I wont reveal who I am, however it should be interesting to know that the
Associate Producer of ABC who followed Bella Donna for 1 year and was the
soul and primary gatherer of information for this story was Jason M Rovou.
His Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone Number at ABC Studios is
(212) 456-7617.
This is the prick that put a negative spin on the story.
Sincerely, Anonymous
--- I hear things. One of the things I hear is that a porn girl had a
seizure on a set yesterday in North Hollywood, possibly a drug OD. She
remains in the hospital from a drug overdose. More as develops.
Wankus ( www.KSEXradio.com ) Writes: I was told today, again they refused
to tell me who or what set in North Hollywood yesterday, that she had taken
valuum before the shoot and then got fucked up on red wine. She was
released today but according to this source, her heart DID stop for at
least 5 seconds.
If you can find out more, please do me the courtesy of keeping me in the
loop. Thanks! Wank
Quasarman Has A Message To Bella Donna: "Bella Donna.... I don't know where
to begin. All I can say is, anyone who gives this girl a job in the future
should be brutally beaten with a bag of hammers. Her performance last night
makes Alexandria Quinn's Hard Copy performance of a decade earlier look
like an infomerical by comparison. I shot Bella twice and at no time did
she indicate to me that her "smile" was a facade. At no time did she
mention that her deeply religious mother was disappointed in her. It was
indeed difficult to ascertain her troubled history while she was yelling
"fuck me harder you fuck!!!!" May Bella Donna be relegated to the only
thing she is truly qualified for; collecting public assistance."
A LETTER TO PRIMETIME
Stacy Writes: I really want to ask you a serious question. Why do news
stories that pertain to porn, always focus around the single worst
candidate/representative you can find? Belladonna is possibly the dumbest
girl in adult movies and one of the least attractive. Her ability to
debate, think on the move and be articulate are almost ZILCH. Her
appearance is hardly that of a porn star. I could drive my car through that
gap in her teeth. She was simply going to go anyplace Diane Sawyer wanted
her to go. What fun is that?
If you want to do a hard hitting expose about porn, why not pick a girl
that can put up a fight and will not break down and cry and apologize for
being a porn star? Why not find a girl that is not a crack addict, not
having personal issues and not doing porn simply to escape home?
If you want to learn something about the real porno world, I have 3 girls
that you should interview.
1. Jewel DeNyle: This girl is hardcore, open, and brutally honest. She can
speak in public, is not an addict and is the consummate business woman. She
can likely out-debate Diane Sawyer.
2. Samantha Sterlyng: Samantha is loud and proud. She is agressive, well
spoken, domineering and will never break down and cry. She loves doing porn
and it shows in her performances.
3. BisexualBritni: Britni is likely the most hardcore girl to ever do porn.
She makes no excuses for the hardcore stuff she makes and offers no
apolagies for it. She is a master debater and will never back off her
points. Britni has a following on the internet that has almost reached cult
status.
Any of these three girls will make an expose that people would love to
watch. Why not give the porno team a chance in this game and allow them to
put in a girl that is worth interviewing. None of these three girls will
whine or cry. None of them will ask for forgiveness or help. They will not
make excuses for what they do and your interviewer will never break them.
Belly up to the bar ABC and take a crack at a girl that will not roll over
and die, like Belladonna did. Do not waste your time interviewing girls
like Jenna Jamson who would not recognize a real porn star if she was
bitten by one. Jenna is a figure-head and has not been a real porn girl in
seven years. Wade into the trenches and do battle with a girl worthy of
your time and attention. Unles, of course, you are afraid Diane Sawyer has
lost her edge and would be eaten alive by girls with a conviction for what
they do, and an ability to debate their positions/choices.
S.
ABC PRIMETIME AFTERMATH: TIME FOR SOME CHANGES?
Pontus on AdultDVDTalk Writes: It's easy when a major news network does a
slanted report on porn to become defensive and close ranks, whether as porn
fans or as porn insiders (performers, directors, producers, etc.).
Biased or not, I think ABC Primetime made some valid criticisms about the
porn industry and even about porn fans.
What changes (if any) would you like the porn industry/porn fans to make
after viewing the Primetime show on porn?
For starters, consider the following questions:
1. Why don't the porn studios, before hiring new porn talent, require that
they test safe for other STDs in addition to HIV? And once the new porn
talent are hired for their first job, require that they get this battery of
tests monthly. The porn studios could pay for this themselves, and then
pass the costs to us porn consumers (it would only require a mark-up of,
what, a dime, quarter, or fifty cents per movie sold?).
2. Why doesn't the porn industry work out a way to arrange for initial
psychological screening of new male and female talent before they make
their first movie (and subsequently, make ongoing counseling services
available to the talent on an as needed basis free of charge?). The
financing can be the same as # 1 above (pass the costs on to us porn fans).
3. Why doesn't the porn industry make financial counseling services
available to the porn talent free of charge? This needn't be compulsory for
the porn stars, but they should be strongly encouraged to take advantage of
it. So many of the porn talent have just turned 18 and find themselves,
quite often, earning substantially more money even than their parents. What
do most of them do? They go on wild spending sprees as if the money were
going to last forever. Again, pass the financial counseling costs on to
porn consumers. I've read on these forums that, typically, a gay DVD costs
about $50. So what's the big deal about charging an extra two or three
dollars for each straight DVD to take better care of the talent?
4. Are we gonzo porn fans being too selfish and insensitive in demanding
that the porn talent not use condoms? For example, if RLD put out a press
release announcing that they were going to become a condom-only company,
would you still keep buying their movies (or buying as many)? If you
haven't been willing to do this in the past, would you now be willing to
fully support a condom-only policy from all of the studios to make life
safer for the porn talent? (I would, for one, even though I don't like to
see condoms used--I could certainly get used to this practice if it became
standard.) Plus, many condoms today are designed to be virtually invisible,
anyway.
5. Are we gonzo porn fans being heartless in demanding that the girls do
increasingly hardcore sex scenes (double anal, triple penetration, bukkake,
million-man gangbangs, etc.)? Has gonzo porn become just a meat shredder
and defiler of female talent? Are we all gradually becoming misogynists?
Don't get me wrong, if a woman has been through the proposed psychological
screening, passed with flying colors, and genuinely wants to do the circus
acts for substantially better pay, then fine. But I hate to think of an
emotionally unstable 18 year old woman being pressured to do such things
with big dollars being waved in her face.
6. Should the porn industry adopt a "viewer assurance standard" on rough
sex movies ? Here's what I mean by that. Each movie with a rough sex scene
or theme must show the women who participate in them being interviewed at
the beginning of the movie, and make it clear that they know exactly what
is going to happen beforehand and choose to participate in the rough sex
voluntarily. It should also be mentioned that the women are free to stop
the action at anything during the scene if it gets too intense for them.
And then, at the end of the movie, show those same women again after their
scenes reassuring the viewer that they're alright. Plus, porn studios
should refrain from subjecting the women to excessive pressure to get them
to do things that they're not really comfortable with (whether it's rough
sex or anything else). In other words, don't give the women the impression
that unless they do it, they won't be able to continue working in the porn
industry.
7. Is it possible for at least porn fans to quit being so judgmental of
porn stars? Yes, I know many of us aren't, but a great many of us are. I
can't get over the comment (I think) C. Everett Koop made: "The people
watching the pornography despise the people they're watching." That's
absolutely not categorically true, however, I've seen the truth of that
observation exemplified far too many times on this forum and on others.
Maybe "despise" in most cases is too strong a word. How about "disrespect"?
Too many porn fans disrespect porn stars. If you happen to be one such porn
fan, would you be willing to permanently improve your attitude starting today?
Now, I'll be the first to admit that I love gonzo, I hate condoms, and I
love anal and DPs. But frankly, watching ABC Primetime last night, I'd be
lying if I said there weren't moments that I felt guilty. True, the story
was badly slanted, but...
I've heard even porn industry insiders, as well as fans who are
well-connected to the industry, paint a pretty bleak picture of what the
porn world is really like for most of the porn talent (especially the
female porn talent--probably made worst by the moral double standard
applied to women). Unduly attacking the news media, I feel, to some extent,
is really a smokescreen to hide from ourselves the truth we don't want to
face in our own consciences.
What are your thoughts on this? I'd really like to know.
CyberChicken Adds: Let me just say what I would like to see happen.
Hopefully my answers will somehow match your questions )
1. raise the minimum age to 21
2. require a federal license
3. require weekly std testing
4. must pass a psychological exam before you can get a license - with
monthly checkups
5. must be drug free (weekly test) no drug addicts in porn
CINDI LOFTUS ON PRIMETIME
Cindi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Writes: Shattered? Who's shattered? The
Producer of Prime Time? Because they got a shitty story? Diane Sawyer
because she looked liked a fool calling mainstream companies, who are
supposedly are making millions from porn, yet they wouldn't talk to her? It
took two years to make this slanted docu-drama? On the life and times of
Belladonna? Bella certainly isn't "Shattered" since she just happily
accepted an AVN award, one of the biggest honors in the industry. Bella's
Mom, sister, and best friend aren't shattered, although they appear to be
when they first describe the adult business as awful, and then in the next
segment they are all in it and profiting from it.
Who is Ona Zee? Never heard of her. She must be a real bigwig in the adult
world. Maybe she is the one that is "shattered"? Her looks have obviously
gone down and her aging body no longer works on film. Perhaps she is
"shattered" by Jealousy?
Bill " sound bite" Margold should know better by now not to participate in
a mainstream show where he has no say in the final product. He should know
that they are going to cut up what he says to make it appear negative. ( I
love you Bill, but come on...)
Sharon " Mitch" Mitchell beautiful and elegant as always is trying to get
her point across and she was cut and pasted until she sounded like an enemy
rather than the advocate she is.
I challenge any mainstream news program who would like to do a REAL story
on the adult industry to call me. I will hook you up with the people you
need to talk to and you will find that this is a positive straight forward
loving group of people who have sex on camera for money. Not the cess pool
you all make it out to be.
I have been in this business for 10 years now, writing about porn gossip,
interviewing stars, and profiling video companies. I love my job and I love
my porn family. My life is anything but shattered!
Cindi Loftus, Head Writer, Xcitement Magazine
http://www.lukeford.com/
jimmyd _writes "A lot of people are suggesting changes to our industry as a
result of ABC's airing of their "Shattered Lives" mock-u-mentary.
Personally, I agree--some changes are in order, although I have yet to read
one I agree with.
But rather than disagree with the porn-intelligensia, who are certainly all
much smarter than I am, I think I'll just make some dumb-ass
recommendations of my own.
Here goes:
1. Jim South is legally restrained from ever appearing on a broadcast
television show, or speaking with a mainstream journalist, ever again;
perhaps even by court order. Exceptions to this rule are that he can be a
contestant on a day-time game show, or an idiot on a "Jackass" style show,
or something like that. In other words, if a show or news article has to do
with porn, it must be sans Jim South, and that also includes talk shows.
2. Bill Margold is legally restrained from ever appearing on a broadcast
television show, or speaking with a mainstream journalist, ever again under
the same conditions as Jim South.
3. All porn companies, producers, directors, et al, agree to never again
allow a news camera crew on a set, or in a porn factory. From this day on,
we treat our sets, our stages, our warehouses, and our offices, much the
same way the U.S. government treats Roswell and Hanger 19, or whatever the
fuck number that hanger is--you know the one, the one with the dead space
aliens.
4. We all vow that the next time some girl in the business agrees to let a
news camera crew follow her around, the mostly likely place they'll be
following her is to the unemployment office.
5. All companies agree to contribute to a fund to set up an industry-wide,
information clearing-house possibly called the "Office of Misinformation,"
or maybe the "Ministry of Porn Propaganda." This information clearing-house
hires someone like Adella O'Neal, or Harry Weiss, to be the sole, official
spokesperson for the whole industry. This person's primary mandate will be
to misdirect, misinform, and mistify all persons from the outside inquiring
about what's going on in the inside. Perhaps whatever monies you're
currently contributing to the Free Speech Coalition could be re-directed to
this effort. In fact, the office should work to create such a mystery about
the jizz bizz that the only television programming about the adult industry
will be shows similar to those searching for the lost continent of
Atlantis, or investigating the Bermuda Triangle.
6. Websites like simplyjimmyd.com and lukeford.com agree to a 50/50
approach to their reporting, i.e., 50% of what's written is the truth, 50%
is lies. This will keep the general public and any news or government
agencies who read these sites completely confused as to what's really going
on. In-the-know citizens of our business should have no problem figuring
out what is the truth, and what is bullshit. In fact, maybe it should be
30/70, with 70% being bullshit.
7. AVN agrees to change absolutely nothing in their continuing coverage of
the jizz bizz. This will continue their tradition of putting a big,
dumb-fucking, smiley face on the business, and that's the way it should be.
8. Luke Ford, the guy, not the website, should be placed on Official
Industry-Wide Porn Quarantine, even though there's really only one or two
producers who allow him on to sets and takes him inside the business.
Luke's on their side, not our's. By the way, if you didn't already know
this, Ford's real name is Lukey Brasco--he's a journalist , and as such,
he's not your friend (by his own admission).
9. Next year's Adult Entertainment Expo and AVN Awards Show is advertised
just like in previous years. Except next year we secretly hold it in Reno
at an undisclosed location. Everyone must show up in Vegas, go to the
Venetian, where someone will give you a secret phone number. You call the
number and are told the secret location of the Expo and Show. We probably
should hire producers of raves to work out all the strategic details.
10. And finally, everyone working in the Jizz Bizz must sign a
non-disclosure agreement which legally prevents them from telling anyone on
the outside anything that actually takes place on the inside of our little
"playpen of the damned."
Ok, I think that should pretty much take care of this little problem.
Anyone else have any similar ideas?
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