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INSIDE THIS ISSUE The Adult Entertainment Resource For Retailers 22, 23..................... SPOTLIGHT ON COMBAT ZONE 8, 9................................................TOP TWENTY DVD 37.......................................................... TOP TEN GAY 20, 21.....................PINUP / COMING ATTRACTIONS UNDERCOVER ADVERTISER INDEX PAGE COMPANY 6............................................................3RD DEGREE 2.............................................................ADAM & EVE 38................................................... ANARCHY FILMS 35............................................................... BACCHUS 29...........................................BANG PRODUCTIONS 17.................................... BLACK MAGIC PICTURES 26...........................................................CABALLERO 25.......................................................COMBAT ZONE 10, 11......................................................EVIL ANGEL 12............................................................ EVOLUTION 33................................................................... FILMCO 27............................................................. HEATWAVE 13....................................................HUSTLER VIDEO 30.............................................KICK ASS PICTURES 39......................................................LEGEND VIDEO 36................................................................. MAGNUS 28.......................................MERCENARY PICTURES 14..................................................METRO CONTENT 15...........................NEW SENSATIONS/DIGITAL SIN 24................................................ROCK HARD PILLS 31............................................. SAMTIN RELEASING 32...................................................SHANE’S WORLD 16................................................... SHOOTING STAR 18, 19..................................................STICKY VIDEO 34.......................................................................... TTV 40........................................ VIVID ENTERTAINMENT 4, 5............................................. WICKED PICTURES 7................................................. ZERO TOLERANCE ON THE COVER: Ivy Winters PHOTOS COURTESY COMBAT ZONE UNDERCOVER / MAY 2010 Jon Jon’s Rainbow of Flava (Sticky Video) Andrea Kelly The Devil In Miss Jones: She Looks Like An Angel The Resurrection Bangs Like A Demon (Vivid) (Anarchy) Octopussy 3-D: Savanna Samson Evil Anal #11 Aurora Snow (Evil Angel) A XXX Parody Tori Black (New Sensations) Audrey Bitoni Cum Eating Cuckolds #13 Ass Parade #25 (Kick Ass) (Bang Bros.) Carmen Minor Big Tit Oil Orgy Sasha Stowaway Violation of Hairy First (Zero Tolerance) Timer Andrea Kelly Sara Sloane (Combat Zone) Andrea Kelly Sex Lies & Spies This Ain’t Curb Your (Wicked) Enthusiasm XXX Stormy Daniels (Hustler) Girlfriends #2 Courtney Cummz (3rd Degree) Sara Sloane Mondo Extreme #91 (Shooting Star) Vanessa Rain Sorority Games #3 Cum Spewing Holes (Metro) (Red Light District) Sassy Vallore Natalia Rossi Ebony Amateurs #9 (Heatwave) Squirtin’ Sistas #5 (Black Magic Pictures) Stacie Lane Manhammer #9 Big Tit Fixation #2 (Mercenary) (Tom Byron) Monica Santiago Lisa Ann Bree & Teagan (Adam & Eve) Bree Olson & Teagan Presley 0 0 Dion Giarusso: Making Gonzo Gold Juan Cuba: From Cubicle-Dweller to Porno Director Photos: Combat Zone uan Cuba doesn’t see himself as Cuba his very first camera. For his state of mind. “Because of porn, I your typical porn director. “I came another year, Cuba shot behind- live a healthier lifestyle. I used to feel hen Combat Zone owner Dion Giarusso spoke to J from a very poor family… My parents the-scenes footage for Stefano. All guilty [for watching porn], and think AVN in early 2006, he wasn’t sure what the fate of his W were immigrants. I never would have the while, Cuba was itching to start I was a bad human being. I think new project would be. Four years later, it is perfectly clear thought that this would have been the making movies himself. “I felt ‘I know people would be more at ease if they that Giarusso’s studio has become a leader in hardcore career for me… It’s a dream.” And I can do this. I know I can.’” would allow themselves to be sexual.” gonzo. Cuba will be the first to point out that his journey into the adult industry So Cuba asked his friend, performer When referring to his directorial style, Before his career in the adult industry began, Dion wasn’t a typical one. “I had no clue, Missy Monroe, to shoot a short reality Juan Cuba cites one of his heroes. Giarusso worked in the nightclub business. He says that no connections, [and] no friends in the POV video with him. “I didn’t have a “Like John Stagliano says, I shoot this experience helped to teach him about people’s desires industry.” What he did have was his lot of money,” Cuba said, “but I knew movies that turn me on.” Cuba’s when it came to pleasure. In 1997, when Jake Malone gregarious nature and a long history I could make something really good.” other industry influences include introduced Giarusso to Patrick Collins, Collins offered as a devoted fan. As we talked, Cuba He showed the footage to Stefano Belladonna, Jules Jordan, Joey Giarusso a job at Elegant Angel. Giarusso was the general described his unlikely transformation and Manuel Ferrara, who Cuba refers Silvera, and Erik Everhard. So what manager at Elegant Angel until he and brother David from cubicle-dweller to porn director. to as his mentors. They agreed distinguishes him as a director? “One Joseph began Red Light district. Now leading his own that Cuba had produced something thing about me… girls love working for studio, Giarusso oversees all operations at Combat Zone. Before his career in the industry worthwhile, but there were no jobs me. I’m fun. And I don’t tell people began, Juan Cuba worked at a call open at Red Light District, where how to fuck. The girls are the most Combat Zone is known for their wide array of “all natural center. “I was in a fucking cubicle and Cuba had worked with Stefano. So important people on the set. I treat newbies” and, of course, energetic hardcore sex. going insane,” he tells me mid-day, Cuba shopped his footage around and them like that.” The result of this Giarusso’s philosophy is simple: Keep the faces fresh, the from the parking lot of a coffee shop. eventually found a home at Elegant somewhat laissez-faire style is movies sex hot, and above all make your consumers happy. This After work, Cuba was renting porn Angel. in which the performers are clearly, consumer-driven approach affects every area of Combat several times a week. He continues to genuinely enjoying themselves. Zone. From hand-picking directors for their talent to the describe himself as an “avid, avid fan” “[Patrick Collins] loved it,” Cuba tells ongoing commitment to keeping costs low and quality high, today. He says he’s in the industry me. “He gave me my first [directing] Asked about his feeling concerning Giarusso knows how to make movies that people want to because he loves women. “I love job.” Cuba directed six titles for gonzo versus more plot-driven porn, watch and to buy. everything about them,” he tells me. Elegant Angel before moving to the gonzo director diplomatically said Hustler. Soon, a spot at Red Light “There’s a little bit for everybody. When asked how retailers can respond to competition with It was while looking through an LA District opened, and Cuba returned Gonzo isn’t the only good porn.” Still, the internet, it is this commitment to value that Giarusso Weekly that a new world opened up to the company where it all began for given free reign to make his dream advises retailers take up. “Buy the best product at the best to Cuba. A long time porn fan, he him. He’s been there ever since. movie, Cuba would put out “An all price and pass the savings on to the end user…. never saw an advertisement for Erotica LA fuck movie. All my favorite performers, take the end user for granted.” Given that Giarusso started and decided to go. “I was there with Since those early days in his career, every scene being different…. I would a studio at the start of a huge economic recession and my little 35mm camera and my little Juan Cuba has made quite a name like to make one movie that’s like ‘the made it thrive, his is advice that’s well worth taking. bag… standing in line like every other for himself. His work has been best of sex.’ Everything. No genre schmuck... It was like Disneyland for recognized with a number of award limitations. Whatever seemed right in Within the industry, Dion Giarusso also maintains a me.” His industry career was about to nominations, but the industry really the moment.” commitment to his colleagues. Through his anti-piracy begin but he didn’t know it. Meeting began to take notice of Cuba when, efforts and donations to the defense funds of those being one star set him on a path to a new in 2008, he won Urban Spice (now Currently, Cuba is working on a unjustly prosecuted, Giarusso shares the responsibility life. Urban X) awards for Red Light number of projects for Red Light for keeping the industry afloat. In fact, when asked what Disctrict/Candy Shop’s Alone in the District, at least one video a month. career accomplishment he’s most proud of, Giarusso didn’t Cuba describes seeing Brandon Iron Dark 6 and Best Director (Gonzo). He also tells me that he’s always name an award, or other recognition (though his company across an aisle and going to talk