NEW YORK (AP) – Al Goldstein, the bearded, bird-flipping publisher of Screw magazine who smashed down legal barriers against pornography and raged against politicians, organized religion and anything ...

NEW YORK — Al Goldstein, the bird-flipping publisher of Screw magazine who helped break down legal barriers against pornography and raged against politicians, organized religion and anything that even ...

If there was one bête noire among sensitive intellectuals in the 1970s, who were just beginning to get into erotic oils and kamasutra sex positions, it was Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine.

Goldstein died at a Brooklyn hospice after a long illness, said the friend, attorney Charles C. DeStefano. Of all the would-be successors to Hugh Hefner's sexual throne, no one was as out there as ...