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February 26, 2007

Lucas Entertainment sets record with 14 awards!!!

WINNER Best Picture
WINNER Best Director: Michael Lucas & Tony Dimarco
WINNER Best Actor: Michael Lucas
WINNER Best Supporting Actor: Spencer Quest
WINNER Best Threesome: Michael Lucas, Jason Ridge & Derrick Hanson
WINNER Best Non-Sex Performance: Savanna Samson
WINNER Best Screenplay: Tony Dimarco
WINNER Best Editing: Frank Tyler
WINNER Best Music: Nekked
WINNER Best Art Direction: Tony Dimarco
WINNER Best Videography: Tony Dimarco
WINNER Best Marketing Campaign
WINNER Best DVD Extras/Special Edition
WINNER Best Packaging: Tony Dimarco

We've won the most awards EVER, and we've also won every award we were nominated for. TWO RECORDS! This is gay porn HISTORY. Click here to own an award winning copy of Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita! Hurry up, because from what I hear, they are flying off store shelves! ;-)

Also, when you order from The Lucas Entertainment Online Store, you get the 3-disc DVD Directors' Extended Cut with bonus scenes and material not found anywhere else! Three Bonus Sex Scenes (Erik Grant & Cole Ryan, Chad Hunt & Rod Barry, Michael Lucas & Spencer Quest) PLUS an AMAZING Bonus Watersports Scene (Michael Lucas & Spencer Quest) and more. Don't wait, order your copy of Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita today!! —Edmond the Web Guy

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February 21, 2007

Wipe out

Unfortunately the comments from my last three posts got accidentally erased. The spam filter I use is a bitch to deal with! Sadly, once the comments are gone, they're gone.

Please feel free to repost any comments you left... and any new ones you may have!

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February 16, 2007

My Official Statement about the "Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita" lawsuit

Hello Everyone,

Some time in December, I received a letter from the lawyers representing International Media Films asking me to cease and desist sales for "Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita." My lawyers responded to them promptly, setting out clearly why the law does not prevent me from using the Fellini movie as inspiration and reinterpreting it in another time and place. My own movie features different characters, situations and a different title. Before even investing so much of my company in this movie, I had consulted with lawyers about it in order to avoid violating any laws.

Overall, I have mixed feelings about this whole thing. On one hand, I am very proud that my film is being taken so seriously by my opponent – although pornographic, I take great pride in creating high quality productions with realistic situations about the benefits of honestly enjoying your sexuality – something noticeably absent from Fellini’s film. On the other hand, I can see that their actions are incredibly homophobic. There is a straight pornographic movie that was produced in Italy in 2003 called "La Dolce Vita." It contains many of the same elements in the Fellini version, bears exactly the same title, and has been sold all over the world for the past 4 years. But International Media Films did nothing about it for years. International Media Films, apparently, feels that only my gay film, which sells for considerably more than DVDs of either Fellini’s film or the straight porn film of the same name, could tarnish the reputation of the Fellini classic. This is incredibly homophobic.

What else can I tell you? No one in their right mind could confuse my movie with the Fellini movie. My movie is clearly identified as "Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita." Many movies share even identical titles and no one is confused. And the content of my film is very different — the plot, the theme, the artwork, the place, the time. It takes place in New York City in the year 2006. It has an all-gay cast, with the exception of Savanna Samson. My movie celebrates homosexuality. That's in contrast to Fellini's movie, where stereotypically feminine and vulgar gay characters appear for just a few seconds. Now how many times have we seen films, commercials, and photographs which recreate the well known fountain scene from Fellini's movie? It's what we call inspiration, and there’s nothing illegal about it.

Will someone confuse my version from Fellini's? Absolutely not. They are sold in different places. You will never see my movie at Barnes & Noble, and you will never see their movie at the adult video stores that sell mine. The prices are completely different, too. Mine is priced at $99 online and around $60 retail. Depending on the version, Fellini's costs significantly less. Even looking at the box covers side by side, you would hardly confuse me with Marcello Mastroianni, and the half-naked kissing guys around my image will also not confuse you to think that this is a mainstream production.

There is no denying that I have admired the filmmaking of artists like Federico Fellini, as I love movies produced in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. I am inspired by them, and the First Amendment protects my right to comment on them by reinterpreting the themes in them for gay life in 21st Century New York. In no way is this a remake or a violation of any rights. I produced a new movie with a new script. The gay industry has a history of taking mainstream titles and making a parody of them. International Media Films clearly does not like to see the Fellini film being parodied by my commentary. But they should develop a thicker skin, rather than try to suppress my creative work.

I also believe that this also might be a publicity maneuver by International Media Films, which has proven to work on their behalf. Yesterday and today I was bombed with interview requests, from magazines to blogs. There are dozens of articles that have appeared in newspapers like the International Herald Tribune to the New York Post to Wall Street Journal, and beyond to a countless number of blogs. Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," which is not very well known to the average American, was released over 40 years ago in its original Italian language. Its director and most of the stars are long dead. And now, it is getting enormous free publicity... something I know something about.

— Michael

PS: Links to some of the articles I mention above:

Wall Street Journal Law Blog

The Associated Press (International Herald Tribune, CNN.com, Advocate.com)

New York Post

GAYVN

Towleroad

Gothamist

Fleshbot

GaySexBlog.Net

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February 14, 2007

Anna Nicole

Isn't it sad how our media is catering to people's bad taste with its coverage of Anna Nicole's death? When I came to America years ago I remember it was all about Elian Gonzalez for weeks and weeks. Then it was about that little beauty queen/hooker Jon Benet whatever the fuck her name was, which went on for years. And then on the day of the invasion of Iraq, the networks couldn't decide on what to report first—the invasion or the sudden reappearance of Elizabeth Smart.

Well now it's Anna Nicole Smith taking all of the attention away from the war and giving the White House a moment to breathe. Sorry, but her "moment" has stretched on now for too long. What is the big fuss about? Who died, exactly? A tacky, stupid, vulgar piece of meat? An animal with very large boobs and very little feelings? She drove her son to his death by humiliating him in front of the entire country with her ridiculous show, and then almost immediately after he died she appeared happy, diving in the ocean with her disgusting boyfriend! Everyone is so shocked and in awe that this useless noise-maker ended her miserable life that no other information has been able to squeeze its way into the news. And apparently this is just the beginning, with this bunch of disgusting, awful men crawling into the picture, claiming the rights to her offspring.

People are actually comparing this poor excuse for a human being to Marilyn Monroe! Not that she was a genius, but at least she was a real actress and had great taste in men—Arthur Miller, Joe DiMaggio, and of course JFK. So let's not even go there. Anyhow the most amusing thing I found about Anna Nicole is a video clip from MadTV, which I've posted below. Check out the ending. A premonition?

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February 13, 2007

From the mouth of a secular Arab woman...

For those who disagree with what I have to say, listen to her in this clip. Maybe you will think she has more authority to talk, being an Arab herself. I greatly respect her.

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February 01, 2007

Rio wrote:

Michael, you are a hypocrite!
why do you always preach hatred towards arabs and muslims??
Your blog seems to always have some racial comment.
I find it disgusting. I am an arab and a muslim, i have jewish friends and i have had jewish partners in the past, we dont have a problem against the jews, Israeli politics is another matter. Get your facts straight...maybe a copy of Chomsky will do you good.

My response:

Dear Son of Allah,

First, you should educate yourself a little bit. My blog has no racial comments, as Islam is not a race, it is a religion. Someone much more intelligent than I stated, "speaking of racism in relation to a religion and not a race is a disservice to language and intelligence." In my blogs I am speaking of Islam and its followers, Muslims. Now how am I a hypocrite? I think you need a vocabulary lesson. Am I a hypocrite because I call things by their names, or because I show a video clip that shows the fact that Muslims collaborated with Nazis in murdering innocent people during the second World War?

You want to know why I despise followers of Islam? The list would be far too long, but I will give you my favorite points and I will not go very far back in time. Tell me brother, who's been terrorizing the world for the past 50 years? Who commits 99% of the world's terrorist activities? Who is committing all of the suicide bombings in the name of Allah? Who's behind every major terrorist plot, executed or not, from that of September 11th in the U.S. to the bombings in London several months ago? Who is responsible for the security checks at airports and government buildings all over the world? Who is responsible for us paying exorbitant costs to secure our ports, buildings, airports, and tunnels, etc.? Isn't it because of your people? Yet, you are still proud to tell me that you are a Muslim, that you live by this book, which is no better than Mein Kampf?

Yes I absolutely despise, hate, and fear Islam and my reasons are so obvious and clear, if one cannot understand my anger, he is a fool. In fact I hate the religion which in most Islamic countries imposes burkas on women, denies women an education, visits to doctors, in which polygamy is a norm, where gay people are publicly executed in front of entire towns, where for drinking alcohol you receive the death penalty. And yes, I said that I fear Islam, not just because of what they inflict on their own people, but because they try to impose their insanity on the entire Western world.

In the name of the Qur'an, Muslims have terrorized the entire world for centuries. Can you name a single part of the Western world where in the name of Allah, your brothers have not executed or planned a terrorist attack? Muslims feel that they have the authority to kill people just because they don't grow long beards, wear burkas, or because they drink alcohol or watch movies, love music, television, and simply love life. Your brothers want to kill infidels because we make love with whomever we want whenever we want.

Why the fuck would I respect your people, if they don't respect mine? What would be the point? There is not a single Islamic country in the world that has a democratic regime, or even a shade of democracy. In the 21st century, Muslims still cut people's heads off for violating archaic religious principles, cut off women's fingers for wearing nail polish, cut people's hands off for stealing, et cetera.

Now, you are telling me that you personally do not have a "problem" with Israel and have Jewish friends and I suppose you are homosexual as well. So how the hell are you a Muslim?

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