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4th AVN Awards
The 4th AVN Awards ceremony, organized by Adult Video News (AVN), took place on January 9, 1987 at the Tropicana Hotel Grand Ballroom in Paradise, Nevada. During the ceremony, AVN Awards were presented in 32 categories honoring excellence in the world of adult movies released on videocassette between January 1 and December 31, 1986. The show was hosted by ''Adult Video News'' co-publishers Paul Fishbein and Barry Rosenblatt. The Best Shot-on-Video Feature, ''Blame It on Ginger'' won the most awards, with three. ''Star Angel'' also won three, however, '' Devil in Miss Jones Part 3: A New Beginning'' won Best Picture. Winners and nominees The nominees for the 4th AVN Awards were announced in the January 1987 issue of ''Adult Video News'' magazine. '' Devil in Miss Jones Part 3: A New Beginning'' led all nominees with 11. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 9, 1987. Awards Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN Award
The AVN Awards are film awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine ''AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') to recognize achievement in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic films. They are often called the " Oscars of porn". The awards are divided into over 100 categories, some of which are analogous to industry awards offered in other film and video genres and others that are specific to pornographic/erotic film and video. ''AVN'' sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 2008, the ceremony has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. Awards for gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the 1987 ceremony through the 1998 ceremony. The increasing number of categories made the show unwieldy. For the 1999 ceremony ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Butler (actor)
Jerry Butler (May 13, 1959 – January 27, 2018) was an American pornographic film actor. His career lasted from 1981 to 1993, and included more than 500 films. Biography Butler was born Paul David Siederman in Brooklyn to a Jewish father and a mother of half German/Irish and half Cherokee Native American descent. His paternal grandfather, Sam Siederman, was reportedly the half-brother of Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky. Butler initially tried his luck at mainstream acting, performing in a variety of Off-Broadway plays. He also had a few walk-on appearances on the soap opera '' One Life to Live'' in 1978 and made an uncredited appearance in Frank Henenlotter's 1982 horror film '' Basket Case.'' He was generally unhappy with the constant pressure to sleep with men in exchange for parts, and began to slowly grow tired of the wasted effort. He first got into hardcore in 1981 after answering an advertisement in ''Backstage Magazine'' looking for hardcore actors. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herschel Savage
Herschel Savage (born Harvey Cohen on November 25, 1952) is an American former pornographic actor, director and stage actor who has appeared in over 1,000 adult films. In 2002, ''AVN'' ranked him 46th on their list of ''The Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time''. He has also been inducted into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Early life Savage was born to Russian- Jewish parents on November 25, 1952 in New York City. His mother battled with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Growing up, he attended a Conservative synagogue. Savage saw his first adult film ''The Nun's Bad Habit'' at a movie theater in Times Square. Savage began studying acting under Broadway theatre actress Uta Hagen and renowned acting teacher Stella Adler. Savage initially sought a mainstream stage and screen career. However, he became disillusioned by the constant auditioning and competition for roles. He also worked for an exercise company. Career Savage was introduced to the adult film industry via the actor R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Silvera
Joey Silvera (born December 20, 1951) is an American pornographic film director and former actor. He has been involved in the pornographic industry since the early 1970s. A native of upstate New York, he first started performing in San Francisco in 1974, and went on to appear in more than 1,000 videos. In the early 1990s, Silvera went on to direct videos for his own company. His movies were first distributed by Devil's Film, and he later was invited to join John Stagliano's Evil Angel. Career He is a member of the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Awards ''As a performer'': *1984 XRCO Best Supporting Actor for ''Public Affairs'' *1985 XRCO Best Supporting Actor for ''She's So Fine'' *1987 AVN Best Supporting Actor – Video for ''She's So Fine'' *1987 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene – Video for ''Blame it on Ginger'' *1988 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene – Video for ''Made in Germany'' *1993 AVN Best Supporting Actor – Film for ''Facedance 1'' and ''2'' *1993 AVN Best Actor – V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN Award For Best Supporting Actor
The AVN Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award that has been given annually by sex industry company ''AVN'' since the award's inception in 1984. Till 2008, the award was awarded annually for two different categoriesfilm and video. From year 2009, it is awarded annually for a single category. First recipient of the award was Richard Pacheco, who was awarded at 1st AVN Awards in 1984 for his performance in '' Nothing to Hide''. As of 2022, Randy Spears is the most honoured pornographic actor with seven awards followed by Xander Corvus with four awards, while three pornographic actorsSteven St. Croix, Tony Tedeschi and Tom Byron with three awards and ten pornographic actors Richard Pacheco, Ron Jeremy, Jamie Gillis, Mike Horner, Jon Dough, Michael J. Cox, Wilde Oscar, Joey Silvera, Rick Savage and Tommy Pistolhave won the award two times. Xander Corvus is the youngest recipient of the award at the age of 23. The most recent recipient is Tommy Pistol, who was honoure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanna McCullough
Shanna McCullough (born April 1, 1960) is an American pornographic actress. Early life McCullough grew up in San Francisco, California. At school, she was involved with the theater group, and acted in drama and musicals. She went to college and received a degree in accounting. Then she worked as an electrician for two years, and also as a veterinary technician. Career Shanna McCullough chose her stage name Shanna after the heroine from her favorite romance novel, and McCullough because of her Irish ancestry. After starting to work in porn, she also performed as a dancer in nightclubs. During a break from the business, she also worked as a stripper and went back to school to study zoology, with the aim of working in the animal health care field. In 1999, wired.com reported that Shanna was operating a website giving members 24-hour access to multiple webcams installed in her home. As of March 2009, the website appears to have ceased operating. In March 2008, she walked th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Hartley
Marie Louise Hartman (born March 11, 1959), known professionally as Nina Hartley, is an American pornographic film actress described by CNBC as "a legend in the adult world". Early life and education Hartley was born on March 11, 1959 in Berkeley, California, to a Lutheran father, Louis Hartman, and a Jewish mother, Blanche Hartman (née Gelders), whose family was from Alabama. Her maternal grandfather, Joseph Gelders, was a University of Alabama physics professor who was a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) party member in the 1930s. Hartley's parents were members of the CPUSA who converted to Buddhism when she was young. Her father was blacklisted in 1957 for his communist beliefs. Hartley grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and as a teenager self-identified as a feminist. After graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, she attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate nursing school and graduated ''magna cum laude'' in 1985. She was a registered nurse u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Reems
Herbert John Streicher (August 27, 1947 – March 19, 2013), better known by his professional pseudonym Harry Reems, was an American pornographic actor and later a successful real estate agent. His most famous roles were as Doctor Young in the 1972 pornographic cult classic '' Deep Throat'' and The Teacher in the 1973 classic ''The Devil in Miss Jones''. Throughout the 1970s and into the mid-1980s, he was one of the most prolific performers in the adult film industry. He became the first American actor to be prosecuted solely for appearing in a film. He retired from the industry in 1985. Early life Reems was born Herbert John Streicher on August 27, 1947, into a Jewish family. He was the youngest of three children. His father Don Streicher worked as a salesman before becoming a bookmaker. His mother, Rose, was a model. Harry's father later entered the printing industry and was wealthy enough to move the family to Westchester, New York. In 1965, at age 18, he went the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Gillis
Jamie Gillis (born Jamey Ira Gurman; April 20, 1943 – February 19, 2010) was an American pornographic actor, director and member of the AVN Hall of Fame. He was married to the porn actress Serena. Early life Gillis was born Jamey Ira Gurman in New York City. He was named after the Tyrone Power character in the film '' The Black Swan'' (1942), and he took the name Gillis from the girlfriend he was living with when he made his first films.Jamie Gillis: New York Beginnings audio interview with Jamie Gillis The Rialto Report November 17, 2013" Gillis later attended |
Billy Dee
William Randall Daniels, better known by the stage name Billy Dee (born September 25, 1951) is a retired American adult film actor. Life and career Born and raised in San Diego, California, Daniels is of mixed ancestry, of Irish, Mexican and African heritage, one of six children; he has four brothers and a sister. He worked from the age of 11, often on his grandfather's farm milking the cows, and lost his virginity at 14 in a barn, although he did not have sex again until he was 17. By the early 1970s, he began appearing in short 8mm film loops, appearing in the first of them at age 24. By 1978, at age 27, he appeared in his first big-budget porn flick, ''The Legend Of Lady Blue'' with fellow porn stars Gloria Leonard and John Leslie. Daniels had the most prominent part of his career during the second-wave of the so-called Golden Age of Porn from the mid-late 1980s to the early-mid 1990s. In a period when the segregation of pornographic actors on racial lines was a sensitive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buck Adams
__NOTOC__ Buck "Backhand" Adams (born Charles Stephen Allen; November 15, 1955 – October 28, 2008) was an American pornographic film actor and director. Career Adams was a boxer and bouncer before entering the pornographic film industry in the early 1980s, shortly after his sister Amber Lynn began her adult film career. He made his directorial debut with the 1988 movie ''Squirt''. He performed in over 700 movies and directed about 80. Death Adams died on October 28, 2008, due to complications from heart failure. He died at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, with his daughter Christa, his sister Amber Lynn, and his close friend Harold Jenkins at his side. Adams had survived several heart attacks during the 1990s. Just before his death he built a studio where he intended to produce Internet videos. Awards *1987 AVN Award – Best Actor (Video) – ''Rockey X'' *1990 XRCO Award – Best Sex Scene – ''The Chameleon'' (with Tori Welles) *1992 AVN Award – Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheri St
Sheri is a female given name, from the French for ''beloved'', and may refer to: * Sheri Anderson, American TV writer * Sheri Everts, American academic * Sheri Forde, Canadian reporter * Sheri Graner Ray, video game specialist * Sheri L. Dew (born c. 1954), Latter-day Saint leader * Sheri Moon (born 1970), American actress * Sheri Reynolds, author * Sheri S. Tepper (born 1929), American author * Sheri Sam (born 1974), American professional basketball player Sheri is also a term appearing in older documents for Sharia law. It, along with the French variant ''Chéri'', was used during the time of the Ottoman Empire, and is from the Turkish şer’(i).info page on bookat Martin Luther University) // Cited: p. 39 (PDF p. 41/338) // "“Chéri” may sound ambiguous in French but the term, used in our context for Islamic law (Turkish: şer’(i), is widely used in the legal literature at that time." See also Alternative spellings include * Chari (other) * Cheri (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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