Hey, they were mean to Richard Nixon, too. And like Nixon, they won’t have Mary Carey to kick around anymore. Now that the California gubernatorial election is over. Thursday night I had the following chat with Carey who’s thrilled like all get-out that she got over 10,000 votes.
Mary also tells me, among other things, that she has absolutely no idea who Holly Halston is but suspects that Halston’s recent attacks against her have been prompted by jealousy- that Carey was getting all the magazine covers in Florida while Halston was being overlooked.
Carey was on KTLA yesterday doing a weather slot and was also given a shot at reading some news. “They were really impressed with me,” said Carey. “They’re just trying to figure out- maybe there’s a place for me there. It had a good response.” Carey said that’s something she never thought she’d be doing in her life. “It was so cool they invited me in; and they invited me back next week but I’m going out of town for two weeks.” Off camera, Carey said she tends to be very serious but once in front of it, she’s possessed by the spirit of the hippy-dippy weather girl. “It’s a real switchover from the real me to Mary Carey.”
In her Carey persona she’ll be leaving Sunday to perform at T’s Lounge in Florida and then will be in Massachusetts the following week at Alex’s.
Realistically, Carey said she was expecting perhaps 2,000 votes. Maybe 5,000. She only knows two or three hundred people of which 50 might have realistically voted for her. Bringing up the Scott Fayner issue, Carey purred, “Don’t be mad.” Carey was referring to instances where she had been giving the Lukeford.com scribe hot scoops under the cool bed sheets.
“If I called you in the middle of the night, you probably wouldn’t come over,” she said. I told Carey she was absolutely correct. “You’d be too busy sleeping or typing,” she explained. Carey certainly has my number, I thought as I mention that Fayner, a vampire, is pretty much getting up while I’m retiring. Carey conceded the point and said she and Fayner are friends again after a brief falling out. “But not good enough where we’re having sex right now.” Carey speculates that Fayner got mad at her because she started seeing a friend of his who got hired at Kick Ass Pictures. But Carey thinks that Fayner’s both “cute and “fun.”
“He really means well,” she said. “His writing style is very funny.” I agreed with Carey, noting that Fayner’s a million fuckin’ laughs. Carey said Fahner also got mad at her when she plugged the lukeford.com website on air but didn’t mention his name. “Of course I’m not going to say his name because most people wouldn’t want their names said. I didn’t know how he felt about it. But he’s really a nice guy.”
Changing the subject, she mentions that she had won some bucks on the Game Show Network. She got into a verbal tiff with another gubernatorial candidate, Kennedy, who snidely referred to Carey as a “professional.” Carey thinks there’s a big difference between being a porn star and a whore. “Unfortunately society is being hypocritical.”
While the campaign was fun, Carey said she appreciates the fact that she can get away from everything for a couple of weeks. “I really need to make up my mind with what I want to do in the future,” she said. “But it’s been the most exciting thing I’ve ever done.” Carey thinks her Stern show interview will be airing on E! next week- possibly in two segments. While in Florida, Carey also intends to have a memorial service for her grandmother who passed away recently.
Carey also notes that L.A. magazine did a piece on her for December about the election through the eyes of Mary Carey. “It’s all these things I would never have gotten to do if it wasn’t for porn.” Carey said she even got advice from the Game Show Network not to do porn anymore.
“I told them if I didn’t do porn you guys wouldn’t have had me on in the first place. People are so funny like that. They’re so hypocritical. All these news channels come at me, like, don’t you feel you’re being exploited? I’m like, no, actually, I don’t. They really try to get you and trick you into saying things. And the mainstream media uses porn. They saved me for the last five minutes on shows to get people to stay tuned. Porn brings ratings up but they don’t want to accept that.”
Carey said she finally got to see how people on the outside view porn and it makes her angry. “When you’re in porn and hanging around with porn people you don’t realize how people on the outside see you. It’s kind of scary.” Carey’s of the belief that there are probably porn stars who live better lives than half the girls who don’t do porn. Carey says she’s got a friend from high school who’s probably slept with more guys than any girl in the industry. “Yet she’s in graduate school to be a teacher and people think of her differently.”
Carey said, for $3,000, her commercial on the Tonight Show this week has been aired over and over, though it was slotted for one-showing. “Tod Hunter did the voice over. It was funny- it said the United States wants to get rid of porn stars like Mary Carey. You can either let that happen- I’m in an orange jail outfit then I tear my jail outfit and I’m in a USA bikini- or you can vote for me as governor of California and I’ll stick up for the adult industry. It was really funny.”
As if this comes as a surprise, Carey says she has legal issues with her old webmaster. “He’s mad at me.” Carey said he was depositing her checks in his bank account. “When you first get into porn you don’t know any better when you get a website. Now I have a great webmaster that I pay a salary. Now I own every thing. When I left the other guy he was trying to sue me for $125,000. Are you kidding me?”
Of all things, Carey registers disappointment that Gary Coleman got more votes. “He’s a sweet cute guy,” says Carey who doesn’t particularly embrace porn. “But he really hates me.” Carey explained that Jay Leno offered her and Coleman to come on and do a skit about going door-to-door for votes but that Coleman turned it down because he didn’t want to be associated with her. “He’s a virgin; he’s Christian- he doesn’t like me, plus I beat him on a game show.” Carey said she’s talked to Coleman who’s standoffish with her and thinks that porn stars are disgusting, according to her.
“Did he actually tell you that?” I asked Carey. “No, but I’ve heard him say that.” Carey said she also could tell where Coleman was coming from when he wouldn’t pose for pictures with his head nestled in her “boob bubble.”
Carey says Coleman also got jealous because she got a gig to do an E! count down to the top five songs of the week.
Carey also reports that she’s going to be doing a column for High Society along with Hannah Harper, Belladonna and possibly Tawny Roberts. It’s being touted as the Triple X Dream Team. “But I don’t know who has officially signed up yet.” Having written all her own campaign speeches, Carey claims, a column would be a piece of cake. She playfully suggested that I could help her write it. I told her that Scott Fayner was more likely to come over in the middle of the night to ghost it. “Because you think he writes…funny,” I added.
Carey suggested that Feyner’s is more an account of a day in the life of Feyner whereas adultfyi.com is more what’s actually going on in the business. “But I don’t know if any people could survive a day in the life..” she laughed. I suggested a cathode and IV bag for starters.
Carey chides me for calling her Gonorrhea Mary based on her Stern show appearance. “Damn you!” she laughs, stating that she took antibiotics the next and never actually got it. “You took it and made it sound like…you know you made it sound a little worse than what it was! You’re mean. You never were mean to me before. You were always so nice. Then all of a sudden Scott Fayner comes into the picture and you’re mean to me.” Carey then suggested us as a threesome, a prospect that obviously delighted me no end. “Isn’t he cute?” she asked. Just adorable, I tell her.
Carey tells me at least it’s better than no-neck who was mean and non-supportive.
“What is Holly Halston’s problem with you?” I finally asked Carey. “I never knew who she was,” answered Carey whose only brush with Halston, she claims, are e-mails she received from friends regarding Halston’s remarks on adultfyi.com. “That’s how I knew who she was. Honestly, at this point in time I don’t really concern myself with it,” Carey continued. “Gosh I hosted KTLA weather and had 10,000 votes to be governor. So I don’t have time to concern myself with those things. I’m just trying to enjoy myself, celebrate and avoid reading any negative things.”
Carey suggested one possibility as the fact that she’s been on the cover of Xcitement twice within a year. “I heard from one of the writers that she was made at me because she’s been trying to get on the cover for the last two years and they’ve never put her on the cover. Xcitement for me is what got me into porn. If you’re living in Florida, this magazine’s awesome.” Carey claims she even called AVN and a reviewer over there didn’t even know who Halston was. “It seems that when a person does well, other people want to see them go down. I just want to concentrate on the fun-stuff. This is something that’s only going to happen once in my life.” Carey says half-way through her concession speech she almost burst out laughing. Mary obviously got the joke; 10,017 didn’t.