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1.Vendetta (1986) .... Joe-Bob

2.Lovelines (1984) .... Rick Johnson

3.Let's Do It! (1982) .... Freddie

4.Zapped! (1982) .... Robert Wolcott

... aka Wiz Kid, The (1982) (USA: working title)

5.Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979) .... Stan

Notable TV guest appearances

1."CHiPs" (1977) playing "Chad Sullivan" in episode: "11-99:

Officer Needs Help" (episode # 4.11) 1/18/1981

2."CHiPs" (1977) playing "Bart" in episode: "Valley Go

Home!" (episode # 3.3) 9/29/1979

Law Offices Of Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger LLP

1900 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 2100
Los Angeles, CA, 90067-4590

Re: David Geffen.

Dear Mr. Ford:

We represent David Geffen. I have received an e-mail message that you sent to Mr. Geffen's office on December 28, 1998, regarding "Greg Bradford." Mr. Geffen does not know, has never met, and has never heard of you or Mr. Bradford.

The entire statement you attribute to Mr. Bradford in your e-mail is unequivocably false, and is both personally and professionally defamatory to Mr. Geffen.

Please be advised that if you or Mr. Bradford publish such false and defamatory information in way, or attempt to provide such information, or do provide such information to any media or publishing source, in print or otherwise, we will immediately file a civil action against you, Mr. Bradford, and the media source or publisher who publishes the false and defamatory information, and will seek compensatory and punitive damages.

Finally, should you propose to write or issue any other story about Mr. Geffen, please check with this office so that we may ascertain and advise you as to its truth or falsity. If you fail to accept this opportunity to check the facts, malice will be demonstrable.

cc: Bertram Fields, Esq.

Andy Patrizio 12/22/1998 CMP TechWeb
Copyright 1998 CMP Media Inc.

Luke Ford, who runs a website about the adult-movie industry, is no stranger to controversy. But a recent interview with a Hollywood "insider" who claimed knowledge about the sex lives of the film-industry elite has made his site the target of a hacker.

Ford's site has drawn the ire of the porn industry, with its behind-the-scenes stories, like one about an actor who allegedly hid his HIV-positive status and continued to work.

But this time, Ford said, his site is being attacked by Hollywood's elite. "I think it was someone in the mainstream industry," he said.

Two weeks ago, Ford published the interview in which the subject made claims about powerful Hollywood figures, their sexuality, and their use of the casting couch. Days later, Ford's two sites, 4Porn.net and l-keford.com, were attacked by a script that took down the entire server.

His sites were hosted by Voice Media, which hosts five pay sites and 30 free sites, all dedicated to adult content. The attack on Ford's site took down all 35 Voice Media sites, costing it $40,000 in lost revenue and prompting Voice Media to take Ford's site down.

The reaction has been surprising, Ford said, because many who work in the pornography industry, who have criticized him in the past, have written to ask when his site will be back. Ford hopes to have a new host soon and then plans to go hunting for the hacker who shut down his site. "I want to find who did this," he said.

Ford's site is the latest to fall victim to attacks by those who disagreed with its content. The New York Times site was hacked after it ran a series of stories on cybercrime. And Salon received threats after publishing information about an affair Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating President Clinton, had with a married woman.

"If you print an unpopular point of view, you face the consequences, like a boycott of advertisers or someone throwing rocks through your window," said Jim Balderston, an analyst with Zona Research. Publishers need adequate security for their websites, like the security guards that protect a print newspaper's front door, Balderston said.

For some in the porn industry, Luke Ford and his Web sites were merely an annoyance. For others, including porn stars whose real identity he revealed or whose positive HIV status he disclosed, he was the scourge of the industry. Someone decided to fight back and Ford has been hacked.

His two sites, l-keford.com and 4porn.net, are down and the company that hosted the sites has lost about $40,000 in revenues from damage done to its server. Ironically, Ford doesn't suspect this was a case of revenge by someone in the porn industry. Instead, he thinks it is related to an interview he posted in early December in which the subject discussed important Hollywood executives and their sexual proclivities. He thinks the hacker was dispatched by the mainstream entertainment industry. The script used by the hacker to take down Ford's sites also affected the other sites hosted by Voice Media, including five pay sites.

If the porn industry is rejoicing over Ford's misfortunes, it is not doing so to his face. Ford reportedly has received many inquiries as to when his sites will return. Soon, he replies. Meanwhile, he intends to hunt down the hacker.

Hey, I know you're Australian and all, but cut back on the tabloid journalism, OK? This Velvet Mafia crap is almost as riiculous as the average Emmett posting.

The whole idea that Hollywood is controlled by perverted outsiders is not new. Posts on your site have already gone into how the Jews have been demonized for offering a "perverted" perspective in film because of their allgedly insidious dominance of the industry, when the truth is that Hollywood owes its prominence solely to the fact that its studios make movies people want to see.

Look, Luke, I know you like to stir s--- up. That's why I read your site. Frankly, your stuff is far more interesting than the average porn video, and pretty much as credible (ooh, ooh, baby, I'm posting the truth...). But between the "Is Luke Really a Jew" thread and this Velvet Mafia stuff, it seems to me that you're dealing with some very serious personal demons. Fact is, Luke, you may be of the Jewish faith, but your ethnography is not that of a Jew. And I strongly suspect that one of the things that bothers you about pornography is the way that watching it makes you confront the sexual power of an erect penis -- a prospect that makes you (and many a porn theorist) uncomfortable.

Personally, I think you'd get through both problems a lot quicker if you dealt directly with your feelings about your father. But what the hell do I know?

From the 4/1/00 edition of the Daily Mail, an article by Daniel Jeffreys:

Given their Out There affiliation, Jinks and Cohen knew just where to take the American Beauty script to get it made - to fellow Out There sympathiser David Geffen, Steven Spielberg's partner in Dreamworks.

As, The Operator, a new biography of Geffen makes clear, Geffen is a predatory homosexual who has devoted considerable energy to projects that target heterosexuality.

He is allegedly the main force in the Velvet Mafia, a loose association of powerful gay men who use their influence in Hollywood to advance gay issues.

Sources say Geffen has frequently changed scripts if they seem to be too sympathetic towards heterosexual love or if they show any hint of antipathy towards gays.

In 20 years of filmmaking, Geffen has become infamous for making or breaking careers based on whether the people involved are gay and willing to be part of his extremely active sex life.

His summer parties at Fire Island, a gay resort 30 miles outside Manhattan, are legendary as the place the Velvet Mafia meet to indulge in extraordinary bacchanals.

HIS GUEST list begins with designer Calvin Klein and includes other Velvet Mafia members such as Barry Diller (who helped create The Simpsons), George Michael and Sandy Gallin, the super-powerful talent agent who discovered Madonna, Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts.

In recent years, several guests at Geffen's Fire Island house have described weekend-long orgies, fuelled by drugs, at which Geffen and his powerful friends ran a 'meat market', selecting young men for either sex or stardom.

'If you weren't incredibly handsome and well-built, there was no way you would get in,' says a New York movie agent who has been to several Geffen parties. 'Dress was minimal or nonexistent, and Geffen would prowl with his friends, squeezing men like they were cattle.'

When Jinks and Cohen took American Beauty to Geffen, the billionaire producer was ecstatic.

He rushed the script through the approval process - virtually unheard of for a screenplay by a writer with no previous movie hits - and maintained a close personal interest in casting.

Geffen, Jinks, Cohen and Ball all attended half a dozen Oscar parties after the triumph of American Beauty. One producer who is close to Ball said they had good reason to be happy.

After all, he said, they have created a film that is both a masterpiece and the most corrosive satire of heterosexual life that has ever made $100 million from the very people it vilifies.

And that is the hard truth about American Beauty. It exists and triumphed because, for some gays, it is not enough to win civil rights and equality of opportunity.

They want more: a society in which heterosexuality is so condemned that homosexuals can win any increases in power they might choose.

Hollywood Coverage - NY Times Vs. LA Times

A .wav file from Dec. 12's (2006) Zocalo discussion between Sharon Waxman and Laura Holson of The New York Times and John Horn and Patrick Goldstein from The Los Angeles Times. It was moderated by Variety's Dana Harris.

Goldstein looks like he's dying of AIDS. By the way he spoke of the Hollywood billionaire, you'd fear he would transmit it to David Geffen.

(Goldstein has a soft spot for billionaires. You should read the way he sucks up to Barry Diller.)

Forty two minutes in.

Dana: "Is David Geffen the ideal buyer?"

John: "He says all the right things. As long as he doesn't make all of us write terrific things about Dreamgirls. If you look at what he says, it's all very appealing. He says that he wants a cultural and philanthropic legacy. He wants to do something that has some value for the company, I mean the city."

Patrick: "If you are so lucky as to free the newspaper from the obsession with quarterly earnings and predictions of future profits...and give the ownership to someone like David Geffen who clearly has made all the money he needs to make in this life and is clearly looking for a legacy and for a contribution to the city. In theory, that is a great way to go. I've written about David Geffen for as long as I've written about entertainment. We've definitely had our ups and downs over the years. But you'd have to say when you look at his history..., this is a man who is always associated with quality."

I ask the first question of the night. "What makes you think Geffen is a fan of free inquiry? The guy's a bully,. The guy is a blackmail artist. The guy's a thug. The guy is a lowlife."

Patrick: "He's a thug? I have a list on my wall of people I think of as thugs and David Geffen wouldn't come close to being on that list."

Sharon: "Patrick, come on. David Geffen is the one man...who you ask around town, people are afraid of him. They do not pick fights with him because David Geffen has nothing to do... He has a very long memory. He bears a grudge. He will mount a campaign against someone to get back..."

I chatted with a reporter after the event and we agreed that LA Times staffers are like a battered wife who dreams about being rescued.

Times staffers are so desperate that they'll imagine good things about a vindictive man such as Geffen.

The Tribune is a professional newspaper operation and the LA Times has been vastly improved by the Tribune's weeding out of hundreds of staffers and installing some pros in key positions. The Times is a more interesting paper to read today than it has ever been.

Kevin Roderick reports.

David Geffen And The L.A. Times

Kim Masters writes Dec. 28, 2006 :

I've heard from multiple sources in L.A., including an editor at the Times, that Geffen told a Timesman that were he to succeed in buying the paper, his first order of business would be firing a reporter in the business section who had crossed him. If Geffen has that on his to-do list—much less at the top—he is the wrong man at the wrong Times. Yes, he has a canny eye for quality, from Joni Mitchell to Jackson Pollock. But he could make Wendy McCaw, the multimillionaire owner who has decimated the Santa Barbara News-Press, look Pulitzer-obsessed.

Those who have dealt with Geffen while covering this business should find that obvious. Geffen is famously vindictive. One reporter now at the Times once called me in tears after an encounter with him on the phone (one truly has to be on the receiving end of his verbal savagery to appreciate it). And does anyone think he'll tolerate articles that annoy him or his friends? And he has lots of friends—from Hollywood to Washington, from Steven Spielberg to Hillary Clinton.