though, doesn’t seem like the most obvious Hollywood saga—after all, it takes place over the hills in the San Fernando Valley. But for Anolik, host of the new podcastHollywood and the porn industry that Lords dominated in the mid 1980s are far more closely related than either might admit. “The porn industry is overtly about what the movie industry is covertly about: sex and fantasy, objectification and exploitation,” Anolik said. “It’s the movie industry without the pretense. Or the hypocrisy.
once she hears the whole thing, and why now is the time, more than 35 years later, to tell Traci’s story.Lili Anolik: Confession: I have my own porn past. I’m teasing, but I’m a little serious. I broke into print by writing about Al Goldstein, founder ofmagazine and a major figure in the adult industry in the ’70s and ’80s. One afternoon in 2012, I went to lunch in the Valley at a Hamburger Hamlet with adult veteran Bill Margold, who’d codirected Traci, and adult agentwho’d represented Traci. Traci, and what happened 25 years ago, was the topic of conversation between these two.
So if you’re compelled by Hollywood, then you’re compelled by—or should be compelled by—the Valley, shadow Hollywood, Hollywood’s doppelgänger. Which is why Ashley and I wanted to spend so much time there in this podcast. What’s more, this podcast is the story of a particular individual, Traci Lords, but it’s also the story of a particular time and place: the Valley in the mid ’80s.
Im ALL IN on the Podcast
Abella_Danger Why is it a mystery she committed fraud to get into porn
Abella_Danger Crazy story, she was only 14 when she started. Says a lot about Hollywood I guess.
That podcast sounds like a complete waste of time and the writer is just a hype machine. Just another person trying to exploit a bad situation that's actually ancient history.