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CINEMA SEEN - "Everything Old Is New Again" By William Margold Hollywood watered its resident redwood tree by bestowing assorted Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) to Clint Eastwood's vastly overrated MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Warner Bros.) recently, making my famous meatloaf go down a little bit harder during an "Oscar Foolies" evening that also featured me losing a dinner bet (as predicted last week) to my grand old friend, the redoubtable Elmer Pasta. Elsewhere in the entertainment alphabet, things were much more enjoyable, as I was given a couple of opportunities to travel back in time over three decades to deal with a couple of productions that essentially are the reasons that you are smudging your hands right now as you read this column in The LA.XPRESS, which is the number one Adult-oriented /alternative news source in Southern California. In 1972 (which is also when I started writing for the predecessor to this publication), an amusing, but not particularly well-made explicit Adult motion picture called "Deep Throat" opened to equal amounts of public interest and public outcry, creating, along with "Behind The Green Door"--- a XXX-rated feature film-cum-video-cum-DVD tidal wave in the process. We were a nation in rebellious unrest, a generation of "free lovers" and "free thinkers" (not to mention those who were willing to be "freely led"), expressing discontent with the ways things were, and ready to make things the way they should be. I've always felt that the kids who turned 30 around that time were the last "honest" generation in history. We hadn't been abandoned by our parents to the evils of Thorazin or Ritalin, like the generations of brain-fried, potential serial killers following us, and we were eager to stand up and be counted when it came to making our leaders tell the truth. And truth was, our society was very curious to see what "Deep Throat"- --starring Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems, and directed by Gerard Damiano--- was ALL about. And 33 years later, a documentary appropriately called INSIDE DEEP THROAT (Universal) is currently on BIG theatre screens educating as well as entertaining viewers as to the way things were back when standing in line to see an Adult Motion Picture was considered to be "chic." I must admit to taking tremendous pride to having lived through that era, and although I wasn't in "Throat" (or "Door"), I was extremely active on many other levels of XXX, particularly in an office at 6912 Hollywood Blvd. (right across from where Clint just won his Oscars), casting and appearing in numerous adult films, while breaking assorted specious laws every day of the week. And I was even prouder recently when Arrow Productions made it possible for the original "Deep Throat" (www.xxxdeepthroat) to have its "re- World Premiere at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in West Hollywood, and I was given the chance to advise the wide-eyed and eager audience of Adult Industry guests (the majority of whom hadn't even been born in 1972, when "Throat" opened at The Pussycat on Santa Monica Blvd.), that they were going to see the film---"on the BIG screen"---that paved the way for them to be who they were now. I noted, with the emotion of the evening starting to dominate my voice, that it "had taken 33 years to walk one mile, and boy was I lucky to have taken every single step (and stumble), in the company of a group of rebels and outlaws known as "The Family of X." end NOTE: Originally published in L.A. Xpress, March 10, 2005. end |