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...basic setup is yet another variation on one of soapdom's archetypal conflicts: the pitting of the poor, conniving, tube-top-wearing vixen against the tasteful, trust-funded beauty. Peyton Richards (Jamie Luner) is the former, Savannah's pre-eminent troublemaker; her rival is the kindly, blond Reese Burton (Shannon Sturges), an heiress with the IQ of Spanish moss...
...first episode, we learn that Peyton has grown up, Sabrina-like, in the servants' quarters of the Burton family mansion. Though she is desperate to partake of the Burtons' world of wealth and good teeth, she can't get the hang of it. She is clever enough to have an affair with Reese's thick-necked fiance, but all she manages to get is a bracelet of cubic zirconium. There is pathos here because, deep down inside, Peyton is just a pained little girl. We know this because there is a teddy bear...
...high-wattage glamour. Aglow in white shorts, white top, white turban and acres of bare flesh for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), she bedazzled John Garfield into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live up to his character's name. Her turn in 1957's Peyton Place won her an Oscar nomination. She followed it with a role in the real-life melodrama that erupted when her daughter fatally knifed an abusive boyfriend of Turner's. Things went a bit better for her seven husbands; they merely got divorced...
...hard bodies preparing for, recovering from or engaging in constant, relentless copulation. Sex is everywhere in America - and in the ads, films, TV shows and music videos it exports abroad. Although we know that not every zip code is a Beverly Hills, 90210, and not every small town a Peyton Place, the impression that is branded on our collective subconscious is that life in the twilight of the 20th century is a sexual banquet to which everyone else has been invited...
...Love and Easy Come, Easy Go). As a child Mia had do-gooder dreams of becoming a Schweitzer-like doctor in the tropics; each Christmas she staged a pageant and sent the proceeds to the March of Dimes. The actress scored hits as a moody teen on TV's Peyton Place and a wife giving birth to the devil's son in Rosemary's Baby. At 21, Soon- Yi's present age, Mia married a famous entertainer in his 50s: Sinatra. After the divorce she was befriended by songwriter Dory Previn; she had an affair with Previn's husband Andre...