FROM PARADISE TO THE GUTTER

The Great Pornographer went from Upper East Side family man/pornographer-next-door to Bowery bum. The First Amendment hero became destitute. But he never lost his appetite for pussy and pastrami.

Episode Links

I Goldstein: My Screwed Life, by Al Goldstein and Josh Alan Friedman

When Sex Was Dirty, by Josh Alan Friedman

Al’s Pompano Beach mansion, with the 11-foot finger that welcomed boats on the intracoastal waterway

Goldstein’s New York office

Beach Blanket Hippos: Goldstein and Ron Jeremy on Al's beachfront

Screw ’69, front row: Jim Buckley, Goldstein, and 18-year-old Steve Heller, who would next become The New York Times art director for 33 years

John and Yoko’s Screw interview, 1969

Terry Southern in Screw #801. Cover: Julius Zimmerman

Hitler's Worst Nightmare: Screw’s interview with surviving Third Reich architect, Albert Speer, with Goldstein as “Diddler on the Roof .” Cover: Curt Hoppe.