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- Birth nameIra Allen Sacks
- Bobby Hollander was born on April 20, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer. He was married to Gloria Leonard. He died on March 7, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseGloria Leonard(? - 1990) (divorced)
- Swaggering, mafiosi-look with open neck shirts and gold chains
- Adult film maker.
- In 1994, a 13-centimeter (five-inch) cancerous tumor was discovered in his left lung. He was a cigarette smoker whose father had died of lung cancer and whose mother had died of emphysema; surgeons removed the entire lung. He quit smoking but within six months of the surgery had begun smoking again. He died of cancer in 2002.
- Founded and published 'Adult Cinema Review,' one of the first pornographic publications to be sold on newsstands, as 'Cinema X' magazine in the early 1970s.
- Regarded his 35mm Arrow theatrical film production N.Y. Babes (1979), a tale about two competing softball teams starring Vanessa del Rio and Gloria Leonard, as his best film. It used 100 extras.
- Produced two cable TV shows in New York City in the 1970s: Midnight Blue (1974) with Al Goldstein and The Robin Byrd Show (1977). His wife, Gloria Leonard, also had a cable show called "The Stroke At Midnight.".
- Today the talent are all blondes, with fixed tits, and they all wear the same shoes - plastic pumps. They wear the same spandex dresses. They have the same tattoos. They have the same pussy clips. There's no originality.
- [on "Adult Cinema Review" magazine] It was the first X-rated newsstand film magazine, which started in the early '70s as "Cinema X" magazine. Vanessa del Rio was on the first cover. I think I gave Del Rio her name. She was a cocktail waitress in downtown New York. She's one of a kind. Happy go lucky, wouldn't hurt a fly. There's no one who looks like her, performs sex like her, or talks like her.
- [Of his lung cancer] It kicked the shit out of me. I never felt my age, which I am not telling you. I look young. You can see that I'm still smoking. I'm a fucking moron. When I came out of the hospital, I stopped for six months. As soon as I went back to work, I started smoking again. I had a check-up yesterday and the doctor told me that if I could stop smoking, I could become a ballet dancer. I recommend to anybody to try to stop smoking.
- [on his cocaine habit] I did my share of drugs. I went through two houses [Toluca Lake and North Hollywood] in California. I had a penthouse in Manhattan. We used to shoot there and party there. I thank God that I am still alive.
- I got in the business for the girls, the money, the people . . . It was never a 9-5 job . . . It was another form of show business. And it was underground. There was no shooting on location. You had to shoot quietly. You had to sneak equipment in [to the building]. It was costly if you got busted.
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