears Gets Shafted’ has nothing to do with anybody getting paid or not paid but does have everything to do with the feel good times of the 70s when disco and soul music ruled.
