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The real lives of the Vivid Girls, the most successful actresses in the Porn Industry.

A Revealing (in more than one sense) Look inside the Adult Entertainment Industry

Warts and all peek at Vivid Video, one of the world's most successful porn shingles

One gets the feeling that this documentary was probably envisioned as a &quot;puff piece&quot; for Vivid Entertainment -- at least that&#39;s how it was probably sold to Steve Hirsch, Vivid&#39;s CEO, who&#39;s given an &quot;and starring&quot; credit in the opening sequence. But it doesn&#39;t seem to have turned out that way. While many of the sequences are relatively simple, &quot;hah-hah, we&#39;re watching them being filmed having sex, isn&#39;t this fun?&quot;, there are many that quietly and without editorial comment present the unpleasant side of working in the adult industry, much as with earlier documentaries like &quot;The Girl Next Door&quot; or &quot;Give Me Your Soul&quot;.<br/><br/>For example, one episode focuses on the attempt of Dani Woodward to become one of Vivid&#39;s contract girls, and clearly portrays her as a drug addict -- an attractive drug addict, but someone clearly not in control of her life, no matter how cheerful and upbeat she might seem. (I was amazed that she gave permission to the documentarians to use the footage of her, since she comes off very badly in it.) Another one deals with writer/director David Stanley&#39;s apparent meltdown after his relationship with an unnamed adult film actress and the rejection of his original idea for the film that became &quot;Last Girl Standing&quot;. In both cases, we&#39;re ostensibly shown that they&#39;re back on their feet and still slugging, but Woodward still seems high in her final interview, and Stanley appears to have just gotten involved with another actress who&#39;ll let him down.<br/><br/>In between, there&#39;s a lot of catty, rhymes-with-witchy behavior on the part of Vivid&#39;s contract girls and other porn stars, notably the feud between Tawny Roberts and Gina Lynn, that frankly makes them all look bad. It&#39;s an amazing look inside a world that fascinates even as it repels.

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Porno Valley

&quot;Porn Valley&quot; is a fascinating, weekly reality doco about Vivid, LA&#39;s most successful porn shingle. Run by Steve Hirsch and his sister Marcie, the company has a stable of porn starlets who are exclusively contracted to it, just like the old days of the Hollywood star system. Their staff directors are Paul Thomas, an industry vet, Chi Chi Larue, a good-natured gay and straight porn vet who also moonlights as a female impersonator; and coming up the rear (excuse the pun) is David Stanley, Mr. Thomas&#39;s protégé. The series focuses primarily on the adventures and misadventures of Vivid&#39;s stable of proud sluts who spend lots of time bitching, screwing, getting their lives back on track, pacifying &quot;suitcase pimp&quot; boyfriends, keeping boss Hirsch happy, proclaiming their love of penis and pussy, working hard to keep their fans happy, and getting tested for STD&#39;s and drugs. It is a credit to the producers and to Vivid honcho Hirsch that the series is more than a self-serving puff piece on how wonderful porn is and how fabulous it is to work for Vivid. This is a show featuring the good, the bad, the ugly, the smelly, and the stupid. The frequent auditions for future Vivid contract girls are amazing to watch, as are the typical problems production managers encounter working with porno models. For my money, the gorgeous Savanah comes across in the most favorable light, while the rest of the gals are an uneven but interesting lot. Almost a companion piece to the Seymore Butts series, &quot;Family Business&quot;, &quot;Porn Valley&quot; is great stuff that goes as far as you can go on non-X cable.

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A Revealing (in more than one sense) Look inside the Adult Entertainment Industry

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