[Robin_K2]

Never saw her on-screen, but her story is going very mainstream soon, thanks to the Amanda Seyfried feature.

Was "Deep Throat" that big a deal at the time, asks a relative youngster? Would it be tame by today's standards? And which of her several accounts, years later, are we to believe?

I don't doubt that she had a very tragic life. But I am frankly ignorant of hard facts. Are such available?

[pedonbio]

We all have opinions, and Linda Boreman would have whatever opinion would get her what she wanted at that moment. She and her pimp/husband, Chuck Traynor, were about as close to total flakes as you could get. This particular movie, as contrasted with the last one, is based entirely on what she said at various times that make the point the director wants to make (anti-porn), leaving out the occasions when she swore that the exact opposite was true.

"Deep Throat" really was a big deal. On a cost/gross basis, no movie has come close. It was also organized crime's last major effort to dominate the porn business. In terms of production values, it shows its early '70s origins, but there are worse movies being made as we speak.

How serious and/or accurate is this movie? Imagine Amy Winehouse. Now imagine somebody three or four times as flaky and self-destructive. This is the story she would tell you if you hated porn and you wanted to believe that any girl would have to be forced to take off her clothes for a camera.

[Zorro]

I have a copy of "Deep Throat" I downloaded and even by the 1970 standards it was a somewhat boring movie.

Compared to today's porn it could maybe be used as a guide on how to make a porn movie.

[solvegas]

Was "Deep Throat" that big a deal at the time, asks a relative youngster?

Let's say that one of the main characters during the Watergate scandal was dubbed " Deep Throat " .

[pedonbio]

The best book on the topic, imho, is The Other Hollywood by Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne.

It uses all original source material (published interviews, court records, etc.) well-edited into a narrative. One of the longest chapters in the book has to do with "Deep Throat".

[Palomine]

Can't believe we didn't have a pic in this thread.

What the fuss was all about. I know, quite common in these hardcore times, where at this very moment countless women are being 'throated' on camera.

[gOOber]

 

[pedonbio]

Can't believe we didn't have a pic in this thread.

What the fuss was all about. I know, quite common in these hardcore times, where at this very moment countless women are being 'throated' on camera.

For any youngsters out there, DT played in conventional movie theaters. It was released (1973) before the availability of Betas (1977) or VCRs (1978). Among the wicked folks who worked in the business, we figured you could tell when the movie was playing by how many bank tellers (Remember when they were all women?) had raspy voices.  

There is a wonderful tale about the origin of deep throat sex in the book I mentioned above, The Other Hollywood, called "How Vicky Killed the Nudie Cuties". In olden times, prior to 1979 or so, there was a genre of movies called Nudie Cuties (Think Russ Meyer) that grew out of an old SCOTUS decision that had talked about how an erect penis made a movie "obscene". So if a movie had no erections and no insertions, it could not be prosecuted anywhere in the U.S. There was a job in making such movies which didn't have a name, but would be called a "fluffer". Except before 1972 or so, their purpose was to get rid of erections instead of promoting them. So in the dawn of the 1970s, Vicky was the girlfriend of a member of a South Florida motorcycle club. He was filming some nudie cuties for a producer in Miami and brought Vicky along. In the process of simulating sex he got a serious erection and the crew had to take a break so Vicky could cure it, which she did by giving him deep throat sex. The producer/cameraman was interested in her technique, and gave her his address. She came over and demonstrated her style on him; he discussed it with the people who had financed his nudie cuties, and they decided to do a big screen production. The rest is history.

[Robin_K2]

Bank tellers are easy?

Jesus, I've had crushes on three lately.