To paraphrase a line from the movie, “Network,” Robert Lombard is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore!

How does a guy go from Mr. Rogers to the Incredible Hulk? Well, I’ll let Mister Hulk tell you in his own words.

Robert Lombard writes:

A Saga Of Truth.

When I first started crossing over the Adult Stars into the late night soft core world almost now 7 years ago.....NO ONE wanted this group of talent except the company that saw the future of what the Adult Talent could bring to the table in this genre.

Even the largest erotic content provider only used this talent pool for sex roles or very very small dialog roles and never gave any of them lead or co-star opportunities until most recently.

Well as we know this is now in the history books. As we all know that many well-known adult stars have been working on a regular basis in this genre and more and more are continuing to enter my doors for this extended opportunity.

NOW I have reached a point where I feel it is only right to voice my feelings and these feelings are of anger! Anger towards all the other producers, which are few, who produce the "R" rated late night cable soft core content.

They are aggressively pursuing these now cable established adult stars with under handed agendas. I just want the adult community to know that NOT ONE OF THESE INDIVIDUALS that may be seeking out your abilities currently wanted you nor they did even want to know you all existed! I repeat NONE OF THEM!

Comments from these individuals ranged from "Porno people are drug addicts", "They are not reliable". "They can't act", "It is embarrassing to be near them".. "They are disgusting".........etc. etc. etc.

Am I the boy now crying wolf? NO

Am I expecting the adult stars to say NO to these individuals? NO

What I do want is this!

#1. I want all the wonderful adult stars who have entered my life over these last 7 years to realize that these individuals [producers] who are seeking you out now are two-faced and they have realized that they can not sell their programs without your involvement!

#2 I want you all to know that No ONE is going to promote your participation in this genre like I have and will continually do so.

#3. And my initial intentions bringing you all in this side was with the utmost integrity! As I knew all of you would bring this genre up a notch and overall make the programs more appealing to the overall viewer. And this I can prove with statistics and the many Emails I receive from true soft core fans and from the talent themselves who have experienced and met this new fan base when they are touring the country feature dancing.

Robert Lombard

jimmyD sez: After re-reading the sparse few sentences I concocted to introduce Lombard's rant, I thought I'd personally revisit the line I paraphrased from the movie, "Network," written by Paddy Chayefsky.

In the movie, the line "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" is part of a monologue spoken by Peter Finch in his role as network anchorman, Howard Beale.

This flick came out 29 years ago. Paddy Cheyefsky most likely wrote these words 30 or more years ago. Read them and consider how far we've come--actually, how far we've not come--as a society and a nation in the last 30 years.

The only word I'd change in the following monologue is the word "Russian." I suppose I'd replace it with the word, "terrorist," to make this monologue more relevant in 2004. That's about it: One fucking word.

Here's Howard Beale's monologue:

Howard: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's no one anywhere that seems to know what to do with us. Now into it. We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and TV, and my steel belted radials and I won't say anything." Well I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians (terrorists?)and the crying in the streets. All I know is first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a human being. God Dammit, my life has value." So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" I want you to get up right now. Get up. Go to your windows, open your windows, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Things have got to change my friends. You've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open your window, stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"




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