Max Hardcore Prepares for First 'Howard Stern' Appearance
By: Peter Warren
Posted: 09/13/2007
ALTADENA, Calif. - Max
Hardcore has been invited for the first time ever to appear on "The Howard
Stern Show," in a Sept. 24 segment that will present him, Jim Powers and
Pariah Pictures' Mike Sullivan as porn's "most outrageous" trio of
producers.
Hardcore will be bringing along favorite porn gal
Layla, and hopes to use the appearance as a fun but informative platform to speak
his mind about the federal obscenity charges currently leveled against him by
the Department of Justice.
"I look at it as a real good opportunity to get
the word out on our case," Hardcore told AVN. "The setup for the show
is we're going to be, as I understand it, interviewing a woman who's either
considering getting into the business or is just starting out and wants to get
hired, and we grill her to assess if she's ready for primetime or not. So that
opens up a lot of interesting possibilities, and we could really have some fun
with that.
"Part of my strategy in my current legal battle
with the government," he continued, "[is] to take the offensive, and
get the message out that we're outraged that the government would file against
me in an attempt to shut me down and silence my voice because they don't agree
with what I have to say. And going so
far as to come up with outrageous lies, the number one lie being my movies
portray severe violence towards women. I don't know what movie they were
watching, but my movies have no severe violence in them of any kind, especially
directed towards women. There's no hitting, there's no beating, there's no
heavy choking. Of course there's spanking and light slapping and so forth, but
far, far from what any reasonable person would conclude is severe violence. If
they want to see severe violence towards women, all they have to do is turn on
the television during primetime or go to the movies, and they're gonna see
stuff that's a hundred times worse than anything I would do.
"So the only thing I can think of,"
Hardcore speculated, "is that they interpret me riding a girl like a
crazed cowboy and spanking her ass as inflicting of severe violence towards
them. And I can only conclude from that that, well, they just never had good
sex before!"
Hardcore was
required to request special permission from the Tampa, Florida judge presiding
over his case to travel to New York for the "Stern" appearance, and
he said that while he expects the request will be approved, having to make it
in the first place angers him even more.
"This is another outrage," he said.
"I'm effectively, in direct contrast to the Constitution, I'm presumed to
be guilty before I've been convicted. So part of that is, they restrict my travel.
They've taken my passport; if I want to travel out of the southern California area, I have
to make a formal request to the presiding judge well enough in advance that
they can take their leisurely time and grant me permission. I think that's
pretty outrageous.
"There's no reason they shouldn't grant
it," he surmised, "and if they do
deny it, it would cast them in a pretty bad light."
Hardcore said he expects to receive an answer to the
request within a week or so, and that because he was already granted permission
to travel to the Internext convention in Florida,
he sees no problem with this request being approved, as well.
"I'm expecting to be on ['Stern'] with
Layla," he asserted, "and I'm hoping that we can make a really
memorable and funny and informative show, and hopefully one of the best shows
that they've had in a long time."
