A Chat With Marcus Allen
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2001 5:04 pm
Greetings one and all,
I was rappin? with modelling agency proprietor ?Marcus Allen? the other day and he was bemoaning the state of the UK glamour/porno industry. Apparently, he just can?t get any decent girls anymore, they?re just not coming through the door like they used to 10 years ago. He said ?I?ve had it up to here. If 20 or so girls phone up to enquire about modelling and say they?ll come over for a test shoot, only 2, or 3 actually turn up and they tend to be scrag ends and bottom of the barrel material. I?m just wasting my time and money putting adverts in the London rags.? He went on to say that ten years ago he would have had a line of stunners queuing outside the door - girls good enough to promote and take up the West End to show off. Perchance to get their pictures in a mainstream paper, or magazine, maybe even get them on TV.
He reckons the problem is that all the best girls now go straight into pole dancing, or escorting, where they can easily earn ?1000.00 a week. They look at video work and think ?I?m not doing that for just ?300.00 a session and get all the agro and grief from friends, family and acquaintances, not to mention the poxy Tabloid Press.? Escorting and pole dancing is low profile, so only their colleagues will know what their job is. Marcus says that nowadays he?s just left with the rejects - girls who don?t have the looks or intellectual capacity to make it in escorting and pole dancing. The kind of girls who would not be capable of holding even the lowliest of straight jobs down! These are sad times indeed for British adult video.
But there is a glimmer of hope. I inquired if this unfortunate trend could be reversed and Marcus reckoned that indeed it could. It was all a question of dough. Video producers just need to make it worth girls while to get into video - maybe offer US rates of pay, or even a little more. It would be worth it for some classy English babes and quality product. Of course these increased costs would mean that price cutting and discounts would be off the agenda. But neither would there be price rises. It would just mean that punter would have to pay what they would expect to pay for a ?proper? (not bootlegged) Private video. I just wondered what video consumers think of that?
The Gezzler.
I was rappin? with modelling agency proprietor ?Marcus Allen? the other day and he was bemoaning the state of the UK glamour/porno industry. Apparently, he just can?t get any decent girls anymore, they?re just not coming through the door like they used to 10 years ago. He said ?I?ve had it up to here. If 20 or so girls phone up to enquire about modelling and say they?ll come over for a test shoot, only 2, or 3 actually turn up and they tend to be scrag ends and bottom of the barrel material. I?m just wasting my time and money putting adverts in the London rags.? He went on to say that ten years ago he would have had a line of stunners queuing outside the door - girls good enough to promote and take up the West End to show off. Perchance to get their pictures in a mainstream paper, or magazine, maybe even get them on TV.
He reckons the problem is that all the best girls now go straight into pole dancing, or escorting, where they can easily earn ?1000.00 a week. They look at video work and think ?I?m not doing that for just ?300.00 a session and get all the agro and grief from friends, family and acquaintances, not to mention the poxy Tabloid Press.? Escorting and pole dancing is low profile, so only their colleagues will know what their job is. Marcus says that nowadays he?s just left with the rejects - girls who don?t have the looks or intellectual capacity to make it in escorting and pole dancing. The kind of girls who would not be capable of holding even the lowliest of straight jobs down! These are sad times indeed for British adult video.
But there is a glimmer of hope. I inquired if this unfortunate trend could be reversed and Marcus reckoned that indeed it could. It was all a question of dough. Video producers just need to make it worth girls while to get into video - maybe offer US rates of pay, or even a little more. It would be worth it for some classy English babes and quality product. Of course these increased costs would mean that price cutting and discounts would be off the agenda. But neither would there be price rises. It would just mean that punter would have to pay what they would expect to pay for a ?proper? (not bootlegged) Private video. I just wondered what video consumers think of that?
The Gezzler.