A kinder, gentler, thinner Al Goldstein emerges in a recent Cinema Blue interview with Scream Queen Linnea Quigley, linneaquigleycircle.com. It also helps that Goldstein's dating Quigley, whom he met several months ago through Ron Jeremy, but that was a story for another day on this site. Anyway, Goldstein introduced Quigley as his newest love and potential ex-wife, and she ticked off some of her 50-plus film credits that include Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Demons, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowlerama, Silent Night Deadly Night and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers.
Noting that Quigley is "important enough to be stalked," Goldstein wanted to know what Quigley thought was the cult attraction to her films. "People that watch the films get an adrenalin rush because they're going outside their element," Quigley observed. "They can go on a little roller coaster ride." Quigley also noted that horror films make a great adjunct to dating because guys can act as the protector. Goldstein said it would be the other way around for him because he's a pussy and needs to be nurtured and protected.
"There's something very moralistic about the horror films," Goldstein observed. "The parts I didn't like are where the teenagers get killed after sex. Isn't that a moralistic point of view?" Quigley hastened to point out that the scenes serve more for the purposes of slipping in some gratuitous nudity but also acknowledged that "a nice girl doesn't die," in horror films.
"There's a formula in horror films," Goldstein said. "You have a conversation, you have a killing. In a Ron Jeremy porno film there's very little conversation and a blowjob - minimum conversation, fucking. Do you have to have a minimum number of killings per film?" he asked Quigley. Quigley seemed to think that was the case but hastened to point out that she considered her movies, B-pictures, not slasher films.
Taking the example of Nightmare on Elm Street, Goldstein said he saw a character like Freddy Krueger, who doesn't die, more in the context of a bad lover or ex-wife. "I've had a couple of girlfriends like that," he said.
Although she's flashed generous amounts of titty in her films, Quigley said she won't show her bush but noted that the new breed of films are getting away with a little more than they used to. She also told a story about how one time she walked off a Jesse Franco film because there was some material in it that was disturbing to her including full frontal male nudity. "I lost money and made people mad," she said.
A member of PETA, Quigley also makes it very clear that she won't have an animal killed in her films. She said she doesn't eat dairy, fish, chicken or meat but has put a cock in her mouth from time to time. "PETA? That's that weird fucked up group that won't allow animals to be tested," Goldstein remarked. "Why would they put [animals] ahead of curing diseases for mankind?"
"Why don't they test on prisoners?" responded Quigley who said that product testing on animals was making all the researchers rich as well as those that provide the animals for testing.
From Davenport, Iowa, Quigley said she didn't amount to much in school but moved to L.A.l with her parents. "Everyone in LA is an actor or actress," said Quigley who was talked by friends into trying out for movies. "I was good at screaming and ended up being great at dying," she notes. "It went from there... this acting stuff's fun, I liked it." When asked, Quigley said she never went to bed with Ron Jeremy and that there are limits to what she'll do.
Goldstein also observed that Quigley, though she plays a very good bitch on the screen and reminds him of several Jewish wives, is very sweet off-camera. She, however, admitted she's dysfunctional in relationships. Observing that her father was a chiropractor/psychiatrist, Quigley said her parents were kind and loving but was willing to concede that her movies may have affected her relationships. She said dating's been hard because people have preconceptions of her being wild and carefree. "They're disappointed because I'm not like that," she said. "They want me to dress sexy, but dress down at the same time. It's weird." She says she dresses normally except for when she's in character onstage or at a convention.
Putting in a pitch for his personal charisma and vulnerability, Goldstein told Quigley that women see him as 'Mr. Sex' - "They think I'll give them the orgasm of the century, and they realize all I'm good at is ordering food," he lamented. In that area, Goldstein says he's an ongoing disappointment but that he has certain skills that are quite special including the abilitity to quote monthly rates for cable channels.
Asked if she had made movies that have stunk out the joint, Quigley said she could think of a few and put Animals, shot on digital camera, at the top of her list.
"You have the sexiest walk I've ever seen," Goldstein told her but couldn't figure out how she got involved with a gay guy. "You're a blond but not the smartest of women - why would you live with a guy who was gay for two years and not know it?" Quigley admiited that it was a low self-esteem issue. "I hate being screwed with," she says and admitted that her greatest fear is older men eating her. "If you were brain dead, I would be with you as long as there was warmth in your pussy," Goldstein told her warmly.
