Porn Valley- FENTON Bailey and Randy Barbato, the makers of the new porn documentary “Inside Deep Throat,” www.xxxdeepthroat.com are trading blows with Legs McNeil, the horny historian behind “The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry.”
McNeil kicked off the carnal clash by trashing “Inside Deep Throat” and charging that Bailey and Barbato ripped off his 2001 Court TV miniseries, “Adults Only: The Secret History of the Other Hollywood.”
“They made a s- – -ty movie,” McNeil told PAGE SIX. “Those two gay guys are so smug. They made ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker.’ They’re putting her down. It’s kind of disgusting. They’re just stupid [bleep]holes. They’re the reason why porn people think Hollywood is so sleazy. They just make fun of everybody . . . They copied us. And I don’t wanna be associated with these guys.”
Bailey responded: “If ‘Inside Deep Throat’ has legs, they won’t be his. In 1999, we made a six-hour documentary series and published a tie-in book called ‘Pornography: The Secret History of Civilization.’ It aired in the U.K. on Channel 4 and on Trio in the U.S. We don’t make fun of either Linda Lovelace or Tammy Faye and we have just completed a new film, ‘Tammy Faye Death Defying,’ with her full cooperation.”
Bailey added: “He is right about one thing – we are gay.”
Former Spin magazine editor McNeil – who sold Barbato and Bailey some vintage porn footage of “Deep Throat” star Lovelace – said he doesn’t think “Inside Deep Throat” will spoil plans for a film adaptation of his book. He said there are talks to make a movie out of the life of Pat Livingston, the FBI agent who went undercover as mobster/pornographer and who is interviewed in the book. There’s also interest in bringing the tale of porn star Savannah, who shot herself in 1994, to the big screen.
Meanwhile, in other porn news, Screw magazine is making a comeback. The venerable smut sheet formerly run by bankrupt publisher Al Goldstein will return on Valentine’s Day under the editorship of longtime Screw freelancer Charlie Mordecai. He tells us he wants to hire Goldstein – recently fired from his job as a greeter at the Second Avenue Deli for sleeping on the job – as a columnist. “But if I come to work and see him sleeping under my desk, that’ll be it,” Mordecai quipped.