Kagney Linn Karter

This year's Adult Video News Award for Best New Starlet went to Kagney Linn Karter, a sad-eyed, oval-faced young lady from St. Joseph, Missouri (as she notes, home of the Pony Express) who is one of the new breed of porn stars--the businesswoman who has developed her marketing skills as much as her sexuality. I hadn't seen any of her films, but I've done my best to catch up, having seen her in ten of her 92 films.

The first one I looked at was Not Married With Children XXX, and she appropriately played the Kelly Bundy character in this porn parody. Karter (apparently her first name really is Kagney--were her parents fan of Warner Brother's gangster films or the cop show starring Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless?) projects the persona of the airhead, with her blonde hair and curvaceous body. But as I watched more of her work I got the underlying sense of her as less a ditz than a calculating careerist. I'm reminded of Dolly Parton's line, "It costs a lot to look this cheap."

Her look is defined by her large breasts, which are not real but her plastic surgeon deserves a medal, for they are true works of art. Accordingly, she appears in many films catering to over-sized mammary fans. Here's a sampling of titles: Big Wet Tits, Big Tits at School, Rack-Tastic, She's Got Big Boobs, Titty Sweat, Busty Cops on Patrol, and my favorite, Tits to Die For. But unlike some performers with with hefty chests, Karter is an overall stunning beauty. She'd be a star with a normal-sized set.

As a sexual performer, Karter is excellent, giving her all and displaying considerable talents in her repertoire. But I found some of her scenes interesting in context with the comments in her behind the scenes interviews. She frequently alludes to a promiscuous adolescence, at one point saying she didn't make her mother proud. Often during her scenes she ad libs, asking aloud if she is a "good girl," and in one scene proclaims herself "Princess Slut." It's easy to dime-store psychoanalyze and conclude that she has a bifurcated self-worth, coupling her past as an easy girl and her current life as a brand-name.