A couple of weeks ago, I got a double-whammy worse than this year's obstinate flu. I've been fortunate to work with pretty much the same crew on most of the videos I've directed for nearly 10 years. They're a jolly, diverse lot with about a century's worth of collective experience shooting X-rated...... More »

The adult entertainment industry is atwitter with investment fever. It's all the rage, the flavor of the month, the obsession of the year, and a lot of company owners are hell-bent to take advantage of the opportunities they perceive to be present in the adult investment area. Whether the...... More »

For someone who rarely goes out at night, the first week of February was quite the party week for me. Two nights in a row I was invited to events put on by XBIZ. Though XBIZ hosted both events, they were conspicuously different. The first night was the XBIZ 100 dinner, a deliciously decadent...... More »

I don't think many girls grow up dreaming of the day that having sex on camera would earn them a lucrative living. Every girl in this business has a story of how she wound up here. Their journeys into the world of XXX film range from getting in through a friend, to looking for an easy way to make a...... More »

Legendary screenwriter William Goldman once summed up the essential wisdom of his decades in film production with the simple declaration that, when it comes to what makes a picture successful, "nobody knows anything." The key word here is "knows." Even in mainstream filmmaking, producers and...... More »