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Audio, photo, and documentary archives from the golden age of adult film in New York, and beyond
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...
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 is one of least likely characters we expected to feature in a podcast interview when The Rialto Report first began. For a start,...
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...
In 1964, Lorey Kaye, a twenty-year-old from New Haven, CT, moved to Manhattan to start a new life in the big city. Lorey was a fresh-faced,...
In ‘Taxi Driver’ (1976), Travis Bickle railed against social decay, moral corruption, and the depraved filth he perceived in the near-...
It all started over thirty years ago. I thought it would be interesting to track down people who’d been involved in the very first adult fil...
Jeanna Fine passed away last month. If you’re a regular listener to The Rialto Report , you’ll know that we like to interview a person...
Regular listeners will know that over the last few years, I’ve spoken to many female adult film actors who were active from the 1960s throug...
The adult film business is unique in that it has usually focused on women as the figureheads and main stars, and therefore often relegated m...
In 1979, Dennis Posa was on the verge of stardom. Against all odds, as Dennis Parker, he’d just released a disco record on a major recording...
I’ve always loved movies, especially the films I grew up with in the 1970s. I was seduced by their gritty realism, social commentary, comple...
This past week I phoned Paul Thomas , former adult performer and film director, also known as PT. I’m heading out to LA shortly and was call...
Years ago, I first saw the 1970s adult film Barbara Broadcast (1977) on the big screen, and it made a big impression. In the film, there’s a...
Who was the original actor cast in the lead role of the golden age blockbuster, The Devil in Miss Jones (1973)? Not Georgina Spelvin , the t...
In the first part of our interview with Susan Hart , we heard about Sue’s early years in 1970s Los Angeles, growing up in a strict Catholic...
Perhaps one of the less obvious aspects of The Rialto Report is that it may lead to the impression that people involved in the adult industr...
Previously on Chasing Butterflies – Stories of Cubans in Exploitation-Era Florida: After Dolores Carlos ’ retirement from acting in South Fl...
Previously on Chasing Butterflies – Stories of Cubans in Exploitation-Era Florida: You may remember Marcy Bichette ’s start in life from our...
Previously on Chasing Butterflies – Stories of Cubans in Exploitation-Era Florida: Manuel Conde had lived several lives even before he moved...
Previously on Chasing Butterflies – Stories of Cubans in Exploitation-Era Florida: Dolores Carlos was from a fiercely Cuban family, even tho...
Cuba may only be 90 miles from the southern tip of the United States – a leisurely boat trip on a calm day – but since the 1950s, the island...
A few years ago, I was researching an article for The Rialto Report when I came across a 1980 radio program from WBAI, a popular New York Ci...
Howard Ziehm , the pioneering adult film director, theater owner, author, polymath, and friend of The Rialto Report died last week in Califo...
By the mid 1990s, Dian Hanson could’ve been forgiven for thinking that she’d finally made it – and that nothing was going to derail he...
In the first part of ‘Dian Hanson, Chronicles,’ Dian spoke of her upbringing in the northwest United States, an often shocking f...
Dian Hanson is a unique figure from the world of men’s magazines in New York in the 1970s and 1980s, a world that overlapped strongly with t...
If the name Dian Hanson rings a bell for you nowadays, it may be because she’s a senior editor and writer for Taschen , the gold-standard, h...
Geri Miller may not be the most famous name from 1960s sex films, but she may well be the most interesting. With a story that includes Andy...
The Rialto Report recently acquired a collection of behind-the-scenes photographs and stills from the Stephen C. Apostolof / Edward D. Wood...
On the previous episode of Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story : On the heels of a very public divorce, Chuck Traynor and Linda Lovelace were...
On the previous episode of Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story: To everyone’s surprise, the sex film Deep Throat (1972) had become a financia...
F.M Bradley died last month just a few weeks shy of his 70th birthday. I can’t say I was surprised – Bradley had been in a nursing hom...
Michael Findlay was a young New Yorker, fascinated with film and the mechanics behind it. Julian Marsh was his alter ego, a movie director p...
Sex and violence have been part of movies since the very beginning. Ever since Thomas Edison made and exhibited ‘The Kiss’ in 1896, an 18 se...
In the first part of The Rialto Report ‘s conversation with Lisa Cintrice , we heard about her colorful upbringing, from a mobster fat...
Lisa Cintrice had a colorful life: for a start, her father was a New York mobster who was related to the most famous Italian priest of all t...
Seventy is no age to die. Especially not for a man as decent and good as Harvey Cohen. But last week, Harvey, who used to be the adult film...
In the 1970s, New York was a city on the edge: it was on verge of bankruptcy, beset by a crime wave, and overrun by the rampant sex industry...
In 1970s New York, hardcore sex films and adult bookstores raged across Times Square like a forest fire. It was great for the sex business,...
As we were preparing this weekend’s post, we received news of the passing of Neville Chesters, legendary figure of the 1960s UK music...
On the previous episode of Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story: When budding film director Gerard Damiano saw Linda Traynor/Boreman giving he...
This is Season 2 of Svengali – ‘The Chuck Traynor Story: Part 4, The Making of Deep Throat … What Really Happened?’ Previo...
New York. Mid-1970s. A new counter-cultural scene emerged. Punk was marked by attitude, antagonism, and angry, anarchic music. It attracted...
In the first part of the Sue Nero interview, we heard about her upbringing and subsequent move to San Francisco where she started work in th...
Some interviews take longer to happen than others. As for Sue Nero : well… it’s complicated. Let’s start at the beginning: Sue Nero was a la...
It was early summer in 1977, and the adult film actor, Jamie Gillis , should have been on top of the world. He was perhaps the most successf...
Kay Parker , one of the biggest names in golden age adult film, passed away this last week. She was 78. Kay was a west coast actor who enter...
Kitten Natividad died in Los Angeles this past week. The cause was kidney failure after suffering from cancer. She was 74. Kitten was a genu...
In the first part of ‘The Trials of Chesty Morgan’, Chesty endured unimaginable hardships in her life – a Jewish girl grow...