Porn Valley- By the ghost of Linda Lovelace's bleach-smelling breath, Arrow Productions' Ray Pistol is going to find her heir apparent. And the search begins in earnest next month in New York during a Sex Expo which is scheduled for The Big Apple. As keeper of the Deep Throat flame and legacy, Pistol, for years, has been threatening to find a new Lovelace, although that search has hit its snags at times.
Along with Courtney Love being tabbed to play Lovelace in a mainstream film about her life, the popularity of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, www.xxxdeepthroat.com, has brought Linda back from the great beyond as a topic of tantalizing conversation. So it goes without saying that her spiritual presence in the grand scheme of things can't be ignored any longer.
To play as a twin bill with the documentary, the re-release of Deep Throat is being scheduled for the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Canada, Cypress and various countries in South America. More deals are in the hopper, but eyes will primarily be focused not only on the Expo but New York City's Cinema East in May when Deep Throat begins playing there.
"We'll be kicking off our search for the new Linda Lovelace at the Adult Expo," Pistol explains. "And when we find her she'll be starring in the re-make of Deep Throat." The choice of a new Lovelace will be made according to beauty and talent says Pistol. "We'll have them read scripts and see how their acting ability is," he adds. "It'll be like a Miss America contest from the standpoint of a lot of different criteria. But it won't necessarily be a beauty contest. It won't necessarily be a Deep Throat contest. It won't necessarily be a script reading contest. It'll be all of the above." According to Pistol, Arrow will have booths both at the New York Expo and Erotica L.A. where the search will continue.
"The contest will be part of the entertainment at those shows," says Pistol. "The idea is to register at the [Arrow] booth and at a certain time we'll gather the contestants together and run the contest in public." Beyond the Expo in New York and Erotica L.A., Pistol concedes that the Lovelace contest could run for months. "We'll also conduct contests in strip clubs," says Pistol. "If a prospective entrant wants to send an e-mail with a picture and a bio, we could conceivably invite them to a contest and fly them out. We'll go with this until I find somebody. Theoretically all these winners, like American Idol, could continue to the finals," Pistol adds.
"As long as it takes."
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