Linda Lovelace
Linda Boreman, aka Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, died on Monday, April 22, 2002.
Linda Boreman, aka Linda Lovelace, died Monday from injuries sustained in a car crash three weeks ago. Her starring role in the 1972 porn film Deep Throat made her famous. She later revealed that her abusive then-husband had forced her into pornography and prostitution, and she became a prominent anti-porn activist.
Yahoo
Joe Bob Briggs reviews the sad life of Linda Lovelace.
Lovelace may be the only American celebrity to publish four best-selling autobiographies. The first two celebrate free uninhibited sex as the most liberating form of human expression since man learned to speak. The last two describe pornography as a felony assault against women, a menace to the future of civilization and the very essence of evil. In this one desperately unhappy woman we have both the yin and the yang of the sexual revolution played out before our eyes.
An admirably thorough, well-researched portrait that tries to separate the person from the icon, mercifully free of either pro-porn or anti-porn ideological posturing.
National Review
Retro Crush has a small thumbnailed gallery of gauzy softcore Linda Lovelace pics, probably taken from her mid-70s Playboy layout.
Retro Crush
LukeFord.com has a long, mean-spirited biography of Linda Lovelace, which refutes her claim that she was forced at gunpoint to perform in Deep Throat.
Luke Ford
New York Times obituary of Linda Boreman, aka Linda Lovelace. One interesting tidbit: "In recent years, she enjoyed the reception she received at memorabilia shows, said Eric Danville, author of The Complete Linda Lovelace (Power Process Publishing, 2001). 'People would tell her how much they loved her 100 times a day,' he said. Mr. Danville also recalled watching Deep Throat with her nine months ago. It was the first time she had seen it from start to finish. 'I don't see what the big deal was,' she said."
New York Times
Penthouse runs a short interview with Linda Lovelace conducted by Eric Danville circa 2000. Very interesting to hear her older-and-wiser perspective on both her porn and anti-porn days.
Penthouse
At the companion website to his book The Complete Linda Lovelace, Eric Danville reprints three interviews with Linda Lovelace from the early 1970s.
When I tried browsing Danville's site, many pages were unreadable because of broken images or scripting errors.
Complete Linda Lovelace
Violet Blue looks back at the life of Linda Lovelace and the ideological battles she embodied.
Good Vibrations
Geoff Pevere looks back at the life and career of Linda Lovelace. (Dec 2002)