Metro Talent Call
As a reminder, Metro will be holding a talent call Wednesday from 11am to 3pm for female performers wishing to go on the XXX-treme Adults Only Vacation.
Mounties Raid Internet Gambling/Porn Operation
According to the National Post of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted police launched an early morning raid this past weekend on Vancouver-based Starnet Communications, an Internet gambling and porn company. Though denied by Starnet, it was speculated the raid had something to do with an ongoing criminal investigation of British Columbia premier Glen Clark. Police officials, however, said it was part of an 18-month investigation into gambling and pornography on the Internet based on allegations of illegal gaming and bookmaking. Starnet runs online casinos over the Internet through a subsidiary based in Antigua.
Police served search warrants on Starnet's corporate office as well as on company officers and directors, said the National Post. In addition, police seized records and computers. Over 100 officers were detailed for the investigation. So far there have been no arrests and no charges filed.
The separate investigation on Glen Clark is trying to determine whether Clark had anything to do with giving Starnet preferential treatment when it applied for a casino license.
According to the National Post story, Starnet's treasurer Chris Zacharias said it was incorrect to make any connection between Starnet and Clark.
Starnet, which was incorporated as Creative Sports Marketing, Inc. in 1996, went into the adult website business after it bought Starnet Communications Canada, Inc. in early 1997.
The Starnet raid came, ironically, on the heels of a story posted in Wired News this past Friday about the company's activities in the porn biz. Says Wired: "Since it slipped into the over-the-counter stock market in September, 1997, Starnet has quietly parlayed what began as a pure porn shop into a diversified adult entertainment and online casino business with a US $400 million market cap....with nearly 700,000 shares changing hands every day, the company trades just like a typical Net firm on the Nasdaq, which is exactly where it will be trading if the exchange approves Starnet's recent application to move onto its national market. There's no reason not to expect Nasdaq's approval."
Unless, of course, Nasdaq takes a dim view of police raids.
Al Goldstein a Friar
Gloria Leonard reports: "The Friars' Club in Beverly Hills, long associated with a legendary membership that included show biz luminaries George Burns, Jack Carter, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Bob Hope and countless others, may never be the same again since deciding to accept Al Goldstein as a member.
"Al, sort of the Gertrude Stein of our time, never fails to assemble a continually diverse and interesting Salon of the famous, infamous and often, notorious. Last night, I was Al's guest for dinner along with - Buck Henry, Joey Buttafuoco, comic Bobby Slayton, former Los Angeles coroner, Michael Bader, restaurant critic Jay Weston, Dr. Susan Block and hubby; widow wench Laurie Holmes, former Playboy Playmate (she was actually Hefner's significant other for a long time) Carrie Leigh and hubby; cigar maven and radio personality, Matt Allen and others too numerous to mention.
"At a nearby table, the 91 year old Berle, (for those not in the know, Berle is famous for not only the size of his cigars but also his formidable schlong) was also having dinner and holding court with a gaggle of much younger cohorts, who hung on his every word, as though they were sitting at the knee of the master! And because it is a private club, you can smoke there!! What -and give up show biz??"
Luke Lobbies to Become Kid Vegas' Gabby Hayes
Luke Ford writes: "Please tell Kid Vegas I'd love to be in his movie if he could set me up with some high powered guns and stuff and show me how to shoot them. Perhaps he'll take me to the shooting range as well and show me how to shoot straight.
"By the way, my boss fella thinks you're kicking my ass. He wrote to me Monday: "I just read the TGUMM posting on your site today and it does relate a great deal of TRUTH! I have never stepped in and exercised any control over your postings but he has made a very valuable point. Gene Ross is doing your old column, period. Instead of maintaining the battle - you changed the battlefield. I think combining what you are doing now - with what you did then would be the best way to go - the same 'THUNDER' would be there - you could tell the Luke Ford story while still keeping the porn fans interest. No more interviews with Porn Stars - no more behind the scenes gossip - what about the Hollywood column? Is it going to be a gossip column or a Luke Ford in Mainstream Hollywood piece?"
"I'm in a slump, Gene and I don't know what to do. Things have been real bad ever since Kendra left for the Bunny Ranch. Oh well, I guess business is business. I just love too much.
"It's coming on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the High Holy days in the Jewish religion. So I've got to go now. There's someone I have to forgive. Myself. I never wanted to be a porn journalist. I never wanted to come to America. I never wanted to leave Cooranbong. I never wanted to become Luke Ford, I was so happy as Leonarto August. In fact, I wish I never left my mother's womb. It was so warm and secure in there."
Gene sez: "Luke, a straight-shooter and snappy dresser such as yourself deserves to be Kid Vegas' comical sidekick. As far as the quaint notion that I'm doing YOUR old column? You as the master of footnotes should know better. It's the other way around, mate. Granted, I didn't have a website at my disposal during the Mesozoic period, but I've been doing the gossip beat a pretty long time. By the way, glad to see you're getting a jump on the High Holy days, which reminds me, I've got some Christmas shopping, so I've got to go, too. And, if it's any consolation, I never wanted you to become you, either. Incidentally, the Bunny Ranch is looking for a few good men who love too much - about ten times a day, worth. As far as slumps, kid, you're never in one as long as you can lay down a good bunt."
The Kid Vegas-Zoe Controversy
Steve Irons writes: "Come on Gene, who is going to believe that Zoe was begging Kid Vegas to work with her. Zoe seems like a smart enough person and she has to know what a total loser Kid Vegas is. And the comments about AIDS, seems like Kid Vegas is a little upset he got dissed by Zoe. Hell, if anyone has HIV its most likely him, since he's fucking Kendra Jade. And she's had more pipe laid in her then the New York sewer system."
Gene sez: "Now, now, now. That isn't nice. Besides, you're talking about the woman Luke Ford loves."
Brian Griffin writes: "Just thought I would let ya know Kid Fuck-up is full of shit on the Zoe thing...she know's he's a sleaze and that is why she wasn't too anxious to work with him. He didn't have a damn thing to do with that.
"Please Gene, I respect you, your site, and AVN. But I don't respect Kid Vegas, who seems to do nothing more than talk shit, which is obvious to anyone who has ears and can hear. For the love of whatever God there may be, stop giving him press. He will blow up and dry away..."
Gene sez: "You're paraphrasing the old Clint Eastwood line about dogshit, aren't you?"
Kevin Korey writes: "I just wanted to drop you a note regarding Kenny Knoll. Kenny is one of the nicest guys you could meet! This whole thing with GM is outright bullshit. Kenny has dealt with a lot of bullshit through them. It's kinda sad for George [Maertin] to speak so matter of fact about not giving credit in "his" movies then you pop one in and the credits are right there. Kinda ironic, his lack of issuing credit proves his lack of credit. Kenny is a good friend of mine, he spends hours in my office returning calls to others regarding shooting for them. He's going to make it. I was here when GM paged him trying to get information....they were on speaker phone the whole time, I heard the whole conversation. They REALLY wanted to know who he was talking to etc...and just a word of warning to Mr. Martin......watch how you use the word 'EMPLOYEE'.
"Now...on to Kid Vagues, I was in the chat room when Zoe was saying how much she DIDN'T want to do the scene with Kid. The nerve to say she may be HIV positive is way over the line. There is big difference in smart promoting and stupid verbiage.....he's a great promoter, but has a few loose twisty ties in the attic.....and this whole thing about shooting strippers on the road.....where are they getting there tests from Mr. Clean? Stop the lies bro...
"Also, I just wanted to remind everyone that CurveBall '99 is THIS SUNDAY!! DO NOT miss this....over 54 adult performers will be there playin' and signing autographs. Also, the after party is at "Live Bait" in Long Beach.....if will kick ass! See you there.........."
Sasha in the Slam
A friend of Sasha Gabor's with a Trannsylvania-sounding name and accent, called to say that Sasha is currently in custody in Men's Central jail, LA, for a past DUI. More details in the later posting. The friend didn't want to be identified.
"Carter Barrington" writes: 'Dear Gene: I heard about your site through an interview with Luke Ford on FM 97.1 here in LA (I know Tim Conway Jr. who co hosts a different show on the station), am a film exec (not adult films) with some contacts in the adult world. I recently visited the set of a Wicked video featuring Mickey G., Stephanie Swift and a few others, and know Ron Hightower who is transitioning to legit (for lack of a better word) films..
'I enjoyed your site, and wanted to express that, and as I have connections to money folks as well as production people thought it would be good to establish a dialogue. I was also curious about Jordan McKnight and the rumor that she has HIV--what can you tell me about that? Any truth? I am wondering what happened to her. Best regards, Carter.'
Dirty Bob posts the following:
Jesus Breaks Bread With Porn World
DB: "Those getting dizzy following the Montana Gunn exploits will get yet another tour of duty around the porn scrotum pole. Regarding the upcoming Tampa Show (3 weeks away), Montana has, in this order, been booked for the show, cancelled, rebooked with Sindee Coxx, and both cancelled again. The last cancellation was due apparently to her new significant whatever: a dude named Jesus who thought it best for her to distance herself from us bad influences in the biz.
"In a ballsy about face, Jesus has apparently decided to 'break bread' with the adult video industry and wisely decided that it would be to her benefit to be a part of the Tampa Show after all. So...at this point she is once again ON for the show.
"Will she show? Ask me again in 3 weeks. Dizzy Bob -- I mean, Dirty Bob."
Gene sez: "I think David Aaron Clark should be approached to do the Montana intros for Tampa."
Former Playboy Bunny Investigated as Madam
A poor little former bunny may have lost her way in a sting, counter-sting operation in New Jersey.
According to the New Jersey Star Ledger, former Playboy bunny, Judith Kelly Dempsey, 46, pleaded not guilty to prostitution charges last night in Hanover Municipal Court, three days after the former bordello operator was arrested for allegedly performing sex acts in a motel room for $200 an hour.
After her arrest last Friday night, Dempsey agreed to help investigators, who then snared six customers in her motel room over the next three hours. Last night, however, the six men facing disorderly persons charges agreed to help authorities and testify against Dempsey -- in exchange for pleading guilty to a lesser offense of loitering. They each paid $300 in fines and court costs.
Meanwhile, Dempsey and her fiancé, Edwin Accinni, face possible jail time. Accinni pleaded not guilty last night to conspiring to promote prostitution.
The couple was arrested at the Howard Johnson's at Whippany, New Jersey on Route 10 after Dempsey allegedly agreed to exchange sex for money with a detective posing as a client, authorities said. Accinni, 39, is accused of remaining outside the room, keeping watch and providing security for Dempsey. He was released on his own recognizance; she is free on $50,000 bail.
Dempsey's arrest came a year after authorities raided Sunnymede, the mansion from which she ran the Afternoon Delight escort service.
Dempsey has denied her fiancé was her guard. But she admitted turning to prostitution three weeks ago. The reason, she contended, was to raise money so Accinni could pay a lawyer to fight what she claims was a judge's decision that bars him from seeing his 6-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. Her goal was $10,000, of which she raised $4,800.
Ellen Marshall, the attorney for Accinni's ex-wife, disputed Dempsey's claim. "He volunteered to stop seeing his daughter," Marshall said yesterday. "All my client asked was that he exercise his visitation rights out of Ms. Dempsey's presence. He refused."
Attorney Marshall said a trial ensued, and Accinni gave up his visitation rights when the ex-wife asked that a professional be consulted on how to handle the visits.
"She wanted him to have a relationship with his child," the lawyer added. "She simply wanted expert guidance, given the fact that Mr. Accinni was engaged to a prostitute."
Marshall called Accinni "an unfortunate and misguided man," adding that she did not think Dempsey has much credibility.
Dempsey declined comment. In May, after pleading guilty to promoting prostitution at her mansion, she was sentenced to three years' probation and 250 hours of community service. She could have gotten a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Dempsey was scheduled to return to court in November, when a judge would determine whether she successfully completed her community service. If she failed, he said, he would sentence her to 180 days in jail.
Now she may be forced to appear in court even sooner for violating her probation. The Morris County Prosecutor's Office will notify Dempsey's probation officer of the charges in Hanover, said office spokesman Capt. Christopher Linne.
ACLU Backs Cursing Canoeist's Free Speech Plea
Timothy Boomer, the "cursing canoeist" who rose to national prominence for his use of four letter words in public, has been sentenced to three days in jail and ordered to perform four days of community service.
Boomer, 25, let loose with a tirade of profanities after falling out of a canoe last summer. A jury convicted Boomer in June of violating an 1897 Michigan law against cursing in front of children.
District Judge Allen Yenior also fined Boomer $75 but put the entire sentence on hold while he appeals his conviction. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Boomer, contends his freedom of speech was violated.
Another Porn Trial Begins in Cincinnati
About one-third of 60 potential jurors in an obscenity trial were excused within the first two hours of jury selection Monday after several said they couldn't stand to watch the alleged obscene videos.
"I don't think it's right for me to watch it," Juror No. 382 told Butler County Common Pleas Judge Matthew J. Crehan. "I have strong religious objections to watching it."
That juror was excused, as were others who voiced similar concerns. Potential jurors in the case against Millville Video Inc. are being addressed by number only.
Owners of the store are accused of two counts of pandering obscenity. The charges stem from three videos: Man Made, Agony of Arianna and Story of Ouch. If convicted, the store could be fined.
Juror identification by number occasionally created confusion - and brought a few laughs. "Are you 267?" Butler County Assistant Prosecutor Daniel Gattermeyer asked one man who wasn't responding to him.
"No, I'm 306," the man replied. "Well, at least I didn't butcher your name," Mr. Gattermeyer said. Jury selection was completed Monday, and the trial will resume today.
A judge has issued a gag order that prohibits parties in the case from speaking to reporters before or during the trial. The order also restricts people with signs or banners from coming within 1,000 feet of the courtroom.
Also, in a departure from the three previous trials involving VIP Video, TV monitors showing the videos will be placed so that only the jurors and parties in the case may watch.
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Kid Vegas said he wanted to respond to stuff being printed about him.
G. Ross: "Remember, you started saying the stuff about them. So now they're going to gang up on you."
Vegas: "But I'm always going to win 'cause they can't win against me. I wanted to call regarding Zoe. It wasn't her that was turning me down. I think she was trying to get it to the press before I did. I was going to keep my mouth shut. I wasn't really going to say anything, but I turned her down. The reason I turned her down is because I saw a review in the Hustler Erotic Film Guide. Either that or a magazine called Busty. I was looking through it and reading a review on a Marc Wallice movie. The review said he was having anal sex with Zoe after it was announced that he had HIV. It kind of freaked me out. I turned her down. I told John [Bone] I couldn't work with her because of that and the gross liposuction story she told me about her legs. I said forget it. I could definitely not do that. Her tests could be fake because she doesn't go to AIM like the someplace I go to."
[John T. Bone said Zoe's never met Marc Wallice, much less had a sex scene with him. Gene hastens to remind that there is another Zoe out there.]
Vegas: "Another thing, is, Mike South is jealous of me because of all the press I get. All the girls he uses have buck teeth. They're pretty terrible looking. He can't find any good-looking strippers...and Jim Gunn, I guess he isn't a happy camper. [Vegas laughs.]
"The Hustler thing went off good. I got auctioned off with Sonja Red. Really cheap. I don't think I'm going to be going. I think the guy's more interested in taking Sonja alone. I was originally supposed to be with Vivian Valentine, but she was outside smoking. They couldn't find her. Larry Flynt was checking me out, smiling at my clothing. I think he was entertained at what I was wearing. He walked in the back door."
G. Ross: "I don't think he walked in."
Vegas: "He got wheeled in by his bodyguards. It would be kind of cool if he could walk in...September 3rd I'm going to have a Kid Vegas party at my studio. It's going to be like a Kid Vegas Discotheque. It should be entertaining. It'll be like a Labor Day party type of thing. I just finished Fear and Loathing with Kid Vegas. I'm thinking about making a feature film with Kid Vegas. The making of Kid Vegas. A regular B-movie...I was thinking of putting Luke Ford in if he wanted to dress up like me. I told him I'd hook him up with some Kid Vegas apparel and some better guns. A .38 doesn't do the job. He needs assault rifles like me, like an AK-47.
Moffitt Timlake writes: "Good afternoon Gene, Randy Kaplan is perhaps correct in stating that my comments regarding Terri have been "over the top", but in some instances if the shoe fits...
"I do not have anything against transsexuals, transvestites, cross-dressers or any of a similar creed, just the ones that don't pay their bills. Regarding the fact that some people lost a lot of money on the failed Dechtar IPO, I was referring to the people who bought shares direct from Dechtar prior to the actual filing. Terri and one of Dechtar's top executives were hawking these worthless shares for quite some time, and the ensuing bankruptcy, due in part to the capricious IPO efforts, left these initial investors in the cold. I respect Randy's take on my comments about Terri and have now settled down from my bombastic attitude toward the whole issue. My grievances have been aired. For the most part."
Kenny Knoll reponds, via email, to comments made by George Martin earlier when Knoll posted that he hadn't been paid on two of Martin's projects. Martin clams, yes, Knoll was paid.
Knoll: "Gene, I helped him with duplicating and shipping at his place of business. The agreement was that any footage I turned into him I would be compensated for. Memorial day at the Sand Bar I went to shoot for George, he did pay for the hotel room which had 10 people staying in it. The 3 days that I filmed I was not paid for. I spent around $500 for his crew and was not reimbursed for that either.
"If Southern California Sluts was an editing nightmare how did he get 1 hour and 45 min of footage from it. Because it was an editing nightmare I dont get paid for it!!!!!! As for credit I asked George to put my name in it, he said no. It's funny the Memorial day 99 tapes have credits on them for filmers and George as the director."
[Gene sez: "Mr. Knoll is absolutely correct."]
"So what could he be worried about! One of the scenes in Southern California Sluts was in my room and other ones were filmed at my friends house, and was not at the river. The problems he had were from Havasu. How weird is it that he puts credits into his river tapes!!!
"For being a so called (disgruntled) employee wouldn't you be (disgruntled) to, if you were not paid? For my footage being so baddd... I have other companies wanting me to shoot for them. Guess what I will also be at the SAND BAR in HAVASU on Labor Day weekend with my crew. Gene my footage I shot by myself on July 4th in Havasu someone really liked it cuz I sold it for over a $1000...Thanks Kenny Knoll."
Knoll had this to say in a follow-up phone conversation.
Knoll: "There's also going to be some more that I didn't e-mail you, that I won't post yet till we get a hold of our attorneys."
All Knoll would say is that it has to do with Southern California Sluts.
Knoll: "George is saying my footage is so bad, then why is AVN giving me a 4 A review on it? Like my Memorial Day footage is bad? Then why did he put me in the credits. I produced, I directed this movie, I filmed it all. I said to George I want credit for this so that other people can say, hey, this Kenny guy is real cool, and I can make some money shooting for some bigger companies. It's funny. George's sales guy called me. He tried to get information out of me like if I was shooting and who my distributors are. I said I'm not stupid enough to tell you so you can go bad mouth me to big companies. He said they didn't. I said you are, and it's not going to work. For me, working for George an an employee I went down there to help them out like doing duplicating and editing. He gave me money. But the agreement was anything I filmed, any kind of movies, any trips I went on, I got paid for. Like Mardi Gras. I went out there for eight days. I got paid $100 a day. I can't believe I did that for $100 a day for how much footage I gave him. For Southern California Sluts? Nothing. For Memorial Day, I lost money. I spent $500 on alcohol for everybody in the room. I don't even drink. He said he was going to pay for the bodyguards' food and the girls' food, I did all that. I didn't get paid for any filming, and his movies are selling like crazy right now. If he would have paid me for it, I wouldn't have a problem. I filmed the Laughlin River Run. I think I got $50. Then I was told by GM that I supposedly signed some contract with them that, for the next five years, George has the rights to everything I shoot. I'm like please fax me a copy of that? I want to come down there and see the original of that. I want to see the contract and my signature. I want to feel the feeling of my ink mark pressing down on that piece of paper. Before you start telling people this is what you have on me, make sure it's real."
Talk about your dash of movie-making irony. Like the William Holden character Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard, director Charley Crow was supposed to have been found dead floating face-down in a San Fernando Valley swimming pool, Sunday morning. Cause of death, unknown. Like the William Holden character, Joe Gillis, Crow lived in the same apartment complex.
On the other hand, Crow is dead in the same sense you'd say disco is dead. It's a matter of interpretation.
As camera man and editor, Crow worked on several features for Extreme directors Lizzy Borden and Rob Black. In his tenure at Extreme, Crow contributed to such titles as Acid Sex, S.I.D.S., Pornoflick and many others. Crow's credits as director include Archer's Last Day and Cornhole Armagdeddon. His third movie, L.A. 399, was set to start shooting the end of August. It was to star Jasmin St. Clair and Jamie Gillis.
Crow, according to an e-mailed obituary, had been depressed lately, according to friends. His workload was getting to him, and he was observed talking to himself, hitting himself in the head, and repeating the word "gangbang" over and over.
This is what Rob Black, full of obvious grief, had to say: "Charley Crow has died. He drowned in a pool."
G. Ross: "I find it odd that Charley sends me e-mails about his death."
Black: "He did it before he fucking killed himself. I'm serious."
G. Ross: "Well the dead just e-mailed me about ten minutes ago with an update....what's the angle? What's going on here?"
Black: "There's no angle except for Charley Crow dying. The only angle is that he's left Extreme Associates in a kind of disarray as part of editing, directing and things like that and shooting for XPW. I have to replace Mr. Crow in the shooting of XPW and shooting a movie LA 399 that was supposed to go into production next week and was supposed to be the big summer blockbuster. But I'm going to have to find someone else to do it. I might have to do it myself, like I don't got anything else better to do, except get behind the camera and shoot somebody's fucking movie. But this movie's good. If we get big praise for it, it'll be the long-lost movie script that got made while Charles was dying in a pool."
Farrah Not in Rehab
In the way that Charley Crow was sucking chlorinated water is pretty much the way that Farrah has been in rehab.
Farrah: "I wanted to call and give you a little bit of gossip on my end."
G. Ross: "Tell me about your end."
Farrah: "I just found out that some magazine put out a nasty article that I just got out of rehab. It sucks. It's crazy. I wanted to get things straight. I'm the happiest ever. There's nothing bad or anything. I'm signing another contract with Kevin [Beech]."
G. Ross: "You broke up with Christian Steele?"
Farrah: "I left him in Florida. The story is you get mixed up with another porno piece of crap. No offense against any of them, I just seem to get the wrong ones - between Christian and Chuck [Martino]. I'm on the road. Currently I'm at my mother's house, not in rehab. I'm visiting her for her birthday...I'm shooting one movie a month. I got three more to do and then I'll resign with Kevin for sure."
G. Ross: "Why the break-up?"
Farrah: "I wasn't happy at all. I had to get out of the situation. It was too bad I had to leave my own home with my own furniture there in order to split up. But I'm working on getting everything back. I'm the happiest right now because I'm by myself. I got good friends and a family that cares about me. You tend to neglect all those things when you're with somebody. I'm hanging out with good girls from the business, Gina Ryder and all them. And Kevin, of course. They're some great people."
G. Ross: "So you're not in rehab?"
Farrah [laughing]: "I think I was in rehab when I was with Christian."
G. Ross: "So they're not strapping you to a table and drying you out?"
Farrah: "Can you believe that? Oh my god. That was crazy."
Farrah said she'll be at the Gentlemen's Expo in Las Vegas the beginning of September. "I'll go there and promote myself," she said.
Bunny Ranch Influence Turns Journalist into Bordello Queen
Name a bordello suite after Jesse The Body Ventura, and you get the press all over you as Bunny Ranch impressario Dennis Hof discovered over the weekend. Have a journalist do an article on working girls, and she becomes one, too.
Hof: "Two things have happened in the last week that have given us some national press, and they're small things to me but I guess not to other people. First of all, a girl from Pop Smear magazine, a journalist, came in there to do an article on Sunset Thomas and the Bunny Ranch. She just followed Sunset around and interviewed her customers. She got so excited and caught up in it, that she went to the doctor, got her license, and when Sunset left, she went to work. She's made the switch from being a journalist to a working girl. She's making a ton of money. She's getting laid every day and loving it."
G. Ross: "Maybe I need to become a working boy."
Hof: "People are always asking me, how come you don't have boys there. I say if you can find one that can fake an erection ten times a day, I'll go for it."
According to Hof, stories have appeared in The National Enquirer and Globe that Ventura had supposedly come to the Ranch in his younger days. Hof said he followed up on the story with the governor's office and, according to them, it was true by Ventura's book. "We bought the book. It talks about it," Hof said.
Hof: "We told somebody we were going to do this Jesse Ventura room. The idea is we're going to take a big room and build a miniature wrestling mat and ring in it. The girls will be able to do the guys in the ring. I've done seven radio interviews just today alone. We're asking people to send in Navy memorabilia, guys who were SEALs to send in a SEAL belt like the one he [Ventura] gave to one of the working girls at the ranch; wrestling memorabilia, a boa, things like that so we can decorate the room and we can have the Jesse Ventura suite. It's fun stuff, but, for some reason, the country's picked up on it. Since last Thursday I've done probably done 25 to 30 radio interviews on it. Unbelievable. People are so curious about what we do behind those gates. They want to know."
G. Ross: "Keep the momentum and come up with a George W. Bush Jr. room."
Hof: "With some razor blazes and a line of cocaine...that's funny. I'm going to give this some time, and when the Jesse-thing wears out, I'm going to do that. I love that. It's hilarious....Isn't it a cool idea for a guy to have sex in a wrestling ring?"
G. Ross: "You should have a bell ringer and a time keeper."
Hof: "That fits in with another celebrity we can talk about. We don't burn these celebrities. We're very careful. But one we can talk about, cause it's coming out in Jim Carey's movie, is Andy Kaufman. Andy used to come in there, and he'd like to wrestle the girls. That was his sexual deal was. He didn't want to ejaculate. He just wanted to wrestle. It kind of fit perfectly - Andy Kaufman and Jesse Ventura. It's coming out in the movie. I've probably spent about 20 hours with the movie people on his antics at the ranch. I was around there long before I owned the place and met Andy a couple of times. I partied with him. I know the whole deal. He'd come there and stay for two or three days at a time. Every two hours he'd have all the girls lined up like he had never seen them before and spend ten minutes deciding who he'd pick. He'd pick two girls. He'd give one a white leotard, one a black leotard. He'd take them into a room and they would wrestle each other. Whoever won, got to wrestle him for the finals. He'd do that for every two or three hours for days at a time. He was cra
