Just read it in Newsweek:
Gerald Damiano will always be known as the man who made Deep Throat. Produced for a mere $25,000 in a Miami hotel room, the filmed opened in Times Square in 1972 and billed as porno chic. But banned in 23 other states.
The film went on to gross as much as $600 million that went mostly to the mobsters that financed it.
Deep Throat ushered porn into the mainstream, briefly, and it became the nickname of Watergate's whistleblower.
Before the movie, Gerald was a hairdresser in Queens N.Y. Making Deep Throat set off an epic battle about American sex and culture that is still a long way from being settled.
Gerald died at the age of 80.
but Deep Throat will continue on forever...