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6/21/01 I notice a striking pale young redheaded make-up artist on the set of Toni English's Naked Hollywood. I wonder if it is the notorious Red Velvet. Later in the day, I'm with Lauren Montgomery when Red Velvet, 25 years old, walks into the room. I'm dictating notes to my tape recorder. Red Velvet stares at me. "You're Luke F-rd," she says. She stares. I look back at her. She stares. I feel scared. I tense myself for an explosion. I know why she's staring at me. On January 30, I published this: Here's an excerpt from f---PaulFishbein.com: "Captain Bob, you've got a lovely daughter. Did you know that your bisexual offspring (she also happens to be that 23 year-old redhead we talked about earlier) has been f---ing both Stacy Valentine and Paul Fishbein? Don't worry about your reviews, though. 'cause Mark "I'm In the Pocket of Seymore Butts" Kernes is taking care of them. (Fat-ass kernes winning the reuben sturman award is a big f---ing joke.) C'mon, everybody sing: "She wore Red Velvet, oh whoa, redder than velvet were her eyes...softer than satin her tender thighs..." In the December, 1999 issue of AVN, Paul Fishbein under the pseudonym Max Bloom writes an article about Red Velvet, the woman he was f---ing." Luke says: Max Bloom is Paul Fishbein. Whether they've had relations, I don't know. One source tells me no. Fishbein does have a reputation for liking redheads. The article is the only time that I remember AVN giving this much space to a make-up artist. June 20 Update: So I absorb a piercing look from Red Velvet. I know from experience about the hot tempers of red heads. Red Velvet sits on the bed with Lauren and tells me the story above is completely false. She's not had sex with either Paul Fishbein or Stacy Valentine. After the allegations broke on the web site www.f---PaulFishbein.com, the AVN publisher called Red Velvet to apologize to her that her name had been dragged into the internet war against him. Paul Fishbein encountered Red Velvet at an internet trade show. He has a reputation for liking redheads. Paul, realizing that he was married and she had a boyfriend, took her to lunch at the Good Earth restaurant to interview her - the only time AVN has run a profile of a make-up artist. "It was probably because Paul realized that an interview was the only context in which he could appropriately take her to lunch," says a source. "Paul and Red Velvet have remained friends." Red Velvet has had a police officer boyfriend for three years. Red Velvet does not deny having sex with various members of the industry. Her father, Captain Bob, grew disillusioned with Christianity when she was 12 years old. Red Velvet, however, remained deeply religious until age 18. When she was 16, Captain Bob began working in the porn industry. Red Velvet completed a double major at Pepperdine University - in journalism and the humanities. She works in makeup around the adult industry and mainstream and aspires to be a actress. Captain Bob taught his daughter that it is ok to explore your sexuality so long as you: (a) Don't do it behind someone's back. (b) Don't hurt anyone's feelings. (c) make sure they're consenting adults. Luke: "What was your reaction when the story broke?" Red Velvet: "I just laughed... Sometimes you get drawn into things you don't want to be drawn into... I've learned to keep my mouth shut about the things I hear, even when it is innocent. "Of all the things that I've done, I'd thought some of the things that I've been so over the top and over with, would get talked about. Not things I've never done." When Alexa retired 4/3/01, she wrote about Red Velvet in her farewell to porno letter: "The best thing I found in this business was a girl by the name of Red Velvet. Thank you for believing in me. From the day we met, you told me I didn't belong in this industry, and I should have taken your advice. Now take mine. Get out, you're too good for this. I love you with all my heart." Red Velvet told me Wednesday: "When people act out, I know that it's because they're in a lot of pain. And Alexa obviously had bad relations with Wicked. And she was young. And the only thing I really gave her was motherly advice. She was adopted. Her first mother divorced her father and her stepmother was really awful. She lacked somebody to teach her how to be responsible and appropriate. She thanked me for giving her self confidence and for trying to show her how to be an appropriate adult." Luke: "Alexa wanted you to leave porno." Red Velvet: "I am not too good for anything. I love the people here. If I got a job in mainstream films, the only reason I would want to do it is because there's more money. The mainstream world is not all that it is cracked up to be. Many makeup artists on mainstream sets get $125 a day. I get a lot more appreciation and respect in this industry. But some union scale and some golden time would be nice." Luke: "Was it tough to grow up in this industry?" Red Velvet: "I was very religious until I was 18. When dad got into this business, it split the world in half and I had to find my own place. I'm not as extreme as my father. He says that as long as you don't hurt people, you're ok. But as Roussea said in Emile, the only way you can not hurt people is if you live in a cave. Sometimes my dad's extreme behavior is too much just like sometimes the Christian behavior is too much. You have to be aware of the people around you with what you're doing. Because I know the two extreme, I've found a nice middle ground. "My father is an ordained minister and he was involved in the ministry but he didn't have a congregation. It started going downhill in 1981 when we moved out to California because a brother in the church stole his business from him. He felt betrayed by the church and started questioning his own beliefs. In 1987, when I was 11, he stopped going to church. And five years later, he did his first porno. "People always think that's such a big turnaround. But it is the opposite end of the same behavior. It's like a pendulum. It's still trying to make everything ok. If this extreme doesn't work, I'm going to totally do the opposite and maybe that will work for me. But people find that that doesn't work either." Luke: "Boy, does that ever sound like my life." Bud Lee comes in and we all talk about our therapy and compare notes.
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