Ron's rap single 'Freak Of The Week' stayed 27 weeks in the Billboard Charts. Ron's father Arnold was a physicist, his mother a book editor who served during World War 2, as she spoke German and French fluently. Jeremy got the nickname 'The Hedgehog' during filming of Olympic Fever in 1979. The story goes that Jeremy flew in from New York to shoot the film. However, he dressed in a T-shirt and shorts, expecting warm weather. During his motorcycle ride to the set, located near Lake Arrowhead in the California mountains, the weather became very cold with blizzard conditions, which chilled him to the point of hypothermia. Upon arriving at the set, Jeremy was immediately got a hot shower.
When he finished, his skin had taken on a pink hue from the temperature extremes, and the hairs on his body were standing on end.