Rumors [as yet unsubstantiated] about Lisa Ann committing suicide, prompted a conversation with Bionca who keeps in touch with Debi Diamond about as much as anyone. Diamond has been the frequent object of the same kinds of stories.
Bionca: "She's in Chicago. I don't know what little town, but it's a small town. The last time I spoke to her, she was married and very happy. When she located in Chicago she had been on the road dancing. So, I assume, she met him [her husband] in Chicago and decided to stay and settle down. She cut her hair really short. She had sent me a picture of her sitting at the dinner table with his family. She looked very happy. The part about her having a baby, I'm not quite sure. She never said that herself so I don't know if that's a rumor or true."
Bionca's company, Exquisite Pleasures, exquisitepleasures.com comes out this week with David Christopher's Bikini Babes. Next week sees John C. Friendly's Big Tool Time, Part 2.
"Seeing that it was a new name, John Friendly, never heard of, a brand new title, the first volume sold pretty good," Bionca says. "Not as well as I would have like it to, but, considering...The re-orders have been not bad. I think once people get familiar with it, it will do very well. After that, we'll have Solveig's Way, Part 2. Part 1 did very well. She's really enthused with what she's doing. I'm proud to have her line here. After that we'll have Everybody Wants Some, Part 5. Mine. Something from Bionca herself. It's all-girl, and I'm very proud of that line. The key is to get releases out at least every week."
Bionca says she bought Santino Lee's Sex TV Nubian Princess series outright. "The title had been at New Sensations before. Before that Patrick Collins had it. It didn't do well. Then, boom, it landed here. I thought it would be a great idea to come up with something fresh and new. Santino went and talked with Henri Pachard. We had a meeting last Friday. I suggested that he [Lee] change the title, get away from Sex TV. At the meeting Santino was talking about there being 42 shades of color in the black race. I said, boom, there you go. Call it 42 Shades of Color. I think it's a great title, and there's a great story behind it. That's going to be Part 1. It'll be shot differently and will get away from that Sex TV. I think that's the only way it would ever work."
Bionca says she'd like to recruit more directors but thinks the good ones are taken up. "I don't get to go out much anymore as I used to in the days when I was on the sets all the time, meeting different directors and talent."
