Amanda Seyfried goes deep in Lovelace trailer

Forty-one years after Deep Throat turned your mom and dad into temporary swingers, and 33 years after the film's star very publicly renounced the porn industry, Linda Lovelace still exerts a facination.

Which brings us to Lovelace, the much buzzed about biopic starring Amanda Seyfried as the tragic hippy chick who fell into stag reels and eventually an unlikely kind of stardom when Deep Throat hit the '70 mainstream.

The mob made off with all the loot—$600 million or so by some estimates—and Lovelace was left with her notorious and allegedly abusive husband Chuck Traynor, Sammy Davis Jr. stuffing her in Hugh Hefner's pool, and a film career that ended around the time she co-starred with Mickey Dolenz in Linda Lovelace for President (can't imagine why that one tanked.)

In the end, Lovelace/Boreman was a strange attractor who symbolized the so-called freedom of one decade and the dishonest conservatism of the next, while being exploited mercilessly by both. As for the new movie—going on limited release August 9—I'm just finding it hard to get past the bizarre miscasting of James Franco as Hefner.