Can we at least go a couple of months without a porner mistakingly believing that the real world is interested in them as a person?

From AVN.com:

"CANOGA PARK, Calif. - Lexington Steele, Mercenary Pictures owner and three-time AVN Male Performer of the Year, recently taped guest appearances in two episodes of the popular Showtime series Weeds.

Steele told AVN that, unlike some porn stars whose cable TV gigs often amount to brief walk-ons, he appears "multiple times," and with dialogue, and playing himself.

The episodes of the sitcom about suburban pot-growers are slated for broadcast in September, he said.

In another crossover venture, Steele has created Mercenary Entertainment to produce pilots for a reality show and a cable-TV talk show. The reality series pilot has been shot but is still untitled.

The pilot for the talk show, Lexington Steele Live, was shot last weekend with guests from a variety of show biz disciplines: rapper Spliff Star, R&B singer Porscha, actor-comedian Mistro Clark, and Steele's porn star colleague Julian St. Jox.

Also appearing was new starlet Lexani Banks, who is featured on the cover of Mercenary's Black Moon Risin' 6. Future guests will also include well-known sports figures who are Lex fans.

Steele said his Playboy TV talk show, Lex in the City, "was very well received. But it was their show. This one belongs to Mercenary Entertainment."

He'll be shopping both projects to premium cable networks, primarily HBO, Showtime, VH1 and Spike TV.

Mercenary Entertainment will essentially be the mainstream-oriented face of Steele's Mercenary bloc."

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Am I the only one who thinks that the work history of brutal anal sex and continuing allegations of sweaty man love and threats of violence will hinder Lex's ambitions to become the Maury Povich of porn?

damnit i love that show. but i'll hold my opinion on whether or not it has jumped the shark until after i see the episodes in question.

mary louise parker on the other hand gets

I really wish porners would get a grip on reality and realize that to the wider world, performers are a curiosity at best and a health scare at worst.

The average family or viewer is quite happy to watch an interview or gawp from afar, but the idea of someone who sticks their dick in asses for a living cracking the mainstream is

Lex has the Lori Lust syndrome. I wonder if his reality pilot shows him taking a cock in his ass.

As soon as a black man gets some status, y'all try to pull him down.

Go on Lex, follow your dreams and I hope it works out for you, bro!

Tritone, it would be a fucking cool world if you were color blind. For the record, Chuck's black and I tan real well if I spend enough time in the islands.

I couldn't give a fuck what color a porner is: delusion knows no ethnic boundaries.

Hmmm... didn't he already have a show on Playboy that was half mainstream and half porn ?

Hmmm... whatever happened to that show ?

Michael