So, Mark Felt, a few questions and thoughts for you...

1. Were you happy when they got Hal Holbrook to play you in All The Presidents' Men? He seems spot-on to me, but if it were me, I might be out there thinking, "Sure, Woodward gets Redford, Bernstein gets Hoffman, and I get...Hal Holbrook? A man who made his living as Mark Twain? C'mon!"

2. What did you think every time you heard someone parody "Follow the money" or "Deep Throat?" Speaking of which, you must have been thrilled when you found the namesake for your nom de guerre was a porn movie.

3. Are you getting a huge laugh at all these big-time, serious questions, "So, how did they keep Deep Throat's identity a secret all these years?" It seems fairly simple to me...Bradlee, Woodward and Bernstein didn't tell anyone. (Actually, Bernstein told his ex-wife, screenwriter Nora Ephron (of Sleepless in Seattle fame), that it was you, but no one was sure they could believe her because of jilted ex-wife thing. Still, I bet you didn't send him a Christmas card that year.)

4. It's got to be a laugh to watch all this before you die, which is probably infinitely more satisfying than the alternative. I mean, it must have sucked to have been the only guy out there who knew he'd never be around to see them unveil who Deep Throat was. (But, if you had a good sense of irony, when people mused about who it was, you could have said, "We'll never find out who Deep Throat was in my lifetime.")

5. Did you get a load of Pat Buchanan and Chuck Colson out there screaming about how disloyal you were? Didn't they get the memo, we figured it out a while ago?

6. For a real laugh, visit http://deepthroatuncovered.com/, where "students at the University of Illinois have determined the identity of Deep Throat, the most elusive anonymous new source in history: Fred Fielding..." They were, btw, investigative journalism students. Gee, bet U of I won't be advertising THAT site anytime soon to prospectives. Er, and some resumes are probably being updated today.

7. L. Patrick Grey, who has been dogged for years by many (including my uncle, who was a real Watergate buff) calling him Deep Throat, called for you, and boy is he ticked.

8. I admit I was a little disappointed it was you. It would have been sexier if it was someone we knew, like Pat Buchanan [nah, that would have been honorable]; John Dean; Henry Kissinger; or Diane Sawyer.

9. Back to the movie All The Presidents' Men. You went to see that in a theater originally, didn't you? What was that like?

10. Just curious...did you vote for McGovern in 1972? I'm guessing yes.

11. I wonder how many of these questions are answered in Vanity Fair.

12. The cigarette company just called and congratulated you on being 91. They'd like you to do an ad.

Oh, here's the answer to question #2, from today's Washington Post story:

When the book and then the movie were released, Woodward said, Felt was
shocked to have his place in history tagged with such a tawdry title.

In any case, thanks for the parlor game, and what you did...it made a difference!