Post by chazraps on Sept 11, 2023 17:55:35 GMT -5
As confirmed by Something Weird Video's Lisa Petrucci:
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"I'm sad to have to share this news, but legendary New York Sexploitation film producer and distributor, Arthur Morowitz, unexpectedly passed away today. He had just turned 80 years old. Arthur got started in the adult film business with his co-partner Howard Farber, and their company Distribpix would go on to dominate the adult film industry throughout the Sixties and Seventies. Arthur became a major player in the home video market, opening the Video Shack chain in 1979 and later founding the WWF Coliseum Video label. He owned a hell of a lot of real estate too. In later years, Arthur would prove to be a force to be reckoned with in the collectible stamps and world currency business with his Champion Stamp Company.
I am grateful to have known him and have wonderful memories of Mike Vraney and I spending time with Arthur at his office (with his enormous and intimidating desk!) and all those fancy expensive dinners in mid-town Manhattan. He was a giant of a man who conquered anything he took on. The words Impressive and incredible hardly begin to describe him. Our thoughts are with my dear friend Steven Morowitz and his family. I'm sure Mike, Dave Friedman and Arthur's beloved wife Harriet are there to welcome him with open arms in the great grindhouse in the sky... RIP"
www.facebook.com/groups/32868747680?multi_permalinks=10159472402607681&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen
"I'm sad to have to share this news, but legendary New York Sexploitation film producer and distributor, Arthur Morowitz, unexpectedly passed away today. He had just turned 80 years old. Arthur got started in the adult film business with his co-partner Howard Farber, and their company Distribpix would go on to dominate the adult film industry throughout the Sixties and Seventies. Arthur became a major player in the home video market, opening the Video Shack chain in 1979 and later founding the WWF Coliseum Video label. He owned a hell of a lot of real estate too. In later years, Arthur would prove to be a force to be reckoned with in the collectible stamps and world currency business with his Champion Stamp Company.
I am grateful to have known him and have wonderful memories of Mike Vraney and I spending time with Arthur at his office (with his enormous and intimidating desk!) and all those fancy expensive dinners in mid-town Manhattan. He was a giant of a man who conquered anything he took on. The words Impressive and incredible hardly begin to describe him. Our thoughts are with my dear friend Steven Morowitz and his family. I'm sure Mike, Dave Friedman and Arthur's beloved wife Harriet are there to welcome him with open arms in the great grindhouse in the sky... RIP"
