Valenti, c/o CONTACT, 4924 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles 19, California. No fee will be charged but please include a stamped unsealed envelope. And before I forget: the house has excellent central heating, in case you were thinking of a certain week-end convention when we almost froze to death.

And now for the third item of this colum. It will be possible to get fabulous TV movies in bright, brilliant Eastman color, produced entirely by TV's. Not the average home movie variety. These are professionally shot films. The cameraman (sorry, the camera-gal) is a well known television network name, known to us as Andrea (formerly Jacqueline), the possessor of the utmost in equipment used by the movie industry (16 mm cameras and all the rest of those technically complicated things). The films are taken in 16 mm and then reduced to 8 mm to enhance the sharpness of the image. The scripts and the direction are in the hands (manicured hands of course) of a professional TV and radio writer, known to us as Susanna (sometimes as Suzie). Promotion and administration are handled by a feminine bundle of dynamite who is known as Jody.

The various roles called for by the scripts are evenly distributed among the group which stars a young upcoming starlet who is seriously thinking of changing her name from Marianne to something more theatrical. We had a fabulously busy week-end putting in some 18 hours of steady work just shooting the first two films, using as locale Marie's wig shop. The hardest part for us were those scenes in which we had to appear in (ugh) men's clothes to dramatize the final transformation. Somehow there are very few TV's who seem willing to reveal themselves thusly for public consumption. They all want to play the girls' parts only, forgetting that to make the TV plot legitimate, the viewer must see them first as they really are and follow the entire transformation. In other words, your face must appear without make-up and without wig at least in one scene, in order to authenticate the TV reality. If the viewer does not see the players as men then, somebody might easily think that it could be a bunch of ugly and awk- ward GG's playing the roles. (Marianne is loudly complaining at the insinuation contained in this last remark )

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