
Geographically Hollywood is a short distance from the Valley-just over ten miles, a more or less straight shot across the Santa Monica Mountains. The one thing I was certain of was that I wanted to be an actress.”


“I had already gone through the whole thing with the X-rated films. “By the time I was 18,” she told Inside Edition. When Traci moved on, it was to Hollywood. Only then I realized: there is no moving on from the Valley. I thought I was ready to do as Traci did, and leave the Valley behind, move on. Stated gaudily, it’s the bastard off-spring of a three-way between Boogie Nights, Gone Girl and A Star Is Born.Ī few weeks ago, I, along with my partner on Once Upon a Time.in the Valley, Ashley West, reached the end of the podcast’s 12-episode arc. Stated simply, it’s a real-life psychological thriller and unsolved mystery.

It’s called Once Upon a Time… in the Valley. the pornography capital of the world), and what happened back in 1986, when it was revealed that Traci, then the biggest star in Adult, wasn’t one was, legally-speaking, a child. A flashback that’s really a flash-forward:įor the past year, I’ve been working on a podcast about Traci Lords, the San Fernando Valley (i.e.
