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Hyping Bart's book
Variety editor Peter Bart is the lead item at Page Six today, due to Hollywood gossiping about who he's slyly dishing through the made-up characters in his new short-story collection, Dangerous Company: Dark Tales from Tinseltown.
Some of the hottest speculation revolves around the real-life inspiration for the protagonist of "The Make-Over," a 52-year-old actress who's had so many Botox treatments that her frozen face prevents her from showing emotion. Her paralyzed visage nearly causes the diva to lose her comeback role until her manager proves she can indeed display feeling - by driving her into a blustering rage and videotaping it.Sources close to Bart tell PAGE SIX's Ian Spiegelman that the heroine's personality seems to suggest three 40-plus actresses - Sharon Stone, Kim Basinger or Demi Moore - personally known to Bart...
(Via I Want Media)
Actually, Cher seems to have a sense of humor about herself, if that recent mock show is any indication.
Posted by: Amy Alkon at December 27, 2003 01:14 AMComment posting has been turned off
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Actually, my vote for the real-life inspiration behind this fictional character is ... Cher. "You Got Me, Botox" indeed.
Posted by: Brian at December 19, 2003 03:34 PM