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Review: Tinseltown (1980)

  • Author: Nochvemobadge
  • Created on: 2025-03-21 18:26:01
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Tags: Carter Stevensvintage pornogolden ageAshley BrooksDanielle RayeTawny PearlEric Edwards


A trio of steamy stories peel back Hollywood's glamorous facade in this captivating and raunchy comedy. The first story follows Mary Jo Harmon (Danielle Raye) from a small town in Oklahoma to the Big City in search of fame and fortune, but she eventually succumbs to the perversions of the business. Loni Henderson (Tawny Pearl) is an UCLA student who also dreams of seeing her name on neon signs, but when she falls for the wrong guy, she soon turns to the pleasure of pay-to-play and becomes one of the hottest girls in the porn scene. The final story revolves around Dominique Allwyn (Ashley Brooks), a high-class prostitute who prefers her job to acting, but film producer Jerry Kaminsky (Eric Edwards) finds her so irresistible that he makes her a star, despite herself.
Director Carter Stevens always talked about how he wanted to get out of the porn business by trying his hand at making a mainstream film, so he agreed to make this one as long as he was allowed to shoot in California, and the rest is history: while his career didn't lead him to mainstream cinema, he at least managed to deliver a fairly intelligent and funny film. The pacing here is gentle and ironic, and it adds some very amusing plot twists. This is still a parody of the ubiquitous American dream, which involves wanting to make it in Hollywood, but at least the sex scenes are used as a life lesson.