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Al Goldstein, a Publisher Who Took the Romance Out of Sex, Dies at 77
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Goldstein spent much of his childhood stuttering, wetting the bed, getting beaten up by bullies and amassing the portfolio of grudges that would fuel his passions. (He also wrote numerous scathing editorials accusing his accusers of hypocrisy, often accompanied by crude photo collages showing them engaged in humiliating sex acts.) Mr. But as time went on and hard-core pornography became widely available, the magazine seemed less and less radical, and he began losing interest.
Investing $175 apiece, the two men published the first issue of Screw in November 1968: a 12-page Baedeker to the underworld featuring blue-movie reviews, nude photos, a guide to dirty bookstores and a field test by Mr. DeStefano, said.
"Only in America," Mr. Goldstein himself ridiculed this defense, insisting that a reader"s erection "is its own redeeming value." After three years and two trials his conviction in the first was overturned, and the second ended in a hung jury. Goldstein assigned himself to visit and rate each one. Goldstein of an artificial vagina.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/al-goldstein-pioneering-pornographer-dies-at-77.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
Mr. "The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary."
In 1973, though, a United States Supreme Court decision made it easier to prosecute pornographers. Mr. That experience so appalled him that he wrote an expos?(C) about it for The New York Free Press, a radical weekly.
Al Goldstein, a Publisher Who Took the Romance Out of Sex, Dies at 77 - NYTimes.com
Although they had difficulty finding a willing distributor for a tabloid whose first cover featured a photograph of a bikini-clad brunette stroking a large kosher salami, Screw"s circulation soon reached 100,000 " or so Mr. Goldstein also won a copyright suit filed by the Pillsbury Company after Screw depicted its signature doughboy in flagrante, and an invasion-of-privacy suit filed by an actress in a cracker commercial that Mr. In 2004, while living in a homeless shelter, he was arrested and charged with stealing books from a Barnes & Noble store.
The article did not make the splash Mr. Buckley.
"There is a pattern to American life that what is avant-garde becomes commonplace," Mr. We will uncover the entire world of sex. The Village Voice and other newspapers, many of them free, siphoned off the ads for escort services that were Screw"s mainstay. 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. His survivors include his son. Goldstein served in the Army, captained the debate team at Pace College and briefly followed his father"s footsteps into photojournalism, taking pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy on a 1962 state trip to Pakistan and spending several days in a Cuban prison for taking unauthorized photos of Fidel Castro"s brother, Ra??l. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy. He married miserably, sold insurance successfully by day and sought solace in pornographic movie houses and brothels by night.
Mr. Mr. "Goldstein"s contribution is to be utterly tasteless."
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. He was convicted in 2002 of harassing a former secretary in the pages of Screw, though that conviction, too, was overturned. "There"s nothing I"ll inhibit myself from doing."
Mr. 10, 1936, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, one of two sons of Sam and Gertrude Goldstein. Goldstein"s sometime lawyer, said in 2004.
Apart from Screw, Mr. He blogged for Booble, a website devoted to the pornography business.
With renown came obscenity arrests and lawsuits, which Mr. Upon delivery, Mr. Goldstein starred in. Goldstein claimed (it was never audited) " and the magazine stepped up its ambitions.
"He clearly coarsened American sensibilities," Alan M. It is "Al Goldstein & Ron Jeremy Are Screwed," not "Al Goldstein & Ron Jeremy Get Screwed."
As quasi-legal, discreetly misnamed "massage parlors" multiplied across the city in the early 1970s, Mr. "We will apologize for nothing. Goldstein"s third ex-wife, Gena.
Mr. Goldstein lost his company, his Florida mansion and a series of subsistence jobs in New York, including one as a greeter at the Second Avenue Deli. Goldstein failed to stake out strong positions in the booming sectors of video and Internet pornography.
In quick succession starting in 2003, Mr. We will be the Consumer Reports of sex."
Screw made Mr. A lifelong habitu?(C) of psychoanalysts" couches, he blamed a meek father and an adulterous, insensitive mother for his complexes in his 2006 autobiography, "I, Goldstein: My Screwed Life," written with Josh Alan Friedman.
Before he found his calling, Mr. Goldstein said " a fraction of the seven million Playboy sold in those days, but enough to raise Mr. It was on the Upper East Side, not the Upper West Side.
The cause was believed to be renal failure, his lawyer, Charles C. He claimed that his early, enthusiastic review of the movie "Deep Throat" helped turn it into hard-core pornography"s first bona fide mainstream hit.
Correction: December 19, 2013
The manifesto in Screw"s debut issue in 1968 was succinct. Goldstein was long estranged from his fifth wife, Christine.
Alvin Goldstein was born on Jan. Mr.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
An earlier version of this obituary misstated the location of the Manhattan townhouse Mr. "We promise never to ink out a pubic hair or chalk out an organ," it read. It was, primarily, a business, with consumers and suppliers like any other.
His long decline found him bouncing from his mudanzas especiales en mendoza in-laws" floor in Queens to Veterans Affairs hospitals to a cramped apartment on Staten Island paid for by his friend, the magician Penn Jillette, to the Brooklyn nursing home where he spent most of his final years.
An earlier version of this obituary misstated the name of a movie Mr. Before then, one legal test for obscenity was whether a publication was "utterly without redeeming social value." The 1973 decision broadened the definition to include material that lacked "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value," and it empowered communities to set local standards for whether such material was obscene.. Goldstein said.
And at age 69, he was nominated for best supporting actor at the Adult Video News Awards for his age-defying role in "Al Goldstein & Ron Jeremy Are Screwed."
"I"m infantile, compulsive, always acting out my fantasies," he told Playboy in 1974. After his son, Jordan, disinvited him to his graduation from Harvard Law School, Mr. Goldstein in turn milked for maximum publicity. Goldstein began a dozen other magazines, with titles like Death, Smut, Cigar and Mobster Times, all of which failed. Goldstein eventually married Servicio de embalaje y ayudantes five times. Goldstein"s company, Milky Way Productions, paid a $30,000 fine in return for the dropping of personal charges against him and Mr. He bought a mansion in Pompano Beach, Fla., where he made an abortive run for county sheriff in 1992.
Meanwhile, his vendettas came to seem more petty and personal. Dershowitz, the civil liberties advocate and 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 moment in New York City"s cultural history: the sleaze and decay of Times Square in the 1960s and "70s.
Correction: December 20, 2013
Gradually, Mr. Goldstein drifted. Goldstein bought in the wake of his initial success. Goldstein rich enough to afford a townhouse down the block from Bill Cosby on the Upper East Side. Goldstein published doctored photos showing Jordan having sex with various men and with his own mother, Mr. He was briefly a star catering salesman for a Manhattan bagel store. Goldstein said in 1981. Goldstein was charged with 12 obscenity and conspiracy counts and faced up to 60 years in prison.
Mr. But for better or worse, his influence was undeniable.
An issue in 1973 with frontally nude photos of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sold more than a half-million copies, Mr. Goldstein"s empire declined. Goldstein ran a dime-pitch concession at the 1964-65 New York World"s Fair; sold rugs, encyclopedias and his own blood; drove a cab; and landed a job as an industrial spy, infiltrating a labor union. By the time his company went bankrupt in 2003, he was no longer a force in the $10-billion-a-year industry he pioneered. Goldstein repurposed for "Midnight Blue."
After his marriage failed, Mr. Goldstein"s profile considerably.
"Hefner did it with taste," Mr. Goldstein was hoping for, but he became friends with one of The Press"s editors, Jim Buckley, and persuaded him that there was money to be made covering the growing commercial sex scene, which the establishment press mentioned only to vilify.
There were some late bright spots, though. His father was a news photographer.
His lawyers argued that the anticensorship diatribes in Screw made the magazine sufficiently political, though Mr. Dershowitz added, referring to Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy, which predated Screw by 15 years. According to Gay Talese"s book "Thy Neighbor"s Wife," Mr. Goldstein, claiming First Amendment protection, beat most of the charges, occasionally paying nominal fines.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
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 flesh-parading 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.
This led federal prosecutors to direct some postmasters in Kansas to order copies of Screw
Investing $175 apiece, the two men published the first issue of Screw in November 1968: a 12-page Baedeker to the underworld featuring blue-movie reviews, nude photos, a guide to dirty bookstores and a field test by Mr. DeStefano, said.
"Only in America," Mr. Goldstein himself ridiculed this defense, insisting that a reader"s erection "is its own redeeming value." After three years and two trials his conviction in the first was overturned, and the second ended in a hung jury. Goldstein assigned himself to visit and rate each one. Goldstein of an artificial vagina.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/al-goldstein-pioneering-pornographer-dies-at-77.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
Mr. "The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary."
In 1973, though, a United States Supreme Court decision made it easier to prosecute pornographers. Mr. That experience so appalled him that he wrote an expos?(C) about it for The New York Free Press, a radical weekly.
Al Goldstein, a Publisher Who Took the Romance Out of Sex, Dies at 77 - NYTimes.com
Although they had difficulty finding a willing distributor for a tabloid whose first cover featured a photograph of a bikini-clad brunette stroking a large kosher salami, Screw"s circulation soon reached 100,000 " or so Mr. Goldstein also won a copyright suit filed by the Pillsbury Company after Screw depicted its signature doughboy in flagrante, and an invasion-of-privacy suit filed by an actress in a cracker commercial that Mr. In 2004, while living in a homeless shelter, he was arrested and charged with stealing books from a Barnes & Noble store.
The article did not make the splash Mr. Buckley.
"There is a pattern to American life that what is avant-garde becomes commonplace," Mr. We will uncover the entire world of sex. The Village Voice and other newspapers, many of them free, siphoned off the ads for escort services that were Screw"s mainstay. 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. His survivors include his son. Goldstein served in the Army, captained the debate team at Pace College and briefly followed his father"s footsteps into photojournalism, taking pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy on a 1962 state trip to Pakistan and spending several days in a Cuban prison for taking unauthorized photos of Fidel Castro"s brother, Ra??l. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy. He married miserably, sold insurance successfully by day and sought solace in pornographic movie houses and brothels by night.
Mr. Mr. "Goldstein"s contribution is to be utterly tasteless."
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. He was convicted in 2002 of harassing a former secretary in the pages of Screw, though that conviction, too, was overturned. "There"s nothing I"ll inhibit myself from doing."
Mr. 10, 1936, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, one of two sons of Sam and Gertrude Goldstein. Goldstein"s sometime lawyer, said in 2004.
Apart from Screw, Mr. He blogged for Booble, a website devoted to the pornography business.
With renown came obscenity arrests and lawsuits, which Mr. Upon delivery, Mr. Goldstein starred in. Goldstein claimed (it was never audited) " and the magazine stepped up its ambitions.
"He clearly coarsened American sensibilities," Alan M. It is "Al Goldstein & Ron Jeremy Are Screwed," not "Al Goldstein & Ron Jeremy Get Screwed."
As quasi-legal, discreetly misnamed "massage parlors" multiplied across the city in the early 1970s, Mr. "We will apologize for nothing. Goldstein"s third ex-wife, Gena.
Mr. Goldstein lost his company, his Florida mansion and a series of subsistence jobs in New York, including one as a greeter at the Second Avenue Deli. Goldstein failed to stake out strong positions in the booming sectors of video and Internet pornography.
In quick succession starting in 2003, Mr. We will be the Consumer Reports of sex."
Screw made Mr. A lifelong habitu?(C) of psychoanalysts" couches, he blamed a meek father and an adulterous, insensitive mother for his complexes in his 2006 autobiography, "I, Goldstein: My Screwed Life," written with Josh Alan Friedman.
Before he found his calling, Mr. Goldstein said " a fraction of the seven million Playboy sold in those days, but enough to raise Mr. It was on the Upper East Side, not the Upper West Side.
The cause was believed to be renal failure, his lawyer, Charles C. He claimed that his early, enthusiastic review of the movie "Deep Throat" helped turn it into hard-core pornography"s first bona fide mainstream hit.
Correction: December 19, 2013
The manifesto in Screw"s debut issue in 1968 was succinct. Goldstein was long estranged from his fifth wife, Christine.
Alvin Goldstein was born on Jan. Mr.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
An earlier version of this obituary misstated the location of the Manhattan townhouse Mr. "We promise never to ink out a pubic hair or chalk out an organ," it read. It was, primarily, a business, with consumers and suppliers like any other.
His long decline found him bouncing from his mudanzas especiales en mendoza in-laws" floor in Queens to Veterans Affairs hospitals to a cramped apartment on Staten Island paid for by his friend, the magician Penn Jillette, to the Brooklyn nursing home where he spent most of his final years.
An earlier version of this obituary misstated the name of a movie Mr. Before then, one legal test for obscenity was whether a publication was "utterly without redeeming social value." The 1973 decision broadened the definition to include material that lacked "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value," and it empowered communities to set local standards for whether such material was obscene.. Goldstein said.
And at age 69, he was nominated for best supporting actor at the Adult Video News Awards for his age-defying role in "Al Goldstein & Ron Jeremy Are Screwed."
"I"m infantile, compulsive, always acting out my fantasies," he told Playboy in 1974. After his son, Jordan, disinvited him to his graduation from Harvard Law School, Mr. Goldstein in turn milked for maximum publicity. Goldstein began a dozen other magazines, with titles like Death, Smut, Cigar and Mobster Times, all of which failed. Goldstein eventually married Servicio de embalaje y ayudantes five times. Goldstein"s company, Milky Way Productions, paid a $30,000 fine in return for the dropping of personal charges against him and Mr. He bought a mansion in Pompano Beach, Fla., where he made an abortive run for county sheriff in 1992.
Meanwhile, his vendettas came to seem more petty and personal. Dershowitz, the civil liberties advocate and 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 moment in New York City"s cultural history: the sleaze and decay of Times Square in the 1960s and "70s.
Correction: December 20, 2013
Gradually, Mr. Goldstein drifted. Goldstein bought in the wake of his initial success. Goldstein rich enough to afford a townhouse down the block from Bill Cosby on the Upper East Side. Goldstein published doctored photos showing Jordan having sex with various men and with his own mother, Mr. He was briefly a star catering salesman for a Manhattan bagel store. Goldstein said in 1981. Goldstein was charged with 12 obscenity and conspiracy counts and faced up to 60 years in prison.
Mr. But for better or worse, his influence was undeniable.
An issue in 1973 with frontally nude photos of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sold more than a half-million copies, Mr. Goldstein"s empire declined. Goldstein ran a dime-pitch concession at the 1964-65 New York World"s Fair; sold rugs, encyclopedias and his own blood; drove a cab; and landed a job as an industrial spy, infiltrating a labor union. By the time his company went bankrupt in 2003, he was no longer a force in the $10-billion-a-year industry he pioneered. Goldstein repurposed for "Midnight Blue."
After his marriage failed, Mr. Goldstein"s profile considerably.
"Hefner did it with taste," Mr. Goldstein was hoping for, but he became friends with one of The Press"s editors, Jim Buckley, and persuaded him that there was money to be made covering the growing commercial sex scene, which the establishment press mentioned only to vilify.
There were some late bright spots, though. His father was a news photographer.
His lawyers argued that the anticensorship diatribes in Screw made the magazine sufficiently political, though Mr. Dershowitz added, referring to Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy, which predated Screw by 15 years. According to Gay Talese"s book "Thy Neighbor"s Wife," Mr. Goldstein, claiming First Amendment protection, beat most of the charges, occasionally paying nominal fines.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
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 flesh-parading 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.
This led federal prosecutors to direct some postmasters in Kansas to order copies of Screw
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