Inside Deep Throat Directors' Journal

FRIDAY MAY 16 2003

PHOENIX - As we limber up to the first shoot we are kind of shocked to discover how many people who were proud to be a part of the sexual revolution then not only didn't wish to have anything to do with it, but also wanted to cover up their role in the first place.

As it turns out, our first interviews are in Phoenix, with Jeff Smith a reporter from the local paper who reviewed the film and followed the trial when it was raided by the feds. He lays the whole thing out for us.
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It's not the conservatives who've taken the fun out of American society now, it's the liberals.� Because they've got money, they're driving Saabs and Volvos, they're sending their children to Montessori School.� The very people who were behind Hey let's get out and have a good time and sleep with everybody and we can find whether we know them by name or not and we'll take any drug we can and get drunk and raise hell and make nasty films.� Uh-uh, they're not like that anymore.�

We ain't the people we were when we were kids.� And we're not nearly as much fun as we used to be because we take ourselves too seriously. They've made a ton of money and they're locked away behind guarded gates.� They know what you can get into by way of mischief and fun and they don't want their kids to do it, and they don't want anybody else doing it, you know.�

Liberalism, the flower power, the whole thing, it's just, it's, it's been horribly corrupted. They've risen to positions of wealth and prominence and, and real tight-ass conservatism. It's very undemocratic, it's very tightly structured, and they're scared to death that their children are gonna start having the kind of fun that they had when they were their children's age.

Liberalism itself has changed. Liberalism doesn't mean anymore being independent and willing to embrace the new and willing to consider any point of view, no matter how outrageous or unpopular.�Today's liberalism is so rigidly conformist; you gotta buy the whole package.� You buy the lattes and Swedish cars and private schools and natural fiber clothing and the whole goddamn kit. You violate from that dogma and you'll be drummed out of the corps and called all sorts of nasty names at parties.� And that's what's happened to me.