Never mind the shit that's developed over Luke Ford's posting a location address on his website. Ford wrote up David Christopher's shoot, Return of the College Sluts, using his impeccable discretion as always. Only Christopher wants to brain Ford for other reasons.
Ford's recent "scoops" about Sin City, particularly items about Christopher's wrestling feature, Nude World Order, has Christopher in the mood to give Ford, the adult industry's sixth most hated man, according to porn fans, an atomic leg drop.
"He's a cocksucking bastard!" exclaimed Christopher who's fuming about the inaccuracies in Ford's Feb. 22 piece on the wrestling feature. Christopher was particularly miffed about the comment that he had "shopped it around," meaning Nude World Order, before it landed on the doorstep of Sin City. And then, and only then, because Christopher was supposed to have been guaranteed awards and an Editor's Choice. Or that there was some kind of Gene Ross influence peddling also involved. None of which was true.
Christopher had the Sin City deal locked up for months before he went into production on it in Dec., 1997. The fact that ex- Sin City employee Lysa Stone was the publicist at the time, narrowed Christopher's list of suspects as to who was the snitch on the Ford piece. Particularly since Ford has been synagoguing Stone for quite some time.
"She's [Stone] a nice Jewish girl. We're both very attached to the Lord," says Ford. When asked directly if Ford's Sin City information is coming from matzoh-talk with Stone, Ford giggled.
Ford: "Hee-Hee. That's so juicy. I wouldn't want to question it. You can see right through me. You caught me with my condom in my hand. But that was fun that Sin City story. Half of it might have been accurate." Ford gives a decidedly different account of the Ross-Ford conversation on his website [February 25], and throws in an item about Josie Snyder of Sin City that's totally fabricated.
Other than the fact that Ford's more than willing to acknowledge the Sin City inaccuracies, Christopher, of course, has more persuasive reasons for suspecting Stone. He believes she has a genuine axe to grind.
"She [Stone] finally got a chance to whack me," said Christopher. "No one else would have known that shit about magnetic wrestlers and that other stuff." Christopher claims Stone had a crush on him for some time but that he rebuffed her and this may have been Stone's hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-woman-scorned-ploy Stone, however, claims that she and Christopher, have since, resolved those issues.
"I don't know what issues there are now," said Stone. "I didn't give him [Luke Ford] any of that stuff. Half of that stuff took a shot at me. I was the one who created that promotion. In fact, I was going to send that story to David. I decided to pass because I didn't want to upset him, and I know it would. He [Christopher] gets upset about the silliest things."
Upset or not, it finally dawned on Christopher that Ford had been on his Return of the College Sluts set without authorization.
Christopher: "I didn't know who he [Ford] was. He kind of snuck on the set. I thought he was with the HBO crew. Of course. It was a Rob Spallone house. Now it figures. If I had known, I would have smacked him [Ford] right there."
Ford then called Gene Ross the next to say his "sweetie" [Lysa Stone] was upset.
Gene: "Josie Snyder?" [Snyder's name was inexplicably dragged into the story by Ford, in a way to suggest that Ross had introduced her into the topic.]
Luke: "Yeah"
Gene: "Obviously you, somehow, imagined some kind of comment I made about Josie Snyder. I'm trying to figure out where the hell that one came from."
Luke: "I didn't say that you said anything about Josie Snyder."
Gene: "It [the Ford story] kind of implies..."
Luke: "Wait, I said Gene hears..."
Gene: "Gene hears...when did I ever say I heard something about Josie Snyder?"
Luke: "Haven't you heard something about Josie Snyder?"
Gene: "I've heard nothing."
Luke: "Really?"
Gene: "Josie Snyder's name wasn't mentioned in our conversation... So tell me why is your sweetie so upset?"
Luke: "I just posted something from her...Lysa Stone's rebuttal."
[In her posting to Ford, Stone can't imagine how going to a synagogue can be equated with sex and suggests the Sin City story about Nude World Order came from "several sources." Stone acknowledges that Ford's journalistic credentials are "questionable" at best. Stone also takes exception to implications that her relationship with Ford is "carnal." Actually, it was Ford who suggested it with the "condom" comment. ]
Gene: "I never said that [the relationship was carnal]. I said I heard you were synagoguing. How can you read something sexual into that? And I said matzoh-talk."
Luke: "I thought you said pillow talk. You've got that funny accent."
Gene: "Look who's talking about funny accents. See what you started."
Luke: "Lysa said you called one of her closest friends..." [Apparently to rat out on her. In truth, the friend ratted out on her.]
Gene: "Not true."
Luke: "I can't believe I've got incorrect information. I'm shocked. I can't believe I've blown up something so petty into a story on my site."
Gene: "That's the first lesson in journalism. You can blow up anything into World War III if you try hard enough."
Ford has recently acquired a laptop computer in an effort to be more mobile.
