On Jan 12, 10:58 pm,
tyrone...@aol.com (Tyrone Hearns) wrote:
>
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> Erica Boyer Killed in Traffic Accident
> Popular performer won awards for both gay and straight roles
>
> Posted Jan 12th 2010 03:47PM by Mark Kernes
>
> PORN VALLEY—According to news reports, actress Erica Boyer was killed
> on New Year's Eve in a traffic accident near her home in Panama City
> Beach, Florida, where she had been living since her retirement from
> the adult industry in 1994. She was 53 years old, and is reportedly
> survived by one son.
>
> The Panama City News-Herald has reported that Amanda Jensen, Boyer's
> real name, was traveling south on Front Beach Road (U.S. Highway 98)
> near Second Street, and while attempting to cross Front Beach Road was
> struck by a 2001 four-door Hyundai being driven by an off-duty officer
> in the Florida Highway Patrol, Gregory Lowe of Fort Walton Beach. She
> was killed instantly. The accident occurred at 8:20 p.m. on New Year's
> Eve, and is currently under investigation by the Highway Patrol.
>
> According to the Internet Adult Film Database, Boyer began her XXX
> career in a little-seen 1974 movie, Cowgirls In Chains, but waited
> another five years before fully taking the plunge into adult acting.
> From that point, she worked regularly for another 25 years, during
> which period she racked up the vast majority of her 184 features.
> However, she did come out of retirement briefly in the early 2000s.
>
> "The only time I ever worked with Erica was when she found out I was
> making a movie with Marilyn [Chambers]," recalled actress/director
> Veronica Hart. "She flipped; she said, 'I have to do a scene with
> her.' It's something she'd wanted to do all her life, and she
> basically came out of retirement to do a scene with Marilyn, because
> she just loved her so much."
>
> The movie was Dark Chambers, the second of a trio of movies Chambers
> did for VCA beginning in 1999, and Boyer's final on-camera appearance.
>
> "She was just so nice and so sweet," Hart continued. "She was living
> in Florida. Everybody had only the nicest things to say about her. She
> was just a gem to work with, and she was so thrilled to work with
> Marilyn, and I was so happy to be able to put them together."
>
> Boyer was known primarily for her girl/girl scenes, and reportedly,
> that was her preference off-camera as well.
>
> Asked in a 1989 interview whether there were any real lesbians in the
> adult industry, bisexual actress Nina Hartley replied, "There used to
> be two: Erica Boyer and Barbara Dare. While for many years they had
> lesbian relationships off camera for emotional support and identified
> themselves as lesbians, each recently got married to a man. Obviously,
> they were basically bisexual and just hadn't found the right man yet.
> They still enjoy sex with women very much, and there will always be
> that love and affection for women. But at this point in time, they
> have bonded with a man."
>
> Indeed, at the first X-Rated Critics' Organization (XRCO) Awards show,
> Boyer was given the "Lascivious Lesbian" award for her performance
> with Robin Everett in Bob Chinn's Body Girls. VCA's Every Woman Has A
> Fantasy also won that year for "Most Erotic Film of the Year," in
> which Boyer had essayed a solo, a girl/girl and a threeway scene for
> the film.
>
> But it appears that Boyer's sexuality—and in fact, her life—was more
> complicated than that.
>
> "She was a wonderful, wonderful, crazy, incredible woman," recalled
> director F.J. Lincoln. "I don't ever think I've heard her use a cross
> word against anybody. I know everybody's going to tell you she wasn't
> reliable, and that part is true: You would hire her and then think of
> an alternate because she wouldn't always come to work ... but when she
> did, she was incredible, and her and I almost ran away in Europe. We
> worked in italy and then we went to Germany, and we had money, and she
> said, 'Fuck it, let's not go home; let's just roam Europe till we run
> out of money,' and I guess if I'd been ten years younger, I would have
> said, 'Yeah.'"
>
> "She was primarily a lesbian," he continued, "but when I first met
> Brad Armstrong, it was at Erica's. She invited me onto her patio and
> Brad was there. He was her latest boyfriend."
>
> Boyer was also a free spirit when it came to psychedelics.
>
> "We were all doing mushrooms once," Lincoln remembered, "and she had
> this thing, when she would do mushrooms, she would change her clothes
> like ten times during the night, and her makeup too. Our apartments
> were adjacent, on top of a bar in Ventura, and all of a sudden we
> heard her scream, and we went running into the other apartment to see
> what was wrong, and she was standing there crying and saying, 'I
> shrunk! I shrunk!' What she had done is put on this giant sweatshirt
> which made her arms where the elbows go and the bottom of it went
> almost to her feet—and it was a gag, a joke, but that was the kind of
> person she was."
>
> "She was absolutely hilarious, and sexual, too," he continued. "We
> were staying in Germany in this old castle, and it was when Interview
> With The Vampire had just come out, the book, and all day, she was
> reading me little excerpts, especially the excerpts where the little
> girl vampire, her mind grows, she gets older but her body stays the
> same, and she starts seducing her victims."
>
> "That night, I went upstairs to my little pointy-roof bedroom," he
> continued, "and I got in bed, ready to go to sleep, and there's a
> knock on the door, and she's standing there in this little cotton
> nightgown with pigtails, holding a teddy bear, and she says to me,
> 'I'm really afraid and I can't sleep; can I say in here with you?' And
> I said, 'Sure, why not?' And she got in the bed and she turned herself
> so all I could see was her beautiful neck, and I became a vampire. We
> started to get together, and I realized how incredibly inventive this
> woman was, and she was just so much fun to be with. This is really a
> loss."
>
> Besides her acting talents, Boyer is also credited with scripting
> VCA's The New Barbarians 1 & 2 in 1990.
>
> Check back to AVN.com for updates as more details of her death become
> known.
>
> A gallery of Erica Boyer images can be found here.
>
>
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