John Holmes began hanging around with a group of thugs who lived in a three-story home on the twisty mountainside Wonderland Avenue. He became their mule and errand boy in exchange for drugs.

Studio: VCX Director: Gerard Damiano Cast: Georgina Spelvin, Claire Lumiere, Erica Haven, John Clemens, Harry Reams, 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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Studio: AntiguaDirector: SeveralCast: Christy Canyon, Crystal Heart, Sasha Strange, Mandy Wine, Chantel, Tom Byron, Randy West, Joey Silvera, Ron Jeremy Portions of this review also appeared on Fleshbot Watching this series of 16 never-before-digitized scenes featuring Christy Canyon, it is easy to think of her existing only in the past. The cheesy 80′s porno music, [...]

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 [...]

Studio: VCX/Cal Vista/NuTechDirector: Wes BrownCast: Juliet Anderson, Serena, Seka, Jamie Gillis, John Holmes, Shirley Woods, Michael Ranger, Dotty Hart, Michael Morrison Portions of this review also appeared on Fleshbot One of the classics of porn’s Golden Age, the recently re-released “Aunt Peg” (1979) is the story of Peg Norton (Juliet Anderson), a predatory, high class [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Marilyn Chambers was signing autographs at a Girls And Corpses magazine event at Sunset Blvd.’s Meltdown Comics Saturday night. Having never seen one of her movies (1972′s Behind the Green Door is the most famous), I know her more as an Ivory Snow model and proud native of the State of Rhode Island. But I [...]

Proud pornographer Ron Sullivan, known professionally as Henri Pachard, was remembered today at a well-attended Buddhist ceremony in the Panorama City section of Los Angeles. Sullivan, who died September 27, succumbed at 69 to a three-year struggle with cancer. Veteran performer Herschel Savage moderated the two-hour ceremony, held at the Soka Gokkai International Friendship Center. [...]