That would be the kind of acting that calls for you to play a version of yourself on a reality show. But if insta-fame is what “Idol” and “Top Model” promise while delivering dollops of cringe-inducing humiliation, “The Starlet” suggests that achieving fame as an actor is a longer, more laborious process, involving acting gurus (“Lose your mind, because if you lose your mind you’ll come to your senses”) and, for the contestant pronounced “best in class” on one episode, dinner with the director of “The Animal.”īut there are two kinds of acting in “The Starlet,” one of which the show never talks about. I’m only saying the show seemed to have the elements of a cheesy hit. Why not? I’m not suggesting you ponder this. Though it would seem to be cut squarely in the mold of two current hits, Fox’s “American Idol” (rampantly commercialized karaoke contest/high school talent show perhaps best appreciated flying on massive amounts of Red Bull) and UPN’s “America’s Next Top Model” (where last week I learned the meaning of the term “1970s cheek”), America isn’t so much watching “The Starlet.”
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It’s a series that only hints at a dark night of the soul for our young contestants, one of whom tonight will be crowned “The Starlet,” a title that carries with it a “career-launching role” on the WB series “One Tree Hill” and a few vague talent deals. In the case of the contestants on “The Starlet,” it starts by submitting to a reality show in which mastering the craft of acting is the ostensible goal, when really the show plays like a Disney Channel version of Hollywood dress-up. The scene these contestants would be doing on WB’s reality show “The Starlet” was more a homage to soft-core porn than Oscar glory.
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I believe the Swank movie to which the voice-over was alluding is “Boys Don’t Cry,” although I don’t remember a hot tub in that film. “And remember,” a voice-over assured eight young women who would soon break into groups of two, change into bikinis, climb into a hot tub and, when a director yelled “Action!,” try to master the art of the lesbian kiss, “Angelina Jolie, Hilary Swank and Charlize Theron have all played roles where they’ve had to kiss other women.”
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