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Dana Vespoli
Dana Vespoli is an American pornographic film actor, pornographic actress and film director. Early life Vespoli graduated from Mills College at Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in comparative literature. During college, she rowed crew of which she took her stage name from the Vespoli brand. Career Vespoli began performing at age 31 as a stripper at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco. She entered the adult film industry in 2003, first as a performer, and then as a director and producer. In April 2006, Vespoli began directing for Digital Sin. She has directed for Sweetheart Video and Evil Angel (studio), Evil Angel. She has received award nominations from ''AVN (magazine), AVN'' and Xbiz mostly for films she has directed for Evil Angel. Her directing work has focused mainly on lesbian pornography, lesbian scenes. In 2011, ''Complex (magazine), Complex'' ranked her thirteenth on their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN Award
The AVN Awards are List of movie awards, film awards sponsored and presented by the American trade magazine ''AVN (magazine), AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') annually to honor achievements in the global Sex industry, adult entertainment industry. The awards are often called the "Academy Awards, Oscars of porn". The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas, Nevada. ''AVN'' sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. Since 2008, the show has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime (TV channel), Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. 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 Pornography, pornographic/erotica, erotic film and video. Awards for Gay pornography, gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the 1987 ceremony through the 1998 cerem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complex (magazine)
Complex Networks is an American media and entertainment company for youth culture, based in New York City. It was founded as a bi-monthly magazine, ''Complex'', by fashion designer Marc Ecko, Marc EckÅ. Complex Networks reports on popular and emerging trends in style, sneakers, food, music, sports and pop culture. Complex Networks reached over 90 million unique users per month in 2013 across its owned and operated and partner sites, socials and YouTube channels. The print magazine ceased publication with the December 2016/January 2017 issue. Complex currently has 6.02 million subscribers and 1.8 billion total views on YouTube. the company's yearly revenue was estimated to be US$200 million, 15% of which came from commerce. Complex Networks has been named by ''Business Insider'' as one of the Most Valuable Startups in New York, and Most Valuable Private Companies in the World. In 2012, the company launched Complex TV, an online broadcasting platform. In 2016, it became a joint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Pornographic Film Directors
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Adult Film Database
The Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) is an online database of information pertaining to the sex industry, pornography industry: Pornographic film actor, actors, Pornographic film actor, actresses, Film director, directors, Pornographic film studio, studios, Film distributor, distributors and pornographic films. History The predecessor to IAFD was email- and File Transfer Protocol, FTP-accessible database of adult film actresses called Abserver that had been created by Dan Abend in 1993. IAFD was started by Peter van Aarle, who had collected data on adult movies since 1981, when he began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in ''Adam Film World''. In 1993, he began contributing to the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.movies, where he met Dan Abend. The two exchanged databases and began work on a WWW-based database. Van Aarle later collaborated on this Web database with Ron Wilhelm, who went by the pseudonym of "Heretic". The first version of the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Members Of The AVN Hall Of Fame
The ''AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') Hall of Fame has honored people for their work in the adult entertainment industry since 1995. . January 14, 2013. Retrieved September 4, 2016. The individuals inducted into the ''AVN'' Hall of Fame have "made significant contributions to the adult industry" and have had "a minimum of 10 years in the industry" to be considered for induction. There are several branches of the ''AVN'' Hall of Fame: *Performers and directors enter the original ''AVN'', video-ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Rotten
Alaina Hicks (born May 9, 1993), known professionally as Bonnie Rotten, is an American pornographic actress, feature dancer, fetish model, and director. In 2014, she became the first alt-porn star to win the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year. Early life Rotten was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised by her grandparents. She claims to have had her first sexual experience with multiple male partners at age 16. Career Rotten started her career as a fetish model for the magazine '' Girls and Corpses'',Hunter, Tod. "Adult Who's Who: Bonnie Rotten", ''AVN'', Vol. 29/No. 1, Issue 361, January 2013, pg. 34Street, Sharan. "Still Dirty After 30?", ''AVN'', Vol. 28/No. 12, Issue 360, December 2012, pg. 22 which took note of her after she won the Ms. Dead Indiana Beauty Pageant at the Indianapolis Days of the Dead convention."Bonnie Rotten's No Angel", '' Girls and Corpses'', Volume 5, Winter 2011 She entered the adult industry in early 2012. Previously, Rotten also wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus Lux
Venus Lux is an American transgender pornographic actress, director, producer, and educator. Career Lux owns a studio called Venus Lux Entertainment. In December 2014, she signed an exclusive three-year distribution deal with Pulse Distribution. In 2012, she began writing a column A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member ... titled "Venus Rising". She compiled some of those columns into a book titled ''Venus Lux Diaries'', which was released in March 2015. In October 2015, she launched ''TransGlobal Magazine''. In 2016, Venus Lux founded Syren Network and the website TS Fetishes, both of which launched in the spring. She is featured in the sequel of the documentary ''After Porn Ends'' titled ''After Porn Ends 2''. Mainstream media appearances Awards and nominations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XBIZ Award
XBIZ Awards, renamed as XMAs Awards from 2025 onwards, are given annually to honor "individuals, companies, performers and products that play an essential part in the growth and success of adult films". They have been described by XBIZ publisher and founder Alec Helmy as being "born out of the industry's desire for an awards event that not only encompasses all facets of the business but one which presents it in a professional light and honors it with class". The awards have been likened to the international film and TV industry's Golden Globes. Organized by the adult industry trade magazine XBIZ, the awards were first given in 2003. The award nominations are submitted by clients, and the winners are voted for by XBIZ staff, industry colleagues and participating organizations. The awards were originally created to recognize achievement in the online adult industry, but, in recent years, video categories have been added. As of 2014, the number of specific award categories has expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NightMoves Award
The NightMoves Awards are given annually in the US pornographic film industry by ''NightMoves'', an Oldsmar, Florida-based magazine which was first published in 1987 and initially titled ''Sports South''. The awards began in 1993 and were initially titled the Central Florida Adult Entertainment Awards. It is the third oldest continuously running adult awards show in the United States, after the AVN Awards and the XRCO Awards. It also marks the start of the porn industry's awards season. In addition to the show's national awards, local awards are also given to sexually oriented businesses and dancers in the Tampa Bay Area. Two awards are given for each national category: one which is chosen by fans and the other one which is chosen by the editors of ''NightMoves'' magazine. An online voting ballot is available for approximately three months every year for the fan's choice awards. Recipients of the editor's choice awards are chosen based on film reviews. The awards have been held at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Film World
''Adam Film World'' (''AFW'') and ''Adam Film World Guide'' (''AFWG'') were American magazines about pornographic film, starting in 1966 as ''The Adam Film Quarterly.'' History Knight Publishing Corp. had launched ''Adam'' magazine in 1956 as an attempt to follow ''Playboy's'' success. ''Adam Film Quarterly'' was spun off from that magazine by William Rotsler in 1966 to cover the sexploitation film industry. The first issue's cover price was US$1 and the cover story was about '' The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill'', an erotic movie directed by Peter Stootsberry and produced by Bradford Hallworth."Adam Film Quarterly" ''The Site of Movie Magazines''. Retrieved 4 July 2012. Originally, like ''Playboy'', the publication also covered mainstream films and included feature stories on stars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
