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The short, sad life of Linda Lovelace ('Deep Throat' star was anti-Porn activist?)
NY Newsday ^ | 9 Feb 05 | Lewis Beale

Posted on 02/09/2005 8:15:34 AM PST by gobucks

Four years after she made "Deep Throat," Linda Lovelace's show business career essentially was over. It was then she met and married a construction worker named Larry Marchiano. The couple moved to Long Island, where they spent several desperate years living on welfare, moving from motel rooms and a friend's living room to rented cottages in Port Jefferson and Montauk.

By the 1980s, however, Marchiano had found steady work as a spackler, the pair had two children - a boy, Dominic, and a girl, Lindsay - and Linda Marchiano had found relative contentment as a suburban housewife in Center Moriches. But she maintained a certain celebrity: in between her work with the local PTA and as a chaperone on class trips, Marchiano gave speeches about the evils of pornography to college groups and testified before congressional committees. She also wrote two books about her experiences in the porn industry, "Ordeal" and "Out of Bondage."

In 1986, Linda Marchiano had a double mastectomy, the result of silicone injections she had had to enhance her breasts.

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In 1990, Larry Marchiano's drywall business collapsed and the family moved to Colorado. The marriage broke up in 1996, and Linda Marchiano died in a car crash in Denver in 2002.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: children; deepthroat; lindalovelace; porn
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It was news to me she wrote books against the porn industry. (I wish Diane Sawyer and Woodstein would write books against the pornography that poses as journalism.)
1 posted on 02/09/2005 8:15:34 AM PST by gobucks
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To: gobucks

There hasn't been one real journalist since Murrow died.....not one.....


2 posted on 02/09/2005 8:19:18 AM PST by Red Badger (ANONYMOUS IRAQI VOTER: "I dipped it deep as if I was poking the eyes of all the world's tyrants.)
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To: gobucks

I read "Ordeal" back in the 80s. It was the same old story: easy female hooks up with older, drug dispensing lech who eventually convinces her to become a small-time porn actress. Female has second thoughts after incident with uncooperative canine. Escape attempt thwarted by drugs and abuse. Eventual release. Remorse.


3 posted on 02/09/2005 8:20:18 AM PST by Gingersnap
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To: gobucks
Geez, and I thought Deep Throat was only sick.
4 posted on 02/09/2005 8:20:58 AM PST by martin_fierro (Holder of an M.A. Degree in The Obvious)
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To: mikrofon; Tijeras_Slim
Linda Marchiano had found relative contentment as a suburban housewife in Center Moriches.

Disparate Housewife.

5 posted on 02/09/2005 8:23:37 AM PST by martin_fierro (Holder of an M.A. Degree in The Obvious)
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To: gobucks

It's kind of ironic that she later married a Spackler...


6 posted on 02/09/2005 8:23:40 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Celibacy is a hands-on job.)
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To: gobucks

> the result of silicone injections she had had to enhance her breasts.

Wait... silicone *injections*?

Yikes.


7 posted on 02/09/2005 8:23:50 AM PST by orionblamblam
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To: gobucks

Better account here (National Review Online, 2002):

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-briggs042502.asp


8 posted on 02/09/2005 8:27:43 AM PST by LibFreeOrDie (How do you spell dynasty? P-A-T-R-I-O-T-S!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Porn sucks.


9 posted on 02/09/2005 8:29:46 AM PST by Callahan
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To: Callahan

Heh heh.


10 posted on 02/09/2005 8:32:15 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Celibacy is a hands-on job.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

And now...the lyrics to the Deep Throat main theme...


Deep throat,
Deeper than deep your throat
Deep throat
Don't row your boat
Don't get your goat
That's all she wrote
Deep throat


11 posted on 02/09/2005 8:35:12 AM PST by socal_parrot (Is it starve a fever, feed a cold? Just asking.)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

I really appreciate that link. I am so stunned. Talk about demystifying a 'culture'.

Thanks again.


12 posted on 02/09/2005 8:44:55 AM PST by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/laocoon.htm)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Damn...that was funny.


13 posted on 02/09/2005 8:57:18 AM PST by Delbert
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To: gobucks

You'll want to read Dem Larry O'Donnell's thoughts about the film here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1337947/posts


14 posted on 02/09/2005 9:01:33 AM PST by LibFreeOrDie (How do you spell dynasty? P-A-T-R-I-O-T-S!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
what is a spackler? does anyone know?
15 posted on 02/09/2005 9:04:17 AM PST by bilhosty
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To: bilhosty

Ummm a guy who fills cracks and holes with a white pasty substance, why do you ask?


16 posted on 02/09/2005 9:05:53 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Celibacy is a hands-on job.)
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To: bilhosty
what is a spackler? does anyone know?


17 posted on 02/09/2005 9:06:33 AM PST by martin_fierro (Holder of an M.A. Degree in The Obvious)
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To: Gingersnap

Where is the compassion?


18 posted on 02/09/2005 9:07:31 AM PST by This Just In (In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.)
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To: This Just In
"Where is the compassion?"

Truthfully, I didn't have much. It irks me that women continually sell their bodies and their souls to worthless men and then feel shortchanged. I did hope that the dog was okay, though.

19 posted on 02/09/2005 9:20:23 AM PST by Gingersnap
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To: gobucks

Sad!


20 posted on 02/09/2005 9:47:13 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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