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As seen in A rollicking, funny, raunchy, and moving oral history of the adult film industryfrom through today. As a recent Magazine cover story pointed out to average Americans, the adult film industry is a $10 billionperyear business. It has infiltrated the American mainstream, with its stars showing up as mainstream TV hosts, making guest appearances in Hollywood feature films, and gracing the CD coversand armsof rock stars and Hollywood actors alike. But what most people don't know is how the porn industry got startedwith a $22,000 Mafia investment in a film called or how it mushroomed over the next quartercentury despite efforts by politicians, the FBI, and others to bring it down. tells that story, through hundreds of interviews by the people who lived through it. In the riveting oralhistory format that made his first book, , one of the most memorable accounts of 1970s underground culture, Legs McNeil now pulls back the grimy satin sheets on one of the most astounding success stories in the history of American business. Careening back and forth between two groupsthe actresses, directors, and others who made the films and the shady underworld figures who financed themThe Other Hollywood offers scores of neverbeforetold stories, all in the voices of those who lived them. Witty, always compelling, and ultimately moving, is a Hollywood Babylon for today.