As of this writing, there isn't that much being said on my favorite blogs about former FBI #2 Mark Felt's revelation that he not only had the perfect name for an FBI man, but was also Deep Throat.
Over the next few days, there will be some nostalgic rehashings of the Deep Throat legend. A few of our nation's professional buzz-kills will dig up whatever Mr. Felt has done wrong as a fed. But mostly, there will be this strange sense of feeling let-down.
After all, the Deep Throat we all loved, Hal Holbroke's Deep Throat, is a mythic figure, a shadow in the back of a parking garage, the modern-day Delphi for the journalism major.
Mark Felt, on the other hand, is an old man living in Santa Barbara. Nice enough, sure, but not someone who tickles resceptors in Jung's collective unconcious. Mark Felt is not the omniscient voice in the darkness we all know as Deep Throat, and in defiance of reality, we are never going to fully accept him as Deep Throat. There will almost be a bit of anger simmering in the back, in the places we don't talk about at parties, that really almost hates this Mark Felt for daring to take away our mythic, heroic Deep Throat and put some pathetic mortal in his place.
His family hints that he wants to make some money and pay off his granddaughter's college loans. I hope he does.
Agreed, the magic is gone now that we have an actual name and face. And how is he to profit on this revelation? Charge fees for interviews or apearances? Did I not read that he is elderely and W or B expressed concerns he is not of sound mind?
Laura
Posted by@ 9:48 AM
Hal Holbrook was a great Mark Twain too but in that case the original was even better than the actor. I sent you an e-mail about Deep Throat by the way. GUY
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