Lo que veís aquí arriba es la caratula del documental "La vida de John Holmes". Voy a intentar conseguirlo y os lo paso. Su historia es muy intensa. La pena es que no fuera tan larga como su miembro, ya que murió siendo aun joven. Os dejo aquí parte de la biografía de este GRAN actor:
Porn career
"John Holmes was to the adult film industry what
Elvis was to rock 'n' roll. He simply was The King."
—
Cinematographer Bob Vosse in the documentary Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes.
For the next two years, Holmes and his wife, Sharon, lived quiet, uneventful lives. Holmes found work as a
forklift driver at a meat packing warehouse in Cudahay, California. However, the rigors of driving the forklift truck in and out of a large walk-in freezer and repeated exposures to inhaling the sub-freezing air in the freezer after being outside inhaling the desert-hot air caused severe health problems, leading to a
pneumothorax (lung collapse) of his right lung on three separate occasions within the period of seven to nine months during the two years he worked there. While recovering from his illness, Holmes frequented a mens card-playing club in
Gardena, where one evening, a still photographer standing next to him at a restroom
urinal, noticed his extraordinary
penis size and encouraged him to do
pornography. Initially during the late 1960s, Holmes did magazine work and an occasional 8 mm loop, keeping his work in porn a secret from his wife. This was easier to do in those days; pornography production and distribution were semi-clandestine, there was no mass production of
video cassettes or
DVDs, and no
Internet.
So, while the ad copy for his first few dozen loops rarely named him, those that did usually gave him a name that was nowhere near what his real first name was. In fact, one early "Swedish Erotica" brochure from
1973 has five Holmes loops listed, each of which has a different name referring to Holmes even though it is obvious from his facial features that "Fred", "Dave", "Rudy", "Big Dick", and "Stan" are all the same person. In the early years of his
porn career, Holmes was referred to as "The
Sultan of
Smut".
With the success of
Deep Throat (1972),
The Devil in Miss Jones (1972), and
Behind the Green Door (1973),
porn had become chic although its legality was still hotly contested. Holmes was arrested during this time for
pimping and pandering, but he avoided
prison time by becoming an informant for the
LAPD.
In 1973, Holmes' career began to rise with a
porn series built around a
private investigator named
Johnny Wadd. By
1978, Holmes was reputed to be earning as much as
$3,000 a day as a
porn actor. He starred at a time when personality could compensate for a lack of other aesthetic characteristics, and a certain amount of acting ability was still demanded of porn stars on a level that is not often necessary in today's porn films.[
citation needed]
While his vocal inflection was arguably somewhat higher in pitch than one would expect for a "hard boiled private dick", most film critics and fans agreed that Holmes did demonstrate enough acting ability to keep the character of "Johnny Wadd" from being merely a banal, one-dimensional parody of
Raymond Chandler's creation, the tough and uncompromising private detective
Philip Marlowe. By this time, his use of
cocaine was becoming a problem, so much so that it was beginning to affect his ability to maintain an
erection.
Also in 1973, Holmes was arrested for pimping and pandering charges when two underage teenage girls, who appeared with him in one of his films, were forced to turn him into the police. However, Holmes was given a choice by his lawyer: plead guilty to the charges and get three years of probation as well become an informant for the Los Angeles Police Department, or plead not guilty and risk being tried, convicted, and given at least three years inprisonment. Holmes chose the former option. For three years, plus a year or so afterwards, Holmes secretly worked as an informant for the LAPD in passing on information about the porn industry to his vice cop contact and handler, Detective Tom Blake, who claimed that Holmes was very helpful in assisting the police with many arrests in order to crack down on the production of adult films.
After his death John was awarded the Life Time Achievement award by the Adult industry. It was accepted posthumously by his godson Sean Amerson, the son of Holmes career-long manager Bill Amerson, who also delivered the eulogy at Holmes funeral services.
Penis size Holmes' main asset in the porn business was his exceptionally
large penis. Holmes' first wife, Sharon Gebenini, recalled him claiming to be 10
inches (25.4 cm) when he first measured himself. However, at the start of his cinematic career, he was widely publicized as having a
penis ranging from 12.5 to 16 inches (32–41 cm) long when fully erect. "It is the size of two and one half 6 inch rulers (15inches)," as John Holmes once claimed in a video shoot.
In 2007, it was discovered that the coroner who performed the autopsy on Holmes took "secret" measurements of Holmes' penis in a flaccid state and reported it as being approximately 8.75 inches in length. This information appeared in the form of handwritten notes (scrawled on the back of the third page of the official Holmes' autopsy report) discovered by investigative reporter John Beck who is currently working on a new book about the life of Holmes. The coroner also noted that the size of Holmes' testicles were approximately "the size of a pair of large hen eggs."[
citation needed].
Ron Jeremy claims that Holmes was actually 11 inches and used to brag that he was 14 inches.
So celebrated was Holmes' reputed penis size that it was even used as a marketing tool for films in which he did not even appear. In the porn classic Anyone But My Husband, the promotional tag line read "Tony The Hook Perez has a dick so big that he gives even John Holmes a run for his money."
[2]Different attempts to ascertain the actual length of his penis have led to varying results. An American study of video footage of Holmes' penis concluded his penis was
10–11 inches long (25–28cm), whereas another study comparing many pictures of his
penis to the estimated measurements of other parts of his own body led to the conclusion of 8 3/4 inches (22cm). Holmes' longtime manager,
Bill Amerson, that "I saw John measure himself several times, it was 13 and a half inches".
[3] Holmes' last wife, Laurie "
Misty Dawn" Rose claims that John Holmes himself claimed 10 inches.
Veteran porn actress Dorothiea "
Seka" Patton has claimed Holmes' penis was the biggest in the industry
[1], though not all who had sex with him agree.
Regardless of what the actual length of Holmes' penis was, some people question whether he ever achieved full
erections on movie sets. Veteran porn actress
Annette Haven, for instance, recalled in the documentary Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes that "as the joke goes, if John ever became fully erect, he'd lose consciousness from lack of blood to the brain because his dick was that big. And it's true that his cock was never hard. It [having onscreen sex] was like doing it with a big, soft kind of
luffa."
Number of partners
Penis length was not the only questionable statistic used in connection with Holmes. In 1981, he began to claim that he had
sex with 20,000 women. To substantiate this number, and assuming Holmes' first experience with a woman occurred at 16 as he claimed, then he would have had to had sex with 700 different women a year—1.9 women a day—for the next 20 years. More realistic estimates, such as that of
Luke Ford, put the figure at around 3,000. Quick estimates based on the number of loops where Holmes did in fact perform a sexual act with at least one woman, allowing for sexual encounters not performed before a camera, and further mitigated by counting a performing partner only once—again, some actresses, such as
Seka, Connie "Little French Maid" Peterson, Eileen Welles, Victoria Waters, Linda McDowell, Juliet "
Aunt Peg" Anderson, and
Desireé Cousteau, made many loops with Holmes in the 1970s—Ford's estimate of 3,000 is closer to being realistic.
According to Holmes' close friend
Bill Amerson in the documentary Wadd, Holmes lost track of the exact number of women with whom he had sex. According to Amerson, Holmes became so fervent in spreading false publicity about himself that he also eventually lost track of what stories were true and which were lies; at one point in Wadd, Amerson recalls that early in his career Holmes told the press that a wealthy British socialite paid him to travel to England once a year and pleasure her for twenty-four hours. Later in life, Holmes fondly recalled to Amerson his adventures in
England, which never occurred.
