John Holmes, as if you didn't know, was the star of more than 1,000 porn films in the 1970s. That someone who is not a woman
can attain star status in the world of straight porn is pretty impressive by itself, and Holmes', er, talents were apparently even more amazing. And by talents, I mean the size of his penis. (What else would I mean? His elocution?) Anyway, "Wonderland" is sort of the story of John Holmes' post-fame life, but it's more accurately a garden-variety Hollywood saga of drugs and money that happens to be true and that happens to have involved John Holmes. His porn-stardom barely figures into it, except that we can assume that's where he picked up his drug habits. In 1981, four people were murdered on Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles. They were all drug users and traders and thieves, and they were also acquaintances of Holmes'. His involvement in the murders, or lack of involvement, is the issue.
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