Jenna Jameson; the long goodbye

It's been since April of 2007 that Team Jenna Fatigue surfaced for air to comment on the media debacle that has become Jenna Jameson. So after a quick remark about something totally unremarkable we disappeared ---- until now. It seems that at the '08 AVN Awards Jenna declared her legs forever closed in a bizarre retirement speech before presenting some inane 'mainstream crossover' award named in her honor.

I found the clip on Luke Is Back so here it is: Jenna Jameson’s Awards Show Speech

So where does this leave us? Where does Team Jenna Fatigue go from here? We don't think Jenna has been doing much sex action lately anyway and Playboy - who owns Club Jenna - most likely has plenty of not-yet-seen footage ready to push on the public over the next few years.

Gram Ponante at Porn Valley Observed goes The Economist route to ask the big questions and get some perspective on how the news of Jenna's retirement affects 'the future of the porn superstar'.

But does the general porn fan really care? Is Jenna even considered a big draw these days? Her name still means something in mainstream circles because who the hell else are media folks going to reference? But for rabid porn consumers is she still sought after for product?

Each time we see Jenna these days in magazines and on the web she looks a bit 'off,' let's say. Here are some images we spotted on Drunken Stepfather the other day (w/ nonsensical AVN clip).

I guess she could write another book. Then there's that bio-pic of her life. She can just keep popping up in gossip magazines and on celebrity sites who traffic in such madness to keep the profile glittering.

Maybe it's just time she stepped aside. Not sure if she could ever just walk away from the media attention. Where does a world-famous pornstar just drift away too? It might not be a bad idea to lay low for awhile. We honestly do not care, but because of her 'newsworthy' moment the other night declaring her vagina officially closed for business we figured a brief comment on this site, the preeminent source for all things media nonsense related to Jenna, and get it out of our system.

We might be back. We might not. We think Jenna is already plotting her COMEBACK FUCK video extravaganza so perhaps when that hits the news cycle we'll return to say how thrilled we are to have her back where she belongs - wherever that is......

Love,

Us

Island Dispatch: We have to admit there isn’t much these days to keep us from our daily activities of lounging on the beach with a cold beverage and reading classic Hemingway. But when news filtered down to our tranquil island paradise that Jenna Jameson had been hiding out after a supposed botched vaginoplasty and then re-appeared at a porn convention looking frighteningly skinny and sporting a kooky Posh Spice haircut and then subsequently blaming her extreme weight loss on the stress she’s been under while publicly feuding with her ex-husband Jay Grdina -- well… how could we not towel off and comment on such media ballyhoo?

We hadn’t even realized she’d hooked up with Tito Ortiz so any word about her vagina maintenance was a complete surprise. As for her looking like Posh Spice, well it’s a bit much.

And then there’s the movie adaptation of her autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, which should surely put cinema back 30 years should it ever make it to the big screen. Who are they going to get to play Jenna? This is the big question. We’ve heard Scarlett Johansson is rumored to be interested in the role, but the whole ‘taking it up the ass’ chapter of the porn star’s heralded (small screen) career may dampen Ms. Johansson’s enthusiasm for the project. But we shall see.

The point of this dispatch is due to the fact that Jenna is all over the media these days and that can only mean one thing: Jenna Fatigue. Way too much media coverage of the adult star who seems to be having a resurgence of late, what with the vaginoplasty and extreme skinniness making news. Porn-star and vaginoplasty is always two words that when put together will create a whirl of media interest.

And so we once again put down the expensive liquor, practice our reporting skills (noting news reports from other sources, that is) and seek out examples of Jenna Fatigue around the globe.

Because, quite honestly, it’s enough already!

Jenna, Divorced

Our last post was July 20, 2006. Because ‘All Things Jenna’ finally took its toll, that’s why. We needed a respite from the daily grind of filtering out all the latest and greatest Jenna news. It’s taxing, quite taxing, on all the senses.

And yet, upon hearing the NEWS that the boobalicious adult star is getting divorced from her husband, we perked up long enough from our siesta to post an update.

It seems the XXX star is dating UFC fighter Tito Ortiz. We have no clue who that is, but then again, we’re on an island in the middle of nowhere so stuff like that is meaningless.

This really isn’t big news, unless you’re truly concerned about Jenna’s love life, and if you are, you need help.

We’re not sure how involved we want to be in the Jenna/Media game; while we enjoy looking at her boobs, it’s the actual work part that gets in the way of our relaxing. But there’s something about Jenna, rather the Jenna phenomenon. In our estimation, it’s cooled somewhat, from, say the time when her book hit the shelves and she was pretty much everywhere.

She’s also since sold out to Playboy, which has rendered much of the business side of the Jenna Empire rather dull.

However, this period in her public life and career might be somewhat interesting; she’s really not a working porn star and more than likely possesses hours and hours of pre-filmed material just waiting to be released -- a few, buzz-ready titles a year for the foreseeable future.

But where does she fit in now to the media zeitgeist? With so much ‘adult’ content to be consumed on the ‘Net and elsewhere, a glut of user-generated content featuring sexy, ‘real’ girls and a laundry list of skanky actresses and socialites on the scene, in the tabloids and on magazine covers each week – many of who having shown there vaginas ten times as much as Jenna has in the past year -, where does pornography’s most recognizable face go for a little media hand-holding?

Damn good question.

Will she be rendered obsolete this time next year? Will she re-launch herself into a new content medium, with a new message?

It’s another damn good question.

There’s so much to discuss when it comes to Jenna. We’re going to try and make sense of it all, if that’s at all possible. And without a bottle of Jim Beam it might not be.

To be continued….

After a few weeks lounging on the beach on an island in the middle of nowhere, far from any news of the buxom Jenna and her continuing takeover of the entertainment world, we are tanned, rested and ready to dive back into the waters presently occupied by Jenna Jameson and the always jovial and unpredictable/predictable mainstream media.

Our return to interesting/boring/annoying news about Jenna brings us one of the better story headlines we’ve had the pleasure of reading in quite some time.

Poor Mojo Newswire: Fucking isn't bad for Feminism

"These well-intentioned prudes proffer a false choice: Be the next Jenna Jameson or support Hillary for president. There's no room for a lusty woman in office (never mind Mary Carey's political ambitions), and certainly no credence given to strippers or adult performers, who they see as airheaded sluts."

Drunken Stepfather: Jenna Jameson Photoshoot of the Day

Just because....

The XXX factor

Hollywood's increasingly frequent connections to pornography only parrot what's happening in the rest of popular culture. Hard-core websites fill the Internet, adult performer Jenna Jameson's 'How to Make Love Like a Porn Star' was a bestselling book and hard-core DVDs generate estimated annual sales in excess of $12 billion.

miaminewtimes.com - The Mantra at Tantra

"In another room, Jenna Jameson, dressed in a sleek black belly-baring top, her long platinum-blond hair hanging in a flattering frame about her tan face and kohl-lined eyes, sits in a booth that's invisible from the main entrance and dance floor. Her entourage of four beefcakes sandwiches her."

Strip clubs go on offensive

"'The argument is a red herring,' said Richard Hertzberg, who represents Paradise Valley porn start Jenna Jameson, a part owner of Babe's. 'I've been trying to get adult bookstores and clubs in this city for 30 years. It can't be done.'"