I asked Sunny Lane what she thought of her ABC special when I dropped by KSEXRadio last night.
Lane and former Adam & Eve contract performer Sophia Lynn were followed by ABC’s PrimeTime crew for several months, and special attention was paid to the supportiveness of Lane’s parents, Shelby and Mike, of her career choices, whether her career was ice skating or porn.
I have never seen Lane off-message, and I told her so. I don’t expect her to trash-talk other performers or confide in me her love of the Dark Arts, but it is sometimes a challenge to determine if what I’m hearing is the real Sunny Lane.
Last night I came to the conclusion that whoever Sunny Lane is, it is a perfectly integrated product, and I should just stop worrying about it because I like the product. She has been this person since she was a tiny ice skater of seven years old, if not before, and she will probably be this person when she is a grandmother, entering cookies into competitions.
“My (ice-skating) coach told me that there’s ‘On Ice’ and ‘Off Ice’,” Lane said.
“And at what point did you realize that the cameras kept following you after you unstrapped your skates?” I asked.
“When I was about eight,” she said.
I was being interviewed on KSEX about my coffee redistribution system, and Lane, Wankus’ co-host, kept the mood light with peppy down-home aphorisms.
“Be true to yourself,” she said.
“Keep your energy positive,” she said.
“I am the god of Hell fire,” she didn’t say.
I saw a little bit of the PrimeTime special. The PrimeTime people had contacted Lane through Nightmoves, the Tampa magazine and exotic dancer show that first brought Lane to prominence in the adult world. I had also seen Belladonna’s PrimeTime special a few years ago, and I wondered how much of my overall feeling of unease came from the editing.
For example, one of the things Sunny’s dad, Mike, extols about his daughter’s work at The Bunny Ranch is the fact that “she was fed.”
It leaves the viewer wondering, “What part of Georgia do you have to be from for being fed to be a luxury?”
Lane confirmed that her father had said plenty of things prior to and after the food comment that were not aired. I didn’t feel the special was a hatchet job, but there were a few examples of too much talking or, perhaps, too little.
Kelly Turner writes:
Don’t you find it interesting that the porn industry tends to get upset at the mainstream media’s so-called hatchet jobs? (sidenote: Wasn’t porno supposed to go mainstream any second now?) Is it because they are so used to a trade media that wouldn’t dare say anything negative, so they can’t understand it when the Diane Sawyers take a swipe at the industry? Why is mainstream not giving the industry a fair shake if they mention drugs, child porn, rough sex and the like? Why are they expected to (always) report positively on an industry that has so many negatives?
Still, Sunny felt the show was a positive experience.
“We’ve been getting a lot of interview requests,” she said. Indeed, Lane’s publicist, April Storm, says that her phone hasn’t stopped ringing.
I had the same problem with my old Volkswagen Rabbit. The horn would not stop beeping. I had to punch it into submission once in Nashville because people thought I was beeping at them. I guess it’s not the same thing.
Later, I asked Pride of Saugus Tyler Faith to pose as my ideal smoking prom date. “Weah in tha pahkin’ lot a tha fuckin’ Kowloon,” I suggested.
Wankus showed several clips of his cruise to Belize with Faith, including one shot of someone getting (almost) pushed into a pool, making a pit stop, with his face, on the concrete rim.
The shot made my testicles recede.
There was another clip of a drunk Wankus and a drunk and passed out Faith, with her pants off.
Faith later signed a release so it was a legitimate and wholesome portrayal of life partners having drunken sex.
“Would you just look at her ass?” slurred Wankus, sounding like Robby D. The camera zoomed in.
The shot made my testicles come back.
“Shhhh,” Wankus kept saying, not to Faith but to the camera, as if viewers at home might try to warn her.
I always have fun at KSEX.
Previously: KSEX Awards: Meaty; The South rises again at PSK; Tyler Faith wears light blue Nikes; Tyler Faith: “Just like glitter on her nose”
See also: KSEXRadio, Gene Ross reports, Sunny Lane, Tyler Faith
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