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| Released By: | NBC |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Director: | Paul Wendkos |
| Screenplay: | William Hanley |
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"There's not a thing on Earth that I can name,
so foolish and so false as common fame."
Despite being nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award after it was first aired, the made-for-television movie Celebrity has long since been forgotten and cast aside in the wilderness of television history. Little Nikita co-star Jerry Hardin can be spotted in an early television appearance but other than that, none of the stars of this movie went on to notable success.
All except one of them that is.
No one could have known that one of these performers was destined to become an international Hollywood super-star. Fame and fortune were indeed but a couple of years away. With such a large number of cast members, no one could have possibly foreseen that the individual in question would in fact be the little boy on the beach building sandcastles.
After the temporary derailing of his new career as a result of the cancellation after just one season of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, River would get back on track after winning the part of eleven-year-old Jeffie Crawford in this, his very first TV-movie.
River's character would become central to the bizarre and suspenseful movie plot but he would be seen on screen for a matter of only ten minutes or so before the story would leap forward seven years whereupon the character of a much older Jeffie would be taken over by Peter Nelson.
Nevertheless, it is for River to initiate one of the story's key plot-lines. Whilst staying in Malibu, Jeffie unexpectedly returns from the beach and discovers his father making love to another man.
Make no mistake about it, this production is certainly no My Own Private Idaho. Filmed in the mid-eighties, the director would choose to simply let a hand resting on a shoulder indicate what was about to happen. It is quite remarkable just how things would change so quickly in only six years....
When his mother returns home, she immediately senses something is not right. "What's wrong? What's happened?" she asks, very concerned. By now though, River has no more lines left in the script. He doesn't need any - his expression alone quickly conveys his characters' innermost feelings to the audience. Just like it would always do.
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