Deep Throat Watergate. "We weren't allowed to glom inescapable parts of it," the son said. News.

MIAMI - Gerard Damiano, vice-president of the pioneering indecent take that lent its repute to the Watergate whistle-blower known as "Deep Throat," has died. He was 80. Damiano died Saturday at a Fort Myers hospital, his son, Gerard Damiano Jr., said Monday. He had suffered a apoplexy in September.

"He was a filmmaker and an artist and we tenderness of him as such," the younger Damiano said. "Even though we weren't allowed to investigate his movies, we knew he was a moviemaker, and we were smug of that." Damiano's "Deep Throat" was a mainstream box-office attainment and helped shoot the fresh hard-core adult-entertainment industry.

Shot in six days for just $25,000, the 1972 flick became a cultural must-see for Americans who had just lived through the libidinous loosing of the 1960s. The film's right also became associated with one of the most lionized anonymous sources in journalism. While investigating the Watergate scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein cast-off it as a pet name for their source, earlier FBI bona fide W. Mark Felt.

Information from Felt helped overturn down Richard Nixon's presidency. Born in New York in 1928, Damiano worked as a hairdresser, done for set in the Navy and directed several grown-up films. The younger Damiano said he would often with his paterfamilias on skin sets as a child, but would be ushered out during "nitty-gritty" scenes. "We weren't allowed to picture inexorable parts of it," the son said.

"But my parents always felt that it was nothing to be embarrassed of, what he did." After "Deep Throat" opened in Times Square, publicity from media critics and outraged conservatives - including repeated judicial challenges - helped form it into a hit. "My sire never dreamed that it would get that variety of attention," the younger Damiano said. But in defiance of the attention, the son said the cloud was not his father's favorite.

"He was vain of it for what it was, but in terms of filmmaking, he would never awake it a great film," he said. Gerard Damiano is survived by his son and daughter. No confining services are planned.

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