Gram Ponante forces a pun so far that they’re wiping tears in heaven

Maybe Vivid’s presence in that bone orchard was proof that when you die, that’s all there is.

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

“The Twilight Zone” porn parody follows the theme of much of Thomas’ free love era-inspired ouevre: Sexual repression fucks people up.

In a very real way, all porn is good. But the following titles were better.

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 [...]

Studio: VividDirector: Paul ThomasCast: Sasha Grey, Penny Flame, Tom Byron, Evan Stone, Aliana Love, Trent Tesoro, Herschel Savage, Lee Stone Portions of this review also appeared on Fleshbot “I didn’t mean for this to happen,” intones Julie (Sasha Grey), commenting on her (naked, of course – are you kidding?) corpse a la “Sunset Boulevard” via [...]

Vivid’s Steve Hirsch, who co-founded the company in 1984, was inside. Hirsch is one of only a few of Porn Valley’s CEOs who has managed to keep his company afloat from the dawn of VHS through the Great Internet Dilution. The others are Larry Flynt and Adam & Eve’s Phil Harvey.

Studio: Vivid Director: Paul Thomas Cast: Kelli McCarty, Daisy Marie, Voodoo, Kelly Leigh, Steven St. Croix, Jennifer Dark, James Deen, Herschel Savage Portions of this review also appeared on Fleshbot Kelli McCarty, star of Paul Thomas’ new movie Faithless, evokes a Golden Age porn queen but with millennial sensibilities. So she is like a drug [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

I was stuck in an airport recently with nothing but a dial-up connection and a flimsy bathrobe (don’t ask), and updated the following areas of GramPonante.com, which have been dormant for so long you probably ceased to hope they would be restored: Galleries: Just about everything I’ve taken a picture of in the past year [...]

I wrote a porn screenwriting article for XBiz and it was published there a few months ago. Since then I got a complaint from a director who felt I misrepresented him, so I’ve left his name out of my edit of the article. How do we recognize good screenwriting in a business that, sales show, [...]

Six years in the wake of the AVN-financed web series The Money Shot, about the inner workings of a Porn Valley trade magazine, AVN financier Vivid is releasing Layout, about the inner workings of a Porn Valley trade magazine. The Money Shot, about the day to day operations of the Blue Movie Guide (BMG), drew [...]