Porn Valley- Rob Spallone's the only producer/ booking agent in porn with forearms like sewer pipes. So thick they are that one end of a tattoo can't find the other. The phones are ringing Thursday afternoon as though the Fifth at Belmont is about to go off. Spallone's been booking this hairy MILF movie next week and he's got Christian in one of the scenes.
Spallone likes his performers filling out paperwork before they get on the set- just to eliminate the potential for fuckups. So Spallone, playing 20 questions, wonders if Christian can possibly come into the Star World Modeling office to do this, www.starworldmodeling.com. The conversation is getting nowhere.
Finally, Christian says it's 1:05 and he's due on a set in Northridge at 1:30, so it's not going to happen today, at least. Spallone asks why not.
"You got time," he tells Christian. "That's Northridge- I'm in Chatsworth." Spallone knows full well Christian couldn't make it if he stuck a jet rocket up his ass.
"See that?" Spallone says, thinking the interrogation was pretty funny. "Every question I asked him, he hesitated. That means he was lying. I wasn't born after lunch."
Spallone fields another goofy call. Some girl wants to be taken off the Star World website because she claims no one came to pick her up at the Greyhound terminal.
"The fuck is she talking about?" Spallone winces. Leah had taken the call and says it was some other girl calling on behalf of the girl who wanted off the site.
"Ya shoulda told her we had her booked for a $10,000 scene tomorrow," Spallone tells Leah. "Take her off and throw her in the garbage."
Spallone needs to call Tony Eveready and asks Adam Wood what Eveready's number is.
"LA County," says Wood. Spallone has a good laugh. He's just talked to a friend of his- Emilio. Emilio's doing time in the federal pen and is due out the end of the month.
"I'm by the pool- we're having lobstah," Spallone tells Emilio. "Ooops, I just spilled lobster sauce all over me."
Spallone says Leah wrote this guy Emilio a letter and Emilio wrote back one that went three pages- somewhere in the middle of an ostensibly polite reply Emilio shifts tone, goes south and says he wanted to hear stories about Rob fucking Leah in the ass.
A performer named Butterfly stops in. Rob thinks he knows her from somewhere. Butterfly is a pretty woman with a butterfly tattoo on her right shoulder so the name figures. Spallone works one of his deals like a car wash. He shows Butterfly a card. He explains that every time she does a scene and pays the agency fee, she gets the card stamped. Fill the card and Rob pays for her next AIDs test.
"Where do you live?" Rob asks her.
"You don't want to know," she laughs. Butterfly asks him to guess her age. Spallone thinks 26. Butterfly tells him she's 33. Butterfly then spots a cricket. She's freaked out. Spallone keeps crickets around to feed his pet dinosaur.
Though she's noted for her ass, according to her, Butterfly's also got a nice set of sleek legs going for her. And she's got a website in the works, www.butterflyentertainment.net. After talking with her a bit, I realize where the entertainment part comes in. She had been in the business then dropped out for four and half years to entertain.
"I took a break," she says. "Then I got bored and came back." When she first started in the business, Butterfly answered some ads in the LA Weekly and shot her first scene for West Coast Productions.
"I love sex," she explains. "I thought it was a good way to do something I enjoy and make good money, too." At the time she was going to school.
"I did some real estate stuff," she says. "Then I found out you really don't have to go to school for that, just do it. I started calling around and people started calling me. I can't remember the guy's name that I worked with. The movie had a blooper in it because it was my first time and I was pretty nervous. But I thought I did a good job except for the end where he was supposed to pop in my face. I turned the wrong way and it popped somewhere else. It was funny though I was embarrassed. But I kind of made up for it- I licked it off the floor. Just kidding. I think it was the movie Black Booty Cam 9."
"I would probably work three times a week," she continues. "Then I started going to the adult conventions and things like that, getting myself known. And it was pretty cool."
Butterfly says she's a no-drama kind of girl.
"Basically I hang with myself- I don't hang with crowds. I don't do drugs. I drink a litle but keep it down. When I work I work. And after work I go home."
At the time Butterfly first started in the business, she had a boyfriend.
"He agreed for me to be in the business," she says. "He didn't mind. He kind of liked it I think. He got to hang with me and see all these naked girls so he had no complaints. He came on shoots with me and did one scene with me. That was cool and he had no problems with it. Besides, he got a couple of freebies- girls used to flirt with him on the set. I thought it was kind of cute."
They eventually broke up but Butterfly doesn't want to go beyond that.
"Sometimes things don't work out and you've got to go your separate ways," she says. Butterfly indicates that it had nothing to do with jealousy or the business.
"Maybe I was a bit too much for him," she concedes. Growing up she describes herself as "a piece of work." If trouble was whatever you could think of, Butterfly was a mentalist.
"I started hanging out with the wrong crowd early- maybe 11 or 12," she continues. I wondered if she ever wound up in jail.
"Jail? Hmmmmmmmm," she goes, not answering the question. "Well, I've been in situations..." The first time she had sex was the age of 12.
"I remember the guy was a lot older than me," she says. "He had no business being with me but I didn't care. Really, it was okay because we stayed together for two years. He was my boyfriend. I think I was walking from school and he saw me and started talking to me. When I was younger I really wasn't interested in boys my age anyway. So in school none of the boys attracted me. I was always looking at guys driving cars. I've always been into older men. So we exchanged phone numbers and started talking on the phone.
"He'd call and my mom was, like, he sounds kind of old. I go, mom, he just sounds that way." Butterfly thinks it was about a good five months before they had sex.
"I was a virgin- I was afraid." I assumed Butterfly was pretty well developed for all this attention but she says she was a skinny thing.
"But I think what caught guys' attention was my ass," she laughs. "My ass was huge. In school with the boys it was, like, hit me and run. But older guys would be, hey momma, look at that ass!"
You would have thought she had given up that ass plenty of times by now, but Butterfly says she's still working on it.
"I'm practicing," she states. "I tried to try it before and got scared. I never went through with it. But now I'm interested. A little bit."
Though she can't say for sure that her parents know about her career, Butterfly's making a good bet they do.
"You just don't want to talk about it- my mom sometimes gives me looks and asks weird questions leading to that but she never comes straight out."
"Has she been asking what you've been doing the last four and half years?"
"Yeah, she's,like, you don't have a job," Butterfly replies. "How do you pay your bills?" Butterfly just says she's done "private things."
"Actually both are good livings but one is a little more dangerous than the other," she goes on to say.
"Did you ever meet the wrong guy in a hotel room?" she's asked.
"I've met some weirdos," she answers. "But I have good judgment. I know when to get out of Dodge. I've been lucky so far. And that's another reason why I want to get back in the business. To stay away from all the riff raff."
