Porn Valley- Apparently Evan Stone’s tongue in cheek remarks to me about being shot by a .22 are being taken as gospel. Both director Mark Kismet and Stone want it known, if it wasn’t obvious enough, that Stone was being almost as glib as Matt Lauer. Now watch someone accuse Stone of being a Scientologist. Here’s the dead giveaway in the story that Stone was putting people on about a gun being fired:

“Kismet said he and Stone worked out a thing where Stone wasn’t going to answer the phone then when the time was ripe, make an announcement that he really was shot, that something came out of the gun and hit him.”

The phrase “worked out a thing” might be an indication that there was a goof in play. And Stone ran with it and thus created a tapestry of bullshit.

Here’s the controversial story that was posted earlier today: If nobody else saw the humor, at least director Mark Kismet and Evan Stone are having a jolly good chuckle regarding the story posted on Adultfyi Sunday www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=10532 about how Stone got shot on a Hustler set. In fact, I talked to Stone later in the day Sunday when he was on his way to Playboy and he told me he actually did get shot in some freakish retort from a .22 caliber blank on the set.

Kismet, who I spoke to earlier, thought the whole play on words was great. “That was absolute genius,” he laughed. “I was so impressed.” Impressed to that extent that Kismet’s phone rang off the hook from the time the story got posted in the early AM on Sunday to well into the evening.

It would be fair to note that neither Kismet nor Stone were in on this little play on words which accomplished what it set out to do- gather attention to Kismet’s Hustler project. Kismet also got a hurried call from Tim Connolly at AVN wondering what was going on. Kismet said nothing was going on, other than a shoot involving a gun shot. Asked if this was all one big joke, Kismet said it wasn’t, that it was a situation taken out of context. “You didn’t read it carefully,” said Kismet. “It clearly said on a Hustler set. You have to read it that way.” Kismet was then told that a reporter was going to call him. “So I hung up.”

Then when the phone rang again- obviously the reporter- Kismet and cameraman Barry Wood debated who would pick up. Wood answered and said that Kismet had to run to the set. Wood identified himself and asked if the question pertained to the Stone story. Wood then told the reporter, “All I can tell you is we thought there were blanks in the gun- wait, I didn’t mean to say anything about that.” By this time Kismet and Wood were on the floor. After Kismet and Connolly had another exchange of words, the reporter again called asking if Gene Ross had been on the set. Kismet said, yes, that he took “the bloody picture” but you had to read the story in the way it was worded.

Kismet says his phone was ringing every minute but the fact that his computer went down kind of left him in the dark as far as Internet updates. The majority of the calls Kismet fielded expressed concern for Stone and that it was a horrible thing to happen. Meanwhile, Kismet was loving it. “It was so great.”

Kismet said he also got a call from Mark Cramer that Dustin Flynt wanted to know what was going on. [Flynt was on the set Saturday.] Cramer and Kismet came to the conclusion that this was one of the best publicity stunts ever. I tell Kismet he gave me the idea when he started talking about the Who Shot J.R. episode on Dallas. Kismet said as far as he was concerned, he’ll drive Stone off a cliff next time if it gets this kind of rise.

Kismet said he and Stone worked out a thing where Stone wasn’t going to answer the phone then when the time was ripe, make an announcement that he really was shot, that something came out of the gun and hit him. Which is the story Stone told me. Kismet told Stone say what you will that he wasn’t going to get involved in those details.

Stone, likewise, thought the whole deal was brilliant. “Are you ready for the whole story now?” he asks me. Stone was wondering how I knew that he literally got shot. [I had since left the set and based the headlines on the script’s gimmick.]

Styone however

“The only people that knew I was actually shot was the guy who shot me, Barry and myself,” says Stone. “What happened was we had a .22. We had a fake round. We shot the first round. Everything was fine. We did it a second time. Everything was fine. The third time I felt something hit me in the back. I thought I was shot. I fell to the ground and Barry goes cut. I go, dude, I’m shot. He says that’s not funny. I go, no, I’m not kidding. He says you want me to call an ambulance? I go, no. Do you see any blood? No. Reach your hand underneath me- and see if you feel any blood. He goes, alright. You feel anything down there? No. I said, alright. Help me up. The back of my back was bruised, right? Something hit me. Whether it was from the .22 or a piece of a tree, something hit me. The three of us sat there and discussed it- Barry, myself and the shooter. We decided we weren’t going to tell anybody about this little incident because we didn’t want people to know how reckless we were being and stuff. So actually I did get shot. And it was something we weren’t supposed to be doing anyway.”