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Bill Rotsler’s Gruesome Foursome – Part 1: The Ballad of Kathie and Gerard
Charles William Rotsler (1926–1997) was an award-winning artist and science fiction author. Bill was also involved in the burgeoning adult film industry from the late 1950s, first as a stills...
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Bill Rotsler’s Gruesome Foursome – Part 2: Malta’s Story
Charles William Rotsler (1926–1997) was an award-winning artist and science fiction author. Bill was also involved in the burgeoning adult film industry starting in the late 1950s, first as a stills...
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High Society in 1980 – Balancing Mainstream and XXX
In 1979, the fourth year of High Society, the magazine pushed towards the mainstream, profiling clothed stars like Linda Ronstadt and Roger Daltrey – and nude celebrities including Lindsay Wagner and...
View Article‘Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer’– New TV Series
We’re pleased to announce that Ashley West and April Hall of The Rialto Report are Consultant Producers of a new television series – Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer – premiering on Netflix on...
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Murder Noir: Who Killed June Mack? Who Really Killed June Mack? – Part 1:...
Somehow June Mack was a footnote in her own life. She was a footnote in film history after she appeared in a Russ Meyer film, Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens. A footnote for her family who forgot...
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Murder Noir: Who Killed June Mack? Who Really Killed June Mack? – Part 2:...
June Mack was dead. And no one was on the hook for her murder. Somehow being shot by Russ Meyer made her almost-famous, but being shot by a mystery killer made her almost-forgotten. She’d come to...
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‘Crime Scene – Times Square’: The Life of Marty Hodas – Podcast 38 (reprise)
Last week a new docu-drama premiered on Netflix. It’s called Crime Scene – Times Square – and we were pleased to be Producers on it. The show examines how the environment in New York’s Times Square in...
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Deep Throat @ 50: Gerard Damiano – The Director: Podcast 116
The pioneering adult film, Deep Throat, was shot 50 years ago today. The scene was south Florida, and it was Super Bowl Sunday, January 16th, 1972. The local Miami Dolphins were playing, and so the...
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Bill Rotsler’s Gruesome Foursome – Part 3: Uschi Digard
Charles William Rotsler (1926–1997) was an award-winning artist and science fiction author. Bill was also involved in the burgeoning adult film industry starting in the late 1950s, first as a stills...
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Bill Rotsler’s Gruesome Foursome – Part 4: Maria Arnold’s Story
Charles William Rotsler (1926–1997) was an award-winning artist and science fiction author. Bill was also involved in the burgeoning adult film industry starting in the late 1950s, first as a stills...
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Ron and Lisa – A Love Story: R.I.P Ron Hudd
Ron Hudd, a prolific New York adult film actor in the early 1980s, passed away recently. The Rialto Report lost a friend. He spoke with reserved amusement about the people with whom he worked, like...
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Cheri magazine in 1980: An Issue by Issue Guide
In 1980, the east coast publication Cheri was riding high. A sizable circulation led to significant revenue that allowed for regular cross-country travel for its stories. As a result, this fifth year...
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RIP Alfred Sole: ‘Deep Sleep’ (1972) – The Short Film
The film director and production designer Alfred Sole passed away this past Tuesday at the age of 78. I first became aware of Alfred about 15 years ago when I was looking through the New York Times...
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Jamie Gillis: The X-Rated Seminar
Jamie Gillis, golden age porn star. Jamie Gillis, gonzo video pioneer. But Jamie Gillis, lecturer? By the mid-1990s, Jamie had been in the XXX industry for almost 25 years. Sure, he’d accumulated a...
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Deep Throat @ 50: ‘Memories Within Miss Aggie’– Projection Booth Podcast
As part of our ongoing series of podcasts and articles commemorating the pioneering adult film Deep Throat, which was released 50 years ago, Ashley West joined the Projection Booth podcast to consider...
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AFAA Awards 1984 – The Filmed Ceremony
The 2022 Academy Awards ceremony takes place this evening, with the event being broadcast live on television all over the world. But rather than tune in to see ‘West Side Story’ compete with ‘The Power...
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‘Blonde Ambition’ (1981) – Projection Booth Podcast
In the second of our recent collaborations with esteemed film podcast, The Projection Booth, we discuss the Amero Brother’s X-rated musical, Blonde Ambition. (No, not the Madonna film. This is the...
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‘New Wave Hookers’ (1985) – Projection Booth Podcast
In the third and final instalment of our recent collaboration with esteemed film podcast, The Projection Booth, we discuss the Dark Brother’s influential New Wave Hookers. Released in 1985, New Wave...
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Deep Throat @ 50: Searching for the Real Harry Reems – Podcast 117
For a time in the 1970s, Harry Reems was the biggest and most recognizable male sex star on the planet. He was a porn Burt Reynolds, famous for his mustache, his sense of fun, and his sexual prowess....
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Jamie Gillis Before Porn
Jamie Gillis would have been 79 years old this week. Given that he was almost 30 by the time he started appearing in early New York adult films, what had he been doing until then? The answer, not...
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