Overview
John Holmes was every man's gigolo, a polyester smoothie with a sparse mustache, a flying collar and lots of buttons undone. He wasn't threatening. He chewed gum and overacted. He took a lounge singer's approach to sex, deliberately gentle, ostentatiously artful, a homely guy with a pinkie ring and a big dick who was convinced he was every woman's dream. John Curtis Holmes had the longest, most prolific career in the history of pornography. He had sex on-screen with two generations of leading ladies, from Seka and Marilyn Chambers to Traci Lords, Ginger Lynn, and Italian Member of Parliament Ciccolina. The first man to win the X-Rated Critics Organization Best Actor Award, Holmes was an idol and an icon, the most visible male porn star of his time. Holmes started in the business around 1968 and made more than two thousand movies. But after descending into a world of drugs and crime, he became the central figure in one of the most publicized mass murders in L.A. history, the 1981 Wonderland Avenue killings in Laurel Canyon, in which four people were brutally bludgeoned to death. Holmes was tried and acquitted of the crimes in 1982. He died from from complications of AIDS on March 13, 1988. The Devil and John Holmes is one of the most terrific sagas we have ever published. - Jann Wenner, editor and publisher, Rolling Stone I can recognize the truth in these stories-tales about the darkest possible side of wretched humanity. Sager has obviously spent too much time in flop houses in Laurel Canyon. - Hunter S. Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hells Angels.
Full Product Details
Author: Mike Sager
Publisher: Sager Groupicles Book 1 Secrets of the Soul
Imprint: Sager Groupicles Book 1 Secrets of the Soul
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.277kg
ISBN: 9780986267918
ISBN 10: 0986267910
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 28 November 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Mike Sager is a best-selling author and award-winning reporter. A former Washington Post staff writer under Watergate investigator Bob Woodward, he worked closely, during his years as a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, with gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Sager is the author of 6 collections of non-fiction, two novels, and one biography. He has served for more than eighteen years as a writer at large for Esquire. In 2010 he won the National Magazine Award for profile writing. Many ofhis stories have been optioned for film. For more information, please see www.MikeSager.com.
