Word: throatedly
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...only when Woodward descends into the darkness of a parking garage to consult with Deep Throat that the movie briefly becomes a real noirish melodrama. The filmmakers made Deep Throat a smoker, which some say he was not, to give him a Robert Mitchum air, which was surely not something we would now impute to Felt. But Hal Holbrook gives a gnomic, cranky performance as Deep Throat. (Shouldn't there be an Oscar for best performance by an actor you can barely see?) And director Alan Pakula added menacing off-camera sound effects to Holbrook's scenes--a mysterious bump...
...Without them, it would be nothing but dubious celebrity interviews and reports on sewer-bond hearings. We also need reminding, at a moment when public confidence in journalism is, according to the polls, at an all-time low, that it can be an honorable craft. Deep Throat be damned; he was, it seems, more mentor than prime informant on the story. It was the hardworking boys--fueled by ambition (yes, that, speaking of low human motives), passion and fast food--who put the puzzle together. Do you think, just possibly, we could use a few more of their ilk right...
...Deep Throat, the anonymous Watergate informant who helped topple a presidency, unmasked himself yesterday. You're gonna want to brace yourself for this. Deep Throat is ... a guy you've never heard of!" -JON STEWART...
...confused old man now with a prosaic name, but he will live forever in American history as Deep Throat. The real W. Mark Felt, the FBI bureaucrat unveiled by Vanity Fair last week as the country's most famous anonymous source, will always be obscured by that mythic shadowman who whispered secrets in an underground garage to a young Washington Post reporter, damning the Nixon presidency to its eventual demise...
...memory, Watergate is generally summed up like this: the Post and its inseparable reporting team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought down President Richard Nixon by unraveling the Administration's cover-up of political espionage in a thrilling journalistic chase led by the spectral figure known as Deep Throat. But if the secret of his identity, held fast by four men for 33 years, is no more, there is still mystery in the nature and meaning of his role in Watergate. Was Deep Throat a villain or a hero, driven by base motives or noble ones...