Porn Valley- So Michelle Maylene's on her way to the Dusk Till Dawn Sinsations 3 shoot. It's Thursday Morning and Maylene gets stopped by a cop because she's driving in the car pool lane. Maylene gets out of a $280 ticket by batting her pretty eyes and giving the cop a coffee mug featuring Maylene assuming a very provocative pose. What makes the story even better is the fact that the cop's last name sounds like the plural of the male organ.
Maylene swears this is true and she's not making it up.
"I gave him a coffee mug so I wouldn't get a ticket," she's laughing. Since the last time I talked to her which was a couple of month's ago on another Sinsations shoot, Maylene's been working steady and was on KSEX just recently.
"I was with my agent Ben English, Carmella [Bing] and a couple of other girls," she smiles.
"I keep hearing rumors about a contract you might be getting," I tell her.
"I want a contract and I was talking to companies," says Maylene. "But so far nothing has come up and I'm kind of losing hope. I really want a contract, you've no idea. I want one so bad."
"You're hot, well spoken and intelligent."
"And that's why I don't understand why I haven't be signed," she sighs. "It's been a year that I've been in the business. And usually girls who have contracts have been in for less than that."
I suggest to Maylene that no one's probably figured it out yet. But someone has. And Maylene's very excited over the fact that she's been nominated both for the XRCO Awards and the newly-minted FAME Awards. She's a Cream Dream nominee on the XRCO ballot.
"I didn't even know about that," she says. "People were e-mailing congratulations and Robert Lombard, www.creativeimagemgmt.com just told me I was nominated for three categories in the FAME awards as well. I hope I win at least one of those." Maylene tells me she's also got a project lined up with Andrew Blake.
"We don't know what to call it yet," she says. "We might call it Michelle, but I think we should give it a better name."
The Beatles got away with that title, so why not, Maylene is told.
"That's true," says Maylene. "I love that song. But I was really excited when Derek told me he [Blake] wanted to shoot me. First it started out with him wanting me as his banner on his website. Then he met me and now wants to shoot me. I'm very honored."
I was talking to Maylene early in the morning and she was already wrapped for the day with her scene.
"But I'll be back tomorrow and the next day," she says.
"I think you were saying on KSEX that your character is going to get more developed?"
"That's true," says Maylene. "First I started out as this bitchy-bitchy girl. Robert and Nick and Walt [Lambert] the producers, www.dusktilldawnentertainment.com decided they wanted to bring me back now as my own name. I'm more myself than that character Marissa I was playing. It's cool but I'm just scared that people are going to watch this series and they're going to think she was this really big bitch. People get into those characters and believe what they're watching. But it's going to be so interesting and I'm excited to come back as myself."
Career-wise Maylene would like to begin feature dancing and travel around the country, and she thinks she'd be pretty good at it.
"For now I'm just working on my career and keeping in shape," she says. "I just want people to love me."
Which will be interesting, too, to see just how much Wankus' character is loved now that he's made an appearance in this series. Sinsations, penned by Fozzi, is a comedy about the porn industry.
In real life, Wankus tends to enter a room by bullhorn, which is to say that subtlety and finesse are immediately shown the back entrance. And going with that kind of natural flow, Lombard and the producers Lambert are all for giving the Sinsations storyline unexpected jolts and shakeups. And this Wankus-angle could be one of them. There's more palace intrigue and back stabbings in store depending how Wankus' next scene goes on Friday.
An early morning confab sounds like a strategy session at Vince McMahon's. As a result, Evan Stone, who plays a director in Sinsations, might not be long for this world. At least on paper. That's because Randy Spears is diving into the drama pool, and there might be some- you don't know - conflict with Stone's character in future episodes. There's also Stone's upcoming shooting schedule to consider. Lombard says he's been lucky with that so far and is giving Stone way advance notice. And then there's Spears' schedule also to consider.
Lombard's telling this story about a camera operator from HBO's Deadwood who was moonlighting a porn gig then begged off the set because the actors were fucking. One of them might have been Stone who, for some ungodly reason, shows up on the set wearing a red turban and sun glasses.
The cable market loves Stone, and Lombard tells me there's another porn actor, who, word out, is under no circumstances to get a cable gig. Not that this has anything to do with the cable edict from the powers-that-be, but this guy evidently likes plumpers and having things shoved up his ass. And sometimes Ariana Jollee gets to be the shover. Lombard's telling Evan Stone about Jollee's 65 guy cream pie. Stone, who's about five miles removed from porn gossip, is hearing this for the first time.
"Nothing like rolling dice with the angel of death," Stone laughs.
But cable also loves Cytherea the angel of gush says Lombard. And from the stories I'm hearing, I'm sorry I missed the celebrated dinner at Yamashiro's last year at Erotica LA. Lombard was hosting it in a private room.
Cytherea and Brian, aka Plus One, are normally chauffered anywhere they're going because rumor has it, you don't want to introduce either one of them to the driver's side of a car. Anyway, Brian's stretch limo driver is having a tough time negotiating a left turn at Yamashiro's. So Brian offers to get behind the wheel and apparently takes out the side panel of the car. A grown limo driver cried that night.
Lombard, who might have shed a tear or two himself, also spent a goodly portion of the evening looking for Cytherea who was later found attempting to give some clientele blowjobs in the main part of the restaurant. One guy even had his pants down, so the story goes. Lombard was told here's the deal: either Cytherea goes, your party goes, or you all go. The evening pretty much ended on that happy note.
Lombard's looking forward to having Spears on the set and remembers a time when Spears didn't show up on another. It was later discovered that Spears, who was walking mind you, to a 7-Eleven, gets stopped by cops because he looked like someone else they were after. The cops ran him and found that Spears had an outstanding warrant in Orange County. Spears was arrested.
"Is Randy here yet?" Lombard asks.
"He's at his house looking for his eight-ball," Wankus quips. His eyes rolling back in his head, Lombard pops a couple of pills. Lombard explains that they're heart-starters.
Wankus busts his balls about this, and Lombard busts back imitating Wankus pacing, talking up some KSEX power play.
"Yeah, we got some big deal to bring Steve Seidman back," Lombard's saying on a cell phone to no one in particular. Lombard predicts the heart pills are going to be the next big thing on the market.
I tell Lombard wanna start your heart? Stick a battery cable up your ass.
From the be still my heart dept., I'm curious if Nick Lambert has fallen to the advances of Jason "Curious" Sechrest. Lombard introduced Lambert to Sechrest last week at KSEX and told Jason that Nick was ready to cross over. Actually, Nick, who's from tough guy New York, isn't ready to cross over any time soon. Lombard remembers a time that Jason, looking to do a P.R. deal, showed up to a meeting at Digital Concepts wearing pink sweat pants. I believe the account went to Harry Weiss perhaps by fashion default. On that note, Nick hands Wankus a Dusk Till Dawn jersey.
"Great, I'll look like a Beaner in a soccer tournament," Wankus says approvingly.
In another fashion question of the day, beautiful Monique Parent asks Lombard if her shoes are okay. Parent, a softcore industry icon who was a dialogue coach on the last shoot, is now jumping into the mix. One of her scenes calls for Parent, a beautiful redhead, to fuck for a part. But she mistakes some crew guy for being a major player.
"He's all about the shoes," Parent says of Lombard who's basically been her mentor in the business. Parent just got a divorce. And all this time she thought she has married into the Kinko's Dynasty- that is, if Kinko's is a sushi restaurant on Santa Monica. Wankus' part calls for him to be astonished by the Parent turn of events. Wankus, playing himself, is there to do some behind the scenes shtick for KSEX and Spears is his cameraman.
Wankus and Spears wing it for an outdoor scene, and Wankus makes some crack about Spears being a washed up porn star.
After Jimmy Sprague the director yells cut, Lombard, in all seriousness, asks Spears if he's okay with the washed-up porn star remark. Then Wankus really starts busting on Lombard for being a ball-suck. Defending himself, Lombard says he'd have asked anyone in the same instance that condescending question.
"Even if Evan Stone was being called a drug addicted loser," muses Lombard.
