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Sep 29, 2006
Lux's Life
 Studio: VividDirector: B. Skow Cast: Lux Kassidy, Missy Monroe, Chloe Dior, Samantha Ryan, Sara Stone, Kurt Lockwood, Nick Manning, Gram Ponant Portions of this review originally appeared on Fleshbot "Droppin' loads! Right in your mouth! Bang!" - Nick Manning, 2006 By way of introducing its newest contract star, Lux Kassidy, Vivid chose to make a reality-style movie within a movie that often played like an extended Behind the Scenes documentary. This allowed Nick Manning to parody himself, Kurt Lockwood to be a ham, and Sara Stone to break my heart. Lux Kassidy had never performed in a porn scene before, so her tryst with Samantha Ryan was fraught with significance. Luckily the scene was called "Deconstructing A Classic" and Kassidy and Ryan were trading Sapphic moves for pizza. The pizza guy was Kurt Lockwood. "I was the Helicopter champion of 1984," Lockwood says, twirling himself around so the girls would kiss each other. Lux's Life is like that. Framed as the behind the scenes segment of a movie by pretentious director Anderson Pop, viewers are treated to all sorts of porn star tropes, like Lockwood as the pizza guy and Nick Manning as Asshole Male Talent. Manning drags around an assistant, played by Sara Stone, and forces her to carry bags. He treats her horribly and fires her as the cameras roll. This allows the roving BTS cameraman to exploit her vulnerability and talk her into a blowjob. Stone has childbearing hips and a load-bearing chest. I am sorry if I sound vulgar, but that is how I feel. She left the industry soon after this movie was made and I am heartbroken. One of the selling points of any DVD, but almost a requirement for porn DVDs, is a behind the scenes segment. These are often the most enjoyable parts of movies for me, because we're allowed a better look at what makes these performers attractive to human beings before the stars are shoehorned into the tease-strip-blowjob-popshot formula. In this movie that line is blurred but, luckily, the fake behind the scenes is very clever. Gram Ponante makes a cameo as America's Beloved Porn Journalist in a scene between Missy Monroe (who is still in porn, Thank God) and Christian. "I like food," Monroe says. "I like the way it tastes."Those were my lines. Watching them being realized was like watching a baby being born despite the presence of six or seven types of birth control. Through it all there is Lux Kassidy. Named for Kirsten Dunst's character in The Virgin Suicides, Lux benefits from the casual style and is allowed to set herself apart from a movie (and a contract girl roster) full of blondes. Her first and second scenes (ever) go so well that it makes me think going down on porn girls is easy. But as a Girls-Only performer, Lux feels the specter of expectation all around her, so it is no surprise that the very last word in Lux's Life is "anal". Buy it. ¶ 9/29/2006  
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