Posted on 03/20/2013 7:31:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
Harry Reems, whose starring role in Deep Throat in 1972 made him Americas first bona fide male porn star and whose life, more than most, embodied the time-honored American narrative of fame, failure and redemption died on Tuesday in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was 65.
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I remember seeing Deep Throat with my girlfriend back in the 1970’s. The story was stupid. The movie was poorly done. Linda Lovelace was the only good thing about it. Later I found out Linda Lovelace was being beaten and abused by her husband during her porn career.
“I remember seeing Deep Throat with my girlfriend back in the 1970s. The story was stupid. The movie was poorly done. Linda Lovelace was the only good thing about it. Later I found out Linda Lovelace was being beaten and abused by her husband during her porn career.”
And the mafia took the money and ran.
Reems? Damn near killed ‘um!
no sympathy for the creeps
Anyone else remember the “I Choked Linda Lovelace” tee shirts?
65 my ass!!
The bigger deal is that he was a Jew who became a Christian.
Huge bonus points, there.
RIP Harry glad to see that you found the Lord. Now enjoy your heavenly reward and all your earthly pain is now gone.
The way he has been talking lately maybe from the neck up, man he's got some geraniums in the cranium.
Funny, his opponent was way ahead and he pulls it out, hmmm.... The Mob, Unions or whoever put this poor excuse for a Senator over the top deserve all the dysfunction they and Nevada can get.
They made their bed let um lie in it...
REALLY, NY Times?
well at least he was not Boehner fide.
u so funny. lol
Reems left the porn industry in 1980 and moved to Park City, Utah, where he later became a real-estate agent, marrying Jeanne in 1990. "He was very romantic and a great husband," she said. The actor, who struggled with multiple health problems which kept him at home in his final years, was admitted to hospital earlier this month. He also received chemotherapy treatment earlier this year for pancreatic cancer. "
His last year or so was really, really hard," Jeanne said.
Clearly the editor is a comedian.
Good riddance to scum like this.
ES - did you know he turned his life around and became a devout Christian lecturing against the evils of pron and drugs? He became a successful real estate executive.Is there room in your heart for compassion for a child of God?
Forgive this filthy piece of sh*t for all the depravity and violent crimes he has helped to cause?
I cannot. I despise people like this.
At least he had love in his heart, instead of bitter hatred like you. He also served his country.
Allegedly.
I am one of the many people who thinks her stories are bunkum, and were a desperate attempt to try and gain a ‘clean’ public image when the days of ‘porno chic’ died and there was a reaction against porn.
There is no evidence that she was forced, and only very minor evidence that domestically she was hit by her husband. Other stories of her like having on camera sex with a dog, well to this day not one ‘stag reel’ or photo of that has ever surfaced, nor can journalists or porn historians find anyone who took part in the supposed production.
Her story has been well researched by several mainstream and non-mainstream writers and historians, from Legs McNeill to academics.
Lovelace saw the porn backlash coming and she went public with these allegations, and lo and behold, the feminists and antiporn right never questioned her stories and made her a hero. Thats my frank opinion. Her stories were pure fiction made up to make herself a victim forced to do all the terrible things that made her fame when that fame began to attract a backlash.
I would shun anyone related to porn in any way
Patriot, I can certainly respect your opinion. I can also understand where you are coming from. I wish you peace and a great weekend.
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