Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 150, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 February 1980 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, February 28,1980

Skin game? Linda Lovelace now claims she was a prisoner of porn prince

(c) 1980, The Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE—Linda Lovelace doesn’t look like a porn movie queen. Rut she says she never was. She insists she was a prisoner. Linda Lovelace is now Linda Marchiano, wife of Larry and mother of 8-year-old Dominic. She's due to have another baby in June. Linda Marchiano says Linda Lovelace was a delusion and an illusion. The Linda Lovelace that thousands of people saw performing sexual antics in "Deep Throat” and other films was not a woman who loved what she was doing. Linda Marchiano says Linda Lovelace was a woman performing to save her life. And she’s detailed the story in her autobiography ‘‘Ordeal’’ so that the “world will know the truth.” In Baltimore with her husband to promote the book, she’s six months pregnant, dressed in beige polyester pants and a brown plaid shirt. Her shoulder-length browr hair falls haphazardly to her shoulders around a pair of silver wire-rim glasses. She wears no make-up. She looks like she’s going to the supermarket instead of appearing on a local television show or meeting a reporter. Linda Marchiano says Linda Lovelace, who used to be Linda Boreman from Fort Lauderdale. Fla., was a prisoner, tormented by a maniac named Chuck Traynor who forced her into prostitution, pornography and marriage by repeated beatings and the gun he packed in his pocket. She says she was not only abused physically and mentally, but also she never got any money. "Money would have given me freedom and independence.” She says she tried three times to escape from Chuck Traynor, but it took her two years to finally get away. Fear kept her from leaving sooner. "Anybody who has experienced that kind of fear knows exactly what I mean. He would have tracked me down and killed me and my parents. Today I still believe he would have killed me. He used to brag about the people he killed in Mexico.” For two years beginning in September, 1971, she says, Traynor kept her prisoner, first in Miami and then in New York and finally in Los Angeles. He forced her into prostitution and sexual acts with animals, women and multiple groups of men while he watched. She says he used her as sexual barter to pay doctors’ and lawyers’ bills and to ingratiate himself with celebrities after she became famous. The gun always backed up his threats. Traynor beat her often, she said, causing her severe permanent vein damage in her right leg which she says will require an operation. “If you look closely in the movie ‘Deep Throat,’ you can see that I have large black and blue marks on my legs. The make-up didn’t completely cover them.” Those bruises occurred one evening during the filming. She says Traynor beat her for smiling too much during the day, and that was the first time in many months that she had smiled. But her dreams of escape or protection from people in the cast were dashed the night of the beating. The cast and crew heard her cries. No one helped. “There’s a scene in that movie where I’m driving a car. But what you don’t see is Chuck Traynor lying on the floor of the car with his gun to keep me from splitting,” she said. Linda Marchiano speaks very matter-of-factly about this time in her life, as if she is reciting a very' boring, worn-out story. She can now look back on her past and see she was stupid, naive and gullible. She says her victimization began early in life with beatings from her mother. (Her sister recently denied the beatings in a letter to People magazine, but Linda says she was 5 when her sister left home, so her sister really has no way of knowing what happened.) And even though she was called Miss HolyHoly in high school, she wasn’t a saint either. She said she didn’t have many dates, but she did have a son at 19, after a one-night affair. It

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is this subject more than any other that brings her to tears "My mother forced me to give the baby up and she tricked me. They kept me doped up at the hospital and I was in a fog. She brought in some papers for me to sign. She said they were for the circumcision. They turned out to be permission for the adoption. "They told me my baby was in a foster home and that as soon as I could afford to care for him. I could get him back. After I was out of the hospital a few months, I had finished keypunch school. I called the place to tell them I was ready to get my son. They told me. ‘You’ll never see your baby again.’ ’’ Now her eyes are filled with tears and her voice is cracking. “I never wanted to give him up. I had the opportunity when he was 6 to get him back, but I didn’t think I could do that to him then I just hope one day he’ll knock on my door and I’ll get to see my son," and the tears begin to flow. But she catches herself and changes the subject. “But, I have a cute little raspal now,” she says referring to her 3-year-old son, and she reaches out to hold her husband’s hand A few months after she escaped from Traynor she moved in with her nightclub producer, David Winters. She lived with him for nearly a year until he insisted that she go back to pornographic movies. About nine months later she met Larry Marchiano in Florida on a beach. She had known him briefly many years earlier. He went with her back to California and they began to live together a few months later. And although she professes strong religious beliefs, they didn’t marry until she was several months pregnant with her son Dominic. Larry Marchiano smokes a lot while his wife talks. During the television taping he paces in and out of the studio. He squirms in his chair, runs his hands through his hair. He talks about the evils of pornography. And though he doesn’t cry, he shakes his head back and forth and rolls his eyes when there is a suggestion that the Traynor story is only Linda’s version. “This is true. This stuff happened to Linda,” he says quietly. “I’m ashamed as a man and as an American that this has happened ... whether you buy it or not, that’s up to you. Apathy is the ball and chain around every movement. It’s easier to walk away than to deal with this.” Linda Marchiano says she tried to escape before the world had ever heard of Linda Lovelace. She tried to escape when she was Linda Traynor the prostitute and actress in some less notorious pornographic films. Two unsuccessful escapes ended with Traynor tracking her down, she said. One time, she said, he threatened to kill her nephew when she wouldn’t leave her parents’ home. She said her Catholic upbringing prevented her from killing him. “I didn’t think he was worth killing. I would spend an eternity in hell and I was sure that I would end up going to jail after what I had seen of the legal system. I couldn’t handle murdering him. I had to believe that one day God would free me of my ordeal.” Ironically, it was her fame as Linda Lovelace, the name made up for her role in “Deep Throat,” that won her freedom. After the movie was released, Playboy magazine did a photo layout; then they moved to Los Angeles. There were book and movie offers, commercial possibilities and rehearsals for a nightclub act. The name Linda Ixivelace opened doors. She was preparing for a nightclub act and Traynor left her alone one day for a few hours at her rehersal. She convinced her dance coach to drive her to a hotel. She checked in as Linda Hyatt. With the help of a secretary she got disguises and moved around from hotel to hotel. This was the summer of 1973. Through intermediaries Traynor realized she wasn’t coming back this time and he couldn’t find her. Divorce proceedings started a few days later. Why has she waited so long to tell this story? She says she tried earlier but no one wanted to listen. Reporters weren’t interested, she says, and even a talk show host to whom she confided wouldn’t believe her.

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DONNA SUMMER Best female performance

Doobie Brothers awarded their first Grammys

LOS ANGELES (AP) The Doobie Brothers, who 10 years ago were playing in bars to the motorcycle crowd, were presented record of the year and song of the year honors at the 22nd annual Grammy ceremonies the first time they had been nominated. The six members of the rock’n’roll band took home victrola-shaped trophies Wednesday for record of the year, “What a Fool Believes,” and best pop vocal performance by a group, “Minute By Minute.” Two Grammys for “What a Fool Believes” in the song of the year and best arrangement accompanying vocalists categories were personal triumphs for Michael McDonald, who joined the group five years ago and was given much credit for the band’s six nominations this year. “It’s a form of acceptance we never got before, and we enjoy it,” said McDonald, who shared the song of the year award with co-writer Kenny Loggins. The Doobie Brothers won more awards than any other artists honored in 58 categories and were the only major firsttime winners. Repeat winners included Billy Joel, whose “52nd

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HERBALPERT Best pop instrumental

Street” won album of the year and best male pop performance. Earth, Wind & Fire raised its career Grammy total from three to five, winning rhythm and blues honors for group vocal, “After the Love Has Gone,” and instrumental, “Boogie Wonderland.” But Dionne Warwick and Herb Alpert provided the two major comeback stories of the night. Alpert, whose “Rise” was named best pop instrumental, won the last of his five previous Grammys in 1966. “Oh my dears, my dears,” Miss Warwick said, wiping tears away after winning the best female pop performance for “I’ll Never Love This Way Again.” Earlier, her “Deja Vu” had been named best female rhythm and blues performance. Bob Dylan, looking uncharacteristic in a tuxedo, performed his born-again Christian tune, “Gotta Serve Somebody,” and went on to win Grammy for best male rock vocal performance. “I didn’t expect to get it, I’d like to thank the Lord for it,” Dylan said. More than 40 awards were presented before the televised portion of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ceremonies. Only 14 awards

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KENNY ROGERS Best country male

were to be handed out on-camera, leaving ample time for presentations and performances. Donna Summer, nominated in five categories, won only best female rock peformance for “Hot Stuff .” The rock group vocal award went to the Eagles for “Heartache Tonight:” Michael Jackson won best male rhythm and blues honors for “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough; ” Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” was named best disco recording; and Emmylou Harris won female country vocal honors with “Blue Kentucky Girl,” written by a Missouri school janitor. Kenny Rogers, who was host for the televised National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ceremonies, won best male country performance for “The Gambler.” Performers included Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond and The Charlie Daniels Band, which won a country Grammy for “The Devil Came Down to Georgia.” And veteran comedian George Burns appeared with Deborah Harry of the rock group Blondie. “I don’t always go out with young girls sometimes I stay home with them,” cracked Burns.

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