by Wow, I never thought his heart would be the first thing to go.
After suffering an aneurysm, porn star Ron Jeremy is undergoing surgery today and may not be able to pull this one out.
Since the late 70s, the “Hedgehog” (a nickname he earned long before he started looking like one) has performed in over 2,000 pornos with notable titles such as Dead Bang, Poultrygeist, and Just Shoot Me. Before his gift of self-sucking earned him the number one spot on The Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time, 59-year-old Ronald Hyatt “eek”-ed out a career as a special education teacher in New York. After leaving the education field to make a go as an actor, he wound up in the pages of Playgirl, and the road to superstardom just snowballed.
But it really wasn’t his 9 3/4 inches (or his ability to take care of a good 4 to 5 of those inches himself) that truly made Ron a household name. It was his genius for self-promotion and marketing. In addition to being the hardest (and hardest) working porn actor to date, he also has run for public office, released a rap song, crossed over into many B-movie roles and cameos, been the subject of his own documentary (Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy), was a consultant for Fuck: A Fuckumentary (one of my all-time favorite film titles), wrote his own autobiography, and appeared twice on The Surreal Life, the first time with Tammy Faye Baker, with whom he developed a close friendship.
A mainstream movie he filmed that I just learned about was called One-Eyed Monster, in which alien forces take over his cock and use it to kill innocent humans. To help promote the film, Jeremy’s dick jumped in and started its own blog and Twitter account.
Now that is a classic moment in cinematic history.
Above all that, the guy turned out to be intelligent (something that is always a shock to the public in reference to porn stars, which is an unfair stereotype as many porn stars have above average IQs), soft-spoken, and genuinely likeable. Many conservatives who confronted him on the dangers of porn walked away impressed with his ability to listen and debate.
Jeremy drove himself to the hospital yesterday after suffering severe chest pains. He wound up in the ICU and is currently undergoing surgery. I hope he is there still pumping away.
As my friend Georgia posted on Facebook, we are not yet ready for Jeremy to hit those pearl-y gates.
