Heaven Leigh comments to Quasarman about his recent doings with Samantha Strong who stormed off a set: "Quasarman: Here is a thought" HIRE" girls that care about what they do and care about their "FANS". You come on here what, about every two months, about another girl that walked or got fucked up on drugs or alcohol and it cost you alot of money every time. Maybe you should start hiring girls that are not flakes and fakes and full of themselves and hire girls that will listen to you and will be on time because they are professional enough to know if you are a hour late that it can cost you and the company alot of money. Maybe the so called "BIG" names in the business don't think being professional and doing a good scene counts with there "BIG" name.
So Quasarmen, you go pick up Nasty Nymphos #23 by Anabolic or Submission by Heatwave or Flesh Pots by Extreme and see a real scene by a not so big name who only missed two shoots in two years and never been late. Oh, I do bring my test to every shoot and all of my back tests from two years ago. Another thing that would help, "STOP" hiring these girls and let them fade away. You are too nice and give the same girls you yell about second chances. Just say BYE BYE to them and let real professional women in the front door. Women who care about how the scene turns out and not the pay check waiting for them at the end of there day.
The funny thing is, Quasarman, you are not the only one out there yelling. You are the only one that will come on here and say who fucked you and you don't care who you upset. I have been on a lot of sets because of a few women that are famous for no shows and they call me to replace them. After my scene is over most. hell, all of them, tell me they was glad that so and so was a no show because I do better scenes then them and I am on time and listen and do what is asked of me and I only have one thing to say about that JUST HIRE ME IN THE FIRST PLACE. So, Quasarman you keep telling others about the flakes and maybe just maybe they will listen to you and they will go away.
Brittany Andrews celebrates the opening of her studio and Britco Pictures with a party tomorrow evening. Andrews' studio is located at 1001 East First Street, Los Angeles [at 1st and Santa Fe underneath the 1st St. Bridge.] The party starts at 7pm and goes to midnight.
Andrews: "I have a 4,000 square foot studio in downtown Los Angeles. I'm doing the grand opening with a non-profit organization, FEPA, it's the Foundationm of Electronic and Performing Arts. They put a lot of money back into the artists' community, downtown. They do a lot of educational classes in digital arts such as music, editing, graphics and things of that nature. What I'm having tomorrow night is the idea of the New Millennium meets Techno-Sex. The theme for the evening is cybersex. I'm doing an art exhibit full of different types of technosex art pieces, anywhere from sculptures, prints, paintings, a bunch of different things of that nature. We're also going to be having a live show in the dungeon with the fetish queen herself, Chloe.
"We're having valet parking outside for anyone who feels uncomfortable about being downtown. There's free champagne, hors d'oeuvres, a couple of dj's, live graphics from a company that did graphics in Terminator and the last Janet Jackson video which is known to be the most technological music video. They'll be doing live graphics here as well. We'll also be showing the last movie, Brittany Andrews' Fetish Fantasies, which I just got done producing with Julie Strain as my boxcover girl. It's an ungoing thing.
"I've had this studio for quite a few months, and I worked really hard on it. It's from the 1920's. I remodeled the whole thing and had to put in new electricity, phone lines, plumbing and all that fun stuff. I figured let's have a party and show it off to everyone. I also have an AVID film composer, as well. It's the top-of-the-line AVID. I'm renting that out as well as the dungeon. I have very good rates and I'm trying to get clientele in. I have an editor that has over 20 years' experience. She's from New York Film School and very easy to get along with. She's done both mainstream and adult. Then we have a lot of other open space for people to build set designs or photographers to shoot in. It's all for rent. This will be primarily for the adult industry.
"I've always lived downtown, and my offices there got so big, I had so many different people working for me, that we started ending up having to work on the floor. I needed a bigger space. It just made sense to me to get a studio. When I had finished producing Adult Video Magazine, it seemed a lot less expensive instead of always renting studio space to do it myself. And instead of renting editing equipment, I thought, well, buy it and rent it out as well. And I LOVE S&M, so having a dungeon in my unit is very nice because I get to play in it after hours. So there's a definite bonus for Brittany.
"Adult Video Magazine is one of the first movies I did. That one had a magazine-style format. It had such topics covered as night life, music, art...everything was real. When I shot it in a restaurant, it was the real owner that I had the interview with him; music, same thing, I used real musicians. It was all smooth transitions into effects. I had Raylene, Jacqueline Lick, Chloe, Rebecca Lord, Billy Glyde and other people in it.
"It hasn't got out there yet. I'm still looking for distributors. I've talked to different people The one that I will be showing at the studio [tomorrow night] is a softcore foot fetish feature. Foot fetish, of course, what else would Brittany Andrews do?
"I'd say putting this studio together has taken up a lot of my energy and time, but I write for a couple of magazines and I have a lawyer on retainer that seems to find unique and interesting ways for me to make money off of my likeness - my name and likeness on different video games. I find different ways to make money here and there. I still have a contract with the Playboy Channel and I do photo shoots here and there. I keep busy.
"I'm only having this party until midnight. My neighbors would freak out if I had it any longer. The bondage show is at 10."
Andrews said she'll be at Erotica LA on Sunday.
Andrews: "I wanted to make it on Saturday, but I'm doing this thing with Danni's Hard Drive with the E! Channel the whole day. They're taking me out on a boat, so that's kind of nice."
Tabitha Stevens was all gussied up and ready to go but never got to be a prom queen. Stevens was supposed to have been the date for a high school senior who was already in trouble with his San Jose school on other matters. Consequently, the kid got punished by having his porn star taken away from him. Eli from All Good Video has the story.
Eli: "We went to San Jose to do a radio show on ASJO, their rock n' roll station, to promote Tabitha's website and the new series she's doing with All Good Video which is called Fuck 'Em All. When we were in there, they asked us if we would do a Love Connection-type thing where three listeners call in and she picks one of the contestants to go out on a date. Then, the next morning, we go back on the show and talk about it. We did that whole thing, and they picked a guy. We got a limo. We picked the guy up in the limo, and we went to this place called Players Pool Hall in Belmont, California where there was about a thousand fans drinking and hanging out in this place, playing pool, watching sports and gawking at Tabitha while she was there with her date. Her date wound up having a little too much to drink. He was overheard in the mens' room saying that he was going to get her all fucked up and he sort of wound up in his own poison. She started fooling around with him in the limo, and he couldn't get it up.
"The next morning on the air he claimed it was whiskey dick and nerves. The bottom line was, he wasn't getting wood. So, the two radio guys, Lamont and Tanneli, were, like, maybe was too old. The guy was 39. They were speculating that maybe a younger guy would have wood. Then it turned into a prom date. They started to discuss how young a guy they could get from their listening audience to mess around with Tabitha. Then sthey started this thing on the radio advertising for guys who were still in high school who had just turned 18 and wanted to take a porno queen to the prom. They put all these names in a hat. They drew.
"The guy who won was pulled into the principal's office the Friday before the prom. Apparently, he had gotten some special concessions to graduate. But they hung it over his head that, if he brought Tabitha to his prom, he would not graduate. I think they did this on purpose because we didn't have time to pick a different guy. Although the kid's mom was fine with it. She gave a letter saying it was fine. I had this picture of us getting picketed outside the school. The kid never told us he was hanging by a thread to graduate. I think it probably would have made the AP wire if we had been able to go through with this. But it didn't happen.
"We just finished the first volume of Fuck 'Em All, so we're pretty excited about that. Tabitha is not exclusive with us. I have this going with a few people. I now do this with Dee and Shelby Myne. What it does is that these girls will be on my preferred roster. You'll see them more in my movies than you will in other peoples' movies. It allows them to pick and choose the movies they want to do for other people. I don't do features and they like doing that stuff. I'm doing it to help them promote their websites and promote themselves and they promote All Good Video. I think it's a pretty nice arrangement. Everyone gets along. You don't feel restricted."
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Support for the National Cabaret Association (NCA) Grows NY & PA Create Sister PACs
Last week lobbyist Mike Ross visited Syracuse, NY and Philadelphia, PA to meet with local dance club owners at both locations in an effort to create state and local lobbying organizations.
"Although only a handful of clubs met at each location, two major events occurred that will change the face of the industry," Ross said. "We created PACs in both states and established 'shared responsibilities' that will be used to help us conduct more meetings next month.
"As per our general plan and application, in every state that we have helped to organize, we have needed to conduct two or three meetings. In order to do so, we'll coordinate activities with local businesses, hopefully attracting more business to the next meeting.
"The important part of this organizing exercise is that we organized a core group of members in both locations and are dedicated to working together to help us stay one step ahead of anti-industry local governments."
NY's local meeting was conducted at the Diamond Dolls Cabaret. At the meeting, Ken Rubin, a contributing writer for Exotic Dancer Magazine and owner of the club, was nominated to be "interim president" and will be working with Ross as both the "co-signor of the PAC and in helping to attract new participants to the next meeting."
"Because of NY's anti-industry activities, we had to start somewhere," Rubin said. "We have a goal, a name, a direction and need the help of owners all over the state and are dedicated to not letting what happened to Manhatten happen to the rest of the state." The name of the organization is the New York Cabaret Association, and they will become charter members of the National Cabaret Association.
Ross: "The day before I arrived in Philadelphia, the City of Philadelphia and it's surrounding communities leaked word to the press that they were going to hold a press conference to outline a proposed ant-nudity/entertainment ordinance.
"Upon hearing this, the owners were 'enthusiastic supporters' of creating a Pennsylvania PAC, and promptly voted to not only become the Pennsylvania Cabaret Association, but more importantly, decided to visit the press conference city leaders had scheduled and hear first hand about the 'proposed regulation.'
"As we drove to the conference, no one really knew what to expect, yet we discussed some possibilities, just to be on the safe side. Joe Cunningham, the owner of 'kandy's' [the subject of the upcoming Supreme Court Case], drove seven hours with his wife to help discuss the industry's future, and was supportive of creating an organization that would not only make sure that he was supported in his Supreme Court case, but also to ensure that the industry in PA survives.
Joe said, "my favorite quote was something Mike said "In the past, we've competed against each other but now we are competing for our survival against the government."
During the conference, the press and myself asked questions. In fact, our questions apparently added "spice" to the conference and actually "riled" the presenters enough to force them to abruptly end the "show".
On behalf of the NCA, I asked 3 questions, with the first being "Why are you now going through this process and spending tax payers money, when the US Supreme Court is about to review a case that will tremendous impact on the city's proposed ordinance?"
Their amazing response was "we didn't know the US Supreme Court is reviewing a case dealing with this subject area."
I then asked a follow-up question: Are you happy that staff has not provided you with complete and up-to-date information about what's going on around the nation legally? With red faces and bulging eyes, city staff jumped in and asked if we can "provide sites and stats", something I said we would do, but actually don't believe we need to do.
My final question caused all hell broke loose. I asked "since you don't have exact language with respect to an ordinance, what is the modelthat you will be using?" He said that he was using a California model, and when I asked which city, he said Sunnyvale, and I said that it was a proposed ordinance that did not pass. At that time, he abruptly ended the press conference.
"For the record, the press conference started at 2 PM and was slated to last until 3. The conference abruptly ended after 18 minutes. The media that covered the event ranged from FOX and CBS to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ross: "If you are interested in helping us or in attending the next meeting, please call us at: (916) 456-7311 (Michael); (215) 781-6361 (Nick) or Susann (315) 455-5936 (ET)
Mike Ross adds this postscript: "Isn't It Ironic? Giuliani - We Own You!
How do you turn the tables on a political candidate who puts your "brothers" out of business? Simple, purchase their URL Domain Names and open up a Website. And that's just what we've done. As a gift from us to the New York Cabaret Association, the following names will soon go "on-line":
giuliani4senate2000.com, .net & .org
mayorgiuliani.com, .net & .org
senatorgiuliani.org
senatorgiuliani2000, .com, .net, .org.
This is a program that we are running for Campaign 2000 and we will be adding to it in the next week. If you know of any candidates that we should include on our "buy" list, send their name our way!
Dave Cummings, davecummings.com writes: "Reference Rob Black's June 7th comments on your site about "Randy West, the oldest man in porn"----Randy, who I consider a true gentleman and a major icon in the Adult Industry, is MUCH younger than me; I'll be 60 on my next birthday!
This is one of those stories whose punchline you can see coming a mile away. Director Michael Carpenter rented Dave Christopher's vidcam about a year ago. Christopher then got a call saying his camera was destroyed, that it fell into a pool. "No, it's impossible," Christopher said at the time. "How can it fall into a pool. You'd have to be a fucking idiot." Long story short, Carpenter bought Christopher a new camera.
Christopher: "I was shooting the Pussyman Junior College Ass Busters for Legend last week. Friday was the last day. The whole movie's basically anal except for some blowjobs. I go outside, the middle of the day, the whole crew's around. I start ranking out the shit of Michael Carpenter, telling everyone how can you use a camera and fall into a swimming pool, that you got to be a moron. We're shooting stills of Julie Meadows and I wanted to get into one of the shots for the Internet. No more than thirty seconds after I told everyone out loud what a jerk Carpenter is, I took one step left and went right into the deep end of the pool with my jacket, my sweater...everything. The first thing I thought of was the ocean experience of two years ago. [A Christopher boat shoot literally sunk near Catalina.] I panicked for like a minute then they pulled me out. We all started laughing."
A wage and salary dispute prompted Shelle Pearson, former sales manager for John T. Bone, to jump ship from Bone's company and get another job. Pearson says she took the new job with Hot Chicks, a one-stop, last Friday. But, when contacted yesterday, Bone said he knew nothing about Pearson's plans, that Pearson had called him last Friday claiming to have car problems. Bone said Pearson's decision came as quite a surprise to him. Pearson, who is now rooming with Kendra Jade, has totally different recollections.
Pearson: "Martin [Bone's business partner] came over Saturday and wouldn't tell Kendra what it was about...I told him [Bone] last Wednesday that if I wasn't paid by Friday, I wasn't coming into work. I called him Friday about 11 o'clock and asked him if he was going to pay me. He told me that I should be there working. I said why would I come into work if you weren't going to pay me what you owe me. He was like, your check will be here. I was like no it won't. He was supposed to be shooting on Saturday. He didn't collect any money this last week, so how would he write me a check for $1293 when he's supposed to be shooting? I was like, bullshit, not unless Friday morning he collected five or six grand. I called him before the mail so it wasn't like he had gotten a lot of money in the mail or anything. I told him I don't believe you, I don't trust you, and I had been screwed by you too many times to come in and work one more day so that you could ask me how much money I needed to get me through the weekend. It was bullshit. I told him last Wednesday, I told him last Thursday that if he wasn't going to pay me, I wasn't coming in. Then I went down to Hot Chicks on Friday afternoon and I got a job there. [Bone says Hot Chicks owes him money.]
Pearson is also resurrecting a porn career which she began a couple of years ago. She'll be shooting this coming weekend.
Pearson: "I'm going to kick off a new series for Hot Chicks. I don't know what name they're going to use for their production. But I got the box and I'll be doing a boy-girl scene. Kendra has a new series all of her own coming out that Jim DiGiorgio is going to do for her. They should start shooting that in the next couple of weeks.
Kendra Jade: "It's going to be really good. We're shooting both soft and hard to get the cable rights. I don't know what the series is going to be called yet. Jimmy is kind of disagreeing with me on this. I want the first one to be called Kendra Takes On the Fucking World and be in a trailer park and fuck everybody. I don't know if we're going to do it, but I have a lot of ideas about wanting to do some fan-fucking thing. I want to add some essence of Shane's World - some of cool stuff, and I know I'm doing my first girl-girl. It'll be good."
Jade's coming-out feature, as a result of a recent career move, is the Rob Spallone-Jim DiGiorgio feature The Sopornos for VCA. Spallone shot the feature last week and had a combination barbecue/wrap party last Friday evening to celebrate the shooting of the feature's big casino scene.
Jade has just finished doing an R-rated project for director DiGiorgio
Jade: "I'm not at a point right now where I need money, so I have to do whatever scene comes along. I got a lot of offers. I've turned down a lot of offers. I don't want to be in a position where I'm forced to be on the road four weeks out of the month."
Jade says she's going to handle her career on her own terms and start taking dancing gigs perhaps two weeks out of the month.
Stacey Valentine was originally tabbed to be the lead role in The Sopornos but bowed out, allegedly, over creative differences. Tabitha Stevens was chosen to replace Valentine.
