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12/16/2004: "Farewell Jim Holliday"
Jim Holliday Passes Away
By: Tim Connelly, AVN Magazine
12-16-2004
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Jim Holliday, AVN Award winning producer, historian, founding father of the X-Rated Critics Organization and author of such inside, industry tomes as Only the Best and The Adult Movie Almanac, passed away due to complications brought on by Type II Diabetes 
His longtime friend and confidant Jack Gallagher expressed his thoughts of Holliday’s special place in the hearts and souls of the industry, saying, “ He put his whole life into the business and gave his whole life to the business and he loved the girls. He’s one of a kind, an enigma, an icon and can’t be replaced.”
His “cosmic soul brother,” William Margold, offered, in the forward of Only the Best, “He ascended without a doubt, false step or close contender to the top of the carnal cinema throne.”
More details will follow, but Jimmy, make sure and keep a spot for us up there with the angels.
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Jim Holliday - I have shot dozens of movies for him, talked hours on the phone with him and memorized miles of pointless dialogue for every cheerleader/stripper/nurse movie I have done with Jim. When I was publicist at VCA he would come in at 5:00 - sit down at my desk and talk for an hour. I always joke about Jim, with a rolling of the eyes and a laugh, but the bottom line is that he was a big part of my early career, and I have many fond memories of him. Jimmy and his all white outfits, sunglasses and his moccasins. You knew you were a favorite of his when he presented you with a pair of moccasins of your own. He called his favorite girls his "angels" and each one had a special name - I was the Shamrock angel - and we had special names in the movies too; although I have never been able to remember mine...Miranda something.
Jimmy booked my first scene with Nina Hartley, the scene both Nina and I remember as too short (he always shot his scenes with two cameras so it took half the time as a regular scene, Nina and I simply weren't done yet!). I did countless scenes in Holliday movies with TT Boy and Joey Silvera. The first time I fucked a girl in the ass was Juli Ashton...in a Jim Holliday movie. And a Holliday movie was the first and only time I worked on camera with Ashlyn Gere and Victoria Paris too. Jimmy's sets were always like big slumber parties, 10-20 girls on a set all of us in pigtails and white knee-socks, giggling and gossiping. How we ever got anything shot I will never know.
When I was a contract girl with VCA Jim Holliday directed one of my big features, titled Timeless. I was in Colorado and he in LA and the phone bill was ridiculous as we were putting the movie together. Although he would grumble about having his picture taken or appearing in a movie, he often would, as he did in Timeless, playing a ghost from porno past.
Car Wash Angels was actually shot in a car wash, Sorority Sex Kittens 3 had a real kitten on the set. Shayla LeVeaux (who he called Gumdrop), Jill Kelly and Felecia were among his favorites too, appearing in every movie. My former husband even made several non-sex appearances in Jim's movies - one time playing Jim himself. I still to this day have no idea why Jimmy wanted me to wear my duckie slippers in that scene with Mark Davis. I spoke with Shayla this evening, she is calling all the girls who used to be in his movies. She started crying, I started crying…Jill told her this afternoon of how every Christmas they would exchange their gifts of sunglasses to one another. Because of Jim I know more about astronomy and for the last 8 years every time there is a Harvest Moon I think of him.
Jim and I weren't very close in the later years, he never cared for my red hair, (obviously he preferred blondes) and therefore I wasn't in as many of his more recent movies, but nonetheless, my eyes welled up with tears when I read AVN today. Especially when Tim Connelly said, “Jimmy, save us a spot up there with the angels.” Thank you Jimmy and goodbye.
No bras; no panties forever,
Your Shamrock Angel
