Sharon Mitchell – Her Interview Revisited: A Christmas Fundraiser
The Rialto Report
Ashley West
4.8 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2015
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
We recently heard that one of our all-time favorites, golden age actress Miss Sharon Mitchell, has recently been going through a very tough time.
The Rialto Report interviewed Mitch early in 2014 – and heard how she had struggled since the closure of her AIM organization a few years ago.
In recent years she’s lived in a rural area in the country outside of Los Angeles where she has struggled to find work. After several years of looking, Mitch finally found work with a nearby AIDS advisory service this summer, but shortly after she started work there she crashed her motorbike. She was badly hurt in the accident – and the bike was almost a complete write-off.
What made this even worse was that she needed the bike to commute to her job, and Sharon has not been able to afford the cost of the repairs so the bike remains with the repair shop.
Without the bike, Mitch will not be able to stay in work – and she badly needs the income to survive.
This holiday season we’ve joined up with the Golden Age Appreciation Fund to raise money for Mitch. Please visit the site and give whatever you can. It’s so important to Mitch that she can get back to work.
Thanks very much for all your help.
This podcast episode running time is 107 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm kind of the original punk chick. |
| 0:02.4 | I absolutely was a fucking rebel. |
| 0:04.6 | If you said yes, I would say no. |
| 0:06.9 | If you said no, I would say yes. |
| 0:08.9 | If you said black, I'd say no. |
| 0:10.7 | That's white, motherfucker. |
| 0:12.3 | If there's one goddamn thing I know, I'm the real fucking real. |
| 0:15.5 | You know? |
| 0:23.0 | I always liked Sharon Mitchell. |
| 0:26.2 | For a start, she stood out from her fellow film actors. |
| 0:30.3 | Most of them looked like they'd walked in from being extras on the set of Charlie's Angels or the Mary Tyler Moore Show. |
| 0:32.4 | Sharon seemed like she'd come straight from a Ramonescape at CBGB's, which she probably had. |
| 0:38.3 | Somehow she combined the look of a runaway bad kid with the girl next door. She started out in New York as a |
| 0:42.7 | dancer and actress and a regular on the New York punk music scene before becoming a staple |
| 0:47.5 | in the growing adult film industry as a borderline underage performer. She was frenetic and busy, |
| 0:52.4 | starring in films and in strip clubs, taking |
| 0:55.0 | acting and dancing classes, working as a dominatrix and singing in bands. When the East Coast |
| 1:00.1 | porn industry started to change, Sharon moved to the West Coast, where she was equally prolific |
| 1:04.7 | and successful. By now Sharon was one of the most recognizable figures in the adult film industry, |
| 1:09.9 | but against the backdrop of this, she was battling her own demons, resulting in a serious drug habit and culminating |
| 1:15.9 | in a brutal attack that left her fighting for her life. Then came the second act. In 1998, following |
| 1:22.3 | an HIV outbreak in the adult entertainment industry, Sharon founded the Adult Industry Medical |
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