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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Deep Throat," the infamous 1972 adult film that led to a government crackdown on pornography, is being re-released in theaters as a new generation of lawmakers wages a renewed assault on smut, trade paper Daily Variety reported in its Tuesday edition.

The release of the Linda Lovelace opus, which was banned at the time in 23 states, coincides with the premiere of the documentary "Inside Deep Throat," which hits theaters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston on Friday.

The original film, which was made in six days for $25,000 and has grossed over $600 million, will not be ready until at least Feb. 18, the paper said. Las Vegas-based Arrow Prods., which owns the rights to the mob-funded "Deep Throat," started striking 10 prints on Monday, it added. Five of the prints will be edited to garner an "R" rating, which allows admission to children aged under 17 if accompanied by an adult.

The documentary, co-produced by Brian Grazer, the Oscar-winning filmmaker of "A Beautiful Mind," is rated NC-17, which denies admission to anyone aged 17 and under. It is being distributed by Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co. -controlled NBC Universal.

It shows how "Deep Throat" popularized a form of sexual pleasure previously considered taboo. But the Nixon administration was not amused, sending in the FBI (news - web sites) to close down screenings, and taking legal action against the film's director, Jerry Damiano, and stars.

Meanwhile, a bill that would increase fines for smutty broadcasts to $500,000 per incident from $32,500, is wending its way through Congress with bipartisan support, inspired in part by Janet Jackson (news)'s "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl last year.

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I had a Trade screening of "Inside Deep Throat" at my theatre. My staff member said that it showed a few minutes of the original footage during the documentary. (No Pun intended)

My projector called me the next day, it said it wanted a bath because it felt dirty.

[ 02-12-2005, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]
 

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Posted by Brent Neal Jones (Member # 1048) on 02-08-2005, 12:05 PM:
 
I've got a 16mm print of this that looks great. I've blown three bulbs trying to watch it and have never got past the first 20min. I'm kinda scared of it now. I think it's jinxing me...does someone want to buy my print?
 

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Posted by William Uhlhorn (Member # 1923) on 02-08-2005, 12:24 PM:
 
Brent:
Film Guard enema, blowing bulbs, what next?
 

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Posted by Brent Neal Jones (Member # 1048) on 02-08-2005, 12:32 PM:
 
I don't know...

However, I was being serious this time....no shit, true story and I WILL sell the print to whoever wants it. It is a complete print.
 

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Posted by John McConnel (Member # 2000) on 02-08-2005, 12:58 PM:
 
Nixon may have tried to stop the showings of DEEP THROAT, but it's reported that he went to see it six times before resigning the Presidency.

He wanted to make sure he could get it down Pat.
 

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Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 02-08-2005, 01:52 PM:
 
I drive by every day between home and the office by the location where "Deep Throat" was filmed....a hotel at US1 (Biscayne Blvd) and 128th street...it is now a nursing home.
The blond girl that was in the movie with Linda Deepthroat Lovelace worked in a feature which I was the sound mixer shortly thereafter and swore like a sailor between takes I know several people who retired from the earnings they made showing this film. There was another film prior to this that was named "I Am Curious Yellow" which was a boring film with less than a minute of nudity....the film distributor sent a letter to exhibitors " to allow one more show a day...drop reel #3"
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-08-2005, 05:49 PM:
 
Well again the sex police have to dictate and guide what gets "cut" and released! What a bunch of crap!

I wish they would print more uncut versions... I need to replace my fading 35mm 1972 print...
 

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Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 02-08-2005, 07:03 PM:
 
Hey....should Phil's print be the star feature at Show West?
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 02-09-2005, 12:35 AM:
 
Phil,

What on earth are you doing with "that kind" of picture in your home! ? smut! Definately not the type of smut I'd expect you to have either.
 

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Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 02-09-2005, 07:58 AM:
 
Funny to think this was written over 30 years ago...

Smut; by Tom Lehrer

I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I'm for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we know what's really involved: dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that I suppose. It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution unfortunately. Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days I have here a march for mine. It's called...

Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut,
If it's uncut,
and unsubt- le.

I've never quibbled If it was ribald,
I would devour where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he
acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
"To be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance."

Por-
Nographic pictures I adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more If they're hard core.

(Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,
samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)

Stories of tortures Used by debauchers,
Lurid, licentious, and vile,
Make me smile.
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime.
(Let's face it, I love slime.)

All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth (I'm glad to say) is in
the mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
(I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!)

I thrill
To any book like Fanny Hill,
And I suppose I always will,
If it is swill
And really fil
thy.

Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley.
But now they're trying to take it all
away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand
we fight for freedom of the press.
In other words,

Smut! (I love it)
Ah, the adventures of a slut.
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut,
I don't know what
Compares with smut.

Hip hip hooray!
Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!
Don't let them take it away!
 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-09-2005, 10:11 AM:
 
Yes along with polution and poising pidgeons in the park where would the world be without Tom Leher
 

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Posted by Eric Hooper (Member # 1730) on 02-09-2005, 11:30 AM:
 
You know,

How can we have so much graphic violence on TV, and the censors don't care about that? I've stopped watching TV because I'm actually offended by most of what's on TV today.

OMG, I'm forced to watch bloody rape and execution style carjacking murders ON A COMMERCIAL for "this Thursday's ER", but Janet's boob falls out and the censors go wild and that's supposed to be indecent, inciting an all out campaign to clean up the airwaves? Oh come on...

Makes me sick thinking about it...
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 02-09-2005, 11:42 AM:
 
When I get sick I usually take medicine, or change the channel.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-09-2005, 04:09 PM:
 
Hey Danny, thanks for the ...ummmm, kind words...

And besides, you've been here and seen my smut...
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-10-2005, 11:09 AM:
 
John,

Tom Lehrer, was one of the great song writers of the 50's and 60's. He was a proffessor at Harvard University.
 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-10-2005, 11:11 AM:
 
Yes we all learned our periodic table from his version called the elements to Gillbert and Sullivan
 

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Posted by Jason Miller (Member # 2341) on 02-11-2005, 03:37 AM:
 

quote: John McConnel

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He wanted to make sure he could get it down Pat.

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I almost missed that pun. thats hilarious.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 02-11-2005, 07:59 AM:
 
I have several Tom Lehrer CDs but none of them has The Derivative Song, sung to the melody of There'll Be Some Changes Made. I know the lyrics but have never heard it. Would love to find that someday. Oh, and his full orchestral version of Poisoning Pigeons in the Park is an absolute classic.

You take a function of x and you call it y,
Take any x-nought that you care to try,
You make a little change and call it delta x,
The corresponding change in y is what you find nex',
And then you take the quotient and now carefully
Send delta x to zero, and I think you'll see
That what the limit gives us, if our work all checks,
Is what we call dy/dx,
It's just dy/dx.

Used to have a 16mm print of Deep Throat. Ran it at many a debauched party here back in the day.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-12-2005, 03:10 AM:
 
Gee Whiz, I guess I missed all that when in college... Thank God!

I only remember "ROY G. BIV", "ELI the ICE man", and "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly"! HA!
 

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Posted by Jeffry L. Johnson (Member # 453) on 02-12-2005, 10:46 AM:
 
"Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me. Right Now, Quick."
 

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Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 02-12-2005, 02:54 PM:
 
Paul,

Dr. Demento should have a recording of the "Derivative Song". So,inquire.

Derivatives, HOW FUN! The basis of Tech Calc II. And once this class is finished, I'll be able toforget about it, cause chances are I'll never use it in my area of Enginering!
 

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Posted by Mike Pennell (Member # 1692) on 02-12-2005, 03:19 PM:
 
jeffrey, what does the "right now quick" stand for? I thougt M was the coolest a star could be.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 02-12-2005, 04:50 PM:
 
These days since the addition of the new coolest Class L and T dwarf stars, that mnemonic'll probably morph into something like "Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy Kiss My Lips Tenderly. Right Now Sweetheart." Classes R, N, and S are grouped within Class M. Don't know about Q; it's been years since my last astronomy class.

Here's a site that has some good new ones and is seeking further suggestions: http://www.geocities.com/SummerDale33/Mnemonic.html

Lehrer's The Derivative Song has never been on CD, not even on his latest Dr. Demento co-produced release The Remains of Tom Lehrer on Rhino.

Who was Deep Throat?
 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 02-12-2005, 09:02 PM:
 
Kinky People Can Often Find Good Sex

(thats my attempt to tie both conversations in this thread into a coherent whole )
 

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Posted by Jeffry L. Johnson (Member # 453) on 02-12-2005, 09:11 PM:
 
Faulty memory. Sweetie, not Quick.

AST 101: The Great Mnemonic Contest

Who has the soundtrack album to Deep Throat? The version I have on LP is the entire sondtrack of the feature.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-12-2005, 11:56 PM:
 

quote: Phil Hill

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I only remember "ROY G. BIV"

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Since this thread has gone "Animal House", I might as well...

Rubber On Your Gonads Beats Immune Virus.

What can I say... It's a gift.
 

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Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 02-13-2005, 01:01 AM:
 
Man, I think this is the only place where we can talk about smut and diverge into Dr. Dimento, resistor bands, and star stuff.

Love those fish heads.

(Oh yeah, and mods who change the title to be more fitting )
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-13-2005, 04:30 PM:
 
Gosh Randy, If you think you have a gift now, putting a rubber on your gonads will insure you get a gift that keeps giving and giving. Perhaps "Gear" would be a better choice.

However, when I said ROY G. BIV, I was thinking more along the lines of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. You know, the visable color spectrum. JEEZE!
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 02-13-2005, 04:44 PM:
 
To get this back on topic (I suppose), does this mean that the negative for Deep Throat is in good shape, or are they striking from a dupe or? Be interesting to hear as porno materials surely aren't kept up to snuff like regular films.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-13-2005, 05:24 PM:
 

quote: Mike Heenan

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Be interesting to hear as porno materials surely aren't kept up to snuff like regular films.

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Mike,

What on earth makes you think that regular films negatives are also taken care of....? I guess you missed the the red tinge and off color in that last Star Wars re-release, or the fact that it often takes the likes of Bob Harris working with many different labs to attempt to get the color back in what were BIG films in their times......
I'm sure that John P. can cite the percentage of films completely lost since 1955.....

Mark

Mark
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 02-13-2005, 06:07 PM:
 


Guess I should have been more specific.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-13-2005, 06:11 PM:
 
I agree Mark... me thinks Mike has been smokin' some of that I-10 stuff...

There are tons of examples of the Hollywood "pencil pushers" letting the original negatives/materials of mainstream films go to hell or outright destroying them cuz of storage costs. Assholes! Them, not me!

Many films were saved and restored with the help of private collections.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 02-13-2005, 06:25 PM:
 
Aww come on Phil I expected a little support from you! But of course my comment wasn't specific so someone jumps on it. But anyways, it would be interesting to hear the state of the negatives of porno stuff or Deep Throat, does anyone know?
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-13-2005, 06:39 PM:
 
Well, Mike as a longtime friend, you know I was just yanking your chain.

But I agree, I too would like to know what they are using for striking the new prints.

(I WANT ONE!) HA!

BTW Danny: Don't give me any of that "I can't imagine YOU have that type of smut!" Just because I'm on the other team doesn't mean I don't like to watch the game!
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 02-13-2005, 06:59 PM:
 
No problem Phil.
 

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Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 02-13-2005, 08:32 PM:
 
The rights holders are striking ten 35mm prints / 5 hard core + 5 R rated....that one will probably run 10 minutes
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-13-2005, 10:51 PM:
 
Phil,

I couldn't think of any other "G" word except for "gerkin". That got ruled out early on. I just went with "gonad" because every body would know it.

I COULD have used "Jenkin' Horn" but few people, except for backwards-ass country rednecks from Pennsylvania like me, have ever heard it before... Let alone know what it means!
 

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Posted by Paul Linfesty (Member # 214) on 02-13-2005, 10:57 PM:
 

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5 R rated....that one will probably run 10 minutes

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Kinda reminds me of basic cable channel TRIO. They recently ran a one-time episode of "GOOD CLEAN PORN" that featured DEBBIE DOES DALLAS in a half-hour time-slot (complete with commericals).
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 02-14-2005, 01:32 AM:
 
On Old Olympus' Towering Tops, A Finn And German Viewed Some Hops

Old People From Texas Eat Spiders
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 02-14-2005, 03:00 AM:
 
Medical stuff eh? Some alternates for William's two:

Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel And Grip Vegas' Slot Handles.

Old Pygmies From Thailand Eat Skulls.

From one of my fields: True Virgins Make Dull Company.

Where is Deep Throat these days?
 

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Posted by Paul Linfesty (Member # 214) on 02-24-2005, 02:15 PM:
 

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The original film, which was made in six days for $25,000 and has grossed over $600 million

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