FRIEDMAN: It was the spark that set off the porn explosion. It was before the Internet; before, even, VHS video. Linda was the personality through which porn entered the mainstream. It became kind of a date Movie in the '70s.
EPSTEIN: And certainly, Linda herself has a lot to do with it - not only her particular talent, which is featured in "Deep Throat," but the fact that she was such a likeable girl next door. She was not your typical porn star of that era, which was the buxom blonde. She was very guileless, and just had a kind of innate charm and ease and naturalness about her. And that was captured.