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videoxpix · 08-05-2004, 02:03 PM

Just a quick note to let all of you know that at 11:00 PM EST/10:00 PM CST tonight, Wednesday 8/5/2004, VH1 will be airing "When Rated X Ruled The World". This is a must see for anyone interested in Classic Adult Entertainment.

FROM THE VH1 WEBSITE:
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/when_ru...de_about.jhtml

1970. Forget the free love/hippie era of the previous decade. The Seventies took sex into overdrive. The world had just experienced what it thought was the swinging '60s but the '70s would show everybody what swinging really was all about. Oh! Calcutta! was playing off-Broadway in New York. And Myra Breckinridge was in theaters everywhere, with Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett and a new risque? rating "X".

Two years later, Deep Throat turned unknown actress Linda Lovelace into a sort of Meg Ryan of her day - America's sweetheart, talk show guest, film premiere regular. Hollywood glitterati and suburban couples were flocking to see Deep Throat at the local theater (while their sons, no doubt, were sneaking peaks at dad's hidden stash of Playboys). Proudly taking pornography out of stag lodges and Times Square back rooms, Deep Throat was part of the same mainstream that also included Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, Last Tango in Paris and Caligula, in cinemas and The Joy of Sex and Fear of Flying in bookstores. Lovelace was joined in the porn-star pantheon by such colorful characters as Ivory Snow model Marilyn Chambers, softcore star Sylvia Kristel, the hedgehog Ron Jeremy and big bad John Holmes.

And then there was fledgling actor Spalding Gray, who appeared onscreen with the likes of Gloria Leonard and Leslie Bovee. Deep Throat announced the arrival of porno chic, an era when legitimate filmmakers got closer and closer to porn while porn filmmakers got closer and closer to the mainstream. Films like Behind the Green Door, The Devil in Miss Jones and The Opening of Misty Beethoven - a racy re-telling of the Pygmalion story - were made with the same ambition as their Hollywood counterparts. And their stars were making money and living the Hollywood high life.

VH1's history of the era, When Rated X Ruled The World, will take viewers along on the rollercoaster ride that was porn in the 1970s, from the fast ride uphill in the early part of the decade to the equally fast ride downhill. They made it almost all the way to the top but they never quite got there. When stars like Lovelace tried to make it in "straight" films, almost all failed. And the arrival of home video, cocaine, angry feminists and, eventually, AIDS all, in their own way, spelled doom for the heroes of porno chic.

When Rated X Ruled The World will recapture the spirit of those sexy days: the how, why and who that made the sexual revolution tick and take over. Shot intimately and stylishly, When Rated X Ruled The World captures this era though the stories of the people who lived it.

Interviewees Include:
Arthur Morowitz
Marilyn Chambers
Gloria Leonard
Ron Jeremy
Sharon Mitchell
Bill Margold
Annie Sprinkle
Eric Edwards
Larry Flynt
John Leslie
Julia St. Vincent
Sharon Holmes
Paul Thomas
Vanessa Del Rio

08-05-2004, 02:03 PM	#1
videoxpix Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: EVIL EMPIRE - NYC Posts: 267	Classic Porn on VH1 tonight! Just a quick note to let all of you know that at 11:00 PM EST/10:00 PM CST tonight, Wednesday 8/5/2004, VH1 will be airing "When Rated X Ruled The World". This is a must see for anyone interested in Classic Adult Entertainment. FROM THE VH1 WEBSITE: http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/when_ru...de_about.jhtml 1970. Forget the free love/hippie era of the previous decade. The Seventies took sex into overdrive. The world had just experienced what it thought was the swinging '60s but the '70s would show everybody what swinging really was all about. Oh! Calcutta! was playing off-Broadway in New York. And Myra Breckinridge was in theaters everywhere, with Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett and a new risque? rating "X". Two years later, Deep Throat turned unknown actress Linda Lovelace into a sort of Meg Ryan of her day - America's sweetheart, talk show guest, film premiere regular. Hollywood glitterati and suburban couples were flocking to see Deep Throat at the local theater (while their sons, no doubt, were sneaking peaks at dad's hidden stash of Playboys). Proudly taking pornography out of stag lodges and Times Square back rooms, Deep Throat was part of the same mainstream that also included Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, Last Tango in Paris and Caligula, in cinemas and The Joy of Sex and Fear of Flying in bookstores. Lovelace was joined in the porn-star pantheon by such colorful characters as Ivory Snow model Marilyn Chambers, softcore star Sylvia Kristel, the hedgehog Ron Jeremy and big bad John Holmes. And then there was fledgling actor Spalding Gray, who appeared onscreen with the likes of Gloria Leonard and Leslie Bovee. Deep Throat announced the arrival of porno chic, an era when legitimate filmmakers got closer and closer to porn while porn filmmakers got closer and closer to the mainstream. Films like Behind the Green Door, The Devil in Miss Jones and The Opening of Misty Beethoven - a racy re-telling of the Pygmalion story - were made with the same ambition as their Hollywood counterparts. And their stars were making money and living the Hollywood high life. VH1's history of the era, When Rated X Ruled The World, will take viewers along on the rollercoaster ride that was porn in the 1970s, from the fast ride uphill in the early part of the decade to the equally fast ride downhill. They made it almost all the way to the top but they never quite got there. When stars like Lovelace tried to make it in "straight" films, almost all failed. And the arrival of home video, cocaine, angry feminists and, eventually, AIDS all, in their own way, spelled doom for the heroes of porno chic. When Rated X Ruled The World will recapture the spirit of those sexy days: the how, why and who that made the sexual revolution tick and take over. Shot intimately and stylishly, When Rated X Ruled The World captures this era though the stories of the people who lived it. Interviewees Include: Arthur Morowitz Marilyn Chambers Gloria Leonard Ron Jeremy Sharon Mitchell Bill Margold Annie Sprinkle Eric Edwards Larry Flynt John Leslie Julia St. Vincent Sharon Holmes Paul Thomas Vanessa Del Rio