[UA] Explain American laws to me

[Kevin Mowery]

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From: "Jason Schneiderman" <jadasc at ma.ultranet.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Explain American laws to me


> >> > Porn stars can even achieve mainstream success in spite
> >> > of (or because of) their pasts.  You'll probably never see a porn
star
> >> > accepting an Oscar, but many have made mainstream films and
television
> >> > appearances.
> >
> >Whoa, whoa, whoa--what porn stars have gone onto mainstream success?
Except
> >for Traci Lords, I can't think of any mainstream movie that has had a
porn
> >actor or actress lately; and she's more notorious for her underage porn
> >acting.
>
> Ron Jeremy, for one. He's been in a number of mainstream movies, but
> more as a living inside joke than anything else.

    Pretty much.  I'm waiting for Toxic Avenger IV to come out not because
he's in it at least briefly (I think he plays the mayor of Tromaville) but
because my ex and a bunch of her friends were extras.  My favorite thing,
though, was when the Daily Show did a profile on him in a segment called
"Your Fellow Americans."  The basic point of the segment was to find unusual
Americans to show that weird people were still just folks.  It was strange
to see him walking down the street of his old neighborhood and everyone from
kids to adults shouting, "Hey!  Ron Jeremy!" while he smiled and waved.

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