Gram recommends the recently updated biography “John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches”

Nearly a quarter century after his death, interest in John C. Holmes isn’t “Exhausted,” and you get the feeling Holmes wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Gram speaks with Bob Chinn on his book-based reboot of Johnny Wadd

It was not from a lack of education on Holmes’ part that he knowingly exposed several partners to the virus by continuing to work post-diagnosis.

I will send you both “The Senator’s Daughter” and (what I consider) a good movie if you …

“… the couple rides through the empty streets of Century City in a convertible limousine, waving to no one. It’s like the money ran out.”

We wish the sadder-but-wiser Chambers were still around.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Buck Adams, 52, a porn actor and director, was remembered yesterday at a service falling on what would have been his 53rd birthday. He died October 28 in Northridge in the San Fernando Valley following a decade of heart ailments. Adams was a member of the Halls of Fame of both Adult Video News and [...]

Classic porn company VCX will re-release one of John Holmes’ signature movies, 1971′s Johnny Wadd, in September. I reviewed the movie for an upcoming issue of the adult trade publication XBiz. You should watch this movie for several reasons, all of them having to do with how different (and similar) shooting porn was in California [...]