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12-19-2013, 06:09 AM #1
RIP All Goldstein
My vote for one of the more disgusting men who ever lived. A real NYC fixture for years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/ny...6TOX+aH1FiI10A
December 19, 2013
Al Goldstein, Pioneering Pornographer, Dies at 77
By ANDY NEWMAN
Al Goldstein, the scabrous publisher whose Screw magazine pushed hard-core pornography into the cultural mainstream, died early Thursday in Brooklyn. He was 77.
The cause was believed to be renal failure, said his lawyer, Charles C. DeStefano.
Mr. Goldstein did not invent the dirty magazine, but he was the first to present it to a wide audience without the slightest pretense of classiness or subtlety. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy. It was, primarily, a business, with consumers and suppliers like any other.
The manifesto in Screw’s debut issue in 1968 was succinct. “We promise never to ink out a pubic hair or chalk out an organ,” it read. “We will apologize for nothing. We will uncover the entire world of sex. We will be the Consumer Reports of sex.”
Mr. Goldstein, who lived to shock and offend and was arrested more than a dozen times on obscenity charges, stuck around long enough for social mores and technology to overtake him. By the time his company went bankrupt in 2003, he was a no longer a force in the $10-billion-a-year industry he pioneered. But for better or worse, his influence was undeniable.
“He clearly coarsened American sensibilities,” Alan M. Dershowitz, the civil liberties advocate and Mr. Goldstein’s sometime lawyer, said in 2004.
“Hefner did it with taste,” Mr. Dershowitz added, referring to Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy, which predated Screw by 15 years. “Goldstein’s contribution is to be utterly tasteless.”
Apart from Screw, Mr. Goldstein’s most notorious creation was Al Goldstein himself, a cartoonishly vituperative amalgam of borscht belt comic, free-range social critic and sex-obsessed loser who seemed to embody a defining moment in New York City’s cultural history: the sleaze and decay of Times Square in the 1960s and ‘70s.
A bundle of insatiable neuroses and appetites (he once weighed around 350 pounds), Mr. Goldstein used and abused the bully pulpit of his magazine and, later, his late-night public-access cable show, “Midnight Blue,” to curse his countless enemies, among them the Nixon administration, an Italian restaurant that omitted garlic from its spaghetti sauce, himself and, most troubling to his defenders, his own family.
“I’m infantile, compulsive, always acting out my fantasies,” he told Playboy in 1974. “There’s nothing I’ll inhibit myself from doing.”
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12-19-2013, 06:46 AM #2who guards the guardians?
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TTIWWP
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I come up hard, baby but now I'm cool I didn't make it, sugar playin' by the rules
If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
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12-19-2013, 07:18 AM #3
Back to back episodes of Midnight Blue and Robin Byrd. True 1990s NYC nostalgia.
Gimme five, I'm still alive!
Ain't no luck, I learned to duck!
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12-19-2013, 07:34 AM #4
"Mr. Goldstein did not invent the dirty magazine, but he was the first to present it to a wide audience without the slightest pretense of classiness or subtlety. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy."
Pure Gold. Gotta love the NYT.I wear crocs for the style, not the comfort.
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12-19-2013, 07:59 AM #5Funky But Chic
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All the Goldsteins died???
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12-19-2013, 08:25 AM #6
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12-19-2013, 08:34 AM #7
Somewhere, I hope, are tapes of his interviews of the top 70s porn stars on Midnight Blue. Cultural gold.
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12-19-2013, 09:38 AM #8trenchman
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all kidding aside, al died of renal failure. bet he jammed a few renal areas in his prime
b.
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12-19-2013, 11:04 AM #9
This '06 review of his bio is a much better obit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/bo...ew/Heller.html
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12-19-2013, 11:13 AM #10
"A fat Jew who cares"
Guy really was a cartoon of himself. Nothing creepier than seeing him interview an 18 year old runaway "porn star" who he scooped up from port authority about 10 minutes prior.No Roger, No Rerun, No Rent
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12-19-2013, 11:20 AM #11
Is Ugly George still around? There's someone that could have used a Gopro.
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12-19-2013, 11:22 AM #12
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12-19-2013, 11:35 AM #13
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12-19-2013, 02:11 PM #14trenchman
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damn viva i'm not a homo sapiens mD. i do plants.
b.
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12-19-2013, 06:53 PM #15
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