The Staxxx and Porn & Chicken
Here's an article from last fall about the Yale student group that is supposedly producing a porn film
on campus. . . . In the Yale Herald, Joey Ax profiles
Porn 'n Chicken,
a group of mostly male undergraduates which meets every Sunday night to watch porn and eat fried chicken.
One member explains, "Porn seems to go very well with fried chicken. There's something uniquely sexual about
a piece of chicken. I strongly advise people not to try other foods. Never watch porn with yogurt. It's
impossible to eat." A female attendee says, "I guess I attend P 'n C for the same reasons guys do: naked girls
are hot, sometimes even porn stars are hot, post-porn orgasms are superior, and chicken only gets better with
frying." This article also mentions the project that would soon make Porn 'n Chicken internationally famous:
"P 'n C is planning to shoot its own porno flick in the spring. Advertisements for auditions should be posted
around campus within a week. The movie will be called The Staxxx, and will be shot in the Sterling
Library stacks."
Yale Herald (Oct 2000)
In the Yale Daily News, Eli Muller reports on the mysterious student porno film project, entitled Staxxx. The film will allegedly be produced this semester by members of a private undergraduate group called "Porn 'N Chicken" which meets periodically to watch porn videos while downing fried chicken and beer.
Yale Daily News (Jan 2001)
More on The StaXXX and Porn 'N Chicken:
- Aaron Flicker, "At the President's Alma Mater" (The (Ohio University) Post, 1/31/01)
- Ben Figa, "Yale Student Group Produces Porn Film" (Daily Northwestern, 2/13/01)
- Molly Gulland, "Lights, camera, action: Desiring to explore new things, Yale students to film porn flick" (Daily Princetonian, 2/16/01)
- Tristan Taormino, "Porn, Chicken, and Boy Toys" (Village Voice, 2/19/01)
Eli Muller watches the campus media frenzy over Staxxx, as reporters and camera crews converge on Yale and immediately start asking, "Where's the porn?"
Yale Daily News (Feb 2001)
Rob Walker looks into the media fuss over The StaXXX and compares it to "The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal" of a few years ago, noting the "surprisingly widespread Ivy League fetish" sparking so much fascination and titillation in both cases.
Nerve (Feb 2001)
David Abel finds the Yale campus and international media "abuzz" over the rumored undergraduate porn film project called Staxxx. "If it was meant as little more than a prank to agitate the campus's conservative culture, as some believe, the idea of a Yale-produced porno film has proved so arousing it has taken on a life of its own."
Boston Globe (via Counterpunch) (Feb 2001)
Tinker Spitz visits Yale and investigates the rumored student porn film Staxxx, which many on campus consider an elaborate and wildly successful hoax. "There is speculation that the culprits are the Pundits, a semi-secret student society known for perpetrating pranks and throwing the occasional naked party. A Yale alumnus and former Pundit told The Observer via e-mail prior to the Times story on Jan. 26 that the forces behind the Porn 'N' Chicken movie are 'in fact the Pundits.'" But others doubt the Pundits had anything to do with it, and Porn 'N' Chicken does appear to be a real group.
New York Observer
Premiere posts excerpts from Amy Sohn's feature story, "Lust and Veritas," about the Yale student porno film Staxxx. The filmmakers "plan to wrap postproduction by April and screen the film during an alumni weekend that celebrates the university’s tercentennial, on April 19-21, to which President George W. Bush (class of ’68) has been invited and which former president George Bush (class of ’48) is expected to attend. They say they have already begun planning a sequel, called Dubya: 'a quasi-fictionalized chronicle of [young] George’s collegiate sexual exploits.'" Though many consider Staxxx a hoax, Sohn seems convinced of the project's authenticity after meeting with four student producers.
Premiere (Apr 2001)
The media frenzy over The StaXXX, a rumored Yale undergraduate porno film project, left many people thinking it was an elaborate hoax. However, the secretive student group "Porn 'n Chicken" unveiled a trailer for The StaXXX last Saturday before a campus preview screening of the new Merchant/Ivory production The Golden Bowl. This article describes the trailer in detail. Porn 'n Chicken have also hosted events with porn star Sydnee Steele and writer Tristan Taormino this semester.
Yale Daily News (Apr 2001)
From Yale, Randall Beach reports on the surprise screening of the trailer for The StaXXX and gives a first-hand account of Porn 'n Chicken's master's tea with Tristan Taormino (described here as "a sex book author and porn actress") earlier this month.
New Haven Register (Apr 2001)
Joel Stein wheedled an invitation to Porn 'n Chicken's initiation ceremony, just days after Ron Rosenbaum's notorious clandestine videotaping of the Skull & Bones ceremony. "Though P n' C refused all press, I negotiated access by offering to bring a porn star with me. It was a tactic I vaguely recalled seeing in All the President's Men."
Time (May 2001)
THE COMEDY CENTRAL MOVIE
The four Yale undergraduates who set out to produce a hardcore film entitled The StaXXX on campus last spring have sold the film rights to their own stories. The project has the working title Porn 'N' Chicken and is being produced by Comedy Central and Robert De Niro's Tribeca Prods. The script is being written by A. D. Miles, who made some of the shorts on Comedy Central's brilliant TV Funhouse.
Yahoo (Oct 2001)
Last spring, four Yale students generated a flurry of publicity about their extracurricular porn-watching club Porn n’ Chicken and their hardcore porn flick entitled The StaXXX being filmed clandestinely on campus with a student cast. The porn-watching was real, while the porn-making was an enormously successful hoax. Full coverage here. Comedy Central bought the rights to the four students' story, and production began this month on a movie called Porn n’ Chicken starring "a stable of young, on-the-rise actors as well as two authentic porn stars, Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson." A Comedy Central exec calls the film "a coming-of-age film about college kids who were just about to graduate, did a prank and got in over their heads." (Jun 2002)
