Inside Linda Lovelace's Deep Throat: Degradation, Porno Chic, and the Rise of Feminism

by Darwin Porter

Overview

The female star of the most famous and profitable porno flick of all time, Deep, Throat, sensually lives again in this super-heated saga. She was a sex slave, the prisoner of a sadistic monster who rented her out for rape. She became the party favor of Hollywood stars, including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Teddy Kennedy, and Sammy Davis, Jr., who wanted to "buy" her throat for the night. She reigned as the Queen of the One-Night Stand until she liberated herself, turning on her abusers. The world's most famous sexual performer ended her life in obscurity and poverty, hounded by law enforcement officers, the IRS, and vengeful members of right-wing religious groups. Even then, she was hailed as an icon who changed America's attitudes about sexuality. Her uncensored, unapologetic, and ultimately tragic story is a major motion picture, starring Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace. In this overview of her life and times by celebrity reporter Darwin Porter, new insights pour forth about the bizarre saga of the world's most famous porno star and the dark side of the American Dream.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936003334
Publisher:	Blood Moon Productions
Publication date:	03/12/2013
Pages:	640
Sales rank:	250,756
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Once hailed as "the Marcel Proust of Pop Culture," New York City resident Darwin Porter is acclaimed as America's leading celebrity biographer. He was deeply involved in the Linda Lovelace saga as it unfolded in the 1970s, interviewing many of its key players and raising money for the legal defense of Deep Throat's co-star, Harry Reems. To this ground-breaking biography, he brings inside information and a never-before-published revelation on virtually every page.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Price of Fame 1

Chapter 1 "Miss Holy Holy" Becomes Unholy 9

Chapter 2 Sex-Hot and for Sale 43

Chapter 3 Shadows in Sunny Florida 85

Chapter 4 Servicing the Kink Market for a Place in the Sun 125

Chapter 5 On the Road to Hell 167

Chapter 6 The Queen of Porn 199

Chapter 7 The Movie that Changed the World 237

Chapter 8 Hollywood's Playmate of the Year 273

Chapter 9 What Makes Sammy, The Rat Pack, and William Holden Run?: (Seducing Hollywood, One Inch at a Time) 313

Chapter 10 Hollywood's Most Sought-After Hooker 359

Chapter 11 More Stars Than There Are in Heaven 409

Chapter 12 A Throat That Needs to Be Cut 471

Chapter 13 Last Tango in Hollywood 509

Chapter 14 Flicker, Flicker, Little Star 545

Chapter 15 Lovelace: Feminist and Anti-Porn Crusader 591

Recording the Voice of Linda Lovelace's Deep Throat Collaborators in the Production of this Book 619

Index 625