Gawker reminds us today that Inside Deep Throat is amassing press. I have not seen the film, but I want to refresh our memories on Linda Lovelace’s post-porn life, that in two autobiographies–Ordeal and Out of Bondage–she detailed physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of her manager/husband/pimp, Chuck Traynor, which lasted until she escaped, found god, and had two kids with a cable TV installer named Larry Marchiano. She denounced her whole porn career, claiming she was essentially battered into filming Deep Throat at the hearings for the anti-porn civil ordinance in Minneapolis, 1983. In 2002, she died in a car accident after a lifelong battle with alcoholism.
Here’s an interview with the directors–they believe her story; I hope in the film they do not gloss over the difficult parts about Linda. Discussing the facts of her life would be very useful in examining Deep Throat’s cultural impact, which is the point of the movie, apparently.
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you should also know that the film looks at those issues as well as the fact that she went, openeyed, back into the porn industry in the last years before she died. the film is bad, but it is so because it’s just another flick glorifying/rationalizing every aspect of the 60s. lovelance comes off as a victim for another reason–a woman so dim that she followed everyone who led her, from porn “filmmakers” to gloria steinem, who i typically like but never has come off worse than when she’s talking “for” linda while she sits there dumbly–just as she did with men before the feminist movement and she found each other. the whole story is sordid, that’s for sure.