Porn Valley- There were some shots to get Wednesday afternoon on Wilshire. But for all intents and purposes, Norman Bentley’s movie, Runway for Defiance Films was wrapping up Tuesday night in a vast, handsome house of winding stairways situated on Mulholland Drive.

Put it this way. This is one of those locations where you have to send out search parties and listen for the reverb of echoes to find someone. But not large enough where the Coffee Mate goes overlooked. The owner says someone’s been in the refrigerator using his. He’d like it replaced.

There’s going to be an orgy-ending all-girl scene to this six-day shoot which is in film-look. There might be something like eight girls in the scene but that number may change.

Chad, the assistant director, wants to get the first shot off at 5 pm, but this isn’t going to happen. Neither is Jessie Summers appearance in the film- she had to be written out because of illness.

Chad, who’s pretty persistent about nailing times down, says Norman is the calm and cool one.

Chad’s telling me he’s known Bentley since they were 15. And Bentley, in an interview, is running down his work history. I ask Bentley if he’s 60 because this is a resume of someone who’s been around since the beginning of creation.He says he gets asked that all the time.

Brooke’s the lead character in a movie that’s about some of the unsavory aspects of the fashion industry. Evan Stone, Joey Ray and Alex Sanders are the male leads and other women in the cast include Lauren Phoenix, Lexi Tyler, Sammi Rhodes, Jassie, Monica Mayhem, Angel Cassidy, Taylor Hilton, Sandra Romain and Eva Angelina. I think there’s a couple more girls but I didn’t get their names.

For now, Brooke’s mood is glum. She got word that her older brother had been in a bad motorcycle accident but hasn’t received all the details. Because Rhodes is on the set, Skooby’s around, www.freshtalentmanagement.com . They’re an item. Skooby’s asked how many girls his agency is repping. Skooby says it depends on what day you’re asking the question and gets into some of the drama detailing a recent evacuee of his agency, Kara Mynor. https://adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=11145

For want of a better description, Skooby says she’s a “meth head” -that’s why he let her go, and, in return, she probably releaved him of $5,500 of property including a $600 suit and shoes. I’m thinking to myself what’s a porn chick doing with a man’s suit and shoes.

Since his drama with Mynor, she’s gone on to a number of other agencies and has recently landed with Joel Lawrence’s group, according to Skooby. Skooby’s telling me a story about another girl, Marquetta Jewel, who took off, but it was likely more over issues involving her girlfriend.

Jewel wanted to get her friend in the business. Skooby paints a picture of a girl that used to be 300 pounds, dropped a lot of weight and practically needed winches and cable to keep her skin tucked in.

“I couldn’t put her on my website,” Skooby says. Then, when the girlfriend left his bathroom stained with purple hair dye, matters became an issue.

“You do nice things, you’re a dick,” says Skooby. “But if you’re a dick, they say you’re a dick. You just hope to make some money in between.”

It sounds like director Bentley’s done a little of that for himself when he started up Matrix Content in 1999. He’s shot well over 400 adult scenes but this is the first movie Bentley’s helming.

“Feature-wise as far as dialogue, this is my first involvement,” qualifies Bentley.

The shoot began last week with a kick off party at The Vanguard, a Hollywood hot spot.

“We did a Burlesque fashion show there,” says Bentley. “It was quite amazing. It was also the kick off for the Coquette-Penthouse line as well https://adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=9088 . We were able to coordinate those two together and it worked very well for the movie. It was a live event with full bar.” Bentley thinks maybe 300 people showed up for the party.

“In the morning we shot everything we needed- the backstage stuff and everything going on,” he explains. “Then the doors opened around 9pm. It was an actual event.”

Bentley’s had the Runway project- written by Dizzy Gillespie- in mind for a very long time.

“It’s very high budget and very stylized,” Bentley says. “The whole script takes place during one day- it’s from the time our main character Alexandra [Brooke] wakes up in the morning with a hangover till after a fashion show and a cocktail party which is what we’re shooting here today.” There’s seven sex scenes in the movie.

Asked what prompted the choice of Brooke for the lead, Bentley says he had his main cast picked out before he even got his hands on a script.

“The reason for that is I wanted people with certain personalities to go with their characters. They’re all believable in their roles. Brooke is impatient and she’s very demanding. She’s beautiful. That’s my character. She’s a fashio coordinator. She’s got to be that way. She has a job to get done. That fit her perfectly. Then I got Joey Ray playing Marco the flamboyant designer. That’s Joey Ray if anyone knows him. All the other characters are very well fitted. Evan Stone plays Jack, the tough fashion writer. He’s got that grandiose attitude to play that with his white leather suit. It just worked out perfectly for that.”

Bentley, who used to be a large Rave promoter in Los Angeles, brings a mainstream background to the table.

“How I fell in love with film is I got the call from a director that was doing a Bon Jovi video- Bon Jove Always,” Bentley recalls.

“There was a Rave scene in the video and they brought me in as a consultant. I ended up segment producing it and I thought this is for me. It’s fun. It’s new- every time you’re meeting new people and there’s a new crew and new challenges every time. It doesn’t give you time to get bored.” From there Bentley basically worked free for about year and a half on student films.

“That covered every job and I’ve pretty much done every job there is to do on set,” he says. “I learned the business and learned how to run a set properly by working on them.”

Bentley continued to shoot commercials, work on B-movies as well as for Penthouse where he did a lot of the Pet of the Year videos. At the age of 22, he also PM’ed Bette Midler show for HBO in addition to a couple of union feature films, including a Wim Wenders movie titled The Edge of Violence.

“I’ve been around,” he laughs. According to Bentley, his reasons for getting out of mainstream probably have as much to do with his youthful looks as anything else.

“It made my job very challenging dealing with people because they didn’t want to take direction from me,” he says. “It kind of burned me out. Then I ended up getting married and turned down an opportunity to do a VP of Development job with Paramount. I knew I couldn’t do that and maintain a marriage. So I got into adult because I realized I had to make some real money. And it’s still fun. I still have a good time with that.”

Matrix Content got its start up going back to Bentley’ association with photographer David Lace.

“I came in there and pumped up the quality of his stuff,” says Bentley. “I really brought him to the top. But it wasn’t a good place to live so I knew a couple of people to put together the money to start up Matrix. That was in 1999, and, basically in six months we took over most of the competition that was in that field. Matrix is still going strong and doing well. It’s produced movies for Metro.

“And we’re currently dealing with some issues involving that,” Bentley says with a smile. “But that’s almost all resolved and Matrix is sitting on a ton of beautiful, beautiful gonzo-style titles. I’d say more vignette, very stylized. We’re getting ready to distribute those through a new source when things clear up there.”

Bentley thinks he might shoot three extravaganza-style features a year.

“I’ve had this script for four months and have been really prepared,” he says. “I came on set knowing every shot. It really wasn’t coming on set, like, what are we going to do? This is a show that gives you an opportunity to be really stylized. I brought in a real clothing designer to bring the clothes. All the outfits are, like, Chanel and that will come through very heavy. And I just wanted to shoot a feature with a really strong script. The sex is important, yes. I’ve shot so much sex through Matrix and that’s starting to get old, and you look for ways to make it different. With the fashion edge and the higher end locations, I think I can make a really good movie that you could want to watch without just fast-forwarding through it.

“The sex is not nasty,” Bentley stresses. “It’s good, hard sex. It’s straight vag sex- it’s just a cool, wholesome sexy movie. I think a lot that’s being produced- and God bless everyone who’s doing it- but there seems to be more shock value than sexy. And I’m looking for sexy.”

Bentley would like to have the trailer cut by the AEE show.

“It’s going to be amazing,” he predicts.