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Where's Linda?


Producer Ovidio Assonitis has asserted that Linda Lovelace / Boreman can be seen in a few scenes of this movie. Has anyone spotted her yet?
Thanks.

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On the Ovidio Assonitis interview contained on the extras section of the Severin disc, as he's talking about the supposed Lovelace appearances, there are two scenes shown: The one inside that "temple" where the man is lecturing a group of people & Annie Belle has her headphones on & a scene that follows of that crowd exiting that building. I froze both scenes but it's very difficult to make out if Linda is one of the individuals sitting there. If she is indeed on these scenes, my question would be why since Annie Belle was clearly playing the role originally intended for her on that scene (Linda was supposed to have been fired by then). Maybe those audience scenes had been shot before & incorporated later?
With that said, after seeing this polished, stunningly photographed film, I seriously doubt Linda would've done the film justice. Could she had risen to the ocassion & match the whole european-exotic package that these kind of movies from that era were known for? Could she had photographed as well as Annie Belle (remember the white-vision she was on the night pool scene) or look/project allure as the french actress? Judging from her previous body of work, I don't think so and, according to the producers' account, she was pretty messed up by then (drugs?) or going through one of her first (religious?) "conversions". She certainly missed the chance to make a bona-fide "crossover" film (released by 20th Century Fox!).
Oh well!

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Just watched this on the Severin DVD, and I agree, I don't think Linda Lovelace would have been good for the part at all. Linda had a great natural charm before she got too messed up on drugs, but she didn't have a European feel to her at all, and I just don't think it would have worked.

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