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Kern shot Stefania, but he really shot the deputy

December 23, 2008 Gram the Man 1

Richard Kern is a famous photographer of nudes, and Stefania, here, is the latest of them. He has a web show on Vice TV called […]

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Jenny Hendrix: The Porn Actor’s Nightmare

December 11, 2008 Gram the Man 7

“When I was in high school I’d always have that dream where I was naked in front of people,” Jenny Hendrix said. I had to […]

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Books: Prostitutes provide great return of investment

December 3, 2008 Gram the Man 1

I spoke with Natalie McLennan, formerly Manhattan’s priciest prostitute (aside from David Gest) and most recently the author of The Price: My Rise And Fall […]

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Help Angelina Armani learn to love L.A.

October 27, 2008 Gram the Man 0

Angelina Armani is Digital Playground’s newest contract performer. I met her while I was walking through Hollywood, solving crimes. “I’ve just been here two months,” […]

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Sexy as duck: New York sex writers announce monthly visitor

October 16, 2008 Gram the Man 4

I admit that I shouldn’t feel offended – but I am – to have not been asked to pose for the The New York City […]

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Hell’s Kittens preview: Priapic Disorder

August 28, 2008 Gram the Man 7

I don’t pretend to understand Beat Pornographer Joe Gallant’s movies, the latest of which, Hell’s Kittens, arrived recently in preview form, but that is always […]

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Nick Manning and Sarah Jesse dream of Dean Moriarty

February 14, 2008 Gram the Man 0

Here Nick Manning and Sarah Jesse study Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” scrolls at the New York Public Library in a scene from Joe Gallant’s […]

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Long Island bids to become Porn Valley East

January 30, 2008 Gram the Man 5

Until recently, the only porn residents of Long Island could lay claim to was a flash of Margot Kidder’s nipple in the original Amityville Horror. […]

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Submitting your kink – whatever that is

October 10, 2007 Gram the Man 0

New York’s Cine-Kink Festival takes pains (is that kinky?) to not box itself in (is that kinky?) by defining “Kink” in its request for submissions […]

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Audacia’s (cup) half full

October 4, 2007 Gram the Man 0

My pal Audacia Ray was asked by Time Out New York what her fantasy was. Eschewing, I’m sure, the urge to reply “universal health care” […]

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China Barbie no dream ho for Mattel

August 23, 2007 Gram the Man 4

I spoke with performer/director China Barbie, who Tuesday was sued by Mattel lawyers in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The manufacturer of the blonde, blue-eyed […]

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Joe Gallant: “The machinery is weird.”

March 8, 2006 Gram the Man 0

I spent some time immanentizing the eschaton with hippy freakout director Joe Gallant this week. Gallant, 48, has put together an impressive series of porn […]

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