| --Saturday, September 30, 2006--
Shopping with Generation X, Y
 Tonight's NinnWorx/Eddie Van Halen/Billy Idol "Gathering" (will there be a drum circle too?) doesn't allow cameras, so here is a picture from the shopping trip that was supposed to have netted Shane's World contract icon Casey Parker a new dress for the shindig.
She did not get a new dress. Holly Randall, who has plenty of dresses, got a new dress.
"Maybe I should wear something like Saran Wrap, or leaves with double-stick tape?" Parker wondered.
"That wouldn't be Dogme 95 enough," I noted. "You would need to use sweat."
Zod knows what will become of them in the wake of Parker's impending fashion dilemma. They were last seen wandering around the Beverly Center.
"I suppose I could put something together from my wardrobe," Parker said.
You don't see Gram going out shopping for a new outfit for no "Eyes Without A Face". That would result in zero street cred from my fans. I was just there for moral support.
"Rock the cradle of love," I suggested.
"What?"
"Rock. The. Cradle. Of. Love."
Eddie Van Halen provided music for Michael Ninn's latest, Sacred Sin. Billy Idol is performing at the release party. Will Idol sing the theme song to "One Day At A Time"? He will if I give him 50 bucks.
This is it (this is it)
FLESH!
This is life, the one you get
So go and have a ball
FLESH FOR FANTASY Previously: In a wet room with black curtains...; You ought to give Iowa a try; Catherine
See also: NinnWorx
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--Friday, September 29, 2006--
Mishaah enroped
 Fetish model/new best friend Mishaah sends pictures of her being tied up.
What is she trying to tell me??
Previously: Open bar at the Rears place
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Friday Industry Shocker
 Whether it is due to their sale to Halliburton or if employees are attending harrassment tips seminars, no one at AVN is picking up the phone today.
Since Tom Hymes is now at XBiz, there is no other possible reason why meetings should be going on this long.
In other news, Industry Veteran Dusty Marie is now head of PR at the XBiz family of products. Dusty has been in the industry since May of last year. For this reason, I am now calling myself a MILF.
Previously: Gram Ponante sold to Playboy; Will there be another Temptation Awards?; A conversation with Nelson X; The most insightful and provocative press release ever; Choose your fiction; Job opportunity
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Peach bites back
 I have come to realize that mine is not the only website in the adult realm. In fact, there are at least three more. Because I enjoy sunlight, trees, running water, food, and schooling the industry on the newest positions, I often miss whole chunks of drama.
If you touch it, I’m'a start some drama. You don’t want no drama. No no drama. No no no no drama. - Sun Tzu Drama like the one in which Lethal Hardcore owner Stoney Curtis called out Alabama's Own Amber Peach for flaking on a set. Read his words and then read Ms. Peach's response.
AMBER PEACH FLAKES AGAIN (for a third time w/our company), Gets DROPPED by agent!!
Amber was booked for us friday 22nd, I insisted she call us direct and verify so she cant complain that her agent screwed up the booking (which was her old excuse). We gave her another chance to work for us. When Harry at Absolute modeing (her 4th agent) went to finalize thing today she tells him "I CANT WORK I HAVE STAPH INFECTION". Harry dropped her from his site. WARNING to all agents, DONOT rep this girl!!! If you do know good shooter will ever take u serious again.
I normally wouldnt write this or complain if this wasnt the third time she flaked. We shot a girl here today who claims she saw Amber on set wed. and she looked fine and did a scene, now she sick and cant work.
It seems that girls are afraid to have negative things written about them so they figure if they claim they are sick a director wont post about them on this site.
BEWARE of the BS from the talent. Ask for a copy of doctors note if you plan to use them again!!!! If readers outside the adult industry need a concordance for that, I will provide one for a small fee.
Peach responds below, in an e-mail titled "Standing up for myself":
I’m really tired of all of the false accusations and rumors being spread about me and my professionalism. I do not like to like to talk negatively about people and I believe everyone has a right to their opinion and free speech so I have allowed opinions to be posted about me without responding in the past. However, this time I feel that I must stand up for myself because this has gone too far.
I understand the use of the website PSP and I believe it’s a great idea to report when a performer is a flake or doesn’t do a job he or she has been hired to do. Though I’m not perfect, I want to make it perfectly clear that I’m not a flake and I give a quality performance when I’m hired.
Though I hadn’t planned on sharing my personal information with everyone (it is rather embarrassing to admit that you have an infection) I feel that it is necessary to set the record straight. FYI, I was in the emergency room on Friday. Yes, it is true, I did have a staff infection and yes, I DO have the doctor’s note ordering that I refrain from work for at least a week. I could have been irresponsible like some others in the industry and work with a contagious disease. However, I have more respect for the other talent and for myself to put anyone at risk and wish the person that gave it to me would have shown me the same respect. I was on set on Wednesday, as Stoney mentioned and I’m guessing that’s when I was exposed to staff, I did a g/g that morning and then I shot some scenes for my website that evening and then woke up with a bump. I canceled my scene that day and went straight to AIM.
Stoney’s shoot wasn’t the only shoot I had to cancel. I asked that my agent email Stoney a copy of my doctor’s note to verify the situation since he didn’t seem to believe that I was telling the truth. Even with proof Stoney has not stepped up and admitted that he was wrong and issued an apology for falsely accusing me of flaking. I wouldn’t mind if this was just between us, however he’s now affecting my career by posting these false accusations on the internet for people to read and I feel that it’s necessary that I stand up for myself and explain my side.
Let me just set one more thing straight. I am and have been back with Lighthouse Talent for about a month now. Harry did NOT drop me, I left him to return to Lighthouse because he was just not providing enough bookings for me. He only provided me with four small jobs the entire time he was representing me and they weren’t even enough to pay my rent. Lighthouse has kept me booked almost every day since I’ve been back with them.
I was also very disappointed in Harry when he didn’t stand up for me when I was booked on a job on the 7th and wasn’t paid what I was booked for. I chose Harry as a manager/agent because he sold me on the fact that he would handle all of my PR and how great he would be at handling my career. When I asked that he do something to warn other girls about this person since they were spreading lies about me, he did nothing. I wanted to let people know how horrible that experience was, they treated me horribly, were violet and offered me meth and I felt girls should be warned. I harbor no hard feelings towards Harry he just wasn’t the agent for me.
Again, I normally wouldn’t have said anything but I think that it’s time I stand up for myself and set the record straight on a few things that have been going around about me and are effecting my career and reputation. Thanks for listening,
-Amber Peach
PS- The doctor said I will be available to work again by the 2nd, To book me just call Light House Talent (818) 907-9752 I demand that people get along. It's not as if she was selling screeners or anything. Girlfriend got sick and copped to one episode of flakery. Plus she's cute as a button and knows the inside of Birmingham strip clubs.
Previously: Day rate plus anal; Seymore Butts' thought-provoking party bus; Get your hands out of your pants you filthy old woman
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--Thursday, September 28, 2006--
Welcome geeks with jobs
 I recently covered Digital Playground's Island Fever 4 party for G4TV, a network that owes me money.
Of particular interest is Flower Tucci's unlimited supply of ass puns but deliciously finite (the border is my jeans) supply of actual ass. Also, Jesse Jane swears like a Pirate, even though she's moved on to another movie.
See a video here.
Did you know that this video, and the fact that G4 linked back to me, represents the FIRST TIME that G4 acknowledged a porn-related story with a link to an actual porn site? Previously, they had cashed in on mentioning porn, but considered it unseemly to provide an HTML reacharound.
So you and I have achieved something wonderful here today, even if I often sounded like a nasal bird in the interview and even if G4 edited out my response to Lynn LeMay's assertion of having given someone head "right over there".
"That was the best night of my life," I said, but who would ever know?
Doubtless the uncut interview will show up as an Easter Egg on some hidden floor of Castle Wolfenstein.
Previously: Sex workers protest Grand Theft Auto; World of Warcraft SEX!
See also: G4TV
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Hannah Harper and the DSM-IV
 As you know, people come to Gram Ponante.com for its insightful articles on clinical psychology with emphasis on mood disorders, its use as a low-cost self-diagnostic tool, and its listings of unaccredited prescription providers.
That is why I can tell Hannah Harper that wanting to smack someone with a whip doesn't make her demented.
In one of her edgiest roles ever, Sin City contract star Hannah Harper finds herself exploring her sexuality in the nether world of bondage and deviancy in the two-disc DEMENTIA IV It's not enough that the unfulfilled housewife gets into bondage, but she also becomes a deviant.
Bondage and fetishism are classified as paraphilias, in which attention is paid to things outside the traditional sexual spectrum. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, further requires such practices to be the sole source of sexual gratification for a period of at least six months in order to be considered paraphilias. Then you have to take into account whether the partner is consenting.
Since everyone in the movie signed a release form, we can be sure that Harper is not, in fact, demented.
Dementia 1V also stars Gia Paloma, Brooke Haven, Taryn Thomas, and Annette Schwartz.
Previously: Hannah Harper rocks Ironweed; Hannah Harper rocks the 'xnard
See also: Sin City Films
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--Wednesday, September 27, 2006--
Black & Blue
 Indigo Noir is a fine example of what one can do with a small budget but a lot of what Lionel Stander would call "heart".
Directed by Roy Karch, the blackest white man since Bill Clinton, Indigo Noir stars Lexington Steele, Vanessa Blue, Kapri Styles, Sydney Capri, Alexis Silver, Tee Real, Nat Turner, and Max Black.
Read a review here.
Previously: The face of Lex is missing; Kilroy Karch was here
See also: Adam & Eve
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Adam & Eve promotes everybody
 Adam & Eve, which for 30 years was nestled quietly in North Carolina under the XPeeps Mountains, opened a satellite office in Chatsworth this summer to be in the heart of the Valley which represents part of its business.
The brunt of A&E's income comes from catalog and Internet sales of its own and other people'ss videos as well as a brisk business in marital aids. But the company this year decided to place its video division closer to the action.
With that in mind, the company hired the genial Peter Reynolds after he parted ways with VCA, then hired former VCA shaker Mischa Allen to run the office. Finally, Bruce Whitney was lured away from Hustler to be the new Traffic Manager.
In the past week, Reynolds was given the additional responsibility of managing Bad Seed, A&E's gonzo division.
"I am changing the logo and the packaging," Reynolds said. "This is going to be good hard gonzo, not cookie cutter. I'll be bringing on new directors."
I liked the Bad Seed logo of a sperm with a spiked collar. Maybe the company thought it was too intellectual.
Now Mischa Allen will be assuming the role of publicist for Adam & Eve's video side. She is an excellent speller.
Previously: Vivid wins alt war without shot being fired; Friday's axe
See also: Adam & Eve
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Billy Glide Night at PSK
 I drove over the hill from Hollywood to beautiful downtown Burbank for Porn Star Karaoke. Yes, I drive myself. It is my way.
My cynical attorney, Wayne Hentai, has taken to calling PSK "Not-So-Porn-Star Karaoke" but this week there were actually porn stars in the persons of Billy Glide, Monica Mayhem, and Angela Stone. Also in attendance were Blumpkin auteurs Oliver Bone and Wendy Clearwater.
 "She was holding a camera," Bone said of the Blumpkin shoot, which took place in his Orange County apartment, "I was holding a camera, there was a stationery camera, and we had just had a lot of sake. You can hear us laughing all the way through it."
 Bone and I asked various bar patrons if they were familiar with the sexual urban legends depicted in the new Billy Glide series. To my surprise, no one knew what a Dirty Sanchez or Blumpkin was, but one guy at the rail mentioned Hoovering.
"What is that?" I demanded.
"You're doing your girl doggie-style and then you knock her arms out from under her so her face is flat on the bed, like a vacuum cleaner," he said.
This mortified me, as I had just come from a Wicked party. "That is an abomination," I said. "Samson never did that to Delilah."
I thought about sexual urban legends that did not yet exist.
- There's The Ripley, when you're in zero gravity and you jerk off by opening and closing the airlock
- The Cthulhu, in which cunnilingus resembles less a consensual act between adults than it does a tentacled being from beyond our concept of geometry that devours and never stops devouring
- The Alpha 15, in which you feel nothing but sadness
- The McGreevy, where you blackmail your partner after sex (requires Turnpike-adjacent residency)
- The Galactica, in which you impregnate someone who doesn't know she's a robot
- and The POV, in which you spend less to have sex with a porn performer while holding a camera with no batteries in it than you would getting a hooker
 Afterward, I arm-wrestled Bone for the bar tab, which was high. I paid nothing. I'm hoping I can get in on a Galactica, or at least a Cthulhu, for the website.
Previously: It's the Great Blumpkin, Billy Glide; Erotica L.A. in review; Billy Glide will beat you up after school
See also: Billy Glide
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Wicked good hors d'ouevres
 Wicked does not throw many parties, and I have never attended a Wicked event in the entirety of the three weeks I've been involved with the adult industry. So I found myself on Cahuenga Blvd. at the former Crush bar last night.
I spoke with Wicked's Joy King, a person whose marketing prowess has been inexpertly replicated by her numerous admirers.
"Wicked does not throw many parties," I probed.
"No, we don't throw many parties."
"I see that you have snacks," I said, changing gears suddenly as per my restless intellect.
"Yes," she said, suddenly parrying with, "and we also have drinks."
The occasion was the release of the bounty hunter flick Manhunters, in which jessica drake, Carmen Hart, Kirsten Price, and Exotica received martial arts and weapons training in addition to applying the Turgidifying Arts in the execution of a Brad Armstrong film.
No sooner had I walked in than I was presented with a tray full of snacks.
"Please help me lighten my load," a waitress said.
Wicked is a classy company, but I still felt the need to say, "Watch out where you say 'load'."
I don't know too much about Wicked. They keep to themselves. They seem shy but kind, like Alan Arkin in The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.
I stopped the delightful Linda Roberts of SLLABWurks' The New Neighbors while she was passin' by. I asked if she'd tried a chicken finger.
"Oh, you ate one too?" she asked.
"So everybody knows the silent partner in your company," I said, easing my seat back. "Mightn't the movie sell even better if people knew who it was?"
"Probably," she said, liking the way the line goes up the back of the stocking.
"I mean, he's already been outed in a different capacity by another company," I noted, unchained. "You might as well jump."
"I'm not sure he wanted to get outed," she replied, just to try to make herself feel better.
"But isn't that movie selling a lot more now that his name has been associated with it?" I dove down.
"Yes," she said wearily. "Now beat it."
 Puma Swede rushed by. I think she said, "My handbag."
"Oh I know," I said.
I spoke with Michael Raven, director of The Visitors and the upcoming Samson And Delilah.
I asked if The Visitors was going to be edited down to a G rating and entered into film festivals.
"There are a lot of options," he said.
As an Old Testament scholar (though our people just call it The Only Testament), I was fascinated that a porn movie would be built around a Bible story.
"It's a contemporary take on Samson and Deliah," Raven said. "Herschel Savage plays Samson, a corporate type, and he meets jessica drake, Delilah, in a hair salon."
I think that story has more sexual opportunities than, say, the Song of Solomon, which always makes people feel uncomfortable when it's read at weddings. You know that when The Song of Solomon is trotted out at a wedding it's a signal to the congregation that the couple feels it needs God's permission to have sex. At that point it's already too late, and when the reader says "A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts," everyone squirms.
People are all like, "I don't want to think about your breasts, Beatrice."
I am assured that Wicked's Samson and Delilah will be good for the Jews.
More snacks were brought. Fried snacks. Snacks on sticks.
 I met Flower Tucci, celebrating Olivia O'Lovely's birthday with Alexis Amore. "I don't want anything fried," she said.
"Are you breaking up with me?" I cried.
The party at White Lotus was well-attended but not packed. I didn't feel like a particle in a particularly dense atom or that I was a late, fat arrival in the birth canal the way I sometimes do at these events.
I saw jessica drake.
 "Let's get away from all this," I didn't say, gesturing to anyone who would try to hurt us. "I don't care how old either of us is."
"It's not time!" she said.
I don't enjoy standing behind ropes at red carpets. There is too much pushing and the waiters don't venture out with snack trays. Here was a nice picture of Randy Spears, jessica drake, and Brad Armstrong. Someone shoved his camera into the shot and now you can hardly recognize them. They might as well be trolls.
 Inside, someone asked me, "Why aren't you taking pictures on the red carpet?"
"I am America's Beloved Porn Journalist," I said. "Why aren't you chasing ambulances?"
 Gia Paloma, Georgia Peach, and Lorelei Lee were the last pictures I took as I headed out for Porn Star Karaoke. Lee appears sad, wondering why I am always called away.
"I am the highway, baby," I said.
Later - much later - I wished I'd had some more potstickers. They were so goddamn tasty I can't stand it.
Previously: Skylar Neil Memorial Golf Tournament
See also: Wicked Pictures
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How to become famous in porn
 My friends at the Typecasting commercial casting agency (forever, now, to be linked with a porn site) called looking for porn stars for a new commercial/experimental film by a major sports and fitness company.
Seeking:
Women in all levels of the adult entertainment industry. 18-30 to appear in an experimental film produced by a major company, directed by an award winning European directing team. This film may be later edited into a commercial with residuals.
The rate is $400.00 per day plus a $500.00 buyout upon use.
Please call the Typecasting office at 310 775 6616.
Auditions are Friday and Monday. As your protector, I pointed out that porn ladies usually make two-to-three times more a day than that, and mentioned that enough of you know exactly what is meant by "experimental film" in other contexts (i.e. "I noticed about halfway through the blowjob that the camera light wasn't even on"), but this is, in fact, a legitimate enterprise.
"What kind of porn stars?" I asked. "Juicy fetish models? Rail-thin spinners? Latinas? Asians? Black women? Meth-y wraiths? Glamazons? Girls next door? MILFs? GILFs? One could technically be a grandmother at 30."
"Er, any kind," they said. "All types."
"Will there be nudity?" I probed.
"No," they said. "Probably bikinis."
"All right," I said. "Don't break their hearts."
You can also e-mail James at Typecasting here.
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--Tuesday, September 26, 2006--
Tia Brodie adopts twins
 Bangers and Mash consultant Tia Brodie reports that her last trip home to the UK resulted in a boob job.
"They are eight weeks old this Friday," said Brodie, who will be stripping in Canada prior to meeting with the U.S. Embassy to return to California. "I've named them The Twins."
The Twins will be arriving slightly ahead of Brodie, who was a fixture on the Porn Valley scene last year prior to the expiration of her work visa.
"I've had me lorries filled with petrol," she did not say.
Previously: Goal; Porn across the water; Our far-flung correspondents
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TT Girl relocates House of Ass
 Newly-minted Vivid director Tristan Taormino has passed Chemistry, her first feature for the company.
Chemistry exhibits many of the hallmarks of Taormino's last feature for Adam & Eve, House of Ass, in which several porn stars (including Chemistry performer Mr. Marcus) hole up for two days with "perv cams", have spontaneous sex, learn about life and each other, and unload in confessional segments.
Of House of Ass Taormino wrote, "See what happens when seven strangers stop being polite and start getting naked."
In addition to Marcus, Chemistry stars Dana DeArmond, Marie Luv, Mika Tan, Taryn Thomas, Jack Lawrence, and Kurt Lockwood.
Previously: House of Ass review; Housing glut; Vivid's imprint-o-rama
See also: Vivid, Adam & EveLabels: kurt lockwood
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At least one in ten of us, The Devil Inside
 As you know, GramPonante.com is your home for all things Gay.
Q. Grams, if that's true, why is 99 percent of your content about the breeder world?
A. Because the Gays are a quiet people who love good, tilled earth and wish only to be left alone, like hobbits. It is not my way to force these simple folk blinking into the harsh sunlight of the InterWebNet. It would be like killing a mockingbird.
That said, HIS DVD today releases Jim Steel's The Devil Inside, celebrating the gay world's long relationship with Satan.
Hustler's HIS DVD has recently released only compilations and reissues, but The Devil Inside is the first original production in a decade. It stars Brad Benton, Ben Campezi, Jason Crew, Jean Val Jean (presumably not the straight porn actor, but Les Miserables has always been a bisexual battlefield, what with its swollen River Seine), Antonio Madiera, Mark Slade, Marcos Pirelli, and Park Wiley.
The caption for this boxcover photo is "Hey Satan - next time use a goddamn ladder."
Previously: High Def men; JM attempts to make wrestling heterosexual; Industry fearful of Brazil twink dominance; Black Viking empties barrel on ladies; Adonis Pictures: We're men who like men who like other men
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--Monday, September 25, 2006--
Speed dating with Angela Stone AND a mesh gallery
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Vixen in Fresh Ripe & Ready
 Innocent crush Vixen, in one of her first scenes, is upbraided for something that is really not her fault by partner Manuel Ferrara in Fresh Ripe & Ready.
As the scene winds toward its predictable conclusion, Vixen holds Ferrara's parts in her hand and the veteran performer/director commences to unload faceward. The first blast gets her in the eye and she jerks her hand, sending subsequent shots elsewhere (but still in the general vicinity of her face).
Instead of delighting in spreading his seed far and wide as God actually intended, Ferrara says:
"You have bad aim. You must be new."
Well yeah. Isn't that the point of the movie?
Remember that she was holding him pointing at her and she had just lost sight in one eye. I don't know if it was a language thing or what, but it sure sounded like the veteran was not taking responsibility.
I would have been all like "Shut up" but I suppose if I had found myself in that situation I'd have more significant issues to deal with than rudeness.
Fresh Ripe & Ready also features Taylor Nix, Tobi Pacific, and Allison Pierce
Previously: Erotica L.A. in review; Pegging the man-flower; Untitled Briana Banks project
See also: Buy Fresh Ripe & Ready
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We think it's "XFonz"
 XBiz is being coy about the name of its new site, just allowing a quarter of the logo to peek above the skin.
It looks like it's called XFonz, which makes sense, because I think your favorite stars will be able to show their Mrs. C. or, at the very least, sit on it.
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Open bar at the Rears place
 Let's say you have just ended a taxing relationship with a passive-aggressive and possibly bipolar woman from Brown and you meet someone who says, "Let's just fuck and come and go as we please" to which you reply "Don't mind if I do" and then are shocked to find her looking at china patterns the very next week.
That is how I feel when someone says "Open bar".
Open bars are never open. There is always some catch. In the case of the Britney Rears party Saturday night the catch was an utter lack of nudity. There was a certain re-compensation, though, in that in addition to the wonderful Sunny Lane, Hillary Scott, Vanessa Blue, and Mika Tan, both Sally Kellerman and David Carradine stopped by.
 The solitary thing that made this party a porn party was the fact that only in porn does part of the red carpet routine require lifting someone up. I think Kurt Lockwood hefted Samantha Ryan three times for the cameras. He was only doing his job.
 The bar was partially sponsored by Krol Vodka.
"You guys sure did a number on The Slayers," I said to the bartender. "Who would have thought that Prince Colwyn had it in him? Five-bladed sword, boy. That's tight, baby. Give me one with cranberry juice."
Contrary to what I'd been informed and expected, the party was not at a glittering Hollywood nightspot but instead deep in the Valley at a studio at which had been shot this and this and this. I was happy to go to the Valley rather than Hollywood, because one feels like such a bridge-and-tunneler taking a picture of Hillary Scott's ass anywhere below Franklin. It's like going to a Jimmy Buffett concert at Oberlin.
The space was done up real nice-like with the sponsors' logos projected on the wall. I encountered Kelli Brooks in the parking area behind the building.
 "I just got my boobs done," she said. "They should be ready in about a week."
"What had been your size before?" I probed.
"Double A. I was flat-chested."
She explained that she'd lost or destroyed several phones. I don't remember how this subject came up. The last phone she'd broken had been dropped in the toilet and she had to fish it out with a ladle.
Because I am a businessman, I suggested that she should restage that scene, but topless. I think a naked or topless woman plucking a Razr out of the toilet with a gleaming Williams Sonoma ladle would satisfy several niches and make a lot of money.
"That is a really good idea," she said. I am available for consultant services at $3k a month. That's dirt cheap, dude.
I met Suzy Mandel, star of 70's porn Blonde Ambition. She would not allow her picture to be taken, but this is what she looked like back then:
 Of far more interest to me was the fact that she had once been one of Benny Hill's Angels. I asked about the old guy who kept saying "Stop dancing up there" when Benny Hill would slap his head.
"Jackie Wright was a chain smoker," Mandel said, "and he would often hide his cigarette in his mouth or behind his back during scenes. In fact, you could often see a little plume of smoke rising behind him if you looked close enough. Benny would slap his head to fan the smoke away."
For whatever reason (probably due to lack of ambient nudity), I spoke with several lawyers that night and even some lawyer groupies. Here are some interesting facts:- By even the most conservative estimates the DVD side of the adult industry makes more money than the CD end of the music industry. Yet there are thousands of music industry lawyers and only a few dozen adult industry lawyers.
- A well-known director/performer is suing his former company because, he says, there was nothing in his contract that stated he gave up his rights to proceeds from the videos he directed. Since most directing contracts do not explicitly state that directors lose their rights once they take their director's fee, this lawsuit, if ever it sees the light of day, will be both groundbreaking and a huge goddamn nuisance.
- Many lawyers are weasels who exploit the incompetence of adult industry owners, producers, and performers. Many performers pay their legal fees "in trade", exploiting the weakness of adult industry lawyers.
- What if your porn movie makes $10 million and is edited for mainstream release - shouldn't your actors receive SAG-commensurate wages and residuals? What if there is to be a sequel to that movie? ("That's crazy. Next you'll be talking about health insurance and payroll companies.")
Though the party was for Britney Rears 3 and L.A. Vice, most of the crew of Adam & Eve's Indigo Noir was there, including director Roy Karch, production manager Nate Liquor (who lists below-the-line professionals in party reports? Gram does), stars Vanessa Blue, Tee Real, and Sydney Capri, and Leeds-born Alexis Silver (below).
 As a person who passes for white, I encourage white-owned businesses to try their hand at creating pornography and break the Black stranglehold on this industry. I envision a day when AVN will present an Outstanding White Performer statuette. Until then, I can only dream of the day I shall overcome on your face.
I met fetish model Mishaah. I asked if she had either a web page or MySpace page (not that I approve of MySpace).
"No," she said, all hardcore and domme-y.
 She said she was not an industry performer but was weighing options.
"I'm still thinking about it," she said.
"I can protect you, baby," I said.
Since the party was held in a studio space, there were several sets on which porn stars cavorted. I find it much more interesting lately to take pictures of pornorazzi taking pictures because what the photographers are taking pictures of invariably has clothes on. The other side of that coin is when I am the first person to take a picture I immediately feel other photographers pushing against my butt in eagerness and haste to shoot what I am shooting, because it is about eye level to them.
 I got home at 4:30 a.m., just in time for "Davey and Goliath".
"God doesn't want you to see nudity, Gram," Goliath said.
See also: Britney Rears 3 reviewLabels: kurt lockwood
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The skinning
 As you know, 92 percent of GramPonante.com readers stop by for the exhilarating text and dieting tips. That is why you might not notice the temporary "skin" provided by upstart adult trade outfit XBiz.
The skin is here for the next two weeks to alert you, the porn-consuming public, of XBiz' forthcoming interactive service that combines aspects of several sites with which you are already familiar but probably wondered "Why can't that section of The Floating World be combined with that thing on YouTube and that other part of MySpace?"
Q. Grams, will the creamy views contained in your page's center be tainted by the hard shellac coating of the impersonal corporate giant paying you to advertise on your site?
A. No, and I would hesitate to call XBiz "impersonal". Instead, I would draw a comparion to "Star Trek"'s Borg, into which everything is eventually assimilated. I hasten to add that the Borg Queen was a sexy, sexy lady.
Q. I'm curious about the XBiz Media Network, its parent company, its trade and award shows, its affiliate programs, and its ties to other organizations within the adult industry. How do I find out more?
A. Just ask! XBiz is very up front about all its business practices.
Q. While we're here, do you think I'm fat?
A. I like you fat.
Q. Do you think I'm fat?
A. It depends on how you'd define "fat".
Q. Do you think I'm fat?
A. Ummm...
Q. Do you think I'm fat?
A. No, you're more wraithy than the Witch King of Angmar after an Ex Lax eating contest with Nicole Richie.
Q. I love you, Gram.
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--Friday, September 22, 2006--
It's the Great Blumpkin, Billy Glide
 Frat-porn auteur Billy Glide and his band of corporate professionals by day/sleazebag pornstars by night will sponsor Porn Star Karaoke next Tuesday.
Glide has come out with a series of provocative films dealing with urban sexual legends like the Blumpkin and the Dirty Sanchez.
Pictured is The Cowboy, in which your buddy surprises the consenting adult you're working on, tosses you a hat, and monitors the activity with a stopwatch. I used to do this all the time when I was doing a nickel for tax fraud in Chino.
"These are important movies from my heart," Glide did not say. "The editing process was extended because I could not stop crying."
This is definitely not sensitive ponytail guy porn, unless the guy adopted a ponytail in prison because his hair kept getting into his facial knife wounds.
Previously: Taylor Rain's Dunatiocs of Dune; Billy Glide XXX launches; Erotica L.A. in review
See also: Billy Glide
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Speed dating with Crystal Wet
I met East L.A.'s own Crystal Wet on the set of Mercenary Pictures' Black Moon Risin' 4.
Director Tina Tyler, a thoughtful employer, asked if Wet wanted the popshot on her face.
"Um ... - " Wet said.
"I can tell by your face that you don't," Tyler interrupted. "How about your pussy instead?"
"That would be good," Wet said.
Wet's scene partner was Jean-Claude Baptiste. As he and Wet assumed the position, Wet's half-sister, K.K., kept peeking in the door.
"That's tight," she would say.
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Airgasm at Aura
 The porn star party known as Naughty & Nice celebrates its first anniversary tonight at Aura on Ventura Blvd. in Studio City.
This is a big weekend for parties, as the (britney rears) shindig will happen tomorrow night. It is still too early in the season to start advertising them as "The Biggest Party until AVN" so thank the risen Christ for that.
Aura is Porn Valley's version of a trendy Hollywood nightspot. It has lots of muted colors and uncomfortable surfaces and odd lighting. It does not lend itself to having fights, as some of my favorite Valley establishments do. But in that it is in the Valley and not Hollywood there are little advantages, like a better chance at parking and slightly less expensive drinks. There is also an outdoor seating area at which I took this picture.
(Someone later commented: "That looks like a scene from 'MacBeth'.")
Among the auxiliary events that Naughty & Nice will be celebrating is the release of Platinum Blue's sky-porn Airgazmic, in which people parachute naked and the niche Tarmac Fucking was introduced. Lynn LeMay will also be on hand promoting her comeback DVD Phoenix: Risen from the Ashes, which she hopes will do for her what Jackie Brown did for Pam Grier, and the juicy Mofo Girls (formula: anything looks good if you've got a hot girl wearing it, repeat) will be in attendance just being themselves.
The party will be hosted by Mr. Marcus, and other guests will include Charlotte Stokely, Sunny "under new management" Lane, and Sophie Dee. Yes, all my favorites.
Previously: XBizVideo launch party: classy, non-violent; Rebelle Rousers and their genomes; Night of the Stars recognizes freedom, snacks
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"I'll deal with you later, thrill-kitten."
 My favorite movie this week is The Rebelle Rousers. Not that it was the most technically proficient (that honor belongs, hands down, to Island Fever 4), not because it had the most publicity (Hiya Britney), and definitely not because it was racially diverse. In fact, The Rebelle Rousers should be called When White Things Happen to White People or Whitey McWhitewhite and the Whites. Oh wait a minute. Tyler Knight is in it. Forget what I said just then. The Rebelle Rousers is exactly as racially diverse as Island Fever 4.
What sets The Rebelle Rousers apart is the performances. Just about everyonee looks like he or she is having a great time, and that makes the scenes fun. It probably also helps that director Octavio Arizala isn't shooting a movie every four days.
Now if only Sophia Santi had been in it...
Read a review here.
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Tonight's NinnWorx/Eddie Van Halen/Billy Idol "Gathering" (will there be a drum circle too?) doesn't allow cameras, so here is a picture from the shopping trip that was supposed to have netted Shane's World contract icon Casey Parker a new dress for the shindig.
