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Adam Film World magazine: The Complete 1980 Issues
We continue our digitization project by looking at the west coast film magazine Adam Film World – and this time reviewing the issues published in 1980. These issues include interviews with people such...
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R.I.P. Jennifer Welles (1937-2018) Podcast 3 (reprise, with a new introduction)
It’s with great sadness that The Rialto Report marks the passing of Jennifer Welles. She passed away last Tuesday at the age of 81. Jennifer Welles was one of the last truly old school performers. In...
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Cinema-X Review: The Rise and Fall (and the complete 1980 issues)
We look at the creation of the adult film magazine, Cinema-X Review, in an interview with one of the founders, Jason Russell – and continue our digitization project by re-publishing issues of the...
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The Stripper and the Congressman: Fanne Foxe’s Story – Podcast 82
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. There’s this powerful American politician who’s at the top of his game. Then you’ve got a notorious sex worker with a love of performing. They have a scandalous...
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Eric Edwards: The Women of My Life Chris Jordan, Arcadia Lake, and Renee Summers
If you were an adult film actor in the golden age, personal relationships could be problematic. For a start, there was the social stigma of being a performer in a world that was struggling with the...
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High Society: 1976, The First Year – An Issue by Issue Guide
High Society was one of the most successful adult magazines published in New York in the 1970s, and had a number of connections to the adult film industry. It’s initial publisher was Sue Richards, also...
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AFAA Award Ceremonies A Pictorial History, Part 1 (1977 – 1980)
For the last three decades, the AVN awards have dominated the adult film industry. But long before there were the Adult Film Association of America (AFAA) Erotic Awards hosted from 1977 until 1986....
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Whatever Happened to Levi Richards? The Journey to Hart Island
Seriously. What happened to Levi Richards? The basic facts about his adult film career are public knowledge. Levi Richards was an early actor in New York – a good looking, B-player not interested in...
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Adult Cinema Review: The Complete 1981 Issues
We continue our digitization project with the east coast film magazine Adult Cinema Review – looking at who was behind publication of the magazine and reviewing all the issues from 1981, its first year...
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Adult Film Locations – Part 12: The Misty Beethoven Mansion
Every day at the Rialto Report, we get multiple requests to track someone down – and 99% of the time, it’s a female performer. However there’s one search that we’ve been doing for years, and it’s not...
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AFAA Award Ceremonies A Pictorial History, Part 2 (1981 – 1984)
After the first four AFAA Award Ceremonies in the period 1976 to 1980, the ‘Eroticas’ hit their stride in the 1980s when an abundance of good quality adult films were made. Given that movies like Talk...
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Working for Mr. X: California 1988 Podcast 82
On this episode of The Rialto Report, we listen to a rarely heard documentary made in 1988, called ‘Working for Mr. X’. The mid to late 1980s marked an inflection point for the adult film industry....
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Cheri magazine in 1976: The First Year – An Issue by Issue Guide
We continue our digitization project with the east coast film publication Cheri, looking at the birth of the magazine, and reviewing all the issues from 1976, its first year in business. How did editor...
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The Changing Face of Adult Film Stars: Ed Geller’s Photographs (1979-2001)
The adult film industry has constantly changed – as film-making techniques, aesthetics, and fashions have evolved, and were subsequently adopted and reflected in explicit sex films. One of the more...
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Keli Richards: Coming Out Of The Shadows Podcast 84
Keli Richards’ career in adult films was short and sweet. Her flame burned brightly at a time when Ronald Reagan was president, video was king, and Los Angeles was staking a claim to be the adult film...
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Keli Richards: A Fundraiser
A few days ago we published an interview with 1980s adult film star Keli Richards. In that interview, Keli shared stories from the sets of some of her most popular films like Caught from Behind, The...
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The Mob, ‘Blueboy’, the ‘Senora Orgasmo’… and the Birth of Video X magazine
In the 1970s and 1980s, adult film magazines had a number of features in common; for example, they were either published in New York or on the west coast (Los Angeles/San Francisco), and they often...
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Adult Film Locations – Part 13: Camille 2000 (1968)
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first day of the shoot for Radley Metzger’s film Camille 2000. It was perhaps Radley’s most typical film – wildly elegant, extravagant, and erotic – and so The...
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Two weeks ago, following our interview with 1980s adult film star Keli Richards, we launched a fundraiser for her. Thanks to your generous donations, we have since raised over $2,000 for her. When we...
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‘Taboo American Style’ (1985): An Outsider’s Story Podcast 85
As much as we enjoy talking with veterans from the golden age of adult film, I’m aware that their perspectives are always those of an insider. Their observations, experiences, and even memories are...
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