pages of the dissenting report and put them on the market in paperback form. as controversial as these reports are at the moment, that volume may sell. but it won t be nearly as spicy as the material readily available now from your friendly neighborhood adult bookstore. when you look back at the early 70s, you really do see a major cultural shift in terms of the availability of pornography. the cinematic subculture boims down to one thing, big business at the box office. according to adult film association of america, 2.5 million people slip into darkened x-rated theaters, that s 20% of all moviegoers. the biggest film, by all standards, is deep throat. deep throat was one of the hardcore porn film that became a sensation, became a movie that people talked to their friends and neighbors about going to see. they already in albany,
a deal. some enterprising publisher may combine the 874 pages of the commission s report and the 59 pages of the dissenting report, put them on the market in paperback form. controversial as the reports are at the moment, that volume may sell. but it won t be nearly as spicy as the material readily available now from your friendly neighborhood adult bookstore. when you look back at the early 70s, you really do see a major cultural shift in terms of the availability of pornography. the cinematic subculture boils down to big business at the box office. according to adult film aassociate yags of america, 2.5 million people slip into dark, x-rated theaters, 20% of all movie-goers. the biggest film by all standards is deep throat. deep throat was one of the hard core porn film that became a sensation, became a movie that people talked to their friends
but her position on porn changed. she started attending porno conventions and started selling deep throat memorabilia, so it was a turn around. reporter: the landmark film came along at a key moment, when porn was going from something that was a dirty little secret to something more main stream. you see a budding industry there, that s no longer something in the seedy back room of some adult bookstore. she did launch a billion dollar industry and she is the queen of it all, a very unlikely queen, but history sometimes selects very unusual people to put on thrones. michelle turner, cnn, new york. still to come in the newsroom, is this the new gateway to newcomers to the united states? st. louis lays out the welcome mat for immigrants.
nchtsz we are looking at breaking news here. this is in philadelphia, really the heart of the city not far from city hall as well as the train station. an eight-story building we are told, an abandoned building that used to be an adult bookstore that was set for demolition has crashed on to the neighboring thrift store, the salvation army. people now, rescue as well as firefighters and emts at that site trying to go through the rubble to see if in fact there are survivors, people who are trapped underneath. and persistent reports said as many as eight to ten people could be trapped in that rubble. haven t had an update on that for a while. it s now 12:20 p.m. eastern. the fire department saying that they were called to the site at 10:43. we re talking to ari barkin before the break and we ll do so
all of this. he tells me he pulled two people out of the rubble who had minor relatively minor non-life threatening injuries. but you can see it s still somewhat chaotic down here. the fire and police department still looking for people in the rubble here at 22nd and market from those buildings that were damaged and the one that s collapsed. that is all we can really tell you here now. this building apparently once housed an adult bookstore and a theater at some point according to affiliates. this was the building that was according to ari barkin from over the street, he heard this fall down and was telling us earlier that that was the building that was being demolished. and you saw there on that video actually the remains of the thrift store on the corner. we re just going to go in and show you here the area that we re talking about. it s going to zoom right into the building eventually. there we go. you can see there s the thrift store on the right on the corner. from what we und