R.I.P Jim Holliday

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Jim Holliday, AVN Award winning producer, historian, founding father of the X-Rated Critics Organization and author of such inside industry tomes as Only the Best and The Adult Movie Almanac, passed away due to complications brought on by Type II Diabetes.

His longtime friend and confidant Jack Gallagher expressed his thoughts of Holliday’s special place in the hearts and souls of the industry, saying, “ He put his whole life into the business and gave his whole life to the business and he loved the girls. He’s one of a kind, an enigma, an icon and can’t be replaced.”

His “cosmic soul brother,” William Margold, offered, in the forward of Only the Best, “[Holliday] ascended without a doubt, false step or close contender, to the top of the carnal cinema throne.”

Holliday wrote in the 1982 Top 100 X-Rated Films of All Times that, “from a purely cinematic standpoint, over 95% of adult films are predictable dreck.”

Holliday also wrote a classic bit of prose about our industry, stating, “Pornography is defined as written or pictorial matter intended to arouse sexual feelings. The word obscenity is not part of the definition, and the two words are linked only by those who seek to impose their narrow beliefs on the rest of society. The adult film industry has been referred to as the last bastion for free thinking entrepreneurs.”

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A true legend in the industry, and a hell of a writer, a guy "who forgot more about the industry than most people ever knew."(William Margold)