AVN Awards Part One: Red Carpet

07:43 AM PT, Jan 8 2006

It may be big business, but the AVN awards are sprawling chaos to get into. The AVN publicity reps told press to come at 6:30 to set up for the red carpet arrivals though that was 2 hours before doors opened (and the show didn't even wind up starting until 10 PM). When I got there the fans easily numbered in the thousands. They (with their cameras and video recorders) lined the entire route though the hotel and casino snaking past the restaurants and bars, and then past the theatre where Blue Man Group plays, winding up all the way at the banquet room located near the very back of the Venetian. This is a distance that easily would equal several football fields and the fans were packed into rows 5 or 6 people deep in spots.

One expert from Playboy gave a rough estimate that about 2,500 "porn stars" were in attendance at the convention. And, of course, unlike the other Hollywood if you don't watch adult movies (and, I don't) it is hard to know who is who. One person I recognized was Mary Carey, (pictured right)

because of her run for Governor during the California recall. I had heard a rumor that she had been thrown out of her room at The Venetian earlier in the week for fighting with her boyfriend.

She told me, "I did get thrown out of the Venetian. But I am allowed in for the show. I was in a fight with my boyfriend. I was drinking and I wanted to keep going out and he didn't want to go out anymore. So, I called hotel security on him. And, I found out when you falsely call hotel security you get thrown out."

She explained this just moments after mentioning that she intended to run for governor again. And, Robin Leach, who was covering red carpet next to me smartly asked, "Is this gubernatorial behavior?" To which Carey replied "It is not Governor behavior but it is Mary Carey behavior and that is all that matters."

(photos by Richard Abowitz)
Stand by for my report from inside the show.

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