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Star 80 (1983) - The Personality Of A Pimp

Sleazy Vancouver native Paul Snider (Eric Roberts) just arrived in LA, agonizing with his fianceè, future playmate Dorothy Stratten (Mariel Hemingway) after meeting Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner (Cliff Robertson), who explains the problem with his staff, writer-director Bob Fosse manipulating time in flashback, in Star 80, 1983.

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Star 80 (1983) - Open, They Go For Art
Writer-director Bob Fosse’s ambitious, arresting opening, introducing Mariel Hemingway in voice and photos as his subject, Playboy model Dorothy Stratten, and Eric Roberts as her promoter and husband Paul Snider in a damning flashback, in the fact-based Star 80, 1983.

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