At The Rialto Report , we take second place to no one in our admiration and affection for Jamie Gillis as a star of golden age adult films. His presence enlivened countless XXX movies over a thirty year period, and the business would have been significantly poorer without him. But a decade after his passing, Jamie still polarizes people. On the one hand, he was a talented actor and sexual performer.
But then there was a darker side, one that evoked a cruel and misogynistic streak. They were a deliberately low budget collection of sex scenes, filmed by and starring Jamie himself. These videos featured porn stars, but more often street prostitutes that Jamie had picked up just minutes before he started filming. In some of the scenes Jamie was dominant, acting out sadistic scenarios; in others he was submissive, exhorting his partner to show no restraint towards him.
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It is an uncomfortable read, but we present it here as an integral part of the adult industry in all its imperfections. A prologue should detail events or actions that lead to another situation. And an epilogue should serve as a conclusion to what has happened, which in this case means a discovery about the videos that was uncovered after Jamie passed away in Their content has been covered elsewhere, by breathless fans and damaged writers, and they hold little interest for The Rialto Report.
We are interested, as always, in the personal memories β the how, the why, and the what happened afterwards. I met up with Jamie frequently as he wrote his autobiography. He wanted to talk about different parts of his life, and he asked me to question him about his memories. I taped and transcribed some of the conversations, and gave them to him in case they could be of use. Many of them found their way into his manuscript.
It was a topic I had avoided up to that point, preferring to concentrate on the golden years of adult films, when his movies often looked more like Hollywood productions β just with explicit sex. They were intended to be so, and it was difficult for me to reconcile their author with the star of The Opening of Misty Beethoven and countless other films I had admired. Jamie however was determined to talk about this part of his life β and his character, and so we settled down for a conversation late one night in Jamie Gillis: I wanted to do something entirely different.
