Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001)

Director: Scott J. Gill
Starring: Ron Jeremy, William Margold, Al Goldstein, Al Lewis

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Here's a documentary that follows around Ron Jeremy, that legend in the porn industry, and takes a peak at what his real life is like. The answer is pretty neurotic. The first words out of Jeremy's mouth (at after four in the morning a title tells us) are about his low self-worth and how he's afraid to go home to an empty house. Strangely enough, the man who's got a more than hefty endowment and who numbers his sexual partners as in the 4000s (roughly) means it. That's the thread that weaves the documentary together. We watch as Jeremy goes to every party he's invited to--to make sure that no one has forgotten him mostly. We watch him self-promote to his friends so he can show them--and himself--that people like him. His proudest moment in his career is his appearance in mainstream film Killing Zoe...where he literally appears for only a few seconds before he's shot and killed as an extra. The documentary shows Jeremy as an attention-starved kid who's only dream is to make it into mainstream pictures. The documentary shows that Ron Jeremy--legend in the porn industry--is just a normal, anxiety-filled guy who's yet to reach his dreams.

July 8
computer, late evening

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