Jessica Dee

It strucks me as very strange how many of you express allegations and strong opinions about the story although only very few have actually be able to read it.
I don't think you can base your judgement about the story -- or even worse: about the behaviour of characters in the story -- on a very casually translated summary.
I'm not going to justify the story's accuracy and it is not important whether people like my reporting or not. But what really is important that you understand what is really said about the characters in the story. Especially regarding Larry at PXP, there have been serious misinterpretations:

Larry (BTW, nor anyone else in the story) is NOT portrayed a cold, heartless, fucked-up executive who just fires Jessica. He's rather the guy who, whether he likes it or not, is thrown into the situation to be the one to tell Jessica that she has a stop filming. He doesn't like it but he has to.

Let's look at the details in the text: Larry is introduced as the one who told Jessica. Then the text says: "When he said, that he looked down on his boots", indicating that Larry doesn't feel comfortable at all to tell Jessica because he feels sorry for her. Jessica starts crying and Larry can't stand it -- not because he's this heartless asshole but of course because it makes him sad as well. Because he cares. That's why he murmurs (not complains!) "Always this crying." It's just a little different from what was translated before but it makes a whole lotta difference.
Same goes to what Larry says about HIV. He says the adult industry is a tolerant business. Everybody can try his/her luck here. Then he says he's met in the business manager, academics, immigrants even former criminals and ex-models. Then he says: Only one sort of people is hard to bear for the adult business. People with HIV. This is not Larry's cold opinion, it doesn't indicate that he doesn't like this people. It is a matter of fact statement that at least five other sources confirmed to me. If you contracted the virus, it's getting difficult for you in the business.

A bit later in the story, Larry says how surprised everbody was when Jessica finished her first film, Throat Yoghurt. This quote is a first hint on what Larry later on will state as the reason for PXP or RLD to stop Jessica. The reporter asks: Why couldn't she continue?
Larrys says because she's filmed four movies right after it. She was too fast. The films would have to be stored and the talent would get old.
I don't know whether this is the true reason but this what Larry said and I can tell that he gave this information to the best of his knowledge.

Further on, we learn about Larry's background, a paragraph that portrays him as a family man who pinned photographs of his children on the wall and, of course, has his issues with his daughter having worked as talent. He used to be Sheriff and also a state representative. He doesn't watch the movies that have Jewel in it and that's why he better not go to the bathroom since there (at least when I visited it) lies a copy of Adam Film Work XXX that has a several-page-spread with Jewel.
The paragraph ends with the quote by Larry saying that as talent Jessica was good, uncomplicated and not picky but one could tell from how Larry said it that he would have preferred to talk about agricultural reform in the State of Colorado. Everyone who Larry knows that is true.

I went thru all this in such great detail because Larry is one of the finest men I met during my reporting. He cared a lot about Jessica and showed great compassion.

Everybody who reads whatever else from my story (or its rough interpretation) is wrong.

Apart from that, I am convinced that the story is accurate in its facts (sorry, Steve, that I got your kids' age wrong, somehow it was in my notebook) and even more important, FAIR towards everyone. I invite everyone who feels otherwise to send me an email.

I have very much enjoyed reporting the story and meeting each single person in the valley, especially Jessica, Larry and Steve Holmes, all of whom I owe a lot.

Philipp

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two hours ago I wrote SZ-Magazin an email and let them know about that thread @ ADT.
I was hoping for a reaction from you, because I´ve read your article exactly as you described.

Sorry, if my inaccurate and vague translation have caused you bad feeelings!

I already had written something that goes into the direction what you now already have posted, i.e. that your report wasn´t in any way biased against the adult biz.

But certainly the sentences where you tell your impression during a porn shot could be interpreted as critical against the industry. To me they only made me thinking that there is quite a difference between how adult movies are discerned or consumed and the reality producing them!
Sometimes porn consumers and watchers forgot to reflect about it, I guess.

Schönen Abend,
W.

Jewel,
sorry if my mistranslation has caused you troubles.
Thats why I wrote the reporter an email to get things clarified and sorted!
+1 for you !!

Edited by - STEMCELL on 1/18/2005 2:14:15 AM

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As you said in 1 of your previous posts people that aren't happy with themselves want to see other people brought down. Though if you can look past the people spewing non-sense you can see Steve Holmes and those of us that have a clue came to PXP's defense over this story or false translation of this story(whichever is the truth).

It was great meeting you in Vegas Jewel.

AC Cream

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Well, earlier I brought up Seymour Butts' phantom condom-only policy as an example of another, in addition to the Jessica Dee hiring, industry response to the HIV outbreak. Luke Ford picked that up and asked Seymour about it. Here is what Adam said in response, originally posted on lukeisback.com:

I am quite sure we discussed this at the last Digital Playground premiere we both attended. You probably had bigger fish to fry at the moment. I have been working with a new product called Safe-Glide ever since the "crisis". I have been active in trying to help the company that produces the product get funded as well as making sure that AIM (Adult Industry Medicine) became aware of the product and involved. I felt this product was as close to a "perfect solution" as I had heard of or seen and helping it get FDA approval and into the hands of the members of this industry would have a far greater impact than any other action I could take. Obviously, I was made aware of the product after I made the public statements.

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Okay. Go back to talking about Jessica Dee now. I just thought it fair that I share that bit since I brought it up earlier.

Edited by - tscfan317 on 1/17/2005 10:42:35 PM

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MLyons said:

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If someone ever tells you "Your loss"...it's not...EVER.

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