Tucker Max
Tucker Tibor Max (b. 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and the creator of www.tuckermax.com, which features explicit stories about his drinking and sexual encounters, a heavily-moderated messageboard and a "hook-up application" derived from the date application that was the genesis of his site. Max lives in the Flatiron District of Manhattan in New York, New York. Max runs Rudius Media, an Internet publishing company. [1]
Max grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Law, Letters and Society from University of Chicago. He graduated with a J.D. from Duke University School of Law. [2] While at Duke, he posted a "date application" online and later transferred it to Tuckermax.com. In June 2003, Max appeared in "Sex2K", an episode of MTV's True Life.[3]
Max penned The Definitive Book of Pick-Up Lines (2001) and Belligerence and Debauchery: The Tucker Max Stories (2003) and self-published them. In January 2006, Citadel Press released Max's paperback, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell[4] and it earned a place on the New York Times Bestseller supplemental list. Publishers Weekly announced in September 2006 that Simon Spotlight plans to publish a followup, Assholes Finish First, in January 2008.
In December of 2006 Max announced on his web site that he had signed a deal with Comedy Central. In the announcement he stated that Comedy Central has bought a pilot script from him for a television program about his life. The program would be a mixture of the stories he shares on his website and the day-to-day activities of he and his friends. (Although this is considered this a promising step forward, the show is by no means guaranteed to make it to production.) Max has stated that there will likely be no new stories posted to his website for at least the next "2 to 6 months" as a result of his work on the show.[5][6]
In the courtroom
In May 2003, Max's ex-girlfriend Katy Johnson, who had won pageants to become Miss Vermont 1999 and Miss Vermont USA 2001, sued him for posting the sordid details of their relationship on his website,[7] claiming it was an invasion of her privacy. As a result, Palm Beach, Fifteenth Circuit Judge Diana Lewis, issued a ruling ordering Max to immediately remove the story from his site.[8] Subsequently, after substantial legal wrangling that included an amicus curiae brief by the American Civil Liberties Union,[9] the case was dismissed.
In March 2006, Max was sued by Anthony DiMeo for libel after messageboard threads attacked a New Year's Eve 2005 party.[10] The court dismissed DiMeo's case.[11]
In the mass media
Max was pictured with Maddox in "Dude, Here's My Book", a 2006 New York Times Sunday Style article by Warren St. John spotlighting the growing genre of "fratire". [12] Also in 2006, Max, Maddox and DrunkasaurusRex premiered a two-hour test show on Sirius Satellite Radio's Maxim Radio station in which they told stories, took questions from listeners and discussed women, sex, alcohol and pop culture. [13]Later that summer he appeared on the Opie and Anthony radio show where the hosts cast doubt on the truthfulness of his stories and led him to believe his headphones had broken. While Max's headphones were off, the audience was told Max was lying and later he was compared to James Frey.[14].
Bibliography
- Assholes Finish First (2008) ISBN 1-4169-3874-5
- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (2006) ISBN 0-8065-2728-5[4]
- Belligerence and Debauchery: The Tucker Max Stories (2003) ISBN 1-4116-0062-2
- The Definitive Book of Pick-Up Lines (2001) ISBN 0-595-17671-2
References
- ^ Rudius Media - "Main Page"
- ^ TuckerMax.com: Personal Info
- ^ Tucker Max Blog: The MTV Story
- ^ a b I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
- ^ Tucker Max Blog: Tucker Signs a Deal With Comedy Central
- ^ Variety.com
- ^ Tucker Max Blog: The Almost Banned Miss Vermont Story
- ^ New York Times - Internet Battle Raises Questions About Privacy and the First Amendment
- ^ TuckerMax.com: ACLU amicus curiae
- ^ Metro Philadelphia - DiMeo sues Web site owner: PR executive says message board comments are defamatory
- ^ Anthony DiMeo, III v. Tucker Max
- ^ "Dude, Here's My Book", by Warren St. John, New York Times, April 16, 2006. Reprinted as "Manly reading for literate dudes", International Herald Tribune, April 20, 2006.
- ^ Tucker Max Blog: Tucker Maddox and DrunkasaurusRex to be on Sirius Radio Tuesday May 9th
- ^ Microphones are Afraid of Tucker Max, video he doesnt...... from YouTube.com