King of Porn
Nonreturnables 3 years ago
KING OF PORN
Meet Ralph Whittington, who amassed one of the largest private collections of pornography ever.
His collection can now be seen and studied at the Museum of Sex in New York City. Produced by Jeff Krulik. Premiered at AFI Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington DC as part of the I QUIT MY DAY JOB FILM FESTIVAL in 1996. Note: if anyone is curious who the guy at the end of the video is--he's Jose Behar who has his own starring vehicles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ij47... and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-2gP... 'King of Porn' Empties Out His Castle New N.Y. Museum Buys His 30-Year Collection By Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 24, 2002; Page C01 In Ralph Whittington's kitchen, family photos are stuck to the refrigerator with colorful magnets. Dangling from a cabinet is a little wooden sign that reads, "Lord, Help Me Hang In There." And below the sign is a heaping helping of hard-core pornography. Whittington sifts through the pile of smut with the close attention of a retired Library of Congress curator, which he is. There's an old peep-show film. There's a video called "Tijuana Tushy," stamped with: "Shot Live at a Filthy Whorehouse in Tijuana!" There's an old copy of a magazine called . . . well, actually you can't print the title of that magazine in a family newspaper. "This is just a tiny sample of the stuff in my collection," he says. "The important thing is the diversity. That's where my collection stands out." He steps into the dining room, where a wooden dinner table is covered with a lace tablecloth, which is covered with a sheet of clear plastic. Atop the plastic is a collection of framed photographs of Whittington posing with some of the greatest porn stars of all time -- Vanessa Del Rio, Ginger Lynn, Jenna Jameson. In one picture, he's wearing a somber suit and a bright smile while a topless Candy Samples sits on his lap. Whittington smiles nostalgically. "Of course, these photos are all copies," he says. "The museum has the originals." That's right. The Museum of Sex -- a serious, academically credentialed museum opening in Manhattan on Sept. 23 -- has purchased all of Whittington's grip-and-grin photos of porn stars. The museum also purchased -- for a sum that remains secret -- nearly everything else in Whittington's world-famous porn collection, which had filled almost every inch of his modest brick house in Clinton. Whittington, 57, is thrilled.
He figures this vindicates his 30 years of curatorial labor in the vineyards of smut. "This should give me a little credibility," he says. Whittington's 85-year-old mother, May, who lives with him, is also thrilled that the museum carted his collection away. She figures it'll make the house a bit neater. "It got to the point where he had too much," she says. "He couldn't keep it clean."
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Nonreturnables 3 years ago1:16 The monkey watches him spank his monkey
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1Wow, he is a serious collector. He even has the photos and magazines in plastic sheets. He should probably have the chairs and carpet covered with plastic sheets too.
at least he sees them as people, that's something some puritans haven't managed.
oh believe me i understand..............i understand that you are a sick bastard that sits alone in a dark room and watches your collection of hundreds of 70's porno films.
I hereby take this plastic prick & officially knight you---Sir Jack-Off-Slot ! ! Scheherazade
xTHExWASPx: Moral puritan white knight crusader of the Internets; choosing to view videos he finds distasteful; gallantly advocating death to those he deems dirty; true class act. You sir, are a joke. But, congrats anyway for making ass-burgers work FOR YOU!!
I wish this film had more sense of "Why?" The guy is a complete cipher, as is.
Some people just can't throw anything away . The guy needs professional help.
You should be very dehydrated sir... try hitting yourself in the head for a hammer for a hobby :-)
My point is you really should learn that people are often facetious... maybe when you grow up, you'll understand...
Obviously, that's pretty old (no DVD), but his cataloging sucks. I have only a quarter the number of films, but mine is cataloged and cross-referenced.
I'd rather be a collector of this than a collector of a bunch of old video game cartridges like a bunch of other people. Respect.
Hello everyone,
New video today, with Bob back in the studio.
The eighties were a very contrasted period for a lot of artists. Some found a new career (Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits), others confused their audience and almost disappeared (Bob Dylan, Neil Young).
But when you look closer, Bob had real gems and without the dated production, it could have been a true masterpiece. Infidels is the perfect example.
Bob rushed the production, because he didn't want to wait for Mark Knopfler (producer, guitarist and singer from Dire Straits) to finish sequencing the album.
On a personal note, you could still hear some religious themes in this album, remnants from the Gospel Years, but closer to his jewish roots.
The outrageous replacement of Blind Willie Mc Tell, Foot of Pride, and Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart by Neighbourhood Bully, Union Sundown and Man Of Peace will certainly frustrate a lot of fans for the ages.
Now, we have access to a good chunk of the sessions in great quality and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do (unfortunately, I had to cut several songs for copyright reason).
The highlights are the electric version of Blind Willie McTell, Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart, Tell Me and Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground.
Here is the tracklist
1. Sweetheart Like You 0:00 2. Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart 4:17 3. Lord Protect My Child (Take 4) [Cut-out for copyright, available on Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3] 4. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground 9:25 5. Foot Of Pride [Cut-out for copyright, available on Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3] 6. Tell Me 13:33 7. I And I (Cut-out for copyright) 8. Union Sundown 18:11 9. Julius And Ethel 23:22 10. Jokerman 28:07 11. License To Kill (Cut-out for copyright) 12. Man Of Peace (Cut-out for copyright) 13. Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight 34:31 1. Neighborhood Bully (Cut-out for copyright) 2. Blind Willie McTell (Electric Version) 40:21 3. This Was My Love 45:03 4. This Was My Love (Alternate Take) 48:53 5. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground (Alternate Take) 53:04 6. Dark Groove (Instrumental) 57:43 7. Don't Fly Unless It's Safe (Instrumental) 1:00:33 8. Clean Cut Kid 1:03:50 9. Death Is Not The End (Cut-out for copyright) 10. Sweetheart Like You (Alternate Take) [Cut-out for copyright] 11. Union Sundown (Alternate Take) 1:10:40 12. Sweetheart Like You (Rehearsals) 1:17:29
Items found in record sleeves
Recently Mac brought up a topic on WFMU's e-mail list that spawned a flurry of great responses:
Did you ever find anything unusual in a used record you bought?
Here are some stories from WFMU DJs, please share yours in the comments section.![]()
Mac:
I was just putting away some records and ya never know what you will find in the jackets. I have an
AUTOGRAPHED copy of Ethel Merman's Disco Record and inside is a polaroid of her standing with some guy. Perhaps who she autographed it for?Fabio:
Mike Lupica:
Shortly after buying my copy of Syd's "Barrett" double LP at the WFMU Record Fair, I discovered a crisp twenty dollar bill stuck inside of it.
Marty McSorley:
I found hand written lyrics to Prince's "I Would Die 4 U" on blue lined school paper. (But I found them in a copy of Thriller.) And there is just something about the handwriting that screams "look at me please, I sit next to you in 8th period math everyday. Why don't you notice me." I really love it it's been stapled to my wall through 4 moves.
John Allen:
I found a copy of Quicksilver Messenger Service "Happy Trails" with the R in Trails blacked on the front cover. I pulled out the record to check the condition, and several photos fell out. The pics were vintage 70's shots of women on women w/ toys, and guy on gal oral action.
Joe Belock:
I found a copy of a 7-inch (unrelated to the album I found it in), 6 years after I accused an ex-roomate of stealing said 7-inch. Whoops!
About 10 years ago I was going out to some garage sales in NJ with Donna, when we hit this one house with a bunch of sixties & seventies rock LPs. I pulled out a few things and as I was checking the condition of one Black Sabbath LP (Masters of Reality I think it was). I pull the record out and with the inner sleeve comes a perfectly flat and preserved pot leaf. I was amazed. I showed it to the guy and he was all embarrassed and apologized, but I thought it was hilarious. I asked him how long it had been in there and he said probably since he was in high school - at that point at least 25 years for him... He confiscated the leaf though!
Mike Lupica:
Inside my (used) copy of the first Celibate Rifles LP, I found a hand written note from their guitar player, which he'd clearly left for the first owner of the album after crashing with her on an early U.S. tour. It thanks her ("Judy", I think) for her hospitality, graciousness, and for introducing them to The Long Ryders and the Dream Syndicate. (I'm guessing Judy lived in L.A. and unloaded her LP collection on a trip to San Francisco, as I purchased the record at Amoeba Records some years ago.)
Marty McSorley:
I found a note in a copy of Crawlspace's Solitude 7" on about a 1/4 sheet of white paper torn at an angle. Side one reads (in hand writing that reminds me of my Colombian aunt complete those squigleys at the end of paragraphs.)
I found . . .
Taped to this
paper is $20
now I can get the
necessary things
-incense, bottled water etc.
For Eddie's first visit to my apartment
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So the love flows
Though the insult and
wound back to him
tomorrow
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Eddie
Fire
Eddie
Love
Eddie
Peace
Eddie
Space
The most gorgeous beautiful man & most magnificent mindfuck-in the universe.
(and on the other flip side in writing almost as messy as mine)
Dig this shit $ means nothing to me, tho so fuckin' necessary in this fucked-up culture/society/mindfuck. If I can give away oz.s of 'shrooms to 'spacebuds + give $ to ACLU + Amnesty- well it hurts to Know that you struggle for this SHIT! + you Know this is LOVE never control. I want you to understand- ALWAYS