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LIGHT’S, CAMERA
REDISCOVERING AMERICA
Angela White joins Fallen Angel for a celebration of porn history
Crawling slowly up a mountain
dotted with spacious homes, few
addresses or even street signs in
evidence, it was challenging to find
the location where a slice of porn
history was being celebrated. But
finally the right driveway appeared,
and at the end of it was a house
with a view that was more than
worth the drive. Just beyond the entryway, on a couch
in front of massive windows that looked out onto a
swimming pool, adult star Angela White was running
through a few lines of dialogue as director Luc Wylder
with cameramen Sir Ron and Ralph Parfait prepared to
capture her natural beauty on film.
White, one of the biggest stars in adult at present,
had been tapped to narrate a very special compilation
project. When it’s finally released in March by Adam
& Eve Pictures/Fallen Angel, the movie will weave
together 14 scenes from Sex Across America, a series
produced by Fallen Angel, the company created by AVN
Hall of Fame members Luc Wylder and Alexandra Silk.
To tie the selections together for Sex Across America: A
Look Back with Angela White, White and co-star Chad
Alva provided some narration—and at the end, they
enjoy their own boy/girl sex scene.
With her saucy Aussie accent and his Midwestern
drawl, White and Alva entertained the small crew. Also
on set was Silk, the original host of the series, as she
smiled encouragement at the two performers, reliving
the memories of the scenes they were introducing.
Wylder’s partner in business and life, Silk performed in
four of the six scenes in the first volume of Sex Across
America, shot in Las Vegas and released in 2000—
including one with Dale Dabone that will be the first
featured in this retrospective. She bustled around the
set, making sure everyone stayed comfortable and
hydrated on that warm summer day.
ON THE SET | By Sharan Street
Angela White narrates and performs in Sex Across America: A Look Back With Angela White, featuring classic footage with such stars as Carmen Luvana (below).
Asked how the Sex Across America series came into being, Wylder explained, “My first series was called Dirty
Dancers. We traveled across the country shooting strippers having sex with their boyfriends for the first time
on camera. And we did it all over the country. So I got used to that type of travelogue series.”
Back at the turn of the millennium, when they began shooting Sex Across America, the porn industry was
doing very well—and so was Adam & Eve. “Videos were selling great, DVDs were just coming in, we were
still selling VHS on the market,” Wylder recalled. “And we were looking for some way to avoid the monotony
of the same old locations, the same old blue skies that you often get in porn. Not all sex is done in the state of
California under blue skies. So we decided we wanted to do things like go to Colorado and shoot in a blizzard.
Or a hot air balloon, which is really what we did.”
WE WERE LOOKING FOR SOME WAY TO
AVOID THE MONOTONY OF THE SAME OLD
LOCATIONS, THE SAME OLD BLUE SKIES
THAT YOU OFTEN GET IN PORN. … SO WE
DECIDED WE WANTED TO DO THINGS LIKE
GO TO COLORADO AND SHOOT IN A
BLIZZARD. OR A HOT AIR BALLOON.
—LUC WYLDER, DIRECTOR OF ‘SEX ACROSS AMERICA’
Their first foray into Sex Across America was just over the border in Las Vegas. For volume 2, they headed to
New Orleans.
“Each place that we went to, we sought out the local flavor,” Wylder said. “So when we were in New
Orleans we’re eating étouffée and doing the Mardi Gras and going to a cigar bar. And when we were in Hawaii
we chartered a boat. [Alexandra] caught a 158-pound blue marlin. …
“We went to Miami, shot models on the beaches. Went to Seattle, went to San Francisco and had sex in an
apartment; it was right under Coit Tower. We had the budgets—we could do things like that. You couldn’t
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