'DEEP THROAT' MUMBLES

Sometimes it's better not to know.

Growing up in Los Angeles, we thought chorizo was so spicy, so fine. Once we learned that salivary glands were involved, we rethought our position.

Flush with a crush on the actress Elizabeth McGovern, we went to the theater to see "Ragtime" in 1981. The minute she dropped her top, the crush was over.

Tuesday evening, Mark Felt was interviewed on Larry King Live. The former G-Man was Deep Throat, the source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during Watergate.

Now in his 90s, Felt is greatly diminished. He doesn't remember any details about his dealings with Woodward. He's on television solely to push his book, a tell-all tome largely written by a family friend, an attorney. Clearly Felt's contribution to the book is who he was, not what he knows.

The Felt segments with King were taped. Even edited, they revealed nothing about the man's enormous role in history. They only showed a confused old man, someone who used to be Deep Throat. Better to remember Hal Holbrook in the parking garage.