An army career certainly didn't hurt Johnni Black who became a Best New Starlet. So you ask yourself, can the howitzer shell strike twice? Ex army M.P., and former staff sergeant, Rikki Anderson, has signed with John T. Bone's Cream Entertainment Group Inc. Anderson, a blond, who spent a total of seven years in the army, served one hitch, and left the military to try her hand in the porn industry. She did three features under the Amazing banner for Bone when he was at Metro - Double the Pleasure Double the Fun; Rug Munchers and Tight Ass. But Anderson decided that she missed the military and re-enlisted.
"You had access to so many things," she says. "Then I decided I wanted to try porn again. I guess it's a double-addiction: porn/military." Bone sees Anderson as a natural for his new series of wrestling vids which premier with Hardcore Championship Fucking which is being edited as we speak.
Gene Ross: "How many people did you kill while in uniform?"
Anderson: "Any one who didn't get me off, first. If you can't get me off, you're fucked."
Ross: "My nickname is Cape Canaveral, so what does that tell you?"
Bone: "If the weather's not good, you have to cancel."
Anderson: "What I liked about the army was the demands they do put on you- the drug-free, the physical thing, the always be all you can be - it's a real lifestyle. I love that demand of being the best Rikki Anderson can be. What I didn't like were the demands - the demands that you don't sleep with this particular person, the demands that you don't go to this location. There are places that are off limits to you just because you are a soldier. The army's all about outdoing each other, too. Who can shine. Who's the biggest stud. It feeds into your personal life as well."
Anderson remembers an amusing instance after her first tour of the porn industry.
Anderson: "Here I am in May of '98 in a bookstore off the PX. A friend of mine was going, "Rikki, Rikki, look.' He had a Penthouse magazine. I hadn't been anywhere near the industry, I hadn't shot anything in God-knows-how-long. But right there in the reviews is a picture of me as Rikki Anderson doing the movie Tight Ass. He's like oh-my-God. Within one hour, the entire Ft. Lewis base was like a fire. There's no doubt that the military is a great base for pornography to hang a target audience. One time I did a routine squad leader check, and I walk in and there's a TV playing a porno, and there's two guys on the same couch, not intimately involved, but both were jacking off. How horrible would that have been if that were my movie and I walked in."
Bone: "What we're doing, obviously, is sliding right into the wrestling-stuff. She's fit and a natural for that. This week we'll be starting a movie called Major Slut. Because I've got Jennie Lee MacKenzie who's ex-Navy and Zöe who's an army brat, we're going to do military-based pornography and see where it goes. I'd like it to go to series. Right now we're going to play up this whole military aspect of her [Anderson's] life.
"She's so fresh, vibrant and energetic. She's literally, straight out of uniform. It's only been a couple of weeks since she walked off the army base. This is as raw as it gets. To make a movie of any value, today, there has to be some other hook. Just another pretty girl who takes it in the ass is like a yawn, to be honest. After 15 years and thousands and thousands of pretty girls who take it up the ass, there has to be something a little more. I'm fascinated by the military aspects because I'm going to be bringing a lot more violence into my movies. That's why we're working on the wrestling movie. It's a taboo area. I like the fact that Rikki is real pretty, but I know that she can kill me. I'm fascinated by that. After the interview we're going to an armory. We'll be renting major weapons, because she can strip them down and put them back together, and that's fascinating because she's real pretty.
"I carry a picture of a movie from the Sixties in my head. Do you remember If [the Lindsay Anderson film about a student revolt]? There was a scene when all the young boys were out playing football, and the nurse, this fat old tramp, was naked and was walking through the boys' changing room where all the clothes were hanging, and there was a very sexual moment because you could see that her sexual thing was the fascination with young boys. I want to set up this armory and shoot Rikki naked walking through all these weapons. I want to bring the sexuality that comes with what she's been doing. She's been telling me stories about the sexuality among these people in the army. It's really fucking weird. It's whacked. You start to understand that you take a bunch of young people and you train them to peak athletic ability and then put them all in circumstances where they live together and are naked and they shower and they fuck like bunnies because they can die tomorrow. Rikki has just walked out of seven years of all that sexuality.
"The last thing I want to do is to make her have big hair and turn her into a typical porn bimbo. She's bringing this stuff that I don't know about, and that fascinates me. She's bringing an element of danger and violence which is what I'm trying to bring into my movies anyway. If I'm interested in a person as a person, then that's where the contractual obligations come more in because she can teach me stuff I don't know, she can make me put things in my movies that I've never shot before. It's real tough when you've passed the 400 mark in movies to keep stuff fresh. The worst thing in life is been-there, done-that, shot-that and watching people copy what I did 10 years ago and get accolades of success for what I've done. But she can bring a new thought process to what I'm doing which means I can make fresher movies. I'm very excited about working with her. And there's always that element that if I piss her off, she can kill me.
"One of the silly, nutty things that she told me that also fascinates me is, look at her hair. She's a really pretty blond. She's a natural blond. You're not allowed to put any chemicals in your hair in the military. It's just an odd thing you take away from women. Think of all the girls in porn. How many of them have natural hair color?
Anderson was stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington in the regional consignment facility. "I was an M.P. and worked in an all-male prison. I was in a total of seven years," Anderson says. She concedes that it's hard to make the switch to civilian life after all that time.
Anderson: "It's hard to give up even the reserves. There's a part of me that's brainwashed, whatever you want to call it. It's a part of what you are. That's why I went back. But there's so many restrictions. It's so controlling on what you can do, sexually and non-sexually. For somebody to be able tell you who you can do and who you can't do...you're a soldier 24 hours a day and a person no hours of the day. That's the hardest part.
Ross: "You were an M.P. and didn't come out a raging butch?"
Anderson [smiling]: "Who said I wasn't a raging bulldyke? There was this thing that I learned in the military, the fact that I could look feminine had its advantages with the women and the men. It was like, 'My God, look at this lipstick....[lesbian]. So, if I wanted to swing that way, hey...if I wanted to swing the other way it was, "Oh look at this chick that you can't totally believe she's in the army when she's out of uniform."
Anderson explains her reasons for coming into the business.
Anderson: "I get to express myself, sexually, in a way that everybody can see. In the army it was always a secret. I don't want it to be a secret. I want it to be open. I want the world to see. This is a fantasy. This is part of who I am. I've tasted it. It's kind of like when you taste the whipped cream or the icing on the cake. You really want to take a bite of the whole thing. That's where I'm at."
Ross: "What's your position on doing hard time?"
Anderson: "It's much better being the guard."
Ross: "How many creative uses do you have for a night stick?"
Anderson: "I have a stage show with one. I was in San Francisco last week doing it. I have two different versions - a civilian cop version and a military cop version. They usually go off pretty well. I didn't dance while on active duty - that was another restriction. That's not allowed. I did maintain some intimacy with the industry through a waitress at a club. I stayed in touch with some friends, but you have so many restrictions."
Anderson, who has been dancing on and off for about four years, is in town for a couple of weeks. "I'll never be in LA for any extended period," says Anderson who's currently making her home in Kentucky. Anderson could have opted to continue a civilian career in the Kentucky state prison system. "I tested tops in the state and was offered a position, but I think there's other things I want to do. During this last tour in the military I completed my Masters in Prison Administration."
Ross: "You could be a warden. You could have been like Ida Lupino in an old women's prison movie."
Bone: "Wasn't that a Gourmet release?"
