Inside Deep Throat
• Amorous Pop Culture
A look at the movie that once made Linda Lovelace a household name:
Inside Deep Throat producer, Brian Grazer, told the audience he was originally introduced to the film by his grandmother, who he described as "conservative." Grazer said that his grandmother, like many who came out to see the film soon after it opened, just wanted to exercise their right to see a "dirty movie." Hugh Hefner, one of many people interviewed for their take on the "Deep Throat" mania in the film, including Norman Mailer, Camillie Paglia, Larry Flynt, Peter Bart, Wes Craven and Peter Bart, commented on the film's meteoric rise in popularity, even luring "high" society and celebs to screens that dared to show the movie. The film's popularity, of course, also attracted the attention of the federal government and the Nixon administration, which was determined in ridding society of "smut."