Originally Posted by Stefanie (Post 13087025)

Ah a Farrell thread....after working for him for 11 years I have some stories...just need to pick the best (or the worst?) Hee.

Ok first let me tell you about my first day- I was 22 and fresh off the bus from Michigan, I answer an ad in the paper for a 'video sales person". Yeah. So it's porn. A little freaked out, but I need to start bringing in some income so I take it.

I had never seen a porn before (shut up) so my new boss suggests I take home our new releases, check them out and get an idea of what we do so that I can sell them better.

So I go home, pop in one of the tapes. This lady is all naked and feeling herself up...ok, so far so good..then this face appears in the lower corner, like a shark coming up to eat her pussy....and the face is familiar....GOOD FUCKING LORD ITS MY NEW BOSS! Waaa-waaa. I popped that tape out so fast and didn't watch any of the others, just in case.

Yeah, Homegrown orientation forgot to mention that the President was also a performer....

Originally Posted by Far-L (Post 13087947)

15. Did any of the pornos you've directed had Hollywood stars in them? If so, which ones?

We made a few videos that featured cameos by various non-porn folks. The South Park folks popped up in a few, most notably "Here comes Elska" and "Sex for Life too".

SFL2 also had Kool Keith, Eek-a-Mouse, some announcer from pro-wrestling whose name I can't remember now, an award winning author named Glasgow Phillips, and a few others as well as some incredible music from a bunch of bands that were on the SRH record label like Lucy's Fur Coat.

SFL2 was the comedy porn project that was started with Trey but we never got around to finishing it properly because the whole South Park thing started taking up all his time... go figure...

We had to put out a fractured, unfinished version of it because my bro got so sick of how long it was taking to finish and how much cash had been spent on it.

I have made a promise to myself to finish it this year. Stay tuned!

Originally Posted by Far-L (Post 13090017)

16. You did business with Max Hardcore. Why did you guys part ways?

After making our first LA style porn for Paul Little, we became friends and he began to hire me for other productions, not only as talent but also as a crew member, anal lube dispenser, whipping boy. I was there when Paul and his brother came up with the name "Max Hardcore" which essentially began as a riff off of "Max Headroom". Paul/Max and I would watch everything we shot with a magnifying glass and try to figure out the best ways to improve kind of like watching game footage to figure out what went right or wrong during a game.

I like to tell people I went to the Max Hardcore School of Porn. At a certain point, we convinced Max to come on board with Xplor exclusively and we produced a few series with him but a distributor who went by the name of Chuck Zane was pissed since he figured that he owned the rights to the character since he put out the first Max Hardcore material. This certainly was not the case but that didn't stop Chuck from coming after us and threatening to sue. Chuck incidentally is related to Rob Black and he was pure old school porn kingpin. People always told us to watch out because Chuck was a "connected" guy from back east but I never found my dog's head in my bed or anything like that. He was actually a really nice guy even though he would BK his businesses every two years or so it seemed like.

On a sidenote, we were in Chuck's office amicably settling the Max issues when Rob Black's first porn tape had just come in to his uncle Chuck's office. Chuck made me, my bro, and Max watch it while he ridiculed the quality of it mercilessly.

"Can you believe this guy is related to me?"

We all laughed but a year or so later Rob was winning awards and a darling of the adult press worldwide... a couple of years after that he was under indictment but that is another story.

We sold well with Max but his product was just not the right fit. Max needed someone that would be more excited about moving in the same direction as he was - which meant increasingly more depraved and hardcore. We just weren't comfortable with that at all since our stuff appeals to people that don't like seeing women barfing on erections.

Still friends with Max even though I think it is a bit bizarre that he doesn't want anyone to call him Paul anymore.

I remember we always used to talk about how we would take our evolving skills one day into the mainstream. When I was working on "Orgazmo" Max came down to shoot his cameo. We sat and talked while the lights were being set. Max praised my good fortune. Then, with a bit of melancholy he lamented how by listening to the increasingly bizarre requests of certain vocal fans he had basically gone out on a limb and there was no turning back.

I don't know for sure but I always think that was the day he decided that he would be Max from then on, leaving paul out on a curb by a warehouse on a street somewhere in LA.