But then came “Deep Throat,” and “suddenly media was beginning to catch up with people’s realities. You couldn’t even show a couple in the same bed together,” Damiano recalled. “Although you might have just been at a love-in in San Francisco, when you turned on the TV, Lucy and Ricky are still sleeping in separate beds. “‘Deep Throat’ is very vanilla, it’s wholesome, almost, and naive compared to the deviant things you can find with two clicks on an iPhone under the covers at night,” said Leonard, who eventually found theaters open to showing it.ĭespite “Deep Throat” debuting in the middle of a revolutionary and tumultuous time in US history, the country’s mindset remained very puritanical, especially in entertainment. She visits an eccentric therapist played by Harry Reems, who discovers that her clitoris is actually in her throat. The film stars Linda Lovelace as a sexually unfulfilled woman, who only wants “bombs going off” in bed. The 4K “Deep Throat” will have its world premiere at The Slipper Room on the Lower East Side on Sunday, June 12, followed by additional dates in the US.
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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.” Linda Lovelace in “Deep Throat.” The Roxy Cinema in Tribeca will host a 16mm screening on Friday, June 10. 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. Josh Duggar sentenced to over 12 years in prison for child porn possession OnlyFans models, sex workers feel pinch of sluggish economy: ‘I’m working harder than ever’
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