Studio: VCX Director: Gerard Damiano Cast: Georgina Spelvin, Claire Lumiere, Erica Haven, John Clemens, Harry Reems, Gerard Damiano (As Albert Gork) Suicide spinster Justine Jones discovers that Hell truly is other people in the re-released edition of “The Devil in Miss Jones.” This deluxe edition contains two versions of the film plus a lengthy interview […]

The late director Jim Holliday narrated a 1988 compilation called “Only the Best of Breasts” that should make anyone fall in love with Desiree Cousteau all over again. “She had gravity-defying tits,” Holliday said. But, like all porn (and science fiction), this movie says more about the time it was made than anything it’s supposed […]

At no point in the movie “I’m Good At Freaky,” which premieres Thursday night at the Los Feliz 3, is the title character identified as iconic record producer/convicted murderer Phil Spector. But what about that hair? I talked with “Freaky” director/coproducer Roy Karch, who finished filming the movie in April, just as Spector’s jury pondered […]

“The Devil in Miss Jones” star Georgina Spelvin’s autobiography got high marks from Tina Tyler, who sent this review from the Great White North. Tyler writes: Since you finally got around to watching “Doom Generation,” I figured it was about time to send you my book review of Georgina Spelvin’s “The Devil Made Me Do […]

This mound of Laura Doone is essentially one of their stock vaginas (which is not how I refer to the ladies in my swingers’ commune) with hair on it.

When women with large breasts do it, apparently, stalking is adorable. That is how Christy Canyon responded when my large-breasted friend Alix Lakehurst went on a cross-country road trip to meet and fawn over the 80′s porn icon. But my request for an interview with the Night Calls host and autobiographer was met with silence. […]

“Behind the Green Door” star Marilyn Chambers died of a cerebral hemorrhage and aneurysm resulting from heart disease, the L.A. County Coroner’s Office reported yesterday. Though two prescription medications were found in her system at the April 14 autopsy, the drug levels were within normal limits. Chambers was found dead on April 12 in her […]

I watched a preview of L.A.-based Cult Epics’ 3-disc collection “American Nudes,” featuring antique porn from the 20s, 30s, and 40s, photo-hobbyist films from Irving Klaw, and early color hardcore loops from the 70s. Included in the third disc of the collection is the best restoration I’ve seen of “A Free Ride,” thought to be […]

Marilyn Chambers, who provided one of the first – and most flattering – definitions of “porn star,” was found dead Easter evening. She would have been 57 on April 22. The Rhode Island native, born Marilyn Ann Taylor, starred in “Behind the Green Door,” the 1972 film that established San Francisco’s Mitchell Brothers as a […]

Larry Levenson, a brisket wholesaler, started the swing club Plato’s Retreat in 1977. Charging between $25 and $36 for admission (which included a dubious buffet), Levenson later that year moved Plato’s to a former gay bathhouse in the basement of Manhattan’s Ansonia Hotel. From then until 1981, Plato’s was like the Studio 54 for the […]

Nina Hartley, a woman beloved of everyone she meets, turns 50 today. “Tonight I’ve got a hot date,” she said. “I’m waiting for the weekend for the fancy dinner.” A week seems too short a time to celebrate Nina Hartley. Streets should be closed down. There should be sacrifices or something. But Hartley has always […]

I got a tanker of antique porn movies the other day from VCX, which reissues titles from the Golden Age from its various catalogue acquisitions. One was a movie I’d never heard of, 1975′s Little Angel Puss. Little Angel Puss (LAP) is a wayward teen who flounces around naked in front of her father. Her […]

One of the most inspired events of this year’s AEE will be watching Ginger Lynn and Shayla LaVeaux play RockBand with Tom Byron at the Tom Byron Pictures booth. Both Lynn and LaVeaux came to prominence when metal chicks meant something, as opposed to today, when your average porn performer can’t tell Foghat from Asshat, […]

Holmes is iconic in American and porn culture for many of the same reasons rock stars are: unchecked fame and ego, low self esteem and an addictive personality, a personal magnetism and, beneath it all, a gift that destroyed him in the end.

John Holmes single-schlongedly embodied the American narrative of success, downfall, and redemption in its porn context, which means something different from any other context. And his story as told in a new book by Jennifer Sugar and Jill Nelson, John Holmes, a Life Measured in Inches, unfolds that story as comprehensibly as possible. I say […]

Gerard Damiano, who died in October, wrote, produced, and directed 1975′s The Story of Joanna, a gloomy and, as they could get away with saying at the time, thought-provoking porn starring Jamie Gillis and Tern Hall as a couple who take power exchanges very seriously. The movie screens this Saturday at midnight at Hollywood’s New […]

“I had to strip down naked to begin my journey,” Kay Parker said.

The letter from Playboy’s Home Entertainment Division that accompanied my copy of the three-DVD set Playboy After Dark read: “Grammy! Here is your sophisticated entertainment. I hope the lack of cumshots isn’t disappointing.” Is that what you people think of me? I dimly remember repeats of Playboy After Dark, Hugh Hefner’s “rumpus room party” from […]

With a clear beginning, middle, and end and a few comic moments that are perfectly timed, as well as “Matlock”-worthy acting, it is embarrassing that I now look on a woman with a hairy pussy as an abomination.

Anna Malle, who appeared in about 350 adult movies, died yesterday in Las Vegas. The car in which she was a passenger was hit by another car. The Clark County Coroner’s Office confirmed that the woman known legally as Anna Hotop, 38, was killed in the crash, which occurred off State Road 160 near Rainbow […]