Gang-bang buffet tables, deeply earnest 'Letters to the Editor,' ghost-writing Kierkegaard references into model bios in Barely Legal, and how a half-decade of reviewing porn eroded the thin line between the author's alter egos and self.
He’s been accused of fraud, sexual assault, and using drugs. But for Chris Bathum, who doesn’t have prior experience treating people struggling with addiction, opening several facilities promising to do just that has been surprisingly easy—and lucrative.
The abusive relationship between a Bell Gardens mayor and his wife ends with her firing a gun.
On the second-class status of women film directors.
Spending time with the residents of K6G, the only gay wing in the entire American penal system.
“You probably don’t believe me, but I didn’t kill Harry.”
How the feds went after Thick Neck, Guilty, Stomper, Gunner, Lucky, Menace, and the rest of the Amernian mob in Los Angeles.
Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.
Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?
On a group of women whose lives were forever altered by the Leif Garrett episode of Behind the Music.
The life and death of a reporter.
How a struggling comedian became a pimp who eventually started sending teenage hookers on bank robbery missions that earned them notoriety as the “Starlet Bandits.”
California’s most prolific serial killer returns with little fanfare after a 13-year break.
Growing up with the San Fernando Valley.
He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.
An oral history of the Dr. Dre album.
William Nowell got a windfall and got off the streets. The only problem were his neighbors – and his odor.
How a con-man convinced Los Angeles that he was prepared to purchase the Dodgers from the now-bankrupt Frank McCourt.
How investigators nabbed a key member of a group called “Lost Boy.”
How the People’s Temple tore one family apart, told in part via letters:
We have at long last opened our hearts to you, expressing the sorrow and agony which we have restrained over six long years. Any time you express the wish to resume normal relations and exchange with us, the past will be forgotten. For after all we do love you and the children more than any other persons. We shall continue to cherish you to our last day on earth. The peerless joy of raising you from childhood to youth is a unique life experience, indeed. Your father and mother
How Timothy Patrick Barrus, a white writer of gay erotica, reinvented himself a (wildly successful) Native American memoirist.
After a final film, Kevin Smith is going to retire to a life of podcasting and speaking tours. Or so he says.
At the very bottom of the porn totem pole is the “mope”, a barely paid assistant who hangs around and occasionally performs. Stephen Hill was mope-ing for Ultima Studios in exchange for pocket money and a place to crash. Learning he was going to be evicted, he sharpened a prop machete.
A profile of director Sofia Coppola.
The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.
