Talking to a friend recently about a TV show called Lost In Space,I started to remember a worn-down Sci-Fi TV annual that I used to read when growing up,which along with featuring still photos from producer Irwin Allen's catalogue of TV program,also contained an interview with Lost In Space actress Marta Kristen,where she talked about having recently made a film with Jayne Mansfield's husband.
The plot:
Being given the opportunity to audition for movie roles in Hollywood,thanks to a casting director giving her $500 and a free plane ticket,budding actress Julie decides that along with auditing for roles,she will also meet up with an old friend called Jessica, (who has now become very successful)and live in her villa.
Reciving a warm greeting from Jessica, (and a less then warm greeting from the maid) Julie is shocked to discover that her close friend has become a call-girl for powerful Hollywood producers,due to Jessica believing the that is the only way that she has been able to get a break in the business.Clinging on to her dreams of Hollywood glamour,Julie soon begins to fear that her only chance to gain fame,might be to "transform" into Jessica.
View on the film:
For the first half of the movie,director Matt Climber sets Julie's entry to Hollywood against a brightly lit,glamours world,where everything that she and Jessica need is in the villa,and the days are so calm and relaxing that neither of them have to get out of bed.As Julie's superstar dream starts to fade away,Climber covers the movie in a deep blue darkness,which despite making the films steamy-sounding (and infamous) lesbian sequence a bit too tough to make out,also perfectly reflects the down beat mood that Julie finds herself in.
Placing most of the movie in Jessica's villa,the screenplay by Harry Houdydu takes a strong stage approach to the story,which along with allowing for the gold Hollywood glamour to get mercilessly torn apart,also allows Houdydu to build a gradual intensity in Julie and Jessica's relationship.
Joined by a terrific Kathy Kersh, (in what is up to now her final role)as the decayed Hollywood glamour girl Jessica,Marta Kristen gives an excellent performance as Julie,with Kristen showing Julie's Hollywood dreams fade away from her face,and also powerfully reveal that Julie has got herself caught up in a relationship,that is far more complicated than simply being lost in space.
The plot:
Being given the opportunity to audition for movie roles in Hollywood,thanks to a casting director giving her $500 and a free plane ticket,budding actress Julie decides that along with auditing for roles,she will also meet up with an old friend called Jessica, (who has now become very successful)and live in her villa.
Reciving a warm greeting from Jessica, (and a less then warm greeting from the maid) Julie is shocked to discover that her close friend has become a call-girl for powerful Hollywood producers,due to Jessica believing the that is the only way that she has been able to get a break in the business.Clinging on to her dreams of Hollywood glamour,Julie soon begins to fear that her only chance to gain fame,might be to "transform" into Jessica.
View on the film:
For the first half of the movie,director Matt Climber sets Julie's entry to Hollywood against a brightly lit,glamours world,where everything that she and Jessica need is in the villa,and the days are so calm and relaxing that neither of them have to get out of bed.As Julie's superstar dream starts to fade away,Climber covers the movie in a deep blue darkness,which despite making the films steamy-sounding (and infamous) lesbian sequence a bit too tough to make out,also perfectly reflects the down beat mood that Julie finds herself in.
Placing most of the movie in Jessica's villa,the screenplay by Harry Houdydu takes a strong stage approach to the story,which along with allowing for the gold Hollywood glamour to get mercilessly torn apart,also allows Houdydu to build a gradual intensity in Julie and Jessica's relationship.
Joined by a terrific Kathy Kersh, (in what is up to now her final role)as the decayed Hollywood glamour girl Jessica,Marta Kristen gives an excellent performance as Julie,with Kristen showing Julie's Hollywood dreams fade away from her face,and also powerfully reveal that Julie has got herself caught up in a relationship,that is far more complicated than simply being lost in space.