Gray Ladies: The New York Times Does De’Bella

Perhaps to make up for its relative lack of porn coverage in 2006, the New York Times treats us to a refreshingly non-judgemental end-of-year profile of 50 year old sensation (and real-life mother of fondly remembered porn favorite Jewel De'Nyle) De'Bella in an article that also examines the phenomenon of older performers (like Ron Jeremy and Vicky Vette) in the adult industry: "(W)hile she is sort of a novelty—appearing on "The Howard Stern Show" to talk about her new career—it is no longer unusual (hey, Hollywood, pay attention) to see women, and men, of a certain age performing in sex movies." Nice to know we have a possible career change to look forward to once we wake up one day and find that we're too old to keep up with this smut blogging business any longer. (Which, considering how long it's taking us to recuperate from our New Year's Eve hangover this week, should be any day now.)

· "The Graying of Naughty" (NY Times - thanks Rico)

See also: "Pornstar's Mom Turned Pornstar" (Xbiz; previously seen here)