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…rosecutor of pornography, he had already secured more than forty convictions. Many observers saw the decision to bring Reems to trial as evidence of Parrish’s creativity. Asa Memphis lawyer, familiar with Parrish, put it: “Parrish figured that putting an actor on trial was the w...

…front-page analysis of the Village Voice. Hentoff warned his readers of the consequences of a government victory in the Reems case. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional lawyers, has never been known as an apocalyptic c...

…n shown a videotape of Deep Throat, had more to do with transporting obscene material in interstate commerce than Harry Reems did. Would Larry Parrish prosecute them? When I asked Parrish, he said: “They’re not insulated against prosecution.” Not all the stories were flattering....

” convicted Reems and his co-conspirators and Harry went off in search of an appellate

Reems described himself to me as “a nice Jewish boy earning his livelihood by

Mr. Reems has some of the country’s most impressive legal talent working on his appeal.

…mber of a conspiracy is deemed to have committed every crime actually committed by any co-conspirator*’ (Remember Harry Reems.) The second legal fiction was the law of felony-murder under which anyone who intentionally commits a serious felony, such as breaking someone out of pri...

…ity of Oklahoma’s national college football championship teams in 1974 and 1975. Died March 17 in a plane crash. Harry Reems, 65. The male star of “Deep Throat,” a 1972 U.S. film that brought hardcore pornography to mainstream audiences. Died March 19 in Salt Lake City. Rise St...

…r of a conspiracy is deemed to have committed every crime actually committed by any co-conspirator 58 (Remember Harry Reems.) The second legal fiction was the law of felony-murder under which anyone who intentionally commits a serious felony

…ld survive the censorship of hard-core pornography, despite the “slippery slope” from “porn” to politics (or from Harry Reems to Helen Hayes.) A society that banned pornography would, perhaps, be less vibrant, less tolerant, less pluralistic, less committed to choice, than one th...

…f how she had been compelled to perform her “sexual sword- swallower trick” at gunpoint. After reading Ordeal I called Reems and asked him whether his recollections of the filming of Deep Throat corroborated her claim that she had been forced into performing. Harry, who was then...

…191694 Part II: The changing sound and look of freedom of speech: from the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks and from Harry Reems’ Deep Throat to Woodward and Bernstein’s “Deep Throat.” Chapter 5: The Changing First Amendment—New Meanings For Old Words I always wanted to be a First...