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Fast Fade
Biopic of the 1950s film noir starlet Barbara Payton. The dazzlingly beautiful and talented blonde bombshell quickly ascended to leading roles in Hollywood. But her wild partying ways, alcoholism, and scandalous romances brought her career crashing down to back alley prostitution and death by age 39.
The gutsy, self-assured and fun-loving young girl from the Midwest hit Hollywood equipped with little more than a suitcase full of dreams, a ravenous hunger for fame, and a devastating beauty—only to see her dreams destroyed by a disastrous private life that led her straight through the gates of Hell.
In a short career packed with more bedlam than most can ever imagine, Barbara Payton rubbed shoulders with Hollywood's elite and its artistic geniuses, including master glamour photographer Andre de Dienes and film-noir icon Edgar G. Ulmer—as well as with a host of other unique characters, some who could have been lifted from the pages of James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential.
In those days, plush nightclubs like Ciro's, Mocambo and the Trocadero were a hedonist's delight. The glitz and glamour of her surroundings washed over the young starlet like the foamy California surf.
A rowdy, unrestrained iconoclast trapped in a particularly staid period in American culture, Barbara Payton has come to symbolize the dark and sordid side of postwar Hollywood.
This quick-thinking, wild and reckless knockout lived her life as if there were no tomorrow. Hers is perhaps the ultimate cautionary tale. And yet, beneath Barbara's hard-partying Bad Girl veneer, there was more, much more.
Young Colin Farrell
Greg Kinnear
Monster
L.A. Confidential
I wrote the feature film, Murder in Fashion, about the shooting of designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. The film played at theatres and festivals and was reviewed in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/movies/22murder.html?_r=0
AWARDS Semifinalist Table Read My Screenplay - Park City 2024 Quarterfinalist: Los Angeles International Screenplay competition Semifinalist: Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition Semifinalist: Creative World Awards Second Place: American Gem competition First prize: The Writers Place Competition TopTen Finalist: Eric Hoffer fiction competition
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction in 2021 and 2016.
CS Unique Voices (Semifinalist) [2020]
Creative World (Semifinalist) [2020]
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