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ori Welles, who will be attending the AVN Awards this year for
the first time in 16 years, remembers the awards being a night where
everyone could get together, party together and celebrate one another.
And they could have an attitude about winning.
“I was so young then, and I was so caught up in my rock ‘n’ roll
attitude,” she said with a laugh. “I remember when I won Best New
Starlet [she tied in 1990 with Victoria Paris] and thinking, ‘Fuck you I made
a lot of you people a lot of money, I SHOULD get an award!’”
For a time, Welles said she was even on the other side of the red carpet,
mingling with other journalists—throughout the years, media from all over
the world have attended the red carpet and AVN Awards, covering it for all
types of audiences—when she did interviews for a show she hosted for
FilmNet in Sweden.
“The AVN Awards back then were that night where we could be with one
another without having to work,” she said. “I miss those good old days, when
we were a family. The whole industry was like a family. You worked with the
same people over and over again and we celebrated at the AVN Awards.”
Welles admits that she’s not sure what to expect when she returns to the
ceremony this year.
“The whole industry has changed,” she said. “It’s a whole new industry
from when I was in it really. But I think it’s much more visible now. Porn is
still that dirty little secret that everyone watches, but now the world watches
when we have the awards.
“It’s like the Porn Parade,” she added. “We’re here, we’re porn, get used to it!”
Renee Johnson, who has worked in AVN’s events division for 16 years and
became involved as the awards show’s executive producer in 2010, remembers
the first show she attended. It was at the Venetian Hotel in 1999, she recalled,
“when the shows took place in ballrooms and tables stretched back as far as
you could see. During the ceremony half the people (or more) would be gath-
ered at the bar ordering drinks, chatting away and smoking. I recall Larry
Flynt came on stage to accept a special achievement award. He talked about
personal freedom and how it's our responsibility to fight to defend it. There
was a hush that came over the room. The chatter stopped; you could almost
hear a pin drop. Then he was wheeled off stage and everyone went back to
drinking, smoking and chatting—but still it was a poignant moment!”
Now in its second year at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel and
Casino, the AVN Awards will not only celebrate the best of the best from this
past year, but also recognize the role it has played for the past three decades.
“I always thought this awards show was going to be the biggest thing ever,”
Miller said. “From the start, I knew it would be huge.”
So here’s to another XXX years of celebrating XXX movies.
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AVN CELEBRATES III DECADES
Star Power Shayla LaVeaux, top; Jessica Drake, bottom left; Ginger Lynn and
Kylie Ireland, bottom right.
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W Wh he en n d di id d y yo ou u s st ta ar rt t w wo or rk ki in ng g i in n a ad du ul lt t? ? I started in 1980 at 18 years old.
F Fa av vo or ri it te e m me em mo or ri ie es s o of f A AV VN N A Aw wa ar rd ds s S Sh ho ow w: : I have many favorite AVN Awards memories, but one would be Wicked's first year in business when we won Best Video for Haunted Nights . It was
gratifying to win against the big companies of the time in our first year. Most of the cast and crew got on stage to accept.
Our first year with Jenna Jameson under contract, she won Best Actress, Best Sex Scene and Best New Starlet. In the same show [1996], we won Best Film for our first shot-on-film
production, Blue Movie .
jessica drake did a great job hosting the 2007 AVN Awards, where she and the company won many major awards for Brad Armstrong's Manhunters .
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W Wh ha at t a an nd d w wh he en n w wa as s y yo ou ur r f fi ir rs st t e ex xp pe er ri ie en nc ce e i in n a ad du ul lt t? ? I came out in Playgirlin October 1978; that was the first thing the audience got to see. My first porno film was Tigresses and Other
Maneaters , which also came out in late 1978. Vanessa Del Rio and Samantha Fox. Samantha Fox broke my screen cherry. It’s on Video-X-Pix.
W Wh ha at t j jo ob bs s h ha av ve e y yo ou u d do on ne e? ? I’ve helped edit, acted, directed, produced. I did a long run with Mark Carriere at Leisure Time, I did a long run with Jim South, who produced films under the
name Jimmy Houston. No one knew that I was doing it because they gave me different names. I directed films for Svetlana. I’ve probably done everything there is to do in the porn busi-
ness, from holding the light, to doing the slate, to getting the catering. Never did makeup. I’m no good at it.
F Fa av vo or ri it te e m me em mo or ry y o of f A AV VN N A Aw wa ar rd ds s S Sh ho ow w: : John Holmes and I were among the guys to do the AVN show when it was the CES show. People were really interested in us. He was with VCA, and I
was with Svetlana and David at Collectors Video. He’d yell across the hall, “Hey, Little Dick!”
[I’d respond,] “Little Dick ? Are you kidding me? I hit bottom. What are you gonna do? ‘Hello, madame, at your cervix’? ‘Thank you, I’m dilated.’ What do you do, enter the uterus?
With you it isn’t sex, it’s a pap smear.”
He’d call me Little Dick, I’d call him Pap Smear. People would hand me photographs; I would put my name above his. I’d put “Alias Pap Smear” on there. He’d put “Little Dick” on mine.
We had this joke going on for a while.
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