Ron Jeremy Signing
Anchorage, AK
01-30-09, 06:00pm
Castle Megastore and Metro Interactive Proudly Present Adult Fim Legend RON JEREMY.

As the porn industry's most prolific male performer, Ron "Hedgehog" Jeremy is a certified American pop culture icon. With over 2,400 plus credits to his name with countless XXX videos throughout the 1980's and 1990's — as well as appearing in documentaries and in cameo roles in legit films. In doing so, Jeremy effectively elevated himself into a small cottage industry.

Born Ronald Jeremy Hyatt on March 12, 1953, in Flushing, NY, the future sex icon graduated from Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in 1971, alongside classmate and future C.I.A. director, George Tenet. The son of a respected physicist and a former spy for the O.S.S. (forerunner of today's Central Intelligence Agency), Jeremy grew up surrounded by intellectuals and scholarly liberals. Jeremy decided on an acting career in his early 20's. After earning a fine arts degree from Queens College in 1975, Jeremy took to the stage and became heavily involved with community theatre and summer stock.

In the early 1970's, Ron decided to go back to school mid-decade to receive more practical training, enrolling at Queens College where he earned a Master's degree in special education. After graduation, Jeremy embarked on a new career as a teacher for special needs students. While Jeremy found the work fulfilling (and in fact, received numerous commendations in his first year as a teacher), his new career was short-lived. Still a performer at heart, Jeremy found that he could not resist the lure of the acting bug.

Jeremy's foray into the world of smut occurred around 1977, during the so-called "Golden Age of Porn." Marked by comparatively high production values and fairly decent scripts, many of these early productions cast actors based on their abilities to act, in addition to their abilities to have sex on cue. It was here that Jeremy's classical training set him apart from his competition. For the next six years, he enjoyed a steady career in hard-core pornography.

Jeremy was at the peak of his porno success when he got his first taste of mainstream recognition, being hired as a "Special Consultant" for the 1985 film, "9½ Weeks," starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger (an advisory role he would later fill again for other porn-themed dramas including "52 Pick-Up" (1986) and "Boogie Nights" (1997)). One of the steamiest films of its time, "9½ Weeks" upped the ante set by such predecessors as "Body Heat" (1981) and "Last Tango In Paris" (1973); thereby re-opening the door for later mainstream erotic thrillers like "Basic Instinct" (1991).

From the mid-1990s into the next decade, Jeremy continued to scrounge legit work everywhere and anywhere he could find it. Almost invariably, these jobs took the form of "blink-and-you'll-miss-'em'" cameos in such upscale projects as "Detroit Rock City" (1999), "Ronin" (1998) and "The Boondock Saints" (1999), but he also appeared in music videos (usually playing himself) for such acts as Sublime, Kid Rock, and Moby. In 1996, Jeremy recorded a rap song with DJ Polo entitled "Freak of the Week" which reached #22 on Billboard magazine's Hot Rap Tracks chart. In 2001, Jeremy was the subject of a successful documentary, entitled "Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy."

In 2003, Jeremy's professional prayers were answered when he was tapped as a cast member for the second season of VH-1's "The Surreal Life", where he roomed with such one-time illuminati as former "Chips" hunk Eric Estrada and 80's rap sensation, Vanilla Ice. Maintaining a disciplined balance between his mainstream and his hardcore celebrity status.