Tucker Max
Tucker Max | |
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| Born | November, 1975 Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Occupation | Writer,Blogger |
Tucker Tibor Max (born November 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American fratire writer known for chronicling his hedonistic lifestyle and drunken escapades on Tuckermax.com and its heavily-moderated forum. He is writing a sitcom pilot script for Comedy Central and now heads Rudius Media.[1] Max received a bachelor's degree from University of Chicago and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law. [2] At Duke, he posted an online "date application" that he transferred to Tuckermax.com, leading to a June 2003 appearance in "Sex2K", an episode of MTV's True Life[3]. Later that year, a judge ordered Max to remove from his site a story[4] about an ex-girlfriend who filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit,[5] but the case eventually was dismissed after legal fights including the ACLU stepping in on his behalf for First Amendment rights violation.[6] Max has repeatedly been challenged on the truthfulness of his stories. In 2006, radio hosts Opie and Anthony interviewed Max, and asked him to show a police report for a window he allegedly ran into with a car, as well as a video tape from a sexual encounter. When Max could not produce either, Opie and Anthony ripped up his book, threw it at him, and then compared him to James Frey.[7] At the March 2007 SXSW conference, Max said he used numerous e-mail addresses to spam other websites with links to his material in order to increase book sales.[8]
Bibliography
- Assholes Finish First (2007) ISBN 1-4169-3874-5
- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (2006) ISBN 0-8065-2728-5
- Belligerence and Debauchery: The Tucker Max Stories (2003) ISBN 1-4116-0062-2 Out of print.
- The Definitive Book of Pick-Up Lines (2001) ISBN 0-595-17671-2 Out of print.
References
- ^ Variety.com
- ^ TuckerMax.com: Personal Info
- ^ Tucker Max Blog: The MTV Story
- ^ "Someone Talked" Annoy.com account of Johnson's lawsuit vs. Max
- ^ New York Times - Internet Battle Raises Questions About Privacy and the First Amendment
- ^ TuckerMax.com: ACLU amicus curiae
- ^ Microphones are Afraid of Tucker Max, video he doesnt...... from YouTube.com
- ^ Tucker the f**ker claims blogger book deals are 'easy' from theregister.co.uk
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