Anytime Anyplace (1981)

Anytime Anyplace is the first film Seka made after her split with Ken. Her image and hairstyle in this movie was different from past features and reflected the influence of her new manager (her former make-up artist). His plan was to transform her into the world’s sleekest, most chic porn star. “He taught me a lot about fashion, make-up, how to carry myself. Outwardly I learnt a lot.” 

The movie was also the first to be shot by Kirdy Stevens (real name Dave Arthur) and his wife Helene Terrie after their massive success with Taboo (1980). Stevens knew how to shoot a film, and this is one of the best porn films Seka ever appeared in.

 

Kirdy Stevens was one of the original pioneers of the West Coast porn industry. Although he only shot 14 movies in 25 years, they include some of the best made adult movies of the early 1980s. 

During the 1960s he ran several stores in downtown Los Angeles known as "arcades," that showed "girlie movies" - nudity but no hardcore. After being raided by the police he switched to mail order, but was targeted by the vice squad again and quit the business.

In 1970 he began shooting R-rated exploitation movies for drive-ins. According to his wife Helene: 

Movie poster

"One was called Inside Amy (1974); another was Play Dead (1971), one was Six Women (1971), and another was Fusion (1970), but that business never went anywhere. All the drive-ins were being raided and closed, and it was a financial disaster. But the day he was off of probation, he said, 'I'm going back,' and he did, and he made Lollipop Palace (1976), which was set in the '30s in San Francisco. When we started making hardcore 35mm pictures, I thought he'd be nervous or afraid, but he actually had no fear; he said they were art, as far as he was concerned. He absolutely had no fear of getting arrested or going to jail for what he believed in. He just was a true believer in the First Amendment and the right to artistic expression."

The first quality film he made was The Sensuous Detective (1979) starring Jessie St James, Serena, Dorothy Le May and Laurien Dominique. It was also one of the earliest adult movies to have received, in a censored version, mainstream theatre play.

The following year he made the landmark porn film Taboo, starring Kay Parker, a mother that ends up having sex with her own son, played by Mike Ranger. Although he never reached this peak again, Anytime Anyplace (1981), Taboo 2 (1982) and Playing With Fire (1983) are all classic porn films.

 

   

Original Trailer

Young Seka 8 by Raffaelli

still from photo shoot

As with some of the previous Raffaelli clips I've posted, this was also filmed during a hardcore photo shoot: here Seka fucks herslf with a glowing dildo before having a threesome with Ken and another man I can't identify (if you know who it is, leave a comment). They both take turns fucking her in a fur covered swing. 

It's such a shame this early footage hasn't been dug out of the vaults, remastered properly and released in its entirety. Seka looks beautiful here!

still from photo shoot

This clip silent and was shot in 1978 before Seka adopted her platinum peroxide image. 

According to Seka, the platinum look that became her trademark look for the rest of her career, came about by accident. 

“I don’t know if I got the wrong stuff in my haste, I left it in too long, whatever. All I know is when I rinsed it out, it wasn’t normal blonde. It was white. Platinum. From the roots to the tips, without a hint of any other colour anywhere. I screamed! I thought they’d fire me for looking like such a freak.”

Special Edition 504 - Anal Ecstasy

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Young Seka 7 by Raffaelli

This is clip seven from the Raffaelli footage. It was shot in 1978 during a hardcore photoshoot in which Seka fucked herself with a massive dildo before having sex with Ken and another man. As with all these early clips, Seka looks stunning.

I don't know why Raffaelli was filming his photoshoots. Even though it was professionally shot in his usual dreamy style, it doesn't appear as if he had any intention of releasing this as a loop. In fact it remained locked away in a vault somewhere until two poorly produced compilation videos hit the market in 1984 and 1985. As with all the other Raffaelli clips, this one is silent.

Swedish Erotica 281 - Ski Bunnies, Part 1

 

This loop was shot in 1979 and is also known as Snow Bunnies, Part 1. The quality isn't great but I've never been able to find a better version. It's one of the few time we get to see Seka having anal sex. There is a great close-up as Paul Thomas slides his cock into her ass as she sucks off David Morris.

Paul Thomas is one of the most famous and iconic porn stars of the 1970s and early 1980s. He came from a wealthy upper middle class family in Illinois that owned household-name businesses, such as Sara Lee and Jim Beam. 

with Holly McCall

After studying political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he turned to acting and joined the cast of Hair as it toured Chicago and New York.  He then auditioned for the Broadway musical Jesus Christ Superstar in New York and became the understudy to Jesus and played the High Priest. In 1973, after touring the play across the country, Paul Thomas and Carl Anderson (who played Judas) were both asked to audition for the upcoming film version of the musical. Both were successful and Thomas was given the role of Peter. 

Paul Thomas then moved to Hollywood to further his mainstream career. Although he appeared in a couple of TV shows, he struggled with the competition.

"I was now competing for major films with major stars like Michael Douglas and Michael Moriarty, and I didn't get them. They got them. They were better actors than I was. And I wasn't studying the way I should have been studying. You can only go so far on natural talent."

He eventually moved to San Francisco in 1974 and got a role in the musical Beach Blanket Babylon, which became the world's longest-running musical revue (1974-2019). While there he alternated between stage-work and flying down to Los Angeles to appear in TV shows and commercials.

with Kandi Barbour

"I got involved in X rated movies because the Mitchell Brothers came to see the show Beach Blanket Babylon and I met them. San Francisco was the epicenter of the adult movie industry. I got to know them a little bit. They got to understand how much I enjoyed pornography and they were doing a movie called The Autobiography of a Flea (1976) and they offered me the lead role. It was a 100 page script, $1,000 a day and gorgeous women. I did it because I didn't have the confidence that I could compete at the highest level of acting. I had the talent but didn't have the dedication to maintain it. And also, I was a sex monster. When I discovered that I could express myself in X rated movies, it was amazing. This was a community that embraced me. For the first time I had a feeling that this is where I belong. This is what I should be doing."

Over the next decade Paul Thomas appeared in hundreds of adult movies and loops, including classics such as Desires Within Young Girls (1977), Hard Soap Hard Soap (1977), Reflections (1977), Dracula Sucks (1978) and Pretty Peaches (1978). In the mid-1980s he moved behind the camera and started directing porn films. 

Swedish Erotica 242 - Afternoon Snacks

This loop was released in 1979. It's the fourth she made for Swedish Erotica and the first in which she appeared with Desiree Cousteau. This loop is silent.

Desiree Cousteau began her adult career by posing nude in the June 1974 edition of Penthouse, under the title ‘Georgia Girl’. She was 17 at the time and still in college. Soon after she quit college and moved to Los Angeles with her boyfriend to be a movie star. 

“I discovered that you had to do a lot of fucking behind the scenes to get in front of the camera. Everybody’s ‘friend’ wants to meet you and ball you, and they expect you to do that.” 

Movie poster

Despite securing minor roles in B’ movie exploitation films like Caged Heat (1974) and Super Lady (1975), her mainstream career never took off and she was soon working as a nude model and stripper to support herself.

“I worked for Alex [De Renzy] at his club called ‘The Playpen’. I was dancing there with three other girls – we put on a live sex show. We did a lesbian thing. Sometimes it was simulated on stage, and sometimes we did the real thing. He asked me if I’d like to make a movie, and so we made Pretty Peaches (1978). That was my first starring role. It wasn’t exactly the kind of movie star I was hoping to become.” 

Pretty Peaches was a big success and quickly made Desiree a star, but she always felt conflicted about doing porn.

Seka later said: “Desiree Cousteau was an interesting character. Very pretty. She had a tight body to die for, with a pair of early implants. But she was another one who was absolutely wacko nuts. She could be hot and heavy in the middle of a scene with a dick in one hand and a mouth full of pussy, when all of a sudden there was a look on her face and a total change would come over her. ‘I can’t do this anymore. God told me not to.’ She’d just stop what she was doing and walk off the set. A few minutes later she might come back and start the scene all over again, or sometimes she’d just disappear entirely. This happened several times. She was just crazy!”

The last movie Desiree made was Inside Desiree Cousteau (1979), but other movies such as Delicious (1981) and Center Spread Girls (1982) were still being released long after she had left the industry.

Numerous rumours began circulating as to what she did after leaving porn. Some said that she started a family and lived as a housewife, others that she had a nervous breakdown and was institutionalised. The most recent rumour was that she went back to college and completed a degree in psychology and now practices in her native Georgia.

 

Special Edition 101/102 - Carpenter's Coffeebreak/Anal Sandwich

Seka worked for Special Edition in 1978, and then again in 1980. Carpenter's Coffeebreak and Anal Sandwich are the first two loops she made for the company. The footage was all shot on the same day as a single 20 minute movie, but was then split and released as two seperate loops - SK101 and SK102. Obviously you can make more money that way. The two men Seka fucks this time are Mike Ranger and Ray Wells.

Still from loop

Ray Wells moved to San Francisco in 1970 after getting a degree in business in Charlotte, North Carolina. He lived in a hippy commune for a couple of years before eventually meeting Connie Di Angelo, one of the city's top madames. Through her he hooked up with the photographer Paul Johnson and started working as a nude model. It didn't take long before he started appearing in loops and by 1975 had appeared in his first feature length porn film. He became known as Radio Ray within the industry because he had been to broadcasting school and wanted to work in radio.

In 1979 he moved to Los Angeles. By the mid-1980s he had quit porn and was working for Jim South's World Modelling agency. He’d answer phones, set up appointments, and take Polaroids of the aspiring actors and actresses. Traci Lords and Shauna Grant were two of the models he met this way.

Young Seka 6 by Raffaelli

This is clip six from the Raffaelli footage. Although it is also silent, it's different from the others. This is behind the scenes footage where we see Seka taking a shower in between shoots. She looks young and natural with no make-up, smiling at the camera as she playfully masturbates. Personally, I think she looks stunning here.