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Time's 'New Faces of Porn' Spotlights Ron...

STV — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:20:00 EDT

Time's 'New Faces of Porn' Spotlights Ron Jeremy: It only took 30 years, but the buttoned-down gang at Time Magazine finally deigned to recognize the world's most famous male porn star on the occasion of his new book The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz. We think our mothers brainstormed to jointly conduct the interview — "How did you get your start in the porn industry?" "What was your path to the porn industry?" "Were your friends shocked that you were doing this?" — but the high-up, uncensored namechecking of San Fernando Jones and the Temple of Poon seems to have turned a symbolic page from staid newsweekly to prime wanking material. We'll never be bored in the doctor's waiting room again. [TIME]

Jenna Jameson Steps Over Naked Bodies Littering The Porn-Star Crossover Trail

STV — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:41:29 EDT

Jenna Jameson's mainstream star turn in this week's Zombie Strippers seemed bemusing enough to us a while back — right around the time, probably, that dirty-minded Premiere critic Glenn Kenny undertook his massive new survey of porn-star crossover attempts. We knew a little about the wide trajectories of most performers cited here, including Marilyn Chambers, Traci Lords and obviously Jameson herself. We didn't know, however, the degree to which more worldly veterans like Ron Jeremy were slumming when they first broke into smut:

Ironically, in the era of porno chic that began with 1972's Deep Throat, porn films were stocked with trained performers who weren't getting enough "legit" work. Mike Horner was an operatic tenor. Future director (he's the man behind the camera for Debbie Does Dallas... Again) Paul Thomas was in a touring company of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Ron Jeremy, not yet round enough to be called "The Hedgehog," proudly received his SAG card after doing extra work in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (he didn't make the final cut). It was not unusual, on a New York City porn set, to see most of the performers doing the New York Times crossword puzzle on their lunch breaks.

Alas, Kenny writes, the industry moved to California, talent (or, rather, multi-talent) waned, and that was the end of that. But we do recognize the cycle coming around again with Judd Apatow's porn-star casting obsession (which Kenny elucidates as well) and the trenchant social and political metaphors surely threading Zombie Strippers. A Law & Order episode can't be far behind, with the SAG-carded Hedgehog as the prime suspect in a porn-shoot murder featuring graphic evidence of a nubile up-and-comer mysteriously fucked to death. Tear down the walls, Hollywood.

From Porn To Mainstream: Can Jenna Pull It Off? [Premiere]

Ron Jeremy, Quote Whore

Doree Shafrir — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:00:09 EST

In an otherwise ho-hum story about Dancing With the Stars in today's NYT, nestled amidst the quotes from senior citizens and people who run DWTS message boards, are some choice words from none other than the Hedgehog himself. Who knew Ron Jeremy was so into clothed television?

"They have such poise and determination and motivation; it's a welcome addition to the kind of thing you see on television that they call reality but that really isn't."

The deep thoughts only get deeper from there.

"Can you imagine being in the pitch meeting," he added, "when someone came in and said they wanted to do a show about ballroom dancing?"

Funny, we thought the same thing about the Surreal Life.