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The Story of ‘Midnight Blue’: Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Podcast 76
Imagine this. It’s one night in New York in 1974. You’ve partied with friends. You stumble home at midnight, turn on the TV and flop onto the couch. On screen is channel 35. This isn’t the Partridge...
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San Francisco Strip Clubs (1985-1995): A Fan Remembers – Part 2
Last year, one of our most popular reports was a post from Donnie Reamer, a regular at San Francisco’s strip clubs during the 1980s. Donnie went to hundreds of shows and befriended many of the adult...
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C. Davis Smith and Charles Lamont: One Life Behind the Camera – Part 1
Film director and cinematographer C. Davis Smith (who also used the name Charles Lamont among other pseudonyms) passed away on September 20, 2017 at the age of 87. His life in movies was a virtual...
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R.I.P. Jerry Butler (May 13, 1959 – January 27, 2018)
April Hall remembers Jerry Butler: This one is a hard one to take. Jerry Butler passed away last week. It makes no sense, because there was no one more full of life than Jerry Butler. I first met him a...
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Joanna Storm – All American Girl
We wanted to interview Joanna Storm since we started The Rialto Report. She was a small California blonde who became an A-list star in New York in the early 1980s – both as an adult film performer and...
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Carl Kravats: Golden Age Photographer
The Rialto Report long been interested in the symbiotic relationship that existed between New York adult films in the 1970s and the men’s magazines of the era, like High Society, Cheri, and Swank. It...
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Adult Film Locations 9: Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976)
After The Rialto Report told the troubled behind-the-scenes story of Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976), we wanted to find the original locations – and see if we could visit them...
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‘The Film Maker’s Guide to Pornography’ (1977):The XXX Industry’s First Text...
Steven Ziplow’s book ‘The Film Maker’s Guide to Pornography’ was published in 1977. It was an unusual work: a detailed how-to-make-a-porn-movie for the second generation of adult filmmakers. It was...
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Parties and Sex: The Photographs of Allan Tannenbaum
For the last fifty years, Allan Tannenbaum has been the quintessential New York photographer. In 1973, upon the publication of the SoHo Weekly News, Tannenbaum became their Photo Editor and Chief...
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Unexpected Outcomes: Carl Parker and David Savage
Every week, The Rialto Report reveals a deep dive into a person or subject connected with the golden age of adult film. Often these pieces take several months to research and compile, and we only...
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Jeanne Silver: A Fundraiser
Jeanne Silver is a Rialto Report favorite and her interview with us remains incredibly popular. She was a firm favorite in films and magazines from the moment she arrived in New York in the mid 1970s,...
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Adult Film Locations 10: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Russ Meyer‘s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) was a ground-breaking B-movie following three go-go dancers who embark on a spree of kidnapping and murder in the California desert. With its striking...
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Alexandria: A Mystery Is Solved
One of the happy side-effects of running The Rialto Report is when someone from the adult film industry in the 1970s re-emerges and reaches out to contact us. And that’s especially true when that...
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Jeanne Silver Fundraiser: A Thank You
Even though Jeanne Silver has struggled financially for quite a while, she resisted asking us for help. When we finally convinced her to accept assistance, boy… did you all show up. This morning when...
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Keisha: The Innocence of an Adult Film Star – Podcast 74
You’ve probably heard us say this before, but Keisha was a different kind of adult film star. She entered the business in the same era as the first wave of video girls who dominated the scene in the...
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On Stage at Show World – The Photographs of Vivienne Maricevic
Show World is the last of the old Times Square porn palaces. It was, in the words of one anti-porn city official, the “flagship of the sex industry of New York.” It was a 22,000-square-foot den that...
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The Show World Interviews – Vivienne Maricevic
The Rialto Report starts our end-of-year vacation today, but after the great reaction we had last week to On Stage at Show World – The Photographs of Vivienne Maricevic, we’re following up with a...
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Supporting Characters podcast – Happy Holidays from The Rialto Report!
We’re on vacation this week, but wanted to wish everyone a very happy Christmas from ourselves – and from two of our favorites… Johnnie Keyes and C.J. Laing (see below). We also wanted to close the...
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Come Again Erotic Boutique: The Photographs of Efrain Gonzalez
The Rialto Report returns from vacation next week, but in the meantime we wanted to share a selection of photos taken at the Come Again erotic boutique in the mid 1980s. The pictures were taken by...
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The Story of ‘Midnight Blue’: Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Podcast 76
Imagine this. It’s one night in New York in 1974. You’ve partied with friends. You stumble home at midnight, turn on the TV and flop onto the couch. On screen is channel 35. This isn’t the Partridge...
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