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FADE IN: ON BRIGHT, OUT-OF-FOCUS, OVAL-SHAPED COLORS. The colored shapes dart around the screen -- the impression of looking through a kaleidoscope. As the image comes into sharp focus, we discover that we are inside a CANDY BOWL.A MAN'S FINGERS are frantically removing all the cherry- flavored pieces of candy. EXT.STUDIO LOT - DAY The man performing this curious task is writer/producer/director, VIKTOR TARANSKY, forties, conservatively dressed in suit and tie.He sits alone at an empty craft service table outside a cavernous soundstage, some distance from the rest of the film set -- a breeze blows the table's paper cloth. Viktor finishes sorting.Finding no trash can to deposit the rejected cherry candy, he scoops them into his pocket. A young headset-clad P.A. hurriedly approaches.He looks ill. P.A. Mr. Taransky -- Viktor reads the young P.A.'s panicked expression. VIKTOR She's walking?... Don't tell me she's walking. (blood slowly draining from his face) She is not walking... She can't walk. EXT.TRAILER - DAY NICOLA ANDERS, twenty-something, A-list actress, beautiful face scowling, is supervising her ASSISTANT ferrying clothes from a movie trailer to a limousine.VIKTOR desperately follows after Nicola. VIKTOR -- Nicola!How was your massage? NICOLA You're in breach. VIKTOR -- Is this about the new pages? -- I made the changes you wanted, you're in virtually every scene -- NICOLA (wheeling on him) It's not the size of the role, Viktor.