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Here and There

Enzian, a movie theater in Maitland, Florida, which appears to be a dinner movie theater, also has a website with a blog. And during its current showing of Inside Deep Throat, the theater's had some amusing comments.

Since opening INSIDE DEEP THROAT last week, we have had some hilarious reactions from the movie-going public. From an elderly wife explaining for her husband, "He thinks it's about Watergate," to "What kind of place are you running?" from a patron in hushed tones, just before reserving a table...

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On the German site, Out Now, much is written about Inside Deep Throat, but we know not what. The doc gets four out of six stars and we like what they've done to the mouth icon at the top of the page. Other than that. . .

Inside Deep Throat rekapituliert die Herstellung von Deep Throat und zeigt, was aus dessen Star, Linda Lovelace, wurde. Er analysiert den Skandal, den der Hauptdarsteller Harry Reems ins Gefängnis bringen sollte und die Auswirkungen des Films auf die Pornoindustrie und die Politik in Amerika.

And London's Empire site reports that Brian Grazer, "fresh from overseeing the sleaze-fixated (and extremely entertaining) Inside Deep Throat, a documentary charting the origin of porn flicks," is preparing a biopic on "crunk-talking, medallion-swinging, gang-banging hip-hop stars and the legendary tattoo artist they go to to give their image an extra edge," Mister Cartoon. It's called Ink. (More)

Big Mouth

This is an interesting story that's not about Deep Throat or Inside Deep Throat but about going inside a deep throat. Sachin Rao visits a surgeon and medical voice specialist in central Mumbai and gets tangled up in flack-mack, lips-sips, feh-sma, gudda-budda, and a bit of peachy-weachy. The entire Kama Sutra of vocal exercises. As Fenton Bailey says, "It isn't always about blowjobs." (Indian Express)

But first, an up-close peep at my vocal cords (or more properly, folds), which involves spraying some brackish anaesthesia into the back of my throat, flattening my tongue with a depressor and peering at my voice box through a rod optic telescope. I gag about till Dr Nayak finally retreats from my throat, having observed that I have ‘‘posterior tongue tension’’.

Then she whips out a fibre-optic laryngoscope; this one goes anteater-like through my nostril down to my larynx. I fight a massive sneeze as the flexible rubber tube spelunks my nasal caverns, but end up letting out a demonic a-choo right at poor Dr Nayak’s face. At the end of this mutually aggravating session, I’m given the a-ok—no growths, lesions, nodules, polyps, blips or bleeps.

Titillate Than Never

Here's a nice review of Inside Deep Throat that's as refreshing as a warm, sudsy shower after sex. (Smoke 'em if you got 'em.) Roger Moore (the?) in the Orlando Sentinel calls the doc "brilliant and deliriously entertaining."

The groundbreaking porn smash of 1972, an opening volley of "the culture wars," is showcased for the watershed event that it was in the brilliant and deliriously entertaining new documentary, Inside Deep Throat. It's a movie that is fascinating social criticism and a witty and relevant take on American sexual history.

And – get this – it's not the least bit titillating.

Deep Impact

Michael Fox (probably not the), writing on The Pitch, calls Inside Deep Throat "a snappily paced, ceaselessly entertaining, moderately schizophrenic immersion into the life and times of the most infamous and lucrative porn movie ever made."

A cynic might describe movies as the most depraved and fantastic system of exploitation ever devised. After all, they trade on the greed and hubris of the financiers, the beauty and allure of the stars, and the trust (or, if you prefer, gullibility) of the audience. With a bit of tweaking, this thesis fits documentaries and pornography even better. The nonfiction films of Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, though, are exceptions. In empathetic portraits of tarred heroines (The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Monica in Black and White) and now, in the irreverent yet unexpectedly poignant Inside Deep Throat, the duo largely succeeds in avoiding bothcynicism and exploitation.

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And the Red Vic, the worker-owned-and-operated movie house on Haight Street in San Francisco, has this blurb on its website.

Inside Deep Throat
Dir. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato US 2005
Bailey and Barbeto (Party Monster, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) are to tabloid filmmmaking as Ken Burns is to the historical documentary. Inside Deep Throat is an exploration into the cultural and political significance of the...er, seminal porn film Deep Throat. It was perhaps the most profitable film ever produced, and it started a long-lasting relationship between the mob and pornography. Opening in pre-Disney Manhattan in 1972, Deep Throat was one of the first X-rated films with at least a pretense of a story: a woman's clitoris is found in the back of her throat, thus allowing orgasm only by performing oral sex. Bailey and Barbeto track the rise of the films popularity -- it became a huge hit with the glitterati -- as well as its run-ins with the religious right, the legal system and the feminist movement. It also tells of the troubled lives of stars Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems. Lastly, Inside Deep Throat can be seen as a cautionary tale about our current administration's attitude towards free speech. (92m)

Another Opening of Another Throat

We'll say it in haiku:

Now Inside Deep Throat
Opens at a theater
Very close to you

Delaware, Ohio
Strand

Kansas City, Missouri
Screenland

San Francisco, California
RedVic

Palm Desert, California
Cinema Palm D'or

Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo

Montreal, Quebec
Cinema du Parc

North Bergen, New Jersey
Cineplaza

Salt Lake City, Utah
Trolley Square

Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Teton Theatre

Old Man and the Tee

Amy Bennett Williams has a nice story on Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano in the Fort Meyers, Florida, News-Press. She finds out he's not a dirty old man, but rather "a quintessential - if not entirely typical - Southwest Florida retiree. Great tan, golf-loving and quick with a joke, he could be the genial 76-year-old standing ahead of you in the supermarket line - the guy making the check-out girl giggle or the screaming baby smile."

Says Damiano: "I was just a nice guy, which is why I think I did pretty well. I mean, I'd meet an actress and have to say, 'Sit down, take your clothes off - I'm going to ask you to do some nasty things.' You have to be pretty nice."

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Peep Throat

Thighs Wide Shut gets around to reviewing Inside Deep Throat, which it recommends for those who like BJs, O-faces, and John Stossel's 'stache. Which means, basically, everybody.

If you took Boogie Nights, presented it in style reminiscent of VH1's I Love The 70s, and threw on Time/Life's Ultimate 70s in the background, you'd purty much come out with Inside Deep Throat, the behind the scenes, after the orgasm look at the blue movie that started it all. And spankfully it got an NC-17 rating, so we're all free to see Linda Lovelace shove Harry Reems' sausage down her thrizz, while talking about the flick's social and political implications. I think some people would call that infotainment. I call it 'worth a peep'.

Up Against the Wallpaper

Joseph C Peraino, the grandson of Anthony Peraino and the son of Joseph C Peraino Sr, has been in touch. His father is the last remaining Peraino now that his Uncle Butchie and grandfather aka "The Old Man" have died.

In an email he writes, "The government's actions were deplorable; they just kept indicting my father until he and my uncle were left essentially bankrupt. My dad and uncle were found innocent of all charges from the last case in Las Vegas, yet it cost them both their life savings to defend themselves. They, more than anyone else, are responsible for the creation of the adult video market, and have never really gotten the respect they both deserve, especially since our last name ends in a vowel."

In the course of filming, it was impossible to find anyone to go on camera and say much of anything about the Perainos – least of all the Perainos themselves.

"I am certainly not ashamed of my last name, but proud to have such warm loving parents and family members who sacrificed much in trying to provide for our family and follow the American dream."

Joseph goes on to describe himself as something of a black sheep on account of the fact that he is living in new Orleans and is designing wallpaper. Personally, I love all the Flavor Paper designs and want to find surfaces to cover them with forthwith. My favorite would have to be Flower of Love in espresso on black, which has a deep throatiness to it – lots of erotic floating swirliness evocative of the nouveau-deco style of the '70s.

Joseph assures me that there will be an actual Deep Throat design coming out of his Flavor Paper studio soon!

– Fenton Bailey