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Even this could be one more false trail. Capice is not likely to reveal the most tantalizing secret since the identity of Deep Throat. Neither are the approximately 15 others in the know: Dallas' producers and story editors, the major writers and directors, the show's chief publicists and a few Lorimar and CBS executives. All principals swear they have not even told their spouses. The actors will not know until the crucial scene is shot-a date propitiously delayed by the Screen Actors Guild strike. The first two shows will be littered with red herrings, but only...
...JEANNE BAKER--Ladies and Gentlemen, the greatest first amendment lawyer in the world and his faithful sidekick. Dershowitz fits every stereotype--He's brilliant ("the youngest professor ever appointed to the Law School Faculty" the appositizers faithfully call him). He overflows with flair (his first involvement with the Deep Throat saga came when he got the phone message that a hearing for an injunction was in progress. Half an hour later, in a borrowed coat and tie, he was Clarence Darrowing his way through the last hundred years of first amendment law in front of a duly impressed judge...
...defenders of public virtue. In case anyone thinks the district attorney's office had the same motivation in protesting the showing as the women who gathered outside Quincy House, they are wrong. Codinha, the chief assistant DA, and Hardoon, an assistant DA charged with handling the Deep Throat case, considered the movie obscene--not sexist, not likely to lead to violence against women, but just plain dirty...
...then John Droney is "ailing district attorney John Droney." Described as "charming" by those who met with him in the course of investigation, Droney is so handicapped that he cannot speak except through an interpreter. At first it seemed that Droney would take a back seat in the Deep Throat case; then, however, the defense decided to take a deposition from Droney, elected in a squeaker two years ago. Excerpts from the deposition gave a flavor of Droney's approach to his job as the county's top law officer...
...Deep Throat affair is over now, two months after the film society decided to pay off their debts--$400 worth of damage done when someone hurled beer at a Science Center movie screen--by showing a stag film. It didn't end in a burst of glory for either side. The DA's office realized they were fighting a battle they would eventually lose. They offered to settle, and the defense, unwilling to pay the emotional price of continuing the battle, accepted a technical victory that stands far short of defending the first amendment...