Shane's production company confirmed the firing of contract girl Sky late this afternoon. Shane was out of town, but Jenny, a spokesman for Shane fills in the details.
Jenny: "She was released from her contract. It's unfortunate but it was something that had to be done. From our end, we wanted somebody who was going to be able to get out there and be really excited about promoting and make commitments when we set things up for her. It came to a point where we had to reschedule shoots because she would disappear for days at a time. She didn't show up for interviews or radio spots. She wasn't making her commitments. We couldn't have that. We had a shoot scheduled for this week and had to push it back because we couldn't find her. We need her to be there, we schedule people and trips, and it's not fair to other people. We like to think of ourselves as a family over here. We want someone we can trust and depend on. We wish her lots of luck. From what we understand she was happy here. She already shot two Shane's Worlds, and two slumber parties. We shifted the focus to Sky's Slumber Party. We were getting to launch her own series, Sky's Universe. We were doing a lot to launch her career. Shane's going to be travelling a lot this summer and we're keeping our eyes open for new girls. We got a lot of cool stuff going on."
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Late Breaking
Shane has fired her contract girl Sky. Details will be forthcoming.
Luke Ford writes: "Hi Gene, read your site all the time. Love it. It's good to know that someone out there is practicing responsible journalism. That way I don't have to. By the way, I got some prank calls last Friday telling me that Mike Albo had died of a heroin overdose. I don't think it is true.
Gene Ross sez: "Hi Luke, read your book A History of X. It's good to know that someone out there is practicing responsible historical research. That way Arthur Schlessinger Jr. doesn't have to. By the way, I talked to Albo yesterday and he told me he wasn't dead. But he might be lying to me. I think I'll check it out with a second source.
Is it Memorex, or is it Alligon Kilgore posting? You really can't be sure, but here's one from someone claiming to be Kilgore: "Allison here again, however I am writing this e-mail on my boyfriend's computer. You can call me on my cell phone at XXX-XXX-XXXX to confirm I am the one sending you these e-mails. I won't have my cell phone on me until about 6pm so call me after 6. Before 6pm you will just get my boyfriend. If I don't hear from you, I'll get your number from Regan again and give you a call later.
I have actively avoided all contact with Scott Austin [Kid Vegas] over the last month, I have not seen nor talked to him, and that is how I want it. He just won't give up. The other day he called me over and over again so many times that I finally forwarded my calls to my boyfriend, who was still at work, so that he could tell Scott Austin off for me. I am now changing my phone numbers for the 2nd time to get rid of Scott's stalking behavior.
The only truth I see in Kid Vegas is that he is a porn-star wannabe. Here we have a boy who almost no one likes, no company wants, with one movie no one would buy, trying to act like a big shot porn legend. The only reason I can think of for why he keeps using my name is that he thinks it will make him seem more important than he really is.
I am out of the business. I have nothing to do with Scott Austin. And as a plus, I am happy to announce that my boyfriend and I just found out that we are expecting. I am about 2 weeks pregnant and both my boyfriend and I are looking forward to it. I've got some great pictures of my boyriend and I that I took with a new digital camera the past few days. I might e-mail you some later.
Thanks for letting your readers know the truth, \n --Allison
Birty Bob writes: "Dirty Gene: I have incredible bad luck! I decided to take a breather from e-mail this afternoon and get some real work done and what did I mess? THREE e-mails from Tyffany Million who, unknown to me, is here in town in beautiful downtown Kettering, Ohio to do a radio spot tomorrow a.m. I finally check my e-mail well after midnight and get her messages then. Turns out she is staying less than 5 minutes away and wanted to get together for drinks tonight. Too late now, damnit!
Gene Ross sez: "Dirty Bob, I have the same luck. After reading your e-mail, I started fantasizing about Tyffany Million, and who walks in the door? Her ex-husband, Jef Hickey with purple hair. Writer, roadie and wannabe porn director, Hickey's still a reverend of the Universal Life Church. He's back in LA for a spell taking a breather from a road tour with Zebrahead. Hickey says he keeps in touch with Million.
Hickey: "They [the Universal Life Church] ordain everybody. They believe in whatever you believe in to be right. That's their creed. I hear from Tyffany. She's doing a comeback, you know. She's got a website evilhole.com She had a camera shoved up her pussy to film her G-spot on Howard Stern. That was recently. Now she's got cameras in her bedroom and she's going to do her comeback there. You have to pay to watch her get fucked.
"I'm back on the road. I was too deep into a lot of bad things here in porn. I wanted to see if I couldn't get back on the road and do what I originally did which was touring. I wanted to see if I could do it better this time. I got offered Quicksand last November. I was tour manager for Quicksand. Then I did Buck Cherry we opened for Kiss in Europe. I left there after I did CES. Went to CES had a great time, saw all my friends. It was a perfect balance. I wrote some party pieces [for AVN]. I thought that was cool. If I can do a couple of things a year, show up, raise a little hell, not consistent hell where I annoy people, then it's good. Now I'm with Zebrahead. I'm the guitar tech."
G. Ross: "It sounds like something wrong with your teeth."
Hickey: "I repair the instruments. I'm having a good time and I'm with some fun guys. In the meantime, whenever I get a chance, girls who want to go backstage have to sign a model release and I film them. So far I've been getting okay stuff, but not really dirty shit. Naked chicks here. Eventually someone like Matt Zane will take it off my hands. I don't know. [Hickey did Backstage Sluts for Zane.]
"My first exposure to the adult business was when I met Amber Lynn in Ft. Lauderdale. I went on the road with bands when I was 16. I started with Megadeath. Then I was with Type O Negative. I really wasn't that much of a porn fan, but Amber Lynn was dancing and we went to visit her and hung out, gave her shirts.
"Then New Rave Magazine did an article when we were opening for Pantera. I talked to the editor. When he [Hank Londoner] left I called and asked if I could edit the magazine. I came in and that's how all that happened. The magazine was my foray into the business. I met Tyffany Million at the first AVN Halloween party. I was stage manager getting people on and off. I met her that night. She was with another guy. Some really good-looking GQ guy. But two weeks later I got invited to a private party for photographer Mark Greenbloom who was shooting Julie Strain photos. It was this birthday party. Colin Malone said why don't you call Tyffany. We had a scatological history [with Million, that is].
"Zebrahead's probably going to be shooting the first hardcore music video, the song with the fucking done right there. We're going to do two versions, the really hardcore one to cause some stir, then the softcore. That's got a lot to do with my porn connections. The guitar player is a real big Jenna fanatic. He had a guitar made up just like her."
Of all things, though, Hickey says he'd like to direct porn.
Hickey: "Nobody ever took me seriously. I know I can do it. If I didn't have Matt Zane, I could have done the same thing without Matt. I actually felt intimidated with him around."
Tony from the Lee Network comments on the Jenna Jameson/Lansing Deja Vu story that appears further along on this page.
Tony: "Officially and unofficially at this prsent time until we hear from Deja Vu directly, we can't comment. There was an incident, and Jenna did not perform. That's as much as we can say at this time."
Wicked's Steve Orenstein has this to say about the "smack" comments made about him on another site today in what, one might suspect was a stab at humor, along with the Jameson story.
Orenstein: "I read that Paul [Fishbein] had this conference [of Jewish pornographers]. My first thought, was, why didn't he call me? When I realized I was into the article that far, well that means everyone else is into it across the board. Obviously when I read my own quote I realized none of it ever happened. Unfortunately that's when you realize how negative it can be out there. I got to the point where I read it for entertainment value, but it's that type of stuff when you go, 'What do the people in Idaho think.' They must think they're getting great insights. There have been a few things in the past that have come up that I haven't been crazy about which I've been ignoring. You get frustrated reacting to them. There was a piece about Wicked being in on a conspiracy in France on the Hot d'Or - that whole Marc Dorcel connection, that you had to be affiliated with him to win anything. Obviously I don't know anything about a major conspiracy, and I'm happy to win wherever I can. I'm just very happy to have won the things we did. But everything has to have that twist of what's the conspiracy. Everything has to be a conspiracy. It's crazy. On that whole Jenna story that was posted several weeks ago, I want to defend Jenna and the things I do know about Jenna. I'm not on the road with her and I don't know every incident that happens or doesn't. The things I do know I've known her for four years more than anybody. I know she's not a drug addict. I know she's not an alcoholic. I think if she was, I'd know it. She took about a year and a half off from doing movies and is back. We just shot her the end of April in Hell on Heels and she was just wonderful. She's been a 100%. I couldn't ask for a better representation. I let it all go when it was out there because I see what happens when you answer it. It doesn't turn to anything positive. Like today. I maybe blowing it off as a joke, but what does everyone else think? On one level it's very funny. I can enjoy a joke, and I can enjoy a crack at me, too.
G. Ross: "CRACK!!??
Orenstein: "A stab at me. But there's that realization out there that people just think this is all fact. That's when you realize how scary this is."
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Trace G of Deja Vu writes: "That is it. We are done with her shit. Jenna pulled ANOTHER NO-SHOW at our Lansing, Michigan club and we've had it with her and her nonsense. We have cancelled a 9 club tour of her worth over $100,000.00 and are taking any movies with her, her in them off the shelves in all of our stores. Additionally, we are filing a lawsuit against her and her pathetic excuse for an agency the Lee Network. They promised us that she'd be there. They are full of it.
"Please inform the world that if it has anything to do with Jenna, we will be boycotting it. We have also spoken with other clubowners and bookstore chains who are also finished with Jenna's primadonna attitude and complete lack of responsibility. What goes up must come down, and with all our influence, you can rest assured that Jenna is a thing of the past."
Joy King of Wicked has this to say:
King: "I haven't spoken to Jenna in about two weeks. I have heard this story from the Lee Network. I have absolutely know idea what the truth is to any of it. As far as her videos on the shelves, I have heard that too. To my knowledge, it hasn't happened. If that happens we'd be very disappointed. I've been trying to get a hold of Jenna in North Carolina. I haven't heard back.
"I remember a time when Jenna had to cancel on a club in Georgia. It was because her father disappeared. It was very traumatic to her. She cancelled the gig. She was a wreck emotionally. I heard the same thing. They were going to sue her. They never did. This happened several other times where clubs were going to sue her. Nobody ever has. Instead, they try to negotiate for her to come back at a discounted price. If Deja Vu decides to go forward [to sue], with it, they would be the first one.
"The story is she got in Lansing on late Monday. I don't know exactly what happened with the travel arrangements. She was very tired having just come off another dance gig in Sacramento. She asked if she could skip Monday and start Tuesday. And that's what they flipped out about. It's not like she cancelled the gig. She was in town. She was there. She called the club and said she was tired and exhausted could she make the shows up the rest of the week. They said, fuck you. But you never hear her side of the story. Everyone wants to make her look bad. Everything she does is looked at under a magnifying glass. She didn't bail on the gig."
King said she would try to contact Jameson to have her give her side of the story.
Steve Orenstein offers some additional comments on the Jameson story plus the "smack" references made about him on another site in the posting update.
Mike Albo writes: "In the past two weeks alone a certain internet "writer" has accused Charles Geerts of drug trafficking and money laundering. He's leveled the same charges against Berth Milton of Private. He's intimated that Paul Fishbein is involved with funding an escort service. He's stated that Russ Hampshire of VCA has attempted a murder-for-hire scheme on his ex-partner. He plagiarized an entire article (without attribution) from Hustler Erotic Video Guide. Today he's insinuated that Steve Orenstein of Wicked Pictures and Steve Hirsch of Vivid are drug addicts.
What are we? A bunch of pansies? When is this guy going to be shut down, blackballed, or simply given a good ass-whuppin'? We're all starting to look ridiculous.
Gene Ross sez: "Be careful, Mike. There will be a top ten pansies list surfacing very soon."
"Slammy," the director of Hardcore Chapionship Fucking writes: Thanks for the article. It ROCKS!!!! One thing I need to mention, I co-wrote Tails from the Whip with Dominic. I didn't produce it. I know Dominic reads your site, and he might think I'm taking credit for something we did together.. Many thanks.. Hope you guys will like my Movie."
Kendra Jade: "I Want to Fight Jasmin St. Claire!"
Kendra Jade's new tagline should be, 'no animals were abused in the making of this phone call.' Recent email postings on another site have lent the distinct impression that both Jade and buddy Shelle Pearson are a couple of gypsy-ditz animal abusers with no collective roof over their heads and no clue in their blond minds. On another matter, Jade wants to publically challenge Jasmin St. Claire over some old issues.
Jade: "All those stories [about animal abuse] are ludicrous - ridiculous. It's a long fucking story. Shelle and I both talked to John [Bone] and Martin [Bone's partner] yesterday and everything is fine. Martin has given us more time to get our stuff out of there. We got a three day notice and were getting kicked out of the apartment for non-payment of rent. It wasn't my apartment. It was Shelle's apartment. I'm not on the lease. My stuff was there. I stayed there some times. So we got the notice and found another place to stay. I had a dog, my dog, one dog, not three dogs. And, yes, he was left in the apartment, but I was going over there constantly throughout the day to make sure he was fed and taken out. I didn't sleep there at night. That's the only thing. During the day, we were there packing, getting stuff together. I don't see how that's any different than someone who wakes up in the morning, feeds their dog and goes to work for the day. Okay, he was left unattended during the night. I was staying at my boyfriend's house...Shelle was away.
G. Ross: "Away at one of her three fiances?"
Jade [laughing]: "No. What Shelle does is not my business.... First thing in the morning we'd go over there, feed him and stay most of the day. Then, somebody called the landlord, Martin, and said there were all these dogs there and nobody's been there for weeks. That was totally bullshit. When the Animal Control went over there, I wasn't there. I was on a shoot. Apparently someone had let the dog outside. The door was unlocked and Shelle's TV and VCR were missing. So I'm thinking one of the neighbors knew we weren't there and went into the place and took them. Martin called Animal Control because the dog was outside, not on the leash. One of the neighbors said we weren't hadn't been there in weeks and the dog hadn't been fed and was starving to death. That dog basically came everywhere with me. I couldn't take him on a shoot with me. There was no way.
"The dog wasn't lost. He was sitting at the top of the stairs. He was sitting next to the apartment door waiting for someone to let him in. Animal Control came over and took the dog Tuesday. At the time when I found out they took the dog it was already seven o'clock at night and the shelter was closed. There was nothing I could do. [Jade was on the matter yesterday trying to get back custody of Beau, her dog, as we spoke.] I didn't find out the dog was taken until my shoot was done. He's a mutt. He's the most loyal dog in the world. If I went to the store, he came with me. I've had him three or four months. He's an awesome dog. I love my dog more than I love any person, anything, anybody. There's no way I would evr do wrong by him. If I thought it was endangering him by leaving him alone for a few hours, then I wouldn't do it...but these stories were exaggerated. These people are saying there were three fucking dogs running around. I own one dog. I own no cats.
G. Ross: "Does Shelle own cats?"
Jade: "Shelle owns cats."
G. Ross: "Two of whom are her fiances."
Jade: "John and I are on a level where we're not going to trash each other. I said to Luke when Luke called me for a comment I said, 'This isn't my war. I'm not in this. This has nothing to do with me.' Of course he left that part out and printed what he wanted to print. That's Luke. I'm not going to respond to this any more. I was really upset at first when I read these things. It really affected me that someone would think I was like that. I'm not playing this game anymore. It's childish and baby games. John says if he finds out this stuff is coming from his office he's going to have a fit. Even John who's not on the best terms with Shelle or I, knows this is ridiculous. Shelle and I will continue to room together. She's my very closest friend out here.
"A lot of times people in this business have a lot to say about me before they even get to know me. Shelle will tell you, when she first met me she hated my guts. Fucking hated me. Thought I was a moron. Then she actually took time to get to know me. Now she's my closest friend. It's a matter of being around me and getting to know the person that's not Kendra Jade. I think there's a huge difference there. There's a lot of people out there who want to say Kendra Jade does this or that...they don't even know me. I have enough stress as it is. I don't need this petty bullshit. I hate this fucking business! And here I am going, 'Shelle, get in the business.' I'm a hypocrite, too.
"But the thing I really wanted to talk about was this thing with Rob Black's wrestling. I am so excited. Maybe now he will give me the opportunity. I've challenged Jasmin St. Claire publically before. Hopefully, now, he won't let her pussy out of it. I would like to publically request a fight with Jasmin St. Claire. I want to be the first. But how can I beat her when she's already down? It was funny. At Erotica LA she was sitting there signing for all these people...remember how she left this voicemail on my machine saying I was a cunt and my days were numbered? Well, I walked up to her and said, 'Yo, Jasmin.' She had this look on her face. 'Well, am I still a cunt?' She looked at me and stutttered. She didn't know what to say. She moved farther back in the booth because she thought I was going to come after her. I told her I wouldn't give her the time of day, that she was a fuckin' cumbucket. The people in the lines were cracking up. I knew if I hit her, I would be in jail. It isn't worth going to jail. But, hell, if she wants to do it like that [wrestling] then I guess it's legal, right. Then I can beat her and get away with it. That would be so fuckin' cool. Last time they were saying, no way, they wouldn't let her fight me. But now if they got this wrestling-thing, I guess there's no excuse to why they wouldn't. I want it. I have so much stress, it would be so wonderful to take it out on her. She's a douchebag.
"I shot for Seymore Butts Tuesday. It was pretty cool. I got some good anal lovin' goin'. Some good ol' buttsex. I'm going to Cancun this weekend. I'm supposed to be co-hosting a TV show, but it's not confirmed yet. It's like an MTV spring break-type of thing. Joey Buttafuoco is one of the hosts and Snoop Doggy Dog is performing there. They wanted two controversial people so they asked Joey and me....if it works out. I'm waiting to hear from them.
Jade's co-hort Shelle Pearson who's reputed to have at least three fiances, got on the line.
Pearson: "Hey, you, what are you doing?"
G. Ross: "Counting the number of fiances you got and I'm losing count...it's like the old song, a hundred bottles of beer on the wall.
Pearson: "Yeah, but none of them care if I get anal lovin' from anybody else. I get to shoot today...some guy named Nick."
G. Ross: "Some guy named Nick? Where is it, in a motel room?"
Pearson: "I'm only doing a single masturbation tape. I'm going to go play with myself....I love my anal lovin'...I need to find work, but it's my fault..I'm trying to meet people."
G. Ross: "So, just for the record, is it three fiances and two cats?"
Pearson: "I have three fiances - one in New York, one in Maryland and one in Austria....I've talked to John yesterday and we've worked it out...I'm lost right now."
G. Ross: "We'll try to get you found."
Pearson, who describes her resumé as "Florida party girl/dancer/sugar daddy-kind-of-thing," first got into the business over 3 1/2 years ago. She performed under the name Bobbie Lee, a name given to her by John T. Bone. Pearson danced at clubs like Solid Gold in Ft. Lauderdale. Pearson met a photographer who introduced her to dance agent Charlie Frye. Frye sent her to California for video work. "My videos are from 1996 and 1997," Pearson notes. [Perhaps her most notable appearance was in the Randy West Up & Cummers #36.]
"The first thing I did was Ridden Hard and Put Away Wet, a title John did for Metro," Pearson says. "I never did a scene that wasn't anal. I never did a scene that wasn't a d.p., except for one with Dave Hardman and Candy Apples. After I did something like 13 features, I went back to Florida for awhile, hung around, and became Charlie's secretary." She came back to California this past February.
Pearson definitely lived up to her reputation when she and Jade came to The Sopornos' shoot a couple of weeks ago, got some alcohol and got everyone on the set tanked. [After the last shot, of course.] The party reputedly lasted till 6am the following morning.
Pearson says she'd love to give the business a full-time shot but is scared by its politics.
Goofy Obscenity Case of the Day
With Seattle's Fremont Solstice Parade coming up this Saturday, city attorney Mark Sidran's office along with the police department have made it clear that they are going after nude bicyclists once again. Last year police arrested several bicyclists but Sidran's office failed in its efforts to prosecute. This year, Lieutenant Mark Keuhn and Assistant City Attorney Mike Finkle informed members of the Fremont Arts Council that they expect cooperation in the city's great "crack-down." Last week, Finkle and Kuehn asked the artists who organize the parade to post signs saying they do not endorse nude bicycling, and to testify in court against any cyclists who get caught.
"It's ridiculous," says longtime Arts Council member Peter Toms. "They're putting so much effort into something that's essentially harmless. They should just leave them alone."
And you say Rob Black hasn't left his mark on modern culture? Check out this story from San Diego. A man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of fish-flogging his girlfriend. Police say Nicholas Anthony Vitalich, 24, was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend in a supermarket parking lot with a 10-pound tuna. Authorities say Vitalich could be charged with assault with a deadly weapon. "People will use whatever weapon they have available," said Lt. Jim Barker of the police domestic-violence unit. "In this case, it was a fish." Barker added: "It's a serious incident."
Vitalich's girlfriend told police that she and Vitalich argued and that he struck her several times in the face and lower body with the 2-foot fish, which he had just bought. She suffered cuts and bruises. Thank God it wasn't a snapper.
