Alex Mann Archives - The Rialto Report

23rd October 2022

Alex Mann was the renaissance man of the adult film business – and a pimp and live sex show performer too. This is his story.

27th May 2018

Last year we republished the first 8 issues of Flick – a New York magazine dedicated to covering adult films. Here are the rest.

2nd October 2016

We look at the strange back-story of one of the more notable adult films made in New York in the 1970s.

21st August 2016

The story of Tina Russell, the first porn star. Who was she, and whatever happened to her?

7th December 2014

The mystery behind the mysterious Dolly Sharp, star of ‘Deep Throat’ (1972), is finally revealed – and her sensational story is told.

17th August 2014

If adult film in New York has a Ground Zero, it could be a basement studio on 14th Street where Bob Wolfe shot loops.