Tina Marie – Good Tina, Bad Tina – Part 2: Podcast 177
Tina Marie straddled two completely different worlds: by day, you could find her behind a desk in a Beverly Hills legal office or by the poo...
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20 of 212 episodesTina Marie – Good Tina, Bad Tina – Part 1: Podcast 176
When you think of adult video vixens in the 1980s, you may think of Ginger Lynn , Christy Canyon , or Traci Lords . But they weren’t the onl...
Unknowing Ray Horsch – Episode 5: Darkness, Podcast 175
A look back at Ray's controversial life and work in his last years, in light of the investigation into the disappearance of several women.
Unknowing Ray Horsch – Episode 4: Turning Point, Podcast 174
After the death of his wife, Ray Horsch returned to the world of adult film.
Unknowing Ray Horsch – Episode 3: Crime, Podcast 173
A few years after first meeting Ray Horsch, I returned to his home in Philadelphia to film an interview with him. It was there, and in subse...
Unknowing Ray Horsch – Episode 2: Performance, Podcast 172
When I first visited Ray Horsch at his home in Philadelphia to interview him, most of the conversation was about New York in the early 1970s...
Unknowing Ray Horsch – Episode 1: Youth, Podcast 171
Today the Rialto Report re-visits our relationship and the various interviews with Ray Horsch , the subject of a ongoing murder investigatio...
Brandy Alexandre – 2000 Days, Part 2: Podcast 170
The concluding part of Brandy's story - and tales of Buttman, John Stagliano, People's Court, being blacklisted, and the infamous flame wars...
Brandy Alexandre – 2000 Days, Part 1: Podcast 169
Over the years, Brandy Alexandre always seemed to have a habit of turning up at unexpected times and in unexpected ways. For example, she we...
The Murder of Kathy Harcourt: England’s First American Adult Film Star – Podcast 102 (reprise)
Kathy Harcourt was an English XXX star in America in the early 1980s. She appeared with Lisa DeLeeuw , Seka , Billy Dee , and Ron Jeremy in...
The Complete Disappearance of Cheri Champagne, Part 2: Podcast 168
In the previous episode of The Complete Disappearance of Cheri Champagne : After years of hearing mysterious stories about the 1980s adult f...
The Complete Disappearance of Cheri Champagne, Part 1: Podcast 167
Cheri Champagne was active in adult films in New York in the early 1980s - a pretty, dark-haired performer, an unusually cool, devil-may-car...
Christy Canyon – New York, 1992: Podcast 166
In this era where everyone seems to be chasing follows, likes, shares, and clicks I have to admit I try not to look at which Rialto Report i...
Jeanna Fine: Flesh & Blood – Podcast 165
The 1980s and 90s adult film A-lister Jeanna Fine passed away 6 months ago way too young. A few weeks after that, we shared an interview I s...
Tanqueray – I’ve Always Been Different, Part 2: Podcast 164
In the first part of my interview with Tanqueray, we heard the striking story of Tanqueray’s early life – long before she became such as vir...
Tanqueray – I’ve Always Been Different, Part 1: Podcast 163
Back in 2014, a woman called Stephanie contacted me at The Rialto Report . She described herself as ‘a designer of erotic costumes’ and shar...
Tiffany Clark (1961-2026), R.I.P.
The former adult film star Tiffany Clark passed away this week. Some might say this comes with the territory when you cover an industry that...
Beth Anna – Sweet & Savage: Podcast 162
Memory is a tricky thing. Small details can burn brighter than some of life’s defining events. The act of recall and the power of suggestion...
Zebedy Colt – Shooting the Breeze with the Eccentric Thespian of XXX: Podcast 161
Zebedy Colt is one of least likely characters we expected to feature in a podcast interview when The Rialto Report first began. For a start,...
The Gospel According to Ron Jeremy in 1986, with Barbara Nitke – Podcast 160
Back in the day, everybody seemed to have an opinion about Ron Jeremy – and maybe that was part of his appeal. He was probably the most ubiq...