Like I predicted- every one in porn will be writing a book.
Porn Valley- I spoke to Ed Powers Saturday night. Powers, now 54, tells me he's writing one. Powers and I haven't spoke in ages. It was just a matter of him going his way and I, mine and just getting involved in different things.
Powers tells me he's grandfather among other things. His granddaughter was born two weeks after Labor Day.
"Then I felt like I didn't want to appear in front of a camera. Now that I'm 54 I think I should start acting like it. I want to give respect to my daughter and family and in-laws. It's not like I can run away from Ed Powers. That was the past but Ed Powers has done a lot for me."
With VOD revenue streams and a website, Powers says he still manages to bring in money from the business.
"I still sell my stuff- with 700 movies plus the Four-Play line I think I can be getting revenue for a very long time."
Powers also appears in Crank 2, playing a porn star.
"It was a stretch," he laughs.
"I did kind of disappear," admits Powers noting that one of the latest Tera Patrick movies being edited is one he directed. It's called Tera Goes Gonzo.
In his spare time, Powers has also appeared in the California-based pro wrestling promotion, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla as a manager of wrestlers Top Gun Talwar and Hook Bomberry.
But regarding the book, Powers says he's working on it together with photographer Justin Lubin.
"He's a very prolific photographer in the mainstream," adds Powers. "He also worked on Crank 2. We hit it off. He was a fan and he told me he had this idea for a book. I started phone calls."
"We're interviewing quite a few people around the adult industry and every facet of it. We just started asking who wants to partake. We got six, solid people so far and I know it's going to snowball into something really, really, really big. By the time the book is done we'll have had 60 or 70 really interesting people representing different aspects of the industry in the book. It's about people in the industry- not just porn stars- who are making money from the industry. It's different than anything people would expect me to write."
"It's like the time I was telling you that story in Cancun about me dancing with Madonna," Powers says.
While Powers doesn't believe he'll write a book the nature of Jerry Butler's Raw Talent, he feels that Butler did write a good one but didn't realize that "people can't take a fucking joke."
"Like Ron Jeremy wrote a book and left out the funniest fucking thing he ever did," laughs Powers. "He was doing Layla LaShell [about 500 pounds of her] in the ass, and I had to hold her asshole open so he could find it. During the sex scene he's sweating all over me and that shmuck doesn't put that in the book."
"But I think you're going to like my book," says Powers.
"I have confidence in it," Powers goes on to say. "But other than that I'm not getting any younger. I do think it's a young person's business now. I'm even hear things like Lee Stone is being told by girls he's too old."
Otherwise, Powers sees the business as being the same-old, same-old.
"Girls are complaining about the same thing. You've got girls that have nowehere to go that are in apartments being threatened that if you don't fuck this guy you can't stay there. It's the same bunch of shit just different times. And I never realized how crooked some of the people in the business were. Even on the distribution end. And they are. One guy says that if he receives something by accident he's not going to tell the people they double-shipped him. He'll sell the stuff. That's crazy shit. Don't brag about it."
"I think I came in during the best of times," Powers reflects. "I enjoy being called into Playboy Radio and answering phones with Seka. I enjoy things like that because at least I got a chance to become a legend. But in a way as long as people call me that and I can go to parties once in awhile, it's shits and giggles. A shmuck like me that did 700 movies and 3,000 women on screen and off screen a whole lot more, I think it is just that."
