Screw/Midinight Blue's AL GOLDSTEIN: *HOMELESS*

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A sad story, no matter what ya think of the man....

http://www.bettydodson.com/Al_Goldstein2.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/nyregion/12goldstein.html

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I could never figure out what kind of relationship he had with his son.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm guessing they're not especially close.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The world is full of has-beens and they're not a pretty sight. Usually, they're not much different than anyone else.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's weird to hear about this now since I just read the interview with him in Jim Goad's "Answer Me" zine from the early 90s. The article doesn't go into great detail about the lawsuits against him, which makes me wonder whether he was indirectly punished for producing pornography. Which would be unfair is such were the case.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Saturday, 14 August 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I work with the guy who was the narrator on Midnight Blue for years and years. Through him, and other people who've worked for Goldstein, I've heard enough stories to not have much sympathy for the guy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Then there's Bob Fingerman's Minimum Wage, featuring a thinly veiled Goldsteinesque character (publishing Pork rather than Screw). The picture painted is relentlessly if hilariously negative.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

Not the most opportune time to say so--Ghomeshi, Cosby--but I just read I, Goldstein: My Screwed Life and found it pretty interesting. Mostly for the cast of peripheral characters: e.g., he used to chauffeur Walter Winchell around town in the '50s.

― clemenza, Saturday, 29 November 2014 15:45 (eleven years ago)

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