Inside Deep Throat Directors' Journal

MONDAY JUNE 2 2003

MEMPHIS -� Famed for Elvis Presley and Martin Luther King's assassination. Otherwise, it just gives us a feeling of vast emptiness and a sense of being frozen in time - not unlike the grassy knoll in Dallas.

That morning we interview Larry Parrish, the prosecutor famous for the Memphis trial of Deep Throat. En route to his office, there is a downpour of biblical proportions.

Thinking we'd go in with righteous guns a-blazin', we instead found a sneaking admiration for the guy. Ultimately, his point was simply either to repeal the obscenity laws if you don't believe in them, or enforce the laws as they stand on the books. Significantly, the laws have not been changed since they were used against Deep Throat. When we ask him today if pornography has penetrated too far into the mainstream to make it possible to turn back the tide, he shakes his head. While it might be true that blue chip companies like AT&T and Time Warner are involved in the distribution of hardcore either via the web or cable, he reckons they would back off in a New York minute if, in just a couple of cases, senior executives were sent to jail for conspiracy to distribute obscene material over interstate lines.