Blaise's review
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne
Blaise's review
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne
Blaise's review
rating:
recommended for: Your mother
From the co-editor of "Please Kill Me," the oral history of punk, comes this even more engaging, surpisingly emotional oral history of the American hardcore pornography industry, beginning in the days directly preceding "Deep Throat" and continuing on through the AIDS epidemic to the present day. To my mind, this is a better book than "Please Kill Me." Unlike "Please Kill Me," it does not cover a subject I have a personal interest in. Like "Please Kill Me," it contains stories, all real, all told through a collection of quotations, that grip me by the guts as good as any novel. In this case, it contains more of them and, for some reason, they grip harder. They cover the whole range of human emotion and genre association, humor, depravity, crime, love, tragedy, murder, and, of course, sex. It's all here. The editors choose to focus on a wide range of subjects, from well-endowed male stars to undercover feds with split personalities to pr...more
