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TORONTO (CP) - He wasn't born Harry Reems.
But the 1970s porn actor has decided to retain what is one of the most obvious noms de plumes in film history. At 58, Linda Lovelace's notoriously endowed co-star in the seminal adult feature Deep Throat has pulled his once-seamy life out of the sewer and has re-invented himself as a still-handsome, silver-haired and successful real estate entrepreneur in the tony winter resort community of Park City, Utah.
But it was a close call.
For 20 years he kept silent about his story, convinced only recently by the producers of an HBO documentary Inside Deep Throat (released last week on DVD by Universal) that they would portray him fairly and that the project would be done with dignity. They did. It was. And so now Reems is speaking out.
Born Jewish in the Bronx in 1947 as Herbert Streicher, he has reclaimed his marquee name despite the imagery.
"I'm not looking to garnish any business because of it," he says in a telephone interview.
"I didn't want to be thought of as denying my past. So I kept the name Harry Reems and (am) very forthright about who I am and what I've done. Park City is a very small town of about 3,000 families and everybody knows everybody."
He began making X-rated pictures in the 1960s - when they were still known as loops or stag films. He had worked with both Lovelace and Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano before. But in late 1971, Damiano had the idea of breaking with convention and shooting a film that would take visual advantage of Lovelace's special talents for onscreen fellatio.