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Deep Throat
…the 1972 porn starring Linda Boreman (”My Name is not Linda Lovelace”)…

But only according to some*.

When I first heard this I was shocked and outraged at the symbolism of it. (And then further angried to learn that Linda Boreman said she was violently coerced into pornography, and frequently hit while filming Deep Throat. She later became an anti-porn campaigner.)

But I was relieved to let go of (at least some of) my strong feelings, when I read a more rigorous economic assessment by Screen Digest, reckoning Gone With the Wind and Star Wars each made well over a billion dollars (Deep Throat’s maximum estimated is only 600m).

*source: R.Randall, Freedom and Taboo (1989), and the IMDB, putting revenues at up to $600m. BUT, there is controversy over this, with recent estimates putting it at $100m.

Deep Throat
…the 1972 porn starring Linda Boreman (”My Name is not Linda Lovelace”)…

But only according to some*.

When I first heard this I was shocked and outraged at the symbolism of it. (And then further angried to learn that Linda Boreman said she was violently coerced into pornography, and frequently hit while filming Deep Throat. She later became an anti-porn campaigner.)

But I was relieved to let go of (at least some of) my strong feelings, when I read a more rigorous economic assessment by Screen Digest, reckoning Gone With the Wind and Star Wars each made well over a billion dollars (Deep Throat’s maximum estimated is only 600m).

*source: R.Randall, Freedom and Taboo (1989), and the IMDB, putting revenues at up to $600m. BUT, there is controversy over this, with recent estimates putting it at $100m.