FBI files show wide 'Deep Throat' investigation - The porn flick not the informant

[Lone_Star_Dem]

MIAMI – Newly released FBI files show agents across the country and at the highest level of the agency investigated "Deep Throat" — the 1972 porn movie, not the shadowy Watergate figure — in a vain attempt to roll back what became a cultural shift toward more permissive entertainment.

The documents released to The Associated Press show the expanse of agents' investigation into the film: seizing copies of the movie, having negatives analyzed in labs and interviewing everyone from actors and producers to messengers who delivered reels to theaters.

All of it in a failed attempt to stop the spread of a movie that some saw as the victory of a cultural and sexual revolution and others saw as simply decadent.

"Today we can't imagine authorities at any level of government — local, state or federal — being involved in obscenity prosecutions of this kind," said Mark Weiner, a constitutional law professor and legal historian at Rutgers-Newark School of Law. "The story of 'Deep Throat' is the story of the last gasp of the forces lined up against the cultural and sexual revolution and it is the advent of the entry of pornography into the mainstream."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_on_en_mo/us_fbi_deep_throat

[dipsydoodle]

1. I find that

hard to swallow. :rofl:

[TimesSquareCowboy]

2. I'm gagging at the very thought of it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. I'm sick of their morality being shoved in our faces.

[Dramarama]

4. Come again?

[Soylent Brice]

5. herpes.

sorry, i'm not that clever.

[Dramarama]

8. Hahaha

[MineralMan]

6. A movie about an anatomical oddity?

What is there to investigate, I wonder...

Documentaries are always interesting...

[Echo In Light]

7. See the doc film on the fascist/repub MPAA: This Film Has Not Been Rated

You know, the group of people who decide on which type of rating movies receive. They're all wealthy repubs/right to lifer types. Very revealing doc film on how they quickly drop their 'high brow' family values morals when it comes to making sure BIG movies that have R material get PG-13 in order to help profits...yet will give an indie flick an NC-17 for showing a woman's pubic hair.

[Merlot]

9. That's one of my favorite docs - and great investigative journalism

It asks the basic question: Why are the people who have control over our rating system shrouded in secrecy?

[tanyev]

10. I wonder how many times they had to watch it in order to, uh, investigate it.