Deep Throat (1974)

Wed Jun 1 22:13:29 UTC 2005

The movie. I saw it in the summer of 1973 and it was already way
(in)famous long before that. A joke from those times:

Q. What's the difference between Nixon and Linda Lovelace?
A. She doesn't choke on the big ones.

-Wilson Gray

On Jun 1, 2005, at 5:55 PM, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:

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> Which was named first--the movie or the watergate guy?
> Fritz
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>>>> Bapopik at AOL.COM 05/31/05 10:10PM >>>
> DEEP THROAT
> ...
> "Deep Throat" was revealed yesterday. It had long been suspected that
> this
> was the guy. OED needs to update its "deep throat."
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> (OED)
> _deep  throat_, a person working within an  organization who supplies
> anonymously information concerning misconduct by other  members of the
> organization;
> orig. applied (with capital initials) to the  principal informant in
> the
> _WATERGATE_
> (http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/crossref?
> query_type=fulltext&queryword=deep+throat&first=1&
> max_to_show=10&search_spec=fulltext&sort_type=alpha&search_id=g3LX-
> JNzorl-990&control_no=50059209&result_place=3&xrefword=Watergate)
> scandal [after a pornographic film (1972) so titled];
>
> [1973 National Rev. (U.S.) 22 June 697/2 So you want to write a
> best-seller... Well, for starters, how  about the hijacking bit?..
> Characters? Mafia and
> Deep Throat types are winners this season.] 1974 Time 22 Apr. 55/1
> Foremost
> among  their key sources was a man whom the authors still
> tantalizingly refuse to
> name.  They called him GÇÿ*Deep  ThroatGÇÖ, and report only that he
> was a
> pre-Watergate friend of Woodward's, with GÇÿextremely sensitiveGÇÖ
> antennae. 1974
> _BERNSTEIN_
> (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-b2.html#bernstein)  &
> _WOODWARD_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-w3.html#woodward)
> in Playboy May
> 218/2 In newspaper terminology, this meant the discussions were on
> GÇÿdeep
> backgroundGÇÖ. Woodward explained the arrangements to managing editor
> Howard  Simons
> one day. He had taken to calling the source GÇÿmy friendGÇÖ, but
> Simons  dubbed
> him GÇÿDeep  ThroatGÇÖ. The name stuck. 1982 Times 3 Nov. 1 A fresh
> threat of
> industrial action emerged last night after the publication of
> documents leaked
> by a GÇÿdeep throatGÇÖ in the National Coal Board.
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> ...
> (PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS) ("deep throat" +  "Watergate")
>      1. _Death  Sentence for the Movies?; Movies " One imagines the
> American
> public  choking on the hundredth consecutive re-release of 'Gone With
> the
> Wind.'"  _
> (http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?
> index=0&did=90455928&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=3
> 09&VName=HNP&TS=1117601616&clientId=65882)
> By ALLEN McKEE. New  York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.:
> Jul 22,
> 1973. p. 95  (1 page)
> 2. _Of  Verse, Shadows And Votes_
> (http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?
> index=1&did=119763046&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=
> 309&VName=HNP&TS=11
> 17601616&clientId=65882)
> The Washington Post  (1974-Current file). Washington, D.C.: Feb 2,
> 1974. p.
> B2 (1 page)
> 3. _Sloan  named as Watergate tipster_
> (http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?
> index=2&did=606355082&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=
> 309&VName=HNP&
> TS=1117601616&clientId=65882)
> Chicago Tribune  (1963-Current file). Chicago, Ill.: Apr 8, 1974. p. 3
> (1
> page)
> 4. _Hugh  Sloan Called Major Source for News Articles on Watergate_
> (http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?
> index=3&did=79621717&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&
> VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1117601616&clientId=65882)
> New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Apr  8, 1974. p.
> 25 (1
> page)
> 5. _Float  with Joyce thru Watergate_
> (http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?
> index=4&did=606430042&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=
> 309&VName=HNP&T
> S=1117601616&clientId=65882)
> William Safire.  Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file). Chicago,  Ill.:
> Apr 24,
> 1974. p. 24 (1 page)
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> OT: JUNE 1ST
> ...
> I've been trying to tell Mayor Bloomberg and the  Republican Party just
> what's at stake here today.  It's the entire future  of New York City.
> ...
> Either I run for Manhattan Borough President, and they  help me, and
> they
> finally honor the African American who called New York City  "the Big
> Apple," and
> they finally Audrey Munson (our "Civic Fame" model), and I  run on
> "Free
> wifi! Free toilets! Free speech!" (my councilwoman wants to get rid
> of all the
> newspaper boxes for the Village Voice and New York Press), and we get
> a West
> Side stadium, the Olympics, and the Super Bowl, or..
> ...
> ...I do parking tickets in the room with no air, and  book a cooking
> tour of
> Sicily.
> ...
> (My sister favors  Sicily.)
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