Back in Black?
Back when there were actually adult video stores, they had separate sections for what they called interracial shows, which apparently meant anything with more than one scene between a black man and a white woman. You see, lesbian scenes didn’t count, and maybe someone else can name one, but we can’t remember any shows being categorized as interracial where the women were black and the men white. At the risk of repeating things you may have already heard here, we should explain, that to make matters even worse, as near as we can tell, there were only two races. If you were not black, you were white. Hispanic, Spanish, Italian, Asian … all “white” in terms of XXX casting back then. … Barely a decade ago, and people were still making an issue of it. … Hurts your heart, right?
Well, listening to Ginger’s #23 brought back memories of Ashton View doing a big show called Screen Play. The situation involved a fairly complicated Juli Ashton contract negotiation for Night Calls, but essentially we had presold the movie to Playboy TV. They read the script, approved everything, and off we went. When we turned in the cast list, though, somebody over there realized that we had cast Mr. Marcus to play Juli’s husband in the show, and apparently “husband of a white girl” meant something different to some people. Fortunately the President of Playboy TV stepped in and approved everything before it got ugly, but I can remember thinking, “Really? Why is this even an issue anymore?”
Archie Bunker kissed a black woman on prime time television, and I remember that causing a commotion in some homes, but seriously, folks, he was a pretend bigot. How is it we keep having real life ones, and they continue holding executive positions in life? I felt bad for Sean with Ginger. I felt horribly embarrassed even having the conversation with Marcus that there was even an issue. We need to be done with that now. We have much more important things to worry about.
Of course Ashton View did a lot of weird things. For example in this scene where Juli and her husband Mr. Marcus decide to try swinging, we made the conscious decision to not bring in one of those “light up the labia” lights, preferring instead to let the scene lighting actually help provide some of the mood for the scene. I know: Radical, right? At any rate, some critics didn’t like that either, but at least we can understand those objections. They’re completely wrong, of course, but at least we understand them.
As for those pictures we said we’d get back to, we used some photos of Dee posing with her (native) Puerto Rican flag on a Jamaican shoreline for a couple of simple reasons:
- Her entire outfit in Screen Play consisted of artfully applied latex paint, and apparently she was very chilly during the photo shoot, and
- Dee just happens to be very pretty, so we do not have to look very far to find alternate photos of her. Despite what some people still think, porn stars do cover up their intimate body parts sometimes.
Sorry, but you will need to join should you wish to draw your own conclusions about whether Mr. Marcus’s skin color somehow changes the impact of the event.
Ironically, when Dee returned to Los Angeles after one of her first trips to Jamaica, she sported a very deep tan — as you might imagine. Her then manager complained she was “too dark” to get the roles he sought for her. You see, for the record, Dee … She’s white. …
Back in black
[She] hit the sackAC/DC
