As it turned out, Reems says, his early work would come in handy for Deep Throat. To make the film more complete, to fill in some sequencing and to make a smoother film, “scenes were spliced in” from Reems’ earlier work with Lovelace,” notes Reems, “filling in any blank spots that the original might have had or any additional scenes the Director wanted. The film clocked in at a total of 61 minutes.”
Shot at various locations in Coconut Grove, Florida, one known and fabulous location was the home and estate of a self-professed swinger and count, Count Sepe. Count or not, Sepe provided the perfect set-up for various scenes in the film. It was, says Reems, “Perfectly private, lots of vegetation, and he was a swinger and so was Jerry Damiano.” The two men got along and the deal was struck. Count Sepe and his estate became a part of film history and Deep Throat, with stars Harry Reems and Linda Lovelace along with Damiano, became indelibly etched in the collective consciousness ~ or for certain, in the minds of the many thousands upon thousands of who have seen and continue to see the most famous and first real pornographic film ever to be made.
Harry, Damiano, Lovelace and the whole crew “were pioneers,” says Reems. They were, he notes, “The first of a new generation. Deep Throat made fun of socially redeeming values. It became a phenomenon. This one was ground breaking, and it made over 600 million dollars,” (almost none of which the actual actors saw). Deep Throat took the first real pornography in America and sent it literally sky-rocketing to the top of American culture and consciousness. In fact, Deep Throat, as Reems tells me, became, was and remains, a “cultural phenomenon.” Reems explains, “It was a time of great flux… JFK was president…and executed because of it. [It was] a volatile, colorful and exotic decade in America and pornography was just one small part of it and Deep Throat was just one small part of that contribution.”
More and not generally known, the documentary of Deep Throat was financed by Universal Studios and HBO and directed by two award-winning documentary filmmakers. “It was,” Reems tells me, “an interesting cultural essay on the sixties through the present.” Reems’’ observations are right on the money.
As for the original Deep Throat, it has “sold 50 million tickets,” and remains if not the largest then one of the “the largest grossing films in the history of the motion picture industry. It cost 25,000 thousand dollars and grossed 600 million dollars… The documentary of the film Deep Throat was featured at the Sundance Film Festival and met with wonderful acclaim,” says Reems (which, by the way, Roger Ebert & Richard Roeper gave two thumbs up) “and went on to many other film festivals.”
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Bob A. Booey
Sadi likes porn. That's hot. Just kidding, Sadi. Good job. You write some interesting stuff -- you're a cool chica.
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2 - Jones Violet
I think Bob is channeling his Paris Hilton side there with his "that's hot". Heh. Just kidding Bob.
3 - Bob A. Booey
Jones Violet adores me :) But I think I'll have to fix your name to be more human, like Violet Jones. And I hate Paris Hilton and all the women who now clone her at clubs.
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4 - Jones Violet
Bob, you know yourself that I'm not completely human.
Silly humans.
5 - Bob A. Booey
Jones Violet is like Natalie Davis without the PTA mom side to her.
One of my girlies in LA just met and partied with Paris at some club recently -- apparently, they know a couple of the same people.
She said how sweet she thought Paris was and said that I should so call her cell because we'd get along. I thought about it for a second and then I really wondered why this girl was my friend. She's hot, but I don't even hit it anymore, so I think it's time for me to lose some trash. Know what I'm sayin, humans?
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6 - Jones Violet
"without the PTA mom side"
Ha Ha Ha. You have permission to suffocate me in my sleep if that ever happens. Geesus.
Bob, are you one of those older fellas who still gets around with the college crowd? Who actually says "I'd hit that"? Just askin' :)
7 - Bob A. Booey
Older? Hell no, honey.
I'm still young enough. I'm not as young as I once was, though.
Guess how old I am in your planet's Vulcan years.
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8 - Bob A. Booey
Anyone else is free to play the "guess how old BABsie is" game as well.
And my apologies to Natalie. I meant to say "polyamorous, married-to-a-man with a kid but still a lesbian PTA mom."
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9 - gonzo marx
since you know what a vulcan is, i would venture to guess over 30, if you actually know the hand greeting they use, over 40
Excelsior!
10 - Bob A. Booey
You insult me greatly, Gonzo. Over 40? Over 30 was bad enough.
And I don't know anything about Star Trek, other than both Jones Violet and Natalie Davis think aliens and dead humans are way hot.
Excalibur!
Why did Chelsea Lou stop saying "Alka Seltzer" after each comment, by the way? That was clever. What was your opinion of her parody, Gonzo? I think she's lost esteem for you.
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11 - Jones Violet
I'd say 40's..early to mid. AM I RIGHT? What do I win?
12 - Jones Violet
Hilarious
13 - Bob A. Booey
I hate you all. I'm going to go cry now.
No, not mid 40s!
I'm glad to see my sense of humor translates across the galaxy, humans.
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14 - Jones Violet
Look, you're calling us humans. What planet do you come from, Bob? Obviously it's a planet like Earth where men are free to wear pink shirts. The horror. My planet put a ban on that a hundred years ago.
Ok, you're 29.
15 - gonzo marx
well Bob, i was just guessing based on a tiny bit of data...no worries
as for the parody, it was definately funny
as for any concern over "respect" i ask only for what i earn..anything else is someone else's problem...not mine
and i guess we insulted Bob here by only guessing 30 or 40...i think we aimed too low...
93 and 4 months?
Excelsior!
16 - Bob A. Booey
Still too old, baby :) And you LIKE my pink shirt! Admit it.
I come from ... (drumroll please) Uranus. That joke should automatically subtract the right number of years for you to guess my age right.
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17 - Bob A. Booey
I stole the "humans" bit from one of the greatest comic minds of our time, Natalie Davis. I think she stole it, in turn, from her fellow alien Ralph Nader.
How old are you humans?
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18 - Jones Violet
I do not.
What the hell..are you below 25? With the Uranus joke, I'd guess 13, but seeing how popular you are with the ladies *snicker* you'd have to be at least over sixteen. I hope.
19 - Bob A. Booey
I'm 26.
You're calling me 13 years old? :) You were all "*snickered*" just now. And I were 16, then you'd be in jail:
"Ha Ha Ha. You have permission to suffocate me in my sleep if that ever happens. Geesus."
Did anyone else catch this? I think Jones Violet loves me and wants to be a PTA baby mama :) That's funny stuff, but I'm too cool for school, baby.
And I'm not popular with the ladies at all! I wish. I don't know whoever gave you that idea, but they lied. I think it's the pink shirt I wear out to the clubs.
And you DID say you'd make an exception for ME wearing the pink shirt, darling.
How old are you, human?
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20 - Bob A. Booey
I'll take the wild variance in age guesses as a compliment.
I have the intellect of a 40 something, the emotional maturity of a 13 year old, and the continence and sex drive of a 94 year old. Hot? Hot? Hot!
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21 - Jones Violet
Oh, that's right. I did say I'd make an exception. Just don't add a pink tie to it.
"I don't know whoever gave you that idea" - it must have been our conversation about men waxing and shaving the boy-bits that gave me that idea.
I officially turn old next month. I'm expecting gifts.
22 - Jones Violet
"sex drive of a 94 year old"
That doesn't sound so good, Bob. May I suggest some Yohimbe Bark?
23 - Bob A. Booey
Yohimbe Bark? Hippie :)
OK, more like a 17 year old. I lied. But I wasn't lying about the continence of a 94 year old.
Pink shirt with a pink tie? Who do you think I am? Some lame singer of an 80s retro band like The Killers? I'm gonna change my name to BABsie Flowers.
How old do you turn next month? Happy birthday, however your people celebrate such events on your planet :)
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24 - Jones Violet
Never Trust A Hippie - they do have good herbal advice, though. You know, if you're into that kinda thing.
Babsie, men are out there right now with pink shirts and pink ties! Walking the streets and actually meeting women, and even worse, they are endangering other men of the world and encouraging them to follow in their footsteps.
Speaking of the guy from the Killers, I saw him on tv the other night, he's kind of cute. What is it your type says.."I'd hit that". Just kidding. Kind of.
I turn 23 in October. October 30th, to be precise. and thank you! :)
25 - Bob A. Booey
I'm so not herbal, although I drink lots of tea and gave up milk for soy milk recently. Does that count? I'm still not a hippie. The high school punk in me would never forgive that, but I think almost all punks I've met were really closet hippies.
No woman takes a matching shirt-and-tie man seriously anymore. That trend died after the one year it was popular when Regis friggin Philbin started it on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
I'm cuter than Brandon Flowers. I don't like his band being so popular, but I must admit I love "Mr. Brightside," but I'm a sucker for 80s synth pop.
Are you hot for an alien?
Here's an early birthday song for Jones Violet, from before Ministry become heavy metal and when they were artsy Goth weirdos:
Well I live with snakes and lizards
And other things that go bump in the
Night cos to me everyday is halloween
I have given up hiding and started to fight
I have started to fight well any time,
Any place, anywhere that I go all the
People seem to stop and stare they say
’why are you dressed like it’s halloween?
You look so absurd, you look so obscene’
O, why can’t I live a life for me?
Why should I take the abuse that’s served?
Why can’t they see they’re just like me it’s
The same, it’s the same in the whole wide world
Well I let their teeny minds think that they’re
Dealing with someone who is over the brink and
I dress this way just to keep them at bay
Cos halloween is everyday it’s everyday o,
Why can’t I live a life for me?
Why should I take the abuse that’s served?
Why can’t they see they’re just like me it’s
The same, it’s the same in the whole wide world
O, why can’t I live a life for me? why should i
Take the abuse that’s served? why can’t they see
They’re just like me I’m not the one that’s so
Absurd why hide it?
Why fight it? hurt feelings best to stop feeling
Hurt from denials, reprisals it’s the same it’s the
Same in the whole wide world
That is all.