No More Wild Days For Harry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                        Sweeties, I am almost embarrassed to say I have never seen the 1972 film, "Deep Throat."  I don't mean to equate it with something like "The Ring Cycle," but, like the Wagner work, it is something I have always missed and feel I should experience before leaving this planet.  Though I think I can survive without it.

                                          Still, it was groundbreaking at the time.  Linda Lovelace, who made the movie and the phrase, a household word, died in 2,002, and now Harry Reems, the film's male lead, has left us.

                                            What is it with these iconic 70s porno stars???????? They do these films, showing, literally, everything they have got, then they get old, and retreat to the suburbs.  What is going on here??????????  Linda Lovelace ended up as a Long Island housewife, and some sort of churchgoing mom!!!!!!!!!!  Some might call that a miracle!!!!!!!!!!  I call it phony baloney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                Sure, you get outta the biz when you begin to age, and things begin to..um...droop, but to diss your historic making past is hypocritical.  One doesn't have to go around proclaiming to the world one was in a porno classic (if one was!!!!!!!), but, if the subject comes up, don't  be afraid to admit it!!!!!!!!!!  Let's face it, Reems and Lovelace's mothers probably saw the film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                    How about Marilyn Chambers?  Almost the same thing!!!  Becomes iconic through "Behind The Green Door" (which, I believe, Reems was also in!!!!!!!!) then tries to go mainstream, from everything to a pop singer and a Vice Presidential candidate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                       At 65, Harry lived the longest.  His path included real estate, marriage, even some New York stage work.  And to think his appearance in 'Throat' was akin to that of Shirley MacLaine in "The Pajama Game"--Reems was the film's lighting man; on the day of the shoot, the originally cast leading man did not show up, Harry stepped in, and the rest is history.  Just like Shirley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                        Which just goes to show, darlings, no matter what field, it pays to be an understudy!!!!!!!!!!!  You just never know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!