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<p><strong>Memory is a tricky thing. Small details can burn brighter than some of life’s defining events. The act of recall and the power of suggestion can fundamentally alter the content of our recollections. Experiences that seem like they should be tattooed onto our psyches can be lost to time. </strong></p> <p><strong>And memory can be selective. Whether that’s by conscious choice, subconscious bias, or pure forgetfulness varies based on a lot of potential factors. But memory’s selective nature is undeniable.</strong></p> <p><strong>Take the adult film star <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0030235/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beth Anna</a>. A striking beauty, she started out go-go dancing out on Long Island in the mid 1970s before being named one of the best strippers in New York. She wasn’t in the adult film industry long, making just a handful of films in the late 1970s. But in that short period Beth Anna made an impact. She was the lead in the first adult film she ever made, Chuck Vincent’s <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075943/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dirty Lily</a> (1978). She starred in <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2023/09/10/ann-perry-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ann Perry</a>’s <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079975/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweet Savage</a> (1979) as Shy Dove, a Native American who falls in love with a cowboy. And she dated fellow adult actor <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171470/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pepe Valentine</a>, the pair briefly becoming the ‘it’ couple of porn.</strong></p> <p><strong>So what does Beth Anna remember about her time in the industry? Well…it’s selective. Some of it’s on the tip of her tongue, as if it’s been waiting to be asked. Other experiences are more elusive &#8211; and whether they’re hiding or just neglected isn’t obvious.</strong></p> <p><strong>In this episode of the Rialto Report, Beth Anna shares what she remembers about her time in the adult industry. And what she doesn’t is just as much a part of her story. When music critics laud Eric Clapton as one of the best rock guitarists of all time, he always says the same thing: listen for the space between the notes.</strong></p> <p><em>This podcast episode is 60 minutes long.</em><br style="font-weight: 400;" />&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_Dirty-Lilly-poster.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50681" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_Dirty-Lilly-poster.jpg" alt="Dirty Lilly" width="428" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_Dirty-Lilly-poster.jpg 428w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_Dirty-Lilly-poster-198x300.jpg 198w" sizes="(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_BethAnna_01.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50682" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_BethAnna_01.jpg" alt="Beth Anna" width="640" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_BethAnna_01.jpg 640w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_BethAnna_01-296x300.jpg 296w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_BethAnna04.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50683" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_BethAnna04.jpg" alt="Beth Anna" width="581" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_BethAnna04.jpg 581w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR_BethAnna04-269x300.jpg 269w" sizes="(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px" /></a></p> <div class="wp-block-html5-player-parent"> <div data-video-id="" class='wp-block-html5-player-video html5_video_players' class="wp-block-html5-player-video" data-nonce="f9e17ba15e" 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src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-IMG_9919.jpg" alt="Beth Anna" width="586" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-IMG_9919.jpg 586w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-IMG_9919-271x300.jpg 271w" sizes="(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;">*</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/04/26/beth-anna/">Beth Anna – Sweet &#038; Savage: Podcast 162</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com">The Rialto Report</a>.</p>

<p><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0173275/">Zebedy Colt</a> is one of least likely characters we expected to feature in a podcast interview when <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/">The Rialto Report</a> first began.</strong></p> <p><strong>For a start, Zebedy passed away in 2004 at the age of 74, after a wildly varied and peripatetic acting career that had started with small parts as a child actor in Hollywood in the 1930s and continued on to regional theater and summer stock across the country, including several Broadway productions. Along the way, he also had a parallel music career, recording an LP with the London Philharmonic Orchestra entitled, ‘I&#8217;ll Sing For You,’ which consisted of torch standards about men, originally intended to be sung by women but sung by Zebedy from a gay perspective.</strong></p> <p><strong>And then, in 1974, he lost his job when the theater he was working for folded due to financial problems, so he answered an ad in a New York newspaper that had been placed by <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2025/02/09/leonard-kirtman-1/">Leonard Kirtman</a>, perhaps the most prolific producer of low budget hardcore adult films in New York.</strong></p> <p><strong>Far from being put off by the nature of the films that Leonard was making, Zebedy did the unexpected: he entered an industry that was known for being sleazy and taboo, and made it a lot more transgressive. Over the following decade, he moved effortlessly between well-regarded mainstream theatrical productions and making his own unique brand of violent and twisted pornographic films, such as <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158940/reference/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_2_accord_1_cdt_t_25">Sex Wish</a> (1975) (where he plays a crazed serial killer terrorizing the city), <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074403/reference/">The Devil Inside Her</a> (1977) (in which a woman sells her soul to the devil to get to the man she loves), and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0153458/reference/">Unwilling Lovers</a> (1977) (in which Zebedy is a killer with the mind of a child who lives in the backwoods with his domineering mother and a penchant for playing with corpses) to name but a few.</strong></p> <p><strong>All very weird, and all very Zebedy. So who was this man who brought such a bizarre vision to the New York sex film scene?</strong></p> <p><strong>As part of the research for </strong><strong>the oral history of <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/04/05/ralph-ell/">The Freaky Gang</a>, L</strong><strong>eonard Kirtman’s gang of misfits who made films for his studio in the mid 1970s</strong><strong>, we discovered a collection of audio interviews with Zebedy that give us the chance to listen to man himself instead of one of the crazy characters that he played on film. Sadly, many of these conversations have such poor sound quality that they’re unfit to be presented as a podcast, but due to their rarity, we wanted to present one here.</strong></p> <p><strong>It&#8217;s a conversation with <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/04/14/barbara-nitke/">Barbara Nitke</a>, who worked as a still photographer on adult films sets. Unlike other Rialto Report podcasts, this isn’t a career retrospective &#8211; instead it’s a free-ranging, casual conversation that took place in a bar in 1986. It finds Zebedy in a world-weary state of mind. He’s at a crossroads, the mainstream acting roles are drying up, his music career hadn’t taken off, and the adult film business had recently turned to video thus taking away the opportunity to make more of his strange psychodramas on 16mm.</strong></p> <p><strong>This is Zebedy Colt. Shooting the Breeze.</strong></p> <p><em>This podcast is 32 minutes long.</em></p> <p><em>Many thanks to Barbara Nitke for sharing the interview with us. You can find more details about her work at <a href="https://www.barbaranitke.com/">Barbara’s website</a> and hear our <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/04/14/barbara-nitke/">podcast interview with her here</a>. Copies of her book, ‘American Ecstasy’, can be <a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Ecstasy-Barbara-Nitke/dp/0615614361/ref=sr_1_1?crid=376WIBW4V1FJY&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SOjAuAWNaW_hBd-2mWVB2g.tk-VL435nAXRTKE2-mXmfG6-pPXQw_MsRRkH8nQQAqg&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=AMerican+ecstasy+barbara+nitke&amp;qid=1774965793&amp;sprefix=american+ecstasy+barbara+nitke%2Caps%2C127&amp;sr=8-1%3Chttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.amazon.com/American-Ecstasy-Barbara-Nitke/dp/0615614361/ref=sr_1_1">purchased here</a>.</em></p> <p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p> <h2>Zebedy Colt</h2> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0026.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50605" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0026.jpg" alt="Zebedy Colt" width="648" height="486" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0026.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0026-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0024.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50604" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0024.jpg" alt="Zebedy Colt" width="648" height="486" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0024.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0024-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0013.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50599" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0013.jpg" alt="Zebedy Colt" width="648" height="486" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0013.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-1976-Affairs-of-Janice-The-0013-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-Snip20260419_1.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50668" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-Snip20260419_1.jpg" alt="Zebedy Colt" width="648" height="642" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-Snip20260419_1.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-Snip20260419_1-300x297.jpg 300w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RR-Snip20260419_1-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;">*</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/04/19/zebedy-colt/">Zebedy Colt – Shooting the Breeze with the Eccentric Thespian of XXX: Podcast 161</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com">The Rialto Report</a>.</p>

<p><strong>Back in the day, everybody seemed to have an opinion about <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000465/">Ron Jeremy</a> – and maybe that was part of his appeal.</strong></p> <p><strong>He was probably the most ubiquitous of all male adult film stars, and certainly the most polarizing.</strong></p> <p><strong>In the early days of <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/">The Rialto Report</a>, I was keen to interview him. My interest has always been in tracking down stories from the golden age of adult cinema that have never been revealed – but even though Ron’s story had been told many times before, I was still keen to ask him about his life and career. After all, Ron was ranked by Adult Video News at No. 1 in their &#8220;50 Top Porn Stars of All Time&#8221; list, who described him as the most recognizable porn ambassador to the world, ranking him ahead of people like Jenna Jameson, <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2024/03/03/marilyn-chambers-2/">Marilyn Chambers</a>, and John Holmes. In addition to his hundreds of adult films – both as an actor and director, he appeared in countless mainstream movies and music videos, there was a documentary and a best-selling biography, he was hired for personal appearances all over the country, and he was a brand spokesperson for products that included rum, cigars, beef jerky, and of course, male enhancement pills.</strong></p> <p><strong>I met up with him at his home in Los Angeles on several occasions, and we often spoke about doing an interview – or rather I listened to him talk in what seemed like one continuous sentence, unable to get a word in between all of his detailed anecdotes and memories.</strong></p> <p><strong>And then came 2017, and the multiple allegations of years of sexual misdemeanors.</strong></p> <p><strong>In truth, the stories had circulated for a long time before that. It’s just that now they were suddenly taken more seriously in the era of Me Too, splashed across newspapers, magazines, and social media. I’d heard the accusations for years too – just as I’d interviewed people who worked with him, who’d described him as respectful and considerate, I’d also met ex-colleagues who criticized him for being predatory.</strong></p> <p><strong>My interest was centered on his early career, which was why I was excited when I came across a previously unpublished interview with him from the late 1980s. It was a conversation between Ron and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Nitke">Barbara Nitke</a> that took place in, where else, a New York diner, not far from Queens where Ron was born and raised. At the time, Barbara was carving out a career as a still photographer on adult film sets in New York, and she was putting together a book of her pictures that she intended to be accompanied by a series of interviews with the stars. The book, &#8216;American Ecstasy,&#8217; was eventually published as a picture book with short clips from the interviews, many years later in 2012. It’s a fine testament to the mid-1980s industry in crisis, transitioning from high budget, scripted film productions to smaller and cheaper video shoots.</strong></p> <p><strong>When Barbara interviewed Ron, he was experiencing the same transition – and the same existential doubts that came with it. Barbara asks about this – and more, in this conversation, which is presented here for the first time. Remarkably, given this was almost 40 years ago, she also asks about the women who were refusing to work to him at the time.</strong></p> <p><em>Many thanks to Barbara Nitke for sharing the interview with us. You can find more details about her work at <a href="https://www.barbaranitke.com/">Barbara&#8217;s website</a> and hear our <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/04/14/barbara-nitke/">podcast interview with her here</a>. Copies of &#8216;American Ecstasy&#8217; can be <a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Ecstasy-Barbara-Nitke/dp/0615614361/ref=sr_1_1?crid=376WIBW4V1FJY&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SOjAuAWNaW_hBd-2mWVB2g.tk-VL435nAXRTKE2-mXmfG6-pPXQw_MsRRkH8nQQAqg&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=AMerican+ecstasy+barbara+nitke&amp;qid=1774965793&amp;sprefix=american+ecstasy+barbara+nitke%2Caps%2C127&amp;sr=8-1%3Chttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.amazon.com/American-Ecstasy-Barbara-Nitke/dp/0615614361/ref=sr_1_1">purchased here</a>.</em></p> <p><em>Thanks too to <a href="https://nssworld.com/">NSS</a> for the audio restoration and mastering.</em></p> <p><em>This podcast episode is 50 minutes long.</em></p> <p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-02.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50471" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-02.jpg" alt="Ron Jeremy" width="648" height="569" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-02.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-02-300x263.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-09.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50478" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-09.jpg" alt="Ron Jeremy" width="648" height="576" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-09.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-09-300x267.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-11.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50480" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-11.jpg" alt="Ron Jeremy" width="648" height="400" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-11.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-11-300x185.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-06.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50475" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-06.jpg" alt="Ron Jeremy" width="648" height="424" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-06.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-06-300x196.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-04.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50473" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-04.jpg" alt="Ron Jeremy" width="425" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-04.jpg 425w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-04-197x300.jpg 197w" sizes="(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-01.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50470" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-01.jpg" alt="Ron Jeremy" width="432" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-01.jpg 432w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-01-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-13.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50482" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-13.jpg" alt="Ron Jeremy" width="428" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-13.jpg 428w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-13-198x300.jpg 198w" sizes="(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-12.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50481" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-12.jpg" alt="Ron Jeremy" width="478" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-12.jpg 478w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Ron-Jeremy-12-221x300.jpg 221w" sizes="(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;">*</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/03/29/ron-jeremy/">The Gospel According to Ron Jeremy in 1986, with Barbara Nitke &#8211; Podcast 160</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com">The Rialto Report</a>.</p>

<p><strong>In 1964, Lorey Kaye, a twenty-year-old from New Haven, CT, moved to Manhattan to start a new life in the big city. Lorey was a fresh-faced, dark-haired hippie, who attracted attention as much for her headstrong, determined, street smart attitude as for her striking good looks. She was hired as a waitress in a new nightclub that had just opened in Times Square – called Steve Paul&#8217;s ‘The Scene’.</strong></p> <p><strong>The club was an immediate hit with gigs by the likes of BB King, Jimi Hendrix, and Sammy Davis Jr., regular visitors like Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick – and Lorey was at the heart of the action. Another group, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovin%27_Spoonful">The Lovin&#8217; Spoonful</a>, also played there regularly, and their lead singer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sebastian">John Sebastian</a>, took a shine to her. John and Lorey started seeing each other, and Lorey became his muse, inspiring him to compose a number of the group’s hit singles about her, such as ‘She’s A Lady’ and ‘Rain on the Roof’, even mentioning her by name in some of the lyrics.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Lorey-and-John-01.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50391" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Lorey-and-John-01.jpg" alt="John Sebastian" width="648" height="437" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Lorey-and-John-01.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Lorey-and-John-01-300x202.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a><em>Lorey and John Sebastian (1967)</em></p> <p><strong>They got hitched in 1966 – by then Lorey had started work as an insider gossip columnist at Hit Parade magazine – and now known as Lorey Sebastian, she became a popular staple in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk-rock music scene.</strong></p> <p><strong>Lorey and John’s relationship was glamorous, high-profile, and short-lived. Lorey broke up with John in 1968 when they were in Ireland. The legend is that she fell in with a group of gypsies, and felt compelled to tune in, drop out, and join them instead. It was said that John never fully recovered from the breakup.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Snip20260304_1.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50378" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Snip20260304_1.jpg" alt="Lorey Sebastian" width="648" height="596" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Snip20260304_1.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Snip20260304_1-300x276.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a><em>Lorey (right), with John Sebastian and Mama Cass (1967)</em></p> <p><strong>Fast forward to the mid 1970s. Lorey was back in New York, now in her mid 30s and looking for a purpose. She’d become a member of the television and film workers union, with the vague ambition of being a still photographer on movie sets. To make a little extra money, she also did work as a crew member on sex films.</strong></p> <p><strong>It was on a <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2022/01/16/gerard-damiano/">Gerry Damiano</a> movie that she met <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/03/18/jamie-gillis/">Jamie Gillis</a>. Jamie sidled up to her, pushing her in the back, and exclaiming, “What a place to bump into a girl like you!” It was corny but it worked, and Lorey invited him back to her place.</strong></p> <p><strong>The mutual attraction was instant and sexual – but, for Jamie, there was something more this time. For a confirmed promiscuous bachelor, Jamie confided to friends that, whisper it quietly, Lorey might actually be the one. He spent time with her, encouraged her photography ambitions, taking her to exhibitions and galleries, and was tickled that one of his favorite songs, The Lovin&#8217; Spoonful’s ‘Daydream,’ had been written for her.</strong></p> <p><strong>Not to suggest that Jamie’s relationship with New York magazine’s Insatiable Critic, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gael_Greene">Gael Greene</a>, was over. Far from it. Even if the novelty of Jamie and Gael’s physical and emotional relationship had subsided, they were still intent on documenting their lives, in and out of bed, for a proposed joint-autobiographical book. They continued to go the city’s restaurants, cultural events, and glamorous parties, while Jamie spent his in-between time wrestling with whether he wanted an acting career, playing poker, going to the occasional audition, and making semi-regular starring appearances in adult films. In short, Jamie wanted to pursue Lorey, but not give up the affair with Gael.</strong></p> <p><strong>This is Part 2 of the story of Jamie Gillis and Gael Greene in 1978.</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Lorey-02.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50376" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Lorey-02.jpg" alt="Lorey Sebastian" width="648" height="402" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Lorey-02.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Lorey-02-300x186.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-10-6-69.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50355" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-10-6-69.jpg" alt="Jamie Gillis" width="647" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-10-6-69.jpg 647w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-10-6-69-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-10-6-69-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px" /></a><em>Jamie</em></p> <p><em>This podcast is 49 minutes long.</em></p> <p><em>Listen to Part 1 of The Porn Star and the Foodie: Jamie Gillis &amp; Gael Greene in 1978 <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/03/08/gael-greene/">here</a>.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;">*</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/03/15/lorey-sebastian/">The Porn Star and the Foodie: Jamie Gillis &#038; Gael Greene in 1978 Part 2, Lorey Sebastian &#8211; Podcast 159</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com">The Rialto Report</a>.</p>

<p><strong>In </strong><strong>‘Taxi Driver&#8217; (1976), </strong><strong>Travis Bickle </strong><strong>railed against social decay, moral corruption, and the depraved filth he perceived in the near-bankrupt New York City of the mid 1970s. An insomniac, alienated Vietnam War vet, his taxi trips revealed the city to him as a &#8220;sewer&#8221; filled with &#8220;scum&#8221; that needed to be &#8220;cleansed&#8221;.</strong></p> <p><strong>Around the same time, another taxi driver, a real one, <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/03/18/jamie-gillis/">Jamie Gillis</a>, was also recording audio diaries in a similar way. Jamie worked in cabs on and off in the 70s while he acted in adult films and the occasional play. But his tapes were the opposite of Travis Bickle’s: Jamie reveled in the city’s seediness and the sexual possibilities it offered, and he documented his days with a detail that was as graphic as it was honest. </strong></p> <p><strong>And so, perhaps Jamie Gillis was what Travis Bickle feared: Jamie was the moral decay. </strong></p> <p><strong>He was the other Taxi Driver.</strong></p> <p><strong>Not to say that Jamie was untroubled. He was plagued by doubts, questions, and phobias &#8211; his “sickness”, he called it. He feared that the initial promise of the porn film business, that had made him a star of sorts after his leading turn in <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2017/04/07/misty-beethoven/">The Opening of Misty Beethoven</a> (1976), was about to come crashing down – that adult films would never live up to his high expectations, that he was turning into a sexual jester, and that he would never fulfill his potential.</strong></p> <p><strong>So what is the story behind his recordings?</strong></p> <p><strong>In 1976, Jamie met <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gael_Greene">Gael Greene</a>, a well-known character in the city. She belonged to the blue bloods of Manhattan society, having been New York magazine&#8217;s high-profile restaurant critic for the previous decade. She was a smart, sleek, feline blonde, ten years older than Jamie, well known and well-regarded in polite and cultured circles. And she was obsessed by Jamie’s sexually wanton lifestyle.</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-and-Gael-slide-02.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50347" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-and-Gael-slide-02.jpg" alt="Gael Greene" width="648" height="430" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-and-Gael-slide-02.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-and-Gael-slide-02-300x199.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><strong>They first met when she was promoting her erotic novel, ‘Blue Skies, No Candy’: “He knew my work. I knew his,” she later wrote.</strong></p> <p><strong>Jamie stopped, picked up the book, read a few lines, and laughed. &#8220;You&#8217;re the food writer from New York magazine,” he said to her. “And your hero has my name.&#8221;</strong></p> <p><strong>Gael replied: &#8220;And you&#8217;re that actor. From those movies.&#8221;</strong></p> <p><strong>She described him at the time as young, surprisingly shy, with shiny black curls and perfect posture. Even better-looking in person, she noted. &#8220;You were wonderful in Misty Beethoven,&#8221; she told him.</strong></p> <p><strong>&#8220;That was fun to make,&#8221; Jamie replied,&#8221; because I liked the woman in that one.&#8221;</strong></p> <p><strong>&#8220;What do you do when you don&#8217;t like the woman?&#8221; Gael asked.</strong></p> <p><strong>Jamie looked her straight in the eyes, and said, &#8220;I can always get myself in the mood.&#8221;</strong></p> <p><strong>They started a relationship that was tempestuous and torrid. They were an odd couple, but well-suited too: Jamie’s business was sex and his passion was food. And Gael’s interest and passion were, well, sex and food. She claimed that &#8220;the two greatest discoveries of the 20th century were the Cuisinart and the clitoris,&#8221; and she was quick to reach for sexual metaphors whenever describing the ecstasy of tasting food in the upper crust restaurants of the city. “Sex and food have been completely intertwined since the beginning of time,” she said.</strong></p> <p><strong>They saw each other often, dealing with the pleasures, jealousy, and complications that resulted. Gael couldn’t get enough of Jamie’s sexual explorations, and Jamie slipped into her world – overnight becoming her guest at places that had never been available to him.</strong></p> <p><strong>But Gael, the insatiable critic as she was called, wanted more from their union. She believed Jamie could, and should, be a big-name actor, and so she connected him with A-list players in the industry – auditions with directors like Mike Nichols, strategy meetings with super agents like Sue Mengers. She took him to Europe to try new restaurants, and stay with friends like Julia Childs.</strong></p> <p><strong>And came the book: it was Gael’s idea. She persuaded Jamie they should write their story by documenting their hedonistic life together. It would capture the era through the eyes of two disparate people with similar lusts and appetites. Jamie agreed: he figured that with Gael’s literary track record and contacts, it could be a hit, raising his profile, and enabling him to fulfill his vague dream of becoming a full-time theater actor.</strong></p> <p><strong>Gael suggested Jamie keep an audio diary for one year. He would tape his innermost thoughts, feelings, desires, and the crude, unexpurgated details of his everyday life in all its seamy detail. In return, she would add her own experiences – and they would turn it all into a biographical tale of two lovers crisscrossing 1970s New York, slipping between the city’s high society events and its grimy porn film scene.</strong></p> <p><strong>So Jamie started recording: but his tapes ended up being more than a diary. They document a spiral – a downward journey into a damaged soul as he dealt with questions that plagued him: ambition, sexuality, art, talent, lust, and love. The recordings that resulted – unfiltered after hours reflections, candid and honest, are presented here for the first time. Needless to say, turn off now if you are liable to be offended.</strong></p> <p><strong>This is Part 1 of the story of Jamie Gillis and Gael Greene in 1978.</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-and-Gael-slide-03.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50348" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-and-Gael-slide-03.jpg" alt="Gael Greene" width="648" height="430" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-and-Gael-slide-03.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RR-Jamie-and-Gael-slide-03-300x199.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><em>This podcast is 49 minutes long.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;">*</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/03/08/gael-greene/">The Porn Star and the Foodie: Jamie Gillis &#038; Gael Greene in 1978 Part 1, The Other Taxi Driver &#8211; Podcast 158</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com">The Rialto Report</a>.</p>