The New York Times covers the 23rd Annual Adult Video News Awards: "A Night to See the Stars Actually Wearing Clothes." The awards show featured an audience of 3,000, 104 categories, and one award winner, Tyla Wynn, who declared: "Speaking in front of people is hard." The article is accompanied by two video reports from the X-rated scene in Las Vegas by Times writer Matt Richtel.

When the night began, starlets paraded past more than a hundred photographers. The divas said they had agonized over what to wear. Tanya Mercado, 31, whose stage name is Gina Lynn, wore a strapless black gown from Nordstrom, bought after she had rejected two others as not fitting quite snugly enough.

Not everyone makes a big deal about the awards. Even Ms. Wynn, a winner, said in an interview the day before the ceremony that she had trouble remembering one of her sex scenes that was nominated.

"What's the movie called?" she asked, trying to distill just one title from the 150 movies that she said she performed in last year. A few moments later, it came to her - "Too Hot to Handle" - whose plot she described as two women who wear the same outfits and then have sex.

pearldiver

San Antonio, TX

November 2005

JAN 10, 2006 09:14 AM

Imagine the irony - or something, of being at an event, perhaps with family and friends, and being called to the stage to accept an award for "best anal scene."

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susannah_breslin

I'm lost

June 2005

JAN 10, 2006 06:44 AM

pearldiver

San Antonio, TX

November 2005

JAN 10, 2006 09:14 AM