![]() ![]() , the movie that catapulted hardcore pornography into the mainstream, its star, Linda Lovelace, claims she was forced to perform in the movie, though everyone else connected to the film contradicts her. And the book's two most fascinating stories-about the making of Deep ThroatĪnd the Traci Lords child pornography case-involve unreliable narrators, which gives them a Rashomon ![]() Most chapters contain multiple story lines, which McNeil cleverly weaves together by the end. But beyond the scintillating subject, it's McNeil's skillful technique that elevates this oral history, coauthored by journalists Osborne and Pavia, above the tedium of a courtroom transcript. ) focuses on the industry's dark underbelly: suicide (Savannah), fratricide (the Mitchell brothers), Mafia hits (John Gotti whacked Robert DiBernardo, the mob's point man in the porn business) and gangland slayings (John Holmes). It doesn't hurt that the history of American pornography is inextricably intertwined with all the subjects that captivate us: sex, drugs, beauty, fame, money, the Mafia, law enforcement and violence. This compulsively readable book perfectly captures the pop culture zeitgeist. ![]()
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