Al Goldstein
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Image:Scan0005.jpg Al Goldstein (born Alvin Goldstein on January 10, 1936, in New York City, New York) is a Jewish-American publisher and pornographer. Goldstein founded the tabloid Screw magazine. He was also the host and producer of Midnight Blue, a New York leased-public access cable television series.
His company, Milky Way Productions, home of Screw and his long-running cable show, Midnight Blue, went into bankruptcy in 2004. His mansion in Pompano Beach, Florida, with the 11-foot statue of a raised middle finger out back, was sold in June 2004 to pay debts.
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- "10 Jan 1936 Al Goldstein born, New York City.
- 1952 Al Goldstein's uncle arranges for a prostitute to deflower the 16 year old Goldstein.
- Nov 1968 Al Goldstein launches Screw magazine, with $150 funding.
- Apr 1969 Screw magazines runs a pictorial of two men engaged in sexual intercourse.
- 1973 Publishes nudes of Jackie-O in issue #206. Sells 530,000 copies..."
- "In fact, SCREW's enemy list resembles a roll call of the politically dead: Nixon, former Attorney General Ed Meese and Father Bruce Ritter, just to name a few. If you have a death wish, all you need to do is attack Al Goldstein or SCREW, and you will have sealed your fate. Sooner or later, you will go down in flaming defeat, but we will remain long after any craven, hypocritical attackers have disappeared. SCREW may not be pretty, but there is no way we can ever be stopped!!!"
- Undernews (August 2004)
- "There he sleeps, curled up on the orange carpet in the cramped front room of his in-laws' modest house in Richmond Hill, Queens, like a slacker boyfriend. But he is no slacker. He is Al Goldstein, founding father of one of America's leading industries, self-styled Robespierre of raunch, former publisher of Screw magazine. He is 68 and he has fallen far in recent months."
- Can't Stop the Bleeding (August 12, 2004)
- "His company, Milky Way Productions, home of Screw and his long-running cable show, "Midnight Blue," went into bankruptcy last year. His mansion in Pompano Beach, Fla., with the 11-foot statue of a raised middle finger out back, was sold in June to pay debts.
- Mr. Goldstein's probation papers officially list him as homeless, and he says he spent much of the last month sleeping in a borrowed car behind a Boston Market restaurant in Pompano Beach and at a shelter for the homeless in Fort Lauderdale."
- The Villager(September 15-21, 2004)
- "Al Goldstein, the once portly clown prince of porn who made a mint publishing outrageous raunch in Screw magazine for over more than three decades, said he is now broke, basically homeless and attending classes with “wife beaters” after being convicted of verbally harassing one of his four ex-wives. But Goldstein seems grateful for a new job he landed late last month in the East Village."
- 1010 Wins (November 29, 2004)
- "Former porn king - Al Goldstein - has been arrested allegedly for shoplifting three books from the Barnes and Noble book store."
- The New Yorker (January 3, 2005)
- "That afternoon, Goldstein was at work, a new job cold-calling businesses on behalf of New York City Bagel, a deli and caterer. So far, he had made headway with five customers, among them The New York Review of Books and National Review. “I’m following my own interests,” he said. “Beginning tomorrow, I’m going to call shrinks.” He was set up at a table in the corner of the shop, with a phone, a script for the sales pitch, and some cigars in a Ziploc bag. He was dressed in a green fleece pullover and parachute pants, with a big Star of David pendant hanging from his neck. He is sixty-eight and newly thin, having lost 170 pounds (77 kg), as a result of gastric bypass surgery. “My life is a travesty,” he said."
- Hold the Mustard, Maybe Forever (January 6, 2006)
- Jack Lebewohl kept the [Second Avenue Deli] full and kept up the restaurant's tradition of helping out the less fortunate. Last year, he hired a down-and-out former pornographer, Al Goldstein, as a greeter.
- "I have not eaten so well since I lived with my mom," said Mr. Goldstein, who was fired after he was found sleeping in the restaurant's basement. Mr. Goldstein, a noted gourmand until a recent stomach-stapling operation, declared the deli's shuttering "almost as sad as the closing of Chock Full O' Nuts," though he added, "I never thought Jack's pastrami was as good as Katz's. It's kosher. It was bland."