LOS ANGELES, Calif. (CH) — It might have appeared on a hundred other campuses, but U.S. Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.) was still mighty upset over the screening of Deep Throat at UCLA. Indeed, Dornan, when he heard the film was scheduled to be shown, threatened to fly from Washington to Los Angeles to personally protest its showing at the student union.
Threat or no threat (Dornan stayed in Washington and just made two angry phone calls to administrators), Linda Lovelace and company brought out around 5,000 students — at $1 a head — to see the movie. Those attending, got a generous dose of morality, however, from people who protested outside saying the flick was nothing more than “celluloid tripe.”