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...chance, I would have spit in his face.' TOMMASO BARBATO, Italian Senator, about colleague Stefano Cusumano, who supported Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a confidence vote. Prodi lost the vote and resigned, ending Italy's 61st government since World...
...around in the early 70s, this statement must sound utopian, if not delusional. Well (and I know I've written this before, but this time, children, it's true), things really were different then. You get a sense of those old New Days in Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's Inside Deep Throat, a snazzy documentary now playing in theaters and coming soon to HBO, and a more synoptic view in the new book The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia. Diving into the nearly 600 pages...
...Fenton-Barbato documentary makes much of the judicial and law-enforcement politics surrounding Deep Throat. The Nixon Administration tried prosecuting the film from every angle -not surprising, since it was a popular porn movie produced by the Mafia. One federal agent quoted a Peraino underling as saying of the Deep Throat take: "We've got so much money ... we don't even count it any more.... We weigh it." The movie reports that "Deep Throat was made for just $25,000. It grossed more than $600 million." (That last stat is a flexible one, like a guy's street-corner...
Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato...
Although I was aware of this intentional lopsidedness on the part of directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, the same directorial team behind the sensationalist Party Monster and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, I couldn’t help but be swayed. By the end of the documentary, I found myself ruing the death of avant-garde art at the hands of mass-production and censorship, even as I still struggled with the classification of Lovelace, Reems, and Damiano as “artists” of the first rank. Inside Deep Throat, with its attempt to portray the American...