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Arthur Morowitz – The Godfather of New York Adult Films
Arthur Morowitz may not have been a famous director or star of adult films, but it could be argued that he was more important than that. In 1965, Arthur founded Distribpix, one of the first New York...
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R.I.P. Herschel Savage (1952 – 2023)
Seventy is no age to die. Especially not for a man as decent and good as Harvey Cohen. But last week, Harvey, who used to be the adult film star known as Herschel Savage, passed away in his home in Los...
View ArticleAdam Film World Guide in 1984: Last Hurrah of the Golden Age
In 1981, the prolific Knight Publishing company started to publish a series of trade-publications for the adult film industry. Intended to be guides for the retailer and consumer alike, they provided...
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Lisa Cintrice: Not Being Afraid, Part 1 – Podcast 132
Lisa Cintrice had a colorful life: for a start, her father was a New York mobster who was related to the most famous Italian priest of all time, Padre Pio, a man so terrified of God that he manifested...
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Lisa Cintrice: Not Being Afraid, Part 2 – Podcast 133
In the first part of The Rialto Report‘s conversation with Lisa Cintrice, we heard about her colorful upbringing, from a mobster father, to becoming pregnant as a teen, and then a shotgun wedding to...
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Flesh! The Untold Origin of the Findlays and the ‘Flesh Trilogy’, Part 1 –...
Sex and violence have been part of movies since the very beginning. Ever since Thomas Edison made and exhibited ‘The Kiss’ in 1896, an 18 second clip of a couple embracing, moviegoers have been shocked...
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‘Flesh’: The Untold Origin of the Findlays and the ‘Flesh Trilogy’, Part 2 –...
Michael Findlay was a young New Yorker, fascinated with film and the mechanics behind it. Julian Marsh was his alter ego, a movie director possessed with a singular twisted vision. Richard Jennings was...
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F.M. Bradley: Hiding in Plain Sight – Podcast 113 – Reprise
F.M Bradley died last month just a few weeks shy of his 70th birthday. I can’t say I was surprised – Bradley had been in a nursing home ever since I found him in 2021 after years of looking. He was...
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NYC Starlets – Part 1: Ultramax – Queen of the Swingers!
This week we start a series of interviews with lesser-known New York starlets from the 1970s and early ‘80s. When we contact anyone for an interview, we’re always concerned that we may receive a...
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NYC Starlets – Part 2: Anna Ventura – An American Trilogy
2024: a new year, and an election year in the U.S. For our first report of 2024, we focus on a story that is broader than just the tale of a golden age adult film performer. In this age of polarization...
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Behind the Scenes of the ‘Pleasure Palace’ (1979)
When we interviewed Carter Stevens back in 2013, he told us that one of his favorite movie-making experiences had been Pleasure Palace (1979). He used performers who could actually act (Eric Edwards,...
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RIP Jose and Danielle Duval: Enduring, Forever Love
On average, marriages around the world don’t last terribly long. The average is eight years in the United States. Ten years in Singapore. Five years in France. And the key reasons couples cite for...
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Ruth Anderson – Bunny Yeager’s Favorite Model*
Ruth Anderson was a girl from a poor, religious family in war-torn Nazi Germany. How did she find herself the most popular pin-up sensation of the year in America in 1970? And why did she disappear...
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When Bunny Met Ruth Anderson: The (Unpublished) Black and White Photographs
Last weekend we published our interview with Ruth Anderson, the long-lost 1969/70 pin-up model, and favorite of photographer Bunny Yeager. And last weekend, we received a large volume of fan mail...
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When Bunny Met Ruth Anderson: The (Unpublished) Color Photographs
Last weekend we published our interview with Ruth Anderson, the long-lost 1969/70 pin-up model, and favorite of photographer Bunny Yeager. And last weekend, we received a large volume of fan mail...
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Jesse Adams: “Why Am I Not in the Hall of Fame?”
Jesse Adams was an instantly recognizable figure in golden age adult cinema. For a start, he appeared in over 500 feature films spanning a thirty-year period: he started in hundreds of loops, graduated...
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Bill Bottiggi: The Life and Death of a Men’s Magazine Man
Ok, bear with us for a moment. Long-time followers of The Rialto Report will know we’re prone to an occasional diversion from our usual fixation with the adult film world in New York in the golden age...
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Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story: Part 6, The Marilyn Chambers Years,...
On the previous episode of Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story: To everyone’s surprise, the sex film Deep Throat (1972) had become a financial hit and a cultural phenomenon. And everybody involved was...
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Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story: Part 7, Endgame, Podcast 137
On the previous episode of Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story: On the heels of a very public divorce, Chuck Traynor and Linda Lovelace were finally separated and began to forge their own paths. Chuck...
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Adam Film World in 1983: The Magazine – and its Editor Edward S. Sullivan
We look back at the west coast publication Adam Film World in 1983 by posting all the magazine’s issues and remembering editor that year, Edward S. Sullivan. Ed’s first passion had been true crime, and...
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