23rd October 2022
Alex Mann: “I was the Marlon Brando of Adult Films”
Alex Mann was the renaissance man of the adult film business – and a pimp and live sex show performer too. This is his story.
Articles
The Rialto Report is proud to present a series of exclusive articles, interviews, and investigative journalism relating to the golden age of adult film.
18th September 2022
The Trials of Chesty Morgan – Doris Wishman, Fellini, The Law and Me, Part 2 – Podcast 122
Chesty Morgan makes ‘Deadly Weapons’ and ‘Double Agent 73’, and acts with Donald Sutherland.
11th September 2022
The Trials of Chesty Morgan – The Ice Box Murders, Hitler, Burlesque and Me, Part 1
Chesty Morgan’s early life was marked by horror, beset by war, murder, and financial struggles.
14th August 2022
The Mystery of the Matador who Sang at the Met: ‘Maraschino Cherry’s Marc Valentine
Did adult film performer, Marc Valentine, sing with Luciano Pavarotti at the Met?
3rd July 2022
New York, 1979 – March on Times Square
We look back at the 1979 March on Times Square protest against pornography, and other demonstrations from the 1970s.
26th June 2022
Deep Throat @ 50: Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story: Part 3
Chuck and Linda go to New York to find work in the adult film scene, and make some of the most notorious loops in adult film history.
19th June 2022
Deep Throat @ 50: Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story: Part 2
How did Linda Lovelace first meet Chuck Traynor – and what was the nature of their relationship before ‘Deep Throat’ (1972)?
12th June 2022
Deep Throat @ 50: Svengali – The Chuck Traynor Story: Part 1
Where did Chuck Traynor come from, and what did he do before he met Linda Lovelace and before ‘Deep Throat’ (1972)?
5th June 2022
Deep Throat @ 50: The Distributor
We interview one of the only surviving distributors of ‘Deep Throat’ (1972) – who stood trial in Memphis in 1976.
22nd May 2022
Juliet Anderson: An Unpublished Conversation with the Original Cougar
Juliet Anderson, aka Aunt Peg, talks about her adult film career and life outside of films.
15th May 2022
Deep Throat @ 50: Linda Lovelace and Milton Greene – One Week in November, 1972
What brought Linda Lovelace to famed photographer, Milton Greene? With never-seen-before pictures.
8th May 2022
Adult Film Locations – Part 15: ‘Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-vixens’ (1979) (or, How did Russ Meyer’s editing machine end up in Brooklyn?)
A trip to Russ Meyer’s L.A. home.
