The Starmaker (1982)

Pretty much a vanity project from Ken Yontz and Ron Feilen about the big comeback of Mr. Seka...

Yes this is the first image of him on the screen

After getting dump by Seka it's time for Yontz to get back in the game and since he is a suitcase pimp he needs a new girl to leech on, so we start with a cast session to find his next big star for his upcoming film. This is pretty much a low rent version of what you can see in those casting film by Pierre Woodman. It's long and nothing special until Jamie Gillies shows up with Copper Penny (too bad she won't stay for the film).

Copper Penny

 They don't find someone for the film, but the show must go on so it's time for a recording session of the movie soundtrack. Yep it's time to listen and watch Kenny Dino singing a very bad song while Tish and Dave Ambrose and Mike and Brandy Lawrence have sex to have background noises for the song.

Tish Ambrose, Mike Lawrence and Dave Ambrose

Now it's time to use a trick used in the teen romantic comedy, they had their new star from the beginning... it's Miss Thorndyke their secretary, but how would they know with those glasses?

Lisa Cintrice version 1

Lisa Cintrice version 2

To celebrate the end of the star search it's time to go on a boat trip and I wonder how Sharon Mitchell did to not laugh when she say "If anybody can do it Ken can" about Lisa Cintrice becoming a star.

Bobbie Burns and Ron Feilen

Now it's time to work and it begins with a photo-shot of Lisa Cintrice done by Yontz followed by a visit at Robert Kerman and Lisa B appartment.

Lisa B

The last twenty or so minutes of the film is an orgy at Plato's Retreat who end with Yontz showing the next actress he will exploit (and no that didn't happen since Lisa Cintrice like Seka dump him after this film). 

Larry Levenson The King of Swing

Honestly it's been a while I have seen something so bad... complete waste of time like most vanity projects usually are. Yontz is the definition of a suitcase pimp, even more than Chuck Traynor was, and there isn't one single alternate universe where he could be called a star maker.

Not available on DVD or VOD for good reasons, Bob Kirk and Leonard Kirtman are great filmmakers compare to Mr. Seka (and we all know that filmmaker isn't a name we can say when we talk about Kirk and Kirtman).