Richard Writes:

Mike,

I deal with this same thing in mainstream television. Most on air personalities have contracts ( Katie Couric is a “contract girl”), and as with all contracts, they have a limited time. When you sign a contract with a tv station, radio station or porn company, it WILL run out. Then the company has to decide if they want to renew you, or you may decide to move on. Either way, it seems most folks…male and female…seem unable to accept that their job has a limited period.
I’ve had several talents crying their eyes out when they were told their contract would not be renewed. And they seem unwilling to understand that it may not be about them personally, but that the bosses feel they can do better with someone else. Hell CNN sent a bunch of very talented and well-respected people into TV oblivion when they did not renew contracts of the higher paid people. Moreover, it had no reflection on their ability; they just made more money than the company (AOhell) was willing to pay.

So, I would add to your list of advice for performers that your contract is not indefinite, and that you should prepare for the day when it will run out. You can allow it to devastate or “destroy” you, or you can let it be the springboard to new and better opportunity.

Geez I sound like Tony Robbins.

Movies, television, radio and porn all are limited time careers for on camera/on air people. It will end, and preparing to adapt to that will always put you a long way ahead of the game.

Have fun in Florida…..

Devon Cries Foul:

Apparently Devon is none too pleased with the attention she has gotten here and has encouraged more than one person to contact me asking why I would do this to her, why I would want to “destroy” her. She didn’t call me herself, even though she has the number, she might have even been more successful if she had, I am a bit of a softie. I have buried stories on devon before, far more embarrassing ones than this but I am no longer going to enable her, just like I would expose a company who is doing their contract girls wrong, I am going to expose contract girls who are doing their employers wrong. You see, I have been there. Instead of being embarrassed by what I have written here Devon should be embarrassed that she has caused so much grief and embarrassment for the very people who have tried very hard to help her.

I do find it interesting that when she fucks up and I call her on it, it becomes me “destroying” her. No thought given to her destrpying herself, or even more importantly, those she represents.

I’m going to post a wake up call here, not just for Devon but for all of you contract girls, guys and directors. You would do well to read this, contract or not.

When a company hires you as a contracted employee, they are betting the company on you, you become the “face” of that company. They aren’t just paying you to fuck for them, they are paying you to represent them, 24/7. When people see you, even when you are not at a porn function, these people associate you with the company that you represent. Your company has been generous with you and is presumeably working hard to promote you, so that you in turn, promote your company. When you lack the common courtesy to show up for your scheduled engagements, which are porn functions by the way, how do you think it makes your employers feel? The people who put trust and faith in you and who pay you way better than you would be paid doing anything else in this world. How do you think they feel when they have to LIE for you? Telling people you were on the road dancing, or at home sick when the truth is they don’t know where the fuck you are.

It’s time to take on a little personal responsibility here. How many times have you said “you aren’t the boss of me”? Well it’s time you own up to it when “the boss of you” does fuck up…that’s you in case you are blonde and don’t get it.

I wrote the following three years ago, it still applies and for this article forget that it was aimed at behaviour at industry functions, remember if you are a contract girl you are a representative of your company, whenever you step out of your house you are at an industry function.

OK ladies it’s time for some straight talk with you. The annual Adult Expo and InterneXt Shows are coming up and most of you will be involved in some capacity or another. Some of you will have signing or hosting duties others may just be attending to see and be seen, still others may be brand new and looking to get into the business. No matter which category you fit into your behaviour at these shows reflect directly on you as both a professional and a person, you would do well to heed the following advice. One would think that this would all be common sense but it obviously isn’t.

BE ON TIME! 60% of success in this business is just showing up on time, ready to do your job, whether it is sucking cock or signing autographs you are being paid to do a job and to do it at a particular time. When you are late or unprepared you cost your employer money, and that isn’t cool.

BE PREPARED! That means dressed appropriately and ready with promo materials, sharpies and anything else you might need to get you through the day. If the company that is paying you to sign wants you to dress in specifically designated clothing that is what you do, if you cannot do that don’t accept the job. Your employer has every right to designate what you can wear or will wear in his/her booth while signing.

BE COURTEOUS! If you ever forget that the people coming up to you asking you for your autograph or your picture are the ones who are paying your bills for you then you deserve to starve. Treat your fans respectfully. You are not better than they are, you aren’t doing anything to make the world better. You are a porn star, that in and of itself is not worthy of respect, respect is earned by how you conduct yourself.

BE PROFESSIONAL! This is not a party for you. This is not a time for you to get high. This is not a time for you stay out all night and then drag in late to work the booth the next day reeking of alcohol and looking like something the cats drug up. Remember that what you do is a direct reflection on the person or company who paid your way out there and whose booth you are signing in. If you want to massacre your brain cells that is fine but do it on your own time. Your own time is when you get back into your own house. From the time you step onto that airplane to the time you step off of it to return home you are obligated to whomever is paying your way. Your obligation is to put that person or that company in the most positive light possible. You do not talk bad about them, you do not talk bad about promo material they are having you sign. You do not drink at all on the show floor, every minute of every day you are where you are supposed to be when you are supposed to be there. Do not pick up your next boyfriend while at the show, Los Angeles is full of out of work musicians who will be more than happy to sponge off of you, you may seek them out when you return home. This is not a pussy hunt or a dick hunt, do your job.

I cannot over emphasize how important it is that you understand that what you do and how you behave, not just on the show floor but throughout the entire day and night is a direct reflection on you and the company you represent. It is standard in this business now days that the contract girls have to have babysitters. People whose job is to keep the girl from getting fucked up, keep her on time for her appearances, keep her from running out and partying. making sure she is dressed appropriately, making sure she doesn’t run off with some guy or girl and making sure she doesn’t say anything embarrassing.

Now just imagine what a girl would be worth if she didn’t have to have a baby sitter. She could always be depended on to be on time, properly attired and pleasant. Nobody had to worry that should would run off on a coke or alcohol binge with some lowlife. Nobody has to cringe when she opens her mouth, praying she doesn’t say anything overtly stupid. Everyone is always confident that she represent her company in the best possible manner. She would be worth a fortune, because she would free up the PR person (read babysitter) to do things that are more important than making sure she doesn’t fuck up.

Are you that girl?