Porn Valley- I spoke to Nick Manning on an overcast Saturday morning during Taylor Rain’s shoot In the Pink for Defiance/Torrid. Nick didn’t lose his head during a recent attempt to jack his car as the photo might indicate. But Nick did sustain injuries to a certain extent. He received six stitches to the right side of his handsome face.

Meanwhile, I ask Taylor, who baked some banana bread the night before and brought it to the set, what happened to her buddy Mark Kramer on Friday. Taylor says she got a call from Kramer telling her that he had quit Hustler but that there would be stories about him being fired. Kramer apparently said he was reserving comment for the time being but Rain suspects Kramer might have been forced out of Hustler.

Rain is also being forced out of her pants. She mentions that she’s on her period again, and you can see the top of a pad showing over the lips of her jeans. Rain laughs about being in full force on the rag and not into spreading her legs if she can help it.

It might be Manning who’s asking where the shitter is. There’s a mention of live chickens being in one of the bathrooms. Manning’s going wha?

This was only the beginning of a very colorful day. Brooke arrived on the set, and when informed she was going to work with Sascha, Brooke’s nose turned as though the Bratwurst had gone bad at Octoberfest. She said she didn’t want to work with Sascha based on their last time together. Brooke didn’t go into specifics, but this didn’t give Rain many options.

She started calling around for other male performers but Brooke turned thumbs-down on those selections presented, as well. Rain figured it was easier to retain Sascha then make an attempt at running a dating service. And so it was Brooke who was sent to the Bratwurst factory. L.A. Direct is going to send Nadia Hilton over as a replacement although someone first mentions Randi Wright. Nick Manning says Wright has a tattoo of two black cherries. “They look like cabbages,” he laughs.

Meanwhile, Taylor Rain’s thinking she could get at least four grand if she auctions her banana bread on eBay. Someone is heard to critique, “Well, I think it tastes like banana bread.” There are many opinions being offered on the banana bread. Manning is wondering what the verdict is on the banana bread.

“It’s dry and tasteless,” quips Jason Silver who’s turned BTS duties over to Bobbi Blair. This is the first time Blair has assumed this type of duty, so she’s nervous, especially about doing the interview-part. I wonder if Blair makes banana bread.

Back recently from the Czech Republic, Silver’s now on the phone making love connections because Brooke’s unwillingness to work with Sascha has turned the morning into a game of dominoes. But it only gets better. Kelly Taylor, formerly Cailley Taylor, who Silver first mistakes for Hilton because Taylor’s wearing sunglasses, doesn’t even want to be in the same room let alone the same house with Madeline Marks. Kelly Taylor, though, puts it politely: “Can you get me out of here before she gets here? We don’t get along.”

I’m asking Rain what all that drama is about. Rain tells me Marks busted Kelly Taylor’s nose. If that’s the case, Marks probably did Kelly Taylor a favor because Taylor did have a honker. Silver, still thinking he’s talking to Nadia Hilton, tells Kelly Taylor that she’s working with Sascha. It’s when Taylor asks what happened to her scene with John West, that Silver realizes he’s been addressing the wrong girl, and Kelly Taylor starts busting his balls. Silver, who makes a return sharp comment or two about Taylor and lumberjacks, says the thing he most appreciates about the Middle East is the fact that they stone women.

Photog Todd Todd asks Silver what’s the difference between Iraqi women and the Lakers. Silver’s waiting for the punch line.

“The Lakers shower after the fourth period,” says Todd who spots a package of Brawny paper towels- with the picture of a lumberjack. Silver’s on the floor with the timing of this, and Kelly Taylor, who’s dated a lumberjack or two along with the requisite temporary restraining orders, is glaring.

“I’m Kelly Taylor- get away from me!” she tells Silver with a wave of a snapping finger.

Manning, in the next room, is saying he doesn’t know how many times he’s told the story about the attempted car jacking in Sherman Oaks. But what Manning is still bristling over is the fact that he got attacked by a 99-cent Bic pen and the cops wanted to arrest HIM.

Manning explains that he was on his way to appear on a radio show hosted by the Coors Light Twins and was on the cell phone with DVSX when the attacker approached him. “The guy comes at me,” says Manning who’s car window was apparently down. “I go, dude, you stabbed me. And he goes, ‘I’m going to do it again.’ ” Manning uses the momentum of opening his car door to knock the guy backwards and proceeds to Tai kick him in the chest.

Manning, who’s wearing square toed boots, apparently busted a couple of the guy’s ribs and proceeded to punch him in the face. “I was wearing my rings,” says Manning who’s instantly surrounded by cops. Loads of cops with guns drawn. Nick says the cops are ready to put him away but the situation gets squared and Manning’s attacker is nailed for assault and battery but not for attempted car jacking. Manning says he’s always getting railed by cops for no reason.

“My average for going out and getting handcuffed must be 10% of the time,” Manning observes. Manning’s working with Sativa Rose and Saana. Rain wants this shot on the tennis court with Saana and Rose acting “dumb and stupid”. If she means attempting to hit a tennis ball, then Rain got exactly what she was looking for because contact with Mars is a better possibility. The sun’s also breaking through the marine layer.

Enough says Rain who wants to get the delayed show on the road. Of course, it’s noted that Rain’s also wearing her watch three hours ahead, set to east coast time. Rain tells Manning, who’s going to play a Russian tennis coach with a bad accent, to finish smoking his bowl and join the ensemble. To which Scott Fayner volunteers the fact that he hasn’t done coke for at least a week. Fayner’s wearing a pair of pants that resemble the colors of a circus tent, and Todd says only Fayner could get away with fashion statements like this.

Rain’s telling a story about her trip to New York earlier this year to be on the Howard Stern show. It’s a story that takes many turns and side streets but the point of it, says Rain, who wound up talking to orchids in the hotel where she was staying, is that everything is wonderful on acid, that she discovered this when she first did it at the age of 15. Cameraman Jake Tanner has to agree with her about acid and someone’s talking about truth and about getting off on a certain Led Zeppelin album cover.

Tanner’s father is Jerome Tanner. I mention to Tanner that I know his father from the Western Visuals days. Tanner’s familiar with Elliot Segal and has heard all the stories, he says. Tanner thinks Segal may be in Miami selling real estate, the point being if that Segal had been connected like he often bragged, he would be residing in the trunk of a car, not Miami.

Tanner’s also saying how much he enjoys working on Rain’s shoot. “It’s nice to be on a set where you’re not being yelled at.” Which is something that must have happened to Sascha who tells me that he no longer brings Black Berry coolers to the set, that some director apparently made a big stink about it- something about insurance and model releases.

Sascha’s working with Nadia Hilton, and Hilton’s saying how she doesn’t have to work, that she’s got a sugar daddy paying her bills. Which has got Jason Silver trying to put clues together to determine who the guy is.

Now it’s learned that Madeline Marks isn’t going to show- Marks apparently getting wind that Kelly Taylor’s on the set. Silver’s back on the phone. Rain says see if Brooke might come back. Then someone mentions Flower Tucci. “Too old,” Silver replies.

“Thank God I don’t have to drink to make a good scene,” Sascha’s commenting about the Black Cherry coolers. But Hilton’s griping that Sascha was directing her during their scene, and Sascha explains, afterwards, that Hilton was playing away from the camera. “She kept telling me she’s done 40 scenes,” says Sascha, Hilton apparently making some kind of point about her vast experience in front of a camera.

Neither did Hilton like working on this particular couch, she says. “It’s pretty, though.” I mention to Taylor Rain that this is, like, a house of a 1,000 throw pillows, and Rain tells me the other night they took every one of them, tossed them into one room and dove on them.

Someone asks Taylor about the time a flashlight dove in her ass. Rain says she was shooting for Anabolic when she wedged a flashlight in there good and proper. Blew her ass out for something like two weeks. Asked if she had to wear a diaper, Rain said, pretty much.

Another time she did a double anal for Wanker Wang and worked with Jay Ashley and Jon Strong. Rain said she got $2,000 for doing that scene. Afterwards she’s working for Skeeter where she’s going to do a d.p. with Brandon Iron and Ben English who apparently was her agent at the time. According to Rain, Skeeter’s under the impression that she’s doing a double anal or is at least steering the conversation in that direction. Rain, looking at the size of both Iron and English tells Skeeter that she wants $2500.

“That’s worth at least $500 extra,” she reasons. “But then Ben English who’s supposed to be my agent says you did your last one for $2,000.” Feeling like she got betrayed or something, Rain says she started crying and walked off the set. Later, I ask Skeeter about the story and he remembers it occurring on Sodomy Law of the Land but not in the exact circumstances that Rain detailed.

“Taylor and I had discussed it on the phone,” Skeeter recalls. “But you don’t have to take my word for it- you can watch the behind the scenes. This is the best evidence. I would have preferred that every scene had been a double anal, but Taylor freaked out at one point and took off crying. She left the set. She said I can’t do this. But then she went right back to doing d.p. and ATM. I hugged Taylor. I said I love you, baby, it’s okay. It doesn’t matter- no double anal. She said I can’t do the double-anal. When you see Ben English’s penis and Brandon Iron’s penis it’s overwhelming. It’s a tall order. But Ben never said anything to me about price. I would have paid her anything she wanted. It didn’t matter. I didn’t give a fuck.” Skeeter admits that he always had a crush on Taylor Rain.

“Nobody could smoke more sexy with their defined dark lip liner and their ultra sexy wet lip gloss which gave her the ultimate cocksucking lips,” says Skeeter. “I would have gladly paid Taylor Rain three grand for a double-A with those boys. If you watch the movie you’ll see how hot and sexy she is as she walks up the stairs of my house smoking her cigarettes, showing what the true anal slut she is with her wet, cocksucking lips. Nobody can smoke sexier than her.”