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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.

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The adult film industry is a $10 billion-per-year business that has infiltrated the American mainstream, with its stars showing up as TV hosts and making guest appearances in Hollywood feature films. 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 with the people who lived through it. Acclaimed underworld chronicler Legs McNeil pulls back the grimy satin sheets on one of the most astounding success stories in the history of American business. Careening back and forth among three groups — the actresses, directors, and others who made the films; the shady underworld figures who financed them; and the FBI agents who struggled to bring them down — The Other Hollywood offers scores of... [More...] [Edit review] [Delete review]

As seen in Vanity Fair: A rollicking, funny, raunchy, and moving oral history of the adult film industry-from Deep Throat through today.

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 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... [More...] [Edit review] [Delete review]