“My father was always very proud to say that Nixon tried to take down ‘Deep Throat,’ but in the end, it was Deep Throat that took down Nixon.” Gerard Damiano Jr. She was really into what she was doing,” two-time costar Reems told The Post in 2005.ĭespite its controversies, “Deep Throat” reportedly earned more than $600 million, making it one of the most profitable movies of all time. “Yes, she had an abusive husband, but she wasn’t forced into anything. Traynor later admitted to hitting Lovelace and while several costars and crew backed up her claims of his domestic violence and control, many cast doubt on her claims of being coerced into making adult films. “Everyone that watches ‘Deep Throat’ is watching me being raped,” she wrote. In her 1980 memoir, “Ordeal,” she details his alleged abuse, which included beatings, spying, death threats and a gang rape. Lovelace (aka Boreman) later joined the anti-porn movement and renounced her adult roles, saying she was coerced into making them by her violent first husband, Chuck Traynor. It was history repeating itself for Robin Leonardi, daughter of porn star and industry activist Gloria Leonard: “Fifty years later, we’re still having this conversation about free speech and censorship - the very same issues that our parents fought for.”ħ Manhattan Judge Joel Tyler repeatedly said he was “learning something” during the three-month obscenity trial, The Post reported in December 1972. It was bulls–t,” Gerard Damiano Jr., son of writer and director Gerard Sr., told The Post. We couldn’t find a venue that was comfortable showing the film, and we even had a couple cancel on us at the last minute. In the country that devours the most pornography on the planet, “Deep Throat” still got the shaft as it looked to return to theaters for its 50th anniversary this year.īanned, protested and subjected to numerous obscenity trials after its 1972 debut, this week’s worldwide premiere for the 4K restoration of “the Golden Age of Porn’s” magnum opus initially had a hard time booking US theaters. Washington Post Watergate editor dead at 87 Trump sues Bob Woodward for nearly $50M over release of interview recordingsįrom Watergate to whinegate: The Washington Post is a hot mess Bob Woodward says WaPo reporters ignored his Steele dossier warnings: report
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