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Hustler Debuts ‘This Ain’t Star Trek XXX’ Trailer
Friday, May 15th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Hustler Video has released the official trailer for “This Ain’t Star Trek XXX.”
“Not surprisingly, this project was a huge undertaking,” creative director Drew Rosenfeld said. “But after our first look at the raw footage, we instantly knew we were creating one of our best parodies yet.”
“This Ain’t Star Trek XXX” stars Evan Stone as Captain James T. Kirk, Tony De Sergio as Mr. Spock, Jada Fire as Uhura, Cheyne Collins as Dr. McCoy, Anthony Rosano as Scotty, Ero Sennin as Sulu and Codi Carmichael as Nurse Christine Chapel. It also features performances by Sasha Grey, Jenna Haze, Aurora Snow and as Khan.
To view the trailer, click here.
Marilyn Chambers, Legendary Adult Actress, Dead at 56
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
By Mark Kernes from www.avn.com
04/13/2009
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Marilyn Chambers, star of such golden age classics as Behind the Green Door and Insatiable, was found dead Sunday in the mobile home where she had been living for the past several months. She was 56, but would have celebrated her next birthday on April 22. Chambers was found by her daughter, McKenna. No cause of death is yet known, and an autopsy will be performed.
Chambers, who said she began performing under her real name because she was unashamed of what she did, was nonetheless born Marilyn Ann Briggs, and she made 16 movies during the period 1972 to 1986, mostly for the Mitchell Brothers and Caballero Home Video. It was at Caballero that she created the series Marilyn Chambers’ Private Fantasies. During this period, she was married to her manager, Chuck Traynor, and though they were divorced in 1985, when Chambers made her comeback film for VCA Pictures, Still Insatiable, in 1998, she requested that Traynor be present for the filming to lend her moral support. The comeback, however, was short-lived, generating just nine movies, some of which were non-sex roles. Chambers tried her hand at producing as well, creating what was hoped to be a continuing series, Nantucket Housewives, for her own company, Damaged Productions.
More recently, Chambers essayed the voice of title character in the upcoming feature, Porndogs: The Adventures of Sadie, a live-action comedy directed by Greg Blatman, featuring canine actors with voices dubbed by such familiar porn names as Ron Jeremy, Tera Patrick, Evan Seinfeld and Heidi Fleiss.
According to a synopsis on the Internet Movie Database, “Sadie, the most beautiful Yellow Lab in the whole wide world, lives an idyllic, pampered life in the suburbs. One day, she comes into heat and has no idea what to do with her new found feelings and urges. When she learns that her loving owners are about to have her spayed, she runs away to the big city where her sexual adventures begin.”
“We had a great time doing the voices,” Jeremy told AVN. “We went up to San Francisco for it. Marilyn was looking great and really excited about it.”
“My greatest memory of Marilyn is, I was just a kid out of New York 28 years ago, and Bob Vezey was shooting a book, ‘Marilyn Chambers’ Love Positions’,” Jeremy continued. “He was shooting a layout for both Club magazine and for the book, and I had just won a trip to Mexico on Wheel of Fortune, but when he called me to do this, I cancelled three days off my Mexican vacation. So I got to do this book. The book was supposed to be softcore, but I kept getting an erection, because when the pressure is off, you get a boner even quicker. And Bob Vezey was saying, ‘You’ve got to hide it, Ron; we don’t want to see it.’ So Marilyn says, ‘Hide it right here.’ Oh, my God - right into the vagina. And Chuck Traynor looks over and goes, ‘Well, so much for softcore.’ I was in heaven. I was in love with her from that day on, for life. And I stood in when she had a scene with her boyfriend on Insatiable 2; I stood in for her boyfriend.”
The pair had also been signed to appear in an off-Broadway production of “Deep Throat The Play,” with Chambers scheduled to play the role, especially written for her, of Linda Lovelace’s “aging porn star girlfriend,” according to Robert Interlandi, who was handling rights for the project for Arrow Productions.
Lovelace and Chambers had been long-time friends, having both been married to Traynor at different points in their careers.
“They were supposed to do the final contract signing for ‘Deep Throat The Play’ today,” Interlandi said. “It was originally going to run in Boston, but we got kicked out of the theater, so now it’s going to play in mid-July at the World Theater in New York. Funny enough, that’s where Deep Throat originally played, so it makes full circle. But she really wanted to be a part of ‘Deep Throat The Play’ in some fashion, so they wrote her into the script.”
“What a charming woman,” echoed the play’s producer, David Bertolino. “I’m shocked to hear that she passed away. I was just notified this morning. She was starring in our show. We’re opening on Broadway in July, and we’re just devastated over it. I called Marilyn’s house this morning and I was speaking to Peggy McGinn, who is Marilyn’s best friend and also her attorney, and she told me that Marilyn on Friday got my text letting her know that she’d be getting a call from our general manager to finalize the contract today, so she was very excited about coming on board. We’re going into rehearsals in June, and we’re shocked, we’re devastated.”
Bertolino said that Chamber had spent three days with him in New York in January, where she auditioned for the associate producer and director, and “she aced it; she was wonderful.”
Howie Klein, co-owner of Caballero Home Video, also recalled Chambers as “a really nice, very pleasant woman. I liked her a lot.”
“We went on the road together to promote her stuff,” Klein remembered. “We hit Cleveland, New York and Philadelphia. One thing that really sticks out in my mind, when we were in Philly, she took me to this place that had sensory deprivation tanks. It was incredible. We both went in these sensory deprivation tanks. It was really neat. I also took her to IVD’s first open house that [Frank Kaye] had way back in ‘82 in Hightstown [New Jersey]. He was new in the business and he had an open house, so I took her there.”
It was on that same trip that Chambers encountered the publisher of a fledgling adult-oriented magazine.
“The first interview I ever did for AVN was Marilyn Chambers,” said AVN founder Paul Fishbein. “She was in town to promote the theatrical release of Insatiable 2. So I put on a suit and went down to the hotel to interview her for one of the early issues of AVN, and I was completely intimidated, I was nervous and I could barely get the words out. I started to interview her, and she had her bodyguard in the room, but after a few minutes, she sent him out, and in the middle of the interview, she stops and she looks at me and she says, ‘God, I’m horny!’ I didn’t know what to say or what to do, so I just went on to the next question and finished the interview. I was totally terrified of her. And I told her the story about 20 years later and she just laughed her ass off and said, ‘Ah, I probably would have slept with you.’ I was just so nervous around her.”
Chambers’ very first movie, though, was Behind the Green Door, a landmark for its time both because it featured the “99 and 44/100 percent pure girl” - Chambers had appeared recently as the “cover girl” on boxes of Ivory Snow detergent - and because it featured her in a scorching interracial scene with popular performer Johnnie Keyes.
“We were really close,” Keyes told AVN. “I’m still in shock. It’s like it’s not even really hitting me yet. I don’t know what my feelings are. It’s like my brain is protecting me right but the gloom is starting to set in.”
Other performers of the day were more forthcoming.
“She made an impression because she was my first big star in porn,” recalled Tom Byron. “The first day I showed up on the set, we were shooting dialog sequences at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood, so I just remember it being a very surreal experience, being with Marilyn Chambers in the place where they shot the fight sequence in Hooper. Plus Redd Foxx came to the set that day. Apparently, he was a friend of Marilyn’s and showed up. I was so green, Marilyn had to teach me a couple of things, like how to put my dick in her ass. As a matter of fact, she might have been the very first girl I ever fucked in the ass, now that I think about it; yeah. I just remember little patches of it, because it was just such a surreal fucking experience.”
On the other hand, Paul Thomas found Chambers and her people somewhat intimidating.
“I was cast in Insatiable 2 opposite her, and when it came time for my scene with her, I was a little bit nervous about it,” he said. “And then she marches in with her manager Chuck Traynor and her hairdresser and a whole entourage of people, and it became more like fucking a corporation than a person, and I couldn’t achieve erection; I couldn’t come close. So they brought in the girl who was about to do the next scene, and she fluffed me, and I got hard immediately, and Marilyn came in and I got soft, and they brought the girl in again and I got hard. I think Shanna McCullough was there too, helping me out. Finally, it just didn’t work, so they called the scene, and I finished it a couple of months later at [Godfrey Daniels'] house with Cara Lott as a stunt butt, and that’s my Marilyn memory.”
Chambers’ final hardcore movie in the early days was Marilyn Chambers’ Private Fantasies 6, for Miracle Films, which produced nine of her films altogether, but during that period, she was making inroads into the mainstream film career that she’d always wanted. In 1983, she starred in the sexy spy thriller Angel of H.E.A.T., and in ‘77, snagged the starring role in David Cronenberg’s horror film Rabid. She also created several sexy titles for cable TV, including Party Girls, New York Nights, Bedtime Fantasies and Sextrospective.
Finally, Chambers decided to once again take the plunge into XXX, signing a three-movie contract with VCA Pictures, all of which to be directed by her longtime friend, Veronica Hart, the first of which was Still Insatiable.
“It was really great, because we had a mainstream writer write it, who had had a couple of very successful books, but he was a big fan of Marilyn’s,” recalled Hart, who took the news of Chambers’ death very hard. “Marilyn had come to [VCA owner] Russell [Hampshire] and we were so thrilled to be able to get her for this three-picture deal, and I was so delighted to be able to work with her because she was my girlfriend and we’d worked a lot of stuff before. We did a lot of R-rated stuff for cable.”
“When I first met Marilyn, I was just getting into the business and she was already such a huge star,” Hart continued, “and when I saw her, she had her entourage around her and Chuck [Traynor] was there, and she was such a big star, and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, if only I could be like Marilyn!’ She was so sweet to me, and then it was such a thrill to be able to work with her, first acting in the R-rated stuff, and then directing her in the X-rated stuff. She was such a good actress. We always talked about that we were going to do like a Cagney & Lacey; she always wanted to do some kind of police detective show for cable. She said, ‘Hey, we can do this. We’re good actresses. We can do this.’ And she was just such a great actress and a really good person. She loved animals and she loved kids, and she was just a really, really great gal. I’m so glad I got to work with her and I’m so sad.”
After her VCA contract was completed, Chambers worked a variety of jobs in the Los Angeles area, including salesperson for an adult DVD distributor, salesperson at a used car dealership, and as an animal rescue worker. She also worked as a home care nurse shortly after the death of her parents in approximately 2004.
“She was working at an animal place the last time I knew,” Hart said. “It was like an animal care place. She was hauling bags of feed in, and she didn’t want anybody to know. But she said it was good because she was losing a lot of weight. She had gone through a lot. She lost her mom and her dad, and that was about - I guess that was about five years ago, now. And she went back and she became a home health care nurse, but I don’t think she could make a successful living at it, but she wanted to take care of people. She’d taken care of her parents.”
In all, Chambers appeared in just 23 hardcore films, including Behind the Green Door, The Resurrection of Eve, Inside Marilyn Chambers, Beyond DeSade, Never a Tender Moment, Insatiable 1 & 2, Charli, Up ‘n Coming, Marilyn Chambers’ Private Fantasies 1-6, Still Insatiable, Dark Chambers, Edge Play, Marilyn Chambers’ Guide to Dirty Dancing, Nantucket Housewives, Marilyn Chambers’ Guide to Anal Sex, Marilyn Chambers’ Guide to Masturbation and Marilyn Chambers’ Guide to Oral Sex.
No information has yet been given out about the actual cause of her death, nor what funeral arrangements have been made.
Farrah Fawcett’s Anal Cancer Spreads to her Liver
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
DEEP THROAT NEWS —
Story from FOX News
It’s bad enough to have ass cancer but to have Fox news announce it in a headline.
Farrah Fawcett’s anal cancer has spread to her liver, her spokesman, producer Craig Nevius, announced Monday.
The 62-year-old “Charlie’s Angels” star was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006. She was declared in remission on Feb. 2, 2007, but three months later, scans showed “not only had it recurred, it metastasized to her liver,” Nevius said.
Fawcett just returned from Germany where she had undergone treatment to address the cancer’s spread, he said.
Nevius reiterated, however, that Fawcett was “not at death’s door.”
Fawcett’s doctor, cancer specialist Lawrence Piro, also told FOX News that if everything went as planned over the next few days, Fawcett, 62, could return home from the hospital, where she underwent what Piro described as a “minor procedure” that “led to a small amount of bleeding into a muscle in her abdominal.”
Today’s announcement capped a brutal weekend for the actress that also saw her son Redmond O’Neal arrested on drug charges.
O’Neal, 24, was arrested on Sunday after behaving erratically in a jail parking lot. He was charged with possession of a controlled substance when he and some friends tried to visit an incarcerated companion.
Radar Online reported that the troubled O’Neal, who checked himself out of rehab just last week, was caught with heroin and Xanax, and was being held on $25,000 bail.
Fawcett’s spokesman Nevius said that despite her setbacks, “Farrah has hope, and she hopes that others will continue to hold onto theirs.”
Chatting with Hugh Hefner at his Vegas birthday; Hefner’s face froze When he saw Holly Madison
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
Richard Abowitz writes on http://vegasblog.latimes.com/vegas
On Saturday, I went to the pool at Palms Place to interview Hugh Hefner for his 83rd birthday party. I had asked for 10 minutes to interview him and was offered five minutes, and when the interview was over I was happy that I got in about two minutes with the legendary publisher.
Arriving late (confused, I went to the Palms pool instead of Palms Place pool), I was still earlier than Hefner. I stayed in the pool house out of the sun and noticed that I was next to Holly Madison, Hefner’s ex-girlfriend, and her publicist, Steve Flynn.
Flynn is also Criss Angel’s publicist, and Madison is Angel’s ex-girlfriend. And so I tried to keep my distance lest Flynn think I was going to surprise his client with questions about either of her former romantic partners.
Still, Flynn offered me an interview with Madison. I declined, for now, as she has no projects coming to Vegas that she is ready to talk about. When she does, I will look forward to our interview. But I did appreciate the offer. It wasn’t like Madison was short of people to talk to her, and that’s not including her many friends who were present. Reporter after reporter had questions for her. She even managed to have a mini-drama with another Criss Angel ex, a local television reporter.
In addition to the many members of the media present, the cable show “The Girls Next Door” was filming. (FYI to “Girls Next Door” producers, I did not sign your release and said “no” when asked for permission to be filmed, and if you put me on your cable show, you will be hearing from my lawyers — not bluffing). In fact, I stayed inside to avoid the sun and all of the cameras and film crews around the pool. But the room was open to the outdoors so it was a great place to see and hear what was going on inside and out.
Like an overstocked lake for a fishing show, beautiful women were planted everywhere. Chef Kerry Simon, whose restaurant’s backroom, where I was sitting, provided the staging ground to the pool area, was also present, as was Palms owner George Maloof. At one point, one of the stunning women said to another, “That’s George Maloof. He owns the casino. He makes $5 a second.”
Her friend thought for a moment and said, “Is that a lot?” I asked Maloof about that, and he smiled, wearily, but said he had no idea if the statistic was true or where the number came from. But unlike me and the women, I could see by his furrowed brow that he was making quick calculations out of curiosity.
Hefner eventually arrived with an entourage of women, security and even more cameras. Hefner and his latest group of girlfriends sat on a sofa directly in front of the room I was sitting in with Madison and a few other stragglers. Cameras snapped and television cameras rolled for about 10 minutes as Hefner relaxed — good times by the pool. During that time, I watched and listened as other television producers tried to persuade Madison to go outside and talk to Hefner. She refused. “Now is a terrible time,” she said. “I would never do it without cameras.” She probably meant a certain camera as there were plenty of cameras around.
While Madison was negotiating with her handlers, her back was to Hefner, and likewise Hefner had his back to her. Then, at one point, Hefner turned around and saw Madison and his face froze. I wish I could tell you what I read on his face at the moment, but I can’t.
He was inscrutable but focused. One moment, he was involved in the conversation at the pool with his new girlfriends and well wishers, and then he looked over his shoulder and started staring at Madison with a blank expression. I felt I was witnessing something painful and personal, the most real moment of a day being created primarily for good reality television and to promote Palms Place. But this day was also the first meeting between Hefner and Madison since they publicly split up. It was a strange moment that seemed to show how much reality television can exclude or even prevent reality rather than capture it.
Everything else that afternoon was as fake as I have learned to expect from television reality.The other two former Hef-mates (each leading a man by the hand) joined Holly Madison in back before they set out for the reunion meeting of the old girlfriends with Hefner and the new girlfriends. Obviously, every second was filmed for “Girls Next Door.” Then everyone went back to purposefully ignoring one another while being mere feet apart. Just before I interviewed him, Hefner was asked when he wanted to be surprised by his birthday cake. “That’s up to the ‘Girls Next Door,’ ” he grumped. I assume he meant the show producers, who seem to make many more decisions about how reality will unfold than the folks whose reality is ostensibly in front of the camera.
I was third in a very long line of reporters waiting to interview Hefner. And Hefner was already sick of talking by the time I was up. “This is getting ridiculous,” he said. I shook his hand. I asked with the recent retirement of his daughter if he planned to get more involved in the day-to-day operations of Playboy.
“No, I don’t think so. We will be finding other people to take care of the business end.”
Hefner mentioned how happy he was with the partnership with the Palms, which he called “only a beginning” without further elaboration. Then I mentioned Hefner’s good friend, and the man who gave me my first internship in publishing (when I was an undergraduate), the late, great writer and editor George Plimpton. Hefner pondered briefly his friendship with Plimpton and the closeness he felt to Plimpton as a fellow publisher and editor. Both the Paris Review and Playboy started publishing the same year.
Surrounded by flawless-looking, starstruck young people all wanting to catch his eye, Hefner suddenly and briefly turned more reflective than hedonistic. “One of the things if you live long enough is that you lose the people you most admired and some of your closest friends. But that is one of the prices you pay if you live too long,” he said. Then Hefner, wearing a sailor hat and a shirt decorated in old Playboy magazine covers, surveyed the scene around him, all the beautiful women, the adoring fans and the press lined up, and offered me his final words: “Small price.”
I shook his hand and was ushered away. Somehow, despite the sun, cameras and smiles the situation seemed more melancholy than I had expected for all concerned.
Eminem Video Starring Lisa Ann premieres on MTV
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
DEEP THROAT NEWS – PRESS RELEASE
VENICE, CA – Lisa Ann can skip the coffee today as the adrenaline from the premiere of the Eminem video “We Made You” hits the airwaves for the first time. Lisa Ann shot the video for the song two weeks ago in Los Angeles. It debuted on MTV this morning and MTV2 will air a half-hour “Making of” special today.
“I can’t believe it’s really happening,” the stunned star said. “Filming it was amazing and I couldn’t believe I was there, but it was a professional environment and I had to suck it up. To see it now, done, it’s incredible. I’m…speechless.”
She found out the video would be released today and raced to the office, where she watched the finished product online for the first time.
“I love it!” she screamed. “I love the song, I love the style, I love it all. It brings back amazing memories. I’m so happy right now that I can’t believe it.”
“We Made You” was directed by Joseph Kahn, whose resume includes videos for 50 Cent (“Ayo Technology”), Destiny’s Child (“Say My Name”) and Garbage (“Cherry Lips”).
The video, which debuted this morning on MTV’s AMTV, takes many celebrities to task. Among those stung are Amy Winehouse, Lindsay Lohan, Kevin Federline and Jessica Simpson. Lisa Ann appears as Sarah Palin in many segments, including a number where Eminem takes on a Bret Michaels persona and the two appear together in bed.
“There’s some celebrity bashing in it,” www.MTV.com quoted Eminem as saying. “I wanna say it’s not necessarily intentional bashing in it; it’s not necessarily taking deliberate shots at people. … yes, it is. What the fuck am I talking about?”
Also appearing in the video are Dr. Dre as caption of the Starship Enterprise (and Eminem as Spock) and 50 Cent.
The Making of video is scheduled to run on MTV2 today at 12:30 pm PT. (Different markets and cable providers may air the special at different times, so check local listings.) The video can be seen on MTV.com at http://www.mtv.com/videos/eminem/368090/we-made-you.jhtml#id=1608645
The Deeper Throat Reality Show - a review; Episode Three; Vivid PM: “Sunny Lane’s a Pig”
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
DEEP THROAT ENERGY DRINK NEWS —-
Written by Gene Ross from www.adultfyi.com
By the third episode of the Showtime reality series about the making of Deeper Throat, it’s a fairly foregone conclusion that Sasha Grey’s [pictured] going to get the lead part.
Paul Thomas continues to play Costello to Steve Hirsch’s Abbott, where it should be vice versa, and there’s a funny moment when Thomas brings what looks like a burrito into Hirsch’s house and Hirsch flips out.
Briana Banks is not at all happy that she isn’t considered for the lead role in the Deep Throat remake. And what Tera Patrick’s directorial debut has anything to do with any of this is a bafflement in the storyline.
Vivid’s auditions to find a new Linda Lovelace included over 25 girls. Thomas was pretty high on Sarah Vandella, but the brash east coast blonde from Episode Two stormed off the set when P.T. suggested she try doing a Great Garbo reading with her script. Meanwhile, Shailar Cobi, the production manager calls Sunny Lane, who also auditioned, a pig.
“And she gave a lousy reading,” P.T. adds.
“These girls are not knocking me out,” states Hirsch quite candidly as he’s watching the auditions on tape in his office. Hirsch who only wants to look at girls who can deep throat, feels his time is being wasted by the meeting.
“Steve is putting a lot of pressure on me to get a brand new script,” Thomas is saying to the camera.
Briana Banks shows up to do a scene. According to her, she’s been shooting with Vivid since 2001 and is noted for having the longest legs [36-inches] in the business.
“I’m one of the biggest names in porn,” Banks also says in a moment of obvious humility. But she’s unaware of the auditions. Banks in her scene is being choked, and this gives P.T. an “epiphany”. He’s immediately on the phone with Hirsch and suggests they now make remake Deep Throat as a murder mystery whereas before he tried incorporating it dismally with the Cinderella store.
“I think Ray’s [Ray Pistol] expecting a comedy not that I really care,” replies Hirsch who seems to be in agreement with Thomas as far as the choice of Sasha Grey. A meeting later in his office with Grey pretty much concludes the matter and makes it official.
“She has a dark, smoldering quality,” Thomas is agreeing. “She seems so anxious to walk on the edge.”
Grey, who’s never worked with Thomas, wants to be in bigger projects.
Jayda Fire, a black performer, also wants to audition when she learns of the project.
“If you can deep throat Voodoo you can go to the top of the list,” Thomas assures her.
“I can do this, P.T.” says Fire but Thomas insists she’ll hurt herself.
Voodoo gives her a thumbs-down.
“She couldn’t cut it,” he tells Thomas.
“Jayda’s not right but Sasha Grey could be just perfect,” says Thomas summing it up for the camera.
The remainder of the episode is fairly much occupied with the making of Where The Girls Aren’t 19 which Patrick is going to direct with an assist from Dave Navarro. Hirsch learns of these plans to incorporate Navarro when he has a meeting with Patrick and Evan Seinfeld at their house.
Actually, Hirsch is pretty much told by Patrick that she’s going to direct and his initial reaction is less than enthusiastic.
“I thought you were going to be in it,” he tells Patrick while Seinfeld’s making a pitch for Navarro to come on board. Patrick insists she’s more interested in directing.
“The question is can we get him [Navarro]? Hirsch asks. True to porn, the big build up of Navarro falls flat even though he tells Hirsch on the phone it sounds like an amazing idea.
“Let’s go for it,” is Hirsch’s reaction after the conversation. But Navarro arrives late on the set, and Banks rather than show up on the set, storms into Hirsch’s office when she learns through the grapevine of the Deeper Throat project.
“I’m going to Steven’s, fuck the all-girl orgy,” Banks mutters. She tells Hirsch she’s a little peeved and can’t understand why she wasn’t asked to be involved.
“I’ve only been with you guys for eight years,” she adds.
“I forgot how pretty you are,” Thomas says in a shallow attempt to assuage her.
“Too bad for Briana that we’re not considering Vivid contract girls for the lead,” Hirsch mutters the moment she steps out.
On the set of Where The Girls Aren’t 19, Patrick who’s informed she may have to go it alone is nervous and appears to be swallowing live fish. Seinfeld tells her she’s got to do what she’s got to do.
Ninety minutes late, Navarro makes a presumably token appearance because his story now is that he’s got “a family-thing” and can’t stay. Patrick suspects this might be a bullshit story, and the fact that there might be drama between him and Hanna Hilton is prompting it.
Hilton mentions they met a year or two earlier, that they exchanged numbers but nothing ever came of it. Navarro appears like he didn’t expect to run into Hilton.
“I’d love to be in a position of playing out my sick little twisted fantasies, but I gotta go,” says Navarro, scooting. Patrick’s of the opinion the orgy turned out hot, nonetheless.
At casa Hirsch, Hirsch informs his wife that people from the office are coming over. When she hears who it is, Laurie Hirsch says she has to draw the line that she’s not happy about this because it interrupts dinner which she’s got planned for the kids.
“I’m trying to make this movie,” Hirsch reminds her.
“Everything has to go your way doesn’t it?” she asks.
Hirsch isn’t happy with the script. He’s obviously not happy with P.T.’s burrito which he grabs out of Thomas’ hand. But he is thrilled with Sasha Grey who makes a grand entrance down the staircase like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.
And, yes, porn fans, Evan Stone actually dresses like that in public.
Genesis Magazine Cover Girl Alexis Texas Scores 3 FAME Award Nominations
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
DEEP THROAT NEWS —
Press Release
Hollywood, CA- Alexis Texas http://www.myspace.com/therealalexistexass is already having a phenomenal year.
The blonde beauty has skyrocketed to becoming one of the top names in porn and there seems to be no end in sight. Alexis is consistently winning awards for her work and always attaining more nominations. Recently the Cyberspace Adult Video Reviews http://www.cavr.com/ website awarded Texas their prestigious Performer of the Year award.
At the same time Alexis found out she had several nominations in the upcoming April 16th X-Rated Critics Organization http://xrco.com/ awards. This sexy blonde’s success is making her one high-profile star.
Even Genesis Magazine http://www.genesisonline.com/ could not resist the ‘Texas touch’ as Alexis can be found as the current issue’s cover girl! The issue has just hit the stands and the sultry Texas steams up the pages with a scorching ‘must-see’ layout. All the sexy curves that made her famous and led to Texas becoming the new Buttwoman are shown in great detail. Texas invites readers to get intimate as Alexis bares all and shows off every bit of skin.
“When I first saw the cover I almost had a heart attack!” laughed Texas. “I knew it was coming but when I saw it in person, it just made my day. I’m so happy that Genesis thought so highly of me to put me on one of their covers.”
The Alexis Texas issue of Genesis Magazine is on newsstands now.
In other recent Alexis news, the L.A. Direct Models exclusive has made an impact on the Fans of Adult Media & Entertainment http://www.thefameawards.com awards, taking in an impressive three nominations.
While the Favorite Ass award practically has her name already written on it, Texas is also a near shoe-in for the Favorite Female Starlet award. Alexis’ mega-hit DVD Alexis Texas is Buttwoman (Elegant Angel) has been nominated for Favorite Gonzo Movie.
“I was ecstatic when I heard that I was nominated for the FAME awards!” exclaimed Texas. “It’s great because it lets me know that people are watching and that means a lot to me. Because it is fan voted, to win a FAME award would really rock!”
Alexis can also be found all over the net. Porn Valley News posted an exclusive interview with the sexy porn superstar. Ray Dark talked to Alexis about her micro-blogging on Twitter http://twitter.com/Alexis_Texas , working on the XXX porn parody of TV show Scrubs and some of her hottest sex scenes.
The Porn Valley News interview of Alexis Texas can be found here:
http://pornvalleynews.com/home/archives/2009/03/alexis-texas-interview.html
Adult DVD Empire shows Texas some love as well. The site is currently promoting Alexis as their Featured Pornstar and showcasing some of her hottest DVDs.
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The Deeper Throat Reality Show - a review; Episode One
Friday, March 27th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Story by Gene Ross from www.adultfyi.com
The Deeper Throat Reality Show - a review; Episode OnIf Kismet is hell, than Kismet brought Arrow’s Ray Pistol and Vivid’s Steve Hirsch for a dance together in the fire.
I say “together” in the sense of a reality show which has been airing on Showtime. The Showtime project was put together by the World of Wonder guys Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato- the gents who did such an illustrious job with the documentary, Inside Deep Throat. Whereas Bailey and Barbato now do an even better job in bringing the inside, inside drama of the adult business to the screen with Pistol and Hirsch slugging it out over the re-making of Deep Throat, an idea which Pistol has had on the plate for at least the last ten years I’ve been talking to him about it. And Pistol, just as long, has been searching for a new Linda Lovelace.
Prompted much by what apparently happened during the behind the scenes of this Showtime mini-series, Pistol is now suing Hirsch, as we speak, over Hirsch’s creation of Deeper Throat. And to tell you the truth, I’m still vague on some of the issues.
Pistol never struck me as the kind of guy who would just relinquish control to something he holds close to the heart, and why he now does this is never really made clear on screen. Although the behind the scenes agreement that brought this Showtime deal to the table was Pistol’s apparent consent allowing Hirsch to produce a new Deep Throat with Pistol being given the first right of refusal to buy it.
But you never get the sense of that except when Pistol says on screen if Vivid screws it up, then Arrow will take their shot.
To that extent is Pistol’s edict to his employees to come up with their own version and cast for a new Deep Throat within a week. In one sequence Pistol auditions a girl named Ariel Kent, and after a thorough gynecologic examination concludes she has what it takes to be the next Linda Lovelace.
The first episode begins with Hirsch chatting with AVN’s Paul Fishbein at the AEE convention telling Fishbein that he needs an encore to the hits he’s had with the re-makes of Debbie Does Dallas and The Devil in Miss Jones. Ever the showman looking to do a bigger and better show, Hirsch hits upon the idea of re-making the all-time adult classic, Deep Throat and wants to talk to Pistol whose company Arrow owns the rights.
[The Butchie Peraino geneological history of Deep Throat is thus explained by Pistol.]
Hirsch has never met Pistol, and this isn’t surprising. I’ve always said that if the entire industry attended a party, half the room wouldn’t know the other half. But the fact that Pistol and Hirsch have their first conversation inside Arrow’s Deep Throat Corvette [a huge reproduction of the Linda Lovelace deep Throat poster is emblazoned on the hood] on the AEE show floor smacks a little of contrivance.
Needless to say, Pistol, a grizzled gent but always a man of his word, ain’t too keen with the idea Hirsch is pitching. But Hirsch is annoyingly persistent and feels he’s the only one who can bring it off. This idea set in motion, the reality show now plays like the Beverly Hillbillies with its notions of big money and societal opposites, all imagined with the Frank Capra touch.
Pistol is obviously Jed Clampett, and Hirsch is Mr. Drysdale. The Capra touch is Pistol being the aw shucks kind of guy who might be mistaken for the country rube that he really ain’t. And, in Capra fashion, Hirsch is playing it obviously with great relish like the city slicker out to connive him. So sets the mood.
“I’m an old marine and in no mood to be fucked with,” snarls the shotgun-toting Pistol at one point in dressing Hirsch down. In other words, he’s showing who’s boss. The only thing missing is the jug and the banjo music whenever Pistol’s on camera because that’s the impression the storyline lends of the man.
On the other hand, Hirsch must also be given credit for being an astute businessman much like Pistol.
[Pistol’s take of himself is that he’s an unconventional businessman which is putting it rather mildly.]
And while Pistol’s not living in a shack by any stretch, Hirsch dwells in this modern Versailles-like residence where he and his wife are kind of like the Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI of the porn business. And this is as much a statement of the industry’s hierarchy of the haves [Hirsch’s sister Marci is seen driving a white Rolls Royce], have-nots and almost haves.
In another segment, it’s mentioned that Paul Thomas who’s directed for Hirsch over 20 years [“way too long,” mutters Thomas] has never been to Hirsch’s house, which if you understand the business and its inflated, artificial sense of personal values and distancing, makes a lot of sense.
To put it all in the right perspective, however, these are all merely pornographers, and they hire “models” who suck dick for a living. Though no one ever seems to get that point across in all those glorifying documentaries about porn.
In the early stages, Hirsch berates PT’s efforts in writing a Deep Throat script telling him he’s got a lot of guys waiting in the wings to take his place if Thomas can’t deliver on a good story. The initial script Thomas comes up with stinks in Hirsch’s estimation, although Thomas is blindly enamored with his own efforts at combining Deep Throat with a Cinderella storyline.
[Someone might remind PT he already made a porn version of Cinderella.]
With Hirsch’s merciless hectoring, Thomas goes back to the drawing board and next comes up with a murder mystery with blood being spilled.
“I think Pistol had a comedy in mind,” Hirsch quips with a dead pan expression. [Thomas most of the time comes off like a space cadet who’s still orbiting in space.]
Hirsch is taking a meeting with Pistol in Las Vegas and flies there on a private jet. Hirsch, his wife and sister are met with a stretch limo provided by Pistol and, from the get-go, Hirsch and Robert Interlandi, Arrow’s marketing manager, are locking horns.
When asked for his opinion, Interlandi, who’s take is that Vivid is “The Evil Empire,” tells Hirsch he saw the re-makes of Debbie Does Dallas and Miss Jones. Apparently Interlandi in flippant fashion didn’t think too highly of those projects judging by his quick-kill put downs, and Hirsch reacts in kind with Marty Feldman’s bug eyes.
[Freeze frame moments of an astonished Hirsch abound in this series.]
Hirsch later makes the comment that Interlandi’s “a moron,” and Hirsch’s wife acts like this is all beneath her dignity to begin with.
Hirsch? He’s right along with her especially when one of Pistol’s strippers attempts to give him a lap dance, and Hirsch shoos her away like a pesky house fly.
“I’m trying to do deals here,” Hirsch keeps reminding his wife every time she flashes annoyance that business calls him to the office.
Because Hanna Hilton [a short haired blonde who wears extensions when performing] might be signing as a Vivid girl, Hirsch, quicker than you can say Octomom, is ready to cut his Vegas meetings short and get back to LA.
Adding a bit of irony to this subplot is the fact that Hilton’s boyfriend is Jack Venice who’s now doing life on a rape charge in Washington. During Hilton’s initial meeting with Hirsch, Venice’s opinion is solicited as though it’s valued as highly as a member of the presidential cabinet. We later discover that one of Venice’s earlier paramours, Meggan Malone, is now also a Vivid girl.
You can’t make this shit up on a soap opera.
Arrow Turns “Deep Throat” and Other Titles into a Merchandising Empire
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
From XBIZ Magazine’s Special March 2009 Marketing Issue
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BRANDING X: A NEW WAY TO MAINSTREAM ADULT
Arrow Turns “Deep Throat” and Other Titles into a Merchandising Empire
By Michael McClay
Arrow Productions, widely considered the oldest established American adult video company is not only porndom’s original trailblazer with numerous classics in its catalog, including “Deep Throat,” the Las Vegas-based company also has the distinction of being a leading pioneer in the area of special marketing. In recent times Arrow further expanded its impact into the merchandising and branding arena, licensing its titles for products other than the distribution and sales of sex videos. www.xxxdeepthroat.com
Arrow has made a significant impact in the energy beverage marketplace with the release of the Deep Throat Energy Drink in May 2007. Then a year later Arrow made its second big marketing splash with the publication in the first of a series of comic books with “Debbie Does Dallas” followed by three other titles: “Candy Stripers,” “The Devil in Miss Jones” and “Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here.” Finally, licensing theatrical posters for “Deep Throat,” “Debbie Does Dallas,” “Candy Stripers” and “The Goddaughter” completed a third major merchandising coup in a process that the company considers the wave of the future. Plans for other items include coffee, film cell wall art, costumes, T-shirts, hats, hoodies, belts, stickers, clocks, watches, beach towels, shot cups, beer mugs and other products.
The long and colorful history of Arrow Productions itself is the stuff of legends and the company’s Marketing Director Robert Interlandi who carries the banner as a second generation member of the organization has created quite an impact with his aggressive, edgy style.
“Even though our entire industry markets product considered controversial and cutting edge to mainstream, the adult industry’s marketing approach is surprisingly stale and static by today’s Madison Avenue standards,” says Interlandi. “Just look at the way mainstream companies market products on cable and the internet. Some of it really pushes the mainstream envelope.”
About four years ago after watching how adult marketed it product to consumers, he presented a marketing/licensing idea to Arrow owner Ray Pistol. Interlandi felt that some kind of consumer product tie-in to their video catalog could make a noteworthy impact. “I thought of what George Lucas did with ‘Star Wars’ merchandising and we thought we could do the same thing licensing with adult, since we had all the classic icons of adult,” says Interlandi. “I felt strongly that it could put us more in the mainstream.”
Several ideas were discussed, especially a beer. But a beer carried certain Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms requirements and the added tie-in to adult entertainment would bring too much Federal scrutiny, especially under the conservative Bush administration. “We’ve got nothing to hide, but we felt it was not a good mix at the time – so to speak,” says Interlandi, tongue in cheek.
Then one day while “hoisting a few” at a local pub with other Arrow staffers, they joked about the beer idea and was asked what the slogan would be: “Never too much head” and “put it in a bottle with an extra long neck.” But as he looked around the room, he saw all the non-alcoholic beverages being used a chasers and imagined a can of a “Deep Throat” beverage between the salt and pepper shakers. “The practical side of me also realized that if the drink were non-alcoholic, we could sell it to a wider base – not just those twenty-one and older, but everybody – especially the younger consumers who might think it cool to drink something associated with X,” he says. The booming energy beverage market seemed a natural.
It put Interlandi on quite a mission and fortunately as a Las Vegas resident many licensing trade shows land there sooner or later. “Just by walking at some shows I learned a lot and I picked up some non-beverage licensees as well. A lot of this is footwork – talking to people, networking…asking what they’re doing. It helped to go out of our little porn bubble. I rubbed shoulders with licensors such as Dick Clark, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis and other showbiz icons.”
“Into the Drink”
After a year of lab testing and product research, the Deep Throat Energy Drink debuted at the Adult Expo in 2007 replete with a yellow Corvette emblazoned with the drink’s logo and a mechanical riding bull for brave onlookers.
Arrow Productions launched the Deep Throat Energy drink later in the year and since its launch and an aggressive marketing campaign it has broken into new energy drink marketing and sales avenues. It has been exhibited at over 20 trade shows in the last year and in a number of unique markets including the Fort Worth’s Main St. Festival, South Dakota’s Sturgis Bike Week and many other events/markets unexplored by other energy drink manufacturers. In order to maximize its usage, it is being touted not only as an energy booster, but an alcoholic beverage mixer.
The reviews have been uniformly good, one describing it as having “a slightly berry taste and trending a tad sweeter than your ordinary energy drink, with taste tests concluding that over 90% of the samplers preferred the Deep Throat Energy Drink to its leading competitors.” The drink’s website claims that “the packaging, a tall thin canary yellow can with a retro “Deep Throat” movie poster has proven to be such a hit that people have fished empties out of the trash and took them home as souvenirs.”
Today Arrow’s name and flagship title “Deep Throat” stands out as a perfect example of storybook licensing done right. The Deep Throat Energy Drink, its characteristic yellow and fiery red color theme with the image of Linda Lovelace wrapped around the can with arms spread wide as if to embrace the thirsty consumer looking for an energy fix (and a little titillation) from America’s first official porn queen.
Branding Arrow video releases using an energy drink was a marketing masterstroke and not only are ancillary products in adult entertainment a long time coming, it’s appropriate that the first and most influential adult film ever produced is the flagship article of trade.
According to Arrow and the market, Deep Throat Energy Drink is here to stay; it was as an official nominee for the XBIZ Best Marketing Campaign, it was also nominated for the Best Overall Marketing Campaign at the Las Vegas Adult Expo. Outside the business, the Deep Throat Energy Drink was also nominated for two BevNet.com awards, including Best Energy Drink & Best Overall Marketing Campaign of 2008 and featured in their printed publication, New Beverage Guide.
“This really makes my year,” says Interlandi. “We have worked so hard on the drink. There were days where I would be in the Deeper Throat reality TV for Showtime starting a 9am and then I do a bar promotion with the mechanical bull until 2 a.m. ending up working 18 hours a day. I also can’t believe that we are the first energy drink to be nominated to an AVN and XBIZ award. With the BevNet award nomination it says that the drink is recognized in the mainstream beverage industry also. I feel like Wayne Gretzky scoring a marketing hat trick.” www.deepthroatenergy.com
“Stand-Up Comics”
One of Interlandi’s original ideas in addition to a beverage was a comic book license. For over four years he pursued it, approaching every nearly every large and small publisher. There were many offers, but too many just didn’t seem to fit right. “They had very stale ideas with no unique approach. When you go after licensees, you want to go after quality. I finally saw eye to eye with Terminal Press and I’m glad I went with them.”
After three years in development and production, Terminal Press launched the series in January at the 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo with a post-apocalyptic adaptation of “Debbie Does Dallas” that debuted and unveiled “Deep Throat,” “Candy Stripers,” “The Devil in Miss Jones” and “Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here” four months later at Comic-Con in San Diego as part of its ‘HARD/CORE’ line.
Ironically, that “hardcore” moniker is a misnomer, since the entire series actually has no hardcore images, but rather a softcore treatment for the ‘mature reader,’ placing the characters and concepts from the original films in new scenarios including thriller, horror, fairy tale and crime genres designed for contemporary sophisticated audiences. www.terminalpress.com
“Poster Time”
Since the Millennium’s turn, posters have had a renaissance, especially motion picture theatrical one-sheets. Although no adult motion picture has been in theatrical release since the mid-eighties, many of the vintage titles in release by Arrow were once released in movie houses during porn’s so-called “Golden Age” of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Arrow Productions library includes the aforementioned classics and many are now available online as newly-minted posters, including Gerard Damiano’s original “Deep Throat,” “Debbie Does Dallas,” “Candy Stripers” and “The Goddaughter.”
Arrow has a licensing deal with Vegas-based Acument Entertainment not only to create one-sheets, but canvas poster art, 3D posters and film cell wall art based on Arrow’s classic titles. “I was on a quest for a movie poster license for the past two years,” says Interlandi. “Everyone at Arrow is excited to team up with a company like Acument.
“Arrow’s the type of company that’s thinking like a main stream production company to promote its products and we’re proud to team up with an iconic company like Arrow Productions. The retro porn style is a hot seller and Arrow has tons of great art.” Arrow’s movie posters are available online at www.moviegoods.com
Arrow Productions & “Deep Throat” History
Originally formed in 1969 under the name Vanguard productions, and later renamed Arrow Productions, the company made blockbuster hits such as “Deep Throat,” “Devil In Miss Jones” and “Debbie Does Dallas.” Over the years Arrow Productions has acquired the distribution rights to many production lines including well known titles like “Alice In Wonderland,” “Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here,” “Candy Stripers” and “Taxi Girls.”
But Arrow’s reputation as a video manufacturer and distributor was built upon the fact that they were the original distributors of the single most important and influential sex video ever produced: “Deep Throat.”
The Gerard Damiano sex farce with the silly premise and goofy execution unintentionally set the stage for what would become ground zero for the foundation of the entire modern triple-X adult motion picture business. It led to the genre’s general acceptance in urban America and the birth of “Porn Chic” and subsequent acceptance as a true American pop culture milestone. “Deep Throat” had more impact, influence and visibility than any adult film had before or since. As a theatrical release and at the $600 million boxoffice range, “Throat” actually grossed as much as mainstream 1970 mega-blockbusters like “Star Wars,” “Rocky,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “The Sting,” among others.
The road to merchandising heaven was not easy and the resistance they experienced was even tougher than they realized. “Marketing and licensing X is very difficult and took a long time to be taken seriously,” says Interlandi. “But I think now that after all my struggles people are finally giving us respect. They used to laugh and shun me and now it’s changing. The success and the hard work are finally paying off.
“Someone recently told me that twenty years from now they’ll be calling me a pioneer and I should ‘get ready for it and get used to it.’
“That just gave me the chills. Crazy.”
*****
Arrow’s Deep Throat Products Now Sold at Spencer’s Gifts
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
LAS VEGAS — Arrow Productions Marketing Director Robert Interlandi says that his company’s latest deal over Deep Throat merchandising at Spencer’s Gifts is quite a coup.
“I think it’s just the first of many products that we will have in there,” Interlandi told XBIZ.
On Tuesday, Arrow Productions said it struck a deal with New York-based Silver Buffalo, which will distribute Deep Throat shot glasses on shelves at 690 Spencer’s Gifts stores.
“I hope that everyone buys a Deep Throat shot glass and does a toast with shots of your favorite booze to the final episode of ‘Deeper Throat’ on Showtime,” Interlandi said. “I’m glad it’s over but sad it’s gone.”
Interlandi said tha Silver Buffalo licensed the Deep Throat barware through Arrow. The company also has deals in place for Deep Throat barware, drinkware, games, clocks, watches and home decor.
Arrow — which owns the licensing rights of “Deep Throat,” “Devil in Miss Jones,” “Debbie Does Dallas” and “Tell them Johnny Wadd is Here” videos — has branched out into numerous areas beyond adult in marketing and licensing their icons. The company’s lineup includes the Deep Throat Energy Drink, as well as apparel, costumes, comic books and posters.
Silver Buffalo also has licensed companies such as Miller Brewing, Coors Brewing, Kiss and Metallica.
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