Hello,
Here's an observation from Ron Silver who will be starring in a TV show called "Skin" which revolves to some extent around the porno world. Evidently he visited a few porno sets to presumably get more insight into his role. (Yeah, right!- hehe)

"Everyone in the industry is a star," he says, "there don't seem to be any bit players."

Funny, I've been thinking that for years now as the term "porn star" has become increasingly ubiquitous. When I was a kid I remember riding in the back of my Mom's station wagon going to Tommaso's Restaurant which was located in the "red-light district" of San Francisco. I'd stare at the huge promo posters outside the theatres which featured the "stars" of the day. They were the luminaries of the industry at a time when there were no video cameras and there wasn't nearly as much porn around. (And you had to go to a theatre and watch the movies there. How weird is that?)
I always roll my eyes at the use of the word "star" when it's used to refer to anything other than a celestial body, but in the theatre years of porno, as I like to call them, there seemed to be only a handful of folks who appeared in most of the productions. Their names actually brought a bit of cachet to the films. Sounds ridiculous, but I can remember Seka being quite a celebrity in the pornohouses and skin magazines of yore. She was very famous. Now, with the sheer volume of porno that is produced worldwide, and the large number of adult performers in the industry it is kind of ironic that they are all "stars."
It's not ironic in a bad way, but it's just something I've reflected on here and there, and Ron Silver is the first person I've run across that seems to share my sentiments on this very unimportant issue. -- XXOO Tanya