<nettime> generation (xxx|flash) digest [sanborn, roving_reporter]

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Keith Sanborn <mrzero@panix.com>
     Re: <nettime> GENERATION FLASH  (3A / 3) 
nettime's_roving_reporter <nettime@bbs.thing.net>
     net.art icon linda 'lovelace' boreman dies

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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:47:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Keith Sanborn <mrzero@panix.com>
Subject: Re: <nettime> GENERATION FLASH  (3A / 3) 

Show me some good flash animations that are interesting by any criteria?
Where are they? I looked at the alt Bienniale site. Those are trivial? But
hey, I'm willing to learn. Somebody point  me in the direction of an
interesting use of the medium, something that compares with say Vuk C's
ascii version of Deep Throat?

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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:52:10 -0400
From: nettime's_roving_reporter <nettime@bbs.thing.net>
Subject: net.art icon linda 'lovelace' boreman dies

     [via <tbyfield@panix.com>; cf. vuk cosic's _deep ascii_
      <http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/>]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/obituaries/24BORE.html>

April 24, 2002
Linda Boreman, 53, Known for 1972 Film 'Deep Throat,' Dies
By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Linda Boreman, the woman once known as Linda Lovelace, who starred in
one of the first feature-length pornography movies, "Deep Throat," and
who later denounced it as depicting her "rape," died on Monday in
Denver. She was 53.

The cause was injuries from a car accident on April 3, her family
said.

The 62-minute film, released in 1972, made money so fast that its
producers joked they had to weigh their receipts each day; by many
estimates it earned more than $600 million. It cost just $30,000 to
make, according to Variety. Ms.  Boreman said she was paid nothing.

"Deep Throat" and Linda Lovelace became household words and figured in
three dozen books and 18 published songs. During Watergate, Washington
Post reporters called their secret source Deep Throat.

But Ms. Boreman testified about the dangers of pornography before
Congress, courts and city councils in the 1980's, and became a poster
child for feminists like Gloria Steinem, who wrote an introduction to
her 1986 book with Mike McGrady, "Out of Bondage."

Ms. Boreman insisted that she had made the movie only because her
husband at the time, Chuck Traynor, threatened her with violence. "I
knew the feeling of a gun to my back and hearing the click, never
knowing when there was going to be a real bullet," she said in her
1980 autobiography, "Ordeal," written with Mr.  McGrady.

Linda Boreman was born in the Bronx on Jan. 10, 1949, and moved to
Yonkers when she was 3. Her father was a police officer, and her
mother held Tupperware parties.

"How does she do it?" Vincent Canby asked in an article in The New
York Times.  "The film has less to do with the manifold pleasures of
sex than with physical engineering."

She told of literally escaping from Mr. Traynor, who was already
seeing his second wife, Marilyn Chambers, another pornography star.
She hid out in different hotels for weeks, then began appearing in Las
Vegas and London in skimpy costumes, drawing a smattering of
publicity. The movie career for which she had hoped never
materialized.

She later married Larry Marchiano. They divorced in 1996. She is
survived by their children, a daughter, Lindsay, and a son, Dominic; a
sister, Barbara Boreman; and three grandchildren.

The family lived on welfare when Mr. Marchiano was unemployed, and Ms.
Boreman had a liver transplant in 1987. After they moved to Denver in
1990, she worked at low-paying jobs.

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.

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