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Ariana InnerView Continued... Ariana: Yes. Well it turns out it was Woody Long, and I had no idea, right? This guy's like tipping me big bucks I better talk to him, you know? So I went and I sat down with him, and it was a juice bar I had my little Perrier or whenever I was drinking at the time and we're talking and all of a sudden he disappears. He said, "Ill be right back." I thought he went to restroom, right? So I think, well he's gone so I'm gonna go back to the dressing room, I walked back there and Sandra is sitting on his lap and we had been working together for a few days by now. She's been in the club about two days, I guess. So I'm looking at this guy and I'm like "Who ARE you?" And he goes "Oh, this is my wife." So I got really mad. I was insulted that he was tipping me all his money. It's like, "Why are you tipping me if your wife is the feature?" He said, "Because we've been talking about you. We want to hook you up with Cheri magazine." You know she did the thing for Ken Kimmel for years, that um, "Sandra Scream's…" I can't remember the name of it, it was a really cute article that she did every month in Cheri magazine. And he said "You need to be a feature, you shouldn't be dancing in these clubs. What are you DOING?" So to make along story short they did, they hooked me up with Ken Kimmel and he put in Cheri magazine for my first layout in 1989 with a nine foot python. I didn't look anything like I look now, which is so funny because I was so different then. I was really… really… I was never conservative, I've never been shy, I've always been an exhibitionist, but I was a nervous wreck! It was my first real photo shoot and the rest is kind of history. All of a sudden then somebody saw my picture… He was with LBO Bobby Hollander. AINews: Yeah... Ariana: And he called Ken Kimmel and said "Who is that girl and were is she from?" And Ken said she's from the New Jersey area, she's an Italian girl." "I want her to come out here and shoot for me." And it was like "What?" And Ken calls me up and the says, "This guy wants your number." I said, "Who is he?" "He's a producer and a director he does porn films." I said, "No, forget about it." So Luke starts going "Well, why don't we just try it?" I said, "Because I don't know if I can fuck other men at this point my life." I'd been in this relationship for so long. I did girl-girl shows because I had a bachelor party company, but I didn't do side work. I never did "the room" kind of thing. We would do shows. You know the girl-girl shows, double dildo and all that stuff. If they wanted prostitutes they used to have to call someone else. And that was my company. I had this great bachelor party company going on the East Coast, we were up and down the East Coast all the time. So I was, "OK. Fine. I'll do it." So we fly out here to L.A. we were supposed to be booked out here 10 days and he promised to put me in four pro-am scenes. I ended up working 9 out of the 10 days… AINews: Wow. Ariana: And I only worked with Luke, and then I did a scene with Aja, she was the first woman I never did a girl-girl seen with on film. AINews: The red hair Aja? Ariana: No, Aja, she's very exotic looking, very beautiful girl. AINews: She worked at the Valley Ball for a while? Ariana: She used to work at the Odd Ball. AINews: The Odd Ball yeah, they changed the name to the Valley Ball, that's right, it was the Odd Ball. Ariana: No, she had black hair. So anyway we did that and all of a sudden we got all this pro-am work, and we shot that and all this stuff happened and we flew back of the New Jersey, and I'm like "What just happened?" Then we started getting calls from different companies saying we want to put you in this feature and that feature and back then tattoos were way taboo! Viper was the only one who could get away with having tattoos, and at I think it was because she was so down and dirty and she was awesome I mean I think she was just… God! Just CRAZY! You know? But back then none of the women had tattoos and the men, if they had them they had very and small very few. And I kind of broke that mold in the industry. I think my tattoos set a standard that if she can have them why can't I? Then everybody else started getting them. THEN I was told I couldn't get any more, so I started getting PIERCED. (Laughing!!) AINews: (Laughing!...) So you started that trend too. "OK you don't want any more ink on me? Fine! I'll go poke holes in my body..." Ariana: So then THAT all started, it was like "OK you don't want any more ink on me? Fine! I'll go poke holes in my body, I mean I've gotta do something I've gotta get my endorphin rush because I don't do drugs so I have to do something, you know? So I started getting pierced. It started with first my nipples, then my tongue, then I started getting vaginal piercings that had so many and have had them in and out and in and out and have had my bellybutton pierced like three times and I keep taking it out because I GET OFF ON IT! It's an endorphin rush; I get high for three days when I get pierced! AINews: Wow! Ariana: I've let my nipples close up like five times and get them re-done. It's just great! It's better than doing any drugs; I haven't done drugs in sixteen years! AINews: Wow! That's excellent! Ariana: I have a glass of wine occasionally, but haven't touched anything else at all. And it just kind of started escalating, and then the Black Orchid thing happened. Well, then we decided that I had work with other men because Luke couldn't get work because of his tattoos, and so I started working with other men. He was MORE than agreeable because that means he could work with other women, which was fine, I really didn't have a problem with it, and it just started to snowball, then I got the cover of Black Orchid and that was it! My career just took off! Peter shot that cover. He's the person I'm working with this weekend, Peter Martin, who in my opinion is the best photographer in the business! No one has ever been able to photograph me the way he does. Yeah. This isn't a magazine shoot; this is just for me. The pictures that I'm doing are just for me, they're going to be phenomenal! I'm going to have five or 600 phenomenal photos! AINews: Aw, that's excellent and on a Web Site you can rotate them… Ariana: Mm hm… AINews: Excellent! "And then I also got an offer to do some mainstream stuff a couple weeks ago..." Ariana: And then I also got an offer to do some mainstream stuff a couple weeks ago, so today we concentrated - that's why I'm kind of toned down to not look like I'm in Pornstar makeup - because we did all of the main stream for the composite that the guy wanted. This agent in Hollywood found me, he tracked me down and said he'd been looking for me for two years which is really an exciting sign! Crossing my fingers about that because there's a movie in production that they have a part they want me in and want someone who's real sensual and a little more mature or not overbearing who can act. I don't know if you've heard about the prosecution in Ohio recently… AINews: No I haven't. Ariana: Well, I did a movie for I think it was Bizarre Video, called The Agony of Ariana. OK, bondage movie, right? No sex in the movie, and I did it with my husband and he dominated me, and I was supposed be in agony because that's the name of the movie, right? Well, the store got brought up on charges of obscenity for this video. AINews: I DID hear about it! Ariana: Yeah! And then the attorney who was trying to represent them said they couldn't even plead it because the acting was too good! (Laughing!) AINews: That's funny! (Laughing!) Ariana: They had to take a guilty on this obscenity charge because they couldn't plead it out because I looked like I was in too much agony! But that's what you're supposed to do, you know? AINews: Did you testify? Ariana: They didn't call me!! I would have. Gladly! The funny thing about this was this attorney, I've met him before, I know him, because I'm dating an attorney who works mostly with First Amendment, and have gone to some First Amendment Lawyers Association seminars where they all go to a place for week - so I met this person, the defending attorney, and I'm thinking "Why didn't he call me?" because I would testify! It's like I'm an actress that's what I was paid to do, I was paid to act like I was in agony, that was the name of the movie you know? AINews: Well you did a good job! Ariana: I guess! AINews: ...And they got busted for it! Ariana: Well YEAH! AINews: Go figure! Ariana: But it's so silly! Because the truth of the matter is that I would never let anyone do anything to me against my will… AINews: Yeah. Ariana: You know, and when I do bondage films there are always guidelines and we always have code words everything is always safe and if the code word is spoken everything ceases, it just stops, and if it's something that isn't OK then we don't do it, we change it, and that's how bondage films are made. So it was all acting. And in all my career and all the nominations that I've gotten for different things and for girl-girl scenes and hot sex scenes the only thing I ever won was an actress award. AINews: Wow! Ariana: That's when I basically quit in 1995. I won the best supporting actress in a film... AINews: Which film? Ariana: Desert Moon. It was very very good, I rode a camel around the desert for four days it was really a blast! (Laughs) I had a great time making that movie. We were out in the middle of the desert riding camels and horses it was really really fun. And it was a film. Tony English shot it, and was for Gabore who owns Sterling Pictures. AINews: Yeah... Ariana: I won the best supporting actress in the film and It was like the only award I ever won. I was nominated best starlet my first year when Alex Jordan won. She and I were nominated against each other. Well she was one of my best friends. We were together all the time. And I didn't want to win; I wanted her to win it. It's like "You win it! You just win it because you should!" And she did… And all these things that happened over the years is very very interesting to look back on in retrospect and see what's happened like she's dead, which was a real shocker to me when that happened. People! There are so many new people. I look through the AVN every month and where did all the old people go that were there when I was there aside from the men. It's all the same men. But all these women come in and they come and they go. They show up and work for six months or for year then they disappear. And you never hear from them again and never see them. Or else they get all messed up on drugs and they all get kind of whacked out and they get thrown off the sets. I've heard of girls who are big, huge, names and I won't name them, who've actually gotten thrown out of clubs for not following rules... "...And my attitude's always been its really hard to get a good reputation and really easy to lose it and once you lose it you don't get back." AINews: Well you can, but it's real hard. Ariana: It's almost impossible. Especially on the dance circuit, because all the club owners have their Gentlemen's Club Conventions a couple of times a year, and they'll say that we had this feature in and we had to go pull her off of the corner because she was copping crack, so we could get her onstage or we had this feature and she burned our curtains down because she was too fucked up to do a fire show. One person caught herself on fire and put herself out of the business basically. She had burns over 45 or 50 percent of her body. She almost died. And this girl was absolutely fucking STUNNING! And that's what happens when you get high and you get onstage. You can't do it. You know? And these young women, they all of a sudden get out of high school and have no education or anything and they get into this business and then they become stars and then all of a sudden they have all this money coming in and always jet setting and always partying, you know? And then all the drugs, but not on the sets. I have to say that I don't think I ever really saw drugs on sets, but it's so readily available to adult film stars outside of when you're not working. You go into a club with a band playing and all the band members recognize you its like "Oh! Come party with us!" you know? AINews: Yeah… Ariana: You know what I mean? It's not in the industry itself - that part of it, but it kind of flows over into it by means of other inputs like just going out to clubs and being seen, and then you get recognized. I walked into a toy store today - true story - I had the drive down to LAX to pick Gwendolyn up because she flew into the wrong airport by mistake. And I needed a couple of props. I needed some toys. You know that Century Nude toy shop thing? AINews: The Century Theater? Ariana: Yeah, I said "Oh, good!" I'm gonna pull in here and I'm gonna get some stuff. So I pull in the parking lot, and I go in the place. There's three guys standing there and all of their jaws drop! I kid you not. I had a pair of gray sweats, a black sweat shirt, black Doc Martin's, no makeup on, I had my hair pulled back in a ponytail, not a drop of makeup on because I was on my way to a set, it would be stupid to put on makeup and wash it off again and put it on again. These guys, the three of them, their jaws drop open than they dropped on their knees! AINews: What?! (Laughs!) Really?
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