Porn Stars | Mr. Pink's Blog - Part 60

Dana Does Hollywood Darkly

Having been climbing the porno ladder since starting as a performer 2003, the latest woman to join Evil Angel’s directorial roster, Dana Vespoli, knows a thing or twenty about Hollywood and she’s putting some nuggets of wisdom and a few of the more sordid anecdotes into her latest feature, Hollywood Babylon.

Due for release at the close of this month, Hollywood Babylon sees Vespoli drag her female lead, Sovereign Syre through the proverbial mud of Tinsel Town as she aims for the money, glamor, and fame stardom brings. Calling her newest Evil Angel effort “part love letter to Hollywood, part meditation on the notion of reinvention, and of course an exploration of twisted, psycho-sexual relationships,” Vespoli claims the idea came to her quite simply, by asking herself a question: “What if a girl came to Hollywood and became involved with a psychopathic plastic surgeon?” Played by porn’s most popular male thespian, Steven St. Croix, said plastic surgeon doesn’t limit his treatment of Syre to office appointments, inviting her to partake of a little familial loving with he and his wife (played by Dana DeArmond). Hollywood psychos seem to be a problem for Syre, though, and she becomes embroiled in a detective story that sees actor J.M. Darling attempt to sniff out the truth. Hell, it even sees Ms. DeArmond fire a handgun right into the camera lens for an altogether more shocking scene than even her most intense DPs.

With Vespoli keeping the budget of her mini-opus down to only $18,000 yet somehow managing to cast some of porn’s most talented fuckers – Syre, DeArmond, St. Croix, James Deen, Ryan Driller, Roman Nomar, and Italy’s latest, greatest, most curvaceous import, Valentina Nappi – Evil Angel couldn’t be happier. “[Features are] something we don’t usually do at Evil Angel,” said the company’s Justin Rich, “but Dana has the filmmaking chops to do it well.” And, when it comes to psychologically dark feature porn, there’s no better or more adventurous director currently working than Dana Vespoli. That much is certain.

Hollywood Babylon is to be released by Evil Angel on April 30, 2014.

Mile High Madness

Every year, basketball fans go gaga over March Madness, the CBS and Turner Sports-produced coverage of the NCAA Men’s Division I tournament and clog up the airwaves with stuff that bores the crap out of anyone without a raging hard-on for athletic competitions. Those of us with our minds squarely in the gutter can now compete with basketball fans thanks to Mile High Media’s annual social media-based fan-voted popularity contest: Mile High Madness.

The 2014 competition was launched back in December when fans were invited to submit the names of the pair that would star in their perfect fantasy porn scene. After announcing a field of 64 pairs and asking fans to vote for their favorites, Mile High Media took in a huge number of votes and whittled the field down to eight final pairs, two each for the major Mile High-branded studios: Chanel Preston/Lex Steele and Alina Li/Eric Everhard for Reality Junkies, Riley Reid/Eric Everhard and Sarah Shevon/Tommy Gunn for Open Life, Natalia Starr/Zoey Monroe and Lily Cade/Charlotte Stokely for Sweetheart Video, and Skin Diamond/Steven St. Croix and Adrianna Chechik/Tommy Gunn for Sweet Sinner. While all finalists should be congratulation on their fan-voted popularity, it’s the winners that deserve our full adulation. Will Charlotte Stokely and Lily Cade please take the stage?

Mile High Media promises to shoot and release scenes starring all four finalist pairs, we can presumably expect Mss. Cade and Stokely’s very promising encounter to land at Sweetheart Video, one of porn’s essential lesbian studios, where it’ll be in stellar company. Voters are well looked after, too, with those responsible for submitting the names of any finalist pairs receiving a free six-month pass to their favored studio’s website while whoever submitted the overall winner will receive six months free at all four: Sweetheart Video, Sweet Sinner, Reality Junkies, and Open Life.

The Return of Missy Monroe

Hair cropped short, sharp and dyed blonde, with a curvy natural figure, a filthy mouth, and one of the most ferocious performing styles in US porn, Missy Monroe made quite an impact during her tenure as an adult performer. She even earned a remarkable 18 industry award nominations but never managed to walk away with an individual trophy. Then, as soon as she’d appeared on the scene and astounded viewers worldwide, Missy Monroe left a promising career in porn (both in front of and behind the camera) for the relative anonymity of “real life.” Now, after almost eight years on the sidelines, Missy’s back and bolder than ever!

Returning with a fuller figure, amazing 36DDD – TRIPLE-DEE, DUDES! – breasts, and some new colorful ink work, Missy seems intent on picking up where she left off. And that means plenty of flowing bodily fluids, expanded orifices, and multi-partner romps that would leave most regular women sore and complaining for a week. Having already this year shot for Jules Jordan, Devil’s Film, and Score Group and earned an XRCO Award nomination for Best Cumback – which she lost to her friend Sunny Lane – it shouldn’t be long before we see Missy’s adventurous self in some commanding hardcore work. But with the current generation of newcomers jumping into Missy’s old routine (squirting, anal, double-vag, DPs, double-anal, gangbangs etc) mere weeks after debuting, can she keep up with the porn of 2014?

Asa & Kleio: Porn’s Newest Authors

Hey, Asa Akira! Quit dipping your adorable toes in every damn sub-set of the porn industry. You’re ruining it for everyone else. And, hey, Kleio Valentien! Twitter isn’t enough for you, you gotta start scribbling your thoughts on napkins and tossing them Pop Porn’s way? What’s a lowly copywriter on the fringe of the porn industry supposed to do when his competition is a svelte ‘n’ sexy pair of porn’s most thrilling women? That’s it, I quit. Thanks a bunch Asa and Kleio!

(Everyone needs an income and something to do while they wait for the rapture, so I’ll keep at it, pornstar authors be damned!)

Recently added to the roster of Pop Porn bloggers, Kleio Valentien, who claims to have been illiterate through high school, will be adding both her common sense and snark to Pop Porn’s already hefty crew of loudmouths. Her first missive? A recollection of some truly abysmal one-night-stands.

Asa, for her maiden venture into publishing, has prepared something a bit heftier than Ms. Valentien: a memoir. Entitled “Insatiable: Porn – A Love Story,” Asa’s writing debut sees the multi-AVN-winner cover a range of her life experiences, from the two times she escorted and worked as a dominatrix in New York to her recent marriage to fellow performer Toni Ribas. In between, the author tells us there’ll be plenty of “sexual undertones because I’m such a sexual person and I think about sex so much.” “But,” she insists, “it’s definitely not an erotic novel.” She even roped her friend, acclaimed artist David Choe into painting her portrait and designing the cover of Insatiable, expanding the uniquely creative relationship they revealed with their DVDASA podcast. Insatiable: Porn – A Love Story is due for release by Grove Press next month but is already on sale at Amazon and most major e-tailers willing to carry it.