F.M. Bradley: Hiding in Plain Sight - Podcast 113 - Reprise
Release Date: 12/10/2023
F.M. Bradley: Hiding in Plain Sight - Podcast 113 - Reprise
The Rialto Report podcast
F.M Bradley died last month just a few weeks shy of his 70th birthday. I can’t say I was surprised - Bradley had been in a nursing home ever since I found him in 2021 after years of looking. He was bedridden, and we had a few false starts before we finally settled down for our interview due to his ill health. But even though he was unable to walk, whenever we’d video chat it was easy to see the handsome, strapping man who’d made hundreds of films and loops back in the 80s. After our interview, we kept in touch. I’d occasionally send him the Chips Ahoy chunky chocolate chip cookies he...
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Deep Throat @ 50: Svengali - The Chuck Traynor Story: Part 2
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When Linda Lovelace met Chuck Traynor, it would have profound implications for both of them. And it would impact adult film and popular culture in America. If they hadn’t met, there would be no ‘Deep Throat’ (1972), no porno chic, no mainstream debate about an adult film in the wake of the sexual revolution. When Linda and Chuck first met, both were at crossroads in their lives. Chuck had been through three marriages, sporadic work in the sexploitation business, and was awaiting trial on a major drug smuggling bust. Linda was wandering aimlessly between New York and Florida, had lost a...
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Svengali - The Chuck Traynor Story: Part 1, In the Beginning - Podcast 118
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When Linda Lovelace divorced Chuck Traynor, she shared troubling details about their former relationship: Chuck was her pimp, her abuser, her tormentor. The stories involved beatings, guns, and imprisonment. And then Chuck married Marilyn Chambers - the other most famous porn star of the decade. Her experience of Chuck differed greatly from Linda’s. She spoke well of him and stayed married to him for years. So who was the enigmatic Chuck Traynor? And how did he come to play such an outsized role in the adult industry - and by extension, in pop culture at large? There’s never been a...
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Deep Throat @ 50: Searching for the Real Harry Reems – Podcast 117
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Harry Reems talks about his career in adult films, from 8mm loops to 'Deep Throat', and his landmark trial in Memphis - in this most candid and revealing interview.
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info_outlineF.M Bradley died last month just a few weeks shy of his 70th birthday.
I can’t say I was surprised - Bradley had been in a nursing home ever since I found him in 2021 after years of looking. He was bedridden, and we had a few false starts before we finally settled down for our interview due to his ill health. But even though he was unable to walk, whenever we’d video chat it was easy to see the handsome, strapping man who’d made hundreds of films and loops back in the 80s.
After our interview, we kept in touch. I’d occasionally send him the Chips Ahoy chunky chocolate chip cookies he loved. He wore an expression on his face more like that of a young man at the beginning of life versus a patient on the precipice of his end. Bradley talked about making an adult film come back when he got out of the care facility, convinced he would in fact get out and get back. He had someone he called his lady friend who visited him regularly even as his Russian roommate blared his TV 24/7. Bradley had his down days, but mostly he was a man of hope - just as he’d been all his life.
I often start a Rialto Report excited to hear how someone felt and what they thought when they got into the adult business, but soon become even more interested in their life now - how they’ve carried their choices and experiences and make sense of them today.
It was no different with F.M. Bradley. We titled his interview ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ because while nobody seemed to know where he was, Bradley certainly wasn’t trying to hide. In fact he occasionally attended adult events, trying to launch his comeback.
We may not be able to see Bradley now, but we can always remember him. So let’s do that.