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Whatever Happened to Pat Barrington? Movies, Murder, and Dance
We’ve always loved Pat Barrington at The Rialto Report. She had a short career in films in the 1960s, as well as being a dancer and model. Over a five-year period she made memorable appearances in...
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George Payne: Wild Man – Podcast 02 reprise A Fundraiser
When we launched the Rialto Report a few years ago, one of the first people we were keen to interview was the actor George Payne. He was a dramatic and intense on-screen presence in early 1980s New...
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The Rialto Report honored at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human...
School’s out for Summer. It’s end of semester for The Rialto Report, and as we head into a short break we were privileged to receive honorary Doctor of Arts degrees this past week from the Institute...
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Spalding Gray – At Show World, New York (1977)
The Rialto Report is on holiday this week, but we wanted to share a previously unseen portrait of actor and writer Spalding Gray that photographer Joyce Baronio gave to us....
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‘Radio’ Ray Wells: An Actor Looks Back
The Rialto Report is on vacation this week, but when ‘Radio’ Ray Wells got in touch with us to ask if we’d like to showcase some of his scrapbooks – how could we say no? Ray was an actor on hundreds of...
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‘Deep Sleep’ (1972): Deep, Deep Trouble Podcast 52
In 1972, Alfred Sole, a first time filmmaker, made an X-rated film called ‘Deep Sleep’. He didn’t know much about adult films or the industry, so he shot it in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey and...
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‘Behind The Green Door’ (1972): The Unpublished Story By George McDonald
When George McDonald starred in the legendary golden age adult film Behind the Green Door (1972), he was already a veteran of the San Francisco skin flick scene. In fact, his film career was almost...
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Adult film locations 3: ‘Pretty Peaches’ (1978)
Alex de Renzy‘s Pretty Peaches (1978) was one of the first adult films we ever saw – and one of the very best of the golden age. It was shot in the summer of 1978 – and we’ve always been curious to...
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Roberta Findlay: A Respectable Woman Podcast 53
It’s safe to say that Roberta Findlay wasn’t immediately interested when I contacted her for an interview. In fact I lost count of the number of times she told me to just go away. Actually I do...
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Whatever Happened to Lorna Maitland? Her Beauty, Tragedy and Mystery
When Russ Meyer was casting the lead for his ground-breaking film ‘Lorna‘ (1964), he knew exactly what he wanted. In the words of the movie’s publicity, ‘Lorna‘ was “a wanton of unparalleled emotion…...
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Jennifer Welles: The Lady (Un)Vanishes
The Rialto Report really took off when we tracked Jennifer Welles down for one of our first podcasts. Over two years after its posting, it still remains one of our most popular interviews. We’ve stayed...
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George McDonald: The First Adult Film Star Podcast 54
George McDonald was an adult film star at a time when there were no adult film stars. He started in the era of short, silent 8mm films and saw first hand the progression to full-length pornographic...
View ArticleCandida Royalle 1950-2015
She picked up a hat and danced lightly around the room. I took her picture as she laughed. “I feel young when I dance”, she said. Farewell our friend and sunshine. Candida Royalle (1950-2015) The...
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Candida Royalle: ‘Femme’, Feminism, and a Female Icon Podcast 35 reprise
Our friend Candida Royalle passed away this week. She was 64. Candida was a former star of pornographic movies who became a self-styled feminist filmmaker at 30 when she started producing and directing...
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Adult film locations 4: In search of Miss Aggie, The Devil and Miss Jones
The Rialto Report set out this summer to look for one of the more mythical locations in adult film history: the house and countryside that were used for the filming of The Devil in Miss Jones (1973)...
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The ‘Pastry Films’ (1976-77):The Untold Story by Howard Ziehm
When we interviewed Howard Ziehm earlier this year about his pivotal role in the birth of the west coast adult film industry, we were excited to learn that he’d been working on an autobiography, Take...
View ArticleWes Craven… in ‘The Opening of Misty Beethoven’ (1976)?
When Wes Craven passed away earlier this week, obituaries rightly praised him for his long and successful career making horror films, such as A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and the Scream franchise....
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Radley Metzger – and The Image (1975)
In 1956, Jean de Berg published the classic sadomasochistic erotic novel, The Image. In 1975, Radley Metzger adapted the book for his film The Image. This week Jean de Berg and Radley Metzger met for...
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Whatever Happened to Candy Samples? Podcast 55
Candy Samples was one of the true larger than life figures that lit up the early adult industry. Whether is it was in black and white cheesecake photo sets from the late 1960s, thousands of magazine...
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Leo Productions and the Sutter Cinema: The Untold Story of Lowell Pickett and...
In the beginning there was San Francisco. From the start, the smut capital of America did things differently. In the late 1960s, a small group of maverick filmmakers living there pushed back the...
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