One Hollywood night after a party, Ron, Melissa Hill and I went out to get something to eat at Jerry's Deli in West Hollywood, on Melrose by Cedars-Sinai Hospital.

Everybody knew who he was, and the crowd parted so he could pass. We walked straight in, and the manager gave us the first available table. The manager came by later to make sure everything was okay and then picked up the check — literally, he picked it up and put it in his pocket — asking us to be sure to take care of our waitress.

During that evening, a teenage girl walked up to our table, sat down, and turned to Ron and said "My friends said I should talk to you. Why?"

Ron smiled and said, "It's because I'm a nice guy, and I have a really big penis. I'm a porn star, and your friends are trying to embarrass you. This is Melissa, she's a porn star too. What's your name?"

Ron was matter-of-fact, but warm and friendly. Your friends are trying to embarrass you, but let's not give them the satisfaction. We chatted for several minutes before one of the friends came to get her. Ron smiled at the friend and said, "Hi. What's your name?" but the friend giggled and ran off.

There's an interview with Ron on Time.com. It reviews Jeremy's adult career from his initial still photograph in Playgirl magazine through his extensive adult-film career, mainstream parts and current book, "The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz," which just came out in trade paperback.

In the interview, he describes the atmosphere of making porn films in the '70s.

"In the '70s, it was a hippie-dippie-sexual-revolution-Woodstock kind of gig. Flower children in many ways. Pot smokers, though once in a while you would see cocaine or a pill. Most of them had been to college. Some have come from broken homes, some from abusive homes.

"What I tell kids when I lecture in colleges is that porn is largely a microcosm of Hollywood itself. There were kids who wanted to do something goofy and crazy. Some were actors who wanted to go for an acting career, like me, and settled for this because acting was just a murderously difficult thing to get into. It's thousands of people chasing so few jobs, with everyone driving a taxi, working as a waiter."

He also speaks of the particular problems of being an over-50 porn performer.

"As you get older, as you get into your 50s, it is more effort to get into liftoff. I'm 55, and it's a bit of a strain, but it's not to the point where it's a chore because then I just wouldn't do it. I don't have to do porn any more for economic reasons. However, I like to stay current. I don't want to be an ex-porn star."

The complete interview can be read at the Time.com website