Den was a true believer and a statistician the way an avid baseball fan is.

Gram wonders what the plane fare might be to the type of place in which the XRCO Awards were actually “elegant”

To love Ronnie James Dio is to be able to love a lot of things that at first may seem irreconcilable. It is the best kind of slippery slope.

Jamie Gillis, an actor whose eccentric and devious performances made porn seem like performance art, died February 19. He was 66.

DAC would relish the chance to come back as a vengeful Japanese ghost

Others may feel differently, but this was the most shocking thing I ever saw in a movie aimed at my then demographic: Molly Ringwald’s stunt crotch from 1985′s “The Breakfast Club.” (The second most arresting cinematic moment came a year later when Isabella Rosselini said “Hit me, Jeffrey.”) Iconic 80′s director John Hughes died of [...]

“Angela’s Ashes” author Frank McCourt, who died last week at 78, introduced me to a term far more hopeful than a Dirty Sanchez, Cleveland Steamer, or Blumpkin: The Knee-Trembler. It involves fucking your partner up against the wall, preferably at a bar, with the pressure on the spinal column enough to cause the legs to [...]

Photographer, director, and raconteur Richard Monfort, whose nom de porn was Richard de Montfort, will be memorialized Saturday morning at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery. He was 53 when he died earlier this month. Richard was the set photographer for dozens of Hustler movies, and was also an excellent director. I always looked forward to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Inkyo Volt Hwang, a porn director and webmaster who went by the aliases Chico Wang and Wanker Wang, was found dead a year ago today in a motel room in Morgan Hill, California. He was 38. For many, the discovery of Hwang’s body cleared up the mystery of the death of Maryam Haley, also known [...]

Porn star Anastasia Blue, 28, who stopped performing several years ago to settle down in Bremerton, Washington, has died. Blue, to whom a tribute was printed by her husband in Washington’s Kitsap Sun here (under her real name), died on July 19. In April of last year I was sent a re-released copy of Max [...]

Before presenting a brief remembrance of the porn performer Haley Paige, who died a year ago today, I’ll share with you an anonymous comment I just received on a post about the late Anna Malle: “hey anna is going to hell by the way..fornication is a big sin to God..she will suffer the blitz of [...]

There had never been a male contract performer before Jon Dough, who originated that position with Vivid and appeared in movies spanning porn’s late “golden age” to its gonzo phase. Dough, who died on Sunday of an apparent suicide, had appeared in over a thousand porn films and directed almost a hundred. He will be [...]