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In the book, The Other Side of Hollywood, a chapter’s devoted to a behind the scenes look at its making.

According to Miami porn merchant Lenny Camp, the original script was on three-by-five cards.

“To me it was just another piece of shit,” says Camp.

Director Gerard Damiano remembers the star, the late Linda Love walking around the set in cutoff shorts.

“She did have nice legs,” recalls Damiano. “Anyone passing by would have to notice.” Damiano goes on to say that Lovelace’s husband Chuck Traynor would beat the shit out of her if guys looked, however. Lovelace talks about how Traynor criticized her the first day of the shoot for smiling too much on the set and for other things inconsequential.

“And then all of a sudden he started punching me and kicking me and threw me against the wall,” Lovelace describes. “And then he picked me up and threw me on the bed. And I started screaming. Everyone became very quiet.”

According to Lovelace there were a lot of lookers on but no one lent her assistance.

Traynor didn’t deny the story stating that it wouldn’t be beneath him to backhand Lovelace or bend her over his knee and beat her ass.

“She dug it, you know?” Traynor deneded his position by saying he was in the business of creating a super star.

“And you don’t create a superstar by namby-pambyin’, kiss-assin’ around and givin’ her roses,” he adds. “It just don’t work, you know?”

Traynor, who describes himself as a marine who does it by the numbers, talked about how Lovelace would complain about anything and everything including an ass-ache.

Traynor insists he was the production manager on the shoot; Lovelace says he was more of a go-fer and that Damiano would send him on errands for cigarettes and beer to get him out of the way then close the set to him until they finished a scene.

Damiano described Traynor and Lovelace’s as a sadomasochistic relationship and that Lovelace would should up on the set black and blue froim beatings the night before.

Damiano also explains how he brought the film’s co-star Harry Reems to Florida, originally, as a production assistant thinking that Reems had already been overexposed in X-rated films. But since he couldn’t find anyone in Florida to play the part of the doctor, Damiano asked Reems to do it.

Reems was completely turned on by Lovelace, although he says he could also get turned on by Minnie Mouse. Lovelace, in turn, thought Reems was fairly intelligent and had a good sense of humor.

“Harry’s strongest appeal to me, however, was the fact that Chuck constantly referred to him as ‘that asshole,’ and Harry pretended that Chuck did not exist,” says Lovelace.

“Every time Harry had a chance to speak with me alone, he’d tell me he could make a star, that I should join him in making bigger and better porno movies,” Lovelace continues.

According to Lovelace, Traynor didn’t like Reems at all because he was young and good-looking and would have arguments with her about enjoying her scenes with Reems too much.

FBI agent Bill Kelly considers Reems as being a very likable guy for someone who was completely amoral or immoral.

“He was the only redeeming thing in the entire movie, as opposed to Linda Lovelace who’s got as much acting ability as a lamp.”

Reems describes Anthony Peraino Sr as an old Mafioso who’d always be asking, “Where’s da broads?”

“Mr. Peraino was accustomed to going first class,” recalls Reems. “He required a change of broads every night. Along with the sheets.”

Damiano recalls that Butchie Peraino, the financial backer of Deep Throat, didn’t like the title of the movie. According to Damiano he was told by Butchie that no one would understand the title, that it wasn’t catchy enough.

Damiano told him don’t worry, that it will become a household word. Even Peraino who wound up spending $40,000 on the project had to finally admit that guys were standing and cheering during the initial screenings.

However, it was Al Goldstein’s opinion that it was his review that was the catalyst for the film’s success.

“Before my review, the film opened and closed in California in four days,” notes Goldstein. “After my review it quickly became a huge hit in New York, breaking house records.”

Goldstein recounts how he got a blowjob from Lovelace as a reward from the distributors for his review.

“I felt like a hooker faking orgasm with a john,” Goldstein says of the experience. “I left there feeling sad.”

Lovelace thought Goldstein was a pig.

“But I could numb myself to that experience,” she adds. Fred Lincoln thought Lovelace was just “a fucking idiot.”

Although he professes a liking for Goldstein, legendary adult producer, distributor and director Dave Friedman disputes Goldstein’s high opinion of his influence.

“When the picture first came out, it was just another porno,” contends Friedman. “I was one of the early people to play it- in Portland- and it was just another week. Wasn’t anything to write home about. Vince Miranda opened the picture in Los Angeles at one of the Pussycat Theaters, and it did very ordinary business, nothing spectacular.”

Sammy Davis Jr suggested to his wife Altovese at the time that he rent the Pussycat for an evening and invite friends to come see it.

Says Davis, “We invited Suzanne Pleshette and Tommy Gallagher, the Berles, Dick and Dolly Martin, Steve and Edie, Shirley MacLaine- people who would never go to the Pussycat. I took them over in limos, which was safer than leaving your expensive paint job parked in that neighborhood.”

“Even former vide president Sprio Agnew had a private screening at Frank Sinatra’s place in Palm Springs,” notes Harry Reems.

It’s Friedman’s opinion that Deep Throat only got popular when then New York City mayor John Lindsay cracked down on pornography and confiscated the print.

“Well, right away, the national media gets on to it,” recalls Friedman.

“Sam Lake who was running the World Theater at the time, got an injunction, and he reopened the picture, and they were lined up around the block.”

Friedman’s contention is that if Lindsay had just left the picture alone it would have come and gone as any other porno picture.

FBI agent Bill Kelly recalls the film’s grand opening at Miami Beach’s Sheraton Theater, noting that lines went around the theater and halfway down the next block.

“The Miami Herald gave that piece of 59 minutes of filmed oral copulation about five million dollars’ worth of free advertising,” says Kelly. “So did almost every other liberal newspaper in the country.”