Inside Deep Throat Directors' Journal

SUNDAY JULY 25 2003

Interviewed Erica Jong, forever to be remembered to her chagrin as creator of "the zipless fuck." We said we'd only need half an hour, but she was a firebrand and everything out of her mouth was just so good.� But she saved the most mindblowing till last.

We were very naive.� We thought if everyone smoked hashish and marijuana there would be world peace. I mean, it was silly. Smoking dope did not bring about world peace.� Instead, Nixon got reelected after being declared politically dead.� And the forces of repression came in in a huge, huge way.� And the forces of repression have been in control ever since.

You'll probably cut all this out.� But that's the real history of our times. And now what do we have?� We have a right wing government.� We have a John Ashcroft trying to take back women's choice.� We have incredible censorship of the media that proceeds from the White House and from the five corporations that own all the networks. And they're down there in Washington even as we speak, trying to get the FCC rules lifted so we'll have even less choice.

I know that probably you'll want to censor all of this.� But that's the reality.� What the '60s did that brief six-year period, in which the sexual revolution went public, let's say, was to set up an excuse for the biggest backlash of all time.� And the backlash is in the White House now.� The truth of the matter is that they don't want you to see the context and the big picture. They want you to see everything as little bursts.� You know, like the sexual revolution happened, yay.� And then the sexual revolution diminished because women wanted to go back and have babies and be mothers and all. None of that is true.��

We nodded earnestly, but it was a lot to take in, and it would be over a year before we can truly comprehend the true sense of her words.

Then we sped downtown to our old East Village stomping ground to interview Lovelace fan and expert, Eric Danville, author of a basically authorized autobiography of Linda, The Complete Linda Lovelace.��

He didn't have room for us to shoot in his apartment, so we ended up shooting across from our old apartment on 9th Street between B and C.� We turned around and looked up to the window of the sixth-floor walkup we had lived in for five penniless years.� So close to the past - about 20 feet - and so far - about 20 years.