Other nominees include a raft of titles from mainstays Digital Playground, Wicked, and Vivid, and also independent films like "Spunk'd", which is nominated in the Screenplay and Comedy categories.

Sweeping the nominations was the excellent "Upload", named in everything from the director to the group sex categories. But as always there were hundreds of films that delighted us in some way that didn't make the cut ('Insertz"), or that were nominated but we regret not seeing ("Blow Me Sandwich 11").

Nominations do help with sales, especially if there is enough money for publicity, and awards can push even an expensive movie solidly into the black, especially if there is extra cash for cable edits.

January's AVN Awards will be technically the magazine's 25th, having announced awards in newsletter fashion in its Pennsylvania infancy, and then gradually progressing through larger Vegas venues from the Tropicana to the Sands to, finally, the Mandalay. Join us at the awards on January 12 ... as well as via probably thousands of updates beforehand.

· AVN Awards (avnawards.com)
· "AVN AVN to announce nominees today, grousing set to begin thereafter" (gramponante.com)

See more of today's pornstars not as the camera usually sees them but how they really are after the jump.

Here is the always-devastating (and in remission!) Nicki Hunter with porn legend Rodney Moore. The soft-spoken gentleman from Connecticut delivers loads that can leave indentations. It was his "Vampires" party that was the occasion for such toothsomeness.

Moore reminds us of Graham Parker.

Here are Aurora Snow and Nick Manning from Guy Capo's "That 70's Shag". In this vignette from "The Sexual Revolution", Manning says he plays "the Young Ron Jeremy."

Finally, here's Herschel Savage with the legs of Emily Evermore (and a third leg of his own) on the set of Roy Karch's "Insertz", released this week.

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First there is the obvious homage to Janet Jackson's "Vibeology", not to mention that not capitalizing each of the letters of "Milf" is like a wakeup call to the world that the term will join "ginormous" in the dictionary next year as a legitimate word. We talked with postmodern director Roy Karch about his latest fraught-with-significance porn film after the gap.

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GP: So "Milfology" (starring Kelly Leigh, Vanessa Vidal, and Monique DeMoan, in order of pictures) . . .is there to be a "Milf Nation 1814" followup?
RK: I don't know what you're talking about.
GP: Stop playing, Girlfriend!

GP: What is a Milf?
RK: A Milf is a hot, sexy older woman
GP: How old does she have to be?
RK: She just has to look older.
GP: Older than me, or older than you?
RK: Older than the Olson Twins
GP:

GP: When "Milfology" is released next month, do you expect it to change the way people think about the sexual usefulness of the aged?
RK: Sure. Maybe in between the third and the fourth time the viewer jerks off to it.
GP: People jerk off to porn?
RK: Only if you're nasty.

· "Sinsation Pictures to distribute Roy Karch Productions" (avn.com)
· Roy Karch (roykarch.com)

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"Cousin Stevie's Pussy Party" turned 21 with its latest installment, though we're pretty sure some of the cast is not yet of drinking age. Here the girls get into what 12-step programs call an Ass Eating Spiral, though Sunny Lane can't be working her program if she's looking at us.

Join us after the gap for more pictures of your favorite porn stars not as the world sees them but as they actually are. - GP

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We don't get out to Allentown much (we heard they're closing all the factories down), but Jesse Jane does, probably in advance of her bid for the 2016 Republican nomination (she will be over 35 by then). Here Jane poses with some likely voters.

Power trio: Porn industry legends William Margold and Jennifer James pose for Luke Ford's camera. James is clutching the cover art for his film "Exxxtra! Exxxtra!" in a parking lot in Inglewood. Jeff Steward, distributor of "Donkey Punch", says, "I thought I would never say this, but I think it's best for all if the feds shut us down, put us in jail, and throw away the keys because these pictures prove that porn is dead."

Speaking of dead, Kirsten Price and "Porn Valley"'s Barrett Blade search for ghosts in the purportedly haunted Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip.

Emily Evermore, on the set of Roy Karch's soon-to-be-released "Insertz", proving incapable of resisting temptation.

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Richard Dreyfuss, who has been known to step in at Porn Star Karaoke now and then, has been further embraced by a grateful industry by having his 1974 vehicle "Inserts" adapted for porn by director Roy Karch.

"I bumped into Richard Dreyfuss at a Sunset Boulevard gas station in 1975," Karch said. "I said, 'I loved you in Inserts!'—this was after 'Jaws'—and he said, 'So you're the one.'"

Both the original and its adaptation (with a Z), about a brilliant director shooting porn to pay the bills, falling in love with his model, and drowning in alcohol, are obviously Lewis Carroll-level fantasies based on whimsy and nothing more. Join us after the gap for some shotz from the set of "Insertz". - GP

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Above, witness the flappery Emily Evermore counting her cash after a tryst with Herschel Savage. In the original, Evermore's character was played by the flappery Veronica Cartwright.

This week's "Insertz" shoot took place in a house high above Porn Valley. Not since "Secretary" or "An Inconvenient Truth" has a movie been more ripe for pornish adaptation. Playing Miss Cake (a role originated by "Suspiria"'s Jessica Harper!!!) is Nicole Sheridan.

Dreyfuss' character, known in the original as "Wonder Boy" is played by Sheridan's real-life partner, Voodoo. Here, of course, he is known as "The Boy Wonder".

"I haven't had sex in a while," said Mika Tan while donning her metal headdress. "I hope I'm not rusty."

Karch directs Voodoo, while Tan prepares for her scene with Lee Stone in the background.

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