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One of Jim Holliday’s “Angels” Not Impressed with Tributes

Kylie Ireland was featured in several of the late director Jim Holliday’s movies. Holliday, who was a porn fan-turned-director, had distinct but simple tastes in porn: he liked nurses, sorority girls, stewardesses and, generally, women in uniform. He died in December, 2004.

The actresses he used regularly he called Angels. They included people like Ireland (center in this 1996 picture), Shayla LaVeaux, Felecia, Jill Kelly, and Tiffany Mynx.

VCA is re-releasing several of Holliday’s movies along with what it calls “tributes”. Recently Roy Karch shot Nightshift Nurses…Escort Service and Jane Water directed a tribute to Holliday’s Car Wash Angels.

Others are planned, in what Bill Margold called a “shrewd marketing movie” for Holliday’s fans.

I have been to the above-mentioned sets and both directors have made attempts to remember Holliday within the confines of budget. Karch had H0lliday’s Nightshift Nurses 2 playing in the background; Waters displayed a wreath from Holliday’s memorial service.

Ireland says those gestures are not enough and that VCLFPstler is sullying Holliday’s name.

“It seems a bit absurd that they are remaking the Jim Holliday movies (as well as the other classics). Why? Why ruin a perfectly good porn movie? Not to mention they call the Holliday remakes “tributes” when really they aren’t at all. Apparently on the first one they had a bowl of gumdrops on the set. Why? That was never a thing Jimmy did; he used to call Shayla ‘Gumdrop’, that was her nickname. Were
the girls all blonde? He rarely cast girls that weren’t. Just things like
that that proves they don’t know anything about Holliday. Not to mention if
it was a tribute how come they didn’t call any of the existing “angels”? A
real tribute to Jim Holliday would be to let Jill Kelly direct the remake.

At least for the Nightshift Nurses remake Roy Karch called Shayla, Felecia,
Sindee Coxx and myself. (Why not Jill Kelly, who was one of his top favs?)
He thought it would be great to have the angels in the movie as extras – I
asked Roy, “why not put us in a scene, after all I believe all of us are
still occasionally performing?” He answer was that VCA/Hustler didn’t want
“old girls” in the movie. Oh, but it was okay to have us pointlessly
wandering around in the background?! Uh, thanks but no thanks Hustler.

I also asked Roy when I talked to him, just to test his Holliday knowledge,
if he had all blondes and if he knew the No bras no panties rule. And
don’t forget the knee socks. He had no real idea what I was talking about.
He thought Jimmy would give his favorite angels HIS own moccasins when he
liked them. Alas, I hang my head in shame.

Now I won’t pretend that Holliday and I were on the best of terms when he
died; we weren’t. It started with me dying my hair, going from blonde to
red (although he did use me a few times as a redhead) and when I was the
publicist at VCA we became estranged since I would send PR stuff to certain
members of the press he didn’t get along with, but it doesn’t mean I want to
see Jimmy’s movies butchered into low-grade porno crap. Especially when he
had cared so much about what they were about and what was in them.

My opinion is that it’s stupid and an insult to Jim Holliday and his movies
to remake them. Leave Jim Holliday’s stuff alone. Let it stand as a
monument, however strange it may be, to the odd man in white who loved
making his porn movies.”

Here is what Ireland read at Holliday’s service last year.

Previously: Eye Candy redux; Holliday at the Car Wash; Corruption in the boiler room