on 4/24/02 3:04 PM, Ken Follett at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Though I've never seen the movie, which I'm afraid to admit lest I suddenly
> receive a flurry of annonymous brown wrapper packages from fellow BP'rs, the
> *legend* of Deep Throat I think is as pervasive in our culture as Easy Rider.
> [And I'm prepared to hear all opinions.] Or will we find that one or another
> preservationeer parent, or child, steps up to the virtual podium to tell us
> how they showed this film at their last holiday family dinner? I hope not,
> though I have my suspicions. I suppose this could constitute a thread about
> the endurance of bad cult movies? I do think it important that, as with
> Malcom X, that Linda Boreman spent the last portion of her life seeking out
> different purpose from the events that created their celebrity.
>
> ][<en
>
>
> "Deep Throat" star Lovelace dies
>
> An icon of Seventies pornography, Linda Lovelace, has died in a Denver
> hospital from car crash injuries, The Independent reports. The former
> blue-movie star, whose real name was Linda Boreman, was 53 and had two adult
> children. She made her name in Deep Throat, a 1972 colour sex flick that
> became a minor cultural phenomenon. In her 1980 autobiography, Ordeal, Ms
> Boreman said her first husband, from whom she was divorced in 1973, forced
> her into pornography at gunpoint. She fled the industry, and became a fixture
> on the anti-porn lecture circuit, appearing with leading feminists. Boreman
> said of Deep Throat on its release, "I did it because I love it," but told a
> Senate committee a decade later, "every time somebody sees that movie,
> they're watching me being raped," says The Times. Her campaigning receives no
> mention in the Telegraph, which cites Deep Throat as the first pornographic
> film not just for men in macs but "for the chattering classes too," and what
> the paper sees as a continuing descent into smut.
>
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There were two other blue movies that enjoyed similar notoriety and cult
appeal.  They were Devil in Ms. Jones and Behind the Green Door.  This is
classic stuff.

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