Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. © 2024 NYP Holdings, Inc.You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography). “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.” Nixon vowed to bring him down,” Damiano Jr. “My father fought against Nixon as his nemesis. Ironically, Nixon’s own disgraced Vice President Spiro Agnew saw “Deep Throat” in theaters, according to Entertainment Weekly, but that didn’t stop the FBI under the administration - with Felt as the bureau’s second-in-command - from trying to choke the film’s release. Its place in history was further solidified when the Washington Post adopted its title as the nickname for Mark Felt, who decades later would be identified as the Watergate informant whose tips led to the 1974 resignation of President Richard Nixon. “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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