At breakfast, word spread like a Southern California brush fire through the encampment that Herschel Savage supposedly had unprotected sex with one of the femmes des joie in the swimming pool Sunday night outside the disco. Kyle Stone was the first with the morning news flash that "one of the actors fucked a working girl without a condom." Later, it was discovered to be Hersch. Mike McCormick confirmed that it was, indeed, the Hersch. From that point, there were irrational utterances voiced by the villagers about frying Hersch at the stake, about burning down Castle Frankensavage, quarantining the Hersch, ostracizing him from the Mexican tribal community or, simply, forcing him to wear triple-strength condoms.
[Savage, in a later posting gives his side of the story. He said both he and the girl produced condoms. Facts, very much in dispute from the rest of the community.]
Vivian Valentine, who's sporting a shiner under her left eye as though Mike Tyson had clocked her in a disco, asks if Hersch's new-found lady love is in the business. "No, she's in another business," one of the other performers tells her quite acidly.
"Want to get laid? It's only $300 away," Tice Bune observed.
At breakfast, Tice Bune and James Avalon got into a discussion about surfing complete with a glossary that would have even baffled surfing cult guitarist Dick Dale to translate. Bune mentions that he was also near to passing out during his second scene, Sunday. Some people start calling this trip, Scott's Mexican Soap Opera.
Jessica Jewel was reported to have found a dead tarantula on her shower head. While that may be true, one thing's for sure, the resort certainly hosted more geckos than the films Wall Street and From Dusk 'Til Dawn combined.
Someone mentions that a vacationer was flown in from Australia on a free vacation for coming up with a porn title, Best Fucking Movie Ever Made. In which case, Rob Black should have got a free pass for doing Nice Fucking Movie.
Probably realizing that I wasn't going to be a cash customer, Linda of the femmes des joie confined her remarks to me to brusque recognitions.
As more vacationers poured in Monday morning and afternoon, the fact that there were a lot of Tonys and Vinnies there told you that New York was well represented. There was also a contingent of well-oiled Nubian gladiators as well as a group that could have passed for MIT graduates. What a mix of folk.
On the occasion of his 36th birthday, we interviewed Kyle Stone. Stone has never done a one-on-one sit down with the magazine. Stone was asked how he became such a good actor.
Stone: "I have no idea to be honest with you. A lot of people have asked me why I didn't pursue acting, I tell them I didn't no I'd like acting until I got in this business."
Stone said porn was something he thought he'd be doing. "When I was growing up I used to watch a lot of it. I thought that would be a great job especially for me because I've been horny since I was five years old. A lot of therapy sessions, but I used to fuck furniture when I was young. Literally. When I was in elementary school I used to fuck desks and things. I was rubbing myself up against things. I was a weird kid."
Stone: "It was a problem. It was never explained to me what I was doing. All I knew was when I did what I was doing it felt good. The early 70's was when this was taking place. Sex was a different situation. My parents didn't feel comfortably explaining it to me. Finally it was one of my teachers. A female teacher. She explained to me that there was a place to do things like that and places where you shouldn't. She really worked with me and gave me a gold star if I would not do it that day."
Stone explains his first, real sex experience. "There was a group of girls in my neighborhood. There was three of them. Me and my brothers used to play spin-the-bottle, and slap, kiss and hug, and all these other little weird games. I had my first sexual experience where these girls played doctor with me one time. They got me undressed and touched me here and there. That was the first I remember. Intercourse-type of stuff was when I was 13. My girlfriend at the time thought I knew what I was doing, and I pretended that I did. She was a virgin and so was I. I don't remember all the details just fumbling my way through it pretending to know. By that time I had developed some control. I guess that was one of the benefits of being a horny little bastard.
"My first couple of girlfriends we practiced the rhythm of where you pull out and shoot. I never got a girl pregnant, knock wood. Control's always something that I had." Stone got in the adult business much by accident.
Stone: "I was calling a girlfriend of mine to have phone sex one night. I dialed the number. I hadn't talked to this girl in quite a long time. This girl answered. I said how's it going baby? I'm doing good. Yabba-da. Yabba-da. Finally she goes, 'Who is this?' This is not a response I would have gotten from Cindy. 'What do you mean who is this?' She said who do you want. Anyway, we talked. It was late at night. She asked me what I was calling for. I said to talk. 'You were going to talk about sex, weren't you,' she said. Anyway, this developed into phone sex. Then she said guess what I do for a living. I said phone sex operator. She said, 'No, I'm a porn star.'
"It turned out to be Natasha [aka Eden]. Nasty Natasha. She's the one that got me into the business, and I did my very first scene [November 22, 1992] with her for Rodney Moore. After we were done with the scene Moore said to me, 'You've done this before.' I said no. He said, 'Yeah, you have.' When I said no he said, 'But when I told you to open up the camera you knew exactly what to do.'
"I said but I've watched porn. I know that if you say open up and my head's in the way, you can't see anything and you've got to be able to see it. That's when Rodney told me you're going to do really well in this business that he's shot guys who were in the business six months and still didn't understand that concept. He said I was way ahead of the game.
"Of course my love of women has kept me going strong. The first couple of years was a part time thing. I was working at a law firm in Century City. And on weekends in addition to the law firm. It was going really good until word spread in the law firm that I was the porn guy. They couldn't handle it there."
[Stone was a file clerk and worked in the records department.]
"The secretaries couldn't handle it. I'd walk down the hall and there'd be a murmur that would follow me. It was almost comical. When they fired me it was off of some BS excuse. They gave me an excuse they had to give me for legal purposes. I said let's just drop the bullshit and that you're firing me because you can't handle what I do in my off hours. They said it had nothing to do with it. I said I was told I was considered a bee in the bonnet of this law firm. I said keep in mind. I didn't advertise what I do. I did not walk around saying, 'Hey, guys, you should check out the Spice Channel or the Playboy Channel.' I never mentioned it. People found out about it. It was their situation. I just did my job. That's where we left it."
Stone said he had been studying law, but after the firing incident, he determined that he did not want to be a lawyer. "They're not very nice people as far as I'm concerned. They have attitudes. I can't deal with that sort of thing. At least the ones I've met."
In an alternate career universe, Stone said he'd opt to be a broadcaster. "I wanted to be on the radio. I've got a face for radio," he jokes. "I studied broadcasting. That was my goal to continue on with my college education and become a deejay and play music and talk to people on the air. Kind of like Howard Sternish. Then I wound up here, and found out I enjoy the acting as much as the sex."
G. Ross: "If memory serves correct you did a lot of your early stuff with Mitch Spinelli."
Stone: "Yes, Mitch was really great to me. He gave me a shot. He liked what I did. He gave me characters to do. I had fun with them. Yeah, he was very instrumental in me getting the breaks that I got. Ron Sullivan was one of the first directors to give me a feature-type role. That was way, way back. That's when I discovered I could act."
Stone's very philosophical about his career. "I don't plan my life," he says. "I never have. I've never worried about it. I don't worry about money. I don't really worry about many things. I have a feeling that my life is going to go in the right direction on its own. When I was younger I had a feeling that this would be a job for me but I never pursued it. I figured if it was meant to be it would come to me. And it did. The rest of it will come to me just as well."
Not to jinx himself, but Stone figures somehow, someway, he's going to wind up doing mainstream acting. "A character actor," he says. The closest thing Stone has come to that is a role in Reefer Madness 2001 which he shot about four or five months ago. "They're doing it, and they gave me a part in that," he says. "They're blowing it up for the big screen, and the director called me to say, 'Listen, I've spent all day looking at your mug. I'm going to make you a mainstream actor. I'm going to make you a star in Hollywood.' I laughed."
Stone confesses that he doesn't have much of a social life outside of the business. "Niteclubs aren't my thing. I go home. I jump in front of the TV and watch sports." [Stone keeps four TV's going on at a time.]
"If not that, I'm playing video games," he says. "I'm a vidiot."
Stone says the XXX-treme vacation was his first. He spent last year celebrating his birthday at Lake Mead. "I had a good time last year but a bigger thrill this year. This is really great. I'm getting sensory overload. There's so many beautiful women running around."
