Today in Porn Valley

Den of Iniquity: Legendary porn reviewer dies

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

business

Alternate universe XRCO Awards deemed “elegant”

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

Today in Porn Valley

John Leslie flags the train

John Leslie, who died unexpectedly December 5, was too young to go. But he lived an intriguing life full of fellow travelers.

celebrities

Ronnie James Dio: The Elf that Roared

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.

classic

Whatever works: Goodbye, Jamie Gillis

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

events

David Aaron Clark sent off in non-porny fashion

DAC also would have enjoyed having his ashes scattered on someone’s face

Known Pornographers

Into the Realm with David Aaron Clark

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

BDSM

Don’t you forget about John Hughes

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 [...]

celebrities

Richard de Montfort’s Last Sitting

Richard de Montfort, who died earlier this month, directed Scarlett Fay as Lindsay Lohan impersonating Marilyn Monroe in a recreation of Monroe’s 1962 “Last Sitting” pictorial. Of course de Montfort had Fay fuck her photographer afterward in “Hustler’s Untrue Hollywood Story: Lindsay Lohan,” which may or may not have also happened with Monroe and Vogue [...]

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No one ever built the roads after a Dirty Sanchez

“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 [...]

Known Pornographers

Stroll on, Richard Monfort

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 [...]

classic

Coroner: Chambers died of natural causes

“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 [...]

classic

Marilyn Chambers: Beyond the Far Door

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 [...]

reviews

Buck Adams remembered

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 [...]

Henri Pachard memorial: "He was one of the greats"

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. [...]

Wanker Wang’s death + one year

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 [...]

Anastasia Blue, 1980-2008

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 [...]

Today in Porn Valley

David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008

Ms Jasmin St Claire allows butane gas to be pumped via PVC into her colon and set afire on expulsion, resulting in a 3.5-foot anal blowtorch for Cream Productions’ 1998 Blow it Out Your Ass.’

WGL

Remembering Haley Paige, a little

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 [...]

Rest in Peace, Jon Dough

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 [...]

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Gram Through the Ages

Coming Events of Personal Interest to Gram

January 10
The 10th Annual XBiz Awards
The Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport
3021 Airport Ave. #203, Santa Monica, CA
Hosted by jessica drake and Kayden Kross

January 21
The 29th Annual AVN Awards
The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
Hosted by Bree Olson and Sunny Leone

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