a b Max Holland (2012). Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat. Univ Pr of Kansas. p.119. ISBN 978-0700618293. This film became notorious and remains so today. It is connected to the Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon. It is said to be the most profitable film of all time when compared to its budget (a few thousand dollars invested with millions in profits). And furthermore, the profits from "Deep Throat" were used to create Bryanston Distributing, a film distribution company that also handled several non-pornographic features including "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", so it had a lasting influence via secondary films. In 2022, which marked the 50th anniversary of the film, the film was restored and re-released and several screenings were held. [18] Since all of the principals and the director Damiano have since died, the movie's restoration was overseen by Damiano's children, Christar and Gerard Damiano Jr., in collaboration with Robin Leonardi, the surviving daughter of another adult industry trailblazer, and a contemporary of the original Deep Throat trio, Gloria Leonard. [18] See also [ edit ] Lewis, Jon (2000). Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry. New York: NYU Press. pp. 260–67. ISBN 978-0814751428. Pornofilm trekt ruim 900.000 kijkers". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau. February 24, 2008. Archived from the original on April 10, 2010 . Retrieved January 14, 2010.

Kievit, Rob (January 29, 2008). "Porn movie on Dutch public TV causes row". Radio Netherlands Worldwide: English. Archived from the original on August 26, 2009 . Retrieved January 14, 2010.Hiltzik, Michael (March 10, 2005). "Bad 'Deep Throat' Revenue Numbers Are Multiplying". Los Angeles Times. p.C-1. Archived from the original on February 11, 2009 . Retrieved February 18, 2009. Directed by Gérard Damanio and filmed in a Florida hotel, the movie follows the erotic adventures of a young woman (Lovelace) who is disappointed to find herself surprisingly indifferent to sex – until an examination by her doctor solves the mystery: because of an eccentricity of her anatomy, she finds oral sex more satisfying than conventional intercourse.

O'Connor, John (17 October 2006). " 'I'm the Guy They Called Deep Throat' ". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 17 September 2020 . Retrieved 17 September 2020.

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In the comedy film Dazed and Confused, Mike and Tony are jokingly referred to as “Woodward and Bernstein”, prompting Mike to retort “I guess that makes you Deep Throat”. Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward pursued the story for two years. The scandal eventually implicated many members of Nixon's White House, culminating in Nixon becoming the first United States president to resign. Woodward and Bernstein wrote in All the President's Men that key information in their investigation had come from an anonymous informant whom they dubbed "Deep Throat". In the video game Metal Gear Solid (1998) the character Grey Fox uses the codename "Deepthroat" in reference to Watergate to provide advice to the main character Solid Snake. Then he was prosecuted and pursued by the federal government. [President Richard] Nixon took him on to divert attention away from his own wrongdoing. Nixon had a very public campaign against pornography and so my father was arrested and surveilled and our phones were tapped. There was a lot of anxiety there. The original sequel to Deep Throat— Deep Throat Part II—was written and directed by Joseph W. Sarno and featured the original stars Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems. Shot in New York City in early 1973, it was released in New York in February 1974 with an MPAA "R" rating. Although attributed to Damiano Films, Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano was not involved with its production. The film was produced, however, by Deep Throat producer Louis Peraino, who had in the meantime founded the mainstream distribution company Bryanston Films. The version of Deep Throat Part II currently available on DVD is bowdlerized to the point where the film contains virtually no sexual content of any sort, probably a byproduct of its efforts to receive an MPAA R rating at the time of its release. An Italian DVD release of the film, however, contains its original softcore sex scenes. It has long been claimed that Deep Throat Part II was originally shot with the intention of releasing it as a hardcore feature and that hardcore sequences shot for the film were stolen while the film was in post-production. Director Joe Sarno, however, has insisted in interviews that this is not the case.

Further, while Woodward stressed these precautions in his book, he also admits to having called "Deep Throat" on the telephone at his home. Felt's wife recalls answering Woodward's telephone calls for Felt. [8] Controversy over motives [ edit ] Andrew, Steven (June 9, 2008). "F.A.M.E. Awards Winners". XFANZ. Archived from the original on December 20, 2008. Cohen, Henry (2003). "The Miller Test". Obscenity and Indecency: Constitutional Principles and Federal Statutes. New York: Novinka Books. pp.2–5. ISBN 9781590337493. Archived from the original on July 31, 2020 . Retrieved July 21, 2019. Woodward and Bernstein on Imus". NBC News. June 2, 2005. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022 . Retrieved 2022-12-03.David Wharton (February 19, 1988). "Academy Awards of XXX Convene in 'the Valley of Lust': Uptight Undercurrent Mars Atmosphere of Kinky Abandon in Era of Challenges From Law". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved January 12, 2014. The film’s director, Gerard Damiano Sr, never set out to change the world but did think he was on the right side of history. The former hairdresser used to listen to his female clients discuss how difficult it was to express themselves sexually. The R2 DVD edition via which I finally got to watch this “cultural phenomenon” and “censorship milestone” has to be the most atrocious and redundant in existence. I’m sure that even those film buffs personally unfamiliar with the film are aware of what its title is alluding to, but the uninitiated would not really be any the wiser after having sat through it in this truly lamentable guise! Finding the film to be so (intentionally) comical was surprising enough – snatches of dialogue and especially the song lyrics heard throughout are virtual howlers – but I certainly wasn’t expecting the most infamous of theatrically-released adult movies to be this chaste: in fact, it is so heavily cropped on this disc that its hardcore content is virtually nullified entirely. I’m fully aware that what one doesn’t see (but only imagines) is usually more effective than what he does get (or is permitted) to view – but this travesty is simply too ridiculous for words. “And deep throat to you all” indeed!

Will Sloan (December 20, 2013). "Al Goldstein: The Anti-Hef". Penguin Random House Canada. Archived from the original on October 30, 2014 . Retrieved November 20, 2014. From a literary business perspective, this theory was further supported by David Obst, the agent who originally marketed the draft for All the President's Men, who stated that the initial typescript of the book contained absolutely no reference to Deep Throat. [26] Obst believed that Deep Throat was invented by Woodward and Bernstein for dramatic purposes. [26] It also led to speculation that the authors played at condensing history in the same way Hollywood scriptwriters do. [26] Find sources: "Deep Throat"Watergate– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Banned, 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. Gardner, Eriq (October 26, 2011). "How a Nasty Legal Fight Over 'Deep Throat,' 'Debbie Does Dallas' Was Settled". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 21, 2014 . Retrieved August 20, 2014.

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Gerald Ford: Suggestion that Ford may have been Deep Throat as he was next in line for the presidency, although in 1972 he was still the House Minority Leader and yet to become vice president. Deep Throat was first introduced to the public in the February 1974 book All the President's Men by The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. According to the authors, Deep Throat was a key source of information behind a series of articles that introduced the misdeeds of the Nixon administration to the general public. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon, as well as to prison terms for White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, Egil Krogh, White House Counsel Charles Colson, former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, former White House Counsel John Dean, and presidential adviser John Ehrlichman. The film based on the book was released two years later; nominated for eight Academy Awards, it won four. Cord Meyer: CIA agent suggested in Mark Riebling's Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA. [32] However, Woodward stated that "Deep Throat" was not part of the intelligence community. Died in 2001. 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.