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At first I wasn't sure it was her (Laura Johnson) and it kinda felt like seeing what I wanted to see. But it's definitely Alan Beam's girlfriend from FALCON CREST who's haunting the shady socialite from PEYTON PLACE.
She first appears as an obsessive fan who gets killed in a traffic accident (a rather shocking and unexpected moment) and this literal loss of youth becomes the psychological embodiment of the story, which also happens to be the theme of the play they're rehearsing before it opens on Broadway.
The possibility of a public fail and humiliation - and how that could/would affect everyone involved - doesn't seem like an original plot device to create tension, and the midlife crisis looks a little cliché even by late seventies standards, but what this film does very well is creating a very uncomfortable rhythm. There's forboding but it never delivers the expected (it also reminded me of DON'T LOOK NOW).
But anyway, the battle between Adrienne and Terry reminded me of DYNASTY's infamous studio fight.
Go watch it if you want to know who won. The film is.....available.
She first appears as an obsessive fan who gets killed in a traffic accident (a rather shocking and unexpected moment) and this literal loss of youth becomes the psychological embodiment of the story, which also happens to be the theme of the play they're rehearsing before it opens on Broadway.
The possibility of a public fail and humiliation - and how that could/would affect everyone involved - doesn't seem like an original plot device to create tension, and the midlife crisis looks a little cliché even by late seventies standards, but what this film does very well is creating a very uncomfortable rhythm. There's forboding but it never delivers the expected (it also reminded me of DON'T LOOK NOW).
But anyway, the battle between Adrienne and Terry reminded me of DYNASTY's infamous studio fight.
Go watch it if you want to know who won. The film is.....available.