Al Goldstein

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Alvin "Al" Goldstein (born January 10, 1936, in New York City, New York) is a Jewish-American publisher and pornographer. Goldstein founded the tabloid Screw magazine. He was also the host and producer of Midnight Blue, a New York leased-public access cable television series.

His company, Milky Way Productions, home of Screw and his long-running cable show, Midnight Blue, went into bankruptcy in 2004. His mansion in Pompano Beach, Florida, with the 11-foot statue of a raised middle finger out back, was sold in June 2004 to pay debts.

A documentary was made by James Guardino about Goldstein, titled Goldstein: The Trials of the Sultan of Smut. In 2006, Goldstein released an autobiography, through Thunder’s Mouth Press, co-written with Josh Alan Friedman, titled I, Goldstein: My Screwed Life, which has received favourable reviews.

[edit] External links

• Blog of Al Goldstein
• name-Al Goldstein/ Al Goldstein at the Internet Movie Database
• Rotten Timeline
• Screw magazine online
• Undernews (August 2004)
• Can't Stop the Bleeding (August 12, 2004)
• The Villager(September 15-21, 2004)
• 1010 Wins (November 29, 2004)
• The New Yorker (January 3, 2005)
• Hold the Mustard, Maybe Forever (January 6, 2006)