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Spanish director dies following a stroke: Best known for his nearly two hundred underground, "exploitation" films "I think I was born because my father and my mother had sex ... ." Nope, that has nothing to do with the anti-censorship lectured delivered by Oz the Great and Powerful and Interior. Leather Bar's James Franco online. The words above were uttered by another Franco, a Spaniard. No, not the foaming-at-the-mouth right-wing military ruler Francisco Franco, but multitasking filmmaker Jesús Franco, aka Jess Franco aka dozens of other aliases, including those in honor of jazz performers Clifford Brown and James P. Johnson. His oeuvre included about 200 films, among them The White Slave, The Sexual History of O, Macumba Sexual, , Emmanuelle Exposed, Vampyros Lesbos, The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll, and White Cannibal Queen. The director died today in Malaga, a city in southern Spain, after suffering a stroke. According to reports, he had never truly...

Harry Reems, who soared to fame in the 1970s as the male star of Deep Throat, has died at age 65. Reems, whose real name was Herbert Streicher, had been battling a variety of health problems in recent years. Ironically, Reems was not supposed to appear in the infamous 1972 porn film that starred Linda Lovelace as a young woman whose particular talents resulted in her getting an orgasm from performing oral sex. Reems was on set as part of the crew. When the male lead didn't show up, director Gerard Damiano recruited Reems for the role. Reems went on to star in numerous porn movies but it wasn't all fun and games. At the height of the Nixon administration's crackdown on pornography, Reems became the only the actor prosecuted for appearing in an X rated film. His case became a cause celebre and anti-censorship forces rallied around him. Eventually, the charges were dropped.

As per the Internet Movie Database, Reems had already appeared in several small stag films prior to Deep Throat. He had also been featured in a tiny role in the Jane Fonda / Donald Sutherland crime thriller Klute, released in 1971 and coincidentally directed by All the President's Men's Alan J. Pakula. He later claimed that he almost landed the part of the coach in John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John's 1978 musical Grease, but the film's powers-that-be eventually reached the conclusion that his association with porn would have been detrimental to the Paramount release. (Pictured above: Adam Brody plays Reems in Lovelace, with Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace seen on her knees.) Harry Reems kept on working in the X-rated movie industry throughout the '80s. Also according to the Internet Movie Database, his last movie credit was Steve Scott's Too Good to Be True, with Ginger Lynn and Peter North,...

Adult Film Star Reems has died at the age of 65 Harry Reems, the male lead in the epoch-making early '70s X-rated entry Deep Throat, died yesterday, March 19, at a Salt Lake City veterans hospital. The actor had been suffering from various serious ailments, among them pancreatic cancer. He was 65 years old. (Pictured above: Harry Reems in the '70s.) Born Herbert Streicher in New York City in 1947, he began working in the entertainment industry after serving in the U.S. Marines. His is a classical show business tale, sort of similar to the Ruby Keeler / Bebe Daniels switch found in the classic musical 42nd Street: when Deep Throat's original male lead didn't show up on the set, filmmaker Gerard Damiano had lighting director Reems to step in as an unknown (and later come back a star). The film's plot revolved around a doctor (played by Reems) who discovers that...

Harry Reams, the former porn actor best known for his role in Deep Throat, has died at the age of 65. First reported by his friend Don Schenk, Reams' death has been confirmed by Gawker. Schenk wrote that Reams died of pancreatic cancer at a Va hospital in his adopted home of Utah. In a 2005 interview, Reams estimated that he starred in between 300 and 400 adult films, though his role in Deep Throat was a last-minute adjustment by the film's director, Gerard Damiano, when the original star was unable to perform his duties. Reams was working lights

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There have now been any number of movies, whether documentary or fiction or docudrama, about the pornographic-film industry, including a couple of great ones (like Boogie Nights). Yet Deep Throat, the 1972 film that launched the porn revolution (and helped to kick the sexual revolution into 11th gear), marked such a seismic change in American life that it’s startling, and often quite funny, to watch Lovelace, the nimble and haunting new biopic of that film’s star, Linda Lovelace, that premiered to a very buzzy response at Sundance last night, and to realize how small-scale the whole saga really was.

One of the several indie dramas making their debut at the Sundance Film Festival is Lovelace, the new biopic that takes us inside the life of legendary porn star Linda Lovelace. Millennium Films has debuted a new photo, featuring Amanda Seyfried as the title character and Hank Azaria as Gerard Damiano, who both directed and starred in the 1972 porn classic Deep Throat, which made Linda Lovelace an international star. Take a look as the actress strikes a provocative pose in this drama from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

Lovelace comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple, Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Sarah Jessica Parker. The film is directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman.

Zero Dark Thirty: Controversy boosts weekend box office Familiarity may breed contempt (if you’re around the wrong person), but controversy surely breeds box-office sales (if said controversy takes place at the time of the film’s release). Blasted by Righteous U.S. congressmen and women, by CIA honchos (who always tell the truth, we know that), by Liberals Martin Sheen and Ed Asner, just a few days ago the Kathryn Bigelow-directed, Mark Boal-scripted Zero Dark Thirty was bypassed for a key Oscar 2013 category — Best Director. As a result, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was blasted by just about everybody, from those calling Academy members sexist to rabid right-wingers claiming that Hollywood Liberals have come up with an anti-torture blacklist. (As if that per se would be such a bad thing.) Adding fuel to the fire, Michael Moore, no stranger to controversy, took to...

Four decades after the pornographic film "Deep Throat," we need not one, but two biopics on the star of the movie, Linda Lovelace. (The first stars Amanda Seyfried. The other which may never happen -- stars Malin Akerman.) These dueling projects are just one measure of how big a deal "Deep Throat" remains 40 years after it went into wide release, on June 30, 1972. Other measures include the multi-billions in profits earned each year by a porn-film production industry that scarcely existed before "Deep Throat," the level of household-name fame the film's title earned amid the Watergate scandal, the countless courtroom challenges over whether porn merits First Amendment protections, and the still-ongoing debate over whether porn is good or bad for women -- a debate embodied by the life story of Lovelace herself, still the most famous/infamous porn star who ever lived. And then there's the snickering or prickly reaction you...

James Franco takes on a cameo as iconic Playboy publisher Hugh M. Hefner in the upcoming biopic Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried as Deep Throat actress and porn legend Linda Lovelace. Check him out below.

Lovelace comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple, Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Sarah Jessica Parker. The film is directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman.

Deep Throat was released in 1972 and stars Harry Reems, Dolly Sharp, Bill Harrison, William Love, Carol Connors, Bob Phillips, Linda Lovelace, Ted Street. The film is directed by Gerard Damiano.

Linda Lovelace and her infamous porn film Deep Throat get the biopic treatment with Lovelace, from Howl directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Amanda Seyfried is set to play porn actress Linda Boreman, who went by the stage name Linda Lovelace, and Peter Sarsgaard will play her abusive husband Chuck Traynor, the man responsible for getting her into the world of adult entertainment. We have your first look at this real-life couple as portrayed on the big screen by Amanda Seyfried and Peter Sarsgaard. Check them ou below.

Deep Throat was released in 1972 and stars Harry Reems, Dolly Sharp, Bill Harrison, William Love, Carol Connors, Bob Phillips, Linda Lovelace, Ted Street. The film is directed by Gerard Damiano.

Lovelace is in development and stars Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple, Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth. The film is directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman.

Lovelace, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Linda Lovelace biopic starring Amanda Seyfried, has added some more star power to its ranks, thereby ramping up its lead over Matthew Wilder's Lovelace flick, Inferno, in the "classy" competition.

According to Deadline, Lovelace has recently added Eric Roberts as lie detector expert Nat Laurendi, Adam Brody as Deep Throat co-star Harry Reems, and Demi Moore as feminist icon Gloria Steinem (I can't wait to see that).

Of the two competing films about the ill-fated 1970s porn star, Lovelace boasts the more impressive cast. Besides Seyfried as the title character and the new big names, the film also features Hank Azaria as Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano, James Franco as Hugh Hefner and Peter Sarsgaard as Lovelace's abusive first husband, Chuck Traynor.

Also aboard this off-color trip to the '70s are Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Juno Temple.