Love In The Time Of Cinema

Part One: Celebrity StalkerAt 28, Jana Tyrell is already the most sought-after actress in the world. However, she cordially dislikes just about everyone in the movie business, including her current lover. After Guardian, her most recent movie, and Eric Feiglin, her lover and leading man, garner a slew of negative reviews, she searches the Internet for some kind words about it, stumbles upon the website of Tim Beaufort, an amateur commentator in New York, and is charmed both by his comments about the movie and by much else he's written. She impulsively seeks him out at his home in Onteora County, in continental New York, and the two swiftly fall in love. Part Two: Body DoubleDirector Darius Morgan, despite Jana's firm contractual prohibition on ever appearing nude, inserts a nude scene into romantic comedy Atoll Extraordinaire, her next movie. Following the loss of his engineering job for opposing a "trans tolerance" agenda imposed upon his company by Human Resources, Tim accompanies Jana back to L.A. When they arrive at the studio where Atoll Extraordinaire is to be made, they discover that Morgan has tried to coerce body double Vanessa Stettin, a physical match for Jana, into actually having sex with her costar - former lover Eric Feiglin - while the cameras are running. Jana and her agent, former Israeli commando Shoshanna Litvak, force Morgan to relent, to remove the nude scene from the movie, and to omit Feiglin from the Guardian sequels. Jana and Tim settle into domesticity in her Los Angeles home, a top-of-the-line motorhome she keeps in a Thousand Oaks trailer park. Part Three: Changing TradesAt the conclusion of the filming of Atoll Extraordinaire, Tim tells Jana that the script for Guardian At Bay is a stinker, after which she reads it for the first time and concurs. Much to her surprise, Tim is friendly with the author of the Guardian trilogy, and whisks Jana off to New York to meet writer "Eamon O'Shaughnessey," real name Devin MacLachlan. Devin agrees that