Lump in throat

On April 22, in a Denver hospital, Mr. Larry Marciano and his two adult children, Dominic and Lindsey, decided to agree to a ventilator disconnection from Mrs. Linda Marciano (Dev.), née Miss Borman, who had been unconscious for the past three weeks. A few hours after the machine was turned off, Mrs. Marciano, aged 53, died. The cause of death was multiple injuries received three weeks earlier in a severe car accident.

Mrs. Marciano (after her second husband) spent the last twenty-seven years of her life as a housewife, raising two children and promoting a modest family lifestyle. Mrs. Marciano was a famous anti-porn campaigner, a symbol of the feminist movement and a fierce opponent of the exploitation of the female body in the film industry. Linda Marciano's 1980 autobiography, The Trial, was about the horrors of a young woman's life. victim of the porn industry tycoons. Since then, Mrs. Marciano has repeatedly spoken out against violence in cinema, the sale of porn films, the involvement of women in pornography and the "pornography of modern society."

Mrs. Marciano had every right to be considered an expert in this field.

Millions of viewers knew her as the most famous porn star of all time, iconic actress and symbol of the seventies sexual liberalization, Deep Throat Linda Lovelace.

In 1972, director Gerard Damiano made a sixty-two-minute film called "Deep Throat" with an unknown twenty-year-old pornographic actress Linda Borman as Linda Lovelace, an unhappy girl who, despite her turbulent sex life, is unable to experience an orgasm. Poor Linda Lovelace goes to the doctor for help, and the doctor, after a thorough examination of the patient, finds out that the girl's clitoris, as a result of an amazing mistake of nature, is located deep, deep in the throat (many years ago, "Deep Throat" was recounted to me in one marvelous phrase: "Well, it's about a woman who had a vagina in her mouth"). Naturally, the solution is found quickly, and the girl experiences the first orgasm in her life - to repeat it again, and again, and again.

It must be understood that in the days when The Throat was released, porn films rarely lasted more than fifteen minutes. They were mostly black and white, and showed the lovemaking of one single couple. By the time Linda Borman was invited to play in Deep Throat, the girl had six short films on her account, mostly of a fetishistic nature. These films were sold mainly by mail order, viewing them was considered shameful and unworthy, and the audience was mostly single middle-aged men. "Deep Throat" made a splash, becoming the first porn film to be released on the big screens of normal cinemas - a film with a full footage and a meaningful plot. It was filmed for six days and cost about $10,000, and it took three months to edit the tape - an incredible time and budget for porn films traditionally riveted on the knee. The film grossed $33,000 in its first week of release in a single theater. Tickets were ordered several days in advance, and - most importantly - the audience was "the most ordinary people." The film was watched by the townsfolk, "decent women", feminists, celebrities, school teachers and, most surprisingly, serious film critics who never noticed porn production.

Review of "GG" appeared in the Times. Linda Borman - now and forever Linda Lovelace - in a few days turned into a national sex symbol, a star of the liberalization movement. The film's most famous tagline is "How far is a girl willing to go to relieve her itch?" - became a phrase that American schoolchildren used to poison their classmates. For the right to interview Mrs. Lovelace, the most reputable publications in the United States fought - from the Times to the Washington Post. Photos of "America's hottest mouth" appeared in Playboy, posters with Linda's ecstatic face were an indispensable part of any bachelor's interior, and feminists burned these posters on squares and called the actress "Women's Enemy Number One" - for her voluntary participation in the humiliation and exploitation of the weaker sex - especially since the film, as you can see from common sense, completely mockingly parodied the global war for the clitoral orgasm launched by the feminists of those years.

Definitely, Linda Lovelace has become the most famous actress in America.

However, the sequel, "Deep Throat 2", filmed in hot pursuit of the blockbuster, attracted much less attention: the effect of the first shock disappeared. The second and third sequels did not stand out too much from the general wave of a new class of porn products (color, full-length - in general, the way we see it today - that is, generated, in fact, by nothing more than the film "Deep Throat"), and an attempt to shoot softcore -comedy "Linda Lovelace for President!" ended in complete box office failure. Linda Borman-Lovelace divorced producer husband Chuck Traynor and left the screen for several years.

In 1980, a book unexpectedly comes out in New York called "Linda Lovelace. Trial" - an autobiography written by Linda-Deep-Throat.

The book had a huge effect, disappointing Linda's ardent fans and evoking feminist jubilation: a woman on screen thrashed in ecstasy, humiliatedly kneeling in front of a male who fucked her in the mouth, and subsequently who claimed in an interview that "Deep Throat" is the true story of her life, suddenly told the world that in fact pornography was hell for her, that only suffering and poverty forced her to sink to such a life, that actresses were drugged and drugged and forced to do "all these disgusting things" - literally - at gunpoint. Former feminist haters welcomed Linda with open arms; she spoke at endless rallies and forums, testified to the horrors pornography in official commissions and never tired of repeating that films like "Deep Throat" corrupt minds and humiliate human dignity.

Both marriages of Linda Lovelace - with the producer of "Throat" Chuck Traynor (according to Linda - who raped, tortured and beat her, in fact, the man who forced Linda to engage in pornography) and with Larry Marciano - broke up, but Linda adored her children from her marriage to Marciano, was, according to them to her own assertion, a wonderful mother and loved her recently born grandson very much. Modesty, women's rights and family values ​​became the main idols of a woman who, at the age of twenty, claimed that she came when she dreamed of being raped.

The fees that porn star Linda Lovelace received for shooting in magazines and TV shows were fabulous for those times. Feminist Linda Marciano died a beggar. In recent years, she lived on social benefits. money for her the funeral was given by her ex-husband, Larry Marciano.

When I first watched "Deep Throat" (a film about a vagina in the mouth) and read various interviews with Lovelace ("There is no difference between Linda Lovelace on the screen and Linda Borman in real life! Everything that is filmed in "Deep Throat" - absolutely true!), I said to the person sitting on the floor next to me during the viewing: "Dear N, when Linda Borman dies, the main thing is not to miss the results of the autopsy."

Yesterday we were informed that there would be no autopsy.