Just watched a documentary about the world famous disgraced former porn star and now senile sex offender Ron Jeremy, who appears to have been something of a strange figure - someone who found himself inexplicably on top of the world but whose deep and fundamental character flaws inevitably brought him low
It seems that every now and then, as with reality tv, an adult actor (love this name for the most childish film genre in existence - except Marvel superhero films obviously) transcends the genre and becomes known by name outside of the small group of dedicated onanists who actually care about that sort of thing. With reality TV there has been Harry Styles and that guy from The Apprentice (Alan Sugar), whereas with porn there is Linda Lovelace who starred in the most profitable film of all time Deep Throat, John Holmes whose habit of carrying around at all times his kit for making crack led him down some dark paths to almost certain involvement in the famously grisly "four on the floor" murders on Wonderland Avenue and whose life inspired Boogie Nights, and, more recently of course the genius polymath writer, musician and cocksucker Sasha Grey...
But from the early 80s until almost now it seems Jeremy achieved a level of fame that was unprecedented. I think I'm just a little too young to have experienced the phenomenon - I honestly don't think I've seen him in anything - but apparently the fact of his having nailed literally thousands of women on camera despite being short, fat and ugly, made him something of an everyman hero to a generation of American males who put him in films, on chat shows, music videos, video games, reality shows and so on... fame he capitalised on wth merchandise and so on, making him wealthy.
He loved to party and used his fame, wealth and popularity to gain entry to exclusive and glamorous parties where, insulated by his power, he would behave boorishly with any women he met, signing tits, groping anyone in range, knobbing the surprising number of women who were up for it and - according to the rumours of sexual assault that were beginning to circulate - quite a few who weren't, he was crass enough to brag about how when you are a star you can act as you wish.
And as he grew older and fatter, stopped
cutting his nails, taking showers or even wiping his arse, his appeal seemed to diminish somewhat, even his trademark red baseball cap failed to draw in the women.
His sexual assaults changed from grabbing women by the pussy, fingering them at parties and laughing off complaints, to an even more sinister pattern of getting women alone and overpowering them.
It's not clear when his mental illness kicked in, and I'm not a medical expert, but to my untrained eye his total abandoning of bodily hygiene plus the fact he hoarded so much shite there was no room to live in his house and he had to move into a hotel across the road looked a little like warning signs.
There are also some excruciating videos of him compering events where he would totally lose the thread of what he'd been saying and deliver attempted jokes with a bizarre lack of timing. He definitely wasn't advising anyone to drink bleach though and I've been unable to ascertain whether or not he thought windmills caused cancer. Let's be honest though you'd have to be pretty far gone to think that so safest to assume not at this stage.
Finally it seemed his crimes caught up with him and he faced several trials for rape with a number of credible witnesses coming forward, however he was ruled unfit to stand trial, with the result that as far as I can work out he's presently in some kind of indefinite enforced stay in a hospital for the mentally ill.
The weird thing is the continuing popularity with a certain kind of person of this overweight, lying sex pest in serious and obvious mental decline - his supporters simply refuse to accept the overwhelming evidence against him and at times it feels that there is nothing he could do which would turn the worst kind of American against him.
I find this quite worrying. It seems that there is a certain kind and level of popularity that it is possible for a fat, lying, rapist, drug addict who shits his pants to attain that is simply indestructible - it sounds ridiculous, but what if such a person was to move into a sphere where he could cause real harm? Suppose such a beast was to stop concentrating on women with names such as Christy Canyon or Stormy Daniels and stand for president? You probably think I'm talking nonsense but I seriously think it could happen... and if it did the potential damage to tye US and the world would be limitless...