Porn Valley – Devoid of the untoward piling on of Kurt Lockwood on the Internet, Jennifer James wanted to give me an account of what went on last week between Lockwood and porn journalist Gram Ponante.

James was directing a movie titled eXXtra, eXXra, for the new company Egoist Entertainment when Lockwood approached Ponante outside the studio where it was being shot in downtown LA and wanted to know what Ponante had supposedly written about him.

James was apologetic that I missed the confrontation; but then I would have mised the slugfest between Jeff Krull and Mike Barbella I told her.

“It was a week of fist fights during a lunar eclipse.” James said she was also thinking the same thing about how people were going nutso.

But James says the Ponante-Lockwood confrontation was more words than anything else.

“I had gone out to speak to Kurt because there was a misunderstanding about parking,” James goes on to say. “There was also a misunderstanding about bringing his dog. I went out there to speak to him to get it all resolved. We went with the producer and building manager to get it all squared away. As far as I knew everything was fine, everybody was happy-happy.

“I had invited Gram to the set,” James explains. “I had invited Luke [Ford] to the set, you and a number of other people, not actually knowing who was going to show up. Honestly, nobody told me that there was anything between Kurt and Gram. If there was anything serious,I thought somebody would have mentioned it to me.”

From what I read, I was under the impression that Ponante hadn’t written anything to raise those kinds of hackles.

“I’ve had plenty of bad stuff written about me and I can assure you I could understand his emotions if Kurt thought something bad had been written about him,” says James. “I have been the brunt of that and you get pretty angry. Kurt was shouting and shoving. That’s about as far as it went. Nobody threw any punches. But it was some good solid shoving.”

“This happened on the street,” James continues. “Kurt was parked on the street in front of the location and he was sitting in his car waiting for us to get him a parking space which we were attempting to do. We were moving some cars and getting it all squared away. I was talking to Kurt and this whole thing started right out on the street.”

James said Luke Ford had been filming the incident through a window upstairs.

“I didn’t know that Luke was filming me and Kurt,” James notes.

As she had mentioned in an earlier e-mail, James described how she had injured her right shoulder and was forced to shoot left-handed.

“When they started shoving each other, I could have jumped in the middle but I was already in pain. This whole thing happened right in front of me.”

James thought everything between Ponante and Lockwood was copacetic but, evidently, was mistaken.

“Kurt says is that Gram? And I said yeah, is there any kind of problem or issue? He said, hell, yeah. Before I knew what happened, this all started. I was stunned. And Kurt believed that Gram had written bad things about him. I had not read those things so I didn’t know. But people have confirmed to me that there’s some reason for Kurt to be upset. If not with Gram, somebody. But people had told me they had read stuff.”

James said she had been reading a lot of blogs where people were jumping on Lockwood.

“I got to say I know Gram and I knw Luke- they’re friends of mine,” states James.

“I like them both. Gram wrote a great article on me. Luke has written stuff on me. And I like them just fine but I’ve got to tell you, what I’ve been reading is piling on top of Kurt. People are linking old things that he said. I got to say when this thing came down, I didn’t know Kurt that well when this movie started. I got to know him pretty well. And once this thing was resolved and everybody had gone their separate ways, he walked on set and was completely professional. He did a kick-ass scene. He was a great actor. I couldn’t have asked for anything more. I think the piling on was a bit overdone.”

“In our industry a lot of performers are wound a little tight,” James concedes. “And sometimes the best performers are wound a little tight.”

Besides that, James had pretty much tailored the role for Lockwood and couldn’t afford to lose him, so it was Ponante and Ford that were both asked to leave- with the stipulation they could return once Lockwood had left the set. Which was around 5pm later that afternoon.

“Based on what Kurt told me, he really believed that Gram had written this stuff about him,” says James. Otherwise, James says it was her intention to get as much press as possible on the set to help launch Egoist, a company owned by Brian Scott.

“You couldn’t have bought better p.r. than that,” I say to James.

“It’s funny how everything in life is a two-sided sword,” James muses. “People don’t like you but at least they remember who you are. This was a perfect example. We didn’t go looking for this. Brian and I didn’t create this. We couldn’t have created this. But we also tried to handle it in a honorable way. And somebody had to leave the set. I had to ask Gram myself and Gram’s upset at me that I didn’t apologize. I did at the location but I should have called him to apologize more.”

“I do seem to have a tendency to step in hornets’ nests from time to time without even looking for them,” James chuckles.

However she did great footage.

“And there was a certain energy on the set- and it all worked to the benefit. The whole thing came out really well and we got better publicity than what we anticipated by being in the wrong place.”