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摘要

He made other films and held other jobs, but Gerald Damiano will always be known as the man who made "Deep Throat." Produced for a mere $25,000, the film grossed as much as $600 million-though the profits went to the mobsters who financed it, and not to the man who made it in a Miami motel room. "Deep Throat" opened in Times Square in June 1972, spawning a phenomenon called "porno chic." It was the first porn flick that people took their dates to see; celebrities thought it was de rigueur to attend. Banned in 23 states, a target for feminists and a symbolic totem in the culture wars that were escalating as 1960s hedonism met Nixon-era backlash, this movie, about a woman with a misplaced sexual organ that inspired her to crave oral sex, turned Linda Lovelace into a star, got Harry Reems prosecuted by the Feds, ushered porn into the ainstream-however briefly-and, of course, became the nickmame of Watergate's whistleblower.