Traci Lords

As for her opinion of the porn industry, she speaks pretty bitterly about it. But I don't buy it. Everything she's had in her life has been because of her porn career and the noteriety surrounding it. She also claims that the industry took advantage of her. Funny, she's the one who gave Jim South (and all the producers and directors) a valid US Passport saying she was 22. That's right, a valid US Passport. She conned the Government into giving her one using fake ID (Something South and others pointed out at trial.)She further claims that she can't remember her time in porn due to Alcohol/Drug use. Yet every one of her contemporaries interviewed on the subject unequivocally state that they never saw her take a drug on set. All in all, I find her protestations disingenuous, something she says to keep the myth of Traci Lords alive in furtherance of her mainstream career.

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On the other hand, I believe Traci Lords returning and doing a select few porn projects would be huge... and make all concerned some serious money.
I'd probably be willing to pay double what a normal porn DVD sells for (assuming it's any good).

Can you imagine Jules Jordan putting together a "Traci Lords Darkside" with the same standards he set with Jenna Haze Darkside? It would absolutely be a runaway best-seller!

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I think doing porn projects, even if she isn't performing, would hurt her in a similar way.

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Oddly, porn is both a brutal and yet absurdly forgiving industry, even when neither brutality nor forgiveness is warranted. For better and for worse, porn is money.

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the 1984 issue of Penthouse that featured Vanessa Williams eating pussy also featured a pictorial of an underage Lords. Copies of that issue have since been impounded by the FBI or something…it was one of the first spank rags I ever owned…fetches top dollar on ebay…

Edited by - veronica moser on 2/20/2007 11:01:40 AM

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She appeared in a lot SF/Fantasy films and TV.
Highlander, Blade, the Tommyknockers, First Wave, MacGyver...

She cut some music albums, too.

The homegirl has done a lot of work. She didn't drop off the RADAR. Some of us simply lost track of her.

Edited by - GODFATHER on 2/20/2007 11:15:13 AM

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I agree with you that the short length of many careers in porn is also a factor in the "forgiving" nature of the porn industry. For example, many people would not recognize Marc Wallice or have even heard of him. Yet there are people who do know him and his history and continue to employ him. I do not know why they do, but perhaps they believe it is cheaper to employ him than to find someone else to do his job (usually editing).

Also, people still conduct business with Rob Black. Some of those people have been around long enough to know his reputation for intentionally not honoring his debts. But if people believe that they have a way of making sure he pays them, they may be willing to overlook his bad reputation.

These are just the first two examples that come to mind. I'm sure there are others.

By the way, Quasar and Traci Lords were not in the business at the same time, although it is pretty likely that Quasar knows the Traci Lords story. I know that Tom Byron was around back then.

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Edited by - Clam Digger on 2/21/2007 10:08:32 AM

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If you live anywhere that it's legal to see her stuff (which I believe includes Canada & many parts of Europe), check out "Battle of the Stars" and "It's My Body". Both are amazing examples of Traci's work.

I've had a chance to see several of her mainstream appearances and when she's stacked up against "proper" actors, of course she isn't going to measure up. At least not until her run in the 3rd season of "First Wave". I thought she did a great job there. But it was still cool to see her in "Blade" and to see a lot of her in "Not of This Earth" (1988).

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Being a beloved porn icon and making personal appearances is not a "mainstream career."

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true story.

and she does a mean cover of "walking in l.a." youtube it.

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