February 14, 2005
Pornopedia
Inside Deep Throat is now included in Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. It's just the facts, man, no editorializing. Come look us up. Meanwhile, we're waiting for Funk & Wagnall's to call.
And speaking of editorializing, IDT has its first full-out, balls-to-the-wall negative review. Whew, finally, the other shoe has dropped. And it's no Blahnik. A piece in the online journal The Trades takes the doc to task, calling it "a disaster on a number of accounts" and then goes on to a-count them.
[B]y the end of the movie I found myself more sympathetic to the Religious Right and censorship laws. The moment that solidified my stance happened somewhere between Linda Lovelace (the film's infamous star) comparing porn censorship in the US to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and Harry Reems, the film's male lead, hailing "Deep Throat" as a film which exemplified a courageous and revolutionary feat. Since when is a woman giving a guy a blow job progressive or "courageous" for that matter? Isn't this all just oxymoronical.(More)
