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Erik Everhard
Erik Everhard (born December 2, 1976) is the stage name of Mitchell Hartwell, a Canadian pornographic actor and director, known for gonzo pornography films. Biography Everhard is a Canadian national of Ukrainian ancestry. In 1995, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to attend university, at which time he made his first forays into adult films. Everhard's adult film career began in Canada performing for websites. At the urging of friends and colleagues, he moved to Los Angeles in 1999 to pursue his career. His first shoot in the United States was for director Jules Jordan. After securing himself as a performer, Everhard began directing videos for Anabolic and Diabolic Video in 2001. In 2003, he landed a distribution deal with Redlight District. In 2005, Everhard left Redlight, suing the company for breach of contract, conversion Conversion or convert may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * "Conversion" (''Doctor Who'' audio), an episode of the audio drama ''Cyberma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN Award
The AVN Awards are List of movie awards, film awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine ''AVN (magazine), AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') to recognize achievement in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic films. They are often called the "Academy Awards, Oscars of porn". The awards are divided into over 100 categories, some of which are analogous to industry awards offered in other film and video genres and others that are specific to Pornography, pornographic/erotica, erotic film and video. ''AVN'' sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 2008, the ceremony has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime (TV channel), Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. Awards for Gay pornography, gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Film World
''Adam Film World'' (''AFW'') and ''Adam Film World Guide'' (''AFWG'') were American magazines about pornographic film, starting in 1966 as ''The Adam Film Quarterly.'' History Knight Publishing Corp. had launched ''Adam'' magazine in 1956 as an attempt to follow ''Playboy's'' success. ''Adam Film Quarterly'' was spun off from that magazine by William Rotsler in 1966 to cover the sexploitation film industry. The first issue's cover price was US$1 and the cover story was about '' The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill'', an erotic movie directed by Peter Stootsberry and produced by Bradford Hallworth."Adam Film Quarterly" ''The Site of Movie Magazines''. Retrieved 4 July 2012. Originally, like ''Playboy'', the publication also covered mainstream films and included feature stories on stars s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Holmes (actor)
Steve Holmes (born 23 March 1961) is a German pornographic actor, producer and director. He has received several adult industry awards, including the AVN Award for Male Foreign Performer of the Year in 2005 and 2006. In 2017, Holmes was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Early life Holmes was born to Transylvanian Saxon parents in Sibiu, Romania. In the summer of 1968, while on holiday in Bulgaria, Holmes and his family crossed the Turkish border. Upon arrival at the Federal Republic of Germany in Istanbul, they sought political asylum. Holmes eventually returned to Romania to visit family. After dropping out of school, Holmes began working in fashion. He eventually became an assistant buyer for several clothing stores. While attending a computer show in Munich, he decided to enter the tech industry. On 1 January 1986, Holmes started working as a sales representative for an IT company. He continued to work in the tech industry for several years. Career Holmes spent most o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN (magazine)
''Adult Video News'' (also called ''AVN'' or ''AVN Magazine'') is an American trade magazine that covers the adult video industry. ''The New York Times'' notes that ''AVN'' is to pornographic films what '' Billboard'' is to records. ''AVN'' sponsors an annual convention, called the Adult Entertainment Expo or AEE, in Las Vegas, Nevada along with the AVN Awards, an award show for the adult industry modeled after the Oscars. ''AVN'' rates adult films and tracks news developments in the industry. An ''AVN'' issue can feature over 500 movie reviews. The magazine is about 80% ads and is targeted at adult-video retailers. Author David Foster Wallace has described ''AVN'' articles to be more like infomercials than articles, but he also described the ''AVN'' magazine as "sort of the ''Variety'' of the US porn industry." History Paul Fishbein, Irv Slifkin, and Barry Rosenblatt founded ''AVN'' in 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Slifkin left in 1984; having lost interest in reviewing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocco Siffredi
Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Antonio Tano; 4 May 1964) is an Italian Pornographic film actor, pornographic actor, director and producer. He took his stage name from the character Roch Siffredi played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film ''Borsalino (film), Borsalino'' (1970). Known as the "Italian Stallion", Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films. He is known for appearing in the "Buttman" series of adult movies and mostly for his anal scenes. Pornography career Siffredi met porn actor Leonardo Codazzo in a French sex club in 1985 and was introduced to producer Marco and director Michela, who cast him in his first pornographic role, ''Attention fillettes...'' (''Watch Out, Little Girls...'') in 1987, in which he performed anal sex. Siffredi then stepped away from porn and worked as a fashion model, but returned to the business after two years with the help of porn actress Teresa Orlowski. Siffredi went on to perform in both plot-based and Gonzo pornogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Charming
The ''AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') Hall of Fame has honored people for their work in the adult entertainment industry since 1995. , January 14, 2013, Retrieved September 4, 2016 The individuals inducted into the ''AVN'' Hall of Fame have "made significant contributions to the " and have had "a minimum of 10 years in the industry" to be considered for induction. There are several branches of the ''AVN'' Hall of Fame: *Performers and |
Jean Val Jean (actor)
Jean Val Jean (born Emmanuel Delcour, June 19, 1980, Montluçon, Allier) is an actor, model and adult film performer who has also worked as a personal trainer and professional chef. Delcour has made several relatively high-profile appearances on mainstream television, including ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'' and ''Chopped''. In November 2009 he appeared on ''Chef Academy'', where he was described as being a graphic designer and having studied graphic design for five years in Bordeaux, France. Over the course of the show, his identity as an adult performer was discerned by his fellow competitors, which the network then capitalized on. Originally a France-based model, Delcour came to the U.S. to pursue a career in acting and cooking. He has made several appearances, including on '' The Last Ship'', ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'', '' CSI: Las Vegas'' and ''Jane the Virgin''. He's currently a professional private chef and personal trainer. Since 2018, Delcour has been pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasha Grey
Marina Ann Hantzis (born March 14, 1988), known professionally as Sasha Grey, is an American actress, model, writer, musician, and former pornographic actress. Grey began her acting career in the pornographic film industry, winning 15 awards for her work between 2007 and 2010, including the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2008. In 2023, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. After her 2009 feature film debut as the lead in Steven Soderbergh's ''The Girlfriend Experience'', she starred in independent films including '' Open Windows'', the Canadian black comedy horror film ''Smash Cut'' and the horror film ''Would You Rather''. In 2011, she played a fictionalized version of herself in the HBO comedy-drama series ''Entourage''. Grey was a co-founder, singer, and writer of aTelecine, an industrial music band. She is the author of ''The Juliette Society'' trilogy of novels and also writes, directs, and co-produces films and music videos. Early life Hantzis was bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenna Haze
Jenna Haze (born February 22, 1982) is an American director, model, and former pornographic actress. Haze has won numerous pornographic industry awards, including the 2003 AVN Award for Best New Starlet and the 2009 AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year, making her the second performer in history to ever win both awards in the course of her career, after Missy. In 2012, she was inducted into both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Career Haze entered the adult film industry on July 18, 2001. Between 2002 and 2005, she was a contract girl for the film company Jill Kelly Productions. During most of her time at the company, she performed exclusively with women, out of loyalty to her then boyfriend, an industry cameraman. She returned to working with men in the 2006 multi-award-winning release ''Jenna Haze Darkside'', produced by Jules Jordan. Her first scene was for ''The Oral Adventures of Craven Moorehead 8'' with her agent Slim Shady (Dez) and his best friend, Moorehead. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belladonna (actress)
Belladonna (born Michelle Anne Sinclair; May 21, 1981) is an American actress, director, producer, model, and pornographic and erotic actress. She retired from the sex industry in 2008. Since retiring from pornography, she has acted in several films, including ''Inherent Vice'' and '' The Ladies of the House.'' Personal life Michelle Anne Sinclair was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, the second of eight children. She grew up in a traditional conservative Mormon family. Her father, a retired Air Force officer, was a Mormon bishop. The family has German, Scottish, and Cherokee Indian roots.Sinclair dropped out of high school and moved out of her parents' house at 15. Prior to her professional career, she held jobs at 7-11, Victoria's Secret, Sears and Subway.Exclusive Interview at Freeones on September 11, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24th AVN Awards
The 24th AVN Awards ceremony, presented by Adult Video News (AVN), honored the best pornographic films of 2006 and took place January 13, 2007 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Paradise, Nevada. During the ceremony, Adult Video News presented AVN Awards (commonly referred to as the Oscars of porn) in 119 categories released during the eligibility period, Oct. 1, 2005 to Sept. 30, 2006. The ceremony, televised in the United States by Playboy TV, was produced and directed by Gary Miller. Adult film star Jessica Drake hosted for the first time, with comedian Jim Norton, who also co-hosted in 2004. ''Manhunters'' won seven awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Brad Armstrong, as did ''Corruption'', which won Best Video Feature and Best Director—Video for Eli Cross. Other winners included ''Fuck'' and ''Sacred Sin'' each with five and '' Fashionistas Safado: The Challenge'' with three. Winners and nominees The nominees were announced Nov. 22, 2006 by AVN. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN Awards
The AVN Awards are film awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine '' AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') to recognize achievement in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic films. They are often called the "Oscars of porn". The awards are divided into over 100 categories, some of which are analogous to industry awards offered in other film and video genres and others that are specific to pornographic/ erotic film and video. ''AVN'' sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 2008, the ceremony has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. Awards for gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the 1987 ceremony through the 1998 ceremony. The increasing number of categories made the show unwieldy. For the 1999 ceremony ''AVN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
