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Luckily, the lad did not grow up to be a titled toff. He went into show biz as plain, hard-working Christopher Guest, married Jamie Lee Curtis and found a way to stay in touch with his inner kid. He may be a more reserved figure now, but he's still cruelly observant yet curiously compassionate, especially if you happen to be someone with a small gift and large ambitions. "I'm definitely drawn to lack of talent," says Guest...
...Luckily, the lad did not grow up to be a titled toff. He went into show biz as plain, hard-working Christopher Guest, married Jamie Lee Curtis and found a way to stay in touch with his inner kid. He may be a more reserved figure now, but he's still cruelly observant, yet curiously compassionate, especially if you happen to be someone with a small gift and large ambitions. "I'm definitely drawn to lack of talent," says Guest...
...Star meant you to. For the original pilot was also unsparing of 90210 star Tori Spelling, Aaron's daughter. Her pitch-perfect analogue is Marcy Sternfeld (Lindsay Sloane), a dramatically challenged actress who's had career help from various surgical upgrades and a big-shot "uncle" in the TV biz. The pilot wounded Tori's dad--who just happens to produce the WB's top-rated series, 7th Heaven--and the network sent Star back to the drawing board to make nice...
...changes--in a few, but crucial scenes--don't spare Tori so much as Daddy. Gone from the pilot is Marcy's uncle--and along with him, a layer of show-biz complexity and tension. But remaining is Sloane's Marcy/Tori, a brilliant comic creation down to her slightest tic, squeak and emotion-punctuating chest thrust. Marcy is really Pointe's most likable character, a good-hearted dim bulb made a nervous wreck by gossip and the stress of looking impossibly good. (A bulimia scene, also cut, was a cruel but apt picture of the flip side...
Movie producers are trashed as psychotic and nasty. Talent agents' misdeeds and duplicities are dissected and mocked. Rumors are gleefully spread about which studio executives are about to be sacked. Ho hum. It's just another scurrilous day on ifilmpro.com's "Who Is the Most Insane Person in the Biz?" message board...