It was an interesting time in the history of this country. The mafia, Nixon and Watergate, Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog, Bobby Riggs versus Billie Jean King, and Linda Lovelace's five minutes of fame, all over the media.
I saw Deep Throat on my college campus several years after it came out. It was quite an event, everybody was curious and practically the whole campus turned out to see it, many folks overdressed and hard to identify.
On the other hand, the students running the show advertised "come naked, get in free" and about a dozen naked people showed up to cheers from the crowd, and sat up in front.
When the movie started, everybody was quiet and most people were pretty disgusted and offended by it. Caused quite a stir the next day with lots of pro- and anti-porn letters to the school paper.
It's a different country we live in now, different but still the same in a lot of ways.
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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.
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