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Howard Ziehm
Howard Ziehm (pronounced "zeem") (born April 7, 1940) is a retired American director, director of photography, producer and writer of adult movies. Ziehm is regarded as a pioneer in the porn industry. His 1970 film Mona: The Virgin Nymph was the first 35mm adult feature film that was nationally released in theaters. He was inducted into the XRCO (X-Rated Critics Organization) Hall of Fame for his work in 1986. Ziehm's best-known film is Flesh Gordon, a 1974 soft sex spoof of the Flash Gordon serials. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation" in 1975 and is now celebrated as a cult classic. The film is also notable for providing the training grounds for several now-famous special effects artists like Rick Baker, Dennis Muren and Greg Jein; animator Jim Danforth also worked on the movie. Life Ziehm grew up in a strict Lutheran family as the oldest of five siblings. He went to highschool in Monterey, California, before enrolling at MIT to study engine ...
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The Virgin Nymph
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Alice In Wonderland (1976 Film)
''Alice in Wonderland'' is a 1976 American erotic musical comedy film loosely based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 book ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. The film expands the original story to include sex and broad adult humor, as well as original songs. The film was directed by Bud Townsend, produced by William Osco, and written by Bucky Searles, based on a concept by Jason Williams. The plot revolves around Alice ( Kristine De Bell), a librarian who falls asleep reading the book ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and dreams of the White Rabbit (Larry Gelman), whom she follows into Wonderland, where she begins to experiment with her unexplored sexuality. Through a series of sexual encounters, Alice loses her sexual inhibitions and allows herself to become sexually liberated. The film is a softcore erotic comedy with orchestrated musical numbers which move the plot forward, and contribute to the film's humor. After premiering in a longer version, three minutes were edited fro ...
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American Pornographic Film Directors
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1940 Births
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IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ...
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William Dennis Hunt
William Dennis Hunt (March 1, 1944June 14, 2020) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Emperor Wang the Perverted in '' Flesh Gordon'' (1974) and '' Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders'' (1990). He is also the only actor to appear in both Flesh Gordon films. He portrayed the Klingon Huraga in the ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episode " The Way of the Warrior". Other television credits include: '' L.A. Law'' (1992, with Amy Benedict, Timothy Carhart, Corbin Bernsen, and Larry Drake), '' Wings'' (1994, with Steven Weber), '' Babylon 5'' (1995, with Bill Mumy and Andreas Katsulas), '' Frasier'' (1998, with Kelsey Grammer), '' Seven Days'' (2000, with Norman Lloyd and Alan Scarfe), '' Alias'' (2003, with Ahmed Best, Christian Slater, Lindsey Ginter, Tracy Middendorf, and Terry O'Quinn) a recurring role as "Judge Edgar Byrnes" on ''NYPD Blue'' (2003, with Daniel Benzali and Don Stark). His other film credits include '' Critters 3'' (1991), '' Dr. Giggles'' (19 ...
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The Rialto Report
''The Rialto Report'' is a podcast and article series documenting the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984). It consists of oral history, audio, photo, and documentary archives. It is hosted by Ashley West and April Hall as well as guest contributors such as academics and writers with insight into the subjects covered. The series has interviewed notable golden age participants such as Ginger Lynn, Sharon Mitchell, Kay Parker, Jeff Stryker and Jennifer Welles Jennifer Welles (March 15, 1937 – June 26, 2018) was an American former pornographic actress in films of the 1970s, although she began her acting career in the late 1960s in the softcore sexploitation genre films produced in New York. Some o .... Starting in 2013, ''The Rialto Report'' podcast was initially released weekly but in 2015 shifted to a roughly monthly schedule. Hosts West and Hall served as consultants to the HBO show '' The Deuce'' and as consulting producers on the Netflix show '' Crime Scene: The Times Square ...
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Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer and dancer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 54 feature films with Hope as star, including a series of seven '' Road to ...'' musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as Hope's top-billed partner. In addition to hosting the Academy Awards show 19 times, more than any other host, Hope appeared in many stage productions and television roles and wrote 14 books. The song "Thanks for the Memory" was his signature tune. Hope was born in the Eltham district of southeast London, he arrived in the United States with his family at the age of four, and grew up near Cleveland, Ohio. After a brief career as a boxer in the late 1910s, Hope began his career in show business in the early 1920s, initially as a comedian and dancer on the vaudeville circuit, before acting on Broadway. Hope began appeari ...
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Flesh Gordon Meets The Cosmic Cheerleaders
''Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders'' (aka ''Flesh Gordon 2: Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders'') is a 1990 sex comedy film, and the sequel to the sex comedy ''Flesh Gordon''. Like the original, it spoofs the ''Flash Gordon'' serials, though the humor is more scatological than the original. Only William Dennis Hunt William Dennis Hunt (March 1, 1944June 14, 2020) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Emperor Wang the Perverted in ''Flesh Gordon'' (1974) and ''Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders'' (1990). He is also the only actor to app ... returns from the original cast. Plot On Earth, Flesh is being filmed for an erotic science fiction film. A major mishap occurs on the set and the director fires the whole crew. Flesh is kidnapped by a trio of outer space cheerleaders as he is leaving the set. Dale, Flesh's fiancé, and Doctor Flexi Jerkoff take off in a spaceship to rescue him. The cheerleaders take Flesh to their planet and introduce ...
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Suze Randall
Suze Randall (born 18 May 1946) is an English model, photographer, and pornographer. Randall was the first female staff photographer for both ''Playboy'' and ''Hustler''. She is one of the early female porn film directors; she made ''Kiss and Tell'' in 1980. She is president of adult content website Suze Network. Life and work Working first as a nurse, then as a fashion model in the early 1970s, Randall gained attention for erotic photographs she took of her fellow model friends. In 1972, she played an au pair in Éric Rohmer's film '' Love in the Afternoon''. She gave up modelling and devoted her time to erotic photography becoming the first female to shoot ''Page 3'' for '' The Sun'' newspaper. After working for years in top adult magazines like ''Penthouse'' and ''Playboy,'' she now continues her career as a freelance photographer. In recent years, her work has included bondage imagery. Her breakthrough came when she spotted the pinup model Lillian Müller and photographed ...
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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass'' (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems ''Jabberwocky'' (1871) and ''The Hunting of the Snark'' (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicanism, Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher. Alice Liddell, the daughter of Christ Church's dean Henry Liddell, is widely identified as the original inspiration for ''Alice in Wonderland'', though Carroll always denied this. An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle (which he then called "Doublets"), which he published in his weekly column for ''Vanity Fair ( ...
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