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Reader Feedback on "The Nerve Interview: Traci Lords"
It was a very good read. Most of the interviews I've read about was about how she loved sex. But, this interivew made me take a look at the porn industry. It helped reveal her character. Thanks
--dvj
08/19 |
I "grew up" on Tracy Lords porn. In fact, I almost became a porn star just so I could do it with her. Yeah right, well in my my mind I did. Imagine my surprise when I went to my favorite seedy video store and was told that they removed all of the tapes had to be removed because she was underage. As I recall from all of the interviews with her during the height of her first career, it didn't appear she was the victim, but a calculating person who knew exactly what she was doing. And, were not talking one or two videos here. If that's the way she feld she had to do so she could make a name for herself in the mainstream acting, that's fine. But, don't pull the I'm the victim bullsh*t. It's tired and insults our intelligence. Regarding the interview, LC should have let her kids conduct it, it would have been much better.
--PGX
08/11 |
I have been a huge fan of Traci Lords since the release of 1,000 fires. She has continued to work, grow, take chances, risking it all..........in the public eye. And she has succeeded. Anyone who is so truly embraced by John Waters can't be all bad! Over the years I have read many interviews with her and I have to say that this was, by far, the most interesting and honest interview of hers I have read. A huge congratulations to Lisa Carver, a job well done. I look forward to treh relaes of Traci's book in Australia.
--J R
08/10 |
Good Interview. Traci is a real person and doesn't ride the "fame" of her past to promote herself. That was a stage of her life and she's done with it. Wish her all the best and I thought Lisa handled the interview extremely well. It was a great conversation.
--RCN
08/09 |
Oh come on man what a phony.
--jN
08/09 |
For traci to think that just because she said "ha, fooled you", means that people are going to throw away any movie with her in it proves she lacks understanding of why people collect movies, pictures, music, etc.
first, she's not the only actress in the movie - maybe somebody else in the show had a great scene too.
Secondly, it's a piece of history. It happened, and probably won't happen again -- at least with her -- that's what makes the tapes valuable - not the kiddie porn, the former porn star. There are lots of former porn stars who have hot scenes that movie collectors seek. ( For that matter, there are a lot of "R" rated stars who don't do nude scenes anymore, but have in the past. For some people, it's an instant collector's must-have. I've seen her movies. The sex was good, but I wouldn't risk jail for it. But some might find the rarity of the situation a collector's item.
--jmk
08/08 |
Interesting interview. Lisa Carver (a journalist?) comes across as a self-grandizing moron foisting a shallow and tired agenda while Traci Lords (she is so beautiful) comes across as an evolved and constantly evolving wise old soul. Oh Traci, why won't you marry me?
Sigh...
--AJA
08/08 |
Traci Lords is intellegent; I am not sure why L Carver felt the need to be so sarcastic towards her. So good luck TC I hope you get out of the shit and make a good life, and Lisa, you have one, so enjoy it.
--adw
08/07 |
twenty times deeper than a millimeter is still pretty non-deep.
--lil
08/06 |
I usually find Lisa Carver's writing very intriguing; her diaries if nothing else do thrill one in that totally voyeuristic way she cultivates oh too well. I'm not familiar with Traci Lords -- either as Porn Star or Cult Leader on Melrose Place -- but one thing hit me like a ton of bricks in her interview with Lisa: Whatever anyone wants to say about Traci Lords, past or present, she is about twenty times deeper and emotionally mature than Lisa Carver. A frightening thought -- that a woman with a young daughter can actually think the teen porn lifestyle is "glamorous." The politics of Carver's "glorious promiscuity" persona is not just superficial and immature, but is ultimately inhuman in it's inability to the real damage done to one's inner soul and emotional well-being by some kinds of promiscuity. Traci Lords said it best: "What's so sexy about a child in pain?" Time to grow up, Lisa.
--Ses
08/06 |
that has to be one of the better interviews of lisa carver i've read. i just wished i learned something about traci lords as well.
--dc
08/06 |
The fact remains: porn is boring. The people who create porn are boring. The people who star in porn are boring. The pseudointellectuals who deconstruct porn or claim for it some great status as art are especially boring, not to mention tedious and unamusing as hell. I don't mean porn is immoral or sinful...'cause if it was, then maybe it would be slightly more interesting. Of course, I recognize that nearly the whole world of porn is one big cesspit of crime and abuse and humiliation, and that sounds vaguely intriguing...for about half a minute. But, when you get right down to it, making or consuming porn is somewhat less empowering than a spent flashlight battery. And to exalt Traci Lords as some kind of icon of empowerment is ridiculous; she's "industry product", a front, an illusion, with the cutting edge of a plastic butterknife. Oh, and Darren Starr a genius? I knew the term "genius" had been defined-down a lot over the last few years, but I never realized it had sunk quite so low.
--amy
08/05 |
ras: She talks about it in the book. It didn't seem like much of a story to follow up on. Her 36-year-old boyfriend convinced her, she says, to start a company with him and they made that one film when she was 18, and she went ahead and allowed its liscensing after her age was exposed because, she says in the book, she couldn't get work and she needed the money for therapy. She also claims that the only people who could get in trouble were those who continued to sell the earlier videos after being informed that they starred an underage girl.
--lcc
08/05 |
I wish you had asked about her part as a partial
owner/producer of porn. Traci had her own company,
TLC (Tracy lords company) that she owned and used to
produce movies. (Possibly she was just a front, but I
don't happen to think so.)
There were rumours that she was the on to reveal her age
after she turned 18 and made one last film, for which she
was paid $1 million, so that the film would be the one
legal film of her on the market.
I'm surprised to hear her ask the porn industry to say
they are sorry. If they thought she was legal, there is
nothing to say sorry about as she is NOT THE VICTIM.
Traci placed huge numbers of people as risk for possesion
of what was suddenly Child Pornography. She placed all of
he co-stars at risk at being declared child molesters and
having to be registered as a sex offender.
--ras
08/05 |
mcg! The Diaries is already out. Email me! lisaccarver@earthlink.net. And hey! I didn't say *I* was this great writer! And I didn't say anything bad about her bad writing -- I said I like it! I love Fabio's books, and he doesn't even write at all -- he emotes.
--lcc
08/05 |
That has GOT to be the worst interview I have ever read.
"I was hanging out in New York at that time. What made you choose Miami?"
Oh, so you were in NYC, huh? BFD! If I care, I'll read the Lisa Carver interview.
"I had a similar experience. I was a teen prostitute, and then a couple of years later I was hired to be in a Hollywood movie to play basically a teen prostitute..."
Again, who is this interview about? Jeez, good journalists should use their experience to probe their subject, but that should extend to making the journalist PART of the subject.
--JMK
08/05 |
Lisa Carver is probably the most self-involved interviewer I've ever read. Only a couple of the questions challenging Lords' porn-bashing kept it from being a total waste.
--jwm
08/05 |
Maybe Traci Lords should've interviewed Traci Lords. I mean, it might be interesting to see what would happen, should she gaze too long and deep into the vast mirror of her narcissism. Perhaps some kind of quantum effect would envelop her in a bubble universe where she could wallow in her own Drama, thus leaving the rest of us poor little non-celebrities alone. I mean, one can dream.... And, Ms. Carver really needs to be careful about criticising other people's prose, since she lives in a pretty big Glass House herself, as far as style and substance are concerned.
--kza
08/05 |
Yawwwwwwwn.
--TL
08/05 |
Lisa Carver is not good in this format. Too much time spent etsablishing her own creds. Too many boring questions about things everyone knows. It seems like a funny idea I know, but perhaps Em and Lo should have handled this one. Those sweethearts are nothing but secure. Didn't they each dabble a bit in borderline porn??
--ch
08/04 |
but gotta say, Lisafer, I detected the SLIGHTEST bit of unjournalistic cattiness in your unnecessary judgement of Traci Lords's writing skills: un peu de jalousie professional, peut etre? mais un metier pornogrphique n'etait pas written in the stars, simplement
--mcg*
08/04 |
as always lisa, your work totally kicks ass. it's refreshing to see an interview where not only is the person that's being interviewed interesting, but the questions being asked are actually real and not fluff. fantastic!
--dila
08/04 |
Traci says, "How could it not be soulless? How could it not be painful? How could it be anything that might be considered glamorous? Come on, there's nothing sexy about a kid in pain."
Although this is very well spoken and I agree with Traci exactly, I suggest there is a deep seated pedophiliac current running through this culture. The thousands of surivors of sexual abuse are testimony enough - but so is the rise to prominence of a child sex star like Traci Lords was. And what about sex tourism to Southeast Asia etc?
The tragedy is that in that context a child in pain is the sexiest thing imgainable.
We need to investigate WHY this is considered sexy, not deny that it is. What is it about the vulnerability of sexuality that brings people to such states where they can only be turned on by the pain of children? what madness of our species does this indicate? etc etc.
--oooo
08/04 |
when i look at the sparkle in those eyes and read the interview i recognise another manic. i mean that in the best possible way.
--tca
08/04 |
LISA! this morning I wake up at 3:00 AM with insomnia for the thrid time in a rowm, and just when everything is too tired for dawn, it's all beautiful! you, Traci Lords, Mr. Quintron, and even today's featured personal:) Hope little Mercedes and all are doing well. I'll be in Jersey at the shore, third week of September. Keep up the good work. BTW, when is the 'collected diaries' coming out;) seriously, I got a hardcore connection at Knopf
--mcg!
08/04 |
It was nice to read a celebrity interview that wasn't all ass kissing bullshit.
--d
08/04 |
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