Not to get too Cheech & Chong on ya, but Things Are Tough All Over ... and so Richie Zaye of Zaye Entertainment is going with his strengths.
"If you knew my background, if you knew me, it's kind of out of my M.O., but I have to stick with what I'm kind of tagged with, and what people know," Zaye told AVN. "I guess I've been branded. I don't know how that happened, but it just kind of did."
For the past couple of years, Zaye has been putting out some top-selling tranny titles. So when customers are looking for good tranny action, one of the first names they'll think of is Zaye.
"I've shot a number of decent things, which have done really well in terms of sales, but you have to change it up a little bit," Zaye said. "Now, with my latest title, Tranny Cum Swap, which releases on Election Day, Nov. 4, it's five scenes - one girl, one guy and one tranny - and the trannies in this movie are solid trannies; there's no limp ones around, because in the end, you'll see the guy squirts, and the TS and the girl lick it up and swap it back and forth, and you could actually see it. It's not like it goes off camera and then all of a sudden, boom. This doesn't happen that way. They're all very strong performers, including Anita Ferrara, Kalena, Laissa Lins, Monica Mattos - these girls are solid. They've got good-sized cranks on them, and they eat pussy - it seems like they really enjoy eating pussy, and they knock the bottom out of some of these girls, and then they'll dogpile."
Zaye notes that with a lot of tranny titles, the viewer only gets four scenes, so consider Zaye's titles as delivering a 25 percent bonus ... and then there's the fact that Tranny Cum Swap also has plenty of d.p. action, so retailers won't go wrong stocking this baby.
But that's not all.
"I have another one coming out shortly, the working title is Tranny Honeymoon, and it's also going to be five scenes," Zaye added. "We show a transsexual in her wedding dress, getting married to her husband, and they go off in a limousine, and it's going to be TS sex, but there will be a lot of bottom-licking. That'll be coming out in January for the [AEE] show."
Richie also tells us to look for some new products from his partner Michael under the Northstar Associates banner ... but shhhh! They're not ready to announce that yet. What they will say, however, is that Northstar's new VOD site, northstarondemand.com , is coming along well and delivering hot action to millions.