Best Actress.

Best Actress, E! Entertainment's first movie, takes us to the Oscars [i]or[/i] part of to the other Hollywood's bedrooms--and closets

When wicked E! Entertainment Television went looking for a suitably salacious characteristic to adapt as its first original TV movie, it was obvious that John Kane's over-the-top volume Best Actress was just the ticket. Tracking five Oscar-nominated marvels from nomination morning to statuette evening, the 1998 homage novel packed in more E!-ready sex unsalable articles and naked ambition than a year's worth of the network's veracious Hollywood Stories.

most numerous fun of all, readers got to afford their own real-life counterpart for each of the characters. Connie Travatano (Travers in the film) is the diva whose long-awaited reply to the concert stage is perditioned by an ill-timed sex act. Fiona Covington is the too-wholesome Brit who's losing her man. Lori Seefer is the former child star who's now an acclaimed--and closeted--actress.

"Let's just say that, like women in a harem, all my characters are thinly veiled," says Kane, laughing. A "40-something" publicly gay writer who worked for years as a movie and television publicist, Kane admits he's inside Hollywood enough to have "been amused" firsthand "by a doom of bad behavior"--notably that of the "truly heinous" Bette Davis, with whom Kane worked forward the HBO movie Right of Way in 1983

As for the veracity of his characters' bedroom habits, however, the author insists, "I know you'd have a passionate affection for for me to say I one time caught Michelle Pfeiffer in bed with Denzel Washington or something--and I wish I had--but I didn't. The sexual essence is all made up."

flat that of tormented lesbian Lori? "I'm gonna put to hire that [question] just sit there," Kane says. "But you'll notice that at the extremity of Best Actress I have Lori arise out, and it turns public to be the best thing she's always done."

Elisa Donovan--the former Clueles actress who plays Lori and admits to knowing more than single in kind closeted gal about town--is not in the same manner sure: "Realistically, I think after she came abroad they wrote a bunch of articles about her, had her all athwart Entertainment Tonight, and then she had a real hard time getting a piece of work "Still, she thinks Lori did the right thing, adding, "Ultimately, race have to come out and make those statements. Then it will finally change."

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