Star 80

More complex montage from writer-director Bob Fosse, with Eric Roberts as Paul Snider and Mariel Hemingway as Dorothy Stratten in her first Vancouver photo session, Hugh Hefner’s brother Keith as the photographer, Cliff Robertson as the Playboy impresario himself, and Carroll Baker her distraught mother, early in Star 80, 1983.

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.

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.