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Posted on 04/23/2002 10:14:46 AM PDT by texas booster
DENVER (AP) — Linda Boreman, who starred as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat" and later became an anti-porn advocate, died Monday from injuries she suffered in a car crash. She was 53.
Boreman was taken to Denver Health Medical Center with massive trauma and internal injuries after the April 3 accident, hospital spokeswoman Sara Spaulding said. She was taken off life support Monday, Spaulding said.
Boreman's ex-husband, Larry Marchiano, said he and their two adult children were at the hospital when she died.
"Everyone might know her as something else, but we knew her as mom and as Linda," Marchiano said. "We divorced five years ago, but she was still my best friend."
The family moved to Colorado in 1990 and the two divorced in 1996 after 22 years of marriage.
Boreman claimed her first husband forced her into pornography at gunpoint. They divorced in 1973.
Their relationship disintegrated into a life of violence, rape, prostitution and pornography, according to her 1980 autobiography, Ordeal and her testimony before congressional committees investigating pornography.
Boreman said she was never paid a penny for Deep Throat and her husband was only paid $1,250 (U.S.), though the film grossed a reported $600 million.
After leaving the industry, she travelled the lecture circuit on a crusade against pornography, speaking at colleges and with prominent feminists.
"I look in the mirror and I look the happiest I've ever looked in my entire life," she said in a 1997 interview. "I'm not ashamed of my past or sad about it. And what people might think of me, well, that's not real. I look in the mirror and I know that I've survived."
Boreman was born Jan. 10, 1949, in the Bronx borough of New York.
Yep...she was "something else"
Don't know much about her beyond the obvious. However, did hear some cuts from an interview with her after she was out of the business and on the anti-porn circuit.
She said the most sensuous book she had ever read was "Wuthering Heights." Gave me the impression she was not stupid as "Wuthering Heights" is very sensuous but there is not one word of explicit sex in the entire book.
Linda: From the depths of my loins....RIP.
I am also amazed at the number of people on FR who find it possible and even funny to jest at a funeral. Just reread the posts on this thread. And then these people turn around and blame Democrats for the poor state of morals in this counrty.
I fervently hope people laugh and jest at my funeral. Otherwise, I fear they will have missed the whole point of (my) life.
As for Linda, I never saw the movie, and didn't know she had become a crusader against porn. Sounds like she showed a lot of courage and character...
You self-righteous Democraps take yourselves SO seriously! The sad thing is that you think everyone else takes you seriously too.
None of the people on this thread are privileged to be friends of the deceased, hence cannot possibly have a waiver that you and I may grant to ours. It is a blasphemy to laugh at the graveside in such cecumstances.
P.S. Incidentally, when your friends make jokes at your funeral --- may it not happen for a hundred years --- those would be loving jokes, not the sarcastic tong-in-cheek remarks, such as those on this thread.
Sounds like she showed a lot of courage and character... Sounds like that to mee too. I am sorry that she did not have much of happiness in her life, and my heart goes to her family.
Looks like we have no disagrement, Null and void.
You cannot even recognize principles when someone speaks to you of them. I an not even talking about your brains because, as is well known, scorpions do not have any. That icludes their kings as well.
With conservatives like you, scorpion, who needs Democrats to ruin the country. Keep on stinging...
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