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ach year AVN selects a handful of individuals who have left a permanent imprint on the history pages of the adult
A VN CELEBRATES III DECADES
entertainment industry, honoring them with induction into its Hall of Fame. The following individuals were chosen to
join the Hall of Fame ranks at the 30th anniversary AVN Awards Show, which will take place January 19 at The Joint
theater inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Kandi Barbour
Discovered in the mid-’70s by photographer Diana
Hardy, Kandi Barbour got her start posing for men’s
magazines before making the leap into adult movies in
1978 at age 22. Her 43 titles included blockbusters like
Small Town Girls, Bon Appetit and Pandora’s Mirror, and
her coy expressions dominated the box covers of Neon
Nights and Sweet Cheeks. Her final adult film was in
1987: Ron Jeremy’s X-Effect. The industry was shocked at
her reported death, homeless, on the streets of San
Francisco in January 2012.
Ashley Blue
One of the few X-rated stars, if not the one and only, in
AVN Awards history to be nominated simultaneously for
Best New Starlet and Female Performer of the Year,
which she pulled off in 2004 (and walked away carrying
the latter), Ashley Blue has gone on to cement her
footmark in the industry annals as one of its most
provocative and unforgettable personalities. From co-
creating the endlessly riveting, tragi-comic Girlvert
character with director Jim Powers to recording the true
tales behind that alter-ego in her much-hailed
autobiography, Girlvert: A Porno Memoir (published
under her real name, Oriana Small), Blue has time and
again challenged the porn star stereotype, and in so
doing, risen to the ranks of that higher class,
the porn legend.
Vanessa Blue
Since breaking into the industry in 1996, Vanessa Blue
has garnered admiration and respect from her peers as a
fiercely well-spoken and quietly strong-minded woman
with a lot more to offer than mammoth tits and a
succulent pair of dick-sucking lips … something she
proved when she ventured into directing in 2003. First
helming titles for Mercenary Pictures, she subsequently
donned the director
’s cap (sometimes using the name
Domina X) for Hustler Video, DVSX, Justin Slayer
International, Adam & Eve Pictures and more, all while
continuing to perform. In 2005, Blue told AVN, “I only
hope that the work I do is going to open up more doors
for other women who want to direct and are serious
about it.” With the strong contingent of female porn
directors working today (just look at the current
nominees for Director of the Year—nearly a third of
them are women), we’d say she accomplished that goal.
So in turn, here’s to Vanessa Blue for paving the way.
Mary Carey
A larger-than-life personality since she began her career in
adult entertainment in 2002, Mary Carey performed in
close to 100 adult videos but is perhaps best known to
the public as a former candidate for the governor of
California in the 2003 recall election, placing 10th in a
field of 135. She ran on an 11-point platform that
included somewhat tongue-in-cheek promises of taxing
breast implants, making lap dances tax-deductible, and
creating a “Porn for Pistols” exchange program. Carey’s
campaign’s tagline? “Finally a politician you want to be
screwed by.” Post politics, Carey laid herself bare before
VH1’s cameras to appear on Celebrity Rehab With Dr.
Drew in 2008 and on its spin-off, Sober House, in 2009.
In the adult arena Carey became a contract performer for
Kick Ass Pictures in 2003, and perhaps most notably
starred in the Mary Carey Rules series, which she also
directed. Carey also starred in productions from many
major adult studios, including Vivid Entertainment,
VCA, Hustler Video, Danni’s Hard Drive and
Red Light District.
Francois Clousot
Francois Clousot first got into the adult business in 1992
by having given his résumé of European work to directors
Jace Rocker and Britt Morgan, who lived in the same
building as Clousot—and one day they needed a
production assistant for a shoot they were doing with
director Jim Enright, and hired him. He has since been
the camera operator on hundreds of adult movies and
directed, sometimes uncredited, 150 to 200 movies for
such companies as Private, Sin City, Wicked Pictures,
Adam & Eve, VCA and others. He also has directed
mainstream movies and TV shows.
Manuel Ferrara
Making his American debut in John Stagliano’s landmark
feature The Fashionistas, Manuel Ferrara introduced U.S.
porn fans to a type of male sex performer the likes of
which they’d rarely if ever seen—with his brooding good
looks, his lady-melting French accent and his
breathtakingly passionate carnal stylings, this was not the
triple-X troll of the bygone raincoater era. No, this was a
bona fide Adonis, a real porn answer to Brad Pitt or
George Clooney. And what that meant, of course, was
that any scene with Manuel was likely to be every bit as
exciting for the ladies to watch as it was for the fellas. No
wonder he’s won AVN’s Male Performer of the Year
trophy more times than anyone else (four, to be exact).
Other heartthrobs have followed in Ferrara’s footsteps—
Jean Val Jean, Danny Mountain, James Deen—but Manu
continues to set the bar. Add to that his distinguished
directorial résumé, and it’s plain to see he is truly one of
the greats.
Jesse Jane
Where does one begin to start listing the accomplish-
ments of Jesse Jane, without a doubt one of the biggest
stars in adult entertainment for the past decade? An
irrepressibly infectious personality and a dynamite sexual
performer, Jane has won seven AVN Awards, in addition
to a veritable boatload of accolades from other organiza-
tions. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Jane quickly signed
an exclusive contract with Digital Playground in 2002
and has gone on to star in some of the most memorable
adult productions in the past 10 years, most notably
Pirates and Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge. As a Digital
Playground girl Jane launched into superstardom with
global exposure on hundreds of magazine covers. She has
earned leading roles on HBO’s Entourage and in the
feature Baywatch: The Movie, among others. Jesse has also
starred in a multitude of music videos for artists from
Drowning Pool to Robbie Williams. Jesse’s exuberant
personality has made her a frequent radio guest on
Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge, and hundreds of
Clear Channel stations nationwide. She has been
syndicated weekly with football picks on The Adam
Carolla Show. Jesse’s skills as a personality led her to
hosting gigs on VH1, Much Music and CTV, as well as
character roles on a variety of television shows, including
Family Business and The Bad Girls Club. From the
moment her adult career began Jane has made an
impact—hence the decision to induct her into the AVN
Hall of Fame the first year she’s eligible.
Rebecca Lord
One of the biggest stars of the booming ’90s, Parisian
beauty Rebecca Lord left an indelible impression upon all
who encountered her work during that second golden
era. Between her exotic sultriness and her unabashed sex-
ual fervor, she was always the girl you remembered long
after any movie in which you’d seen her. Whether it was a
major work like Antonio Passolini’s Café Flesh 2 or a Z-
grade trasher like Buck Adams’ Beaver and Buttface, she
stood out. Though she left the business in 2002, Lord has
continued to keep in touch with fans via Twitter and
Facebook, and she made a semi-mainstream return to the
screen in the 2005 indie film I Am a Sex Addict, in which
she played a prostitute opposite director/star Caveh
Zahedi, at one point giving him a real-deal blowjob. For
him and anyone else who’s ever gotten a gander at those
searing blue eyes, it’s an image likely to remain burned
into the mental banks forevermore.
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