“Like time travelers heading into the past to improve the future, they aim to reset history, to liberate the picture business from racial and sexual prejudice decades before the picture business got around to considering it.” From critic LATimesTVLloyd:
), but in reverse — as if, say, Hitler got run over by a truck on the eve of war and Germany overnight became a peaceful bastion of inclusiveness. And as a partly accurate fable of Hollywood, it’s also like a couple of, but with farce and satire swapped out for melodrama and sentiment. Or a version of “Sunset Boulevard” in which the close-up Norma Desmond is ready for is in a big-budget major motion picture.
Among a host of invented characters and celebrity look-alikes are two real-life figures at the center of the action: Roy Fitzgerald , a good-looking, good-natured unformed lump later known as Rock Hudson, and talent agent Henry Wilson , who gave him that name. A third character, Ernie West , is inspired by the late Scotty Bowers, who ran aout of a Hollywood gas station, for a mostly gay, sometimes famous clientele. Hollywood’s big closet — pretty fancy, but a closet still — is a theme here.
Also working for Ernie, recruited by Jack, is Archie, who falls into a relationship with Rock, a new customer. Ray is living with actress Camille Washington , who is black and under contract at Ace Studios, run by loud, uncouth Ace Amberg , whose wife, Avis , is one of Jack’s clients. Their daughter, Claire , is also under contract at the studio, but under an assumed name, as if nobody there would recognize the boss’s daughter. Well, they don’t.
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