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Audio, photo, and documentary archives from the golden age of adult film in New York, and beyond. Established 2013.
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Brandy Alexandre – 2000 Days, Part 2: Podcast 170 (opens the original)
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The concluding part of Brandy's story - and tales of Buttman, John Stagliano, People's Court, being blacklisted, and the infamous flame wars.
Brandy Alexandre – 2000 Days, Part 1: Podcast 169 (opens the original)
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Over the years, Brandy Alexandre always seemed to have a habit of turning up at unexpected times and in unexpected ways. For example, she went to work in the adult film industry – after being raised a Mormon. Even more surprising – she was already familiar with sex movies due to a string of inappropriate older boyfriends who’d introduced her to adult theaters: the result was a teenage curiosity for the sex industry and a sizeable crush on John Leslie . She became unlikely roommates with sex film
The Murder of Kathy Harcourt: England’s First American Adult Film Star – Podcast 102 (reprise) (opens the original)
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Kathy Harcourt was an English XXX star in America in the early 1980s. She appeared with Lisa DeLeeuw , Seka , Billy Dee , and Ron Jeremy in adult films and 8mm loops. She featured in magazines, stripped at the Melody Burlesk , turned up at all the industry parties. And then she was found dead in Manhattan’s East River amidst rumors of a mob hit. Over the years, her life and death has been a mystery. Until today. After 40 years, the truth about Kathy Harcourt is finally revealed. This podcast is
The Complete Disappearance of Cheri Champagne, Part 2: Podcast 168 (opens the original)
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In the previous episode of The Complete Disappearance of Cheri Champagne : After years of hearing mysterious stories about the 1980s adult film actor, Cheri Champagne , I was keen to see if she was still around and interested in talking about her life. The trouble was that no one seemed to have heard from her for almost forty years. There were many reasons why she intrigued me: from the strange beginnings dancing in a cage in a Maine sex club, the bizarre adult films she’d appeared in, the aggre
The Complete Disappearance of Cheri Champagne, Part 1: Podcast 167 (opens the original)
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Cheri Champagne was active in adult films in New York in the early 1980s - a pretty, dark-haired performer, an unusually cool, devil-may-care manner, and a reputation for being enigmatic. What happened to her has remained a mystery. Until now.
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