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Lois Ayres
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 directors enter t ... [...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] |
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] |
Andrew Blake (director)
Andrew Blake (born 1948) is an American adult erotic film director and film producer. Blake has been inducted into both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame and is a medal recipient from the Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival for his first film NIGHT TRIPS. Biography Andrew Blake began his career working on movies for Playboy, and then for Penthouse but shifted to working independently in the 1990s. Most of Blake's films are released through his own production company, Studio A Entertainment. Andrew Blake is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame (200?) and XRCO Hall of Fame (2003). Blake's films usually feature original music scores by the composer Raoul Valve. Blake has described his work as " erotic fashion," and his films usually include fetish, bondage, and lesbian imagery, often excluding heterosexual intercourse entirely. Blake's earliest films were primarily works of softcore erotica, however, and that sensibility still informs his pacing and style. Early films mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tori Black
Michelle Chapman (born 1988), known professionally as Tori Black, is an American retired pornographic actress. In 2011, she became the first person to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award two years in a row. She was inducted in the XRCO and AVN Halls of Fame. Early life and education Chapman is a native of Seattle. She studied journalism as an undergraduate at Western Washington University. Career Chapman started her career at age 18 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she was on a summer vacation while attending college. At her parents' insistence on getting a job, Chapman saw an advertisement for an adult talent agency and sent in her pictures. The agency accepted and, after considering their offer, she accepted and returned to the agency a week later. She was the ''Penthouse'' Pet of the Month for December 2008. Chapman is the first person in history to win two AVN Female Performer of the Year Awards, winning back-to-back years in 2010 and 2011. She also won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Zicari
Robert D. Zicari (born August 5, 1974), also known as Rob Black, is an American pornographer, entrepreneur, podcaster and professional wrestling promoter. Together with his then-wife Janet "Lizzy Borden" Romano, he owned the porn company ''Extreme Associates''. Zicari was prosecuted for distribution of obscenity by the United States Department of Justice in 2004. The case was dismissed but was reinstated upon appeal in 2005. Zicari entered into a plea agreement with the government in 2009, ending the case. Career Zicari became a porn director in the mid-1990s. His former porn company ''Extreme Video'' was started in 1993/1994. In 1998, he founded the porn company, Extreme Associates, together with fellow porn directors Tom Byron and Van Damage and porn star Tiffany Mynx (who have since left the company). Janet Romano started to work for him in the same year, first as an actress and then as a director. His work often involved scenes considered egregious and extreme even by ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikki Benz
Alla Montchak (born December 11, 1981), known professionally as Nikki Benz, is a Ukrainian-born Canadian pornographic actress. She was also a 2010 Penthouse Pet who was selected as the 2011 Pet of the Year. Early life Benz was born in Mariupol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union; her father's family is Canadian. At age seven, she immigrated to Canada with her parents. She was raised in Toronto. Career Benz worked as a swimsuit model and stripper prior to her porn career. She entered the adult film industry by e-mailing porn director Jim Gunn, who introduced her to Frank Kay, the president of Pleasure Productions. She signed with Pleasure Productions in January 2003 and made her first on-screen sex scene in ''Strap on Sally 20'' with Gina Lynn, and her first boy-girl scene with Ben English in ''The Sweetest Thing''. After completing her contract, Benz moved to Los Angeles and signed with Jill Kelly Productions in September 2004. Benz signed a contract with TeraVision in September 20 ... [...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] |
Briana Banks
Briana Banks (born Briana Bany; 21 May 1978) is a German-American pornographic actress and model. She was the ''Penthouse'' Pet of the Month for June 2001. Early life Banks was born in Munich, Germany to a German father and an American mother. They moved to Britain when she was four, then to the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley when she was seven. Her father still lives in Germany. Banks moved out of her mother's house when she was 16, taking her 14-year-old sister with her."Briana Banks" interview by Melissa Monet, June 10, 2001, Pornstarempire.com. Retrieved 2007-05-08. She got custody of her sister when she turned 18. Personal life Banks was engaged to fellow adult film star |
James Avalon
James Avalon is an American adult film director, cinematographer, editor, writer, and producer. His aliases include Kunga Sludge, Mondo Tundra and Monty Tundra. Career James entered the adult film industry in 1979 as a journalist and became editor of ''Adam Film World''’s special editions. He was also a founding member of the X-Rated Critics Organization. Awards (selected) * 1998 AVN Award Winner – Best Editor, Video ('' Zazel'') * 2001 AVN Award Winner - Best Director, Film (''Les Vampyres'') * 2002 AVN Award nomination - Best Director, Video (''Taboo 2001'') * 2003 AVN Award nomination - Best Director, Film (''Les Vampyres 2'') * 2004 AVN Award nomination - Best Director, Non-Feature (''Fantasy'') * 2004 XRCO Hall of Fame Inductee * 2005 AVN Hall of Fame Inductee * 2006 Ninfa Prize Winner – Best Director (''La Mansión del Placer'') * 2007 AVN Award nomination - Best Director, Video (''Sex Pix'') * 2009 AVN Award nominations - Best Director, Feature, Best Videography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Time Capsule
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juli Ashton
Juli Ashton (born October 5, 1969) is an American former pornographic actress. Adult film career In 1994, she moved to Florida and began appearing in adult films, starting with ''New Wave Hookers 4''."The Women of Porn", ''Playboy'', March 2002, page 128 From 1996 to 2006 she was co-host of the Playboy Channel's live phone-in program ''Night Calls.'' In addition to her film and television work, she has lobbied on behalf of the adult industry at the California State Legislature. Ashton is the owner and operator of the adult website Juliland.com, a website that features the erotic imagery of photographer/Film director, director Richard Avery. Awards * 1996 XRCO Award – Female Performer of the Year * 1997 AVN Award – AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress—Video (''Head Trip'') * 2000 NightMoves Award – Best Actress (Editor's Choice) * 2011 XRCO Hall of Fame * 2012 AVN Hall of Fame [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Armstrong (director)
Brad Armstrong (born Rod Hopkins; September 23, 1965) is a Canadian pornographic actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and costume designer. He is currently under contract with Wicked Pictures. He has been known as one of the most popular leading men in the sex industry, as well as "The King of Porn" and "The Spielberg of Skin Directors". Among the films he has directed is ''Octomom Home Alone'' (2012). Early life Armstrong attended college for commercial art and advertising. Career Armstrong worked as a male stripper in Canada for 10 years. He began dancing at age 17 by borrowing a friend's ID. He was introduced to the porn industry by pornographic actress Erica Boyer. His first scene was a sixway with Erica Boyer, Randy Spears, Eric Price, and two other women for the film ''Bimbo Bowlers From Boston''. Personal life Armstrong has been married three times, and divorced three times. His first marriage was to Dyanna Lauren. They divorced in 1992. His second marriage was to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
