la comes to the Los Angeles Convention Center, June 11 to 13. Historically, the first show was held at the Hollywwod Palladium. This is the second year at the Convention Center.
Director Ron Miller has this to say.
Miller: "We're close to being sold-out. If I sold a couple more booths, it wouldn't hurt me. Right now we have 147 booths. Wicked has 900 square feet. They're bringing their booth up from Vegas. Eddie W. with Goalie has the same size. That'll be the very center of the hall. Cream came on yesterday. Basically the Vivid girls, the Metro talent including Ron Jeremy, Video Team's contract gals and Odyssey are all in Goalie's booth. Jill Kelly has her own booth along with Astral Ocean. I think Christy Canyon is going to wind up in a booth with Tabitha Stevens. That's Don Osterholt's booth, so I don't know if Tabitha is going to continue in that booth with Melanie Stone or whether Christy Canyon's going to that booth. I haven't heard back from Don on that.
"We're 8,000 square feet bigger than last year. We'll be in the same hall as adult will be in for this year's VSDA show. The area outside the hall will also give us a greater degree of accessibility. It's going to cut down on the long lines. The long lines make for good press but they don't work well for the exhibitor/vendors. We've made our aisles two feet wider. From that standpoint we're looking real good.
"I've got a lot of my artists who are returning, plus four or five erotic photographers, a painter, a sculptor - that kind of stuff which is going to be along the back wall. This new line, "Lover's Caught On Tape" - this guy got started because he was doing that deal for TV like with that guy fishing in the coffee pot, the secretary xeroxing her tits - he took his outtakes, added some stage stuff to it and came out with a line of tape for the mainstream. His product has been getting some fantastic reviews on E! Entertainment. He was on E! and gave out our website saying that he was going to be at Erotica LA. In four hours, we clocked over 111,000 visitors to our site - drove my web master out of his mind. Web Power is coming up from Florida and bringing the cyber dildo that connects to the computer. Howard Stern's been going crazy with that.
"Right now we're talking to Tom Leykis about doing a remote [June 11]. All of the smaller companies will be bringing talent as well. We're going to have good oddity-type stuff like sex chairs; very little fetish - I got one fetish clothing and one fetish magazine. Adult Video Stars magazine from Florida will be there. Hopefully we'll have AVN there - all they have to do is pick a booth. We got a lot of support from LFP - they're going to have a large presence, from all five divisions. I think we'll appeal not only to the fans but the mainstream. We're offering a lot of product. We have the Duro2000 product there; the Herbal Vigor product there. AIM, we comp a booth to, that's one of our contributions to the industry, as is Free Speech. Both Mitch [Sharon Mitchell] and Bill [Margold] have their booths. They're situated where they can both have their crack at the crowds.
"The show continues to grow. We've tried every year to pick up where the shortfalls have been. We've increased aisle space, we've tightened up on security so we don't get into the situation we got into last year with Alisha Klass and the Tushy girls. That got way out of hand. [The matter goes to trial the end of May. Alisha Klass and Samantha Styles were charged with indecent exposure last year.] In designing the floor space this year we've tried to spread the talent around so we don't get crowds in one given area. We're leaving areas for people who are sell merchandise or promoting things. They don't need those kinds of crowds. One of our vendors who has a large booth space will be broadcasting out live over the Internet. The feed will be going through my site as well as their site. This is for people all over the country who want to catch Erotica LA over the Internet.
