Capt’n Max on the Show.                                                                   Collage: Susan Block.

by Dr. Susan Block.

Forty years of Captain Max live on The Dr. Susan Block Show takes center stage on Max Collage 2: “On DrSuzy-Tv,” the second in “My Beloved Max: Collage Collection.”

The word “collage” comes from the French coller, meaning “to glue,” and my digital collages of photos from the extraordinary life of Prince Maximillian Rudolf Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri (11/8/2025 – 5/13/2025) – my darling husband of 33 years – are “glued” together with love and tears.

Laughter too. Max made a lot of funny faces. What a character he was. Max could always make me laugh – even through tears of sorrow (I miss him so!).

That’s one of many reasons Max loved producing and performing on The Dr. Susan Block Show and FDR Radio (almost) every Saturday night for (almost) 40 years. It was his stage as much as mine, and it gave him the opportunity to portray his own fairy-tale cast of characters, with corresponding hats, accents, jokes and quirks in our own version of Commedia Dell’Arte that we called Commedia Erotica. There was Max the Butler, Capt’n Max and Mario Faccia Tosta the Italian Arms Dealer, to name a few.

The show was also Max’s platform to exercise his Free Speech rights and passionately express his opinions on sex, politics, art and culture. Pr. Max was a prince who put his life on the line for “No Kings.” He often said, “It’s Monarchy or Anarchy,” and though he preferred something more center-left, if he had to choose, he was an anarchist.

And then there were our breathtaking, almost-anarchistic, bacchanalian after-parties. Max loved to party. Even more, Max loved to create the party, produce the show, host the Speakeasy, oversee the salon, make the magic happen for everyone.

Max certainly made it happen for me, giving me the energy, love, improvisational seasoning (we never rehearsed; we were always live) and inspiration to put on thousands of marvelous, mind-blowing and utterly unique shows with him. His magical creations entertained, educated and inspired people all over the world, most of whom will never forget Captain Max.

I am eternally grateful to the wonderful photographers of The Dr. Susan Block Show, like Jux Lii and Alex Saglimbeni, who preserved those precious moments in these photos featured in “My Beloved Max” collages, so I could stick them together with digital glue, plus rivers of tears of grief and laughter, and then share them with you right now.

So, on with the show! Click the collage to see the little lazzi (scenes) of Capt’n Max on DrSuzy.Tv.

Then click these links for stories of Max’s extraordinary life and heartbreaking death:

“RIP Max”
On Substack
X/Twitter Thread

“Maximillian Lobkowicz di Filangieri Obituary”
On Substack
On Dignity Memorial
On Counterpunch

“Cremating Captain Max”
On Substack

“Bottomless Grief & Topless Cake”
On Substack
On Counterpunch

“Max to the Maximus” Memorial
PR in AVN, Xbiz & ASN.
On Substack
On Facebook Events
On Meetup

My Beloved Max Collage Collection
Max Collage 1: “Family History”
On Substack

© October 18,  2025  Susan Block, Ph.D., a.k.a. “Dr. Suzy,” is a world renowned LA sexologist, author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure, occasionally seen on HBO and other channels. For information, call 626-461-5950.