| --Friday, August 17, 2007--
Navarro film to explore duality, empowerment, avoid grandiosity
 Rock star Dave Navarro is directing porn, as was inevitable considering his proximity to this world over the past few years.
Dave Navarro: Broken was shot this summer for Teravision and features Sasha Grey, Jenna Haze, Victoria Sin, Audrey Bitoni, Kayla Page, Lisa Daniels, Tommy Gunn, Marco Banderas, Mark Davis, and Spyder Jonez (but not Tera Patrick).
Read more after the gap.
Porn world shorthand for Navarro's music career has always mentioned his role as guitarist for Jane's Addiction (currently broken up) and also the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Navarro has been with Jane's Addiction through all its incarnations but only played with the Chili Peppers for 1995's "One Hot Minute" album.
But his work as a hired gun has also been impressive. He has played with Christina Aguilera, Marilyn Manson, and was featured on Alanis Morrisette's 1995 "Jagged Little Pill". Currently, he fronts the band Panic Channel, hangs around porn, and is involved in a number of new media ventures, including Spread Entertainment.
Navarro's dabbling in porn was an open secret this year, and the question was which side of the camera he'd show up on.
"We're trying to get him to perform, but I don't know if he'll do it," Teravision president Evan Seinfeld told me in July. Navarro does not perform in Broken.
Navarro, whose father was a Spanish immigrant, grew up in Los Angeles and has led a rich and varied life. Married and divorced three times, most recently to Carmen Electra, Navarro co-authored his biography, "Don't Try This At Home", with "The Game" author and Jenna Jameson's ghostwriter, Neil Strauss.
Even more autobiographical is Navarro's solo album "Trust No One", which is excellent.
Teravision decribes Broken's protagonist, Sasha Grey, as "a young woman torn apart by the duality of control and powerlessness in her life." Navarro told adult trade publication XBiz that he wanted the movie to contain themes of empowerment without being "grandiose".
Dave Navarro: Broken will be released September 27.
Previously: Jameson and Navarro: Hosting duties left vague; XFanz porns burlesque
See also: Rock Star Dave Navarro Directs for Teravision (xbiz), Teravision, Dave NavarroLabels: celebrity, dave navarro, sasha grey, teravision, xbiz
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--Wednesday, May 23, 2007--
Case Study: Porn rumors and how to handle them
 I try to get a few independent sources before I print anything I hear as a rumor. That is why I print very few adult industry rumors; it makes for a less titillating site but I comfort myself that at least I can spell "titillating" and I have a huge schlong.
I am on the august "Board of Governors" for the June 9 debut of the Adultcon Awards. That means that I had a part in selecting from a list of pre-nominees the final nominees for awards in various categories. Now that the nominees have been chosen, the dignified American Academy of Adult Arts and Entertainment chooses a winner.
Also on the BoG are my acting partner Roger Pipe from Rog Reviews, someone from AdultDVDEmpire, and someone from Gamelink (the world's largest online retailer of adult films and one of my employers).
Last night I got an e-mail from April Storm, who is Tera Patrick's publicist. April had received an e-mail from Evan Seinfeld, who is Teravision's CEO and, more importantly, Tera's husband. He was angry that Tera didn't get nominated; wasn't April supposed to be on top of that?
Evan knew that Roger Pipe and I were people who regularly covered April's clients, so he mentioned us by name as people who had stiffed his Tera (and not in the good way).
This concerned me, because all I had been told about the Adultcon Awards was that they weren't fixed; that ballots were secret and tamper-proof. Adultcon's CEO, Renaud West, had assured me of this.
If what Seinfeld indicated was correct, West or someone at Adultcon had divulged voting records.
Here's the twist: I had given Tera a high vote in her category for Teradise Island. Why was I being thrown under the bus?
I won't say what anyone else voted, but I did some checking. While I gave Tera high marks, and one other person definitely did, yet another gave her a low mark. If the fourth vote was either very low or otherwise not high, that's how Tera didn't make it in. Wide differences of opinion are felt the strongest in small groups.
The following questions emerged: Did Evan lean on Adultcon to find out the votes? It would be in character for someone like Jaz Hoyt. And did Adultcon then cave in? If so, why would my vote be misrepresented? I'd have no problem with Seinfeld trying to find out voting records; that's how we East Coasters roll. We are from a land of political machines. It's how the Brooklyn Bridge was built and how Harry Truman became president.
But I couldn't stay on the esteemed BoG if my votes were divulged.
So I called and e-mailed Renaud West. He e-mailed me back that, while the BoG members were known to freedom lovers everywhere, their votes were not. He also asked if I got this "BS" from my "good friend April Storm".
I contacted April Storm. If someone had spilled the beans about votes, then someone was lying. How did Evan know about the voting, and why would he have been given the wrong information about mine?
"I have no idea," she said. "That's what confuses me."
She said that she knew of at least one other voter who gave Tera a high vote. It was still possible that Tera wouldn't get nominated if she got two lower marks. Evan, she said, was upset.
I needed to talk with Evan Seinfeld. I had his number somewhere, but I asked April for it. If she didn't give it to me, or if she stalled, that would have been a problem. She might be making up scores to appease her boss. She gave the number to me immediately.
So Seinfeld is a businessman, regardless of the business he's in. It is in his interest to want to know who voted what, even though he shouldn't be given that information; as long as he's not told, it's OK that he asks. I needed to know if he was given the voting tally, because if he had I wouldn't have anything to do with Adultcon.
"Renaud told me who was on the Board of Governors but he didn't tell me the votes," Seinfeld said. "I assumed it was you and Rog (who voted low on Tera)." Seinfeld then explained why he assumed these things.
"There's a lot of bullshit in this business," Seinfeld said. "I don't believe rumors."
So Seinfeld was looking out for Tera. When West found that Tera hadn't been nominated, he called Seinfeld.
"I didn't want to make that call," West said. "If this thing was fixed, wouldn't I fix it for Tera?"
So much trouble can come from irresponsible research and the willingness to believe everything one reads.
In the wake of an incident on a movie set two months ago in which I was assaulted by a performer who said, erroneously, that I'd called him a "fag", the blogger Luke Ford posted a libelous and ill-conceived story on his site, attributing the homophobic words of Ann Coulter (referring to John Edwards), to me.
Ford then wrote that, because of this, I was dumped from several of my writing gigs. He falsely attributed his story to the Associated Press.
I was called by several people, including an LAPD detective, who had read Ford's story, which was at that time not labeled as "satire".
"You told me you hadn't called (the performer/defendant) a fag," the detective said, fuming (it would have meant I'd lied on a police statement).
"No," I said, for the fifth time that day. "It was mostly a fabrication. The story would have been a complete fabrication had he not used actual quotes, but they were someone else's quotes attributed to me."
"Does he do this sort of thing a lot?" I was asked. "It wasn't even funny."
"Yes," I shrugged.
"Why do people still read him?"
"The adult industry has very low self esteem."
When I returned to my office that day there was an e-mail waiting. It was from Adultcon.
"Without going into details and due to certain outside influences, we have decided best to let you go. In light of the curent situation, it is the best way maintain the integrity of the show.
We hope you understand and thank you very musch for your past support." It turned out that West had read the Luke Ford piece and believed it immediately.
It got resolved, but I am still defending myself against this story. Someone wrote me about it last week. That story has wasted as much time for me as the assault that preceded it.
"Crazy story," AVN president Paul Fishbein said when I mentioned it to him. I also asked him why AVN didn't seem to have any interest in covering physical assaults on porn sets or juicy libel cases. "Ultimately, you know Luke's real colors. Always an agenda and usually not nice."
I'll continue to send Luke Christmas cards.
In the end, I told Seinfeld the vote I gave Tera. It was easier than telling him I gave her a low vote, but I would have done that, too.
I realize that in telling Seinfeld my vote, even in the effort of trying to determine if the Adultcon Awards were easy to sell out (they're not), I made it easier to figure out how the other three entities voted. That was a mistake I won't repeat, but it was for a larger goal.
That's the latest from the rumor mill. In other news, the Kim Kardashian sex tape is still an awful movie.
Previously: InTERActive: choosing the blue pill, yellow bikini; Mooninites descend on Boston; Cleopatra of the Nile wants you to die
See also: Adultcon, Tera PatrickLabels: "tera patrick", adultcon, awards, business, sic, teravision
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--Tuesday, March 20, 2007--
InTERActive: Taking the blue pill, choosing the yellow bikini
 Tera Patrick would have you believe that she also likes the yellow bikini, but then you go back and choose the red one and she says she likes that one, too.
Which Tera can you believe??
Viewers of the InTERActive DVD, three years in the making, might then wonder if Tera is being straight with them, and if they really are her only boyfriend.
Eventually all thoughts of betrayal and duplicity melt away, however, as Tera stares into your virtual eyes and asks, "Can you fix my hose?"
Read the review here.
Previously: Mooninites descend on Boston; Pirates to receive G rating
See also: Hustler, Club TeraLabels: "tera patrick", dvd, hustler, interactive, reviews, teravision
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--Monday, January 08, 2007--
Tera Patrick doesn't dig on swine - denies sausage party
 Tera Patrick and life partner Evan Seinfeld will host her second annual "Diva Las Vegas" party this Thursday at the Venetian's Tao nightclub in Las Vegas.
To stay awake at this week's AVN convention I will be employing technology like that used in A Clockwork Orange to keep Alex's eyes open. I will be attending a lot of parties. Seinfeld's description of "Diva Las Vegas" concerned me.
“Last year's party was undoubtedly the number one AVN party of the year," Seinfeld said. "We had over 4,000 people attend, including celebrities such as Mark Wahlberg, Mike Tyson, Dennis Rodman and Diddy, not to mention a virtual who’s who of smoking hot pornstars, and an unparalleled girl to guy ratio, as all of Tera’s events are famous for!”
I was at that party last year, and can confirm that it was wise for Seinfeld to say that the ratio of girls to guys was unparallelled while not saying what that ratio was. I would say the ratio of girls to guys at last year's party was roughly 1:100.
There is nothing like smelling the Ax Body Spray of 3600 guys to make one think "Welcme to Las Vegas".
Previously: Virtual (Protected) Sex; Tera runs with motorcycle gang
See also: TeravisionLabels: events, teravision
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