· 3rd Degree Films (www.ThirdDegreeFilms.com)
· Buy "Hair Force One #4" (gamelink.com)

· AVN Erotic Film Festival 2009 (avnfilmfest.com)
· Thumbnail star via Ask Jolene

No one connected with the actor said "It'll only have to sell, like, 20 copies to beat 'Hollywood Homicide'." (Well, maybe Defamer might have.) If the tape exists, our money is that it will be called "Member 2." Most shocking of all is they have libraries in English hotels?
· "Red Light District Offers $500,000 for Josh Hartnett Sex Vid (AVN.com)

If the fact that she was just signed as the newest Club Jenna contract girl weren't already a portent of her ambition and the splash she's about to make on the adult scene, Lela Star's nom de guerre (not to mention that cute tattoo on her right hip) should tell you everything you need to know about her potential—after all, she's not calling herself "Lela Supporting Player" or "Lela As Featured Girl #2", is she? (Though it probably wouldn't have made her any less hot if she had.) Now the only thing that she needs to do is to decide whether she's going to spell her name with two R's (as she does on her official website) or only one (like it appears in the AVN article-slash-press release announcing her Club Jenna gig or on her MySpace page.) Because in this business, branding is everything.

· Lela Starr (official site @ lelastarr.com)
· Lela Star (myspace.com)
· "Club Jenna Signs Lela Star" (avn.com)
· Club Jenna (clubjenna.com)

We're starting to feel a little bad now about our uncharitable assessment of this year's AVN Awards last Saturday night; now that we've returned from Las Vegas and have (mostly) caught up on sleep, we're looking at the photos we just uploaded and are feeling a pang of wistful nostalgia for all those popping flashbulbs and exposed cleavage. Maybe the awards ceremony really weren't as overlong, tedious, and self-congratulatory as we thought it was? Or maybe ace Fleshbot photographer Nikola Tamindzic has a knack for making anything seem glamorous, no matter how overlong, tedious, and self-congratulatory things might have seemed at the time?

Either way, gag on the glamour in these 135 photos from last weekend's to-do; we'll be adding IDs to the gallery over the course of the week in preparation for our annual fashion roundup commentary on Friday, but these were too good not to share with you right now. (Besides, given how tired we're starting to get of using the words "AVN", "expo", "awards", and "shoulder stink" in our posts, the sooner we can get this stuff off our hard drives the better. After all, we have to start getting ready for next year.)

· 2007 AVN Awards Photos: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3 (Fleshbot Gallery)
· Above (l-r): the very glamorous Tera Patrick, Jenna Jameson, Justine Joli, and Hillary Scott
· Photos by Nikola Tamindzic (ambrel.net)

Previously: 2007 AVN Awards: Is That All There Is?, Fleshbot's 2007 AVN Expo Coverage

We're still sleep deprived, perpetually hung over, and subsiding on a steady diet of overpriced hotel minibar bottled water and single-serving cans of Pringles (at $5 and $3.75 respectively), but at least a lot of other folks are looking a little bedraggled too by the third day of the 2007 AVN Expo—save for the fans who lined up starting at noon, schwag bags in hand, and remained enthusiastically jostling and gropy until six this evening. Fortunately, ace Fleshbot photographer Nikola Tamindzic braved the photo op clusterfucks and dozens of skimpily-clad babes handing out discount strip club passes to bring you our third installment of photos from this year's expo. It's the next best thing to being there! (Minus all the reality camera crews following every third starlet around and German tourists stepping on your foot while trying to get their own shot of Ron Jeremy.)

· 2007 AVN Expo: Day Three (Fleshbot Gallery)
· 2007 AVN Expo Gallery (Fleshbot Gallery)
· Fleshbot's 2007 AVN Expo Coverage
· See more photos by Nikola Tamindzic @ Ambrel.net

Previously: 2007 AVN Expo: Day One, 2007 AVN Expo: Day Two

Team Fleshbot might be functioning on a collective six hours of sleep since we touched down in Vegas on Tuesday, but the bloom was still on the rose for most of the folks at the 2007 AVN Expo today, most of whom seemed to be enjoying the last precious few hours of relative calm before the floodgates were opened to fans this afternoon. Peruse ace Fleshbot photographer Nikola Tamindzic's photos from today's expo while we try to sneak in a disco nap before tonight's parties. And if you're starting to think all that enhanced boobage, juicy booties, and fishnet stocking action might be too much of a good thing, how do you think we're feeling right now? (Especially on six hours of sleep.)

· 2007 AVN Expo: Day Two (Fleshbot Gallery)
· 2007 AVN Expo Gallery (Fleshbot Gallery)
· Fleshbot's 2007 AVN Expo Coverage
· See more photos by Nikola Taminzic @ Ambrel.net

Previously: 2007 AVN Expo: Day One

The lights! The sounds! The boobs! The butts! The babes! The long lines of non-industry folk trying to get in despite the fact that today's launch of the 2007 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo was open to trade only! The boobs! The babes! OK, we're repeating ourselves—but we wanted to give you some idea of what this whole crazy scene is all about. Maybe we should just let our photos do the talking?

Check out our exclusive gallery of shots from the first day of this year's AVN Expo ... and keep refreshing that browser window, because we'll be posting new pictures all week as quickly as we can get to a reliable internet connection (no mean feat at the wirelessly-challenged Sands Expo Center, or at least that part of the media area where we're expected to work). We might not be able to get schwag bags and personally autographed 8x10 glossies of all your favorite stars for each and every one of you, but hopefully ace Gawker Media photographer Nikola Tamindzic's photos will be the next best thing to being here.

· 2007 AVN Expo: Day One (Fleshbot Gallery)
· 2007 AVN Expo Gallery (Fleshbot Gallery)
· Fleshbot's 2007 AVN Expo Coverage
· Above: Fleshbot Supreme Comandress Joanna Angel welcomes you to Las Vegas (or at least the Hustler/VCA booth)
· See more photos by Nikola Taminzic @ Ambrel.net

The ever-virginal (it doesn't count if you don't do guys) Justine Joli heads up our end-of-the-week look back at last year's Adult Entertainment Expo Las Vegas experience as we count down to next week's AVN Awards. With second-to-last-minute preparations underway for next Saturday's show, join us after the gap for more pictures from a simpler time 12 months ago. - GP

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Here is the delightful Gina Lynn, stripper first, porn star second. "I have size four feet," she said. "I didn't realize how much people were into feet until I took my shoes off once at a shoot and then the session became all about that."

I didn't know that about feet either. This year has been a voyage of discovery for me.

You ever hear of Shane's World? Have you wondered, like I did, who "Shane" was? Here she is. After starting the company with some advice from her ex, one Seymore Butts, Shane sold ownership of the company that still bears her name. She has never met Casey Parker, and for that I am sad.

Standing next to "Memoirs of a Modern-Day Geisha" director Jennifer James is Joanna Angel. The exchange went like this:

Me: Joanna, may I take your picture?

Angel: (Something to the effect of) I would do anything for you, in public, at your slightest whim.

Me: Right. Except convert.

(Small commotion. Jennifer James appears, walks into shot)

James (to Angel): I'd really like to work with you. Do you have a card?

Me: I'm working here. Wait a minute. May I get a picture of the two of you?

It is one of my favorite pictures ever.

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

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Previously: AVN Countdown Archive, Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

As part of our countdown to this year's AVN Awards, we look back at the porn version of a media conflagration that was Britney Rears, which burned so bright that it toasted poor Jessica Sweet, star of "Britney Rears" 1 and 2. Seen here promoting the living shit out of the first installment of the pop-shot princess saga (now fronted by Hillary Scott), Sweet was sanguine about the title role going to someone less nasal later in the year.

"Britney Rears is bigger than one person," she most certainly did not say, not continuing, "It is time for the nation to heal." - GP

· Jessica Sweet (videography @ searchextreme.com)
· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

Previously: AVN Countdown Archive, Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

Our breathlessly expectant countdown to this year's AVN Awards continues today with corn-fed cutie Katja Kassin, uncharacteristically not greased up and pointing her ass at us, who explained the meaning of the German term Landmadel when we asked her if there was a similar expression in her own language for "corn-fed".

"A Landmadel is a woman who might not be smart in books but who is sturdy and strong," Kassin, whom we love, said. "She is ready to go most of the time." So now we know.- GP

· Katja Kassin on MySpace (myspace.com)
· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

Previously: AVN Countdown Archive, Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

As part of our continued countdown to this year's AVN Awards—and in the wake of Digital Playground's exciting new Contract Girl A Day initiative—we present old pals Jesse Jane and Kirsten Price, exclusive to Digital Playground and Wicked Pictures, respectively, and co-hosts of Playboy's "Nightcalls". Does the hectic life of a porn studio contract star leave time for healthy interpersonal relationships? I have no clue, because I lack the understanding that Evan Stone's parts in me would convey. But maybe.

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Meanwhile, alt cutie Riley Mason, star of the Fleshbot-acclaimed "Girls Lie" and fan, like me and you, of potassium, mentioned that a Japanese fan had demanded she pose with a banana, which he proceeded to throw on the floor when the picture was done.

"I don't know if that was part of the turn-on," she mused. Fumes and limited funding prevented our photographing her with 78 tons of toxic waste on a barge in the East River. - GP

· Digital Playground (digitalplayground.com)
· Wicked (wicked.com)
· Vivid-Alt (vividalt.com)
· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

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Previously: AVN Countdown Archive, Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

Fleshbot's rabid Pursuit of Truth continues with this week-ending joyride of photos from last January's AVN convention in feverish anticipation of next month's awards show. Join us here and after the gap for some choice picks to take you through the weekend and into Ought-7, starting with Fleshbot Crush Object™ Sophia Santi looking suitably vixenish. - GP

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Through the year, the J.C.'s Girls spokesMILFs have become blonder in their media campaign to introduce Jesus to porn stars, or whatever it is they say they're doing. All I know is that none of them thought to wonder WWJD while their SUV blocked parking garage lanes at one of the many adult conventions they attended this year.

"Surely Our Savior wouldn't impede the flow of traffic while chatting on His cell phone or unloading His outfits," I thought.

Here is Hillary Scott rocking the classic finger-in-the-mouth vogue whilst posing with technology that is currently so 20 gigabytes ago.

Finally, anonymous Shane's World hirelings for some reason rep their company by sitting in a tub. Still, they were fun to look at.

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

Previously: AVN Countdown Archive, Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

Our relentless coverage of the advent of the AVN awards continues with this snap of Fleshbot Supreme Comandress and birthday girl (yes, she shares her nativity with the Messiah) Joanna Angel and fellow alt porn hearththrob Kylee Kross, who braved the Sands Expo Center's recirculated air to show off their alabaster parts in a sea of spray-on tans.

"What is alt porn?" someone in the crowd asked Angel.

"Please ask someone else," she replied. - GP

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

In our tireless campaign, now a full day old, to bring you the sights and smells of the looming AVN Expo, we present the mysterious Flower Tucci looking delightfully assful in her assless chaps. Walking through the convention is, as Einstein noted, like standing still as asses come at one at the speed of light.

Yo Einstein! E=mc^ass! - GP

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

The AVN Awards will be held at the Mandalay Bay Casino and Whatever Else on January 13. Starting today—and don't you forget it is because things are pretty goddamn slow around here—we will count down to the blessed day with photos from the 2006 convention.

Contrary to what the website says, the 2007 fete will only be the first time the 24th annual awards have been held; last year was number 23, and the previous year was number 22, and so on.

Here are former Penthouse Pets and current porn studio contract stars Heather Vuur (formerly Heather Vandeven and now NinnWorx' poster gal) and Sophia Santi (formerly Natalia Cruze before Digital Playground got its wonderful meathooks into her). I love them so much it makes me woozy; I don't care what they're calling themselves lately. - GP

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)

Previously: 2006 AVN Awards: Relive the Magic!, 2006 AVN Awards Fashion Roundup, More AEE 2006 Photos