If Inside Deep Throat Has Legs, They Won't Be His

Semigonzo writer Legs McNeil has accused directors Bailey and Barbato of ripping off his 2001 Court TV miniseries Adults Only: The Secret History of the Other Hollywood for their documentary Inside Deep Throat.  McNeil, the author of the new book The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry (jeez, it takes two typesetters working overtime just to print out the full titles of his projects), and whose interview with Linda Lovelace is excerpted in Inside Deep Throat, told Page Six that the filmmakers "made a shitty movie."  He went on to say, "Those two gay guys are so smug. They made 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker.' They're putting her down. It's kind of disgusting. They're just stupid [bleep]holes. They're the reason why porn people think Hollywood is so sleazy. They just make fun of everybody. They copied us. And I don't wanna be associated with these guys."   (Page Six)

Bailey responded: "If 'Inside Deep Throat' has legs, they won't be his. In 1999, we made a six-hour documentary series and published a tie-in book called 'Pornography: The Secret History of Civilization.' It aired in the U.K. on Channel 4 and on Trio in the U.S. We don't make fun of either Linda Lovelace or Tammy Faye and we have just completed a new film, 'Tammy Faye Death Defying,' with her full cooperation." Bailey added: "He is right about one thing - we are gay."

 
"What a jackhole Legs McNeil seems to be" bemoans Jennifer at feltupbyjen. 

Even though he co-wrote one of my all-time favorite books, Please Kill Me, that's no excuse for coming off like a total ass. I remember that he was constantly getting sued for sexual harrassment when he was editor of Spin magazine, and he is way off the mark when he accuses the WOW people of putting down Tammy Faye Bakker in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"--as the proud owner of the DVD, I can assure those who haven't seen it that "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" is a moving tribute to the First Lady of TV Evangelists, and includes some very moving puppetry; also, why the hell does he have to mention that Bailey and Barbato are "gay guys"? What does that have to do with anything? Legs sounds like a lecherous homophobic turd. "Horny historian," indeed! Snort! Gag! Seriously, people, the man looks just like Kurt Loder--an older, waxier, closer-to-the-end-stages-of-rigor-mortis Kurt Loder. Blech!