The Other Hollywood

The Uncensored Oral History Of The Porn Film Indust ry

Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne

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ReganBooks
25 April 2006

Films, movies & cinema; Society & Social Sciences; Cinema industry

As a recent New York Times Magazine cover story pointed out to average Americans, the adult film industry is a $10 billion-per-year business. It has infiltrated the American mainstream, with its stars (such as ReganBooks author Jenna Jameson) showing up as mainstream TV hosts, making guest appearances in Hollywood feature films, and gracing the CD covers—and arms—of rock stars and Hollywood actors alike. But what most people don’t know is how the porn industry got started—with a $22,000 Mafia investment in a film called Deep Throat—or how it mushroomed over the next quarter-century despite efforts by politicians, the FBI, and others to bring it down.

The Other Hollywood tells that story, through hundreds of interviews by the people who lived through it. In the riveting oral-history format that made his first book, Please Kill Me, one of the most memorable accounts of 1970s underground culture, Legs McNeil now pulls back the grimy satin sheets on one of the most astounding success stories in the history of American business. Careening back and forth between two groups—the actresses, directors, and others who made the films and the shady underworld figures who financed them—The Other Hollywood offers scores of never-before-told stories, all in the voices of those who lived them:
*The true story of Linda Lovelace and husband Chuck Traynor, drawn from the last interviews with them before their recent deaths—including how Lovelace was used first by the porn industry, then by anti-porn activists
*The first male porn star, John Holmes, and the Wonderland Avenue murders he set up
*The demise of Savannah, the ur-porn star of the 1990s, who ended up a coked-out suicide
*The truth about the feud between Ginger Lynn and Traci Lords
*The story of the decades-long fight between the mob and the feds over porn—including the untold story of MIPORN, the very first undercover op in the history of the FBI
*The rise of the porn studio system with Vivid, Wicked, and others—and of today’s megaporn moguls, like Jill Kelly and Jenna Jameson

Witty, always compelling, and ultimately moving, The Other Hollywood is a Hollywood Babylon for today.

By: Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne
Imprint: ReganBooks
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 172mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 940g
ISBN: 9780060096601
ISBN 10: 0060096608
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 25 April 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Legs McNeil is the coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, a book widely hailed as a classic of its kind. A founder of the seminal magazine that gave punk its name, he is a former editor at Spin and Nerve, and wrote Marilyn Chambers's comeback film, Still Insatiable. He lives in Pennsylvania.