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| Linda Lovelace | |
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| Birthdate | January 10, 1949 |
| Birth location | The Bronx, New York, USA |
| Birth Name | Linda Susan Boreman |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Eye color | |
| Hair color | |
| Orientation | heterosexual |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Alias(es) | Linda Lovelace |
| Website | None |
Linda Susan Boreman, better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace (January 10, 1949 – April 22, 2002), was a pornographic actress in the 1972 film Deep Throat. The movie was notable for bringing oral sex into the mainstream and as the inspiration for Bob Woodward's name of his secret Watergate source. Lovelace later stated that she regretted her pornographic career; she repudiated her stage name, and reverted to using her real name in public.
Although she later became an advocate against pornography, Lovelace is still famous for her depictions of deep throat fellatio. While she continued to use the Lovelace name for commercial purposes, the first sentence of Lovelace's book, Ordeal, and a statement she repeated for the rest of her life, was "My name is not Linda Lovelace."
Biography
Childhood and teenage years
Boreman attended Catholic schools, including St. John the Baptist in Yonkers, New York and Maria Regina High School in Hartsdale, New York. Her father was a policeman. Since an early age, she was subject to strict dicipline from her mother, a devout Roman Catholic who punished Boreman for any act of misbehavior. When Boreman was 16, the family moved to Florida.
Pornography career
While in Florida, Borman met Chuck Traynor, her future husband and agent in 1969. The couple moved back to New York that same year. Before achieving fame, Boreman starred in a bestiality film in 1969 film called Dogarama. She later attempted to deny this fact, only to have several of the 8 mm "loops" become available to prove otherwise.
Boreman made several other hard core "stag" short features and then starred in Deep Throat, perhaps the most financially successful porn movie ever. After becoming famous she starred in several soft core movies, which were financial flops. Boreman maintained that she herself was not paid for her work in Deep Throat and that her husband received only $1,250 (1972 US dollars) for it.
Due to the success of Deep Throat, she appeared in Playboy, Bachelor, and Esquire between 1973 and 1974.
In January 1974, Boreman was arrested for drug possession, specifically for cocaine and amphetamines.
In 1974, Boreman published two pro-pornography biographies. In her later suit to divorce Traynor, she claimed that Traynor had forced her into pornography at gunpoint and that in Deep Throat itself, bruises from his beatings can be seen on her legs. Traynor would go on to marry and guide the career of Marilyn Chambers, another major porn star. According to Boreman's controversial 1980 autobiography Ordeal, the couple's relationship was plagued by violence, rape, prostitution and private pornography. Assertions made in the book have been contested, particularly ones of rape and threats of violence at gunpoint.
In 1974, Boreman married Larry Marchiano and they had two children, Domnic in 1977 and Lindsay in 1980.
Anti-pornography crusade
In the early 1980's, Boreman joined the feminist movement as led by Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon and Gloria Steinem. In 1986, she published Out of Bondage, which focuses on her life after 1974. In reaction to her effort to leave her career in the porn industry behind, Hart Williams coined the term "Linda Syndrome".
Boreman testified before the 1986 U.S. Congress' Meese Commission on Pornography, claiming "When you see the movie Deep Throat, you are watching me being raped. It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time." Following Boreman's testimony for the Meese Commission, Boreman gave lectures on college campuses and elsewhere, decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices of the pornography industry.
Later career
In 1996, Boreman divorced Larry Marchiano. In 2000, she was featured on the E! Entertainment Network's "E! True Hollywood Story".
In 2001, Boreman did a pictorial, as Linda Lovelace, for the magazine Leg Show. She contended that she didn't object to this because "there's nothing wrong with looking sexy as long as it's done with taste." Subsequently, Hustler named her the "Asshole of the Month" for March 2001.
On April 3, 2002, Boreman sustained severe injuries in a car accident in which her sport utility vehicle rolled over. On April 22, 2002 she was taken off life support and died in Denver, Colorado.
Lovelace is also listed at the number 5 spot on the "List of Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time" by Adult Video News magazine.
Filmography
- Linda Lovelace: The E! True Hollywood Story (2000)
- Sexual Ecstasy of the Macumba (1975) as Linda
- Deep Throat Part II (1974) as Nurse Lovelace
- Linda Lovelace for President (1975)
- The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974, uncredited guest)
- The Confessions of Linda Lovelace (1974)
- Exotic French Fantasies (1974)
- Deep Throat (1972)
- Dog Fucker (1969)
- a.k.a. Dogarama
Books
Boreman, with other writers, has written two autobiographies:
- Ordeal (1980) ISBN 0517427915
- Out of Bondage (1986) ISBN 0425106500
There are also so-called biographies of Boreman that focus mainly on her sexual exploits, whether real or imagined:
- The Intimate Diary of Linda Lovelace (1974) ISBN 0523003943
- Inside Linda Lovelace (1974) ISBN 0902826115
- The Complete Linda Lovelace (2001) ISBN 0970550200
External links
- Linda Lovelace at IMDb
- Linda Lovelace at the Internet Adult Film Database
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- Linda Lovelace retrospecitve
- Linda Lovelace Filmography
- Luke Ford's bio of Linda Lovelace
- The Complete Linda Lovelace Photo of Lovelace shortly before her death UPI Obitutary controversy
- Linda Lovelace at Rotton.com
- 'Asshole of the Month': Linda Lovelace - copy of Hustler article