Inside Deep Throat Directors' Journal

MONDAY APRIL 22 2002

NEW YORK - Linda Lovelace dies. Channel 4 UK call about us doing a fast turnaround documentary about her life. But we are up to our eyes in it with getting ready to shoot Party Monster, so there's no time to pull the pitch together.

But as it will turn out, her demise was the birth of this film. Brian Grazer had a script for a biopic, but her death throws the life-rights issue into confusion.

At the same time there were stories circulating about how, at the end of her life, Linda was going back to the adult world; posing for Legs Show magazine, and autographing copies of Deep Throat.

As we would later learn, she had watched the film only weeks before she died for the first time since making it and, according to her daughter, her response was "what's the big deal?"

That would be the big question.

Just what was the big deal?